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Old 14th July 2019, 17:51   #9821
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Busy weekend...
New tyres on Thursday
Friday Morning, washed it, removed the roof bars, cut polished and waxed the roof... Friday afternoon drove to Scotland for a party.
Saturday drove to Leeds to drop my wife and daughter at another party while I drove to Castleford to pick up a passenger door, back to Leeds to pick up my family and then back to the midlands.

750 Miles in 24 hours and the car ran brilliantly

Today I've fitted the passenger door and while this car has the worst paintwork I've ever seen, I now feel like I'm getting somewhere now all the panels are all basically straight.

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Old 14th July 2019, 18:58   #9822
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Mixing with classy company there.
Yes they were!
Around here McLarens, Lambos and Ferraris are much more common than ZTs.

A couple of weeks ago a McLaren driver here had his new car impounded within 10 minutes of taking delivery of it at the dealership.
He was doing 160 kmh in a 90 zone,
Temptation can be a terrible thing!

Note the "New Driver" placard on the one on the right.

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Old 14th July 2019, 21:11   #9823
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Replaced a broken window switch in Tarquin.
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Old 15th July 2019, 08:22   #9824
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Gave it a wash, went to work in it, travelled to Middlesbrough, drank coffee and put the world to rights then came home again.

It looks half presentable after a clean, made me feel a bit better too

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Old 15th July 2019, 10:35   #9825
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Only ‘half presentable’? What’s the matter with you Brian? Yuum slipping our kid.
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Old 15th July 2019, 12:55   #9826
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Treated Tarquin to 4 brand new Avon ZV7s.
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Old 15th July 2019, 15:39   #9827
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Well you must be common. Where Tarquin lives is posh.
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Old 15th July 2019, 18:46   #9828
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Swapped back to my set of .75mm spark plugs, having noticed a deterioration in idle quality over the past few weeks which I put down to the plugs becoming fouled due to the rich running.


Immediate improvement, so we'll see how it lasts. There's definitely still an issue somewhere, but hopefully this will get me through to Gretna for the T4 God that is Marinabrian to have a look.
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Old 16th July 2019, 00:56   #9829
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Well you must be common. Where Tarquin lives is posh.

Tipton? POSH?!?

ROFL!

Also it wasn't my idea to call it Tarquin - Blame me mum.
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Old 16th July 2019, 21:26   #9830
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Tipton? POSH?!?

ROFL!

Also it wasn't my idea to call it Tarquin - Blame me mum.
Of course it’s posh. Don’t give the game away.
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