paul99
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Aug 26, 2020 11:11:05 GMT
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My wife's CRV has just two irritating features. The first is the location of the oil filter on the back of the engine where it can't easily be accessed from above or below, and when you do get the thing off, the oil runs into the hollow subframe and drips for a week. The second is the fuel filler flap. Firstly it's on the opposite side to every other car I've ever owned. Secondly, despite the car having central locking, you have to pull a lever to release it. Said lever is just below the bonnet one. The refuelling process is, therefore: 1. Drive into petrol station and stop at pump; 2. Repark so left hand side of car is next to pump; 3. Get out and walk around car to realise that you haven't released the flap; 4. Go back to driver's door, reach in and pull lever; 5. Go back to pump and realise you've pulled the wrong lever; 6. Go back to driver's door, reach in and pull correct lever; 7. Refuel, pay, and drive off; 8. Stop and get out to close the accidentally opened bonnet. Could beat that on a Mk1 Mondeo. SAME lever for the boot release and the rear hatch. Push for fuel, pull for tailgate. Stopped for fuel before driving from Bristol to Reading with the tailgate open.......
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paul99
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Cats a great, really good for lowering blood pressure and stress levels. And the dogs need someone to look up to
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Resurrecting a thread here, picked up a TE1a recently, not been run in years by the look of it, any tips/checks before firing up? Surface rust and chimney needs refitting is all I can see....
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paul99
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I wonder if some of the issue is that with the rise of FB marketplace, people expect some really aggressive lowballing to come their way, regardless of what the starting price is. Probably not the only factor, but it could play a part. Too many wanabee Mike Brewers these days
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paul99
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A mate has an Aclaim, and runs it on Banngernomics principles. I think it failed it's MoT this year, not sure if he repaired or scrapped it
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paul99
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Never gets old
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Jul 28, 2020 15:55:51 GMT
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These are pretty practical but plastics can be brittle and a French car with dodgy electrics, that's unusual...... Standard fitment Missus had one, similar mileage. Dashboard lit up like Blackpool illuminations, but was unbreakable.
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paul99
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Jul 28, 2020 13:19:53 GMT
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Calibras have been growing on me lately, seem able to get fairly decent looking ones for not much money too...🤔 If only it was a redtop I'd of been knocking on doors If it were a Redtop, the engine would be in a Corsa, and the shell bean tins by now.
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paul99
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Given GM's parts bin mentality, was it fitted to any other models?
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Jul 21, 2020 11:35:11 GMT
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Balls of steel! Good on yer. Well there’s a guy I work with had one of these and stripped the parts off the shell to weld and spray it only to have the shell nicked off his drive so he now has all parts for a Beta but no body shell. 😂 Admit it, he just swept up the rust
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paul99
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Somebody like Maestros. I suppose I takes all sorts
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Jul 14, 2020 18:46:54 GMT
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It's a parking CHARGE invoice, not a FINE. They cannot do that, however much they dress it up as such, the only people who can issue fines are councils or their agents.
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paul99
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Yikes. Kias I have known have tended to go one of two ways, either ultra reliable or better off walking. Which category for the one above do you recon?
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Last Edit: Jul 7, 2020 7:33:23 GMT by paul99
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paul99
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12 fuses! How decadent! My '71 Dolomite has a grand total of 2! Both 35A iirc, must be a '70's thing..... Did someone in BMC over order?.....
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Last Edit: Jul 1, 2020 12:32:07 GMT by paul99
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Not sure want to know what a worse day looks like to you Bad days? I've had a few but then too few to mention except for this one! Got a serious electrical burn through my own stupidity . Driven to A&E, given painkillers and hooked up to ECG. Hirsute upper central torso, so difficult to get ECG tags on, nurse dry shaves chestal area and lops off top of protuberant mole and that b@st@rd would not stop bleeding. It's early evening, no beds in local(ish) burns unit, no beds in main hospital but one in the 'special' ward. In this three bed side-ward was one guy in a straight jacket strapped to the bed and coming down after a very bad trip, in the other occupied bed was a guy handcuffed by both wrists to the bed with a prison warder sat on a chair next to him. Between Mr. Straight Jacket screaming about spiders all night and Mr. Criminal telling a rota of warders how he was going to kill them all not a wink was slept and early morning decanted into an ambulance where another 10 ECG tags were fitted as the ambulance system was non-compatible with the hospital system.The mole is still weeping. Arrive at burns unit, prepped for cutting out the cooked flesh and skin graft. Fitted with another 10 ECG tags as the ambulance and first hospital systems were non-compatible with the burns unit system. Come round six hours later to nurse wanting to clean up the copious crusty blood on chest so she then pulls off 30 ECG tags and looks like she's enjoying it. All within one day. Ouch. Have you considered less life threatening forms of employment/entertainment perhaps? Flower arranging or something?
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Last Edit: Jul 1, 2020 12:35:18 GMT by paul99
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Having stood on a six inch nail that was protruding from a piece of timber during the re-flooring of a horse trailer, may I add that it's not too good for your foot either! Aww I feel your pain, when I was a kid I had to walk the best part of half a mile home with a six inch nail poking out the top of my shoe, that was bloomin uncomfortable, but I couldn't pull it out. My Dad took one look at it, headed out to the garage and came back with a hammer to drive the nail back out! Then when there was enough poking out the sole of my shoe he hooked the claw part of the hammer around the nail head and pulled it right out. I'm not sure if it was any more comfortable coming out than it was going in. A quick dunk of my foot in Dettol then it was off to get a tetanus shot! Probably not my worst day ever, but not exactly a great one either. Not sure want to know what a worse day looks like to you
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paul99
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Jun 15, 2020 12:03:57 GMT
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It's John Prescotts
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Jun 14, 2020 18:54:45 GMT
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Might help if you elaborated on what it will need for MoT?
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paul99
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Nice, brother had the 2.0 GTE back in the day. 115 bhp seemed a lot back then Accident prone though, and we talked about moving the running to my Mk1 Cavalier. Never did though. What's the plan?
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Last Edit: Jun 2, 2020 11:04:34 GMT by paul99
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