omegod Posted December 31, 2019 Share Posted December 31, 2019 A mate has had some issues with his diesel Nissan van and additional personal stuff has popped his head, van has cut out a few times and he's lost faith in it so offered it to me for 1500 which was too cheap, I scanned it and the injectors or HP fuel pump were on their way out. I offered to get shut of it and today I wazzed down to we buy any car and managed to squeeze 2450 out of them , it was a remarkably painless experience to be honest, 3 x bodywork issues identified which was fair but £50 taken off for a missing book pack was a piss take, would use again though ! ( to dump stuff with impending doom) paulplom, DeeJay, busmansholiday and 2 others 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cavcraft Posted December 31, 2019 Share Posted December 31, 2019 If 'Chucking a chocolate cake into her firebox' isn't a line from Reader's Wives Sploshing it's a sad day all round. Roobarb, stonedagain, adw1977 and 5 others 1 7 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tadhg Tiogar Posted December 31, 2019 Share Posted December 31, 2019 26 minutes ago, HillmanImp said: ....I'd never profess to be good at English but this is piss poor. That seems to be the standard* of education* nowadays. Advanced technology: helping the ill-educated to be even more inarticulate. Mr Pastry and HillmanImp 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Roobarb Posted December 31, 2019 Share Posted December 31, 2019 Darwin at his greatest... For the first year I’ve lived in this frozen tundra called Minneapolis, the cops have said the ice on the main lake is too thin to be out on, so no trucks, no ice houses, no snowmobiles etc as there’s a danger of falling through. Obviously, people know better - like this guy with his ice fishing hut... And this guy in his pick up... (my wife saw it break through and said that the guys wife(?) in the passenger seat didn’t look too impressed...) Yet amazingly people still went out on the lake again last night, with a snowmobile falling through and being lost until the upper crust melts. And guess what, the stupid idiots are out there again today! Kowalski, Cavcraft, taxi paul and 1 other 3 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dozeydustman Posted December 31, 2019 Share Posted December 31, 2019 Remspoor, Cavcraft, Roobarb and 2 others 2 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SiC Posted December 31, 2019 Share Posted December 31, 2019 clayts450, grizgut, mrbenn and 18 others 2 18 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
somewhatfoolish Posted December 31, 2019 Share Posted December 31, 2019 Revenge of the technical writer; it's pretty boring, you've got to get your kicks where you can. Roobarb, SiC, Skizzer and 2 others 4 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Skizzer Posted December 31, 2019 Share Posted December 31, 2019 That’s very funny. However, what’s nearly as amusing is the ground clearance of the new Defender in that picture. Cavcraft and Richard 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mitsisigma01 Posted December 31, 2019 Share Posted December 31, 2019 Looks more appropriate for most modern Aldi and BMW drivers myglaren 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PhilA Posted December 31, 2019 Share Posted December 31, 2019 1 hour ago, Roobarb said: Frozen tundra Ice I'm laying out on the back deck in the sunshine with the dog. There's some eagles circling on a thermal overhead It's quite pleasant today Phil mrbenn, paulplom, myglaren and 5 others 6 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hairnet Posted December 31, 2019 Share Posted December 31, 2019 3 minutes ago, PhilA said: I'm laying out on the back deck in the sunshine with the dog. There's some eagles circling on a thermal overhead It's quite pleasant today Phil pics of you the car or the boss - not the weather ffs Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PhilA Posted December 31, 2019 Share Posted December 31, 2019 Just now, hairnet said: pics of you the car or the boss - not the weather ffs It is too nice to be working on the car. Plus I'm not feeling so great, the children brought some lergy home with them Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hairnet Posted December 31, 2019 Share Posted December 31, 2019 13 minutes ago, PhilA said: It is too nice to be working on the car. Plus I'm not feeling so great, the children brought some lergy home with them drown lurgy with meds go larf at reno lock kids in cage Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Roobarb Posted December 31, 2019 Share Posted December 31, 2019 2 hours ago, PhilA said: It's quite pleasant today Phil Quite pleasant!!! I can see I chose the wrong place to settle...(!) Enjoy the sunshine and think of us poor MidWesterners freezing our b@lls off! PhilA 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
