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Ah I had it in my head the engine was in decent fettle apart from the valves. Funny how quickly the world has moved on from 3000 mile service intervals and a filter every other time.

What's causing the oil to go black so quickly? Rich running?

They should have spent more development time watching The Dukes of Hazard and drinking moonshine, they could have come to with some proper jumps then.
The Confederate flag on the roof would have been more upsetting than disturbing the rainbow too.

Verdict: must try harder

The vans gone French. Outside temperature sensor on the fritz. Has been fine until today when at teatime it told me it was minus 8. Now it's telling me it's minus 13.5. I don't think this is modern enough for the external temp sensor to have any bearing on fuelling is it?


Possibly didn't you ...

That should cut down on the fire risk

Jerzy Woking wrote: Thu Jan 02, 2025 7:16 pm

DodgeRover wrote: Thu Jan 02, 2025 6:01 pm The terrorists vehicle of choice now it would appear with an EV being used in new Orleans

Rapid acceleration and no one hears you coming until its too late to get out of the way.

Plus it isn't going to stop burning once it's going, ideal for ramming into downing street for example

The terrorists vehicle of choice now it would appear with an EV being used in new Orleans

Did I understand correctly that Germany sold a 2.0 litre V4 in the Sierra or did I dream that?


At first I thought you’d obviously been having too much Christmas cheese before bedtime. But, upon further investigation it transpires there was a 2.0 V6 available in the Sierra for the first couple ...

I'm sure we could collectively help fill that huge empty barn, I'm sure there's some role about not leaving empty space or something