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General Car Chat / Re: Zafira Tourer engine choices
« on: 07 September 2023, 13:18:26 »Trouble is, as soon as you go van base you lose a hell of a lot of the everyday use refinement
Compared to a Voyager?
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Compared to a Voyager?
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General Discussion Area / Re: Trumpy
« on: 07 September 2023, 12:50:33 »Middle of the road? The man’s a nincompoop, here’s some of his handiwork……
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/12/29/worst-things-biden-did-2022/
If he was a British politician, Thatcher would have ordered him an extra plate of vegetables
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General Discussion Area / Re: Trumpy
« on: 07 September 2023, 09:36:03 »Yes that was due to come out👍 the poor old bastard doesn’t know his arse from his elbow. Put him out to graze FFS.
Trump or Biden? It's not clear, because there's only 3 years between them
The only body part Trump could recognise is his toe that he's always
Biden is like a whelk compared to Trump the blokes barely alive FFS👍
Biden'smainonly characteristic is that he's boring. He's always been boring; now he's old and boring. And he is so middle of the road that he probably has a dotted white line painted up his spine. These are why he dominated Trump in the last election.
Trump has so many flaws that nobody could ever accuse him of being boring. That only makes him an object of derision, not someone you would choose for a position of power. Four years of him proving that are why he lost both the vote and electoral college so badly.
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General Discussion Area / Re: Trumpy
« on: 06 September 2023, 17:11:54 »Yes that was due to come out👍 the poor old bastard doesn’t know his arse from his elbow. Put him out to graze FFS.
Trump or Biden? It's not clear, because there's only 3 years between them
The only body part Trump could recognise is his toe that he's always sucked.
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General Discussion Area / Re: What has P*ssed you off today?
« on: 05 September 2023, 19:00:25 »
It would be cheaper to make my axle stands taller by welding them to my last pair of Morris wheels.
That was the next step if I needed to make the ground a bit lower
That was the next step if I needed to make the ground a bit lower
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General Discussion Area / Re: What has P*ssed you off today?
« on: 05 September 2023, 17:59:09 »
Yesterday, I got around to fitting the new cat to the Golf. This required getting the car higher, so jacked up the rear, and lowered the wheels onto the car's spare and an MGF one I had knocking about. Then I moved the axle stands at the front even further forward.
This meant it looked as if there was just enough clearance to get the pipe in, so I lubricated it extensively with concentrated Anglo-Saxon and forced it into place. Then it was the usual German reassembly rigmarole of remembering which randomly chosen fixing went where.
The new brake light switch was surprisingly easy to fit, and reasonably priced at £6.70.
Car passed its retest this morning, so that's one less thing to deal with.
This meant it looked as if there was just enough clearance to get the pipe in, so I lubricated it extensively with concentrated Anglo-Saxon and forced it into place. Then it was the usual German reassembly rigmarole of remembering which randomly chosen fixing went where.
The new brake light switch was surprisingly easy to fit, and reasonably priced at £6.70.
Car passed its retest this morning, so that's one less thing to deal with.
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General Car Chat / Re: Thirty minutes to kill so...
« on: 03 September 2023, 12:12:43 »No Carltons, Sennys, Omegas then
I guess they where all at church
I did spyathe Cresta.
FTFY
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General Discussion Area / Re: What has P*ssed you off today?
« on: 02 September 2023, 15:50:55 »
I've got to change the cat on Deb's Golf.
Why are five of the six manifold flange nuts one size, and the front middle one different? I'll tell you: it's so they can pretend it makes more room to get a socket on it. Which it slightly does, but then there's no straight access to turn it so it still snaps off. The other five will have to do.
With that undone and the clamp beaten off, you have to move the pipe backwards and turn through 180degrees to get it out. Which would be fiddly on a lift, but the ground gets in the way when doing the job in the street. I sorted that by lopping the end off, but have to figure out some way of getting the car higher to fit the new one.
