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Have a great time!Ready for the off with me new Temu straps an spreaders
Just got to pack some shirts an jeans
I would just like to say
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Pulled plugs 1 & 3 (swapped yesterday) out of the mini and yup dirty plug from 3 is now nice & clean in Cyl1 and clean plug from Cyl1 is now dirtied up by Cyl3. I think I will just run it over the rest of the season and maybe take the head off for refurb over the Winter (new valve guides).
Not this time as no sugar to make jam.
But next visit to the shop may bring back 20kg for that purpose.
J
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Now ere's summat.
Drove doon the toon for shopping today in the Pluriel.
Car drove as normal down the mounting and to the market, then on to the dump. Had so little to get rid of I left W in the car with the engine running while I got rid of the bits in various bins.
Got back in and drove out, terrible, raucous noise coming from somewhere, stopped, looked all around the car, nothing draagging on the ground, no flat tyres, nowt. Drove on a bit, same thing, stopped and looked again. Noise was intermittent and seemingly dependant on which way the wheel was turned, as we cornered at one point I thought it was linked to the steering so I put it through lock to lock, but it din't seem to show anything more, or less. Drove to the butcher's drove away again, noise still there.
Went to Leclerc, each bit of these journeys was between half a mile and a coupla miles. Tried pulling on the handbrake to see if it was coming from the rear brakes. It sounded as if a bit of metal or summat was rubbing on a wheel or a brake disc, but that made no difference. TBH the only worse noise I have ever heard like this was when a bit of exhaust came off and dragged along the tarmac.
So, at Leclerc did our shopping, got back to the car loaded it and then I went round it shaking it as vigourously as possible on each corner trying to make it make the noise, to see which corner it was coming from, heard no noise whatsoever.
W going on a bit about it, so I told her if it made it back home I could always get it on the trailer and leave it there to be towed home and fixed there, i.e. in Blighty, as we are only 22 days away from that happening.
Anyway, we started it up and drove out of the carpark, no noise as yet, around a roundabout off towards toon, still no noise, over a sleeping policeman, round another tight roundabout, then off it, still no noise. Long story short, all the way up the mountain, i.e. 44 bends, 3 at least hairpins, and back home. No reptition of the noise at all!!
WT actual Flip!!!!!?????
Had I shaken summat loose just like that??
I am still going to have a proper look on Sunday as we are busy with a dinner party between now and then, but this is the first time I have given a car a physical piece of my mind, a la Basil FAWLTY, and it has started behaving itself!
Drove doon the toon for shopping today in the Pluriel.
Car drove as normal down the mounting and to the market, then on to the dump. Had so little to get rid of I left W in the car with the engine running while I got rid of the bits in various bins.
Got back in and drove out, terrible, raucous noise coming from somewhere, stopped, looked all around the car, nothing draagging on the ground, no flat tyres, nowt. Drove on a bit, same thing, stopped and looked again. Noise was intermittent and seemingly dependant on which way the wheel was turned, as we cornered at one point I thought it was linked to the steering so I put it through lock to lock, but it din't seem to show anything more, or less. Drove to the butcher's drove away again, noise still there.
Went to Leclerc, each bit of these journeys was between half a mile and a coupla miles. Tried pulling on the handbrake to see if it was coming from the rear brakes. It sounded as if a bit of metal or summat was rubbing on a wheel or a brake disc, but that made no difference. TBH the only worse noise I have ever heard like this was when a bit of exhaust came off and dragged along the tarmac.
So, at Leclerc did our shopping, got back to the car loaded it and then I went round it shaking it as vigourously as possible on each corner trying to make it make the noise, to see which corner it was coming from, heard no noise whatsoever.
W going on a bit about it, so I told her if it made it back home I could always get it on the trailer and leave it there to be towed home and fixed there, i.e. in Blighty, as we are only 22 days away from that happening.
