If its only two or three weeks lying idle and the battery is not known to be tired I`d leave it just as it is (powers the alarm/saves re-coding), but I`d fit the biggest/ strongest/ most visible steering wheel and/or pedal lock I could find, whether the car is garaged or not, and I`d arrange to leave the keys somewhere else but safe.
Lateral thought - if there is anything needs doing to the car whilst you are away you could drop it into your trusty service garage and tell them to use it as a filler job ? In my experience they are a bit cheaper if you let them work on your car when it is "quiet" for them. Looking after it and starting it when you get back becomes their problem !
Ian
Lateral thought - if there is anything needs doing to the car whilst you are away you could drop it into your trusty service garage and tell them to use it as a filler job ? In my experience they are a bit cheaper if you let them work on your car when it is "quiet" for them. Looking after it and starting it when you get back becomes their problem !
Ian
Great idea.. hadn't thought about that. To be fair all my cash is going on hol right now - and am sure garages would find other thngs to do 
(does need the air springs replacing though.. )
anyway, I am leaving it over at my uncles, and he's a 30 yr veteran Sussex traffic plod. so should be ok on his drive boxed in by the 2#s and blues.. one would hope.
(does need the air springs replacing though.. )anyway, I am leaving it over at my uncles, and he's a 30 yr veteran Sussex traffic plod. so should be ok on his drive boxed in by the 2#s and blues.. one would hope.
The airbags went on my LSE (just wore through) - just over £850 to replace just the airbags (leaving 17 year old compressor/wiring/pipework as the rest of the system but for who knows how long?) versus just over £400 to put it on coils - so thats what I`ve done. I do miss the air suspension - much more comfortable - but economics usally win.
Have good hols
Ian
Have good hols
Ian
£850!! whoa thats alot.. my local landy indy wants about £100 to fit all 4, and the springs aren't that much. Are you sure they didn't give you gold plated ones.. or maybe they were a pig to get off!?
Hoping to do them myself as doesn't see hard with RAVE to hand and the various threads on here.
Will have good hols, long time coming - thanks!
Hoping to do them myself as doesn't see hard with RAVE to hand and the various threads on here.
Will have good hols, long time coming - thanks!
dogsbody
Very senior member
I've just checked one retailer and a set of Arnott genII bags are £290.
You got well and truly ripped off!!!!
Irishrover
Well-Known Member
If the battery is not 100% and the car is garaged/close to the house, stick a trickle charger under the bonnet and lock the car manually.
tomcat59alan
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if you leave it at your uncles youll come back to a windscreen full of tickets,£200 fine and 6 points on your licence!!!!!! igp50 they saw you coming,didnt you shop around?if you need any other work doing pm me with your card details and your pin number
My 20 something neice sends me an email saying 'are you leaving your RR round my dads? if so can you stick me on the insurance for while you are away?"
Er.. no. This from the girl who wrote off 4 cars just getting off their driveway.
lol - yup we are blood - I f**ked up with Niece, she's a cousin (been on a big family weekend and forgotten the terminology as they were all there)
Anyway, Daddy is her Daddy's brother - she's blood.
To be fair, was fit 10 years ago. Let herself go now
- I can put a good word in though if you are around W Sussex ever
lol - yup we are blood - I f**ked up with Niece, she's a cousin (been on a big family weekend and forgotten the terminology as they were all there)
Anyway, Daddy is her Daddy's brother - she's blood.
To be fair, was fit 10 years ago. Let herself go now
I'll give it a miss
tomcat59alan
Well-Known Member
theres a lot of it about in somerset.channel 5 were going to do a new series CSI somerset,they had to cancel because they all had the same DNA and there were no dental records
Fur Trapper
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You form Mich? If the goverment wasn't messed up and the misses form Brit land then I might question my sanity?? It is a beautiful state.led to believe Michigan is a good state to leave a p38
You form Mich? If the goverment wasn't messed up and the misses form Brit land then I might question my sanity?? It is a beautiful state.
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