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MWF
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Posted: Mon Jul 18, 2005 11:43 am |
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CridaperPosts: 13970Location: WolverhamptonJoined: Mon May 31, 2004 4:00 am |
As some may have noted I have some major clearance issues with the underside of the Prelude and the end of my drive.
Well they just got a whole lot worse, backing off the last two times has had all the delicacy and finese of a bull charging a skip over a rockey outcrop. Why is it getting worse and worse I wonder. Well I had a look under the car today to find out why.
On the center silencer there is a hanger which folds backwards onto a couple of hangers, well this has been acting like a sort of road-prelude anchor in reverse and I have managed to bend it right over and actually crimp the silencer with it. I will have to draw a sophisticated diagram for this.
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MWF
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Posted: Mon Jul 18, 2005 11:51 am |
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CridaperPosts: 13970Location: WolverhamptonJoined: Mon May 31, 2004 4:00 am |
Sophisticated diagram, as seen from the side of the car, A: Before B: After
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pogweasel
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Posted: Mon Jul 18, 2005 12:08 pm |
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Posts: 2743Location: RUSTJoined: Sat Nov 27, 2004 5:00 am |
Only solution.
Sell the rice-mobile.
And buy a big fook-off 4x4.
OWN the kerb.
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MWF
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Posted: Mon Jul 18, 2005 12:10 pm |
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CridaperPosts: 13970Location: WolverhamptonJoined: Mon May 31, 2004 4:00 am |
There has to be someone who wants to swap a Hilux for a Prelude
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Vauxnova
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Posted: Mon Jul 18, 2005 12:13 pm |
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Posts: 2363Location: ManchesterJoined: Mon May 31, 2004 4:00 am |
MWF wrote: There has to be someone who wants to swap a Hilux for a Prelude
I'll swap you for a twix?
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pogweasel
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Posted: Mon Jul 18, 2005 12:15 pm |
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Posts: 2743Location: RUSTJoined: Sat Nov 27, 2004 5:00 am |
As an aside:
Anyone see that "Car Nation" prog on telly last night?
Featured a silly girl in a 'Lude (covered in rice and tasteless stickaz) banging on about it being a "manly sports car".....
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MWF
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Posted: Mon Jul 18, 2005 12:20 pm |
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CridaperPosts: 13970Location: WolverhamptonJoined: Mon May 31, 2004 4:00 am |
Joey and me were torn between Carnation and Big Brother last night, we opted for BB on the basis Carnation was likely to just piss us off.
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pogweasel
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Posted: Mon Jul 18, 2005 12:22 pm |
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Posts: 2743Location: RUSTJoined: Sat Nov 27, 2004 5:00 am |
What, and BB wouldn't?
That lass with the afro makes me want to vomit.
No joke.
She makes me feel sick.
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MWF
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Posted: Mon Jul 18, 2005 12:27 pm |
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CridaperPosts: 13970Location: WolverhamptonJoined: Mon May 31, 2004 4:00 am |
I find BB theraputic, especially on Friday when they made Venesa cry.
Yesterday I actually walked back to were I had parked the Prelude hoping it had been stolen and early rammed it with a shopping trolly on purpose.
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OllyTB
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Posted: Mon Jul 18, 2005 5:30 pm |
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Posts: 1137Location: Cheadle/Leamington SpaJoined: Mon Jun 14, 2004 4:00 am |
don't ram ym run about with a trolley, a bloke at work is selling his four runner dude, even has an LPG conversion!!! needs the head gaskets doing but I bet you'd get it for a grand a sit is then get GMH to bob the head gaskets on, I'll take the lude!
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MWF
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Posted: Mon Jul 18, 2005 7:50 pm |
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CridaperPosts: 13970Location: WolverhamptonJoined: Mon May 31, 2004 4:00 am |
Sounds interesting Turner, any more details on the Runner?
Prelude was fixed to today with a trolly jack, some bricks and the gift of gravity.
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Nath
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Posted: Tue Jul 19, 2005 2:17 pm |
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Posts: 307Location: Stoke-on-TrentJoined: Thu Apr 28, 2005 4:00 am |
pogweasel wrote: Featured a silly girl in a 'Lude (covered in rice and tasteless stickaz) banging on about it being a "manly sports car".....
She made me ill.
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pogweasel
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Posted: Tue Jul 19, 2005 2:25 pm |
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Posts: 2743Location: RUSTJoined: Sat Nov 27, 2004 5:00 am |
Nath wrote: pogweasel wrote: Featured a silly girl in a 'Lude (covered in rice and tasteless stickaz) banging on about it being a "manly sports car"..... She made me ill.
I could only watch a few seconds before becoming VERY VERY angry.
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Posted: Tue Jul 19, 2005 4:04 pm |
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Posts: 632Location: Hemel HempsteadJoined: Wed Mar 02, 2005 5:00 am |
Yep, that programme really is a "lets have a rant at the TV" programme isn't it? I'm guilty btw!
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MWF
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Posted: Tue Jul 19, 2005 4:05 pm |
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CridaperPosts: 13970Location: WolverhamptonJoined: Mon May 31, 2004 4:00 am |
There was something on last night called Greatest Sport Cars, that was bollocks
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