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The chap who does most of the crank rebuilding in the UK posted this.
The bike was in for an engine rebuild and was found to have a bent conrod which had been hammered 'straight' by some gorilla.

The thing is,the bike was still running,albeit a tad roughly...

It'll be reet

Felt sorry for my gf car and changed the oil for her. Its 2012 yaris with 80k miles and had a genuine oil filter. Shes never had it serviced and it was one owner when she bought it ao presumably the last time it had an oil change was when the dealer did it probably 20k miles ago. The oil came out as black aa sin (petrol). Poor car. Ill do it again in 1500 miles. It only takes about 3.7 litres or something

porter_jamie wrote: Tue Mar 10, 2026 3:56 pm Felt sorry for my gf car and changed the oil for her. Its 2012 yaris with 80k miles and had a genuine oil filter. Shes never had it serviced and it was one owner when she bought it ao presumably the last time it had an oil change was when the dealer did it probably 20k miles ago. The oil came out as black aa sin (petrol). Poor car. Ill do it again in 1500 miles. It only takes about 3.7 litres or something

That's nothing, my inlaws put 80k miles on a Kia Rio 1.5 diesel... didn't service it once.

I had a Talbot Sunbeam 1300 that I did over 40,000 miles in without any servicing, used to drive it from Ipswich to Sheffield and back every weekend, forgot about servicing it, the engine was fine, what killed it was the suspension and steering wearing out, I can't remember how many miles it had done when I scrapped it, but over 100,000, the body was fine and still solid, it was a 1979 car and I must have scrapped it in 1992, it probably had a second life as either a banger or a rally car.

Village idiot I knew bought an H2 from another village idiot in spite of multiple warnings not to buy it. It was running on two pots & there was an odd smell.

The smell was traced to the fur burning off the tennis ball stuck on the conrod in the middle cylinder.

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