Anyway, we started it up and drove out of the carpark, no noise as yet, around a roundabout off towards toon, still no noise, over a sleeping policeman, round another tight roundabout, then off it, still no noise. Long story short, all the way up the mountain, i.e. 44 bends, 3 at least hairpins, and back home. No reptition of the noise at all!!
WT actual Flip!!!!!?????
Had I shaken summat loose just like that??
I am still going to have a proper look on Sunday as we are busy with a dinner party between now and then, but this is the first time I have given a car a physical piece of my mind, a la Basil FAWLTY, and it has started behaving itself!
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If I CBA I'll try and download the bits from W's dashcam where we might be able to hear it and our convos!
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65 in a FL?? And while towing. Award of the week for fiction writing 
65 in a FL?? And while towing. Award of the week for fiction writing
This is what a properer off-roader looks like in action.
And not an inch of rust, nor bits falling off.
And a heater that works
(And no, it didn’t nearly ‘roll over’)
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First Spielberg film, and a cracker at that!!Like a scene from 'Duel' . Big grill in rear view mirror at 65mph
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Evening all
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Evening constable Dixon
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And there was me thinking he was a sergeant.
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Definitely a pc
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Modern cars av bin doing more than 40mph fer decades. And the mirrors dun't vibrate.65 in a FL?? And while towing. Award of the week for fiction writing
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Eye has just realised me ole alram keypads wun't wuk wiv me new alarm. Eye bort anuvva to use on said new alarm while setting it up before swopping them over. Chop dun't do Saturday delivery. Only next wukkin day so eye is gunner drive 50 miles to swoppit morra. And buy two more as we has three fitted.
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Now ere's summat.
Drove doon the toon for shopping today in the Pluriel.
Car drove as normal down the mounting and to the market, then on to the dump. Had so little to get rid of I left W in the car with the engine running while I got rid of the bits in various bins.
Got back in and drove out, terrible, raucous noise coming from somewhere, stopped, looked all around the car, nothing draagging on the ground, no flat tyres, nowt. Drove on a bit, same thing, stopped and looked again. Noise was intermittent and seemingly dependant on which way the wheel was turned, as we cornered at one point I thought it was linked to the steering so I put it through lock to lock, but it din't seem to show anything more, or less. Drove to the butcher's drove away again, noise still there.
Went to Leclerc, each bit of these journeys was between half a mile and a coupla miles. Tried pulling on the handbrake to see if it was coming from the rear brakes. It sounded as if a bit of metal or summat was rubbing on a wheel or a brake disc, but that made no difference. TBH the only worse noise I have ever heard like this was when a bit of exhaust came off and dragged along the tarmac.
So, at Leclerc did our shopping, got back to the car loaded it and then I went round it shaking it as vigourously as possible on each corner trying to make it make the noise, to see which corner it was coming from, heard no noise whatsoever.
W going on a bit about it, so I told her if it made it back home I could always get it on the trailer and leave it there to be towed home and fixed there, i.e. in Blighty, as we are only 22 days away from that happening.
Anyway, we started it up and drove out of the carpark, no noise as yet, around a roundabout off towards toon, still no noise, over a sleeping policeman, round another tight roundabout, then off it, still no noise. Long story short, all the way up the mountain, i.e. 44 bends, 3 at least hairpins, and back home. No reptition of the noise at all!!
WT actual Flip!!!!!?????
Had I shaken summat loose just like that??
I am still going to have a proper look on Sunday as we are busy with a dinner party between now and then, but this is the first time I have given a car a physical piece of my mind, a la Basil FAWLTY, and it has started behaving itself!
Nipper i used to work with had a similar thing, terrible grinding noise and he asked me to take a look. Got down beside it and poked about and asked him to push it a bit to localize the noise. Went backward six inches and a bit of stone dropped from the brake caliper. Had been trapped as long as the car moved forward..
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Appi Fridi peeps. I has bin puttin in extra time in order to finish early an pick up the two younger spawn from skool while their sis is at some specialist up GOSH. A short day is a good day, whatever the reason.
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