beko1987 Posted January 1, 2020 Share Posted January 1, 2020 Happy new year! LightBulbFun, HarmonicCheeseburger, adw1977 and 1 other 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fumbler Posted January 1, 2020 Share Posted January 1, 2020 And to you too! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Richard Posted January 1, 2020 Share Posted January 1, 2020 5 hours ago, Skizzer said: That’s very funny. However, what’s nearly as amusing is the ground clearance of the new Defender in that picture. That's what I was thinking, I don't think that could straddle a speed cushion. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
somewhatfoolish Posted January 1, 2020 Share Posted January 1, 2020 3 hours ago, Roobarb said: Quite pleasant!!! I can see I chose the wrong place to settle...(!) Enjoy the sunshine and think of us poor MidWesterners freezing our b@lls off! Retire and become a snowbird? Skizzer 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dan the van Posted January 1, 2020 Share Posted January 1, 2020 11 hours ago, SiC said: Confirms what I suspected.The new Defender is a load of wank. twosmoke300, Remspoor, Craig the Princess and 2 others 1 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
paulplom Posted January 1, 2020 Share Posted January 1, 2020 Could be referring to the people who'll be buying them. myglaren and twosmoke300 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
beko1987 Posted January 1, 2020 Share Posted January 1, 2020 My zx has more ground clearance than that new land rover... myglaren 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SiC Posted January 1, 2020 Share Posted January 1, 2020 I imagine the new defender will be on air suspension and that picture is probably with it at its lowest setting. If you're a dealer, I can imagine you aren't going to leave a JLR product in a showroom expecting it to stay fully up on its air suspension for long periods without breaking! beko1987, paulplom and NorfolkNWeigh 2 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DeeJay Posted January 1, 2020 Share Posted January 1, 2020 13 hours ago, SiC said: So that's what those ladies were doing in those old videos. Apparently there's a hands free version. Dick Longbridge, Remspoor and stonedagain 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
robinmasters Posted January 1, 2020 Share Posted January 1, 2020 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tamworthbay Posted January 1, 2020 Share Posted January 1, 2020 Off road with that ground clearance? What a fucking joke they have become. How tragic for such an iconic brand. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Skizzer Posted January 1, 2020 Share Posted January 1, 2020 9 minutes ago, Tamworthbay said: Off road with that ground clearance? What a fucking joke they have become. How tragic for such an iconic brand. I think you’ll find it’s got air suspension and that’s the down position, as SiC said above. For all its faults, JLR hasn’t forgotten how to build a car that works off road, at least in principle. My worry would be about complexity and reliability. I wouldn’t fancy crossing the Namib desert in a ten year old one, trusting everything to a rats’ nest of plumbing, wiring, pumps, seals and sensors. HarmonicCheeseburger and Kowalski 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tadhg Tiogar Posted January 1, 2020 Share Posted January 1, 2020 Going, going, Ghosn! myglaren and stonedagain 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tamworthbay Posted January 1, 2020 Share Posted January 1, 2020 44 minutes ago, Skizzer said: I think you’ll find it’s got air suspension and that’s the down position, as SiC said above. For all its faults, JLR hasn’t forgotten how to build a car that works off road, at least in principle. My worry would be about complexity and reliability. I wouldn’t fancy crossing the Namib desert in a ten year old one, trusting everything to a rats’ nest of plumbing, wiring, pumps, seals and sensors. Sadly they are shit, a mate has a 2019 one and compared to a twenty year old hi lux it is awful, it couldn’t even keep up with a Santa Fe ffs. A lot of that may well be down to the stupid wheels and tyres they insist on fitting from new. And the complexity you mention would give me nightmares. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
warch Posted January 1, 2020 Share Posted January 1, 2020 Compare and contrast. Unfortunately my tow bar will not adjust, regardless of how much you wank it off (could be my lack of technique mind). paulplom, Roobarb, auntiemaryscanary and 6 others 1 8 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rovorsche Posted January 1, 2020 Share Posted January 1, 2020 I did rather well out of that and invested* much of it in a Rover 420 Gsi Turbo warch, purplebargeken, beko1987 and 2 others 3 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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