Not a lot .. keep a few plants that need cover in there and currently storing the new patio furniture in there.
.... TBH it's either been way too wet or too bloody cold to do much the last few months ... neither used to bother me, but find it harder to ignore the older I get
there are issues that until resolved I don't want to share, (this is, after all, a public forum), which are the 99% main cause of not getting on ... you will all understand when it's sorted
I could suggest some solutions...but like you say it's a public forum...and no point ruining the element of surprise when things get combustive.there are issues that until resolved I don't want to share, (this is, after all, a public forum), which are the 99% main cause of not getting on ... you will all understand when it's sorted
Get one of these -https://www.amazon.co.uk/joyvio-Electric-Rechargeable-Waistcoat-Activities/dp/B09JM16HQ8/ref=mp_s_a_1_12?crid=3BQL6R650UKI5&keywords=heated+gilet&qid=1674591649&sprefix=heated+gi%2Caps%2C163&sr=8-12especially when the other days're usually crap
LMAO .... funnily enough, was looking at summat like that on some website the other night .. so they'm good are they Really good, much better than I expected!
took some getting out after a youtube search of HTF to get at it ... and a flat spot on a rear tyre, which took it below the wear indicators everywhere else on its circumference -- rest'd do another K yet ... pair ordered, whilst stood beside the MOT man, for the morning (couldn't get 'em for today) oddball size on there .. stopped when I'd finished ... she is a very lucky girl 
dozer knob has a rubber 'pimple' -- with sod all under it ... may need some investigation, but Ollie said it had always been just the rubber 'pimple' ..... @Gunners ????? .. ever seen said lamp illuminate B4??Two speed tracking optional on 8015 looking at the manual. Switch is on dozer lever
It's obviously a generic dash, they do suffer from water ingress, one of my old machines used to do similar, I just pulled the fuse for it and it went away (a case of it was wired into loom but wasn't actually fitted)
cheers Alex ... suspected as much ... been pretty wet/frosty/etc. here of late
The knob that is on that machine Druid is actually off an old telehandler I had on hire years ago. All those knobs have either a button or a rubber blank as is the case with the 8015. I have the same dash in my 8026 and the rabbit illuminates with the twin speed tracking so that's defiantly what its meant for. But good luck trying to get the old girl to go any fastercheers Alex ... suspected as much ... been pretty wet/frosty/etc. here of late
Sounds like you sold him a dud!!The knob that is on that machine Druid is actually off an old telehandler I had on hire years ago. All those knobs have either a button or a rubber blank as is the case with the 8015. I have the same dash in my 8026 and the rabbit illuminates with the twin speed tracking so that's defiantly what its meant for. But good luck trying to get the old girl to go any faster
5 min, 5 mile warranty Shaun - both long expired
That much warranty!! Very reasonable!5 min, 5 mile warranty Shaun - both long expired
Not a lot .. keep a few plants that need cover in there and currently storing the new patio furniture in there.
as for winter blues .. sort of ... have the kids 2 / 3 days a week so hard to get anything done, especially when the other days're usually crap
Bit rude, did he not pay you in full or something?!The knob that is on that machine Druid
Hmm!
) - and went home ...... but!! .... wasn't taking any chances and kept the thing live whilst I swapped 'em over .. be just my luck for it not to be and took some getting at ... couldn't lift the pole clamps as they were ... anyway - new one in, all functional (other than pissing off the infotainment ctr. [somehow]) job for Vicki to re-set that lot .. ..... ...It’s the abs sensors reading different speeds. Increased radius of new tyres can set them off in the same way a reduced radius of a deflating tyre can apparently.bit of a day yesterday ..... Vicki's car still with me - she has our Golf - ready to go get it booted and return for a re-test ... Stuck Clara in it at 08.45 for the school run ... jumped in and pressed the go button - NADA
(I'd had to jump it the day before after Pam'd had all the doors open on it, for a good two hours cleaning the insides and assumed all the interior lights'd dragged it down ... so it had plenty of running at high idle for a good twenty minutes once started and started fine after I'd washed it off)
legged it up a box, grabbed a battery and leads, connected up and away first touch
Walked Clara into school, a little late, hopped back in - you guessed it - NADA
Rang me local battery guys ... two options, even with the reg. no. ... four of each in stock "see you lunchtime, got to come into town for tyres - you can have a look at it --" no numbers on the damned thing
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jumped it again (took battery and leads with me - me no daft
Jumped it again at 12.00 and headed for town .. by the time I'd gotten to the battery guys they'd had a.n.other look and the option of two was now down to just the one, which went in the boot ... along with an oil and air filter for it .. looking at my oil change mileage written under the bonnet, I couldn't believe Vicki'd done 11.5k since I did it last
Jumped it and went off for some new rubber.
yeh you guessed - jumped it and went home with some new boots installed..
wallet seriously depleted
110 quid for a battery, can't recall the odds for the filters and another 170 bucks for two boots
Got home and tooled up to change said box of lectrickery ... was told that removing it from circuit should be ok
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obviously an original fit job -- all the leads were cable tied to the tray
quick coffee and off to collect Clara.
Was very happy when it started down at the school to come home
So .. next Tuesday's gonna be -- wrestle and air box off the top of the motor (was a little bar steward last time) ... and give it a lube change ... along with (if they've arrived) a new set of Mintex discs and pads on the arse end
passed the rolling road fine and can't understand why -- had said to Chris (the MOT guy) that I'd be well surprised if it did, looking at them through the wheels on the ramp (drove fine though) ..... outer 60% of discs, both sides, rusty as a badger's bum - only acting on the centre 35-40% of the disc -- as if the outer 60% of the pads were missing - really weird wear -- will get some pix when I do them ..... looking forward to seeing what the bloody pads look like ???
In anticipation of this little task (and remembering what a bas**rd of a job the one side of the Golf had been, middle of last year) I also ordered this ...
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which arrived this morning ... can't for the life of me see HTF they can do 'em for the 20 quid it cost ...
only a cheapy I know, but it ain't gonna be used daily, much like the cheapo swivel joint puller I had to do the P38's front swivels. Money well spent for the very limited usage it'll get -- shudder to think what a Sykes set'd cost
so, all in all, 's been a 'spensive couple of days
was saying to Pam this morning, yer average currently 'struggling' family'd've been up against sorting this easily, as an unforeseen expense on top of the usual monthlies ....
mounts up bloody quick and especially if you had to pay on top, for someone to sort it for you.
I dare say I'm not alone in wondering HTF the average inept/non able/incapable average Joe manages to get along, having to have to resort to having EVERYTHING done for them, from changing a plug, upwards -- must be horrendous, not being able 'to do'
final Q for anyone that has any idea -- HTF do the wheels 'talk' to the car's dash and tell you the air pressure in an individual tyre has changed ???????
happened the last time I changed a pair of tyres on the front, back last October? half a mile from the tyre guys and the dash is telling me there's a tyre losing pressure (one of the newly fitted ones) ...
checked 'em when I got home - fine - 2.5 bar -- new valves and dust caps fitted with the tyres - looked at the rims, when the tyres were off (remembering October's experience) and no visible sensors in them ..
HTF does it communicate????