What did you do today?

[DodgeRover]

Just to add to the brand bollocks I think that brand experience forms a part of it as well, for example the heavenly experience of visiting a BMW dealership and seeing the equisitally designed models.

You wanted to hear the Yamaha or Honda reps go on about increasing brand synergy, which basically amounted to wanting an exclusive deal to sell only their products but the full range of them.

So you could nip into the motorcycle showroom for a Honda generator or maybe a Yamaha piano.... Yep that's going to work

[LynehamHerc]

This cross selling lark has got out of control.

[DodgeRover]

Not being afraid to speak out of turn the boss told them it was a stupid idea and he was having nothing to do with it!

[Hooli]

I got an email saying the part for my Suzuki will be delivered today, not too bad as I ordered it before xmas & it's has to come from europe or Japan due to no stock in the UK. We'll see if DPD remember to deliver it I guess.

[Eddie Honda]

as I ordered it before xmas & it's has to come from europe or Japan

It won't be Japan. If anything goes on back order to Japan it takes MONTHS, even without the sniffles™

[fried onions]

Efficient Japs are JIT-ers. Parts are so hard to get because they don't maintain stocks of spares. Applies to most manufacturers now.

[mercrocker]

It is that reliance that shut the Honda Swindon plant recently - ships got delayed, parts didn't arrive and cars couldn't be built.....Of course it got in the news because Covid but it has happened numerous times over the past decade or so.

[red5]

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Peeled all the decals off the Scud after it successfully passed its MOT, pre-sale.
Eg fix it then sell it to make way for the next victim.

[Hooli]

as I ordered it before xmas & it's has to come from europe or Japan

It won't be Japan. If anything goes on back order to Japan it takes MONTHS, even without the sniffles™

I had to back order something from Japan for it once before, damned if I can think what. Took about a month to get here.
Anyway it's done now, had to remove an oil line & the throttle bodies just to gain access to two bolts holding the sensor in. Rather annoying as they are easy to see, just impossible to get an allen key into with everything in place.
I've left it partly in bits as my aux power supply had been playing up lately so I checked that & it needs a new relay. No point putting the tank down & side covers on when it won't move till the relay arrives anyway.

[Nibblet]

Been about 6 months since I have done anything to the Saab; today it was that bit warmer too so I set about fixing up a throttle linkage.
Now everything about that Nikki carb I stuck on it is the wrong way around so I knew it would be a pig but after a few hours getting it wrong I finally got it right and I think it will do.
The carb was designed to be cable operated so I had to weld on a section to accept a linkage. Then having done that I found that if was fouling on the throttle spindle so, I cut the piece off again and welded it to the other end of the quadrant, meaning that it became a pull rather than push operation. Finally I had problems with the spring return- the springing on the carb is so light that with all the joints and different moving parts it is only just sufficient to close the throttle, not so good.
Not wanting to disfigure the head area of the engine I found a way to attach a fairly strong spring betwixt throttle spindle and body to snap the throttle shut when pressure is taken off the accelerator.