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V8Granite wrote: ↑Thu Jan 31, 2019 9:24 am

So only use the good stuff if you have a proper sports car like me.

Dave!

CAR magazine’s Best Handling Everyday car of 1999

Did yours have the concrete block fitted at the back Dave ?

unzippy wrote: ↑Thu Jan 31, 2019 2:37 am Just as a counterpoint, Thurs hit 44C, dropped to 30C over night and Friday hit 45C - it was fucking brutal. My eyeballs dried out cycling home.

21C today, delightful!

No snow today but nippy

lolz I remember a car being described as sounding ‘like Brian Blessed being raped’ but I can’t remember who said it and about what. Probably Clarkson. He said something similar about the noise of the gear linkage on his Alfa GTV6 collapsing and getting wrapped round the prop. He's 'used' Brian Bles...

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Appears to be. I bunged a new air filter on it and it all looked nice and clean and solid. Also bunged some muppet sidelights in it because why not. I had similar on my old 330 when there was an almost imperceptible split in the rubber hose allowing a bit of unmetered air in when cold On my 2.5 - i...

Oddness this morning. Was waiting for the car to warm up and demist, so I gave it a couple of prods of the throttle to get the engine working - nothing silly, just wee blips up to 2k. Which it then carried on doing itself. I gave it a bit more to 'push' past where it was revving to, and it would re...