Recent content by Brown

I don't know what all the fuss is about myself. I drive thousands of miles in my TD5 and don't find it burdensome at all. The most miles I've covered in a day is around 700. My everyday motoring includes rural roads, motorway trips and the near-stationary traffic jam of the M6 through the west...

No doubt it'll be in the slow cooker as soon as it's expired.

How are those of you with boats or in the martitime trades responding to the new net zero policies? There was a piece about it in the Telegraph a couple of days ago https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/03/28/british-maritime-sector-impacted-miliband-net-zero-targets/ or to get round the paywall...

Is there anywhere in the West Midlands that can be trusted with an engine rebuild I wonder? I don't need one myself, but was having a conversation earlier with a friend who wants one. We've had long running threads on here about people operating under different names in Wolverhampton who end up...

Somebody's got very feathery legs. Looks like he's wearing little plus fours.

It seems to me that the solution to Dan's dilemma is to find a period correct SU electric pump. The low pressure ones are designed to work with carburettors that have a float and needle valve, unlike many of the modern pumps that are intended to work with fuel injectors that need a higher fuel...

A while ago Xylia was looking to buy a Ouija board but all the products online seemed to have really low customer feedback scores, which made her reluctant to press the 'buy' button. On reading the reviews, the problem became apparent. People were disgruntled because they'd bought a Ouija board...

I've had a few things that rattle over the years, including: 1 The alloy heatshield that goes on the gearbox mount on the exhaust pipe side. I assume it's to stop the rubber mounting block getting hot. Mine had a crack in it and rattled. I twisted off the broken bit and haven't noticed any...

It's getting more and more difficult to bury yourself under the side of an HGV now too, as a lot of them have barriers on the sides as well. But that telegraph pole fits the bill nicely. The side I took the photo from wasn't the side that had scraped along the ground so it didn't look too bad...

I think I can see wht's happened. Looks like the Audi pulled out from a parking space at the same time as the silver BMW estate was passing, which accounts for the damage down its right hand side. The BMW was tipped onto its side and scraped along the pavement: Took chunks out of the...

Makes sense to me. A few years ago I had what I thought was a door lock mechanism problem but it turned out to be the pastic surround of the lock button which had broken down inside the trim panel and the lock wouldn't latch, or would only do so in the outer catch position. I've not got central...

Yes, as I said above, there was another vehicle , an Audi, which was dented down one side and one of the rear wheels was at an odd angle. I didn't take a picture because there was a group of young men around it shouting and gesticulatuing vigorously and I didn't want to provoke them. Even so...

Many years ago, during my teenage years in Somerset I was in a car with some friends one night, driving along one of those narrow country roads with high sides when all of a sudden a cow appeared on the bonnet. The car nose-dived under the weight and the cow rolled over the bonnet, broke the...

There's been a big accident in the street outside. Yes, I was one of those ghoulish people who went out and took a picture. But I did have a good check to make sure there was no one hurt first, so it wasn't in the poorest of taste. It's hit the wall, but something's dented the roof in and...

I've recently adopted one of Xylia's cast off iPhones. She has to have the latest one, of course, and I get the old ones. I'm not a mobile phone person, but it's useful to stick in the Land Rover with a PAYG sim in it in case I need to get the AA out. This one has ambitions to be more, clearly...