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Posted By : Adrian Lee, 03-Aug-2004, 11:20pm
Must be worth the price tag on it's own!
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Posted By : Philip Wright, 04-Aug-2004, 10:21pm
Rack and pinion steering - wow, how cool is that. I wonder that these guys are gonna think of next......
How about an all synchro gearbox???? I wonder if I can patent that before Merceedes gets there first - might just be able to afford
the Koni's i'm about to buy!
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Posted By : Philip Wright, 04-Aug-2004, 10:23pm
Ok, ok - before anyone points out - its Mercedes, not 'Merceeeeeedes!
Been on Mr C's favourite beverage - it's slipping down rather nicely!
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Posted By : James Carruthers, 04-Aug-2004, 10:34pm
Would anyone be so pedantic?
James
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Posted By : William Davies, 04-Aug-2004, 11:42pm
What about that Renault "arse" car advert..... 55cm above the road sounds far too high to me....
I like to sit about a Rizla's width above the ground.
Cheers,
Bill.
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Posted By : Philip Brammer, 05-Aug-2004, 07:41am
As I say, I wonder if Mercedes have performed the 'Elk test' with this one or are they going to leave it our nordik friends to have 'em all recalled. I did enjoy that!
I have to say that the Renault advert does something vaguely pleasant to me which, had I any left, would no doubt empower my hormones to go out and purchase......as it is I've got a 1.2 Corsa.
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Posted By : Jonathan Binnington, 08-Aug-2004, 01:24pm
means they haven't added the power steering fluid, it's all by arm strenght
reverse engineering merkerdees method
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Posted By : James Carruthers, 08-Aug-2004, 08:33pm
I had a Corsa 1.2 while they were sorting out my insurance last year - fastest car I've ever driven!
But then... nothing goes as fast as a hire car...
James
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Posted By : Philip Brammer, 08-Aug-2004, 11:53pm
Tell you what James, my Corsa has electric power steering, no pump, and its brilliant! Not often said that about Vauxhalls before
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Posted By : Alice Hickman, 09-Aug-2004, 06:00pm
I *think* my Astra has power steering. Not sure...but it's that heavy I can't see how I'd be able to park it otherwise!
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Posted By : Chris Herridge, 09-Aug-2004, 08:12pm
i'm pretty certain my spitfire has power steering, i mean it'll start turning without me even holding it!
...possibly just badly setup though...
Oh and by the way...
i hate the rain;
although i'm nice and dry with my new hood
my car is taking half a mile to stop from 70,
can only do roundabouts at 10mph and
wheelspinning randomly going up hills in second!.
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Posted By : Philip Brammer, 09-Aug-2004, 09:02pm
Hi Ally, if you break into a sweat turning into a vacant spot in Tesco's you do not have power steering!...or some you need some air in the tyres, or some oil in the reservoir, or the power take off belt needs tightening, or the steering rack's knackered. With Vauxhall Corsa's you just put a bigger fuse in
I'm thinking of connecting the motor from my windscreen wiper to my steering, that'll pass the 'Elk test'!!!
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Posted By : Alice Hickman, 10-Aug-2004, 12:31pm
Hiya
Hmm...power steering overhaul time for me perhaps when it stops raining up here long enough! The problem with my spitty is that I currently don't have one have to finish the PhD and
get a decent job then that's the first thing I'll be acquiring! Oh, and I can fix it myself thanks. James is far too
busy.
Ally
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Posted By : Philip Brammer, 11-Aug-2004, 09:26am
Hi Ally, sorry if my dig at James came over as sexist...it did not occur to me at the time that it could be interpreted as such...which means i am sexist...and now I'm annoyed with myself...which is good because its made me stop and rethink my attitudes and assumptions....so thankyou for pointing that out (seriously) anyway your photograph would indicate you belong to the 'hands on' brigade.
What is your PhD in? My mum at the grand age of 72 (I think, one does not ask these things) is in her final PhD year with Leicester uni in Local History. She bores me with various chapters about farming etc in Brothertoft Fen since the land was drained and reclaimed.-
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Posted By : Alice Hickman, 11-Aug-2004, 11:11am
Hee hee...I wasn't getting at you anyway I was getting at Carruthers for being "far too busy" to come see me!!! Never crossed my mind you were being sexist...just having a dig at JC!! I *can* fix them myself of course but a bit of help never goes amiss as I'm still a bit of a learner in these things...I can do it once I've been shown how
The PhD is in chemistry..almost finished now just writing up then I can get a job..and a spitty...and go racing, yay
See you at Cadwell? Nice to put a face to the name if I get a break from standing waving flags - yes, I'm marshalling!
Ally
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Posted By : Philip Brammer, 11-Aug-2004, 11:43am
Yes I will be at Cadwell, but whether in my Spit rather depends upon how soon my back feels better enough to get on putting it back together! Hurt it yesterday welding on the rear inner and outer wheelarches. Age, its a real bummer!!-
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Posted By : James Carruthers, 11-Aug-2004, 10:56pm
HELP ME HELP ME!
IM STILL AT WORK!
HOME BEFORE 3AM MAYBE? I HOPE SO!
