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Does he not fall of the seat when reaching for the pad :-) We use ram mounts at work in the form of a bar that runs from screen pillar to screen pillar with half a dozen displays fastened to them with the standard ball mounts and I agree they are very solid. What I did is a ram ball joint screwed to the hard shell of an Otter box defender case which the ipad then clips into - makes for a solid mount and very protected. I find the ipad (or any tablet) better as you can get out and take it with you.. sometimes I stop and walk a few km up a ttrack to a site to see if its drivable and the map with me is handy. Only need limited function out on the road really. HTH

I may have read this wrong ( and that wouldn’t be a first ) but I think he's after a multi point lubricator not a flood cooler for the cutter though? The one on my lathe is a hand pump that feeds a manifold with a dozen or so outlets.

Used to start my old works MK with a small newspaper fire , never failed. I used to wait till my mate had half finished his crossword puzzle :-) Easy start in tiny quantities is handy as a diagnostic tool though ( I use brake cleaner ) I had a Daihatsu that needed a bit of heater to get it to start and the heater on that was a wire element in the inlet manifold, it drew about 30A so unless the battery was tip top you got maybe one go at starting it. That one would fire if the aluminium casting was warmed with a gas torch so only needed the air temp raised a few degrees.

Not just you! I got stuck into a nice bottle of red and she caught me as the highest bidder on a Bedford turntable ladder .. fortunately I was outbid and she took the laptop off me.

yep - I just stuffed myself on ebay, with postage the individual part is three times the cost of a new one! It was my mistake entirely cos I looked up the wrong part number initially. So my two second hand door handles will cost me six quid and two new ones would have been just under 4 quid.. I suppose there would have been a bit of vat and postage .. and its only a few quid. I'm looking for a nice TDI bonnet and I know e-bay isnt the place to look

oil filter on top of engine, just slacken it so it can breathe but not spray hot engine oil in your face ;-) good luck , its a simple engine and it will run once you sort it..

I have mine set to quite a short range, just by the car is fine for me. I found a set of keys in ASDA car park once. I wandered round blipping for a few minutes till I found the car and then asked customer service to announce the reg number. Driver turned up a few minutes later, never said thanks nor kiss my *** - just took them and walked off. Nice society we live in ..

I've seen a bit of excess back pressure ram the damper pistons up when the choke opens and the mixture goes mega rich.. if you loosen the oil filler cap and see whether it changes. But it looks sounds like something air related not fuel or mixture setting

Have a look at what the damper pistons are doing when you close the choke - is it possible there is some restriction in the air tract and are the engine breathers clear. Disconnect the breather from the rocker to the carb and see if it changes.

its in a recess (alloy wheel I think) so not sure a spanner will get on the nut. If its a steel wheel prob could have got a grinder on the nut anyway.

If you have a deep socket now you might get it to shift. All that heat from drilling and the material removed will have made it less stuck! Push the tang of an old big file trough the hole in the back of the socket into the stud and hold it still with an adjustable spanner, then try to turn the socket on the nut with mole grips. Use your judgement here, dont snap the tang off in the hole!

I suppose you wont know till its off but I suspect the soft alloy spacer is not going to take a new stud anyway?

Did they raise their prices and did they get approached by the customer for a service, I dunno? Point is a wedding isn't exactly a life and death emergency. However unpalatable it could have been postponed. Charging 95 quid to tug an ambulance out of a flood wouldn't be a good thing. I'm not saying it was a good or bad business decision but it certainly wasn't a rescue !

I think the reporting is a little one sided, they are a business not a volunteer service. If they got called and asked to turn out to provide transport, I guess if they agreed to terms upfront then who is to blame?. It does smell like a little later on , after they no longer needed the help they then started to think about the amount of money. I wonder had the wedding limousine simply broken down if they called a taxi firm would they have got free transport? As the day and events unfolded maybe it turned out slightly different than they expected. Living and operating in a rural community is all about helping one another and expecting to be helped when needed. I've spent many many hours towing cars out of ditches and helping stranded motorist but equally I've had a fair bit of help in return. Certainly not a pro rata rate as I tend to be better prepared than most ( cos it's part of the type of work I do ) but I've been grateful for assistance. If it's bad weather and someone needs help I'm not going to drive past and I'm not going to seek payment but I might have gate crashed the reception :-)

I wonder how many rolls of mig wire were wasted on that?

