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General Discussion Area / Re: Dead Person
« on: 05 July 2025, 18:11:30 »
Gerald Harper 96, remember him from my younger days think it was a series called Hadleigh played a bit of a toff.
Please play nicely. No one wants to listen/read a keyboard warriors rants....
.In a perfect world, freight would travel by rail and trucks banished from the roads, other than smaller trucks to do local runs from train stations to delivery depots.
People who cant pass a test to prove they are capable of driving to a reasonably high standard forced to take trains and taxis because they are banned from the roads.
Then, nice clear roads with high standards of driving, and no motorway speed limits for the rest of us.
We can but dream.
Exactly what I experienced driving through Germany on Sunday, in fact.
And people tell us, we won the war.![]()
.Just realised I posted the same thing twice.The heat? OK
The heat must be really getting to me.![]()
.The Mondeo catastrophically failed it's MOT today.What's killed it? Rust?The End.
Actually that wasn't strictly true, it did fail, knackered front discs and rear arm bushes mainly, and advisories for corroded subframes front and rear, corroded rear arms, and corroded rear springs. He said the subframes had about a year in them.
What's really done for it though, is a failing dual mass flywheel which accounts for the stiff gear change and vibrations.The End.
I was emotional when I posted the MOT fail!
Trump has been diplomatic as ever. He says "They don't know what the 'A bit of how's yer father' they're doing"
If reports are true, that ceasefire didn't last long. That's if it ever started at all.