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Posted By : Ben Watson, 11-Aug-2004, 11:02pm
if your at work why arent you working?
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Posted By : James Carruthers, 11-Aug-2004, 11:03pm
I knew someone would come up with a smart arse comment...
I've done my bit - not waiting for someone else to do theirs - then I have to put them together...
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Posted By : Ben Watson, 11-Aug-2004, 11:05pm
is your spit totally standard james or have you done anything to it?-
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Posted By : James Carruthers, 11-Aug-2004, 11:09pm
At the moment its totally standard... has pancake filters (going to swap over to new paper ones soon though) and an alternator after the dynamo siezed up on the M25 last year...
Has halogens too - see... Im trying hard to find non-originality in it! Otherwise its standard...
James
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Posted By : Ben Watson, 11-Aug-2004, 11:13pm
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Posted By : James Carruthers, 11-Aug-2004, 11:16pm
Cheap really - I got an A127 70amp unit for &163;40... which is a direct swap for the ACR that fitted on the later Spits - just need the bracket off of one of them...
I think you can pick up the ACR standard types for about &163;25? &163;35?
James
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Posted By : Philip Brammer, 11-Aug-2004, 11:17pm
So what are you supposed to be producing for the GPD then James, its just that I cannot quite equate that happy monochrome piccy of you with work?
I remember fitting halogen spots on the front bonnet of my mk2. The bonnet hinges etc were very worn and every time I exceeded 45mph I lit the trees up like it was christmas.
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Posted By : James Carruthers, 11-Aug-2004, 11:21pm
GPD? Eh?
Im putting together a Flash presentation to make some people choose a company to build a hospital... I think... to be honest its all maps now... I dont look at them... theyre just things with lines...
The contract must surely be worth a couple of billion... PFI thing... got to be done for tomorrow morning... hence the late working...
Adjacencies... access routes... ZZZZZZzzzzzzzzz...
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Posted By : Ben Watson, 11-Aug-2004, 11:19pm
i am really battling with a problem with my mk3 spit, i have a re-con head, carbs, manifolds,cam exhaust, ect but no 1300 block!
but on the other hand i have the 1500 fwd lump needing re-conditioning in the corner, (it has no flywheel + sump),
where would you go from there?
i want to re-build a fast road engine to put into there really,
what do you reckon?
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Posted By : James Carruthers, 11-Aug-2004, 11:23pm
Well that head wont fit on a 1500 engine...
Just find a Mk3 1300 block... can't be all that difficult...
Fast road engine - that's what Im planning - got lots of ideas and plans in my head at the moment... done lots of research in the last couple of years!
Hopefully this job will pay for it! Especially with all this over time!....
James
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Posted By : Philip Brammer, 11-Aug-2004, 11:29pm
Ben, I have a 1300 engine with head and flywheel you are welcome to. it was originally out of a 1300TC but I believe they are identical? The numbers are ground off when they are reconditioned by workshops anyway. I'll stick it the postbox tomorrow. How bigs your letterbox?-
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Posted By : Ben Watson, 11-Aug-2004, 11:31pm
hang on ill get my jigsaw out-
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Posted By : James Carruthers, 11-Aug-2004, 11:33pm
more importantly, how big is your postman?-
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Posted By : Ben Watson, 11-Aug-2004, 11:35pm
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Posted By : Ben Watson, 11-Aug-2004, 11:37pm
must be cornish
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Posted By : Philip Brammer, 11-Aug-2004, 11:38pm
No carrots in it either!-
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Posted By : Ben Watson, 11-Aug-2004, 11:41pm
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Posted By : James Carruthers, 11-Aug-2004, 11:42pm
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Posted By : Philip Brammer, 11-Aug-2004, 11:42pm
You'll have sheep on your front room carpet in the morning!-
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Posted By : Ben Watson, 11-Aug-2004, 11:44pm
dont tell everyone phil!
