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Zagato
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Thumbs Up Nice that was going to be my first choice Andy but it was a couple of K more. I've just sold my old BSA and am strapped at the moment but would eventually like a custom chopper of some sort next, I like the Harley engines and BIG bikes that suit my "ample" frame Whistle This Harley Fat Boy was too small, want something BIGGER Very Happy Me trying to look like Marlin Brando but pulling off the right tit look instead Embarassed Rolling Eyes



Lovely engine - stage one exhaust Very Happy Very Happy :D

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Salad
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GREENI wrote:
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Got to agree Thumbs Up
No place for rabbit food at my table !!!! If everything is under control you are not going fast enough.

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GREENI wrote:
Salad


It's well known that salad makes you fat.







Well, when did you last see someone who wasn't fat eating salad?
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Back on to things that make you grumpy:-

Being quoted over £2400 for a new clutch on the Defender! Shocked
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blackwolf wrote:
Back on to things that make you grumpy:-

Being quoted over £2400 for a new clutch on the Defender! Shocked


WTF?! I've just had a new clutch fitted under warranty. They initially thought it would be a clutch AND gearbox - estimated cost was still under £2k for both. You are being had big time - go somewhere else. Defender 110XS SW gone... now VW California 180 4 Motion.
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DefenderOfTheEarth wrote:
blackwolf wrote:
Back on to things that make you grumpy:-

Being quoted over £2400 for a new clutch on the Defender! Shocked


WTF?! I've just had a new clutch fitted under warranty. They initially thought it would be a clutch AND gearbox - estimated cost was still under £2k for both. You are being had big time - go somewhere else.


I have asked the dealer for the quote (with a breakdown of parts/labour etc) in writing. I couldn't believe it, since I think the right price is about £800.

Given that a genuine parts clutch kit is £250 or so, the only way to get the bill that high is if there is about 20 hours labour involved, and that can't be right for a clutch.

I am either being had, or they have cocked up the quote, I reckon.
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blackwolf wrote:
DefenderOfTheEarth wrote:
blackwolf wrote:
Back on to things that make you grumpy:-

Being quoted over £2400 for a new clutch on the Defender! Shocked


WTF?! I've just had a new clutch fitted under warranty. They initially thought it would be a clutch AND gearbox - estimated cost was still under £2k for both. You are being had big time - go somewhere else.


I have asked the dealer for the quote (with a breakdown of parts/labour etc) in writing. I couldn't believe it, since I think the right price is about £800.

Given that a genuine parts clutch kit is £250 or so, the only way to get the bill that high is if there is about 20 hours labour involved, and that can't be right for a clutch.

I am either being had, or they have cocked up the quote, I reckon.


Definitely.

I don't know the exact costs but anything over a grand seems way too much.

Any Indys near you? I use one for the BM and the service kicks the backside of my local main dealer - half the labour price too. Defender 110XS SW gone... now VW California 180 4 Motion.
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Building a bloody six foot fence from 4" Lats, haven't had a wrist like this since i was fifteen, 100' done 100' to go. Original Member Pie n Pea Club.
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Not me but an old man became more than grumpy when he reversed the side of hid car down the rear corner of my 109 today. Hell of a mess Shocked it scraped and pushed in the whole side of his car ripping back the corner of the door - it will be a right off. Felt very sorry him, he was a lovely old boy but just shouldn't be driving anymore maybe!

The 109 rear lower corner capping had a rivet ground half way down and most of his paint was carved off on it but amazingly not damaged or bent at all Shocked Still don't understand how much force and damage was done to his car but nothing on mine especially when I have found it quite easy to bend the lower rear corner on a Landy Whistle
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I still don't like skodas ... shame I saw Wiltshire & Hants Police have skodas ...

Not sure if I agree with the teachers etc on strike today either .. we were ok but lots of hard working families had to take a days holiday to babysit the children whilst the teachers make a stand..

also the increased security threat to the UK as boarder control walk out too ...
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bpman wrote:

Not sure if I agree with the teachers etc on strike today either .. we were ok but lots of hard working families had to take a days holiday to babysit the children whilst the teachers make a stand..



We had the situation where one of our two school age monsters was off due to the strike and the other had to go in. Same school, just different attitude from the teachers concerned.

Missus took the one off school shopping in Milton Keynes and low and behold they bump into all our striking teachers in the John Lewis coffee shop Embarassed Embarassed Rather embarrassed teachers claim that they are just getting ready to go on to the demonstration.......... Whistle Whistle

Like you, I'm not sure yet if I have sympathy with the teachers plight in general but I don't really think a day off on strike is best spent drinking cappucinos if they want to win public support Jon - 110 td5 [sold]. Currently Defenderless.
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I really don't understand the value of money any more. I was quoted £7,760 for 2 paddocks for my horses 1st paddock is 20x40 meters 2nd is 25x25 on top of that £2,550 for installation and the sales man tells me installation is very simple you can do it yourself and I can come and help you with it instead. And the other thing diesel is supposed to be cheaper than petrol right? Then why does a country that has a supply of oil charge £2.84 per gallon for diesel which isn't the same grade you get in the UK or Europe and charge for the supposedly "98 octane" petrol £1.34. I fill up my 90 for £33.
Sad In the past people used to get paid high salaries. Today with a high school diploma you're lucky to get £680 at a respectable bank while if you have a masters or p.h.d they refuse to hire you as they claim they can't afford to pay you even if you settle for less. And the price of everything is going through the roof the same products I used to see when I was a kid are more than triple the price. A cup of tea with milk was for 4 pence now it's 34 pence. Pepsi and coca-cola doubled their prices. **** all of this I'm going to graduate get a job make as much money as I can, marry my gf who's the love of my life and only thing keeping me sane build a farm and live off the land with our 5 cats 3 dogs and 3 horses.
**End Of Rant**
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willy eckerslike wrote:
Building a bloody six foot fence from 4" Lats, haven't had a wrist like this since i was fifteen, 100' done 100' to go.

Hire a nail gun. Very Happy
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Teachers and civil servants used to be paid mid range salary but got good employment protection and gold plated pensions, but 15 years of scatter cash Blair & Bush threw sacks of dosh at them so now teachers get a salary to beat the private sector but they stil get the perks.
So now the government are dragging them into the real world that us tax generators live in and they strike and force shed loads of hard working real world people to waste one day of their 25 days holiday. 130 Puma HCPU with an Artica 240LR Demountable Camper
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