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I used to do that when my sister was in the car because it made her feel sick

To be fair to main dealers, an exhaust bracket broke on my sister's Citroen. I told her to phone them, order one and I'd fit it for her. They just told her to bring it in and they'd weld it. They did and didn't charge for it (car was out of warranty too)

If it is an AMC under there, I don't think it's a Javelin. Maybe a Hornet

Yes - I can't see that it could be anything else

The distinction "A Monaro is not a Vauxhall" is exactly the same as the distinction "a Mustang is not a Ford UK car" Vauxhall is just a brand name that at that time was used by GM for a particular market. It's like listing all the Ford products that are not built by Ford UK.

I remember years ago seeing a sticker on a Volkswagen Golf that read "Support British Farming" I did wonder what the owner thought was so special about supporting agriculture here that didn't apply to the car industry

99% of tyre pumps from the 1960s broke decades ago and were thrown away. In 50-60 years, there will be someone with a tyre pump they bought in 2022 that works who will tell everyone that tyre pumps from 2080 are rubbish and everything was built to last back in the 2010s and 2020s. It has always been this way. It is called survivor bias. The survivors are the evidence we have that the old machines were better, however the ones that remain were the ones that were particularly high quality or better maintained and repaired.

This. I briefly had a job in home insurance when I was much younger. I remember when I started, my uncle got quite nasty about it, telling me that insurers are all snakes just trying to screw innocent people on technicalities. The answer couldn't have been further from the truth. That just wasn't the attitude at all. If a claim was fair, it was paid. There would be formalities and questions but that's just due diligence really. If a claim was obviously fraudulent it would be investigated and pursued, which seems fair enough. I can't recall any faulty appliance cases (it's some years ago and I was only there for less than a year) but I really think it's unlikely that anyone there would've been trying to trip a granny up because of a fault with her Hotpoint fridge from Dixons. I've only ever made one insurance claim in my life, but that was dealt with very well (a car drove into the side of my car as I passed a T junction and then drove away). I had a witness. Calmly gave the insurance company all the details I knew and wrote an intelligible email stating it all. I had my money and all was solved within a week or so. The internet is a great place to read about how evil insurers/petrol station owners/Arabs/lawyers are, but in my experience, most things are done a certain way for a reason. If something seems strange or wrong, the chances are that it's just because you've overlooked the reason it's done that way.

That does look quite good, I think. I'll be looking out for a second hand set of wheels with usable tyres for my 3-Series soon, so I hope I can find a bargain like that! I was surprised that they wouldn't fit wheels that aren't on the car. I can only guess that once there was an incident where someone incompetent had them do that, then fitted the wheels themselves and they fell off, so it became company policy to avoid arguments

That training is optional though, not a test

I don't think many will agree! The VX220 is a very highly rated thing. People go crazy for them

I've never heard of it being any more difficult than you describe (until I read this thread). I put the bin out, the rubbish is taken. Never any more than that

4-5/06 might work. Should know next week!

If it cost three grand and lasted nine years, I'd say that was good value for money for a car.

The AA sticker in the windscreen might be optimistic

My sunglasses were in their case on the storage part of the dashboard. Somehow they came out of the case (I guess I didn't close it properly) and each lens has a nice scratched area at the peak of the convex part where it was resting on the hard plastic of the dashboard. Very annoying. I think I'll try some kind of polishing but expect to be buying new lenses

The early Dusters were much worse than the rest. I can't imagine any of them being the most rustproof cars on the market, but the 2013 Dusters were markedly worse than the ones that followed.

I just Googled Leyland EA to get to the bottom of this and found Leyland Eats, a takeaway ordering service in Leyland. What kind of world do we live in where that's a higher priority than the ~1984 Leyland EA?

I would've loved to come along but I'm already tied up. I'll do my best for the next one though - it looks promising at the moment

"No, I'm in Palestine, trying to book squash lessons, duh!"

This is possible, it's also possible that the original had been broken and the cheapest/most expedient window available was a heated one

I doubt it was stolen. The badges were prone to falling off them, particularly if they were regularly jetwashed/sent through car washes

Black death on these is pretty easy. Carb cleaner dissolves and cleans the gunk easily and a bit of heat means the injector will pull straight out when the bolt is loosened. Make sure you clean out the threads (I found cotton buds do it really well) and also that you clean out the bore that the injector sits in or it won't want to go back. Try not to drop any chunks of carbon into the cylinder! Honestly, it's really not a bad job. Tedious but not terrible.

The first year of right hand drive production was built in Dacia/Renault's factory in India and unfortunately it wasn't set up to do any decent rustproofing. After that, UK cars were built in a factory in Romania and are much better. The earliest RHD modern Dusters (Rusters) unfortunately rot horribly like this. I feel sorry for the people who ordered them early

I preferred the Galaxie. If you want to burn a million quid, this is not the car for you