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[Metal Guru]

2 hours ago, Westbay said:

@grizz

I think she’s trying to tell you something.

[wuvvum]

Off on me hols.

Got to Dover early as the traffic was decent, so got put on an earlier ferry.  Rover seems to have a very slightly sticky front brake, but otherwise all fine so far.  This is the first long trip I've done in the car since SF 2023 - ever since then I've just used the Ampera. 

Plan is to stay in Dunkirk tonight, then off to @Back_For_More country tomorrow (Bruxelles), then down into Germany on Wed, day in the Eifel with possibly a cheeky lap of the 'Ring, then down to the Black Forest for a day, then trundle down through France to visit my brothers.  That's the plan, anyway...

[mercedade]

40 minutes ago, wuvvum said:

Rover seems to have a very slightly sticky front brake

 

40 minutes ago, wuvvum said:

possibly a cheeky lap of the 'Ring, 

Good.

Luck.

[wuvvum]

9 minutes ago, mercedade said:

 

Good.

Luck.

It's supposed to be raining on Wed and I'm in a diesel automatic Rover 75.  I won't be going fast. 

Brake isn't noticeably binding anyway, it just squeals a bit when turning slightly left.

[hairnet]

1 hour ago, wuvvum said:

 

 

Plan is to stay in Dunkirk tonight, then off to @Back_For_More country tomorrow (Bruxelles), then down into Germany on Wed, day in the Eifel with possibly a cheeky lap of the 'Ring, then down to the Black Forest for a day, then trundle down through France to visit my brothers.  That's the plan, anyway...

this week the touristfahren is only on weekdays in the evening

[wuvvum]

Yup, I'm planning to get there for 5pm on Wed.  Need to top up the credit on my Ring account.

[Lankytim]

More P4 antics this weekend. The fuel tank leaked from the fuel pick up point  meaning that filling the tank more than half full resulted in it pissing out all over the place. The fuel pick up was loose and the brass screws holding it in appeared chewed up, one breaking when I tried to remove it. Fortunately like any normal person I have a spare P4 fuel tank in the garage.

This was from a Rover 60 and the fuel sender and pick up needed swapping over from the 95 tank. A lick of paint and some new retaining bolts and everything is back together and leak free. I didn’t bother refitting the tow bar as it obstructed the spare wheel “letterbox” and was a bit of a home brew affair. I may refit at a later date. 

[lesapandre]

55 minutes ago, wuvvum said:

Yup, I'm planning to get there for 5pm on Wed.  Need to top up the credit on my Ring account.

Watch out for water on the Pas de Calais...rain forecast for this evening - thought nothing serious so far - N. France seems to have escaped deluge UK.

[richardmorris]

Bbc front page about Lebanon. Is that a 240?
 

[wuvvum]

Dunkirk.

Now going for a walk along the beach. 

[hairnet]

39 minutes ago, wuvvum said:

Dunkirk.

 

Now going for a walk along the beach. 

 

heading for poole on weds

glad i booked the car now

also heading to germany (from cherbourg)

[lesapandre]

For a long time the 75 and especially the estate was the car of choice of the middle-classes on their French holiday. A particular type of Terry and June who are rarely spotted these days - UK tourists seem very different. If they are now rarely seen they are in an Audi or Toyota estate...

[hairnet]

itll be friday saturday when all that clears off from benelux/deutsch

[lesapandre]

Meteofrance are not forecasting armageddon currently...

[richardmorris]

For those interested in steam trains, this is huge. 600tons.

 

[Dyslexic Viking]

1 hour ago, richardmorris said:

Bbc front page about Lebanon. Is that a 240?
 

Yes and an early one also. 

[richardmorris]

It’s not national news, but yesterday was the 90th anniversary of the gresford colliery disaster. My grandfather’s 13th birthday too. Brought about questions in parliament and changes to workers rights - the 266 dead weren’t paid for the day they died as they didn’t clock out. 
grandad’s dad was a miner who died before I was born, but we have his Davey lamp.

