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| d j hutton Member Since: 30 Jul 2009 Location: Dorset Posts: 1044   
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Seeing threads about dodgy hard to use gearboxes reminded me of some dodgy, skill less driving I've done
1) towing the tintent back from the lakes , stopped for coffee, after setting off again suitably refreshed thought the engine was struggling a bit and making a bit of a roaring noise. 15 minutes later realised I was still in 4th gear - fail! So that's what the rev counter is for! 2) again towing the tin tent, heading off to a game fair, thought I'd broken the gear change as I couldn't get top gear, then remembered that top gear was down instead of up in the 90 which only has five - fail again! So that's what the little grooves on the top of the gear knob are for, rather than just collecting dead skin and take away detritus! Anyone else a total dork or is it just me. DJ Ps - if anyone from the dealers is reading this - no it's not broken yet, 2 years 1 month to go  1989 200tdi 90 csw
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24th Sep 2012 10:08pm |
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| GREENI Member Since: 22 Aug 2010 Location: staffs Posts: 10382 
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Nice lad
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24th Sep 2012 10:15pm |
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| LandRoverAnorak Member Since: 17 Jul 2011 Location: Surrey Posts: 11324
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The wife of a friend of mine borrowed his V8 lightweight to go to work about ten miles away. When she got home she complained how rubbish it was as it wouldn't go above 50mph. It was, of course, in low box and I can only imagine the noise
 Darren
110 USW BUILD THREAD - EXPEDITION TRAILER - 200tdi 90 BUILD THREAD - SANKEY TRAILER - IG@landroveranorak "You came in that thing? You're braver than I thought!" - Princess Leia |
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25th Sep 2012 5:33am |
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| bm52 Member Since: 04 Apr 2010 Location: Kent Posts: 2189 
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First time I drove an S3 I wad stuck in low and couldn't work out how to put it in high. Did about 5 miles before I found the hi ratios.
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25th Sep 2012 8:23am |
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| tatra805 Member Since: 16 Aug 2011 Location: Dolany Posts: 436  
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Just 2 days ago
Transporting my small tractor back home in the horsetrailer. The loader has to stick out the back so i can close the trailer. Done it a million times. Backing up through the gate noticed resistance. thinking it was the auto-release reverse mechanism of the trailer playing up i engaged low to have a bit more power without additional speed. 5 attempts and 3 stalls later the GF came running out asking what was knocking the house so loudly.... Didn't realise the loader bucket was that high i was pushing the front wall above the gate of the house....
Another repair line added on the to-do list 
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25th Sep 2012 9:43am |
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| Go Beyond Member Since: 30 Jan 2012 Location: Headcorn, Kent Posts: 6678
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Not in a 110 but an 80 series LC, bored at having sat through two changes of traffic lights without moving, I engaged low box and front and rear difflocks, then the lights changed and off I went, very slowly and tried to turn left - FAIL - blocked the junction whilst 'unlocking' and then having to reverse up to make the turn
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25th Sep 2012 9:50am |
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| farmer giles Member Since: 09 Feb 2011 Location: worcestershire Posts: 1299 
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towing a site dumper on a double axle ifor trailer with my old series 111 diesel.
hitched up trailer and got dad to check trailer lights were working; i thought he had released trailer brake and he thought i had! Two mile down the road i couldn't understand why 4 gear was such a struggle; pulled over and got out of the vehicle and i could smell the problem! |
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25th Sep 2012 9:57am |
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| K9F Member Since: 12 Nov 2009 Location: Bournemouth Posts: 9610 
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I live on a busy main road and subsequently when I had a new front wall built had it shortened to make getting in and out of the drive easier. Got given a brand new 110 as a courtesy vehicle (my 90 was in for warranty work) not realising they had the turning circle of an oil tanker misjudged the turn into my drive completely, rush hour it was!....Traffic at standstill whilst I had to reverse and remake the turn. If you go through life with your head in the sand....all people will see is an ar5e!!
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25th Sep 2012 10:06am |
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| Pam W Member Since: 25 Oct 2011 Location: North Yorkshire Posts: 1169 
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Now, I know I'm a mere woman, but surely the key to knowing what gear you are in - and if you are in the wrong gear - is the engine note - you really shouldn't need to rely on a rev counter.
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25th Sep 2012 11:24am |
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| custom90 Member Since: 21 Jan 2010 Location: South West, England. Posts: 20367
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Pam - to be fair a lot of um' are probably getting on a bit in years and haven't got the best of hearing
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25th Sep 2012 11:33am |
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| LandRoverAnorak Member Since: 17 Jul 2011 Location: Surrey Posts: 11324
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Says the man with a speaker the size of a dustbin under his left elbow
Darren
110 USW BUILD THREAD - EXPEDITION TRAILER - 200tdi 90 BUILD THREAD - SANKEY TRAILER - IG@landroveranorak "You came in that thing? You're braver than I thought!" - Princess Leia |
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25th Sep 2012 11:36am |
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| The Boy Member Since: 28 Aug 2008 Location: East Northants Posts: 1459 
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What did he say? |
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25th Sep 2012 11:48am |
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| JWL Member Since: 26 Oct 2011 Location: Hereford Posts: 3443 
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It was watching an "All knowing student" on a farm I used to work on trying to work out how to stop the engine on an old Series we used as a run around
Just one of those things we take for granted, we haven't allways had stop solonoids on diesels and it's only in the last 30years that we haven't had to pull the stop button to turn the engine off
He thought it was the choke  and he wanted to be an agricultural mechanic  |
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25th Sep 2012 11:53am |
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| d j hutton Member Since: 30 Jul 2009 Location: Dorset Posts: 1044
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I know that , but as MrsH was gabbling away in the passenger seat and the liquorice all sorts were open I had more things to think about
Like I said there was a 'bit of a roaring noise' and 'anyone else a total dork' Fortunately these things never happen when MrsH is driving (apart from the trip round an off road course in the S3 with the handbrake on) Oh and I forgot to mention side swiping my gatepost with the S3 whilst reversing a trailer, new wing required but never got round to it. DJ 1989 200tdi 90 csw 2011 110 usw Orkney grey Buy British 🇬🇧 Defender Clothing Designs available at http://www.rangesports.com/acatalog/Defender-Stuff.html |
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25th Sep 2012 12:26pm |
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