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Back when cars were properly built, could you imagine if the same happened to one of the domestic appliances of today
I have rather cloudy recollections of them being quite hard to do a clutch? or am I thinking of something else? The Princess/Ambassador was much easier. The boss ran a 6 cylinder (E-series) Wolseley which I was entrusted to service for him and I always liked the test drive - not an incredibly powerful engine, but oh so very smooth with a nice exhaust note.
 
Quoted from BBC News from Norfolk County Council about road defects and potholes...
"Norfolk, the county with the second-longest road network in England, said it only had 16 outstanding defects in September."
How come at least 14 of them are within 1 mile of my house?
Or maybe they haven't looked at the roads for a few years/decades.
 
Quoted from BBC News from Norfolk County Council about road defects and potholes...
"Norfolk, the county with the second-longest road network in England, said it only had 16 outstanding defects in September."
How come at least 14 of them are within 1 mile of my house?
Or maybe they haven't looked at the roads for a few years/decades.
You think that's bad you should see the state of Surrey roads
 
Quoted from BBC News from Norfolk County Council about road defects and potholes...
"Norfolk, the county with the second-longest road network in England, said it only had 16 outstanding defects in September."
How come at least 14 of them are within 1 mile of my house?
Or maybe they haven't looked at the roads for a few years/decades.

Some say the representative counted them on the fingers of one hand...

People who would say that are horrible though.
 
Let's hope it had a lid back on this weekend..
Yep all done and a really good job too. Massive french windows installed today, its now secure at last. No piece of wood wedging doors shut. Some fettling and finishing tomorrow when the bathroom is also due to be delivered. Im just aiming to restore lights and continue blockwork strengthening this side of christmas. Im hoping the jobs will get easier as today NEARLY KILLED ME!
The old windows are 2.2x2m and taxed my strength lifting them out. All in all it went better than expected. Budget was blown by roofing costs so we will over run by 6 to 8k which is the cost of another Panda dammit! Rubywill be staying at least 2 more years.
 
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And that it's still there tomorrow morning too!! 🫣 (only joking!!)
It didnt feel too bad but the roads are littered with tree branches and quite a few sheets of wood and glass have moved across the garden.
 
Quoted from BBC News from Norfolk County Council about road defects and potholes...
"Norfolk, the county with the second-longest road network in England, said it only had 16 outstanding defects in September."
How come at least 14 of them are within 1 mile of my house?
Or maybe they haven't looked at the roads for a few years/decades.
Probably all comes down to what gets reported, in that case they hide the link to report pot holes on a single 20 year old news post on the council website which is only accessible once a year by following a very precise set of instructions which you needed to have down loaded 6 years ago.
 
Quoted from BBC News from Norfolk County Council about road defects and potholes...
"Norfolk, the county with the second-longest road network in England, said it only had 16 outstanding defects in September."
How come at least 14 of them are within 1 mile of my house?
Or maybe they haven't looked at the roads for a few years/decades.
You live in my village too! I grant them they have worked very very hard to deal with the craters and flood damage this summer, but there are enough holes that would kill a Panda stone dead at 30mph round here to make that statement look inordinately moronic. It will make sueing themmuch easier if we sustain damage. I wonder what they class as a defect.
 
Last week, I started getting the tyre pressure light (the very cold mornings -2˚). But every time, later in the day, it's gone. No doubt temperature variation to blame. It wasn't flashing this time, so thankfully, not a sensor on its way out so soon... (not this close to ending the used warranty in January I beg!)

Just in from going out and checking the pressures, re-inflating them up to the correct psi. Seems like they were last inflated by the tyre guy at the dealership to his recommended 'that'll do it' pressure, with no issues since. But a few psi less than the handbook says.

Light has disappeared now. Pressures according to the book. One of those rare little jobs where you know exactly what's wrong, where you know exactly how to put it right, and where, instantly, you can be sure that the problem has gone away. No nasty surprises (this time). By nasty, I mean expensive and time consuming.

It's given me a very false, very inflated sense of "I've done something productive today and made the most of the daylight", despite how low on the ladder inflating tyre pressure is in the grand scheme of owning a car!
 
In more boring car with a cursed TPS system news....
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No warning lights.

