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[Zelandeth]

6 hours ago, mitsisigma01 said:

Best of luck with that 🤞🏽😬

Well there's a ten year warranty on the work done...so if it does come back the guys will have to come back and sort it.  That's why we've got a specialist in.  That and we've been trying to kill it utterly unsuccessfully ourselves for the last six years now.

[wuvvum]

19 minutes ago, Zelandeth said:

That and we've been trying to kill it utterly unsuccessfully ourselves for the last six years now.

You should have just bought a panda - that would soon have sorted it for you.

[sierraman]

25 minutes ago, Tim_E said:

I spent a week trying to hypermile it and got 35-36 indicated, then got bogged down with lots of short hilly journeys, so I started hooning a bit more. Just did a long run across the moors and mountains and on a dual garage way and it's climbed to over 34 average again.

It's got torque, there is decent power for average driving from below 1000rpm, so it's a 30mph in 5th kind of car if you're not in a rush.

I used to get 40-45mpg on the motorway on the 2.0 Mk3 petrol. The old petrol Mondeos are giveaway money these days so if you don’t mind the fuel economy they can be a bargain. Incidentally I found the Mazda units in the Mk3 much more economical than the Zetec in the Mk2. 

[Cord Fourteener]

Crimbo pressies of my parents: dash cam and hardwire lead.

Ape-man C370 small but hi-Res wide angle.

Been meaning to for ages, when read back on @sutty2006's thread about getting side swiped by Audi Wanker and recalling how many things I see and near misses with Mr and Mrs Wankermobile, it's time to jump in.

 

[rusty998]

On 11/30/2020 at 3:30 AM, New POD said:

Why? 

Because of the spare parts that it yields, will be stripped and sent to the scrap 

[wuvvum]

3 minutes ago, Tim_E said:

Crimbo pressies of my parents: dash cam and hardwire lead.

Ape-man C370 small but hi-Res wide angle.

Been meaning to for ages, when read back on @sutty2006's thread about getting side swiped by Audi Wanker and recalling how many things I see and near misses with Mr and Mrs Wankermobile, it's time to jump in.

 

I hope you've been practicing yelling "CAMRUH!!!" in case anyone does cut you up.

[Cord Fourteener]

2 minutes ago, rusty998 said:

Because of the spare parts that it yields, will be stripped and sent to the scrap 

It's there attached to the new seat 👍

[Cord Fourteener]

3 minutes ago, wuvvum said:

I hope you've been practicing yelling "CAMRUH!!!" in case anyone does cut you up.

Not yet...

[Cord Fourteener]

5 minutes ago, rusty998 said:

Because of the spare parts that it yields, will be stripped and sent to the scrap 

Actually I've never considered it. I think it's there, I'll check to make sure when I take it off.

Here's what it looks like, I'm not sure what it's meant to look like though.

[sutty2006]

20 minutes ago, Tim_E said:

Crimbo pressies of my parents: dash cam and hardwire lead.

Ape-man C370 small but hi-Res wide angle.

Been meaning to for ages, when read back on @sutty2006's thread about getting side swiped by Audi Wanker and recalling how many things I see and near misses with Mr and Mrs Wankermobile, it's time to jump in.

 

I can’t be without one now. Memory card failed in the landrovers camera and I hated driving it without a working camera. As for it’s effectiveness, well, it depends what you catch. That Audi that side swiped me his Reg wasn’t visible, and we are now 2 years into the claim and a court date is inevitable. Damned if you do, damned if you don’t 😢

[New POD]

36 minutes ago, rusty998 said:

Because of the spare parts that it yields, will be stripped and sent to the scrap 

Fair.  Having glass in stock would be worth it, I suppose.  We need a full inventory after you've completed the task. 

[SiC]

3 hours ago, Split_Pin said:

I agree, the simpler the better. Mustie1 is great, as is his buddy.

Who's his mate?

[Cord Fourteener]

26 minutes ago, sutty2006 said:

I can’t be without one now. Memory card failed in the landrovers camera and I hated driving it without a working camera. As for it’s effectiveness, well, it depends what you catch. That Audi that side swiped me his Reg wasn’t visible, and we are now 2 years into the claim and a court date is inevitable. Damned if you do, damned if you don’t 😢

It's a back up, not a guarantee. But yes useful to have, for sure.

Good luck with that rigmarole.

[Cord Fourteener]

Crap seat out, new one about to go in, hopefully before I have to go to work 🤣

[brownnova]

When you deposit your 204,000 mile Saab at the garage and get given a higher mileage loan car!!

Never driven a 9-3 before... it’s quite nice. 

[Cord Fourteener]

11 minutes ago, brownnova said:

When you deposit your 204,000 mile Saab at the garage and get given a higher mileage loan car!!

Never driven a 9-3 before... it’s quite nice. 

Awesome!

[Cord Fourteener]

Seat is in!

It's so much better, the old seat was very broken, much more than the photo can show. This one is sweet! Passenger seat to go in another day.

