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Anderzander

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  1. Blimey - look at this summary from the BBC web site of what's happened to the UK car manufacturers:

    Aston Martin: Extended Christmas shutdown and 600 redundancies. Three-day week

    Bentley: Three-day week in October and longer Christmas break. Closing Crewe plant for seven weeks from March. February announced 220 job losses and 10% pay cut.

    GM (Vauxhall): Extended Christmas closure and 40-day shutdown

    Honda: Four-month shutdown between February and May

    Jaguar Land Rover: Series of one-day shutdowns and production cuts late 2008 plus 1,000 redundancies planned

    Mini: Christmas shutdown extended by 10 days. 300 agency staff let go and one week shutdown planned for February. From March, plant will run five days per week, from seven, and a further 850 jobs to go.

    Nissan: Two-week shutdown late last year and 1,200 redundancies. One shift on each line stopped until April 2009.

    Toyota: One of the night shifts suspended. Four non production weeks planned

    Ford: 850 jobs to go by May

  2. Its easy ....

    A Range Rover is a snobs car

    An old Range Rover owner is someone who aspires to a snob

    A very old Range Rover owner is someone who thinks snobs are knobs

    A Defender 90 is a Man's car

    A series is an old man's car

    A 110 is Man who's almost old and who feels he should be practical's car

    Any discovery is a Man's wife's car or someone who practically isn't a Man's car

  3. The headlights on my 90 are used almost exclusively on unlit country roads - and illuminate the road comparably to the lights on the RX8 I got rid of - which had those Xenon HID things.

    Not as white or intense perhaps - but being higher up they have a better spread and still plenty bright enough.

    Maybe they were upgraded before I got it? If so it'd be the only mod the truck had done.

  4. Does it say how you should let them know?

    ie does sending the V5 back with the box ticked for change - and giving a new cc and engine number enough? would they then either just accept the changes or prompt you for more information - or is the onus on you?

    Because if the onus is on you it doesn't specify that on the V5 that you should do more than notify then through its use.

  5. (If you're talking about the TD5) then just buying the blanking plate isn't enough to get a proper set up.

    Just fitting a blanking plate will still leave a hugely restrictive butterfly still in there - and there are different ways to deal with the vacuum pipes too.

    Check out this web page for info.

  6. If you alter the suspension you aim to increase travel on both the compression and the rebound stroke. Increasing compression travel effectively moves the wheel further up into the arch, if this is combined with fitting larger tyres you can run into clearance issues.

    So if you fit +2" shock mounts on your wheel will move 2" further up into the arch (assuming the spring doesn't become coilbound beforehand). If your tyres also are 2" (for eg) bigger then your looking at 4" in total. I'm not sure how much space you have from standard though - as I've yet to measure up or find the info on here anywhere.

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