JeffR Posted December 29, 2016 Share Posted December 29, 2016 Been rather seriously ill for a while with viral pneumonia followed by good old fashioned bacterial pneumonia ( man have you seen the range of antibiotics they try these days Doxycycline results in weird hallucinations by the way?, more importantly have you seen how big the bloody tablets are...) so ain't been up to much with land rovers. Mind you I have seemed to have acquired rather a lot of VW Passats (1 pd130 estate , 1 seriously tuned PD130 Highline estate- that really goes, 1 90hp estate and quite a few Golf pd130's, don't know why, but that's life I guess. Hope to get ate least one of the Landrovers back on the road next year, but as my lungs are kinda partially knackered, it's gonna be a slow job on me tod. So whats been happening while I've been ill? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mo Murphy Posted December 29, 2016 Share Posted December 29, 2016 Welcome back Jeffers old chap, I hope you're recovering well ? Mo Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JeffR Posted December 29, 2016 Author Share Posted December 29, 2016 (edited) Ask me that again after the next round of X-rays! Must surely glow in the dark by now..... Have a major confession to make God it's nice driving a car that does good mpg, has heating that heats, lights that light, accelerates, and heated seats, mind you the tuned estate car is an absolute hoot (160hp) - not sure how long the traction control is going to last and the tyres for the 20inch rims DO NOT last long. Still soon to be a New Year and hopefully better health- been ordered to take more exercise so got a part time job in a garage. Edited December 29, 2016 by JeffR 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Happyoldgit Posted December 29, 2016 Share Posted December 29, 2016 I wondered where you'd got to Jeff, glad to hear the horse tablets are doing the trick Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Simon_CSK Posted December 29, 2016 Share Posted December 29, 2016 4 hours ago, JeffR said: Have a major confession to make God it's nice driving a car that does good mpg, has heating that heats, lights that light, accelerates, and heated seats, mind you the tuned estate car is an absolute hoot (160hp) Jeff Hope you are on the mend. Completely understand where you are coming from. My Disco has been in the garage since February and blew the head gasket on my Range Rover in October. had a hankering for a Mini Cooper Convertible and bought one.....Great fun to drive. Drove the Range Rover on Monday for the first time in a while and boy was it strange. The Mini is fun but totally useless for my two Weimaraners so in the process of fixing the Range Rover. Will get the Disco back once I have the Range Rover sorted and will get that fixed too given that the garage is struggling lol. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
western Posted December 29, 2016 Share Posted December 29, 2016 Hi Jeff, good to see your still around & back in this mad house lol, take it steady. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Daan Posted December 30, 2016 Share Posted December 30, 2016 Good you are back. We had Brexit, you can't buy a new defender anymore and we will have Trump as US president. Nothing else much happened..... But you probably knew all this already. Happy new year, Daan Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
duncmc Posted December 31, 2016 Share Posted December 31, 2016 Take it easy. I had pneumonia back in 2013 I think.....it takes longer to recover from than you think. It knocked me for 6 for a good 3 or 4 months....and I was a very fit chap back then. So, don't do too much too soon. Get well soon though. I also know what you feel to drive a car, and one that is faster. I currently mainly drive a Kia Rio 1.0 thing with 74bhp and BOY is it slow!! It makes the wife's freelander seem really quick! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JeffR Posted May 25, 2017 Author Share Posted May 25, 2017 OK so it took a hell of a lot longer to recover than I thought, combination of drugs/antibiotics/steroids I ended up taking kinda upset my kidneys and threw me into a serious bout of depression..... So nowt got done on any of the land rovers. Then the wife decided it would be a good idea to destroy (and I mean completely and utterly destroy) the clutch on the family Passat. Three hours to remove the baked on friction material from the flywheel and the pressure plate was a better blue colour than Holland and Holland can get on a presentation shotgun. I suppose pushing 190bhp and 400ft lbs thro a standard clutch was asking a bit much. So got a load of bits arriving from YRM to sort out the blue 110, should be up and running by the end of the summer with a bit of luck Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bowie69 Posted May 25, 2017 Share Posted May 25, 2017 Welcome back Jeff Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Davo Posted May 25, 2017 Share Posted May 25, 2017 I feel for you, since one year ago about the same thing happened to me. Bloody hell, those drugs they give you! It took me a couple of days to work out that the insides of my eyelids weren't supposed to have bizarre movies playing on them! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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