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[Field Marshal Dr. Opti]

I had a Garelli that would piss all over a Fizzy, Honda  SS50, or Suzuki AP50.

With 6.2 BHP from 49cc it was a rocket ship.

[Field Marshal Dr. Opti]

If memory serves it had a 'chrome bore'......no idea why.

[ronnyd]

My missus had a little Honda PX, looked like a trails bike but not really off road friendly.  She used it to do her 'home help' round.  She loved it. The daft thing about it was it had a double seat but no rear foot pegs. She did quite a few miles a week around the Suffolk country side.

[Kevin Wood]

That looks like an XE to me.

You'd be correct.

My mate at school had a Puch Maxi. Our maths teacher's wife knocked him off it in her Morris Ital outside the school one evening and he was so embarrassed he rode off home without the exhaust, which I picked up and returned to him later.

You seemed to have had many encounters with Morris Itals in your past.  I wonder if that helps explain why you are like you are, they have scarred you for life.  I'm sure there are solicitors who advertise on the telly who can help you with compensation for the psychological marks left upon you

Nope. Those scars don't heal, as I'm sure you're aware.

[Kevin Wood]

.. and I now know whose expertise to call on when I cba to investigate the rattle under my parcel shelf.

[Field Marshal Dr. Opti]

That looks like an XE to me.

You'd be correct.

My mate at school had a Puch Maxi. Our maths teacher's wife knocked him off it in her Morris Ital outside the school one evening and he was so embarrassed he rode off home without the exhaust, which I picked up and returned to him later.

You seemed to have had many encounters with Morris Itals in your past.  I wonder if that helps explain why you are like you are, they have scarred you for life.  I'm sure there are solicitors who advertise on the telly who can help you with compensation for the psychological marks left upon you

Nope. Those scars don't heal, as I'm sure you're aware.

If you have PTSM from an Ital imagine how the victims of the humble Marina must suffer....

[Sir Tigger KC]

I had a Garelli that would piss all over a Fizzy, Honda  SS50, or Suzuki AP50.

With 6.2 BHP from 49cc it was a rocket ship.

I had one of these when I was 14-15 as a field bike, and had a lot of fun scrambling it around the farm. 

Drove my Old Man nuts though.    Can't imagine why?   

[Sir Tigger KC]

That looks like an XE to me.

You'd be correct.

My mate at school had a Puch Maxi. Our maths teacher's wife knocked him off it in her Morris Ital outside the school one evening and he was so embarrassed he rode off home without the exhaust, which I picked up and returned to him later.

You seemed to have had many encounters with Morris Itals in your past.  I wonder if that helps explain why you are like you are, they have scarred you for life.  I'm sure there are solicitors who advertise on the telly who can help you with compensation for the psychological marks left upon you

Nope. Those scars don't heal, as I'm sure you're aware.

If you have PTSM from an Ital imagine how the victims of the humble Marina must suffer....

No PTSM here, nor PTSD.     Just fond memories!

It's a shame they stopped making them, as I reckon a modern Marina would be awesome!       

[TheBoy]

Nope. Those scars don't heal, as I'm sure you're aware.

Its a time of my life that I was always too hung over to remember. Fortunately.

[TheBoy]

.. and I now know whose expertise to call on when I cba to investigate the rattle under my parcel shelf.

Her's has fixed rear seats, they come out in about 10 mins, with most of that getting the right angle to get the seat back through the door.  IIRC, yours a proper folding ones, so the extra time to do the bolsters will be made up for by how easily you can get your back pieces in and out.

Not checked, but suspect once seats out of the way, shelf "carpet" bit will then come out in the same way as an Omega.


Oh, and have some of the purple clips spare for when you lift the door treads, as I broke one, so my job when I go downstairs is to check EPC

[TheBoy]

Both shocks now changed.  One of the studs on the NS also came loose, so that now uses a bolt as well.  As the interior was already out, it made it trivial.

I reckon next time I have to change them, I will get away with just the seat base, maybe seat back, and be able to get a spanner in to hold it.

[Viral_Jim]

Well done sir, that looked like a fuŁking epic!

As you say, hopefully next time (as and when that is) will be easier  .

[TheBoy]

Well done sir, that looked like a fuŁking epic!

As you say, hopefully next time (as and when that is) will be easier  .

The old ones are 7 years old, and genuine ones went on (currently no aftermarket options available), so hopefully will be another 7 years

As with other JLR vehicles, although it seems a drastic ballache to get to bits, they are designed well so that its dead easy to remove such things.  It took me and Mrs TB hardly any time at all to get it back together, with the hardest bit trying to get the rear seat back in through the door opening.  However, this does not forgive the shockingly (no pun intended) bad design decision to glue a stud in place that holds the shock mount - any spanner monkey is going to use a windy impact gun, thats going to break that glue...   ...then the interior has to come out.  Eedjits.

[Field Marshal Dr. Opti]

That looks like an XE to me.

You'd be correct.

My mate at school had a Puch Maxi. Our maths teacher's wife knocked him off it in her Morris Ital outside the school one evening and he was so embarrassed he rode off home without the exhaust, which I picked up and returned to him later.

You seemed to have had many encounters with Morris Itals in your past.  I wonder if that helps explain why you are like you are, they have scarred you for life.  I'm sure there are solicitors who advertise on the telly who can help you with compensation for the psychological marks left upon you

Nope. Those scars don't heal, as I'm sure you're aware.

If you have PTSM from an Ital imagine how the victims of the humble Marina must suffer....

No PTSM here, nor PTSD.     Just fond memories!

It's a shame they stopped making them, as I reckon a modern Marina would be awesome!       

I shouldn't mock the mighty Marina. Many moons ago I was gifted an elderly Princess 1.7 by a previous FIL, and actually liked it.

How sad is that...

[TheBoy]

Yes, but you like a Signum as well....


No hope for some!