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General Discussion Area / Re: How do you holiday?

« on: 09 September 2006, 22:52:38 »

My uncle works at United Airlines, so i get dirt cheap flights to the states.

So far one elcheap tickets done:

New York
Washington DC
Miami
Key West
Boston
Rhode Island
Los Angeles
Las Vegas
San Franscisco
Chicago

To give you an idea of how cheap, i got a return flight to New York for £110........          BUSINESS CLASS!!  

I am 6ft4 and had plenty of room, when sat down if i lean forward i could not touch the seat in front, i had to get up and walk!

They give you loads of free boooze, champers the lot, I got pissed on champers before we even got to Ireland, passed out and woke up over Canada!  

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General Discussion Area / Re: I'm a Happy Hector

« on: 10 September 2006, 21:56:10 »

It feels good, doesn't it when you achieve success at the end of a little project.

Well done Phil.

Sure does, had a nice big smile on my face after the performance change on my 2.2

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General Discussion Area / Re: I'm a Happy Hector

« on: 10 September 2006, 20:05:49 »

well done, statisfying to see the power chances when servicing your own car!  

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General Discussion Area / Re: What annoys you most about other drivers

« on: 09 September 2006, 19:42:58 »

About the overtaking on the inside on a motorway.... a very nice Policeman told me it was legal

At night on the M40, its gets very empty. If you are doing 80 ish in the inside lane, for about 10 mins, then approach someone sitting in the middle lane doing 70. If you then stay in your lane and pass them, and continue on in the inside lane is fine.

Whats illegal, is if your sitting beind someone in the middle lane, then pull into the inside lane to undertake and then pull back into the middle lane again, thats illegal.

Sometimes i find moving out into the outside lane is more dangerous, as the m40 at night is a very, very fast road. You have many people doing 100 in that lane, and I rarely go above 90

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General Discussion Area / Re: What annoys you most about other drivers

« on: 08 September 2006, 17:47:13 »

what really gets up my nose is the people who drive at 40mph EVERYWARE!!

40mph in town
40mph in a village

40mph on 60 road...


I was following someone the other day, on wide 60 limit road were most people do 65/70.... 40 all the way... hit the 30 limit, i slow. They continue at the same speed  

Oh and middle lane hoggin at night, many times i fly past people in the inside lane who are sitting in the middle lane, and this is not illegal if you stay in the inside lane and not move out after passing them

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General Discussion Area / Re: Tyres...how are yours performing?

« on: 10 September 2006, 10:35:57 »

I have Goodyear Eagle Ventures all around on mine, I find them brilliant.

Jaime does not like them because they aint very grippy, but mines a 2.2 soooo who cares?  

Got 15k out of them so far, according to the service history they were changed about 10k before i got, so thats 25k miles so far.

Looking at the ware rate i should easily get another 10-15k out of them.


My had has the record, he had dunlop on his facelift when he first got it, he did 50k on a set!  

Think our secret is not to corner like Jaime   - Going in a straight line, we do normal speeds i usually cruise at slightly under 80 on the motorway as the car feels best then. But i never corner roundabouts very hard, i chuck it around country roads, but never take roundabouts that fast.

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General Discussion Area / Re: Weird people!!!

« on: 06 September 2006, 23:13:26 »

You turning down free booze!

Yes i am, feel free to take my place

Thanks for the offer, but I'm busy........................forever!

Did someone mention the words, free & booze in one sentense?  

where, where, where? gimme gimme gimme.

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General Discussion Area / Re: Auction advice

« on: 10 September 2006, 20:12:59 »

Disagree with the oh mighty great one?   Bah you all will be punshished.  

Serisouly though, it varys from auction to auction juding by threads here.

The BCA car auction at Blackbushe was good, you can have a propper nose around the car, all its interior and pop the bonnet and look inside.

If you ask very nicely they usually start it up for you too, as there were a lot of people who work there wondering around.

I had a good nose all over a RR's vans and Jags

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General Discussion Area / Re: Auction advice

« on: 09 September 2006, 11:27:34 »

oh and if you really want an old cav, check the auctions i have seen some strugle to get £50, although not much more than a real banger lol  

Damn your auctions are cheap!

They don't seam to go that cheap down here.  

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General Discussion Area / Re: Power Steering

« on: 10 September 2006, 10:38:08 »

AA has a point about the tyre pressures, the book says 30.5 in mine. Bit accurate for Vaux!

Anywho we got some of those nice new digital machines at our BP were you enter in the pressure amount, then wack it on the tyre and it does it all automatically.

Trouble is i can have 30, 31, 32, you can't have .5's

So mine are set at 31 all round.

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General Discussion Area / Re: Power Steering

« on: 09 September 2006, 23:24:12 »

oh yeh forgot. Oh there is a BP garage which sells LPG here as well  

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General Discussion Area / Re: Power Steering

« on: 09 September 2006, 23:08:16 »

Guess it would cost about the same in fuel to here  

yeah tent type camping   MrsTheBoy when too!

You comming to the Santa Pod meet? I should be going to that all going well

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General Discussion Area / Re: Power Steering

« on: 09 September 2006, 22:57:11 »

I will asked vx dealer about it on thurs when meega is in......if they dont have a clue about it.....i might have to pop up and see Jaime and maybe say hello to you as well Tunnie if your about??

Jaime is on hols at mo, isnt he iirc?

Cheers

Yeah think he is in Cornwall doing a bit of camping.

Yeah i am around TD m8, I am due to go back to Uni around the 24th ish of Sept.... prob the 25th come to think of it.

Jaime is usefull for the tech2 upgrades  

You got cruise on yours?

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General Discussion Area / Re: Power Steering

« on: 09 September 2006, 22:36:06 »

So who started the Omega buying Tunnie?

My dad did, all lease cars, he had a '95 Carlton Estate, he did 130k miles in 3 years in that.

'97 P reg GLS did 125k miles in 4 years in that.

Then he got the '01 Facelift CD with cream leather!! ummm nice. Did 80k miles in 4 years in that, then the company decided to can the company car scheme. He decided to buy the megga off them, never looked back.

When it was time to replace my sorry looking Mondeo, i looked around. I got a hell of a lot more car with the megga than a new Mondeo. Plus we had bullet proof reliablity of the carltons and meggas we had, so i got one!  

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General Discussion Area / Re: Power Steering

« on: 09 September 2006, 21:23:54 »

Yep i think so, i jump into my dads megga a lot and find his steering very heavy compared to mine.

Must be the way the car is set up i guess, but my steering is a lot light compared to my dads at low speeds.

Assuming you havent got your tyres pumped upto 50psi and your dads are 10psi   ....this could be worth investigating then.

Cheers Tunnie  [smiley=thumbsup.gif]

Well there were a little down the other day  

But only a few PSi, only differnces is my dad's is an auto. But that should't make any difference.

Its acutally very interesting looking at the changes between the 2, mine is a 2000 on a X plate, CD 2.2 manual.

His is a 2001 on a Y plate CD 2.2 Auto, the locking bits that pop out of the door cards are not the same as mine, he has clear side repeaters were mine are orange. The wood is different too, mine has a matt finish were his has a glossy shine finish and the wood looks different.

His does not have a rear ciggy light just a "12v" cover thing, few other odd things as well. Guess it depends on suppiers at the time i guess...

I think i remember Jaime mentioning something about power steering and tech2, i am 90% sure its adjustable via this. But as you pointed out you need the real deal to do it and not the cheapo version.