Routy56 - can you just....

[Furniss]

Ill be keeping the wagon another year ......................just paid 60 fecking euros plus vat for 2 X Fuel filters from the dealers... useful reminder not to let the service kits run low
We should have a "how the f**k do they arrive at that figure" thread

 

[Routy56]

View attachment 22938Ill be keeping the wagon another year ......................just paid 60 fecking euros plus vat for 2 X Fuel filters from the dealers... useful reminder not to let the service kits run low
We should have a "how the f**k do they arrive at that figure" thread

Wow - that should be the price for a box of 10
Remind what Wagon you run - thought it was a Discovery?
I have a filter cabinet in the workshop and usually have a good stock of the usual filter stuff.
This include all my plant machines, car out of warranty and cars that belong to our family
Usually get my plant filters from Ricoeurope - think they cover France buddy?
Next to the filter cabinet, I have an oil cabinet, with all the usual oil, grease and fluids.
The larger drums (20-25litre) are stacked in the corner
Been using Opie Oils of late for complete oils and filer kits.
Where we live it pays to have a small stock of the stuff

 

[Routy56]

Probably worth close to what you paid n all then atm.

That's good to know - when I bought it new, the local stealer, had to be screwed down by a price match deal.
Got to save about £5k on what they first asking

 

[Routy56]

I thing I paid £1550 for the Iveco 2 years ago, engine rebuild last year and some welding for the mot. It will be around until it dies completley.

Guess I should have kept my old Iveco

 

[Routy56]

I spent 200 on the brakes on my 05 van in Feb. Bloody thing is going to have to give me at least another 5 yr now! Triggers broom

Love doing brake servicing - give yer a smug satisfaction of being able to stop
Have bought some caliper rebuild kits and new flexibles for Sharon's 'new' MG TF.
Feel a dose of red paint coming on
A few months ago I bought 2 x new brooms. Good old fashioned ones.
Got to make sure that SWMBO does take them for circuit and bumps around the garden

 

[Furniss]

Wow - that should be the price for a box of 10
Remind what Wagon you run - thought it was a Discovery?
I have a filter cabinet in the workshop and usually have a good stock of the usual filter stuff.
This include all my plant machines, car out of warranty and cars that belong to our family
Usually get my plant filters from Ricoeurope - think they cover France buddy?
Next to the filter cabinet, I have an oil cabinet, with all the usual oil, grease and fluids.
The larger drums (20-25litre) are stacked in the corner
Been using Opie Oils of late for complete oils and filer kits.
Where we live it pays to have a small stock of the stuff

Just a little 7.5T hookloader nothing special.
The stores at the yard are usually stocked with a service kit for each piece of plant - but Brexit has meant a change of plan that I havent sorted yet, for over 15 years I bought all my service kits from the U.K, nothings getting through on pallets etc so I need to sort it this end which will no doubt cost me a lot more.
BMC suggested yesterday that he gives me my money back for some buckets they made up for me as he sees no chance of getting them to me any time soon

 

[Routy56]

You know how we all like doing a site visit - checking out access and method to do a job etc. Well today popped over to see an old friend who want his front lawn digging up for a gravel parking area
But guess what he had lurking in the garage....

... Harley Davidson Road King - 21 years old and immaculate
Looking forward to doing this job real soon

 

[Jimoz]

You know how we all like doing a site visit - checking out access and method to do a job etc. Well today popped over to see an old friend who want his front lawn digging up for a gravel parking area
But guess what he had lurking in the garage....
View attachment 22940
... Harley Davidson Road King - 21 years old and immaculate
Looking forward to doing this job real soon

For sale?

 

[V8Druid]

used to be my philosophy too ..... cheap and cheerful .... ran SDs for many years and had a huge pile of spares in me yard.... drove well, comfortable and towed like a train with the ol' V8 up front . ... sold my last EFi Vitesse in '14 and again, have regretted it since, along with me two classic RRs.
even if/when they gave trouble, i knew my way around them with my eyes shut and had masses of spare bits ... swapped to classic RRs when all the bloody cameras started springing up round here and the SDs were gonna kill my clean license

 

[Routy56]

For sale?

