Footage of the fight... Perhaps...

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Skub wrote: ↑Wed Nov 20, 2024 5:13 pm Anyone admit to being Gravelmagnet (2nd) and AbelinoGussi (3rd)?

Yeah, I was wondering that as well...

The prize for hardest-working van of the year must go to the 71 plate Peugeot Partner van with 340k on the clock. Being 71 plate it would be registered in August, so only a little over 3 years old. 110k miles per year!

Chapeau...

The die is cast, the runes have been thrown and the van is booked in at AW Eng for mid -December.

The feelthy baby murdering diesel will continue to stalk the highways and byways of this fair land in search of fresh meat.

Or something.

A cabbie recently told us the best engines he'd ever run were 90s diesels. Most of them achieved starship mileages with no engine work. He reckons cars are much more unreliable today with so many needing engine work as well as multiple sensor failures, DPF issues etc. Exactly that ^^^ I've owned th...

As a former car dealer i can tell you loads of people try and slyly p/x knackered cars, but it doesn't mean we take them. Private sales are often more dodgy with no legal comeback either. Bottom line is always take a vehicle on its own merits before you trust its service history. and owners reason ...

Even for a red bike it is very red.

MyLittleStudPony wrote: ↑Tue Nov 19, 2024 5:30 pm Oh well, out of one frying pan, into another frying pan.

Owning an old vehicle. Goes with the turf, innit?

Hasty conclusions... :D 1. Harmony will be in short supply in the Lenovo garage well before halfway through the season... 2. If Yamaha can put a half-decent bike under him, Fab Frog will challenge 3. Pecking order is hard to establish at this point, apart from Ducati being a step ahead of everyone. ...

loads of car hire places in Blackburn. My mate is from that neck of the woods and has a T4 - i could ask him about the guys you're taking it too if you'd like? #edit - I see they are a diesel specialist not a T4 specialist :-) Yeah, I'd like to hear an independent view of what they're like. Having ...

Looking more like an Adv bike every day...

OK, I think we may have A Plan. I spoke to a guy I know who runs an engineering shop in Clay Cross and he suggested I ring AW Engineering in Darwen, as they are T4 specialists and will either supply and fit a recon engine or will fit a new cylinder head and gasket to my block. They do all the recon...

OK, I think we may have A Plan. I spoke to a guy I know who runs an engineering shop in Clay Cross and he suggested I ring AW Engineering in Darwen, as they are T4 specialists and will either supply and fit a recon engine or will fit a new cylinder head and gasket to my block. They do all the recon ...

Just had confirmation from another source that £2k-£2.5k for a head gasket repair is a fair price. Not many garages even want the work, as it's time consuming and ties up a ramp and mechanic for 3 or 4 days.

ZRX61 wrote: ↑Tue Nov 19, 2024 1:53 pm

mangocrazy wrote: ↑Tue Nov 19, 2024 12:35 pm @ZRX61 mate, Biden lost. You really need to get over it.

You do realize what this thread is about... right? Perhaps stop reading it if it upsets you so much.

That was actually meant as a joke, but never mind. The only thing I'm currently upset about is my van blowing its head gasket.

That's a lot to stick into an old van IMO. Yeah, take your point. Probably time to step back and see what the cost to change will be. If I had a clear preference for a replacement it might be an easier choice, but I don't. I've got until spring 2025 before I actually need a van (we have a car for g...

weeksy wrote: ↑Tue Nov 19, 2024 1:18 pm Lol I'm all good with whatever you do

So now you're going to be nearly £6000 in repairs this year??

It's looking that way. I think it might be wise to put it in for an early MoT before I proceed with the head gasket fix tho'...

To add to the pricing equation I should add that this calendar year I have spent £2300 on the van (new radiator, gear linkage rebuild, timing chain, water pump, new rocker cover and sundry gaskets/o-rings to fix oil leaks, new door linkage mechanism) so if I were to scrap the van now I'd be kissing ...

@ZRX61 mate, Biden lost. You really need to get over it.

I've always suspected that the head gasket was the root issue, but allowed myself a little bit of hope when they said the radiator had a leak. That hope has now been extinguished and I'm back to considering options. But at least I'm doing it from home in Sheffield having made the journey back with a...