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General Car Chat / Re: Flat battery.
« on: 06 May 2022, 12:48:24 »which car?
Gotta be the rare Signum as the Tata is long gone
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Gotta be the rare Signum as the Tata is long gone
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General Discussion Area / Re: Airliner escorted by fighters this morning
« on: 05 May 2022, 19:48:06 »If they we're going to escort an airliner on the off chance that they might have to shoot it down, then you can guarantee that it won't be anywhere near Central LundunI thought same,but strangely concerning to see as couldn't make out it was RAF
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General Discussion Area / Airliner escorted by fighters this morning
« on: 05 May 2022, 11:11:54 »
Anyone heard anything?,just leaving heathrow and saw a plane escorted buy two fighters (virgin I think)
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General Discussion Area / Re: Ouch !!
« on: 27 April 2022, 02:57:52 »
She obviously unaware the Lecce scooter is illegal to be on the road 
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General Car Chat / Re: Decision time soon
« on: 20 April 2022, 12:35:15 »It still runs fine, pulls fine, and feels tight, despite never having any steering or suspension work. But that may be an upcoming kick in the nadgers at MOT time.
Chuck it in for a ticket so you'll know what it needs then make a decision
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General Car Chat / Re: So what have you done to your car today?
« on: 20 April 2022, 09:41:24 »Discos eat the 2.7 for fun.Not sure, as said earlier, if its a stressed part of the chassis.
Its not *that* common, BTW, but obviously when it happens, its splattered over forums. Said engine - crap plastic mouldings aside - is considered pretty bombproof in Jags. And economical.
I think it's common in badly maintained Disco's and not just the Disco 3's 2.7TDV6, but the 3.0TDV6 found in the Disco 4 as well.
Have a look through the ads for Disco 3's and you'll see plenty with interplanetary mileages
The 3.0 seems to have many more issues than the 2.7
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General Car Chat / Re: So what have you done to your car today?
« on: 19 April 2022, 09:31:53 »
Well Ive done about a 1000 miles in the newly acquired V70 and its averaged 43mpg, well pleased with that and although I miss the Saabs get up and go the Volvo does very well as very torquey
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General Discussion Area / Re: EASTER
« on: 17 April 2022, 20:24:28 »Easter was like a second Christmas when I was growing up. Gatherings of the clans usually at the Grandparents, loads of food and drink, with a big sit down roast turkey dinner on Easter Sunday.
Today I went to the supermarket and was perplexed to find it closed.... Ah yes it's Easter Sunday!
Happy Easter!
Same here. However, I was able to fill up with diesel. £114 !!and i wasn't even completely empty
Either you have an exceptionally large tank or derv is exceptionally expensive.
£172.9. I don't acyually know how big tank is
15 ish gallons from memory
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General Discussion Area / Re: They Say Things Happen In Threes.
« on: 16 April 2022, 18:45:36 »Yesterday I changed the rear nearside brake caliper on my Mondeo, and due to a schoolboy error spilt loads of brake fluid on my drive, leaving a nice black stain in the tarmac.
Later feeling a bit stiff and achy from my exertions and a bit pissed off with spilling the brake fluid, I decided to have a long hot bath which was nice. When I pulled the plug, I thought that the draining noise sounded unusual so checked in the crawl space/void under the house and saw that the waste pipe had disconnected itself and was pouring water everywhere and all over stuff stored there.Due to the wet, damp and mould growing over everything it looks as though the pipe came apart ages ago, but as I usually shower I didn't notice anything strange going on.
This morning I went to move the Mondeo and it was as dead as a Dodo!Don't know what happened, but I think I may have left the ignition on last night with the wipers on intermittent judging by the position of the wipers this morning. Cursed the Ford designers, who thought it was a good idea to tuck the battery behind the air box, so you have to remove the air box to get the battery out.
How's your weekend going?
On the upside water will wash away the brake fluid as the stuff absorbs moisture
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General Car Chat / Re: So what have you done to your car today?
« on: 16 April 2022, 13:01:10 »Up early this morning for my first speed awareness courseYou'll love it, Henry, it's very informative
Wasn't too bad actually as the guy doing it wasn't a Dick
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General Discussion Area / Re: Loss
« on: 16 April 2022, 07:47:40 »
Very sorry for your loss,thoughts are with you.
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General Car Chat / Re: So what have you done to your car today?
« on: 16 April 2022, 07:42:54 »
Up early this morning for my first speed awareness course
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General Car Chat / Re: So what have you done to your car today?
« on: 11 April 2022, 17:39:15 »
Stuck a new nearside mirror glass onto the V70 this morn,nothing exciting
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General Discussion Area / Re: The gap is growing.
« on: 04 April 2022, 16:09:12 »I wouldn't mind a Volvo V70 T6, but I was crunching some numbers the other day and I reckon it would cost 10p a mile more to run than my current V70 D5, plus the addition VED.
I've just bought a mk3 V70 2.0 diesel, been re-mapped and goes well but brilliant on fuel here locally