More of a what has been done this week post...

Mid week: New fuel pump and fuel filter, fuel sedimentor has been cleaned out and checked, all fuel lines checked, fuel injectors checked, HP fuel pump checked ( all good thankfully )

Friday: new tyres

Saturday: new front discs and pads and MOT has been passed with zero advisories ( evidently we have got a good one according to the assessor ha ha )
 
Nodge68 said:
It is something we've looked into. However convincing No 1 daughter that more tests are good, didn't go down to well. :(
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Alibro said:
LOL, good luck with that one. :eek:
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Exactly its 'only' money :confused:

IIRC, over here, when you pass your test you are on a 12 month 'provisional' license, which means you can not take passengers (and can't drive after 10pm or sommut). If you take one of those tests though, it reduces to 6 months.

Once again though, at that age, they just take passengers what ever!
 
derwendolly said:
Present it not as another test of her skills but as a test to prove to others that she is better than other new ( and many older ) drivers.:) Present it as a challenge for her to do.it well.:)
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OK John, when selling anything, you need to sell it to the sensibilities of the customer, not on the products merit. In this case the "product" is the didea of doing advanced riving courses to get reduced insurnace and the customer is a late teenage / early twenties girl....
  • Appeal to their natural affinity Sell her the fact that she would save a fortune on motoring insurance, leaving her more money each week* to spend on socialising / shiney shoes / sparkly tops.
  • Appeal to the bitchy competitive nature of girls, so upsell the bragging rights that she'll be ably to brag to all her friends that she's done this advanced motoring course and that pass plus course so she would literally be able to say she's the best driver out of all them.
  • Appeal to their need for excitement, so sell her the idea that the IAM course includes tuition on faster sportier driving. It is after all roughly parallel to the traffic police / interceptor training course.
  • Appeal to the inherently feminine fear/risk aversion, tell her it will make her safer on the road.
  • Appeal to her sense of discovering herself and being a strong independent woman, tell her if she does these courses you and Mrs.Nodge will cut her some more slack / stop molly coddling her about "you take care on the roads, and drive safe, and don't go too fast, yada yada yada...."
  • Appeal to her desire to not be controlled / manipulated, tell her that thes courses will help get that blackbox out of her car.**
  • Appeal to her sense of glamour, if she does these courses, her insurance will go down in price quicker so she could afford to get and run a convertable / sports car / etc quicker...
  • Appeal to her sense of celebrity, Doing these courses will dave her enough money over the year to take her off on holiday to somewhere warm and sunny. Mid November week in Ibiza? She'd be able to lawd it up like one of the celebs in her weekly magazines.
  • Appeal to her inherently female desire to "be in control" - make the idea hers, get the IAM to snailmail her a brochure.
  • Appeal to that female insecurity that marketing companies exploit - tell her it will make her feel more confident on the road.
*Women tend to view finances as a weekly thing.
**There is no guarantee that having done these courses will negate the need for her to have the black box, however it will make it easier to secure a policy next year that doesnt include the dastardly digital spy in the cab.
 
Jayridium said:
OK John, when selling anything, you need to sell it to the sensibilities of the customer, not on the products merit. In this case the "product" is the didea of doing advanced riving courses to get reduced insurnace and the customer is a late teenage / early twenties girl....
  • Appeal to their natural affinity Sell her the fact that she would save a fortune on motoring insurance, leaving her more money each week* to spend on socialising / shiney shoes / sparkly tops.
  • Appeal to the bitchy competitive nature of girls, so upsell the bragging rights that she'll be ably to brag to all her friends that she's done this advanced motoring course and that pass plus course so she would literally be able to say she's the best driver out of all them.
  • Appeal to their need for excitement, so sell her the idea that the IAM course includes tuition on faster sportier driving. It is after all roughly parallel to the traffic police / interceptor training course.
  • Appeal to the inherently feminine fear/risk aversion, tell her it will make her safer on the road.
  • Appeal to her sense of discovering herself and being a strong independent woman, tell her if she does these courses you and Mrs.Nodge will cut her some more slack / stop molly coddling her about "you take care on the roads, and drive safe, and don't go too fast, yada yada yada...."
  • Appeal to her desire to not be controlled / manipulated, tell her that thes courses will help get that blackbox out of her car.**
  • Appeal to her sense of glamour, if she does these courses, her insurance will go down in price quicker so she could afford to get and run a convertable / sports car / etc quicker...
  • Appeal to her sense of celebrity, Doing these courses will dave her enough money over the year to take her off on holiday to somewhere warm and sunny. Mid November week in Ibiza? She'd be able to lawd it up like one of the celebs in her weekly magazines.
  • Appeal to her inherently female desire to "be in control" - make the idea hers, get the IAM to snailmail her a brochure.
  • Appeal to that female insecurity that marketing companies exploit - tell her it will make her feel more confident on the road.
*Women tend to view finances as a weekly thing.
**There is no guarantee that having done these courses will negate the need for her to have the black box, however it will make it easier to secure a policy next year that doesnt include the dastardly digital spy in the cab.
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Good advice. I'll see how I do with it.:(
I'm obviously no salesman. :oops:
 
