You should now get at least a 7cm wheel spin for the first 5 mins 
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*puts fingers in ears*
la la la, I'm not listening.
(after the next 30k miles, I'll service the car myself and write a guide about doing it too!)
la la la, I'm not listening.
(after the next 30k miles, I'll service the car myself and write a guide about doing it too!)
"Turrets" are the "towers" that have the top suspension mounts. Quite large and lots of nice paint to make clean and shiny.
Like alexGS I was puzzled about you doing all the tricky stuff, and not the easy stuff. However doing all you have done on the side of the road must be a challenge. Don't you even have any off street parking that you could an "eziup" on to keep under cover. That makes doing work on cars very challenging.
I won't tell you how many sheds I have got, or maybe I will. I have 11 cars, some going some donor cars. They are all in a shed. I will never complain again about it being cold to work on my cars!! I will think of you working on the road. That is dedication. Well done on your good project.
Like alexGS I was puzzled about you doing all the tricky stuff, and not the easy stuff. However doing all you have done on the side of the road must be a challenge. Don't you even have any off street parking that you could an "eziup" on to keep under cover. That makes doing work on cars very challenging.
I won't tell you how many sheds I have got, or maybe I will. I have 11 cars, some going some donor cars. They are all in a shed. I will never complain again about it being cold to work on my cars!! I will think of you working on the road. That is dedication. Well done on your good project.
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Unfortunately, I really cannot think of anywhere off the road, near my house that I can work on the car, and be near enough to nip into the house for tools, food or internet (to ask you lot a question ).
We live on a road, where half the home-owners have off street parking, but we aren't one of them
I can usually park in front of my house though, thankfully.
Will look at the turrets tomorrow
Probably in the rain, like it has been doing here all day!
I've been lucky though - the longest ammount of time that I have been taking to do things, was inside the car (the cluster mainly). All the time I have been doing stuff under the bonnet has been fairly quick (the rev counter wiring was the longest) but also most of it was done when it wasn't raining!
All the stuff they did today would need to be done indoors (most stuff is done under the bonnet changing filters and oil and other car fluids), but especially the brakes! I wouldn't like to work on the wheels in the middle of the road! It also helped that they had a car lift to use
).We live on a road, where half the home-owners have off street parking, but we aren't one of them
I can usually park in front of my house though, thankfully.
Will look at the turrets tomorrow
Probably in the rain, like it has been doing here all day!
I've been lucky though - the longest ammount of time that I have been taking to do things, was inside the car (the cluster mainly). All the time I have been doing stuff under the bonnet has been fairly quick (the rev counter wiring was the longest) but also most of it was done when it wasn't raining!
All the stuff they did today would need to be done indoors (most stuff is done under the bonnet changing filters and oil and other car fluids), but especially the brakes! I wouldn't like to work on the wheels in the middle of the road! It also helped that they had a car lift to use
noo dont keep them to yourself, give them to meOh dear. I feel somewhat foolish now.
I'll keep my MLP fetish to myself then
..that was my box he nicked !!
My friend - this is why we don't live in England. It's unbelievable what goes on in west London in those relatively-expensive areas like Ealing/Hanwell. I saw people trying to change engines on the side of the road with traffic going past - where there was only room for one vehicle to get through. A miserably-dank apartment (sorry, "flat"), built about when the Treaty of Waitangi was signed (when Hamilton was a swamp), costs as much as one of our four-bedroom houses but has no shower. Things like outdoor taps either don't exist, or there's no hose in miles. It reminds me that my garage - though cramped with too much stuff to trip over - is actually a nice working environment (I actually have everything I need). But I only have undercover parking for three cars, unlike you, rawill!
I think if I lived in England - let's just say that every time I go to England, I pick up a rental car, and even finding somewhere to wash it properly is a challenge...!
It's OK if you live in the English countryside like my Uncle and cousins, but then they hardly have a pair of screwdrivers between them. The biggest concern in my Uncle's garage is whether a garden fork might fall on the Porsche. I think the isolation is about the same as the New Zealand countryside and even when you get to the huge city of Exeter (bigger population than Hamilton) you find that it doesn't have things we take for granted, such as half a dozen bolt suppliers and an electronics component shop.
Easy enough for me to skite but now I retract my comment to uCof before, I forgot he lives in two places a long way apart (somewhere in London, and somewhere in Wales)... so I'll let him off, having nowhere to work - poor guy.
Sorry everyone - my close friends from uni (three of them have moved to England permanently) all point out the far better cultural scene, the opportunities for cheap travel to Europe and - well, anywhere, really - the great tourist sites, their classy London flats, the way they "don't have to own a car", earning four times what I earn, the Supercar club, track days... England has its good points
And as for Chas - well, I hoped he knew what I was saying
-Alex
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And as for Chas - well, I hoped he knew what I was saying
He did
And he wants out of the UK so he can own/ work on his cars in decent weather
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Easy enough for me to skite but now I retract my comment to uCof before, I forgot he lives in two places a long way apart (somewhere in London, and somewhere in Wales)... so I'll let him off, having nowhere to work - poor guy.
Well, I only really in live Wales.
It's just that the house where I grew up in, and where my dad lives, and where the spares and repairs Uno is, is in north west London
I'll be giving the car a wash shortly.
