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General Car Chat / Re: Mondeo Running Rough
« on: 16 December 2023, 17:35:59 »
You missed the fourth stage: not working properly and causing expensive faults
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Oops, just remembered that they renamed this to Rover 25.
They're like jigs, only more mailableThe bungs are there to plug holes used to position body jugs during assembly and crash repair. They don't have drain holes in them.Sorry, wrong bungs
But I doubt they use body jugs
Because no tyre has ever dried rotted. Ever
Similarly, there's a reason why hot water bottles have expiry dates...
True but the American idea of beer is Budweiser, so pretty much anything is an improvement
The little club Im a Trustee of sells a Nethergate Ale (local brewery) which is very moreish.As its just down the road from me, I've been known to pick up some lager-ish beers from Diddly Squat, its a grey label, buggered if I can remember what its called. Its a very pleasant tipple in the garden after a day at work, but its easy to get stuck into and have far too many
The west coast of the US seems to be a craft beer utopia.
18 hours. 18 bloody hours.Methinks you are unaware of how bad the RAC has got. They were crap before, but since being taken over, they are now pointless.You need to see their small print before you buy, because many of them have a very different idea of what constitutes a breakdown, recovery, potential repair, nearby garage or even just answering your phone call than you do. The less you pay p/a, the bigger that difference is. You can get an example of the actual service provided by the cheaper firms by smashing your head against the roughest brick wall you can find until you can't feel the pain.But even the nastiest company is preferable than the bloody RAC
No, that's just a mild taster of what you can expect.
Methinks you're not taking into account the several hundred jobs I've done for the RAC. They're a long way from being the worst provider, whether you're a customer or working for them. They are very bad for sitting on their own jobs for so long that they have to farm them out when their own drivers go off shift.
I think even the bad ones can beat that.
Methinks you are unaware of how bad the RAC has got. They were crap before, but since being taken over, they are now pointless.You need to see their small print before you buy, because many of them have a very different idea of what constitutes a breakdown, recovery, potential repair, nearby garage or even just answering your phone call than you do. The less you pay p/a, the bigger that difference is. You can get an example of the actual service provided by the cheaper firms by smashing your head against the roughest brick wall you can find until you can't feel the pain.But even the nastiest company is preferable than the bloody RAC
No, that's just a mild taster of what you can expect.
You need to see their small print before you buy, because many of them have a very different idea of what constitutes a breakdown, recovery, potential repair, nearby garage or even just answering your phone call than you do. The less you pay p/a, the bigger that difference is. You can get an example of the actual service provided by the cheaper firms by smashing your head against the roughest brick wall you can find until you can't feel the pain.But even the nastiest company is preferable than the bloody RAC
Used to be able to get into and start my old flat mates Capri with a broken chip forkDon't believe you. Nobody ever had a Capri that could actually start
Nick what?
The rusty Renault 5 or the crooklock.
I very nearly bought an iS200 several years ago. I like the look of them, and some of them are pretty rapid, and the handling is not to shabby. But I found them far too narrow inside, my passenger (the owner) was having to lean against the door so I wasn't doing man-touch every time I chagned gear.
RWD
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Last time I bought a RWD it was only 600cc and and had some cylinders missing, did have Merc written on the tiny engine though.
On a more serious note, I wouldn't rule out a Lexus model, I ended up by accident driving about in a run around iS200 for over a year, and have to admit it did change my views on them, OK, So there's the Name involved, but they are basically a well designed Toyota with all the useful bits added on, and have bloody good reliability, no experience of the Diesel versions though.