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Re: So what have you done to your car today?
« Reply #26490 on: 04 July 2024, 21:30:32 »
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Re: So what have you done to your car today?
« Reply #26491 on: 04 July 2024, 22:04:31 »
Failed damper, probably a rear one from high G loading accelerating out of a tight uphill turn. :-\
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Re: So what have you done to your car today?
« Reply #26492 on: 04 July 2024, 22:18:00 »
Quote from: TheBoy on 04 July 2024, 15:06:54
Broke it again, going up Wrynose.
That's Hard Knott, er i mean luck.
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Re: So what have you done to your car today?
« Reply #26493 on: 05 July 2024, 15:33:51 »
Quote from: ronnyd on 04 July 2024, 22:18:00
Quote from: TheBoy on 04 July 2024, 15:06:54
Broke it again, going up Wrynose.
That's Hard Knott, er i mean luck.

Possibly the steepest road in the UK. :)
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Re: So what have you done to your car today?
« Reply #26494 on: 05 July 2024, 16:37:36 »
A couple of minor jobs on the Boxster to get it ready for MOT  - which runs out tonight.
Must get it booked in for a test when I can find time.  ::)
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Re: So what have you done to your car today?
« Reply #26495 on: 05 July 2024, 18:02:32 »
Now I'm back home, I should charge a laptop.  But its pissing down.
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Re: So what have you done to your car today?
« Reply #26496 on: 05 July 2024, 18:10:32 »
Quote from: TheBoy on 05 July 2024, 18:02:32
Now I'm back home, I should charge a laptop.  But its pissing down.
Well....

You could always charge the laptop ready for when it stops  :D

Although, given your aversion to doing anything, you should probably stick the car on charge too >:D
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Re: So what have you done to your car today?
« Reply #26497 on: 06 July 2024, 17:46:23 »
Just driven it back from Stansted (RRS) after using the Abarth while over in Spain, it's nice to have a lot more room, lots of Police activity on the A1 marked & unmarked vehicles looks like they're waiting for someone special..😂
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Re: So what have you done to your car today?
« Reply #26498 on: 06 July 2024, 18:53:48 »
Started stripping the 300c ready for a new alternator. It's an absolute pig to get at - should have bought the V8  :D.

On the plus side, despite being parked up since February, she started first turn of the key.  :y
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Re: So what have you done to your car today?
« Reply #26499 on: 06 July 2024, 19:06:37 »
Quote from: Rangie on 06 July 2024, 17:46:23
Just driven it back from Stansted (RRS) after using the Abarth while over in Spain, it's nice to have a lot more room, lots of Police activity on the A1 marked & unmarked vehicles looks like they're waiting for someone special..😂

Sorry to disappoint Mick, but David Lammy our shiny new Foreign Secretary went to Germany today.  :)

Imagine that... A man who thinks men can grow a cervix representing us on the world stage!  :o  ;D

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Re: So what have you done to your car today?
« Reply #26500 on: 06 July 2024, 19:15:59 »
Quote from: Sir Tigger KC on 06 July 2024, 19:06:37
Quote from: Rangie on 06 July 2024, 17:46:23
Just driven it back from Stansted (RRS) after using the Abarth while over in Spain, it's nice to have a lot more room, lots of Police activity on the A1 marked & unmarked vehicles looks like they're waiting for someone special..😂

Sorry to disappoint Mick, but David Lammy our shiny new Foreign Secretary went to Germany today.  :)

Imagine that... A man who thinks men can grow a cervix representing us on the world stage!  :o  ;D
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He's probably been referred to as a c**t so many times he quite likes the idea..😂
Being serious I think it's probably a big drugs shipment on the move, or a lorry load of illegals, quite a few wagons being stopped on our way down to Stansted a few days ago.
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Re: So what have you done to your car today?
« Reply #26501 on: 06 July 2024, 19:31:53 »
Quote from: Rangie on 06 July 2024, 19:15:59
Quote from: Sir Tigger KC on 06 July 2024, 19:06:37
Quote from: Rangie on 06 July 2024, 17:46:23
Just driven it back from Stansted (RRS) after using the Abarth while over in Spain, it's nice to have a lot more room, lots of Police activity on the A1 marked & unmarked vehicles looks like they're waiting for someone special..😂

Sorry to disappoint Mick, but David Lammy our shiny new Foreign Secretary went to Germany today.  :)

Imagine that... A man who thinks men can grow a cervix representing us on the world stage!  :o  ;D
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He's probably been referred to as a c**t so many times he quite likes the idea..😂
Being serious I think it's probably a big drugs shipment on the move, or a lorry load of illegals, quite a few wagons being stopped on our way down to Stansted a few days ago.

Yes and Lammy would have probably flown out of Northolt anyway.
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Re: So what have you done to your car today?
« Reply #26502 on: 07 July 2024, 10:17:50 »
So in a brief interlude between showers yesterday, I plugged in the laptop to discover, as suspected, a front sensor issue. NSF one, short to 0v.

When it initially happened, like DG, wondered if it was air suspension or compressor, but slowly moved away from that when the ride height on all corners looked normal, even when putting all the stuff in the boot to come home (and Mrs TB does like to take the kitchen sink with her!).


Popped over to Gixer's gaff to use his dry garage to avoid getting wet again, and checked the condition of the exposed part of the loom in the wheel arch, and if the connector was dry.  The outside of the connector was wet, but the important bit was dry.

Live data was showing the voltage changes when jacking up the suspension an inch or so via brake disc - car was already jacked up.

Went over with a hairdryer anyway, and a bit of vaseline around the seal, but still showing a fault.  Distracted by one of Mrs Gixer's late breakkies, then the qualifying, then the footie, ordered a cheap sensor that I'll replace when it arrives.
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Re: So what have you done to your car today?
« Reply #26503 on: 07 July 2024, 13:25:33 »
Is NSF your pothole wheel of choice :-\
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Re: So what have you done to your car today?
« Reply #26504 on: 07 July 2024, 19:13:42 »
Quote from: Doctor Gollum on 07 July 2024, 13:25:33
Is NSF your pothole wheel of choice :-\
Not trashed that one for 2.5 months...
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