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Had to go over to my friends and find out why the engine fan was not working after I redid some of the bodged wiring on his hot rod, must have been one off the links onto links onto links I removed. New feed and it works, also had to find an ign feed to rev counter. Cant wait to do the job correctly with new fuse/relay box and bin the bad jumble of links.

Looks like Thursday is old farts driving day out, for effs sake 35 in a 60 on a clear road. Then the road ruiners have filled a layby with gravel to wreck some side roads (same ones they ruined last year by the look of it) and have temp traffic lights so they can load wagons. 20mph and loose gravel signs on the main road so of course the old farts are slowing down even though the side roads have not been tared.

Round these parts, it used to be everyone drove 15mph below the speed limit* so when all the limits got lowered to 50mph, everywhere was 35mph, with not too many overtaking opportunities.  Now its started to creep to 20mph under the limit, making overtaking potentially easier.


*Except when they get to 30mph villages, when they speed up.

And that's just the old farts on the mobility scooters, forgot to ask, did you find the retirement property you were looking for?

Had a Kia K5 for a day...

Meh.

I had some crappy small van yesterday, Vauxhall maybe?, that I had to tolerate a repeated limp mode, and it was giving me a countdown before it would stop starting due to an emission fault.

Enterprise really make my life a bloody misery

Have to say, for £38 a day, I can't really complain. Between 4.it works out at £15 each for a day out

Following my recent trip to Lincolnshire, I can see why Opti needs more power.  Everyone drives at 35mph until you go to overtake, when they boot it.

This happened countless times in one weekend.

It took weeks for all the soot stains to disappear from my hands after that!

But it was worth it, as it went like the clappers* afterwards, once I'd freed off the wastegate on the turbo again


*Well, all things are relative, it went better than it ever had, but was never gonna win races

Enlightening.

Coil packs are one of those items that I have found are better to buy decent quality, the cheaper stuff either generates less energy and/or doesn't last as well

Ok I partially take it back. I found a little shiny spring on the ground next to the car. And it wasn’t in the coil pack 

The Haynes manual states GM 1940768 for 1999 onwards, although it only covers models up to 1999. I would say you'll be fine with that oil, but someone with more knowledge will probably be along shortly 

My wife and I were watching Who Wants To Be A Millionaire while we were in bed...

I turned to her and said, 'Do you want to have Sex?'

'No,' she answered.

I then said, 'Is that your final answer?'

She didn't even look at me this time, simply saying, 'Yes..'

So I said, "Then I'd like to phone a friend."

And that's when the fight started...