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Neighbour has one in white, wasnt a fan of the new model, but I must say I quite like them now.
I went looking for a link but the dealer has it down already understandably.
Out of all the features in the car, one of my favorites is how the rear seats lift up to fit big things in the back. Even to store soft luggage under the seats on long journeys. Will come in handy when we take it to Wales for the rugby in October
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Snotaul Goodman wrote: »I went looking for a link but the dealer has it down already understandably.
Out of all the features in the car, one of my favorites is how the rear seats lift up to fit big things in the back. Even to store soft luggage under the seats on long journeys. Will come in handy when we take it to Wales for the rugby in October
I have that in my one too, really handy, carried a chest of drawers upright in the back once. The fuel tank is under the front seats so it frees up loads of space under the rear seats. Don't know why more cars don't have this.0 -
A day not for driving at times, with weather suffering an identity crisis. Through it all, one must battle on through thick and thin.
The M1 was showered with torrential rain and a shower of loolaas. But alarmingly an abnormal amount of articulated lorries. A similar ratio of men to women at a country disco. As I entered the Bermuda triangle of the M1 the weather predictably changed for the worse. What was a spritely but sharp end to lousy Smarch became a nucleated pissy wet apocalypse, a conglomeration of the fine drizzle and gumball drops of rain. Identity crisis.
This was made worse with the sausage fest ratio in the aforementioned paragraph. But the king of the road soon became a bigger and bigger demon to the average motorist. This M&S demon had a huge ace up it's sleeve; its streamline trailer fired twice as much spray. Oh the joy of not having to use the windscreen washers says the Cavan man but everyone else can't see where they're going, myself included!
Every second behind that artic 3 gallons of spray fired up off the road. This was no time for bravery, it was a necessity to get by the behemoth. The mighty d-turbo making a noise only described as adequate brainlessly lumbered into the overtaking lane and began its joust into the unknown. Charging on, cutting through thick spray, wipers frantically waving like the arms of someone who has had hot soup spilled on their lap.
Miraculously, myself and the car somehow got by, somehow. Like a cover being lifted, the spray immediately vanishes and to my surprise so did the rain. The sun even decided to poke it's head out and say a quick hello....
I breathed a sigh of relief and cranked up Ryan Tubridys annoying voice to take my mind off what just happened
The moral of the story is place your spanners in the same place, I lost my modified half inch ring to do the Garrett turbos!!!
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Did you swallow a thesaraus dgt
Hope you're keeping well, did taking a short break from the cars work out for you?
Few brandy and ports
I'm not too bad, a healthy rest and many evenings infront of the open fire have helped a lot and not had the symptoms as before
still have to visit a doc when I get time though! 0 -
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This motors or creative writing?
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Totally lost on the spanners though, did the garretts chew em up? :eek:
I do the odd turbo up now and again. Thus, I have some abnormal tools to the average hobbyist... Such as a stupidly large set of circlip pliers that could be mistook for a stupidly small hedge clippers :eek:
One of my tools is a Britool double ring a/f spanner. One end is 9/16 and the other is 1/2 trust the French to use a/f in a metric world!
Now the older Garrett T series turbos have a terrible mix of circlips and crescent shaped brackets to hold the housings together to the cartridge.... Most times the hot side uses the brackets fixed with 4 1/2 bolts and I dread to think of what else they may use
I had to grind the spanner to allow it to slip onto the bolt in order to clear the fins on the cartridge. A lovely fit and a fantastic tool...
But my spanner has been lost and not by me, why can't my stuff be left be 0 -
I do the odd turbo up now and again. Thus, I have some abnormal tools to the average hobbyist... Such as a stupidly large set of circlip pliers that could be mistook for a stupidly small hedge clippers :eek:
One of my tools is a Britool double ring a/f spanner. One end is 9/16 and the other is 1/2 trust the French to use a/f in a metric world!
Now the older Garrett T series turbos have a terrible mix of circlips and crescent shaped brackets to hold the housings together to the cartridge.... Most times the hot side uses the brackets fixed with 4 1/2 bolts and I dread to think of what else they may use
I had to grind the spanner to allow it to slip onto the bolt in order to clear the fins on the cartridge. A lovely fit and a fantastic tool...
But my spanner has been lost and not by me, why can't my stuff be left be
Cool info, sorry for being smart, was purely tongue in cheek btw
And the bolded part, I feels; I leave the country on monday, probably won't be back for a good while, all my perfectly organised tools etc are either going to be borrowed or fcuked around the place by the time I get back, it's very upsetting 0 -
Cool info, sorry for being smart, was purely tongue in cheek btw
And the bolded part, I feels; I leave the country on monday, probably won't be back for a good while, all my perfectly organised tools etc are either going to be borrowed or fcuked around the place by the time I get back, it's very upsetting
The sad reality is that spanner to replace is with more than the turbo (and possibly the car) and I still have to irreversibly modify it to work, which is painful on something that expensive! :eek:
Still, I plusgassed it so if it doesn't turn up tomorrow I'll try the open end boyo and hope it doesn't go round like a welded C200 0 -
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