Will you be pushing for a death sentence nosy?
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Will you be pushing for a death sentence nosy?
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Bit much - it’s only a parking ticket appeal…..
A pass for the Golf so 2 out of 2 so far. Servicing the A3 and checking it over tomorrow. Well, the students will be servicing it, I’ll just be getting paid handsomely to watch them do it.
MOT for the A3 booked for next Wednesday.
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When I bought my van second hand from the previous owner it was 2.5 years old. The owner gave me a thick file of all the receipts for work done at the main stealers (Ancaster, Kent) on the van from new to when I bought it. It amounted to several thousand pounds and I was amazed that so much money could be spent on an a new van (allowing for the fact it's a Fiat) that wasn't even at MOT age. They seemed to go to town on it whenever it went in for obligatory servicing to maintain the warranty. Can honestly say I haven't spent as much on the van in my 14 years of ownership as was spent in uit's first 2.5 years of life.
I avoid dealer spares departments at all costs, as I've had hilarious quotes for parts - but sometimes you just got to do it as there's no alternative for specific items. Same with repairs. Phoned my local Fiat dealer some years ago for supply and fit new cam belt plus pump, etc - £650 plus the Vodka And Tonic.
Independent did it for £250 all in using Gates kit.
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Fantastic! Love my big Vauxhalls/Opels/GM, especially Victors, Crestas, Monzas, Royales, Sennys, Viceroys, Carltons. Very much underrated and most disappeared as everyone wants Ford.
One of the town councillors used to drive his Cresta PC right into the middle of the workshop, get out and in a very posh, old fashioned way, tell the boss his woes. No waiting around in the reception for him, he was treated like royalty
Fitted a solar powered security light. Seems to do the job, will see how well it lasts.
One to three winters is usually the limit, depending on how well the electronics protect the battery. It's the dark winters which kill the batteries, and the time when you need them most.
I've got some that hold standard sized AA rechargeables. I fitted higher capacity ones, and have a few spares ready charged to swap when we have dull cloudy spells.
I’m thinking of getting one of those for my shed over the allotment.
I had a 3.3 FD Ventora that I bought for £17.50 because it was stuck in two gears. As a Vauxhall apprentice even I knew what it was - the roll pin on the selector fork had sheared. Dropped the bottom plate of the 'box, drifted it out, fitted a new pin and it was all good. Sold it for £80. Not bad when you are on £14.40 a week.
Biggest mistake was swapping my 2 door MK1 bubble arched 1500GT Cortina for a workmates FD VX 4/90 and letting my sister borrow it two days after I got it and she wrapped it round a lamppost.
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Stuck one of those in a few years ago, still going strong. Put it above the back door, nice and bright for going out and in with the dogs at night.
I had an FE Ventora, I think I paid £60 for it. I sold it on a Saturday to a guy who was in the pub. He replied to my advert by phoning the house and saying he wanted to buy it. I drove it to the pub, he came out, we exchanged the money and keys, he went back into the pub to continue his drinking without even looking at the car. I wish they were all that easy.
Talking about easy, for a big car they must have had the easiest gearboxes and clutches in the world to do.
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