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Yes, but.....................well , you know.You're too old to be crawling around under the royale, and that's what would happen. At least if you had to do any jobs on the leaf, your missus could post a picture of your smoking shoes on the driveway to give us all a laugh
24v straight 6, or oversized PP3.
New pair of headlight bulb in the little roller skate, also topped up fluids - they do tend to use a bit of oil.The Leaf is the obvious choice, especially as you can charge it up at work.
It has a major issue now though. The electric PAS motor has become very noisy, and replacing it involves removing the whole dash before even starting to remove it, which also means removing the steering column, as the motor and column need to be kept as one unit.
So, do I bother ?
Or do I call it a day and replace it with something like this.
https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/157688623008
I get free charging at work, so economically, it makes sense.
My heart would rather buy this though.
https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/206087135257?_skw=classic+cars&itmmeta=01KJ3ARVVB8S3C0FWNMGBXJSXQ&hash=item2ffbc02019%3Ag%3AAx0AAeSwYkNpm0ed&itmprp=enc%3AAQALAAAA0GfYFPkwiKCW4ZNSs2u11xDx7C1Bo7JzXu%2B9AFLgc%2Ftk%2FXCB3VnCto7nGwNuok%2FOKeEF5xr3GruIFj1nXymXtOBjqWCsn7pR%2BcU3JXahz%2FQr0tEShqWJNI2dBZ6tRYlNdtkMbfpHZvO9dqzuQTX3%2BKJU37jW1vQy%2FqFQS1r3Skho3ndjF7Xlj%2FAdST33w%2FClBQ%2B9GlA3sKXNqtuieZ8cD8%2BcvQp0XNbnrvvxRKhX4VyufHgqfjdn0WcatTnHj2hku%2Bk8Jx3UPVATuh0vAd%2FHry0%3D%7Ctkp%3ABk9SR4a_4-qQZw&keyword=classic+cars&sacat=29751&relatedSearch=true
The *irritating noise* that my windscreen wipers made was getting on my nerves so I bought new wipers. I haven't fitted them yet as since I bought new wipers the old one's have been silent.Tell your missus she needn't worry. Windscreens are much tougher than they used to be, you are a lot older than you used to be, so you'd probably just smash your knuckles up a bit.........and cry like a baby
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I have short temper issues and many years ago, the windscreen wipers were grating across the windscreen of one of my mini's when it was pissing down with rain. The continuous irritating noise was driving me mad ........ so I punched the screen in anger ...... and smashed the windscreen.So, when the Audi wipers started screeching across the screen, she said "Let's go to Halfords NOW!
Did you make rocket noises as you lifted it into the air?Most powerful jet engine ever built, 134.000lbs thrust. Rocketdyne F1 1.500.000lbs thrust. Over 11 times more powerful, and the Saturn five Assembly produced more power than the whole of Spain at blast off, and burned 13.4 tons of propellant per second. But still just a spark🤣
I had the Airfix model of the Saturn V, complete with lunar module at the top.
You'd be hard pressed to find one of those rare and desirable cars. Best stick to your two-a-penny black XJI wouldn't mind one of them, but they command strong money still, and more than I can justify considering the car I have doesn't really get used.I was assured by the polishing brigade - the jag forum mob - painting them red would give me 300 more horsepower and would allow me to outbrake Schumacher's F1 car....
If you replace the smoky derv XJ with a last of the line XJ575 that won't be far from the truth.
Maybe I should get a snot green Astra
When you put it like that, it makes you realise just how futile the concept of space travel to other, earth-like, planets is. We will live on this rock until either we destroy it, or it destroys itself, and then no one will ever know we even existed.Speaking of space, Voyager is now 'one light day' from Earth,One light day is about 16billion miles, so not exactly around the corner.
Only took the thick end of 50 years at 40,000 mph to achieve.
Yep.....we are talking big numbers when it comes to 'space'
According to Google if Voyager can keep going at the same velocity for 73000 years it could reach the nearest star.....other than the sun.
I may decide to stay around to witness that.
Speaking of space, Voyager is now 'one light day' from Earth,One light day is about 16billion miles, so not exactly around the corner.
Only took the thick end of 50 years at 40,000 mph to achieve.
I know that space is fairly large,It would only take a few of them to collide and create a good bit of space junk. Then it would end up like a motorway collision in fog. The more that got hit, the more junk to destroy others.
With respect Yer Onner, and in my defence, this is a metal machine containing rotating parts, gears and grease, and powered by mains electricity. Therefore I propose that it should belong in MY domain.Take no notice of Jaime. I've heard rumours that Putin has got pictures of him in an apron and pink marigolds.
What pisses me off is the media spending about six hours telling us about an ageing nonce being arrested, then dragging in various 'experts' to tell us all about it, whether they really know anything or not.It's what they do. I'm still watching the same vehicles coming through the same gates as I was yesterday on the one o'clock news today.
As I have a load of different passwords for various things [and I can't remember them all] I set the forum to remembering me,which it does on my laptop. It also used to recognise the same on my mobile phone until I recently changed my phone[but kept the same sim card/phone number]and now it doesn't recognise me on the phone. I've tried the reset password route and it says an e-mail has been sent but yet that's not arrived.So given I can't remember my password how do I set about linking back to my phone?Without remembering/resetting your password, I can't see any way to log in on your phone. Make sure the reset email hasn't gone to spam or another folder.
There is a certain satisfaction to be had from getting old appliances working again...... like our boiler from 1999.There's probably only you and, maybe, two others on here that remember WW2.
Make do and mend was the slogan during WW2.
I believe James May is into this sort of thing.
