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Re: So what have you done to your car today?
« Reply #9270 on: 11 January 2015, 18:18:33 »
Been buzzy. Filled screen wash with Halfords lime berry flavour :) only got 20L left now ;D
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« Reply #9271 on: 11 January 2015, 18:32:54 »
Quote from: biggriffin on 11 January 2015, 18:18:33
Been buzzy. Filled screen wash with Halfords lime berry flavour :) only got 20L left now ;D

I've got blackcurrent in mine.  :D
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Re: So what have you done to your car today?
« Reply #9272 on: 11 January 2015, 20:47:07 »
Quote from: Sir Tigger on 11 January 2015, 18:32:54
Quote from: biggriffin on 11 January 2015, 18:18:33
Been buzzy. Filled screen wash with Halfords lime berry flavour :) only got 20L left now ;D

I've got blackcurrent in mine.  :D
Did you buy in bulk at the sale price £2.48. 8)
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Re: So what have you done to your car today?
« Reply #9273 on: 11 January 2015, 21:32:13 »
Pulled the passenger side head off of the engine I removed from my MV6 18 months ago.

As I thought - severe head gasket failure  ;)
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Re: So what have you done to your car today?
« Reply #9274 on: 11 January 2015, 21:44:54 »
Quote from: biggriffin on 11 January 2015, 20:47:07
Quote from: Sir Tigger on 11 January 2015, 18:32:54
Quote from: biggriffin on 11 January 2015, 18:18:33
Been buzzy. Filled screen wash with Halfords lime berry flavour :) only got 20L left now ;D

I've got blackcurrent in mine.  :D
Did you buy in bulk at the sale price £2.48. 8)

No I missed that.  ::) £4.99 for 5 litres of blackcurrent concentrate, which will last for ages as I'm stingy with it!  :D  It's too much like cordial for my liking though, so keep it away from the kids!!  ;)
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Re: So what have you done to your car today?
« Reply #9275 on: 11 January 2015, 21:46:47 »
Quote from: Sir Tigger on 11 January 2015, 21:44:54
Quote from: biggriffin on 11 January 2015, 20:47:07
Quote from: Sir Tigger on 11 January 2015, 18:32:54
Quote from: biggriffin on 11 January 2015, 18:18:33
Been buzzy. Filled screen wash with Halfords lime berry flavour :) only got 20L left now ;D

I've got blackcurrent in mine.  :D
Did you buy in bulk at the sale price £2.48. 8)

No I missed that.  ::) £4.99 for 5 litres of blackcurrent concentrate, which will last for ages as I'm stingy with it!  :D  It's too much like cordial for my liking though, so keep it away from the kids!!  ;)
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You kept them quiet... ;D
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Re: So what have you done to your car today?
« Reply #9276 on: 11 January 2015, 21:59:05 »
Quote from: Taxi Al on 11 January 2015, 21:46:47
Quote from: Sir Tigger on 11 January 2015, 21:44:54
Quote from: biggriffin on 11 January 2015, 20:47:07
Quote from: Sir Tigger on 11 January 2015, 18:32:54
Quote from: biggriffin on 11 January 2015, 18:18:33
Been buzzy. Filled screen wash with Halfords lime berry flavour :) only got 20L left now ;D

I've got blackcurrent in mine.  :D
Did you buy in bulk at the sale price £2.48. 8)

No I missed that.  ::) £4.99 for 5 litres of blackcurrent concentrate, which will last for ages as I'm stingy with it!  :D  It's too much like cordial for my liking though, so keep it away from the kids!!  ;)
:o

You kept them quiet... ;D

Not mine!!  :o  ::)  Just general advice to those who forgot to use a condom!  :D  ;D
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« Reply #9277 on: 11 January 2015, 22:06:19 »
Phew...  ;D
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Re: So what have you done to your car today?
« Reply #9278 on: 12 January 2015, 07:47:57 »
Quote from: biggriffin on 11 January 2015, 20:47:07
Quote from: Sir Tigger on 11 January 2015, 18:32:54
Quote from: biggriffin on 11 January 2015, 18:18:33
Been buzzy. Filled screen wash with Halfords lime berry flavour :) only got 20L left now ;D

I've got blackcurrent in mine.  :D
Did you buy in bulk at the sale price £2.48. 8)
I *think* that is the usual trade price
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Re: So what have you done to your car today?
« Reply #9279 on: 12 January 2015, 07:51:19 »


Quote from: sjc on 11 January 2015, 21:32:13
Pulled the passenger side head off of the engine I removed from my MV6 18 months ago.

As I thought - severe head gasket failure  ;)
1998 model? Passenger side?
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Re: So what have you done to your car today?
« Reply #9280 on: 12 January 2015, 10:02:40 »
Drove it for 2 miles at <cough!> 70 MPH this morning.

Then it occurred to me that I don't remember getting the torque wrench out to torque up the wheel nuts after the weekend's fettling. So, out with the wheel brace in the next layby. :-[
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« Reply #9281 on: 12 January 2015, 10:34:47 »
Got that T shirt too :-[ had some welding done to the front passenger footwell on one of my Granadas, nsf wheel off for access... afterwards drove over 6 miles trying to work out why the steering was all over the place and where the horrendous clonk was coming from... fortunately I still had four of the wheel nuts ::)
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Re: So what have you done to your car today?
« Reply #9282 on: 12 January 2015, 10:45:14 »
These had been buzzed up with the impact wrench with the wheels in the air before lowering and final torquing, then I noticed something else that needed doing while it was off its' wheels, and another thing, and another, then it was dinner time, so dropped it off the jacks and called it a night... ::)
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« Reply #9283 on: 12 January 2015, 13:13:50 »
A mate and I whilst working in Zimbabwe took a truck for a test drive that someone else had been working on.  ::)  My mate was driving and started complaining that the steering was funny so we pulled over to find that the front wheelnuts hadn't been torqued up and were veeeeery loose and in some cases about to drop off!  :o  :D

All we could find on board was a pair of mole grips so it was a very slow journey home!!  ::)  ;D
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Re: So what have you done to your car today?
« Reply #9284 on: 12 January 2015, 14:26:54 »
Been there done that. Muscat corniche mid 1970's. Picked the car (Fiat 128?) up from the garage. Heard knocking. Went to a party. Driving home someone pulled up alongside. Passenger front wheel was gone. They gave me a lift home. Needless to say I'd had a tipple or two otherwise I might have noticed.  :y
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