Your fleet running reports

[Sundayjumper]

Drive onto a couple of bits of wood first. Simples !

[V8Granite]

Jag is due back tomorrow. It went in to the garage on 9th Jan, to weld both sills and the engineback near the uprights (bit of fabrication required for that), fix an O2 sensor and change the diff oil.

I'm guessing £1200.

Can we have a group LOL please?

Good luck with £1200.... Reminds me of my W124 going away for about 3 months, at least they had the excuse of a lockdown and members of staff leaving so they could care for their kids at home

Amateurs, 15 months here

Dave!

[Beany]

Drive onto a couple of bits of wood first. Simples !

I had to do this with the BMW when doing the brakes, although it was only half an inch I needed.

Time to invest in a super low trolley jack?

[mik]

Also, purchased 20mm spacers for the 4C a few months back....the car is far too low for any of my jacks, and with the points being a good 8 inches inboard, it'll catch on the jack arm even if I can get it under. I need to jack the car up to allow me to jack the car up. Jackception.

This is why I just pay people to do things for me.

One of the Evora jack pads is like this - I have to jack up the rear a smidge to get to the front one.

AKA I too am too stoopid to use @integrale_evo ’s trick.

[Sundayjumper]

Right. That’s the first leak identified. I’m not convinced that that’s the whole story though.

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[Jobbo]

Minor update: noticed the drive cable on my Honda Izy was a bit frayed when I was mowing last weekend so ordered another this week. Just fitted it. Easy enough to fit (the Youtube videos all seemed to show people taking off the covers underneath but that wasn't necessary). £25 for a bit of bowden cable is reassuringly expensive but if it lasts ~14/15 years like the original I won't complain.

[DeskJockey]

Galaxy has quietly turned 10 years old and sports 105k miles. Nothing further to report. Still starts, stops, drives and does everything asked of it without fuss (ignoring last year's coolant related CEL blip).

We celebrated it by not remembering the day or washing it.

[tim]

Jag Update

Holy shit! It's nearly done. Welding/fabrication all done, just low idle emissions issue (90% sure this is one of the O2 sensors) and a diff oil change, MOT and back.

[Sundayjumper]

Drive onto a couple of bits of wood first. Simples !

Or do it all posh like with some of these. They achieve exactly the same thing as the bits of wood.

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/233599763820

[Beany]

Also useful if you don't regularly just have bits of wood offcuts hanging around.

[Gwaredd]

Also useful if you don't regularly just have bits of wood offcuts hanging around.

Real men always have offcuts of wood. How else will we board up our windows if a tornado comes?

[Swervin_Mervin]

Also useful if you don't regularly just have bits of wood offcuts hanging around.

Real men always have offcuts of wood. How else will we board up our windows if a tornado comes?

Real men have so many offcuts of wood it will take 20mins of sifting and thinking to find exactly the right piece(s) for using for such purposes. And then you spend another 20 mins trying to find the right piece to use between the jacking point and the jack.

[Sundayjumper]

Real men have so many offcuts of wood it will take 20mins of sifting and thinking to find exactly the right piece(s) for using for such purposes. And then you spend another 20 mins trying to find the right piece to use between the jacking point and the jack.

Damm right !

But the satisfaction when you find you have EXACTLY the right piece. Priceless.

[V8Granite]

Real men also know that a scrap piece of wood that one day perfectly fits a task now needed of it is like having an orgasm in the open.

Defender is now on 250,500 miles and going strong.

It needs a good scrub and new steering arms and ball joints, plus a new a frame ball joint because the rubber has perished. The joint is still fine but looking at the fixings I’ll fit a new greaseable one as I’m pretty sure it does not want to be removed.

Dave!

[speedingfine]

Jag Update

Holy shit! It's nearly done. Welding/fabrication all done, just low idle emissions issue (90% sure this is one of the O2 sensors) and a diff oil change, MOT and back.

Honestly thought you might have it back! How much longer do they want it Tim?

[tim]

BIt of a kerfuffle yesterday, the battery died. They couldn't revive it, so at 4.45pm they called me and said it needs a new battery. I only bought it in September last year, a month before it got parked up. From then until Jan it sat on my drive on an optimate, but I guess has sat for 3 months with them doign fuck all.

Either way I went and collected it, hoofed it up to Halfords and they swapped it for a new one there and then. I've just taken it back to the garage, and they're continuing today. He thinks it might have an inlet manifold leak, so doing a smoke test.

No ETA, but it's gotta be this coming week now I would think.

[Sundayjumper]

No ETA, but it's gotta be this coming week now I would think.

Is anyone running a sweepstake on this ?

[DeskJockey]

No ETA, but it's gotta be this coming week now I would think.

Is anyone running a sweepstake on this ?

It would be obvious to do so, but cruel to poor Tim. Bag of revels says it'll be after Easter.

[Sundayjumper]

I like how you say “Easter” but cunningly don’t specify which year you mean

[tim]

No ETA, but it's gotta be this coming week now I would think.

Is anyone running a sweepstake on this ?

It would be obvious to do so, but cruel to poor Tim. Bag of revels says it'll be after Easter.

This whole saga is so ridiculous, I'd join the sweepstake.