What's made you smile today?
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So after the suboptimal MOT showing for the C3, apparently Bluetooth rollbars are not acceptable..and it had done some other damage as well taking out one of CV (freshly replaced) boots. Odd one in that it looked attached...until you turned so unless you had someone looking while you turned it wasn't entirely obvious.
Citroën will be paying for all repairs under warranty so I'm just paying service and MOT. Result as that's me off the hook for nearly a grand...
Citroën will be paying for all repairs under warranty so I'm just paying service and MOT. Result as that's me off the hook for nearly a grand...
And suddenly, it was gone.
impressed you managed to get citron to pay given the age of the car now.So after the suboptimal MOT showing for the C3, apparently Bluetooth rollbars are not acceptable..and it had done some other damage as well taking out one of CV (freshly replaced) boots. Odd one in that it looked attached...until you turned so unless you had someone looking while you turned it wasn't entirely obvious.
Citroën will be paying for all repairs under warranty so I'm just paying service and MOT. Result as that's me off the hook for nearly a grand...
Bluetooth Roll bars made me think about my old range rover classic that had zero roll bars great off road but like a motorcyclist you could get your knee down round any sharp corner, and that was perfectly fine and how it was built.
It is hard tp fathom how a car can have seemingly attached antiroll bars but they are ineffective when doing something so benign as steering, especially as the need for roll bars increases dramatically the more you turn the steering wheel at speed.
If that was me it was definitely be gone, I have this slight weakness when it comes to cake or biscuits
It was only a matter of minutes
God knows, the way it has been explained (with a video) is that the ARB was to all intents and purposes where it needed to be most of the time to the eye at least.
However at full lock it moved left and right...to the point the drop links could contact the back of the brake calipers.
I suspect the only reason it got spotted this time is I specifically got them to go look at why the brakes were occasionally a different pedal travel at low speed and full lock.
Apparently them being twatted by a drop link can cause this
.Of course the handling has probably been worse...and the courtesy car is not as soft as ours in the roll this would explain why. But as the car has always been a bit ****...it's not like there was a massive difference to notice.
I can only surmise that rather than failing at the drop links as is usual...it failed at the subframe mountings.
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Not for long Eh!
The Panda Nut
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Some of the 16 Humback whales seen near Provincetown at the tip of Cape Cod. I could have leaned out and touched them at times.
The Panda Nut
Nutty about Pandas Infected by Panda virus and OPD
Wife's reaction to this 'little' guy walking across the living room carpet tonight made me smile 
Thats not a little fellah... ITS A KINORMOUS SPIDER. Im with her ALL the
Spiders have never bothered me but slugs make my skin crawlWife's reaction to this 'little' guy walking across the living room carpet tonight made me smile
Thats not a little fellah... ITS A KINORMOUS SPIDER. Im with her ALL the
The Panda Nut
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Them too. Last visit to my brothers Oxford domain saw him remove 300 rom his back lawn in one hit. I blame the robotic lawnmower for providing perfect slug food. I wonder if you could make burgers from them. I could go set up a cheap burger stand outside my old employers head office. LOL
The hand-held Dyson eats spiders, and they rarely survive the spinning inside, so they don't crawl back out.
The concrete outside our back door gets covered in slugs when it is damp, difficult to pick your way through. Trod on one last week, surprised that it 'crunched'. (sorry). The resultant mess was mostly worms, a lot of worm for the slug to be carrying internally.
We have a hedgehog that visits most nights, doing its best to reduce the slug count.
Surprising to lift the lid of the wheelie bin, to find slugs there, especially sometimes very tiny ones. Quite a climb, for little reward.
Reckon bigger snails laid their eggs in the bin and the little ones are what hatched, the postie informed us that’s what happens to our farm post box
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My son just sent a diary appointment hes been sent at work. Apprently one Gareth Southgate is going to talk to them. Lol. The most successful hedge fund ever needs Mr Southgate to give them advice. LOL ha ha🕷 Im sure hes a very nice guy so hopefully some of his senior colleagues might notice that bit??
Im sure hes a very nice guy so hopefully some of his senior colleagues might notice that bit??
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Only 3 days later,
Of course the wife has a cob on about me asking if she wouldn't mind awfully not getting airborne off speed bumps in future...
We've only spent about 2.5k of Citroëns money on suspension at this point.
Of course the wife has a cob on about me asking if she wouldn't mind awfully not getting airborne off speed bumps in future...
We've only spent about 2.5k of Citroëns money on suspension at this point.
The Panda Nut
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Ihave the same trouble with Mrs and Daughters. The humps in our village are vicious. As a former village handyman I picked up 9 broken spring ends adjacent in 18 months. In my view speed humps are not a good thing.
I've been in the passenger seat when she's hit local ones at 50mph.
I grabbed for the door handle to hang on and she says "why you being so dramatic?"
At the time I couldn't articulate my very real fear I was about to be hit in the face by an escaped top mount.. although of course they've been replaced since then.
I grabbed for the door handle to hang on and she says "why you being so dramatic?"
At the time I couldn't articulate my very real fear I was about to be hit in the face by an escaped top mount.. although of course they've been replaced since then.
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