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by DodgeRover
Tue Aug 22, 2023 10:43 pm
Forum: Motorised Conveyances
Topic: EBay Finds
Replies: 12416
Views: 2836514

Re: EBay Finds

How hard would it be to sort the paperwork on this? https://i.ebayimg.com/images/g/mjIAAOSw~Dhkz6Tw/s-l1600.webp https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/186042772627 Depending on exactly what paperwork he actually has probably not too bad, be says he's got something saying import duty had been paid so that's a ...
by DodgeRover
Tue Aug 22, 2023 8:06 pm
Forum: Motorised Conveyances
Topic: Fire!!!
Replies: 61
Views: 2825

Re: Fire!!!

When lithium ion batteries combust a by product is oxygen so very hard to extinguish. Apparently the only way is to bring the temperature of the whole thing down to a point where it no longer burns…..hence dropping it in lots of water. Not sure about automotive but one solution in the fork truck wo...
by DodgeRover
Tue Aug 22, 2023 7:41 pm
Forum: Motorised Conveyances
Topic: Lexus RX300 phase 2 running report
Replies: 5
Views: 290

Re: Lexus RX300 phase 2 running report

AMCrebel wrote: Tue Aug 22, 2023 6:09 pm On a recommendation from Red5 I did the underside of my Discovery (and my wheelbarrow) with Lanoguard and highly recommend it.
How is it holding on?
by DodgeRover
Tue Aug 22, 2023 3:42 pm
Forum: Motorised Conveyances
Topic: Lexus RX300 phase 2 running report
Replies: 5
Views: 290

Re: Lexus RX300 phase 2 running report

Always liked the look of these. They are nice, this one is much nicer than the last one, I didn't realise just how baggy the other one felt, and pulls the caravan better. Although as with most autos it's easier to shift manually when towing to be in an appropriate ratio rather than waiting until th...
by DodgeRover
Tue Aug 22, 2023 3:35 pm
Forum: Motorised Conveyances
Topic: Lexus RX300 phase 2 running report
Replies: 5
Views: 290

Re: Lexus RX300 phase 2 running report

And refund being sorted now by the AA for the £75 we were charged for the call out on the failed starter.
by DodgeRover
Tue Aug 22, 2023 1:08 am
Forum: Motorised Conveyances
Topic: Blue 2cv
Replies: 154
Views: 5458

Re: Looking at a car, insurance history question... Cat C

Is the paint bad enough to need a gentle wet flat then a good compounding?
by DodgeRover
Tue Aug 22, 2023 1:05 am
Forum: Motorised Conveyances
Topic: What did you do today?
Replies: 15609
Views: 3136191

Re: What did you do today?

Write it off against profits in the business, at least it's gone now.
When I have a bad bill I often think exactly what Sic has said re depreciation and payments.
by DodgeRover
Mon Aug 21, 2023 10:02 pm
Forum: Motorised Conveyances
Topic: Lexus RX300 phase 2 running report
Replies: 5
Views: 290

Lexus RX300 phase 2 running report

Thought I might as well throw a thread up about my other halfs car. This is the second one of these we have had, the first was on LPG and ran upto 230k before the gearbox shit itself without warning and the fact it had been a Scottish car with the resultant corrosion issues meant it wasn't worth rep...
by DodgeRover
Mon Aug 21, 2023 9:22 pm
Forum: Motorised Conveyances
Topic: EBay Finds
Replies: 12416
Views: 2836514

Re: EBay Finds

A very good mate of mine was the sales manager for a BL dealership and got a new car every three months. He alternated between the Montego Turbo and the Maestro Turbo for an age before getting a Rover 820 or a 825 as his boss was fed up with him bending the Turbo's. He got a one-month ban after bei...
by DodgeRover
Mon Aug 21, 2023 8:38 pm
Forum: Motorised Conveyances
Topic: What did you do today?
Replies: 15609
Views: 3136191

Re: What did you do today?

dean36014 wrote: Sun Aug 20, 2023 8:44 pm I dropped the suspension when I parked it to be in with the cool kids😂 The rear drops first on my so you end up with a California squat look which is never good
That's reverse rake in cool kids speak, tell them it's a run what you brung gasser....