Are you another Cotswold boy then David?
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Nope. Definitely a furriner. Only 15 years on edge of Cotswolds (when I look for a premium to sell my house, that is) so maybe in another 25 we incomers might get accepted although by then I doubt there will be many of the true local families left that haven't been priced out or sold out their old family home and moved somewhere cheaper. Actually I am just over the border in Warwickshire but like to go down the Fosse to Moreton or Stow to keep some of the shops going.
Incidentally, I put nearly 900 miles on my (alleged) 33,000 mile BX estate into France last week. No problems apart from a coolant warning light which came on for no apparent reason. Super 98 unleaded was 69p per litre, Michelin Alpin winter tyres £10 each cheaper, oil filter £2.50, and semi-synth oil out of Carrefour or Auchan around £6.50 for 5 litres. Only mistake was buying wiper blades which seem to be shorter on the French market BX than on mine. Flying down to the south next week so I shall be stocking up then on new brakepads for daughter's Visa when I work out which system it has fitted.
David
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David,
Glad to hear the BX is going well.
We come down "your road" visiting the in-laws at Broadway, have been doing so for 25yrs+. Bought an old Land Rover diesel engine earlier in the year on a farm near Kineton, bet that's you sort of area.
David
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Well deduced. Wouldn't have been off my old Carawagon though. That was a 4203 Perkins and went a bit further away when I sold it. Great fun; 57mph down the Mulsanne straight but just couldn't seem to hit 60. Mind you I don't suppose the speedo had been corrected for RR diffs.
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Lots of land Rover "nuts" tucked away in the countrytside your way, nice area to be based.
When mother-in-law gets off the Fosse way on the way to see us in The Fens she thinks that's the end of the "real" country.
David
David
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DW, dont worry about the coolant warning light coming on, as my BX does the same all the time, and sometimes the STOP light comes on as well (blooming french engineering)
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sorry that should have been david millar, not DW i was responding to.
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