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Crikey 3.6 diesel not sharp enough?  Let us know how you get on with the new one.

Yup pretty routine.

Basic when you get scanned, regardless of the actual type of scanner, one of three things happen...

1. No alarm and you go about your day.
2. The machine randomly pings. You get swabbed and, provided you pass this off you go.
3. The machine pings because it actually detects something, ie a belt , you get searched and swabbed and as above.

The swab is a counter terrorist explosives check and contact with an airbag can set it off (to give an idea of sensitivity), and to be compliant the scanners HAVE to throw out random passengers for swabbing. Same applies to your bags, (both checked and carry).

A full alarm means a full pat down etc, and officially they should also pull your bag and search it. They get really pissed off when you pull them up for not doing this, but they leave themselves wide open by not doing it

The body scanner picks up everything down to tissue in pockets so some airports make you remove your belt so they have less chance of having to search you, on part for time saving and in part complacency. I generally refuse to remove my belt going through the Heathrow scanners... They don't like it, but if you make a point of statement that you aren't refusing a search, they can't do much about it.

The liquid limits for crew are, how to put this..., variable, but the scanner and swab process is universally applied.

Thanks Al .... 

Do you have any way to do a pressured smoke test?

From memory that was the error that that 2.0 Disco 5 had that I kept for about a week then sent back to the dealer. Something about a mismatch between manifold pressure and the air coming into it. The local indie hooked it up to a Strap-On smoke machine and pressurised it, result was chuffing smoke from somewhere under the inlet manifold - would have been impossible to see without removing the engine from the car, but definitely there. 

My symptoms were that the car stuttered and stumbled at low rpm/load situations, like if parked at a set of lights and just rolling away when they turned green, say 25% throttle. Or when pottering through a 30 limit. If you gave it a shoe full it behaved normally.

It's another RRS , I wasn't fussy on either model but was particular  regarding service history & mileage paid my indi to travel over & inspect this one " you won't find a better one" were his words the seller took mine in part payment which was handy so did the deal yesterday, going in next week for a thorough health check, but I'm not expecting any issues, it's very fast compared to the TDV8 which wasn't a slouch by any means.👍

Sounds like you've found a really nice one! Look forward to seeing some pics, once its washed and polished to your exacting standards obviously 

I always get pulled in scanners for a possible metalic object in my thigh, so get the pat down routine.  Not, AFAIK, there is no metal in my thigh, and their handheld scanners done see it.

Like YZ, I must have a guilty face, as if I get through the scanner OK, I get pulled for a swab test

Fortunately, I've never had to endue the full test with the finger

You can always hope 

Pxd the RRS yesterday & I expected a hefty increase going from a 3.6 diesel to a 5.0 supercharged petrol, renewal is due in June only cost me £39.00 extra till then I'm happy with that..😁

The LED tail light mounted on the boot lid is playing up. If it works at all, it just flickers.

I phoned BMW for a new one.........       £243!!   

What's wrong with a £1.50 bulb FFS. 

If it had bulbs, the previous owners would have swapped them out for LEDs anyway, becoz itz wicked, innit.

Having a similar conversation on a W221 forum from someone who swapped their perfectly good incandescent bulbs for cheap Chinesium shyte and wondered why they flicker 

If it had LED bulbs I could just replace them, but this thing has LED strips built into the light unit.  Hence the price......     

I shall tinker with it for a while. 

With my metal hips I always get pinged. 

Sometimes resulting in the pat down, sometimes not. 

Oh dear, what a pity, never mind. 

Trouble is when the soggy tissue puts us back into the EU, we will be paying for it.

The LED tail light mounted on the boot lid is playing up. If it works at all, it just flickers.

I phoned BMW for a new one.........       £243!!   

What's wrong with a £1.50 bulb FFS. 

If it had bulbs, the previous owners would have swapped them out for LEDs anyway, becoz itz wicked, innit.

Having a similar conversation on a W221 forum from someone who swapped their perfectly good incandescent bulbs for cheap Chinesium shyte and wondered why they flicker