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  1. Thanks, I'll have to wait till next year's! - On account of my desk never having enough space for a coffee mug, let alone a calendar...
  2. If there are two of the wall calendars left, can i have them pls?
  3. Absolutely. I like mechanics creepers, have two different ones, but they have cons: 1: they lift you three or four inches off the ground, and on regular axle stands, that can make all the difference between you having enough room to work, or even fit under the bit of car you need to work on, and not. 2: when you're in position and start hefting on the part/bit of rusty chod/tool you need to move, what you don't need is to be on something that rolls easily away from what you're working on. Mats don't do that, yet still allow easier sliding about while getting in position. A mate has a one piece, smooth foam mat, about 4ft by 2ft and about 1.5" thick, that he deploys often. It was standard equipment for Openre*ch engineers etc and is brilliant for the same reasons as the interlocking mats
  4. I put 'guide pin bellows' into google and got a few possibles
  5. They're drop shippers - they look like they hold stock, but they don't - they buy in when they have an order (possibly only when they have enough orders to buy their stock at a wholesale price). If they don't get enough orders along with yours, or their wholesaler has no stock, you'll either get a refund, or a long delay, and then a refund when you chase your order. Annoying, but unfortunately legal, afaik.
  6. I'm 59 and it's a decidedly cooking diesel Focus. Postcode isn't the issue either. Insured for 'the carriage of goods for hire and reward' IS the issue. I've paid over £900 before now for the same cover... ...on a 2001 pez Corsa C badermatic. So, yes, robbing bastards
  7. Glorious noise that 6 pot makes. I yearn to hear mine running again. First really is a crawler gear in an early LT - even with the enormous coachbuilt body on mine, it'll still pull away in 2nd, and the clutch isn't on fire after. Edited to add: we owned a very similar ex school minibus, ex rental LDV Convoy (medium wheelbase) for a bunch of years. Despite all it's rustiness, and the harshness of the neglected suspension and kingpins, we loved it. I actually couldn't bear to be there when the scrap man came for it...
  8. Focus delivery hack insurance is due at the end of the month. No renewal notice from Admiral, because i had it set to not auto renew. Goc0mpare and C0nfused both gave me just one quote, from the same company iirc (and not one I'd heard of) and these were £1,030 and £1,300. I paid £823 last year with Admiral. Went back to the Admiral site and logged on - their renewal quote is now available: £883 That'll do. I might get a quote from them for the Voyager too (already lapsed and on the drive awaiting pre MOT fettling) and see if i get a multi car discount...
  9. Thanks @Talbot! Similarly interested - i like anything that'll save me money, esp if it's complicated!
  10. Would a consolation 'like' help?
  11. I'll check my set this afternoon - i honestly can't remember if they're half and half metric/imperial. I know: 1 it's cheap tat 2 I've only used half the set at most @Rust Collector What part of the country are you in?
  12. If you have to ask, you'll never know. If you know, you only need to ask.
  13. @Rust Collector Got anything that'll chill the stud? Blast of gas? Plumber's freeze it spray? If all the welding is expanding both the stud and the casting, perhaps a blast of something very cold and very localised on the stud to contract it would help break the seal...
  14. Don't start making excuses for them. The cause is ignorance and arrogance.
  15. First shape V70 has a similar handbrake issue - except when the lever can be pulled on more than 4 clicks, it cracks the flimsy, weak-ass plastic trim surround...
  16. @robthedonkey I'll take three of the domestic non-travel variety puleeeease
  17. This raises a question i posed myself the other day - what happens to the nyloc if the nut gets hot? As if the nyloc softens or even melts, presumably it ceases to lock the thread as intended...
  18. @Rocket88 That's a bloody good paint match!
  19. For future reference, the key spins in the XM lock barrel when the key is not pushed in the last spring-loaded half mm of its travel
  20. PS Binge read this entire thread over the last four nights (on holiday, so starved of distractions/entertainment) and the ups and downs of chod bothering mojo, fleet reinflation and budget bodging* has kept me riveted amd and raised more than a few chuckles. *With much greater skill and success than i can muster Keep up the bothering and the updates!
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