 

[Asimo]

In case you haven’t read this. Makes me think that cars I could want to drive are…over.

 

[richardmorris]

8 minutes ago, richardmorris said:

It’s not national news, but yesterday was the 90th anniversary of the gresford colliery disaster. My grandfather’s 13th birthday too. Brought about questions in parliament and changes to workers rights - the 266 dead weren’t paid for the day they died as they didn’t clock out. 
grandad’s dad was a miner who died before I was born, but we have his Davey lamp.

 

 

[EyesWeldedShut]

50 minutes ago, lesapandre said:

For a long time the 75 and especially the estate was the car of choice of the middle-classes on their French holiday. A particular type of Terry and June who are rarely spotted these days - UK tourists seem very different. If they are now rarely seen they are in an Audi or Toyota estate...

Last week we mostly spotted UK reg'd campervans in the Normandy Boonies until within 50 km of Calais and then it was all VW/Audi/MB/BMW legging it up the road towards Blighty. Feckin' amazin' how those roof boxes stay affixed at high speed  
I was happily chugging along at around 100 km/h* and those boys were leaving me for dust. Still got to park up alongside them in the queue at Les Coquelles. No Rovers, one XJS and an E-Type (!) spotted around Rouen.

* did have a play on a 130 km/h stretch of the  A28 but the drop in the fuel consumption readout triggered a near instantaneous upwards reflex action in my (Scottish) right foot.

[richardmorris]

4 minutes ago, richardmorris said:

 

 

[Wibble]

We all dread the after 9 o’clock phone call. We just had one. Brother in law has come off his motorbike, on a long weekend trip with friends in Wales. Hit a dear and he’s got broken ribs, collar bone and punctured lung. 
I’ve messaged him asking what hospital he’s in and said I’ll go and get him when he’s discharged. He has no idea where his bike is. Luckily, one of the group was a doctor.

[Ohdearme]

13 minutes ago, Wibble said:

We all dread the after 9 o’clock phone call. We just had one. Brother in law has come off his motorbike, on a long weekend trip with friends in Wales. Hit a dear and he’s got broken ribs, collar bone and punctured lung. 
I’ve messaged him asking what hospital he’s in and said I’ll go and get him when he’s discharged. He has no idea where his bike is. Luckily, one of the group was a doctor.

Sorry to hear this. Hope it works out and good he's sort of ok.

[Ohdearme]

Octavia was dropped off this morning for the front bushes replacing.

Luckily only one bolt of the six snapped so it only cost an extra hours labour drilling out.

That's all defects from the MOT fixed so it's off for a partial retest tomorrow and fingers crossed an all clear awaits.

[High Jetter]

37 minutes ago, Wibble said:

We all dread the after 9 o’clock phone call. We just had one. Brother in law has come off his motorbike, on a long weekend trip with friends in Wales. Hit a dear and he’s got broken ribs, collar bone and punctured lung. 
I’ve messaged him asking what hospital he’s in and said I’ll go and get him when he’s discharged. He has no idea where his bike is. Luckily, one of the group was a doctor.

FFS, you're getting all the luck atm, but it's bad luck.

[Wibble]

3 minutes ago, High Jetter said:

FFS, you're getting all the luck atm, but it's bad luck.

Yep, Dad, Mum, Wife, work, doesn’t seem to stop.

[Split_Pin]

Now then, let's see how 2024s run of luck* continues:

MOT on this at 11am 

Find out whether or not I'm getting made redundant at 10.30am.

Place bets now.

[Split_Pin]

Not being made redundant just yet and not a bad result on the A4:

I knew about the CV joint as it was clicking and I could hear a knock from the TRE frkm time to time.

I'm especially glad they are sympathetic to the terrible* accident* that befell the smoke plate.

[wuvvum]

So far it looks like la météo was a tad pessimistic.  Mild and intermittently sunny in Brussels. 

I dumped the Rover at a park & ride and got the Metro in as the car isn't LEZ compliant, and anyway I hate driving in strange cities. 

[flat4alfa]

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