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And to think some say I go over the top!
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What is he hoping to achieve?
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I think this sort of thing is just set up to get FB clicks and Youtube hits. If you really were that angry that you wanted to smash something, you don't arrange for someone to film it. The guy is a bellend :-)
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Makes Basil's car trashing look positively genteel
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Memories of a garage owner I once knew trying to work on one of those old air-cooled Citroens, which I think used to be Panhards, with a flat four engine. In order to change the spark plugs he had to take off the front wheels, dismantle the suspension and take off a whole bunch of cowling. After he thought he'd finished he was left with a handful of nuts and bolts and other parts. He lost his rag, hurled them at the wall, and went off down the pub . . .
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Hehe, I remember my first car, I think it was a Vauxhall vive, cost £30 and wouldn't do over 30mph, I had a knackered starter motor, to change it me and my dad had to take the engine off its mounts and drop it, it took us 6 hours and a Haines manual, I'd bought the starter from a breakers yard, it didn't work lol, so we had to start over
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My Renault (Modus) needed special driver heads to undo the nuts to remove some of the engine covers, and three hands with six inch fingers to replace the battery. Reputedly you had to dismantle half the front of the car to replace the headlights, which fortunately lasted over eight years so I never had the pleasure.
I remember vehicle fitters cursing the hell out of the "engineers" who designed the Leyland Buffalo. In order to remove the suspension you needed to undo some nuts you couldn't reach unless you had taken the suspension off. The 500 engine was very economical at first but wore severely and began smoking. It had an overhead camshaft and to rebuild it you had to take it out of the truck and turn it upside down with a jig, then split it along the top of the crankcase. In contrast you could rebuild a Deutz one pot at a time during the driver's lunchbreaks.
I remember vehicle fitters cursing the hell out of the "engineers" who designed the Leyland Buffalo. In order to remove the suspension you needed to undo some nuts you couldn't reach unless you had taken the suspension off. The 500 engine was very economical at first but wore severely and began smoking. It had an overhead camshaft and to rebuild it you had to take it out of the truck and turn it upside down with a jig, then split it along the top of the crankcase. In contrast you could rebuild a Deutz one pot at a time during the driver's lunchbreaks.
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I've just replaced one of my sprinter vans, they've got a lot better, satnav, aircon etc etc, but the rear light bulb went (on a one week old motor) the older vans had a panel behind that popped off and you just popped out the old and in the new, this new van, you have to remove the entire light box to change it, not sure how they can consider a move in the right direction
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I reckon a tool kit and spare parts is something that was an essential accessory to motorists in the past is virtually redundant now, the technology has advanced that far that diagnostics are beyond the scope of most of us.
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Now, I seem to remember, way back, when the weekend was often spent with the bonnet open, tool box out and plenty of 'tinkering' on car engines and a fun time was had by all male family members, and even their friends would often call around to help out if needed. It was a great excuse for a get together and time to put the world to right as well as the car. Mum would keep the cups of tea coming at regular intervals ...
I'm sure there were also female family members who had an interest in car engines too !!!
Mine was more reserved for just getting in the car and being driven somewhere ...
All the best Jan
I'm sure there were also female family members who had an interest in car engines too !!!
Mine was more reserved for just getting in the car and being driven somewhere ...
All the best Jan
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Time was when industrial and agricultural machinery and trucks were designed with maintenance in mind, OK with a few exceptions.
Now it's all designed to need specialist engineers with a computer and a collection of special tools and jigs. Cars are an order of magnitude worse.
An old friend had an engineering business. I asked him why he had no CNC kit.
"Well we had a CNC lathe on trial but I sent it back when I discovered how much it cost to service. With my old Swiss Autos and Chipmasters, if I need to mend one I can make the part on one of the other ones and we fit it ourselves"
Now it's all designed to need specialist engineers with a computer and a collection of special tools and jigs. Cars are an order of magnitude worse.
An old friend had an engineering business. I asked him why he had no CNC kit.
"Well we had a CNC lathe on trial but I sent it back when I discovered how much it cost to service. With my old Swiss Autos and Chipmasters, if I need to mend one I can make the part on one of the other ones and we fit it ourselves"
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