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Post by valhalla on Mar 19, 2024 22:12:09 GMT 1
I might go quiet for a while over the weekend - no bad thing, I guess.
It's a car to fetch, and it's a long story which I can tell when/if I get it all back. The problem is that the car is in West Sussex (almost in East Sussex), has no paperwork (that's part of the story), and therefore needs trailer-carrying home. Via Derbyshire, to pick-up lumps of Defender chassis-repairs for later this year.
I'm ready to roll on Friday early-hours silly o'clock, but my first-stop in Hampshire has a complication now......
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Post by Rhubarb on Mar 20, 2024 7:30:30 GMT 1
Have fun
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Post by chippie on Mar 20, 2024 8:05:58 GMT 1
Safe journey Mr Valhalla… Tell us all about it on your return….
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Post by Roverman on Mar 20, 2024 8:27:15 GMT 1
If you are passing any where near Sheffield call in for a cupper or some thing stronger, always well come, not far from Richards chassis
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Post by Joepublic on Mar 20, 2024 11:35:08 GMT 1
We need clues for the object car with missing paperwork? Keep the shiney side up
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Post by Noberator on Mar 20, 2024 12:16:08 GMT 1
Safe journey. There was a closure last weekend of the M25 between junctions 10 and 11 in both directions. Don't as yet know if it's planned again this weekend as no news yet.
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Post by Rhubarb on Mar 20, 2024 15:17:35 GMT 1
Safe journey. There was a closure last weekend of the M25 between junctions 10 and 11 in both directions. Don't as yet know if it's planned again this weekend as no news yet. All the work was done and completed last weekend
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Post by chippie on Mar 20, 2024 15:22:03 GMT 1
As I understand it from the news..( laughable..) the works were completed ahead of the scheduled down time….
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Post by rhyds on Mar 20, 2024 16:59:33 GMT 1
Aye, M25 at Wisley is all sorted.
I'd be wary if you're around the M42/M6/NEC area over the weekend mind, the Practical Classics Restoration Show is on Friday-Sunday so might cause a bit of traffic nonsense
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Post by OldGit on Mar 20, 2024 23:25:35 GMT 1
Enjoy the trip - I'm in Derbyshire if you need anything 'adjusting' on the way through
I'm also planning my own travels, although only about 1000 metres, not the 1000km's or so you'll be doing! The local VW dealer has a vacancy for an 'old git' - they mentioned that they have a very young set of filter-spinners and need someone with experience to 'give guidance and steady the tiller', well I guess they couldn't find anyone suitable so settled for me! We finally agreed terms today so I'll be giving Inchcape the good news tomorrow, TBH, the Merc. side have lost the plot in the last six months, I've never known such a quiet March - we've been running out of work most days anytime after 1400 - 1430 most days. Partly down to the last few years having supply issues with new cars, partly due to internet sales being nationwide, so we won't see the warranty or servicing work we would for local sales...
There's also the 'challenges' of moving to the Agency model, where salesmen have been replaced by young hipsters who's idea of upselling is to ask 'do you want fries with that?', know nothing of the product and only interact with their iPads.
I'll miss the place for it's freedoms, but won't be sorry to leave due to it's frustrations - mainly the replacement management and the increasingly obstructive parts monkeys.
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Post by valhalla on Mar 20, 2024 23:32:39 GMT 1
Aye, M25 at Wisley is all sorted. I'd be wary if you're around the M42/M6/NEC area over the weekend mind, the Practical Classics Restoration Show is on Friday-Sunday so might cause a bit of traffic nonsense I'm hoping to sail around the M6 Toll road on Friday night. Money well-invested, even with a trailer, as I reckon it knocks 25minutes off the journey even in the middle of the night.
Because of my connection in Hampshire going a bit pear-shaped, I'm not aiming to be down there until midnight, but all the same I'll still want to miss the M6 elevated sections if the weather or traffic is anything less than perfect, not least I'll have 6.7metres of trailer behind me. This part of the motorway network is well overdue a proper "fix" for silly design features in the surface-water drainage, that mean you aquaplane your way through the Midlands conurbations, rather than drive under any sort of control........
The car is a V70 P2-platform, of 2005 vintage, with low mileage. It's supposed to still be in good condition; when I last saw this car around 18months ago, it was pretty immaculate. I'm looking to acquire a P2 because I'm starting to find some parts are becoming difficult or expensive with my first-gen P80 V70's, and although I love them to bits, they are taking too much punishment on the roads up here for me to be fixing them every couple of months.
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Post by valhalla on Mar 21, 2024 22:33:10 GMT 1
Well, it's all lined-up outside the gate, ready to drive first thing in the morning. I managed to get rid of the last customer car out of the parking area, so I used what was left of the daylight to swing the whole lot out onto the road - I cannot do this if anything is within 20metres of the driveway....
Only "little problem" is a slow leak on the RNS tyre. It has been there since the tyre went onto the rim 3years ago, but seems to have got a bit worse this last couple of weeks. I cannot see anything in the tyre-tread, so it must be leakage at the beads. I'll take some spare valve-stem innards with me, just in case it turns-out to be that - and it gets worse again - but my theory is that once it is all rolling along some smooth roads, it ought to seat things a bit better on warm rubber. Hopefully it doesn't get "too warm"....
I reckon I'm losing between 2-3psi each day right now, so I've just over-pressured by "one day's worth" this afternoon......see how it goes.........It's a pity it isn't a front wheel, as that would bother me less with a trailer on the hitch, but I couldn't justify jacking the whole lot to swap them around, even though they are all the same tyres.
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Post by rhyds on Mar 22, 2024 15:24:18 GMT 1
Hope the trip is going well.
I've also had the fun and games of a slow puncture recently. Looks like a tyre on the V40 has caught a nail right on the edge of the tread, though fortunately its the most worn tyre on the car so while it is a pain, its not as bad as having picked one up on one of the decent tyres.
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Post by valhalla on Mar 26, 2024 23:42:16 GMT 1
Got back at 5:15am this morning.....I knew it would be a "long journey" and likely to be 3:00am, but I hadn't reckoned on BEAR Scotland closing not just one, but three critical roads to my travel from the Great Glen upwards. They do this for several reasons; firstly, it gets the work done just before the tourist-season, so the camper-vans can have a smooth ride, before they smash the place up, secondly it means that they can work through the night on better pay, and thirdly it stops the locals from traveling at a "quiet time" when towing is easier....
I took the high road over from Buxton to Maclesfield, forgot this was the one that has the "Cat and Fiddle" pub at the top.....and discovered that a Discovery2 TD5 Auto, without any real engine-braking, will quite easily cook its brakes when descending into town at close to maximum train weight. I knew the brakes had faded by the time I realised that there was barely enough retardation to hold the rig on the uphill traffic lights going out of the town again.
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Post by Joepublic on Mar 27, 2024 7:34:30 GMT 1
There's a few switchbacks on that road as well as being steep. I was in Congleton at mid day, so not too far away. I used to spectate road rallies around Goyt valley many moons ago
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