Chriselectrics said:

Yes your right all ready seen a few cars in my neighbourhood failing to start.
Had to help one guy out.
Most people have parked the car, put the hand brake on.
So some wi be sized up solid. Front disks rust up, calipers start getting sticky..
.If the tyres were not fully pumped up, may have a flat at best, cracks at worst.
Batteries will be flat, fuel "E5" maybe off, as it only lasts about eight weeks in a bike.
I think the AA guys and garages will be very busy when the lock down lifts..

Click to expand...

Around here with the traffic some days your think it was a normal day for most people

Saw some.pictures from the town centre today looked packed

chris3234 said:

Around here with the traffic some days your think it was a normal day for most people

Saw some.pictures from the town centre today looked packed

Click to expand...

I think I've mentioned before on here somewhere that my older boy works for Sainsburys and he's very worried about us exposing ourselves to situations where we might encounter the virus, especially in supermarkets. He is, very kindly, doing our shopping for us and he then takes it home. We then take the car over to his house where he places the bags at the foot of his path where we then collect them, complete with rubber gloves etc. So no close contact with anyone.
This journey, of a few miles, takes us across the centre of the city (Edinburgh). We've done it a few times now (probably averaging once every 10 days) and the traffic is very light indeed. Looks like some sort of post apocalyptic scenario! Last time we saw just one car all the way from the central library, down the mound, Up Hanover Street and down to Cannon Mills. There were 5 cars going along Queen street as we waited for the lights to change. Ferry Road, normally stuffed with traffic and very difficult to cross on foot, has somewhat greater density but you can still easily cross without hardly having to wait at all.
So Edinburgh is looking very quiet. Our journey time to our boy's house, is about halved!

Ruby out shopping today looking like she had just come out of the box! Kept the revs up to 2000+ for 10 miles so hopefully a charged battery.

Have to clean her again now....

The Panda Nut said:

Ruby out shopping today looking like she had just come out of the box! Kept the revs up to 2000+ for 10 miles so hopefully a charged battery.

Have to clean her again now....

Click to expand...

Around here lately there's that much dust in the airthe day after washing a car it's filthy again

chris3234 said:

Around here lately there's that much dust in the airthe day after washing a car it's filthy again

Click to expand...

Strange, same here, particularly noticeable on Becky's glass roof.

'Saharan..' dust brought with all that warm weather

Will get a rinse in the next few days though

Moved it out of the garage so that I could cut the bloody grass (agan).

chris3234 said:

Around here lately there's that much dust in the airthe day after washing a car it's filthy again

Click to expand...

I think its mostly pollen. Still makes the car look dusty and brasses me off.

The Panda Nut said:

I think its mostly pollen. Still makes the car look dusty and brasses me off.

Click to expand...

Here in Devon the apple and wild cherry blossom is very heavy and - as you wrote - the air is full of pollen.

babbo_umbro said:

Moved it out of the garage so that I could cut the bloody grass (again).

Click to expand...

You have a lawn in your garage ?!

Trying to polish rear bumper top, few visible scratches, I should buy some guard sticker earlier, and refreshing colours of "Italy" door pilar badges with permanent markers.
Corona made panda mostly standing still, making some 50miles/mnth instead of 900 before..

babbo_umbro said:

Here in Devon the apple and wild cherry blossom is very heavy and - as you wrote - the air is full of pollen.

Click to expand...

I ought to go to the whats made me grumpy page and complain about pollen.
Lets start a petition to get pollen banned!

Where do I sign?

gr J

PS Mrs J suggests PPE for the car

Fed the sheep!

Today I drove mine..

Mpg was fantastic .. for 10'c air temp..

The 50mph roads were @80/90mpg

But the longer..faster.. stuff had a noticable headwind for around an hour.. but got 58mpg overall so not terrible

The Panda Nut said:

I think its mostly pollen. Still makes the car look dusty and brasses me off.

Click to expand...

It's tree pollen season. I live next to woodland and it covers the Panda in a green pollen dust. I have to wash it off because the V5C says it should be white.

Defender2 said:

Fed the sheep!

Click to expand...

Great picture - way to go for your first post

New front discs and brake pads installed after 63000+ Km.
Also replaced the broken right front fog light unit.

Noop has been banished to obscurity and S.O.R.N.E.D. No point paying the tax man a tax to not use a car that cost 000's in VA Tax and Income tax and that drinks fuel that costs mostly tax to drive.....

Desira have been in touch to offer a service but this can wait until he's 13 months old so I will wait another couple of weeks before booking. He will emerge in june to be serviced, allowing me to restart paying some VA tax for the service and parts and of course some more tax to fill him with fuel to get there

Daffo needs a clean and has been waiting patiently for me to oblige.... without success. May be tomorrow...

varesecrazy said:

Today I drove mine..

Mpg was fantastic .. for 10'c air temp..

The 50mph roads were @80/90mpg

But the longer..faster.. stuff had a noticable headwind for around an hour.. but got 58mpg overall so not terrible

Click to expand...

A3jeroen said:

Where do I sign?

gr J

PS Mrs J suggests PPE for the car

Click to expand...

May be an old gardening glove taped over the exhaust?