Suspension sinks on Sundays! C5 X7 that works hard + 206 GTi HDi (and 406 Coupe and 306 HDi). - MattBLancs

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mickthemaverick wrote: 01 Jan 2025, 18:59 You mean you haven't got one of these Matt? :-D
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Nah, lifting wheelie bins etc is part of my gym membership substitute :-D
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MattBLancs wrote: 01 Jan 2025, 20:32
Nah, lifting wheelie bins etc is part of my gym membership substitute :-D
:lol: :lol:
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Airport run, as mentioned here viewtopic.php?p=825545#p825545
And a couple more frost pictures - washer jets with pretty additions
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They look like little baby hedgehogs :D
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Snow man + snow dog
Snow man + snow dog
Saturday snow playing
Snow slipping off the solar panels
Snow slipping off the solar panels
Made quite a thump!
Overhang, viewed from bedroom window
Overhang, viewed from bedroom window
Barely any snow here.
-6°C forecast for overnight, brrrrrr!
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Off for a trailer trip this afternoon:
Grey 308, trailer plus load
Grey 308, trailer plus load
Down to near Stoke. Acoustic Rockwool. Trip not bad going down but coming home traffic matrix signs said "60 minutes delay" then worse still "M6 closed" argh!
Diversion (A556 then M60 and then M61) unsurprisingly quite busy, but not a great issue.

Surprised how many "Sunday Drivers" were on the roads! I might have a maximum of 60 mph with trailer in tow but I caught up and overtook at least a dozen bumbling along well below that! :zzz: :zzz: :zzz:

Chip butty tea and then get togged up to unload the trailer - it's cooling down (2°C apparently but feels chilly)
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MattBLancs wrote: 12 Jan 2025, 19:53 Surprised how many "Sunday Drivers" were on the roads! I might have a maximum of 60 mph with trailer in tow but I caught up and overtook at least a dozen bumbling along well below that! :zzz: :zzz: :zzz:
Guilty as charged m'lud :twisted: Judging by how *everybody* always seems so desperate to pass me I must fall into that category!

When travelling along any urban dual carriageway every vehicle following me moves into the right-hand lane and jostles to pass me :roll: I find the general aggression of many drivers these days quite unnerving and intimidating to be absolutely honest.

I'm just driving within my (albeit limited) capabilities and I don't consider I'm driving as slowly as most of the traffic seem to think I am...

I'm soon off to take part in the MK 6AM Grand Prix along the road to Tesco. It's utterly manic :evil:
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Wholeheartedly agree, a lot of folks do seem quite aggressive in how they drive. Tailgating is my particular annoyance, there's just no need for it. I am not part of your crumple zone!

The "middle lane brigade" were also very much out in force yesterday, more than once I'd to slow a little in my (near empty) lane 1 so as to avoid undertaking a line of tailgaters in lane 2. "Ah, but it's the fast lane!"
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I will (if the lane I am in is clear) overtake on the inside lane. My attitude is that, as I am not weaving across lanes and the lane I am in is clear, I can proceed at an acceptable speed.
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MattBLancs wrote: 13 Jan 2025, 08:21 Tailgating is my particular annoyance, there's just no need for it. I am not part of your crumple zone!
Oh gosh yes Matt and humungous SUVs love to do that to me in my AX... And there's a big problem in that, especially at night but often by day too, as I'm so low their retina-searingly bright lights shine straight in at just the wrong angle and it's like being in the centre of a nuclear reactor...

They're blissfully unaware of the problem they are causing...

And they are also unaware they'd find an AX a very poor crumple zone :twisted: :lol:
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CitroJim wrote: 13 Jan 2025, 09:35 And they are also unaware they'd find an AX a very poor crumple zone :twisted: :lol:
I'd have to take issue with that Jim, I reckon an AX will crumple exceedingly well!! :-D
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mickthemaverick wrote: 13 Jan 2025, 10:26 I'd have to take issue with that Jim, I reckon an AX will crumple exceedingly well!! :-D
Too well Mick, not dissipating enough energy to stop a moron in an SUV! :-D
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P.s. agree about the high mounted headlights of SUVs (and vans) - not good. Similar experience in the Coupe sat nice and low.
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mickthemaverick wrote: 13 Jan 2025, 10:26
CitroJim wrote: 13 Jan 2025, 09:35 And they are also unaware they'd find an AX a very poor crumple zone :twisted: :lol:
I'd have to take issue with that Jim, I reckon an AX will crumple exceedingly well!! :-D
:lol: :lol: Yes, just like a crisp packet!
MattBLancs wrote: 13 Jan 2025, 13:49
mickthemaverick wrote: 13 Jan 2025, 10:26 I'd have to take issue with that Jim, I reckon an AX will crumple exceedingly well!! :-D
Too well Mick, not dissipating enough energy to stop a moron in an SUV! :-D
Indeed, how much energy does it take to crumple a crisp packet? :lol:
MattBLancs wrote: 13 Jan 2025, 13:59 P.s. agree about the high mounted headlights of SUVs (and vans) - not good. Similar experience in the Coupe sat nice and low.
The latest ones are so bright now I really wonder how they are legal. And on that topic the design of some lighting clusters make indicators almost invisible...

There's a Tesla that has rear indicators the size of pin-pricks. And then cars where the design of the DRLs obscure the front indicators and makes them indistinct... I've seen some near-misses because of them...

Lighting legislation is now a joke... Form over function and then some :evil: Some big thick brown envelopes must have been freely exchanged in the process of certifying them.
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Agree, there's very poor light designs out there. Agree also on the indicators being too close to the headlamps (or brake lights) in many instances too!