I'll stick with my 90 and if I was 30 years younger and a bit more likely to bounce I'd have a bike.. I still have a place in my life for a Polaris RZR.. there that’s petrol .. sorted!

The current implementation maybe poor but a hybrid isn't necessarily inefficient for the reasons you mention. A small engine running at a constant design speed could be a very efficient way of generating the power for an electric traction motor, the batteries simply provide a short term store for getting the mass moving. The wide range of speeds an electric motor can deliver very usable torque means it can be more efficient than the losses in a transmission. It 8could* all be quite efficient and to be truthful very nice to drive. But IMO they aren't there yet. On a wider matter its always made me grimace when people talk of emissions - my 300TDi is in a good state of repair and maintenance and it does maybe 1500 Miles a year. Now my Hilux is a far cleaner and modern design but it does 25000 miles a year ... which one hurts the environment? - excluding the 'neither' argument as its all a load of none sense invented by (insert your own green character here) with nothing else in their lives! If the way to persuade people to change fuel types isnt going to be done by moral blackmail its going to be done by taxation as usual, how is heavily taxing a low mileage car due to its poor(er) emissions caused by fuel choice a fair system.... But we all know this I guess /RANT_OFF :-)

The repair operations manual doesn’t even suggest exhaust cement, just clean it and dry fit.

Just had confirmation that the windows in brother in laws commercial Isuzu is a body coloured very thin aluminium sheet bonded to a plastic substrate. I reckon it wouldn't be hard to copy that

Its interesting to see the differences in regs throughout EU - here in Norway we take a brand new top of the range LandCruiser, take the back seats out, fit a dog guard and put green plates on it. At the end of three years we stick it all back to normal and sell it as a car. As its a top of the range car it commands a very high price. It *almost* costs you nothing for three years motoring.

Certainly our Prius ( we had two ) never did anything like the mpg that Toyota claimed. One had the ass ragged of it from day one and the other was driven like a .... and they did exactly the same mpg .. almost to the decimal point. In terms of emissions from cold - I suspect they are better as then warm up period is very short and the typical urban stop start stuff is mainly electric. Of course me suspecting something and facts are not the same at all.

I had a ride in a Mitsubishi 4x4 hybrid a few weeks back, an on board 1.5L petrol charger and the benefits of electric driving - it seemed pretty good to me. With all the subsidies and gizzits from the dealer it had convinced the Welsh farmer ( a Yorkshire farmer with no charitable traits )

I'm sure it will be ok, the only reason I mentioned is it reminded me just how shocked I was at the difference in flex between the two chassis types ( '76 RRC v '85 90 ) the deeper chassis rails certainly flexed less. I wonder if the Discovery chassis is closer to the RRC or the 90 in terms of flex? I have a retirement project in mind ;-)

My Discovery commercial was a four door with side windows, they were just a very very dark tint. You couldn't see anything through them although you could observe sun spots through them, so there was some light transmission.

The rules are clear, the intent is clear, when I asked DVLA (as was) for their guidance it was clear. No amount of well meaning but ill advised posts on an enthusiasts forum or retailers websites changes that. The only thing seeking official clarification will do is reduce wriggle room for those pushing towards and beyond the edge. Myself, I think the system is quite ridiculous and does nothing to stop the illegal tax free defenders and Porsche Beetles. It only serves to cause the odd sleepless night for the real , generally honest enthusiast. Of course in the event of being caught short of points anyone could challenge the conclusion of a VOSA inspection or a DVSA ruling in court, thats really the only way we will know who is right. My pockets are not deep enough for that.