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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 ;D

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General Car Chat / Re: Can I have....
« on: 16 December 2023, 15:11:06 »
………
the later Rover 200 shape ……

Oops, just remembered that they renamed this to Rover 25.   :-[
Did it help? >:D


They were pretty good cars, and the 25 lost most of the Honda complications that did nothing except cost more money. The MGs weren't an improvement due to the lack of suspension, shoddy and uncomfortable interiors(which also apply to 75 equivalents) and the silly body kit. A well kept, pensioner spec 25 is still a better place to be than a modern small hatch.

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Omega General Help / Re: wet in boot
« on: 16 December 2023, 09:57:38 »
The 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  ;D

But I doubt they use body jugs  :)
They're like jigs, only more mailable  ;D


You want to post them?? :o

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General Car Chat / Re: Mondeo Running Rough
« on: 15 December 2023, 22:36:00 »
A rough running TDCi Mondeo :o ? I hope your wallet is full. Likely causes are injectors, fuel pump, turbo or internal engine faults due to not fixing the previous problems. And if it's a bit slow to start then the flywheel is failing, which can also make them run badly.

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Omega General Help / Re: cambelt 3.2 elite gates
« on: 14 December 2023, 22:20:24 »
Because no tyre has ever dried rotted. Ever :-X

Similarly, there's a reason why hot water bottles have expiry dates...


That.


Rubber and plastics are well known for deteriorating over time, without ever being used for their actual purpose. Dry, dark, constant temperature storage reduces, but doesn't remove the effects, so a cam belt that's been in a box on a shelf for twenty years isn't going to be quite as safe as one made last week. The same applies to hoses, seals and other plastic parts as mentioned in earlier posts.

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General Discussion Area / Re: Kraft Beers ?
« on: 14 December 2023, 15:31:24 »
True but the American idea of beer is Budweiser, so pretty much anything is an improvement  >:D


If you don't chill Budweiser, then you discover that it has lots of taste. The snag is that it tastes bloody horrible. US craft beers(nobody else calls them that, so the US is redundant) just go for even stronger, not better, or even different.

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General Discussion Area / Re: Kraft Beers ?
« on: 14 December 2023, 14:25:21 »
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 ;D


My local is the Nelson Brewery, less than two miles away in the dockyard. Their beers are extremely drinkable, but are hard to find. Next is Goachers out the other side of Maidstone. It's much easier to find, but tastes like yesterday's dishwater strained through a farmer's socks :-[

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General Discussion Area / Re: Kraft Beers ?
« on: 14 December 2023, 14:22:20 »
The west coast of the US seems to be a craft beer utopia.


I've given up trying them, because every one conformed to the more is always better approach. Which leads to IPAs that are like drinking liquid desiccant, or that taste like they're a 50/50 mix of weak beer and concentrated ugly fruit syrup. While a good session beer is a very English idea, a good speciality beer still retains some subtlety and drinkability

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General Car Chat / Re: Its That Time of Year Again - Breakdown Cover
« on: 13 December 2023, 15:27:54 »
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 ;D


No, that's just a mild taster of what you can expect.
Methinks you are unaware of how bad the RAC has got.  They were crap before, but since being taken over, they are now pointless.


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.
18 hours.  18 bloody hours.

I think even the bad ones can beat that.


Compared to the bigger companies, they are consistently worse for every job. Of course there are always outliers. I'm shocked that you managed to be one. Shocked :y

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General Car Chat / Re: Its That Time of Year Again - Breakdown Cover
« on: 12 December 2023, 22:49:09 »
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 ;D


No, that's just a mild taster of what you can expect.
Methinks you are unaware of how bad the RAC has got.  They were crap before, but since being taken over, they are now pointless.


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.

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General Car Chat / Re: Its That Time of Year Again - Breakdown Cover
« on: 12 December 2023, 17:30:20 »
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 ;D


No, that's just a mild taster of what you can expect.

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General Car Chat / Re: Its That Time of Year Again - Breakdown Cover
« on: 12 December 2023, 16:46:57 »
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.

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General Car Chat / Re: If JLR go under...
« on: 12 December 2023, 16:39:31 »
Used to be able to get into and start my old flat mates Capri with a broken chip fork  ;D
Don't believe you.  Nobody ever had a Capri that could actually start ;D


Out of the eleven(I think) that I've owned, only one of them didn't start. Fitting an engine would have improved that fault.... Most of them had a fair amount of rust, but that's true of pretty much any car built in the 70s/80s - the local scrapyards put rusty BMW and Mercedes on the bottom of their piles because they knew they were unlikely to sell any of the parts.

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General Car Chat / Re: If JLR go under...
« on: 12 December 2023, 12:13:44 »

Nick what?

The rusty Renault 5 or the crooklock.


That's a difficult question, as it's almost impossible to decide which is more useless. Now that cordless angle grinders are so ubiquitous, it's not worth getting the Leatherman out if its holster to remove a Krooklook.

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General Car Chat / Re: Age old question....
« on: 11 December 2023, 14:25:41 »

RWD
Auto


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.
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.


Give it a few more months and you'll be old enough to appreciate the appeal of an LS430(460? 1564748? whatever they are now) Get one in gold with the age-appropriate diarrhea coloured interior for the full effect :y

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