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portland_bill said:
Just delivered the Panda to the garage at the bottom of the road, for an MOT. Whilst sitting in the car, waiting for them to open, a BMW X6 arrived. That's the enormous SUV coupe thing, that looks like it has been sat on. Little else shouts ego as loudly, as even the over-large pickups are more subtle. Driver is sporting dark sunglasses, and a white baseball cap. There's a profile there, in everyone's heads.
There were two spaces beside me, and three more along the other side of the building. Struggling with the choice, he sat, blocking the road into the business park, while the second brain cell woke up to join the first. He then swung it forwards into the space next to mine, or at least mostly. Then comes a reverse and reposition, without thinking there might be passing traffic behind. Thankfully, they avoided him.
When the doors to the garage were unlocked, he was in like a shot, "must get in front" syndrome operating even when out of the car. So I'm third in the queue, no pressure. BMW is in for MOT and a full service. He's just about to leave, and decides to ask when it will be ready. MOT, full service, around 10am. That's 2 hours, seems good to me. BMW man looked pained, and wandered out mumbling. Receptionist looked puzzled, and with the look of someone who'd seen it before.
My turn. "Panda for an MOT. Is it ready yet?" Cheered them all up a bit. No hurries, I'll be back at teatime. Soon, I have to choose one of the other vehicles in the fleet, for a 40 mile journey to Chippenham. Oh, the pressure of having to choose.
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Jeremy Clarkson had a lot to say about the x6. None of it good. Girl next door traded her range rover sport in for an x6. She loathed everything about it and was back in an RR in under a year. Her dad only changed cars after a lengthy ownership. He had one of those Maserati 4x4 things when they moved and still has it 5 years on. They do like their 4x4s. The Panda 4x4 is like a knat next to these monsters.
 
StevenRB45 said:
Basically need to lose a stone and half to have a healthy BMI.
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I would say I look normal, maybe just slightly over weight, but according to my BMI I needt o lose two and a half stones to be averge.
I've upped my exercise to twice a week for the gym, mainly for blood pressure reasons.
 
it looks like I may have gotten to the bottom of why the Punto seems to lack power, and someone on the forum called it.

See the thread here so I am not repeating myself, but it looks like the engine is out of time
www.fiatforum.com

Punto (Mk1) - Project R the Mk1 Cabrio Restoration project

The motor below I took off my 2008 Grande Punto. The regulator that replaced it cost me £30 new, if you buy a new item then you can return it without fuss, vendors will be more sniffy if you try to return a used item. So you could buy several new and return most of them, and hope to get lucky...
www.fiatforum.com www.fiatforum.com

Now I need to just make sure nothing is bent or broken, before getting it all timed up with a new belt and water pump, no need to completely strip the bottom end down, as the compression is good and aside from a pulse in the revs when it is running it does appear to run very smoothly and quietly.

I will probably go ahead and change the various oil seals and gaskets while I have it apart before giving it a good clean up and maybe even a lick of paint, to make it all look nice and tidy.
 
vexorg said:
I would say I look normal, maybe just slightly over weight, but according to my BMI I needt o lose two and a half stones to be averge.
I've upped my exercise to twice a week for the gym, mainly for blood pressure reasons.
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I had high blood pressure 160/? many years ago fortunately picked up(red face short of breath) all I had to do was cut down the salt I was putting in food and changing the type of salt to pure sea salt instead of the rubbish rock salt they sell in supermarkets, which from a health point of view is only fit for the roads!
The sea salt tastes so much nicer and you only need a little.:)
 
bugsymike said:
I had high blood pressure 160/? many years ago fortunately picked up(red face short of breath) all I had to do was cut down the salt I was putting in food and changing the type of salt to pure sea salt instead of the rubbish rock salt they sell in supermarkets, which from a health point of view is only fit for the roads!
The sea salt tastes so much nicer and you only need a little.:)
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My BP is now quite normal since I lost a kidney. I stopped having any salt on food after it went (except on my greasy chips) maybe it was hte salt not the kidney that was doing it. Had to visit the Docs earlier this year for low blood pressure issues! May be a uniair module is a sort of kidney.

And why is it they cant measure BP in p.s.i. Its like all medical things needlessly shrouded in mystery.
 
vexorg said:
It's mmHg, just as common in as psi in certain areas, like weather or vacuum. 750mmHg = 1 bar or 14.5psi
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and the old way to measure blood pressure was with a sphygmomanometer with a gauge with mercury in it.... which would measure the blood pressure by how high in mm the mercury moved up the scale against atmospheric pressure. hence using that unit of measurement
 
I've worked in a few places that that had the tall column of mercury to get the exact atmospheric pressure, simple but cool.
 
I had my blood pressure checked many times yesterday, before, during, and after my surgery. It never went above 120/80. Years ago, I let myself get up to 230 lbs. That's a lot on a 5' 8" frame. I got myself down to 180 but right now I'm hanging around 188.

BTW, I earned five new screws and a plate yesterday. I guess I tore my deltoid ligament, too, so that also was repaired. The sleep was great, as were the naps. Today is a new kind of pain, though, and it sucks.
 
vexorg said:
It's mmHg, just as common in as psi in certain areas, like weather or vacuum. 750mmHg = 1 bar or 14.5psi
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mmHg - that for medical thermometers. Bars - chocolate only thenkyou! psi now that I understand. Now you say those figures is all makes sense.... I did say a very very very small jar for my brain!
 
Dad took his Focus in to the indy due to rear suspension noise..

No charge it came back with a note saying "get rid of this before the MOT expires"

I assume there's nothing solid to attach suspension to.

Perhaps the longest car hunt in history is about to be concluded..
 
He's literally looking at the spec Jock just got rid of...so 1.0t (except 110) estate around 16/17 plate.

Given he's looking used and his cars stand forever something that needs batteries coding to it seems like a terrible idea. Before you get to the joy of VW group turbo actuators and it will need a timing belt at the age he's looking at too as unless he actually finds jocks old it'll probably not have been done.

Whereas the Mazda features...none of that.
 
I was sitting behind a new mazda 2 at the weekend, surprised as I thought it was an Aygo, looks like a blatant copy.
 
Mazda 2 hybrid is a Toyota Yaris with a different badge on it, but they also sell the none Toyota one alongside it.

So Hybrid version is an entirely different car to mild hybrid car.
 
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