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Re: So what have you done to your car today?
« Reply #10485 on: 22 June 2015, 15:21:46 »
Quote from: chrisgixer on 22 June 2015, 12:33:58
The ideal is a 3.0l auto on gas and that's that! :P
Fixed!
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Re: So what have you done to your car today?
« Reply #10486 on: 22 June 2015, 15:25:31 »
Quote from: chrisgixer on 22 June 2015, 12:43:03
....hold on. You don't  even drive it! Mrs TB does! ;D ;D ;D
Yeah, even she moans about the economy on it. Bleedin' wimen, a freebie car, fully taxed and insured, and she still grumbles ;D


I'm driving it this week, as we're on hols, and I have to keep shouting at it to get a move on, though in its defence, it has got a few tools in the back, including the majority of a Halfords socket set, and a jumpstarter/aircompressor thingie.
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Re: So what have you done to your car today?
« Reply #10487 on: 22 June 2015, 15:29:29 »
Washed the bonnet, following a Pterodactyl using it for target practice, droping a sticky green birdshit all over it. Drove 3 miles up the road, parked up to have a coffee at a bar, came out, the bonnet had been hit again with green birdshit  >:(
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Re: So what have you done to your car today?
« Reply #10488 on: 22 June 2015, 16:03:45 »
Flat battery on the one not being used  ::) Power sounder has a date with a hammer ..
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Re: So what have you done to your car today?
« Reply #10489 on: 22 June 2015, 16:06:33 »
Quote from: TheBoy on 22 June 2015, 15:21:46
Quote from: chrisgixer on 22 June 2015, 12:33:58
The ideal is a 3.0l auto on gas and that's that! :P
Fixed!

Nope. Wrong again. That old bucket is in its last legs (and he knows :P )
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Re: So what have you done to your car today?
« Reply #10490 on: 22 June 2015, 16:08:35 »
Enabled 'TheBoy' mode in my right foot today, took 3.2 to Sainsburys to tank up. Truck had already finished filling when I arrived, I filled up, paid, left, belted up in the car.

Truck still there  >:(

Petrol stations offer little grip  ;D

Still, shredding the Nexen's nicely.
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Re: So what have you done to your car today?
« Reply #10491 on: 22 June 2015, 16:16:00 »
Quote from: TheBoy on 22 June 2015, 15:29:29
Washed the bonnet, following a Pterodactyl using it for target practice, droping a sticky green birdshit all over it. Drove 3 miles up the road, parked up to have a coffee at a bar, came out, the bonnet had been hit again with green birdshit  >:(

Ah, I ow Pterry another chicken then ;D
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Re: So what have you done to your car today?
« Reply #10492 on: 22 June 2015, 16:21:38 »
Quote from: chrisgixer on 22 June 2015, 16:06:33
Quote from: TheBoy on 22 June 2015, 15:21:46
Quote from: chrisgixer on 22 June 2015, 12:33:58
The ideal is a 3.0l auto on gas and that's that! :P
Fixed!

Nope. Wrong again. That old bucket is in its last legs (and he knows :P )
Other 3.0l Omegas available....
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Re: So what have you done to your car today?
« Reply #10493 on: 22 June 2015, 16:23:02 »
Quote from: tunnie on 22 June 2015, 16:08:35
Enabled 'TheBoy' mode in my right foot today, took 3.2 to Sainsburys to tank up. Truck had already finished filling when I arrived, I filled up, paid, left, belted up in the car.

Truck still there  >:(

Petrol stations offer little grip  ;D

Still, shredding the Nexen's nicely.
Oi, young'un, I'll have you know I haven't lost my rag in the local BP for months...  ...not since they stopped selling fuel
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Re: So what have you done to your car today?
« Reply #10494 on: 22 June 2015, 17:35:12 »
Quote from: TheBoy on 22 June 2015, 16:21:38
Quote from: chrisgixer on 22 June 2015, 16:06:33
Quote from: TheBoy on 22 June 2015, 15:21:46
Quote from: chrisgixer on 22 June 2015, 12:33:58
The ideal is a 3.0l auto on gas and that's that! :P
Fixed!

Nope. Wrong again. That old bucket is in its last legs (and he knows :P )
Other 3.0l Omegas available....

Although it has served you well obviously. So are you really suggesting I get rid of my preferred and far superior face lift, remove all the LPG, Irmscher everything, the suspension, etc etc not to mention the interior and ice mods.

Buy a much older car, known to have rust issues, an older less intelligent engine management, a ton more crap under the bonnet to the point there is nowhere to balance the injectors except on a tin plate on the plenum, creaky door pockets and a rotten arm rest with foam pouring out of it, AND soft touch buttons the scratch off...

All for the sake of a couple of mpg , and at start up alone from cold at that....?

Have you gone COMPLEEEEEEETELY oppsin mental. ;D ;D ;D
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Re: So what have you done to your car today?
« Reply #10495 on: 23 June 2015, 09:17:53 »
Taken big blue to the MOT tester. Waiting time.....
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Re: So what have you done to your car today?
« Reply #10496 on: 23 June 2015, 19:55:26 »
Quote from: Jimbob on 23 June 2015, 09:17:53
Taken big blue to the MOT tester. Waiting time.....

Well after the purchase of a new (well pair) of front tyres it passed.
Knew they would be advisories, but one was worse than I thought.

Need to do a Track Rod End, and have the geometry set up too.

Need to work out which one to buy first be it GM, Lemforder or A N Other
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Re: So what have you done to your car today?
« Reply #10497 on: 23 June 2015, 20:06:55 »
I just changed the old MAF for a new MAF, which arrived today, ordered Sunday night, all appears good now. VX stealers wanted over £190 and just under £150 trade club, but last week while searching found one at £76 (Bosch), but when I went to look again on Sunday could not find the same site, thought it was Vauxhall world parts but when into the site said 1-5 days delivery but no price, anyway bit the bullet and cheapest I could find was eurocarparts at just over £130 delivered :y
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Re: So what have you done to your car today?
« Reply #10498 on: 23 June 2015, 22:00:37 »
Removed my leaky rear dampers, checked the rear bushes and applied liberal amounts of plus gas to the rear tie bars.
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Re: So what have you done to your car today?
« Reply #10499 on: 24 June 2015, 09:01:49 »
Removed the power sounder and sealed the scuttle.  Power sounder wouldnt die though bucket of water with a brick on top and it still carried on for 10 minutes chirping away >:(
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