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I took the Scirocco for an MOT yesterday and it failed, needing unsurprising attention from the sparkly stick. What did surprise me a little was my tame mechanic who spent a long time grumbling about how difficult access was on the bit he was required to attend to. I reminded him of a discussion we had a couple of years ago where we agreed that I'd begin to spend some proper money on it rather than maintaining it on a shoestring. A shiny new carburettor, stainless exhaust & new McPherson struts later, we do not do MOT standard welding , we repair the little fucker properly.

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20 hours ago, Markeh said:

Hired a car tomorrow to explore the island a bit. £38 for 2 days hire in Ibiza of a "C3 or similar". Place your bets. I'm not sure it'll top the beautiful Hyundai minibus from Antalya earlier this year.

Cancelled it. Went to Google Maps to find where I needed to get a taxi to. And saw 40 or so reviews from the last month where they've made up hidden charges or charged high 3 digits for scratches present at the start even with previous photos. Only lost 3 quid from paying for the cancellation policy so no biggie.

Went to the hotels recommended company up the road and this is my steed for the next 24 hours for a grand total of 60 euros.

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Hybrid model. Has quite heavy brake regeneration and the pedals are too far to the right for me but it drives fairly well and after some faffing we got the Bluetooth hooked up too.

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Thought I'd better get on with trying to remove the leaking steering box. I'd disconnected the linkages to the wheels a few months(!) back. Today I removed the servo which gives much better access. Also noticed the master cylinder was leaking into the servo. Have spare servo and master cylinder so will inspect and change over. When my back recovers I'll get the steering box out.

 

 

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As per my post in @spartacus's Panda thread I took it to our work's annual vehicle enthusiasts day.  some other pictures from the day, and yes those RS500s are the genuine period group A Touring cars 

Not much AS worthy metal, so the Panda got a fair bit of attention as one of the "haven't seen one of those for ages/ Mum used to have one" cars 

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The Caliber left this morning on the back of a beavertail, heading for the rainbow* bridge.  It actually started straight up and drove onto the truck fine, but even after running for a couple of minutes it was starting to smoke.

This evening I went on a bike ride down to Hickling Broad - I'm trying to get as much exercise in as possible before the weather turns to shite and it starts getting dark just after lunch.

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There was a flock of these wandering around - can one of our resident ornitholologists tell me what flavour ducks these are?

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43 minutes ago, wuvvum said:

Hmm.  I thought their necks were too short for them to be geese (and they were generally too smol).  Shows how much I know.

Yep, the ones here at the moment are so smol that I got them mixed up with the ducks the other day.

The ones from a couple of years ago, in the pic I posted above, were fecking massive and very hungry. They used to beat up the swans on a regular basis. 

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14 hours ago, wesacosa said:

As per my post in @spartacus's Panda thread I took it to our work's annual vehicle enthusiasts day.  some other pictures from the day, and yes those RS500s are the genuine period group A Touring cars 

Not much AS worthy metal, so the Panda got a fair bit of attention as one of the "haven't seen one of those for ages/ Mum used to have one" cars 

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Wow, that’s some selection of cars. Where on earth do you work?

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1 hour ago, Jenson Velcro said:

Wow, that’s some selection of cars. Where on earth do you work?

Yeah to be fair its a decent turn out.  Its at the Ford UK HQ in Dunton, although none of the cars on display belong to Ford, but I assume they use their pull to get the BTCC cars and the RS500s in 

There was some involvement from the Sierra owners club this year too as it was the 40th anniversary of the launch 

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In work, trying to set up the AV system for a big presentation this afternoon by the highers-up.

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Not to flex, but we're running some pretty high end stuff these days.

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A laptop - with a DVD player?

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PINCH ME IM DREAMING

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TOUCHSCREEN INTERFACE YO

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Not one, but two VHS players, y'all.

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Mercury - the future of telecommunications.

 

 

I jest. None of this stuff works anymore.

 

Two broken flip charts and a miniature whiteboard it is, then.

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(I bought the whiteboard markers with my own money.)

