What have you done today thread?

[Taipan]

The weird thing is the SDV6 is successful in other applications, but not in the Range Rover! Theoies vary and arguments are passionate, all I know is it put me off of owning one. I moved to Velars and then read about balance shaft issues...

I reckon there's not a car on the market where you couldn't find a forum full of people complaining about some "well known" and "common" issue or another. The reality is they probably represent 1% of owners or something.

I'd probably agree with that, but the SDV6 crank snapping is a very real issue and has incredibly remained unfixed by JLR for over 12 years! It's actually quite an interesting subject to read up on, because the same engine in Jags and Peugeots doesn't have the same problem and no one really knows why it only happens across the LR range? But yes, the number of failures against production numbers would be quite small but most certainly significant.

[Mr. Dazzle]

It's because Land Rovers are cursed, everyone knows that.

[Count Steer]

It's because Land Rovers are cursed, everyone knows that.

Just don't name one Christine.

[KungFooBob]

I once looked at TD5 Discos.

The stories of the oil pump drive gear falling off the end of the crank put me off a bit.

[Mussels]

I have an SDV6 with no problems at all apart from the fact I don't like it. I had a V8 a few years ago with the same bhp, the V8 was much nicer.
I find the SDV6 has a narrow rev range where it makes decent power, this means loads of gear changes and possibly stressing it too much in a 3 ton car.

[Potter]

Old V8 4.4L petrol engined Range Rovers are cheap now, the potential for a massive bill and outrageous fuel costs puts people off.
It drives lovely, as far as I can tell everything works, the bloke said he couldn't afford to insure it any more, the cheapest was north of two grand and most wanted three grand because he was young, whereas now we're over fifty I got fully comp for £350.

We'll see, it fits all of us in for trips nicely, it's expensive to run but for the miles we do when we're home it won't matter.

[Scotsrich]

Mr’s S was 65 yesterday.

I was looking for somewhere nice to take her for lunch and I remembered discussing the Fazenda restaurant in Edinburgh. They have half a dozen scattered about the UK.

It’s described as an authentic Rodizo dining experience. Basically they bring big skewers of meat to your table and carve slices off directly onto your plate. I think there’s a choice of 8 different cuts at lunchtime. Any number of sides that you want.

You have 2 hours to eat as much as you want/can and they keep coming back and offering more cuts. A carnivores dream.

It was great and certainly a different dining experience. Not cheap if you throw in drinks, sweets and coffee at the end but an experience nonetheless.

[Potter]

Mr’s S was 65 yesterday.

I was looking for somewhere nice to take her for lunch and I remembered discussing the Fazenda restaurant in Edinburgh. They have half a dozen scattered about the UK.

It’s described as an authentic Rodizo dining experience. Basically they bring big skewers of meat to your table and carve slices off directly onto your plate. I think there’s a choice of 8 different cuts at lunchtime. Any number of sides that you want.

You have 2 hours to eat as much as you want/can and they keep coming back and offering more cuts. A carnivores dream.

It was great and certainly a different dining experience. Not cheap if you throw in drinks, sweets and coffee at the end but an experience nonetheless.

We've been to a few of those, they were very popular some years back, we always went in starving and expecting to ruin them, but ended up eating a lot less than we thought we would. The trick is they take their time, you're supposed to savour the event talking with friends and you eat a big dollop of meat as soon as they come around, then chat away and twenty minutes later when your brain has registered that you have food in your belly you feel full.

[Potter]

I've spent all week grafting, moving stuff and gardening, my hands are in bits. I'm an office wallah now and my hands aren't used to any sort of physical work, so I've got little cuts everywhere and they're very sore. I might have to hand my northern man card in and become a southern poofter.

[v8-powered]

I've spent all week grafting, moving stuff and gardening, my hands are in bits. I'm an office wallah now and my hands aren't used to any sort of physical work, so I've got little cuts everywhere and they're very sore. I might have to hand my northern man card in and become a southern poofter.

Same here - 4 days of solid decorating plus a day of lifting and shifting ready for the flooring guy, including moving a slate bed pool table, my legs and hands and in pieces. Looking g for the hand cream as we speak, I've gone soft (or softer still as a southerner!)

[Horse]

Make gloves not wor (n out hands)

Edit: and it never ceases to confuse me why people don't use strap-ons
knee pads

[Felix]

Mr’s S was 65 yesterday.

I was looking for somewhere nice to take her for lunch and I remembered discussing the Fazenda restaurant in Edinburgh.

Did you go to George St. We keep going in to meet my sister and Bil for a meal and use a different restaurant each time. I picked Fazenda once but my sis never fancied it as she eats so little and thinks it wont be VFM for for her. Wife and me keep meaning to go ourselves.

[Count Steer]

Mr’s S was 65 yesterday.

It was my Mrs S's birthday too. I bought her a frog.

(From geckoman).

[Scotsrich]

Mr’s S was 65 yesterday.

I was looking for somewhere nice to take her for lunch and I remembered discussing the Fazenda restaurant in Edinburgh.

Did you go to George St. We keep going in to meet my sister and Bil for a meal and use a different restaurant each time. I picked Fazenda once but my sis never fancied it as she eats so little and thinks it wont be VFM for for her. Wife and me keep meaning to go ourselves.

That’s the one we went to.

Mrs S and I don’t eat much either as a rule and it definitely wasn’t how you’d define value for money. 2 settings plus a shared sweet and coffees was about 90 quid including tip. I had 60 quid in credit on my card from refunded duty from the handbag I bought her in Barcelona so it wasn’t quite as painful as it might have been. You’d need to have a health appetite to get VFM.

I will say the staff were all great. Mrs S likes her beef and lamb blue and although they don’t officially do it that way they made sure she got the rarest meat they could get out the kitchen. We were stuffed full after they’d been round half a dozen times.

I’d say go got it.

[Taipan]

Went to the Dentist to get my crown glued back on. But it can't be done as its snapped the part of the already broken tooth it was attached to. Options are removal and live with a gap or an implant at C2.5k!

[Pirahna]

Went to the Dentist to get my crown glued back on. But it can't be done as its snapped the part of the already broken tooth it was attached to. Options are removal and live with a gap or an implant at C2.5k!

Time for Turkey teeth.

Two people I know had work done in Hungary at this place

https://kreativdentalclinic.eu/en/

[gremlin]

Went to the Dentist to get my crown glued back on. But it can't be done as its snapped the part of the already broken tooth it was attached to. Options are removal and live with a gap or an implant at C2.5k!

Time for Turkey teeth.

Two people I know had work done in Hungary at this place

https://kreativdentalclinic.eu/en/

I'm saving that link. I lost a tooth last year and was told by my expensive-enough-thank-you-very-much dentist that in implant was expensive, if they could do it. If not, they'd refer me to a specialist, who was really expensive. Think 'new bike' expensive.

I now have a gap.

And no new bike either.

[Yorick]

Many years ago I needed a new crown. Quoted about £500. Enquired who they bought the crown from. It turned out that it was initially sourced from a lad who just turned out to be Penny's brother. One free curry later and I had a shiny new crown.

The dentist's face was priceless when I turned up with my own crown for him to fit

[Noggin]

Had a tough 3 hour french class then drove for an hour and a half to see a gyne. She couldn't really help, so that sucked. Just got to keep on keeping on and accept that getting old SERIOUSLY sux big ones

French lesson was good tho!!

[MrLongbeard]

sux big ones

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Ahhh fuck it, Fnarr