DIY Car Maintenance with function over finesse!!

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mickthemaverick wrote: 25 Aug 2024, 10:24 It would appear that sorting the Subaru back to useable wasn't such a good idea. Another NIP appeared yesterday advising that I had been doing 39 in a 30 in Marston Moretaine ! A fair cop as I thought that road was 40, just shows assumption ....etc. So I have written a mitigation plea and advised that I am now booked in to a course on 16th November following my C4 problem so its a suck it and see situation!! :? :oops: 8-[ :roll: :hb:
Oh Mick, I'm devastated to hear that :( I know the spot and it's so easy to get nicked along there... The speed camera is one of those newer low-profile ones and not so easy to spot as the old ones... Also, the 30 signs are not very well placed to be easily seen when turning into that road from Millbrook

I feel guilty as you were on your way to help me - sorry :oops:

Fingers crossed on the letter of mitigation...
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No need to feel guilty Jim, I was driving and it was on the way home from you, I had a feeling it may have got me at the time! Just not been a good few weeks which can only mean there are better ones to come! :-D
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mickthemaverick wrote: 25 Aug 2024, 17:58Just not been a good few weeks which can only mean there are better ones to come! :-D
That's a very good way of looking at it Mick ;)
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A special video for blue AX owners :-D

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I do like that an AX is so light, it needs not a lot more than the weight of the frame, given a little mechanical advantage, to get the car off the ground! :)
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Love that! Yep, The most basic AX - like Strawberry - weighs just 640Kg'ish. Bluebell is a bit weightier as she's the posh one with her central locking and electric windows...

Can't imagine it adds much though...

The reason I got a car port. An AX can blow away in strong winds!
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Isn't he using that back to front?
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Looking more closely, he's doing the sills no good at all!
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Gibbo2286 wrote: 26 Aug 2024, 16:14 Isn't he using that back to front?
I don't know that the top rail would clear the back of the car if used the other way??

CitroJim wrote: 26 Aug 2024, 17:06 Looking more closely, he's doing the sills no good at all!
Oh yes it's miles too far back! Needs the AX a bit nearer to the wall
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CitroJim wrote: 26 Aug 2024, 17:06 Looking more closely, he's doing the sills no good at all!
Looking even closer I think :?: ....it's a 106 8-[
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