Germans: they shouldn't be allowed to design things without an adult armed with a big stick supervising them
Why are five of the six manifold flange nuts one size, and the front middle one different? I'll tell you: it's so they can pretend it makes more room to get a socket on it. Which it slightly does, but then there's no straight access to turn it so it still snaps off. The other five will have to do.
With that undone and the clamp beaten off, you have to move the pipe backwards and turn through 180degrees to get it out. Which would be fiddly on a lift, but the ground gets in the way when doing the job in the street. I sorted that by lopping the end off, but have to figure out some way of getting the car higher to fit the new one.
Germans: they shouldn't be allowed to design things without an adult armed with a big stick supervising them
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General Car Chat / Re: New MOT for the mighty Signum.
« on: 02 September 2023, 15:41:36 »You sure about that?And not even in the same league as the Saturn Aura.Nice one Opti, us Vectra owners must stick together.
Totally different motor cars, Ronny.
No idea what a Saturn Aura is but my Signum has more explosive thrust than the Saturn 5.
To deliver this quantity of fuel, the five F1 engines each had a turbo pump rated at 55,000 BHP. So, the five pumps on their own, developed 275,000 BHP. 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣👍
You haven't allowed for the extra power of deluded bullshit
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Car Parts, bits For Sale & Wanted / Re: cat shields / covers
« on: 02 September 2023, 15:40:31 »The "clam shell" ones on the pre cats are insulated to keep the heat in for initial warm up .
the ones after could be removed and then exhaust wrap all the pipes before the main cats ,again tokeep the heat inencourage the exhaust to rust away in no time
FTFY
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Car Parts, bits For Sale & Wanted / Re: cat shields / covers
« on: 02 September 2023, 08:23:32 »
You'll never notice a difference if you remove them.
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General Discussion Area / Re: Haltrac Hoist
« on: 01 September 2023, 17:31:28 »My mate popped over this morning in his 1962 4.5 litre Daimler Majestic everything still works as it should & it sounds glorious the chrome is stunning,wind down windows which still function properly & no stupid messages popping up , simply drive it & enjoy it.How many Teslas will still be functioning perfectly in 60+ years?
Likely more than Majestics, considering fewer than 1200 of those were made in 8 years. There can't be more than a couple of dozen left, and that would include the non-running limousine on a drive a mile up the road from here...
The 4.5l engine is a straight swap for the 2.5 V8 used in mk2 Jags and Darts, which killed a lot of Majestics
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Omega General Help / Re: Plenum painting
« on: 01 September 2023, 16:40:29 »Ps I’ve got the spray paint… Hycote Extreme Heat in silver/grey. Hopefully get it done over next two or three weeks. 😃 thanks for all tips 🥰
It doesn't get hot enough to need anything special - a £2.50 can of gloss silver from Poundland would have been more than good enough, assuming that your preparation is OK. But that applies to any paint you might have used.
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General Discussion Area / Re: Haltrac Hoist
« on: 01 September 2023, 09:02:46 ».. and your left arm. Oh, wait!Auto hill hold, but without a button. The S has it too. Great when you first stop on a slope, but not so functional in stop start/creeping traffic as it thinks you've pulled away already and won't reapply itself so you have to physically apply the parking brake to stop rolling backThat's what your left foot is for
The R had it too, not surprising being a related chassis to the ML/GL, although it had the traditional foot operated mechanical parking brake. The hill hold aspect is done through the ABS
What's traditional about a foot operated "hand" brake?
Everything if you're American. Or Mercedes, who have never seen a more complicated solution they didn't like.
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General Discussion Area / Re: Haltrac Hoist
« on: 31 August 2023, 11:45:18 »Its called progress.
There are several definitions of progress.
The mendacious use is to imply that you mean the process of gradually improving something. This isn't applicable to any of my examples, as they didn't improve anything.
It can also mean moving forward in space or time. This is applicable, but is irrelevant.