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Ah, yes, kev. Have often thought I would like one of those as a toy. No need touchy feely burny hand :lol:

On the road down from Braemar, Kip? I take it that is a spot reading, not a mean over dozens of miles? You start at about 1000ft above sea level - we got 37+mpg from Braemar to home near Edinburgh, which includes a good bit of M90.

Yes, VR6 is surprisingly efficient. Probably one of the reasons I am still hanging on to it these days. Monitoring consumption figure can tell you very precisely if something is not right somewhere, too. (As in any car) When I had slight binding brake trouble last year - before i got them renewed, the consumption was down to 24-27 mpg. You know when you are back up to 30-37 (with summer temps) things are fine. Since an AA callout experience on the M8 about 30 years ago (Poxhaul Cavalier), I have always made a point of checking wheel temperatures, from time to time, cautiously, by hand, after a brisk journey. It is amazing how often brake binding occurs and drivers are unaware of it until they smell the scorched pads and see the discs have turned blue, having cooled down :lol: This seems to be a problem that defeats most car manufacturers even today. My wife was on a journey a few days ago with a couple in their BMW and on arrival at the destination his brake(s) were "red hot" and he had to make arrangements to have car picked up. Sorry for off topic sermon, but I feel it is worth pointing out. Avoiding the situation will save fuel and probably the early death of parts of your braking system.

Done this fix today - should have done it 6 years ago! Easy. Thanks to kev and Cazzavr.

100k euros? That will sting Ferrari a lot. What a farce.

Yep, kev's got the message. You ain't seen nuthin', though, you younger guys. Our first cars in the 60s and 70s had no underseal, wax or wheel arch inserts. People who could afford it changed their cars every two years. Like my wife's parents - ordinary farmers - they had to. The things were heading for terminal illness by then. Stick your hand up in the wheelarch and you could pull handfulls of wet mud - enough to half fill a bucket - from behind the headlights. Poke a paint blister on top of the wing of a 3-year old Austin 1100 with your finger and it would burst right through. Jack the same car up to change a wheel and the mud-filled sills with blocked drainage holes crumbled. All well-designed rapid obsolescence and a credit to the great motor manufacturers of the time. Wasters!

Frogs can look really sexy... to other frogs.

Multipla got good reviews. Very practical. Good on yer, Norse chum! If you are cool and happy with yourself, image through a car is only for maggot willies and those having low self-esteem. We had a Reliant van and a Citroen Dyane when we were in our twenties. They were the most logical economic and functional answers at the time. To hell with what people might think-------------------------------------------------- it is butt ugly, though!

I have been a great fan of silicone sealant for years - must have used scores of tubes of it. B&Q and Homebase charge double what you can get it for in various builder's merchants like Arco (use them all the time), Screwfix, etc. I have used it a lot outside in the garden on various things I have built. Even stuck rocks together in a wall shape to make a tiny rockery. Give it at least 18 hours to cure for proper strength.

:) - some of angels look a bit butch. :scratch:

Ha! Kev has jumped in well before me on this one. Clearly, we both have a keen interest and plenty of experience with different adhesives. :nuts:

Citylink in themselves are very good, in my regular experience, as are DHL.

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ignoring this post Think I have to credit photo as being on flickr :shrug: http://www.flickr.com/photos/mattdesmond/403924576/

Knowing that the moths in your wallet will get no rest. :wink:

Sorting out vinyl records the other day - many for redistribution among our two lads - found my pristine A-Ha 12" single "Take on Me". Keeping that. Always liked it. Probably only Norwegian pop/rock act in my collection, apart from Abba and Robyn. (kidding!). Any one else like David Sylvian's weird "Ghosts" by Japan? Uniquely strange.

Time to move on? I had the silver Opel badge sawn off the boot lid of our Manta in about 1974, so some rock freak could hang it round their neck, and I ain't got over that yet! :lol:

We hope to as well. :)

Sunday 13th. - Probably worst wet weather of trip today. Wet forenoon - brighter afternoon but some heavy showers. Animate rain areas on here: http://www.metoffice.gov.uk/weather/uk/ ... radar.html From tomorrow (Monday 14th) looks good, particularly first days of week. :cheers: More cloud at times later in week in Scotland N and W, but atmospheric pressure high (anticyclonic) so should be mostly dry, at a guess. Enjoy it! Regards Iain

My great-grandfather went to school with JM Barrie in Kirriemuir. Pic shows him (right) in Sunday best - not how he usually dressed. He worked in jute mill in Dundee. When he retired as a gaffer, he moved to Blairgowrie, bought raspberry field and worked on that. Victorian industry and its consequent wealth made my home town - Dundee - a city with one of the greatest number of millionaires in the UK at one time. (Flax/Jute/shipbuilding/whaling). Big decline after that as technology moved on and stemmed the demand for these products. Gets bad press, but I love it and its environs.

My mother (91) lived in Greendykes Road until a few weeks ago, when she moved down here with us. No need to get excited about the word dyke - it is merely a wall built of stones, eg drystane dyke. :camp: Weather is on the mend now. The visibility and clarity of the air in Northern Britain in cool air in June is amazing. Hope you will be impressed!

Thanks. Yes, you will be crossing the Tay Bridge then the Forth Bridge. I am about 10 miles west of Forth Road Bridge (south) and A90, so will try and catch you at one of your halts before you run down A720 (Edinburgh city bypass) on way to A68 and south, all being well. Perhaps I can pm my phone number to someone that can phone me when group is, say, an hour or so from good halt/meal break?

Got any details of your route Dundee - Keilder, please?

Mine (15-yr old original) failed totally in the busiest part of our High Street last autumn. Nightmare. Thread on here somewhere.

Had an RAC guy out to Yaris last year under Toyota owner's cover for 1st year. Impressed by that man, too. Really, over 40 years, the few guys we have seen, whether they have been from AA, RAC or Brittania, have been faultless. Its gonna be cost of service and Terms and Conditions that are going to always pi$$ us off, IMO.