Best of luck with it John, but for your info, I'm not really a salesman either, I'm jsut a glorified spanner monkey from the oil rigs. However, I'm in the early stages of commercialising a patent, so I've been doing some "enterprise workshops", and I just applied some of the negotiating techniques from those workshops to your prediciment of trying to get your daughter to do the courses, and thats what I came up with. What I've done is applied what is called the empathic poposition to your "pitch".
 
I myself am a little disappointed it doesn't convert itself into an off brand open body patrol vehicle

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I've got the engine out of one of those, and a pair of simca sumb portal axles for building a real monster out of :) OK it won't be a fill on monster truck, but it will be something more akin to an ultra 4 racer (king of the hammers on youtube) than anything that can legitimately wear a green oval badge. I had the engine in my Range Rover classic for a while, until it chewed up the RR's autobox. I had rebuit the injection pump and crabbed the centrifugal weights to raise it from 3300rpm fuel cut to 4500rpm cut off. At tick over it sounds like a truck, and at 4500 it is all V8 like someting out of nascar. I used to have great fun chasing little boy racers around the town in this stock looking classic range rover that was older than most of the little idiots driving the 1.2 shopping trolley with a howitzer barrel sized exhaust.
 
Not had as much time at the workshop as I would like, but over the last couple of days I've:
  • made the new link pipes for the new wheel cylinders
  • put the brakes back together - as in fitted new drums, shoes, fitting kit, drilled and grooved disks, refitted the refurbed calipers etc...
  • bled and adjusted the brakes including the handbrak cable tension
  • painted the drums again - this time on vehicle
  • fitted the wheel spacers - no fittted the wheels, yet
  • removed the trackrod end adjusters greased them up and refitted
  • zeroed the steering wheel with a steering wheel spirit level
With the newly greased up trackrod end adjusters, and the new suspension links at the back including the adjustable toe control link, and the steering wheel zeroed with the spirit level thing, I'll fit the wheels, do four wheel alignment, then go back to the engine and try again to fix the leaking thermostat. The thermostat has been an issue since I put it to a local garage to do the waterpump and thermostat. They did the waterpump and thermostat, without removing the coolant heater rail and nicked the oring in the thermostat, then abandoned the job and gave me the car back. So I removed the top end, removed the pipe, cleaned up the silicone they tried to substitute the o-ring with, fitted new genuine LR part oring, bolted it back together, and it still leaks.

Somewhat dismayed, I decided to to the underneath work before revisitng the thermostat, mostly to get all the new parts off my bench. So after the wheel alignment, I'll have a quick tidy up, wipe the grease off the tools etc. Then take the top end off the engine, remove the rail again, remove the thermostat to inspect it for internal damage in the spiggot where rail goes into, and then try reassembly with yet another new o-ring, again. I'm wondering if with it being a patern part thermostat, it might use a different sized o-ring, so the genuine LR ones I have for it may not be suitable.
 
andyfreelandy said:
Have I missed Sommat?? One of who?
Where has it gone??
Well done though...
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The Tonga 1.8 was sold last night Andy, to a nice chap from down west. He wants it for his wife's business. A role which I'm sure it will fulfill perfectly. Hopefully it'll give them many years service. It's a shame to see it go, as it's actually in better condition than my SE, but losing the auto box, heated screen and heated leather seats is a culture change I'm not willing to make.
 
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I was only teasing with the suggestion that Tonga had been sold to your daughter, but I am glad its sold and you weren't "stuck with it".
 
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