Unfortunately not - he loves doing stuff with his bikes. There's even a Honda V twin being restored in the garage
Crisers are not my thing really. More a Sports/Tourer guy. Last one was a ZZR1200, but I may start looking at ZZR1400s

 

[Routy56]

used to be my philosophy too ..... cheap and cheerful .... ran SDs for many years and had a huge pile of spares in me yard.... drove well, comfortable and towed like a train with the ol' V8 up front . ... sold my last EFi Vitesse in '14 and again, have regretted it since, along with me two classic RRs.
even if/when they gave trouble, i knew my way around them with my eyes shut and had masses of spare bits ... swapped to classic RRs when all the bloody cameras started springing up round here and the SDs were gonna kill my clean license

Yep - think I told you that we had the SD1 Vanden Plas back in the day. Towed the old tintent all ver the UK when our children were growing up.
Even now I still look at those for sale - but they are going up in value fast

 

[Smiffy]

used to be my philosophy too ..... cheap and cheerful .... ran SDs for many years and had a huge pile of spares in me yard.... drove well, comfortable and towed like a train with the ol' V8 up front . ... sold my last EFi Vitesse in '14 and again, have regretted it since, along with me two classic RRs.
even if/when they gave trouble, i knew my way around them with my eyes shut and had masses of spare bits ... swapped to classic RRs when all the bloody cameras started springing up round here and the SDs were gonna kill my clean license

That's why I like old vehicles anything goes wrong can be bodges back together
My 03 ranger I could completely rewire from scratch if need be
But modern stuff even a couple of years later has a computer to do everything one little gremlin and it no longer works
I understand why we need efi for fuel consumption but wtf do we need electronic door handles boot openers and even handbrakes
I wish you could just buy poverty spec vehicles but even the base models are now brimming with gadgets

 

[V8Druid]

Yep - think I told you that we had the SD1 Vanden Plas back in the day. Towed the old tintent all ver the UK when our children were growing up.
Even now I still look at those for sale - but they are going up in value fast

2.6 or 3.5 Dave?
have had a few of the V8VDP EFi,s ... nice but the climate control in 'em were a PITA and much preferred the cloth trim, over the leather, TBH ....

as said earlier ... regret outing my last Vitesse, but could only keep so much (and Pam didn't love it like I did) ... have lost count of the SD,s I've owned .. were a VERY under-rated chariot... had my first one in 1980 - RPO 718S - have always liked big motors.

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sadly that is a different graham with the top bid

and WTCC champs for several years in the 80s
never underestimate an SD1

 

[V8Druid]

and this is why I stopped using my 230hp Vitesse

it just begged to be driven

 

[Jimoz]

Unfortunately not - he loves doing stuff with his bikes. There's even a Honda V twin being restored in the garage
Crisers are not my thing really. More a Sports/Tourer guy. Last one was a ZZR1200, but I may start looking at ZZR1400s

I'm not into them but all the guys at the pub are bikers. One of them has the largest collection of v max spares in the UK. Spent his redundancy buying all that crap up over 10 years ago.

 

[fred]

and this is why I stopped using my 230hp Vitesse

it just begged to be driven

i recently shifted my m140 for same reason, 350bhp in a go cart is a licence loser.

 

[TiltyShaun]

and this is why I stopped using my 230hp Vitesse

it just begged to be driven

I have an odd early childhood memory. I am certain we never had one of those. But am I right in thinking they done a 3.5 V8 on the wedge pile of poo called the Princess. I have this odd memory of looking over the bonnet with my Dad doing some work on one side of the engine with the other side untouched.

 

[Routy56]

and this is why I stopped using my 230hp Vitesse

it just begged to be driven

Oh YES - mine was a big fcuk off V8
You gotta stop encouraging me - I know I'm gonna get another one

 

[V8Druid]

I have an odd early childhood memory. I am certain we never had one of those. But am I right in thinking they done a 3.5 V8 on the wedge pile of poo called the Princess. I have this odd memory of looking over the bonnet with my Dad doing some work on one side of the engine with the other side untouched.

nah .... the wedge in Princess form was 1800, 4 pot...... but they did also put the 2.2 straight six in some of 'em, like they did with the Wolsely six land crab ... then went to Ambassador with a tail gate and a 1700/2000 O series motor.

the 2.2 motor was a good puller, but thirsty.
I liked the first wedges and had a few of 'em ..... never had an ambassador though.

Are you thinking of the old rover P6 V8 Shaun ....... after they went was only the RR, SD1 and the TR8 that carried Mr Rover's (Buick's) finest 8 lunger. aside from the likes of TVR, Marcos, etc.

 

[V8Druid]

Oh YES - mine was a big fcuk off V8
You gotta stop encouraging me - I know I'm gonna get another one

in a heart beat .. if i found the right body shell - a non rotten one - sadly most of me voluminous spares collection went with my last Vitesse and binned a lot of the heavy stuff - flywheels, axles, struts, discs, callipers, props, g/boxes, injection systems/manifolds and about 20 engines. .... was the go to man for bits in my area for a long time ... had the room