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Si, they're not too hard to weld up without distorting them. If you bring them up to me I'll tickle them with my MIG before you send them off, if you like?

That's fighting talk, that is. Do you want to step outside, into the ... umm ... Tools and Fab section. Bound to be a weapon handy in there.

I'd suggest you should get to like autos quickly!

Most wheel balancing places have two types of weights - clip-on rim ones like you have now, and strips of stick-on weights which they use on the inside face (pointing at the edge of the brake disc) on alloy wheels on posh cars. I've used these on my LR alloys and they've not fallen off. I suspect a lot of your imbalance is in the tyre, try turning the tyre on the rim to get a better combination where the tyre best balances naturally against the wheel.

Mark - go try both and decide what you prefer. I went auto and prefer it; you're welcome to come and drive mine if you want some first-hand experience.

Slightly OT, but can anyone explain to me why people fit a foot square of steel to antennae which are mounted in the middle of an aluminium LandRover roof, or even why the roof bar attached to 2tonnes of LR underneath it isn't enough for a CB ground plane?

Tray back, but one that bolts on and off so she can drive to work in a standard car. You realise this will end with two cars and one set of numberplates? Will three M8s be enough when you your navigator makes a slight error and you stack the car into one of James' trees?

I think we have a free market and it can work. Sure, Gigglepin were the first to sell a bolt-on twin motor conversion, but that's been out for a couple of years and the market moves on. Imitators will appear, and British law isn't what it could be to protect design work. The other side of this market is that if(!) Scorpion developed a widget we all wanted, they'd be free to charge what they wanted if nobody else could produce something similar, whether it's the idea or the execution that's protected. Jim, Simon et al will continue to lead the market by adding value in other ways - through their manufacturing knowledge (how about the lightest casing on the market, that'll break unless the manufacturer understands the metallurgy, Jim?), through their pre-sales and aftersales service, by involving customers in their development process, and so on. I'll get flamed for devil's advocate, and I am sorry to see your niche invaded, but I think you can keep moving the goalposts and work in other ways to control the market and continue to lead.

Yes, useful post and the first I've heard - I rarely buy the comics any more. My Ninety is showing 3499kg, so Class 7 or re-cert for me. What're the wider implications of Class 7 - different MOT criteria? Wider allowances? Any impact on towing with B-cat licence (ie no B+E trailer licence)?

I've got a bottle of replacement vacuum in the shed - do you want me to tip it into a Jiffy bag for you?

If arc shields are darker than gas shields, just take six and tape them together? Definitely sounds like one to try before you go though - don't want to be learning with your broken car and your only batteries etc if your life depends on it.

I expect the brakes can stop the car, under full power, once. I've just finished bedding some new pads in and they do exceed the engine power in my MG, even in first gear. However, if the panicked housewife at the wheel spends ten miles holding her speed down to a steady 50mph and THEN tries to stop, she might find that the brakes have stopped being able to dissipate heat any more - they're smoking strongly and badly faded, the smell's terrifying and NOW they won't stop her Jap SUV. That's my take on the whole thing. It's a bad day in the design office when you make an announcement that knocks 5% off a global company's share price though...

I don't know why, but I get the impression from the pictures that the ride's going to be rather hard, with very little suspension movement and a bouncy, pitchy motion on the road.

I'd just be fitting a changeover valve to the feed and another to the return, and forcing myself to remember to switch both when I change it over. Surely ganging switches, solenoids etc is just adding the potential for overflow. A balance pipe will help to offset that, but it'd be much better to switch both lines.

Mark - it seems you've got a number of offers to transport or store the wheels between Cheltenham and Bristol - it's not that far to drive anyway, I go from Wotton under Edge to Bristol every day.! Matt - if you're passing in an evening, you're welcome to a cuppa here...

I work just off the bottom of the M32, BS5. It'd take about twenty minutes from Aztec West?

Yup. I found why the road was closed too - snow on top of ice meant that someone had found the couldn't stop. And then someone else found he couldn't reverse back up the hill he'd just come down

Surely you just need a peg and cross-pin or similar. If you're worried about safety, demonstrate that the cross-sectional area is greater than the threaded portion of the M8 nut that holds a standard seat in and you're laughing? Anti-luce catches (a la tailgate)? How about a hinge on one side and a padlocked gate latch? Put the whole seat on a twist-lock pedestal with a big spring under it, so it can double as an ejector seat?

Mark, GL51 is Cheltenham. Her indoors has parents there, but we weren't going to visit too soon - I could pop up in a couple of weeks and then hold the tyres at GL12 for you? Doesn't save you much distance, depends how much of a hurry you (or he)'s in.

I agree with Mike and Matt - the time to having a usable tent is much more to do with your familiarity with the equipment than the design, and the pop-up tents are weaker to boot. I looked at tents for 2 weeks around Europe and took two identical £10 tents from Asda. Certainly not the best for typhoons, Iceland or the rainy season, but up in less than 5 mins each night and one's never been out of the bag, just carried as a spare. You won't truly appreciate good design until you've had to use the poles and pockets, and checked that you can get it back into the bag! If you're looking to buy long-term, why not see if anyone on here will lend you a recommended tent for a weekend? You're welcome to borrow one of mine Well done everyone for getting this far without any "getting it up" jokes

Beware about the multicar policy - confirm the state of play with no-claims bonus because I don't think you're building up two sets? I found that limiting the mileage gave me some sensible quotes, especially with the inbuilt leniency of LR odometers

I guess HFH's "Garfield mit Waxoyl" would be too hard to embroider, but everyone knows the story...

Flywheel loose, or the auto flex plate's broken? Does it change when you use the clutch (manual) or select a gear / neutral (auto)? Only speed related? Have you used a screwdriver as a stethoscope to 'see' whereabouts it's coming from?

I strongly suspect mine would benefit from similar attention. so this is well timed (and very informative, thanks Ian- can't you bodge something, just once, so we know you're human?) Is there a service kit of parts available for the MM?

Sounds like a good reason for a day out on Salisbury Plain...?