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- Sun Feb 21, 2021 9:53 am
- Forum: Rant and Rave
- Topic: What is it with oil
- Replies: 13
- Views: 203
Re: What is it with oil
I think part of it will be personal opinion surely? One 'specialist' might say only use 20/50, another may say only 10/40 and the last will tell you to leave him alone and put WD40 in it for all he cares - I would imagine if you are an 'expert - however that is defined - you would still end up disa...
- Sun Feb 21, 2021 9:48 am
- Forum: Rant and Rave
- Topic: A nice day at last!
- Replies: 10
- Views: 137
Re: A nice day at last!
A good deal milder today with some sunshine too so a good excuse to throw the cover off the 2.8 and give it a run up. It's not going anywhere for a while yet though especially as half the dash is out whilst I look at the tape deck! https://i.postimg.cc/CKBjhbtx/DSC-0400.jpg Hi Peter, Quick question...
- Sat Feb 20, 2021 7:10 am
- Forum: Rant and Rave
- Topic: What is it with oil
- Replies: 13
- Views: 203
Re: What is it with oil
I was thinking about this the other day actually. The Focus and the two Fiestas were all built within three years of each other (give or take) and all take a different grade of oil. The Focus takes a (pricey!) 0W-40, the ST200 takes 5W-30 and the MK8 takes 5W-20. Fortunately the ST200 is fine on 5W-...
- Tue Feb 16, 2021 2:35 pm
- Forum: Q & A
- Topic: Underbody clean up - 2021 recommendations
- Replies: 15
- Views: 287
Re: Underbody clean up - 2021 recommendations
Garden railings don't tend to flex Hi Martin, hope you're keeping well. Garden gates do flex/spring quite a bit, especially larger ones and/or those made with thinner material. Certainly, double gates I used to have at one point sprung and flexed quite a bit. A neighbour has a single gate covering ...
- Tue Feb 16, 2021 8:45 am
- Forum: Q & A
- Topic: Underbody clean up - 2021 recommendations
- Replies: 15
- Views: 287
Re: Underbody clean up - 2021 recommendations
I am not such a fan of the paint on Waxoyl as it always seemed to go harder and then be liable to crack and let moisture in under it. The same would possibly apply to Hammerite. Garden railings don't tend to flex like the body of a car would, so may give a slightly false impression. Everyone will h...
- Fri Feb 12, 2021 8:55 am
- Forum: Q & A
- Topic: new old stock timing belts
- Replies: 44
- Views: 4728
Re: new old stock timing belts

I appreciate this may be difficult to believe, but he’s actually alright in real life!
- Thu Feb 11, 2021 12:40 am
- Forum: Q & A
- Topic: new old stock timing belts
- Replies: 44
- Views: 4728
Re: new old stock timing belts
I’m really pleased this thread was resurrected as I’d missed it the first time around!
- Thu Feb 11, 2021 12:20 am
- Forum: Rant and Rave
- Topic: Don't make adverts like this anymore...
- Replies: 9
- Views: 179
Re: Don't make adverts like this anymore...
Thats because they never made adverts like that, its a parody :whistle: Then I'm happy. But are you sure? America is a land of unlimited possibilities. :lol: Tom No not real! But if it was, it's still ok to be happy, because its the past and we can bathe in the great strides of progress we have mad...
- Sun Feb 07, 2021 10:49 am
- Forum: Rant and Rave
- Topic: Capri sat....
- Replies: 21
- Views: 239
Re: Capri sat....
They’re lucky the wheels haven’t been stolen. Actually, on second thoughts.... 

- Wed Feb 03, 2021 7:26 am
- Forum: Rant and Rave
- Topic: You have been warned
- Replies: 28
- Views: 559
Re: You have been warned
I’m no leftie (as many of you are aware!) but Tom and Hamish both make valid points. I’ve no idea where we’re heading as a society, are the clowns in charge simply incompetent beyond belief or do they actually know exactly what they’re doing? Who knows, but either way the future doesn’t look particu...
- Sun Jan 31, 2021 8:52 am
- Forum: Rant and Rave
- Topic: Mulled wine..
- Replies: 7
- Views: 180
Re: Mulled wine..
In my last year of Uni I shared a flat with a Spanish girl. Her friends were coming over one evening so I made (a large quantity of) sangria. Me being me I used a 14% Malbec and rather over did it with the Bacardi.... The result was that I got to spend the evening with five thoroughly inebriated sen...
- Sat Jan 30, 2021 11:58 am
- Forum: Rant and Rave
- Topic: DeLorean: Back From the Future
- Replies: 8
- Views: 220
- Sat Jan 30, 2021 8:43 am
- Forum: Rant and Rave
- Topic: DeLorean: Back From the Future
- Replies: 8
- Views: 220
Re: DeLorean: Back From the Future
I have seen a couple of doco,s on the story, what a drama and at the end of it all there was only this unattractive ,poorly performing ludicrously expensive kit car . Its only real point of difference (and dont nobody pipe up about the flux capacitor neither 😁) is the stainless body fascards. Its l...
- Fri Dec 25, 2020 8:19 am
- Forum: Rant and Rave
- Topic: Happy Christmas to all.....
- Replies: 12
- Views: 584
Re: Happy Christmas to all.....
Happy Christmas everybody!
- Thu Oct 15, 2020 3:21 am
- Forum: Rant and Rave
- Topic: Another Capri spotted
- Replies: 10
- Views: 652
Re: Another Capri spotted
Got to be!Peter-S wrote: ↑Wed Oct 14, 2020 11:19 pmIs it this?
https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/1971-Ford-Ca ... SwJTZdoA6l
- Sun Oct 11, 2020 4:51 am
- Forum: Rant and Rave
- Topic: Capri scrappy
- Replies: 9
- Views: 492
Re: Capri scrappy
I wonder if they banger them? It’s certainly an odd (but good!) find, it would be interesting to know the story.
- Wed Sep 23, 2020 6:36 pm
- Forum: Rant and Rave
- Topic: User names
- Replies: 10
- Views: 566
Re: User names
Fiona has a niece born in 2001.... I mean get your head around that, BORN AFTER THE YEAR 2000! I didn’t realise such people existed. Add that she can legally come to the pub with us and, well, I just feel ancient! :lol: Ah, she must be one of them there 'my-linoleums', or something like that? Or is...
- Wed Sep 23, 2020 10:13 am
- Forum: Rant and Rave
- Topic: User names
- Replies: 10
- Views: 566
Re: User names
Fiona has a niece born in 2001.... I mean get your head around that, BORN AFTER THE YEAR 2000! I didn’t realise such people existed. Add that she can legally come to the pub with us and, well, I just feel ancient! 

- Sat Sep 19, 2020 12:57 pm
- Forum: Rant and Rave
- Topic: Happy Birthday Danny
- Replies: 6
- Views: 396
Re: Happy Birthday Danny
Happy birthday! 

- Sat Sep 19, 2020 11:13 am
- Forum: Rant and Rave
- Topic: God help us?
- Replies: 12
- Views: 745
Re: God help us?
Regarding the reliability (or lack of) of the test and therefore infection rate data, this is the Health Secretary’s little ‘slip up’: https://mobile.twitter.com/JuliaHB1/status/1306919831950766086?s=20 The methodology for calculating false positives does indeed appear correct, it’s what SAGE use an...