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3 hours ago, Datsuncog said:

In work, trying to set up the AV system for a big presentation this afternoon by the highers-up.

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Not to flex, but we're running some pretty high end stuff these days.

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A laptop - with a DVD player?

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PINCH ME IM DREAMING

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TOUCHSCREEN INTERFACE YO

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Not one, but two VHS players, y'all.

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Mercury - the future of telecommunications.

 

 

I jest. None of this stuff works anymore.

 

Two broken flip charts and a miniature whiteboard it is, then.

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(I bought the whiteboard markers with my own money.)

That Crestron stuff would of cost thousands in its day! (+ More thousands for a Crestron specialist engineer to configure it!)

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2 hours ago, Split_Pin said:

You've got to be kidding 🤣

Also, I was just talking about Mercury the other day!

Sadly not. 

The best bit is, the Big Meeting was on how to save energy.

Going by the green labels, some of that equipment was last PAT tested in 1998. There are batteries in the remote controls that expired in February 1999.

And it's all plugged in and on standby.

I can only presume it's all been drawing power night and day for the past 24 years+...

1 hour ago, anonymous user said:

Have you been abducted by 1996?

We've still got DDS/DAT cassettes in the store, so yeah... something like that!

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I'm not a french car fan.  I was about to say I've never owned one, but there was a bright yellow 306 Cab for a short while - now with @AlsoMike.

However, check this.  Papped and posted on Facebook.

 

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I'd be happy to drive about in that until the very second before it shat itself and presented a huge bill to me.  

Glorious.

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On 10/9/2022 at 1:16 PM, andy18s said:

I'm pretty sure Ford would have a certain trim level for hire/rental cars.

 

Almost certainly in Murica - I guess the numbers of rental cars across the nation make this a no brainer to keep the operators happy on price and continue to make a decent profit. 

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6 hours ago, Datsuncog said:

In work, trying to set up the AV system for a big presentation this afternoon by the highers-up.

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Not to flex, but we're running some pretty high end stuff these days.

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A laptop - with a DVD player?

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PINCH ME IM DREAMING

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TOUCHSCREEN INTERFACE YO

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Not one, but two VHS players, y'all.

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Mercury - the future of telecommunications.

 

 

I jest. None of this stuff works anymore.

 

Two broken flip charts and a miniature whiteboard it is, then.

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(I bought the whiteboard markers with my own money.)

You may jest, I'm fairly certain we still use some of that stuff at work- We have a few of those GPT phones hanging around still working.

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Panda went back this morning.

Not really enough room for my right leg in an LHD model which would make longer drives painful. Imagine an RHD one would be better, an RHD auto even better than that. Hybrid system didn't seem to make that much difference to the economy although the regen braking probably helped give me oomph on the more uphill sections. Quite chuckable in the twisties too. Surprised to see it had a 6 speed box. 

Weirdly this one had the radio set to not come on or off with the ignition, and Bluetooth pairing is handled through the steering wheel controls not the head unit itself. Led to some confusion. Mine didn't have the optional phone mount which made finding somewhere to balance my (admittedly large) phone problematic. 

However props to Fiat for an easily cleanable door card, which made life a little easier when my cousin got blackout drunk in a San Antonio nightclub, and proceeded to throw up out of the window (and miss) on the way back to the hotel. Was that easy to clean up from the interior I didn't even get charged a cleaning fee despite telling them what had happened!

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3 hours ago, BorniteIdentity said:

I'm not a french car fan.  I was about to say I've never owned one, but there was a bright yellow 306 Cab for a short while - now with @AlsoMike.

However, check this.  Papped and posted on Facebook.

 

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I'd be happy to drive about in that until the very second before it shat itself and presented a huge bill to me.  

Glorious.

Not a standard xm estate and where is the reg from? It’s all numbers.

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Ordered all the parts to change the dreaded Merc OM642 oil cooler seals in the wife’s car today, will probably de-swirl flap it at the same time.

once that’s done I have to drop the transfer case out to change the input shaft seal 

then the front bumper will come off to fit my transmission cooler and replace a faulty parking sensor 

 

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