brachunky
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Lanoguard-The modern waxoil?brachunky
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Whilst doing a load of part replacing on the Chevy, I have decided to smarten up the chassis & under carriage bits as they are looking decidedly UK as in rusty and looking generally ugly. Looking at the Dakota post paul has put up was testament to how many of us may have these less than nice underneaths! Now this fine forum has an abundance of threads on chassis treatments, painting and waxing etc so don't really want to go down the same discussion except to ask you gents whether you may have used Lanoguard at all? It looks to be a fairly decent product and Lanolin protection seems to have been around a while. www.lanoguard.co.uk/products/lanoguard-vehicle-underbody-and-chassis-care-kit
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brachunky
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@hotwire Could this thread be moved to Garage Life so it's not lost amongst all else?
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Last Edit: May 5, 2022 8:38:07 GMT by brachunky
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brachunky
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Possibly one of the other great cars with polarised image is the Mazda RX... rotary engines and the reputation for tip wear... you'll find guys who never have an issue but equally those who wreck engines within a few thousand miles... the early ones could also rot(the red one below had virtually no chassis rails left) Still a lovely looking car!
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brachunky
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Back in the day, I'm pretty sure VW South Africa based in Uitenhage, used to build these to export to China. Can you remember if my memory is correct grizz ?
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brachunky
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I for one have always liked the Crossfire's "different" styling and in fact still like the silver trim as it makes a change from all the black/carbon/piano finish types. It reminds me of good quality billet ally stuff. Now I say I always liked these but that's where my knowledge of them ends as I had no idea they were based on one of Germanys finest. Just a pity it didn't come fitted with an american V8 but that's just me!
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brachunky
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There is a lot of love around for retro stuff considering the amounts of rust we have to deal with! Tis a bit nuts considering that if you did an engine or box rebuild, they would probably last for 10's of thousands of miles but the body falls in love with the welder and spray gun every few years I think it's called passion or some other matter of the heart!
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brachunky
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You will enjoy the world of land yachting! My 99 used to get 29mpg on a decent run and yours may be even better being the 4.3.
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brachunky
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After another rubbish night, I was woken by the cat I do not own. After feeding him, he went out to sit and watch is property. Never met a guy who has so much pussy visiting! That besides, your work is as inspirational as usual boet. Just wish I was closer to pop in but it's a long stretch!
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brachunky
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Lovely example and as it happened, my first company car was one of these! Super simple, pretty good driving position and a mahoosive boot (trunk) to hide a few bodies in I'm not in the market right now but sometime in the future maybe!
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brachunky
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I bought some of those alluminum led lights and thought they were pretty cool on a bike project I did years ago. Nice & discreet.
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brachunky
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Apr 27, 2022 17:32:50 GMT
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Well I don't as yet own one of these but since seeing a video of them in use some years ago, I do fancy one! Identifying strange noises on older cars is something of a skill so although it may lie in cupboard a lot, I think it may be pretty useful when needed. I'd be interested if anyone has used one of these cheaper types of detectors/monitors.
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brachunky
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Apr 27, 2022 17:13:20 GMT
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Pretty much every car on the road nowadays uses a super thin fully synthetic oil for economy and emissions. Nothing new there. Thats the thing! Where have the years gone I need to re focus!
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brachunky
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Apr 26, 2022 21:14:04 GMT
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Well today I decided it was time to order oil & filters for the Chevy pickup so started the hunt for 10w30 which wasn't as easy as you would have thought. I did see 10w40 in abundance but I'm not jenned up enough to now whether that would have been ok. Anyhoo....... I have had the Volvo XC70 for about 6 months and after the service light popped up, I decided on getting the bits together to service that as well but then, whilst researching what I needed, I came across the required 0w30!!!! Where did this oil come from and more importantly where have I been hiding? Surely I can't be the only one whose never heard of it!
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brachunky
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That said, driving -A Vectra C DTi 2.0 -My Sister's Saab 9-3 1.8t -Vauxhall Insignia Elite 2.0 CDTI (63 plate) I can see why the Vectra was slated, if the above two are to be compared with the Mk3 and 4 Mondeos we had against them. Christ, my sister preferred the Mk3 1.8 LX hand-me-down had with 320k on the clock, until we remapped the Saab, but even then, she preferred the roadholding of the Mondeo. Your post prompted my thoughts about the very non retro Insignia. Personally, I like the cars including the estate and have been tempted to get one as a daily. I know as well that they are popular repmobiles so why is the general opinion (shown is resale values as well) so iffy? They tend to get slated a lot and I for one don't get it apart from the popular anti Vauxhall rhetoric bounded about.
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brachunky
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Apr 23, 2022 10:56:46 GMT
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On the subject of all old cars are great, all new ones are rubbish, I did write an article y'all may enjoy on Malaise Motors You can read that HEREGreat article! Made me laugh ( It’s like finally spotting the crow’s feet on your lover of 20 years’ face or something.)
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brachunky
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Apr 22, 2022 19:59:08 GMT
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Really looking forward to see this belting down the motorway!
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brachunky
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Apr 22, 2022 19:53:43 GMT
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Crazy thing about a Landy is ones "acceptance" that the things need constant attention and aftermarket parts are on the whole,pants! But we still love them............
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brachunky
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I recently came across another story/post about how terrible the Vauxhall Frontera was and this got me thinking as to how unfair this actually was. The car was produced all over the world between 1989 and 2004 being branded as either Chevrolet, Isuzu, Vauxhall,Opel or Holden. Just like Grizz and a few others on RR, I spent decades living in South Africa where the Isuzu pick ups were highly regarded and for years regularly swopped places with the Hilux as the biggest selling pick up over there. It was highly favoured by farmers and small businesses with all using the tough Isuzu engines and in particular the 2.8TD Over here in blighty, it was deemed as unreliable and rather unloved. Was this perhaps down to the same shoddy British workmanship we all know existed alongside loads of other locally built cars? Did we locally ruin this model due to awful factory management at the time and did our choice of engines play a part? Did a load of greenlaning in this old girl
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brachunky
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All I can imagine is that you are going to be mega proud driving it around! Will be the dogs danglies are we say here
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Last Edit: Apr 21, 2022 7:20:14 GMT by brachunky
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brachunky
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Apr 19, 2022 13:13:18 GMT
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The dreaded calipers! These have almost become consumables IMHO, wearing out far before they should in many cases. The pair I ordered from RA about 18 months ago needed some fetling with a grinder as they touched the inner rims unlike the ones they replaced. Always another challenge!
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