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I today (30th April 2014) saw a white 1972 Rover 2000, Reg. Number. HVG 165L, in Kwik Fit (or National Tyres - they're next door to each other, and I can never recall which one is on which side!) on Garth Road, Bangor, North Wales. It was being driven around the yard, seemed to be in excellent...

After watching "Wheeler Dealers" on one of the Discovery channels recently, Pinky & Perky... sorry, I mean Mike Brewer and Edd China :lol: ... were renovating a classic Volkswagen Beetle (at least i think it was a Beetle!) During the show, they showed the bodyshell being separated from it's...

I understand there's a "Tool Corner" section, but feel this would not be totally in keeping with that part! What are your favourite/preferred brand and drive sizes when it comes to socket sets? On this topic, I've always wondered what's the reason behind the 3/8" drive size, seeing that the...

I think I know the answer already, so this may well be effectively a rhetorical question. However I'm hoping some of you fellow-UK folk here may be able to confirm/correct my thinking. If a car is 'SORNed' (i.e. declared as being off-road via SORN), can that car be parked in a residential-like...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L-i4tyA1QnE At 0:23 (my laptop is quite old and somewhat slow [got it for nothing!], so maybe the timing is not quite correct!), it shows the Information Decal, but as can be seen :- The Information Decal is for a 2200TC, clearly not for a V8 engine. The engine...

One of the possible failures on a P6, as we're all too aware on this fine forum, is the rear De-Dion elbow breaking off. i.e. (which I have taken the liberty to "borrow" from /viewtopic.php?f=22&t=17109&p=141756&hilit=elbow+de+dion#p141821) ( And hoping that dmcsweeney isn't too cross with me...

Was the forum offline yesterday? Kept getting "website not responding" errors! Was in desperate need of my daily P6 "fix"!!

What an absolute boundah! :P

Have any of you good people seen any of the old (by that I mean the mid-late 90's) UK "Kill Your Speed, Not A Child" campaign adverts hosted on YouTube, Dailymotion, MyVideo, LiveLeak, etc? Scans of newspaper/magazine adverts of the campaign from the same era would also be of help.

My parents today received a cold-call (from someone with a Southern-English accent, definitely not Indian) relating to "TV insurance" (no doubt a dodgy insurance provider), however the caller wanted not my parents, but rather a "Mr. Jeremy Irons" who they seem to think also resides there...

I today found an old MOT certificate for our old 2000Auto from 1992. On it, of course, is the car's Chassis / VIN Number; 44105582B (at least I think the last 'digit' is the letter "B" anyhow!) Out of pure interest, does this help/indicate anything notable about the car? (date of build...

Has anybody on here had a (any) problem(s) with activating windows 7 using the product key? I tried to activate by typing in the product key, but it kept saying it couldn't be activated on the computer... even though the OS DVD box was sealed, had the Microsoft COA label, and the product key...

After watching Wheeler Dealers earlier today, where they 'renovated' (got a feeling they were skimming over important details!) an L reg Triumph Stag. I noticed the rear had a black number plate with white/silver lettering (the old style of number plate), whereas the front had the normal white...

I don't advocate anyone to click on any links or open any attachments in suspicious emails; I received this through my GMail account and opened using the "view" option. http://goo.gl/TLcJC Apart from the obvious grammatical mistakes (though ironically the word Fiduciary is spelt correctly!)...

This is for the UK folks! I'm sure some, if not all, of you UK folks here have seen the recent Plusnet advert with the brass band playing in a rotunda. The main character's father shouts "Hello Son!" from the rotunda, then the main character makes a rather sharp exit (perhaps for a "Cool Sharp...

A reply on the 4 cylinder board by our esteemed and knowledgeable Harvey got me thinking. Are you a "Luddite" as in do you prefer imperial (inches, feet, pints, gallons... etc), or... Are you a "Progressionist" as in do you prefer metric (millimetres, metres, millilitres, litres... etc) , or...

Apologies if this question has been asked before, beforhand! When were Dunlop brakes replaced on the P6 range with the Girling brakes? Was there a specific reason (reliability, damage, etc) for the change? :?

From the thread "Overdrive for an automatic?":- Now I've got a question! As I've possibly said a few (thousand!) times on this forum before, we had an old 1972 2000Auto until we changed it to a manual. How can you get lock-up (i.e. direct drive from the engine to the gearbox input shaft) on a...

Maybe some of the 30+ year old UK'ers would know this! I saw a music video today, I've definitely seen it before (years and years back), but can't remember who it's by or the name of the track it accompanies. It's a bit "weird", so might have stuck in someone's mind on here. Basically it's got...

I'm in North Wales (as I'm sure most of you know by now!), but is there anybody here from Lincolnshire, preferably with some knowledge of Lincolnshire Council?

A question for the computer experts/nerds/geeks among us! Has anybody on here had any experience and/or recommendations of using any of the various (Google, Norton/Symantec, OpenDNS, ScrubIt, Verizon, DNS Advantage, etc.) public DNS servers?

Today, I received another offer, this time from "Legal & General" offering me their "Over 50s Fixed Life Insurance Plan" Some 3 weeks earlier, I had received a similar offer from "Sun Life Direct" with their "Guaranteed Over 50 Plan" Where the heck do they get the {totally incorrect!}...

Anyone experienced a pyrex mug seemingly disintegrating "out of the blue"? I was carrying a mug of tea, the mug seemed to explode in my hand. Luckily (but strangely too) the tea was not very hot, and I had drank about half of it. I was very shocked; I expected that if the mug would go, it...

From the recent Valvemaster postings... Then we in the UK have a potential problem; virtually all UK petrol now has some ethanol in it, even V-Power is no longer guaranteed to be ethanol-free as it once was. http://www.reuk.co.uk/Introduction-to-Ethanol.htm, and I quote:- If my...

I know this is the 4-pot section, but seeing the 5-pot was (5/4)ths the 4-pot... Does anybody know how the crank journals (I think that's the right term for where the piston connects to the crank!) are positioned with respect to each other on a 5-pot car? On a 4-pot, 1 and 4 (the outers) are...