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She works hard. Let her buy what she wants. As my old Mum used to say "theres no pockets in shrouds".You're right, of course, Albs
Just had a thought about the 320d. RWD, that would keep her on her toes
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Bugger! .... I missed that. I was busy at work.
I really need toFTFYforce myself to get to work onset fire to the French contraption. Now haveall the parts (I hope) and a few days off work, so no excuse other than lack of interest.Might tot upmy petrolreceipts for the last few weeksfor motivation.
I think your plan is the more sensible one.
Made a start on it today. Need to change cam oil seal, cambelt and aux. belt.
Jack up o/s front. Remove wheel. Remove arch liner. Remove 6 nuts holding fuel filter bracket in place and cable tie fuel filter out of the way. Remove aux. belt.
Next is remove crank pulley. To do this move to the other side and remove airfilter trunking, airfilter box, battery, battery tray, bolts holding cable tray to bellhousing, then remove two bolts which hold starter motor.
I stopped there when it started raining.
Next thing will be - remove front bumper (which is actually the front of the car) to allow removal of starter motor.
Then jam something in the ring gear so the crank pulley can be undone.
I can then commence the jobs that actually need doing.
The frenchman who designed this contraption must have had a pathological hatred of mechanics
Savage callsign is used by 100Sqn based at RAF Leeming in Yorkshire. They aren't a training squadron themselves. One of their roles is to fly as 'aggressors', which means they play the baddies in war games allowing front line fighter units (and warships) to practice intercepting a target which is 'fighting' to get away, or maneuvering to try and shoot you down.
100Sqn are the only RAF unit other than the Red Arrows still flying the Hawk T1 - Training at RAF Valley is done using the much newer Hawk T2. The only other unit still flying the Hawk T1 is 736 NAS at RNAS Culdrose, who use the Hawk to simulate missile attacks on RN Warships whilst the warships are working up for deployment.
The retirement of all Hawk T1 (except for the Reds) was announced in the Defence Review last month, so the future for 100 Sqn and 736 NAS is uncertain/bleak.
John worked till silly o'clock 7 days a week .... never took a day off. Not sure how old he was but believe he was only late 60s when he diedDepends where you go. I took my ML to a body shop where he replaced the lower chrome bit of the bumper (best part of £500 on its own) & painted half the coloured bit .... £1100 but he knew an insurance company was paying.Why are people so inconsiderate!
My daughter took her Yaris to another body shop 100yds away run by a couple of Polish lads. She had both corners of the rear bumper painted (car park damage) and virtually one side of the car sprayed due to someone with a key. It all came to £600. I could find fault in the Yaris paint job .... I found a run at the front .... but on the whole, it wasn't a bad job for the money.
My favourite painter died!
I'm sure I've written here before, but the 'new' Top Gear is actually quite watchable. Whether that is comparing it to the Chris Evans era, I don't know, but it's gone back to a similar format as the Clarkson, May, Hammond era.
If you aren't completely adverse to technology, Chris Harris' has a brilliant YouTube channel. His natural enthusiasm for cars is evident in all the video's he shares.
Back to the Monaro. I'm pretty sure I'd never own one. I really don't understand why Vauxhall imported it at all. A large coupe with terrible fuel consumption was never going to work, especially back then.
The VXR8...... yes. A big 4 Door Saloon.... a useable waste of money. I reckon if it was available in the Estate (like it was in Aus), they would have sold more.
EDIT TO ADD: I've never owned an Estate car......... but if the VXR8 was available, I'd buy one.
Qualifying has just finished. Its going to be an interesting race tomorrow.
I would love to see Lando Norris (I think his name is - Took Hamiltons seat when he had covid) end up in the top 3 at least.
He surprised quite a few, Just like Lewis did in his 1st year.
The R25 was an automobile...
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