'cos I spent mine buying a car...
'R'plate Passat went to dealer for suspension arm recall last week. Yes, two bottom arms covered by recall needed replacing, and were, for free. Other 4 that needed replacing cost £500. (ouch). On reviewing mpg over last 6 months, discovered an average of 27. Unfortunately that ruled out first car we saw which was 'T' plate Jag S class 3 litre.
2nd was a range of ex fleet Passat Tdi's in Doncaster. I hadn't realised how much they had "down specced" the interiors on all but the sport: We test drove a light metallic blue with a champagne velour interior. I wonder why that one hadn't sold? Nice engine, though.
On to a Mondeo Tdci. Super engine, but SWMBO who uses the car daily (I only get it for long journies) didn't like it. Shame: the price was good: 2002 registered, 90000 on the clock, and £5,600 with £1500 part ex for the passat (1.8 20vSE with 127k on the clock, and needing an M.O.T. from Friday...) Promise of cheap money, too: half at 0%, half at 5%.
Finally (Monday) to Mexborough, and we bought a 2001 Y Audi A6 tdi 115. up on miles (116k) but lovely grey metallic with black cloth interior: like sitting in an expensive business suit. Drives beautifully, and the mpg looks promising. Now looking for an excuse to pop out to Harrods for a pint of milk!
Tim{P}
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I know what you mean about black cloth interiors feeling like an expensive suit. The nice interior was a big factor when I chose the Passat (I suppose it's even nicer in the A6).
I spend the very long Easter weekend (a day's leave on the front and on the back, 6 days!) working on the Spitfire. Completely re-did the interior, changed all the consumables, fitted some steel braided brake hoses, rebuilt the carburettors.
Finally found my 9/16 socket - it had happily been living on one of the exhaust manifold nuts for a few days. Survived a 6 mile trip to get the rest of the exhaust mounted.
Can't get the grime from under my fingernails, and have more hand injuries than I care to count.
Does anyone have any hints on the dark art of tuning twin SU carbs?
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SU tuning - this may help.
www.mgcars.org.uk/cgi-bin/gen5?runprog=mgoc&p=emg/...l
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Thanks Tomo, I've read that one.
I really meant hints from people's experience, not yet another site that has cut and pasted the text from Triumph and MG workshop manuals!
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If you have just rebuilt the SUs, then they should react in the same way. It is important to make sure that plugs/points/timing etc. is spot on before the carbs are set. I used to make sure that the dashpots were topped up before I started. I think the mixture nut was screwed up until the jet touched the piston and then unscrewed 9 "flats" to give a start point for the mixture. One carb was set at a time, with the joining piece between them loose. I used to listen to the hiss with a rubber tube in the inlet of each in turn to balance them. I used to use a colortune to get the mixture right, a bit time consuming, but worth it. The last job was to tighten the joining piece and ensure that both butterflies open together.
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I WENT TO CHESTER ZOO,
wish if bought a car instead, it would have been cheaper
48 notes to get in two adults two kids
£12 on balloons, anyone who lives near the zoo and spots the one my three year old lost would return it as they are £4 each inside the zoo
thank you
ps he is not still holding onto the balloon
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>>ps he is not still holding onto the balloon
Oh.
So this one isn't yours then.
Anybody else lost a ballon ?
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Certainly Derek, its ended up down here in Surrey. I have put it in the post to you, first class recorded. That will be 7 quid please.
(ps I cut it up into nice squares so it would fit in the envelope)
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ours was a fish or a shark or a zebra or something
speaking of which whilst we were at the zoo, and at the zebra enclosure the male zebra got "excited"
the conversation went something like
"whats that mum?"
" ask your father "
"dad"
" i dont know it looks like another leg to me"
"oh"
got the said clip on the new camcorder and as soon as i learn how you do it, will be appearing as an attachment soon
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