In further good news they took off the wheel with no weights on it to replace the sensor.

Having done this..2 things are absolutely clear. One is that Vittos are absolute bin fodder and 2 the reason that I was getting vibration was one of them was literally not balanced at all.

I was looking at left front with enough weights on it for a whole fleet of cars and thinking the wheel must be bent to need that many weights when front right had no weights on it at all.

Now it's back both sides have a matching fleet of weights....and all vibration seems to have gone though I've not done 70 yet.

So things looking good for Saturday when all 4 tyres go in the bin...and some nice round ones to go on. At which point unless I update the nav the car should be done.

Other than the bottle of coolant I still need to pick up...
 
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I am ashamed to say I am never likely to own a car with TPS, so not some one who worships the tyre pressure god , apart from when servicing or a visual inspection indicates a need.
To the point that many years ago I had a old Series Diesel Land Rover I used for towing, I used to run the 7.50 x 16 8 ply crossply tyres at around 40psi when checked.
One day after a fair bit of use and for no particular reason, I thought I would drag the airline out and check the pressures, one front was at 8psi, all the rest were at 40psi and it was driving fine.;)
 
I am ashamed to say I am never likely to own a car with TPS, so not some one who worships the tyre pressure god , apart from when servicing or a visual inspection indicates a need.
To the point that many years ago I had a old Series Diesel Land Rover I used for towing, I used to run the 7.50 x 16 8 ply crossply tyres at around 40psi when checked.
One day after a fair bit of use and for no particular reason, I thought I would drag the airline out and check the pressures, one front was at 8psi, all the rest were at 40psi and it was driving fine.;)

This could perhaps be more of a damning indictment of how badly a series land rover drives.

Having got it back from being fixed i've just done cold pressures (to be fair it could have waited until Saturday given the tyres are coming off...). I thought it was riding a bit hard on the way back.

Recommended is 33 all round because the rear overhang of the estate makes the rears carry a more equal share and you'd assume an all alloy 1.2 doesn't weigh much 34.5, 35, 36.5 and 37.

Weirdly there's no "laden" pressure on this car just "cruising over 100mph" which is 38. Obviously the garage airline is spectacularly accurate in terms of achieving the correct pressure or they used "it's round that'll do".
 
This could perhaps be more of a damning indictment of how badly a series land rover drives.
Could be a case of how tough the sidewalls were on old 7.50 x 16 8 ply crossply tyres in those days.
No chance of some sticking a knife in then or a gentle clip of the kerb costing a new tyre like modern radials;)
Mind you high speed handling was optional at best.:):):)
 
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No warning lights.

In further good news they took off the wheel with no weights on it to replace the sensor.

Having done this..2 things are absolutely clear. One is that Vittos are absolute bin fodder and 2 the reason that I was getting vibration was one of them was literally not balanced at all.

I was looking at left front with enough weights on it for a whole fleet of cars and thinking the wheel must be bent to need that many weights when front right had no weights on it at all.

Now it's back both sides have a matching fleet of weights....and all vibration seems to have gone though I've not done 70 yet.

So things looking good for Saturday when all 4 tyres go in the bin...and some nice round ones to go on. At which point unless I update the nav the car should be done.

Other than the bottle of coolant I still need to pick up...
You bought a Toyota?!! 🤯 that instrument cluster is identical to my old Avensis… Japanese are boring cars but they did go very German with their tyres sensors… I do wish they’d have made them boring too though 😑
 
You bought a Toyota?!! 🤯 that instrument cluster is identical to my old Avensis… Japanese are boring cars but they did go very German with their tyres sensors… I do wish they’d have made them boring too though 😑

Can't be saying things like that...the argument I caused by saying I preferred indirect pressure sensors eeeeesh.

Although that gentleman appears to have left the building.

And yes...


What can I say it was cheap and did most of what it needed to do.

Also I still have the Citroën for automotive jeopardy...
 
Could be a case of how tough the sidewalls were on old 7.50 x 16 8 ply crossply tyres in those days.
I seem to recall there was usually only a vague connection between the steering wheel and the road wheels on these, thanks to the steering box set up which was engineered to a post war tolerance of “that’ll do” or “something like that”
 
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