Recent content by norseman

ie Prestone 44 to denote the year it was added. I used to run Dodges (2) & a Chevy. from WW2

Probably a different company now but their AF was used by the US military in the latter stages of WW2.

Substitute 'some products' for all & you're on the money. Cars, white goods, electrical goods ..

See you point but I wanted to get the stuff right into a seam. Degree of OS isn't a drama if I can't clean it off.

Thanks for the replies, I have meths & will try that. Fortunately it's only a small area on an old car, so if any treatment I use ie cellulose damages the paint I can always re-apply a coat.

Been using Jenolite rust converter aerosol on the car & unavoidably created a small amount of overspray on a non-rusted (alloy) painted surface. Surprisingly there's no info. on the can regarding this & as usual such official remedies are as/more expensive than the product itself, so any DIY...

What also doesn't bode well is the fact that in the case of the two MG EV failures ,both the dealer & manuf. were totally indifferent to the problem. They don't care about the support network, once you've bought the car ..

As was ours plus there was a shortage, so manuf. had to 'export or die' One of the reasons why in 1947 Land Rover clothed their series one LR in Birmabright alloy.

Yes, but that was decades ago & in these days of new cars being designed to fail I suspect the Chinese are probably at the forefront. I personally know two people who drive MG EV company cars that have failed spectacularly in less than 3 years from new.

My first reaction is when asked 'what are you driving these days' would you want to answer Leapmotor o_O Not me!

What concerns me is the number of new-build trailers on the market with duel axles despite being rated at 750kg unbraked, but the load area capacity of some of them will inevitably encourage over-loading. The last one I towed with my 4x4 was a duel axle box, but it was braked.

I concur with the answer from cdbe. Times have indeed changed, though if you just knocked something up the chances of being 'pulled' are probably slight but if your creation caused an accident you could be in deep sh.. both with the law & your insurer.

And they last longer than radiators :rolleyes:

I've had/got an E34/E39 five series, but back in the 'nineties they were designed by engineers not accountants. Despite this they both fall into the 'cheap car' bracket, being old but not enough to be valued classics. Still the best cars I've owned in 60 years of motoring but I wouldn't buy one...

No reason why the mileage should be a problem on it's own if the car's been maintained properly, try to take someone with you armed with a diagnostic tool (pref. BM specific) to scan for fault codes. Achilles heel on BM's is the cooling system, designed to operate at high temperature/pressure &...