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Posted By : Philip Brammer, 11-Aug-2004, 11:36pm
Should see the size of the envelope!-
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Posted By : Ben Watson, 11-Aug-2004, 11:38pm
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Posted By : James Carruthers, 11-Aug-2004, 11:38pm
Oh come on now Phil... a jiffy bag would be far more appropriate...-
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Posted By : Philip Brammer, 11-Aug-2004, 11:40pm
and i could send it courier post! (this gets worse)-
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Posted By : Ben Watson, 11-Aug-2004, 11:43pm
nah STANDARD deliverys best-
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Posted By : Philip Brammer, 11-Aug-2004, 11:44pm
As long as he HERALDS his approach so you are ready.....bloody hell...-
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Posted By : Ben Watson, 11-Aug-2004, 11:46pm
it would be a triumph if it made morning delivery
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Posted By : James Carruthers, 11-Aug-2004, 11:45pm
SPECIALS delivery is better, surely?!-
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Posted By : Ben Watson, 11-Aug-2004, 11:48pm
its certainly held with high acclaim-
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Posted By : Philip Brammer, 11-Aug-2004, 11:50pm
This is beginning to STAGnate!-
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Posted By : James Carruthers, 11-Aug-2004, 11:50pm
damn you Phil... you got to that one before me!-
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Posted By : Philip Brammer, 11-Aug-2004, 11:56pm
Gotta go, the cats caught something and she's trying to get through the catflap with it...no its not the engine.. it sounds horribly like a frog (another)
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Posted By : Philip Brammer, 11-Aug-2004, 11:49pm
I hear Moses invented the first car....when he came down from the mount of Olives in his Triumph......this gets worse...-
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Posted By : Ben Watson, 11-Aug-2004, 11:51pm
but the second was francis drake in his mayflower-
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Posted By : Ben Watson, 11-Aug-2004, 11:55pm
i must say all this sillyness is not a very good
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Posted By : Ben Watson, 11-Aug-2004, 11:57pm
im sort of dried up now lads-
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Posted By : Ben Watson, 11-Aug-2004, 11:58pm
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Posted By : James Carruthers, 11-Aug-2004, 11:58pm
only *just* now?-
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Posted By : Philip Brammer, 12-Aug-2004, 00:01am
I've annoyed the cat, the frog, and about half the street. I feel pretty good!! Nite.-
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Posted By : James Carruthers, 12-Aug-2004, 00:03am
Gah - you're all lightweights - Im *still* waiting for this file to come to me... and there is at least a good hours work once I get it!
At least the 42 mile journey around the M25 should be easy... time for a bit of record breaking I think!
46 minutes is the time to beat - ahh the joys of a trip computer...
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Posted By : Philip Brammer, 12-Aug-2004, 00:05am
At least you had a pizza!-
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Posted By : James Carruthers, 12-Aug-2004, 00:09am
Yeah - but it wasnt *that* nice...
Calzone with chicken, green peppers and sweetcorn...-
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Posted By : Ben Watson, 12-Aug-2004, 10:32pm
mmmmmmmmmmmmmmm nice pizza!!-
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Posted By : James Carruthers, 12-Aug-2004, 11:14pm
Especially free pizza...-
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Posted By : Ben Watson, 12-Aug-2004, 11:19pm
my favourite price!
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Posted By : Philip Brammer, 03-Aug-2004, 11:22pm
) I wonder if that means BWM will stick with rear wheel drive then?
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Posted By : Craig Gingell, 03-Aug-2004, 11:30pm
http://www.mercedes-benz.co.uk/pc/pc_range/slk_cla...
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Posted By : James Carruthers, 03-Aug-2004, 11:35pm
in fact - if he had any car without the furnace like conditions of a GT6 in summer, he'd put them in anyway - and have the heater control jammed to hot all the time...
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Posted By : Philip Brammer, 04-Aug-2004, 08:47am
B&Q do a nice range of small patio Chimena's, Don could keep his GT6 at regulo 8 and make sausage sandwiches at the same time (eat your heart out Casey Jones)
Sorry Don, jumpin' on the bandwagon
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Posted By : Don Cook, 04-Aug-2004, 01:15pm
How did I end up in thread about Merc's? Anyway, if you buy a sensible car like the GT6 you won't have all that convertible b*ll*cks, with special heated seats etc. The GT6, as users no well enough, offers the best of all worlds!
On reflection, the GT40 was so named as its supposed to be 40" from the ground, the GT6 was so named as its...well...err....
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Posted By : William Davies, 04-Aug-2004, 02:55pm
"The GT6 really should be called GTSEX"
I guess if you're both really short, thin and agile it might be possible......
Cheers,
Bill.
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Posted By : Nigel Gibbins, 04-Aug-2004, 03:08pm
I'm afraid Don is non of the above
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Posted By : Clive Speaks, 04-Aug-2004, 03:16pm
Didn't say if accompanied or not
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Posted By : Graham Reeks, 04-Aug-2004, 04:39pm
Both? I don't think don meant that anyone else was involved. I've heard that his lady rates the Triumph better than him anyway
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Posted By : Andrew Dawson, 04-Aug-2004, 12:26pm
Whilst I'm not too impressed about the rebranding of rack and pinion into "direct steering" just so it sounds like progress, I have to say I was v impressed with the advert and what it stood for.
It could so easilty have seen the little Merc driving round the town, top up in the sunshine, picking up the kids and then pulling in to a suitably architecturally 'cool' building with some equally 'cool' advert music.
Instead we see one lone male who won't drive anywhere in a straight line, is toe in all the way and is dodging raindroplets by the bucketload in dogged determination to not have to put the roof up. Admittedly he doesnt have to scrabble about with a manual hood, but he does leave it to the v last minute!
Though it may start ructions, i say hats off to Mercedes for trying to bring back a bit of roadster spirit into peoples lives - I'm fed up of seeing MGFs, Mazdas and Z3s being drivin in the stinkin hot with the top up!
Andrew
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Posted By : Graham Reeks, 04-Aug-2004, 01:27pm
Balls - he should have put his foot down and left the hood where it should be!
Especially as he has an 'airscarf' the big
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Posted By : Andrew Dawson, 04-Aug-2004, 01:48pm
LoL - they still have a way to go to capture 100% real roadstering I know!
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