I did strip a bolt hole thread putting one of the six bolts back in though, so I'm on 5 until I can do something about that.

Any ideas?

 

 

[N19]

1 hour ago, sierraman said:

I used to get 40-45mpg on the motorway on the 2.0 Mk3 petrol. The old petrol Mondeos are giveaway money these days so if you don’t mind the fuel economy they can be a bargain. Incidentally I found the Mazda units in the Mk3 much more economical than the Zetec in the Mk2. 

It's odd - of course I don't expect a 20 year old engine in a 160k car to be as new, but it's odd that it should have a consumption lower than both the Bluebird and the Capri - carbed cars, the latter of which runs points and condenser ignition!

I'm going to stick some premium petrol in, give it a blast up and down the motorway, then see how things are.

[Cord Fourteener]

4 minutes ago, N19 said:

It's odd - of course I don't expect a 20 year old engine in a 160k car to be as new, but it's odd that it should have a consumption lower than both the Bluebird and the Capri - carbed cars, the latter of which runs points and condenser ignition!

I'm going to stick some premium petrol in, give it a blast up and down the motorway, then see how things are.

Drive it like you stole it!

[SiC]

39 minutes ago, N19 said:

It's odd - of course I don't expect a 20 year old engine in a 160k car to be as new, but it's odd that it should have a consumption lower than both the Bluebird and the Capri - carbed cars, the latter of which runs points and condenser ignition!

I'm going to stick some premium petrol in, give it a blast up and down the motorway, then see how things are.

The EU Ford petrols of the late 90s/00s have never been particularly good on fuel. Focus 2l both in normal and ST170 tunes is particularly atrocious given their relatively low power output figures. 

[camryv6]

2 hours ago, wuvvum said:

You should have just bought a panda - that would soon have sorted it for you.

Maybe @Kiltoxwill lend you his ?

[sutty2006]

1 hour ago, Tim_E said:

 

I did strip a bolt hole thread putting one of the six bolts back in though, so I'm on 5 until I can do something about that.

Any ideas?

 

It’ll be alright, I’ve stripped a few of them and it’s been ok. So long as it’s one of the two at the back... 

[Cord Fourteener]

19 minutes ago, sutty2006 said:

It’ll be alright, I’ve stripped a few of them and it’s been ok. So long as it’s one of the two at the back... 

No it's on the front!!

[Split_Pin]

2 hours ago, SiC said:

Who's his mate?

5150mxVW

https://youtu.be/fNimoM_tcyM

 

[sierraman]

2 hours ago, N19 said:

It's odd - of course I don't expect a 20 year old engine in a 160k car to be as new, but it's odd that it should have a consumption lower than both the Bluebird and the Capri - carbed cars, the latter of which runs points and condenser ignition!

I'm going to stick some premium petrol in, give it a blast up and down the motorway, then see how things are.

Is it a Mk2 or a Mk3?

[sutty2006]

55 minutes ago, Tim_E said:

No it's on the front!!

Oh. Balls. 

[Zelandeth]

Oh FFS.

Just found out that the work that's going on in the back garden now is literally "strip down, nuke the bamboo, install the root barrier, tidy up a bit, bugger off."

No reinstatement of any of the patio, retaining walls they've pulled up, the lights or wiring they've dismantled etc...That's *entirely* on us.

So what's already a sodding expensive job has now probably more than doubled.  Plus the place is going to be left looking like the surface of the moon, so we'll now HAVE to get it landscaped, rather than planning to get it done "soonish."

Would it really have hurt to make it really clear that this was the case at the outset?  I didn't even remotely expect them to return everything to how it looked when it was installed originally, but I guess I kind of expected some effort to return it to something vaguely resembling the state the area was in when they arrived, especially given the six grand price tag for what amounts to two guys for three to four days and a mini digger.  Guess it does only boil down to somewhere around £50 an hour each (including plant) which isn't out of the ballpark for tradesmen these days, but even so it stings. 

I'm not even the one who arranged the work - but I know full well I'm the one who's going to get it in the neck for the state the place will be left in - and who will probably wind up being tasked with sorting out the now obliterated landscaping.

If I'd known this were the case I'd probably have pushed towards holding off getting the work done until next year when we'd hopefully have a bit more of a financial buffer to work with.

Oh what fun home ownership is.

[PhilA]

Well, there we go. First day of cold this year (2°C) and there's a light frost on things.

Sun through the trees just starting to melt the frost away.

 

Forecast says we going to be back to 20-ish by next week.

 

Phil

[PhilA]

16 minutes ago, Zelandeth said:

Oh FFS.

I get the same thing from my neighbor, but it's ornamental ginger. The stuff grows like bamboo- in a couple days there's a foot tall shoot poking up, and it grows to about 8 feet tall with big leaves.

 

Only good thing is the mower put over it smells really nice...

 

Phil

[Mike D]

@PhilA That Challenger is flipping lovely 😍