What did you do today?

Talk about your cars etc here. Keep it sort of sensible and on topic please.
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The fiat I saw was a spit of the trafics I've been looking at.
Edit, it is. The new fiat talento.
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Talking to the neighbour just now while walking the dog. One of his staff has wrapped today and he's offered me this van for £10k.
150k miles butbsounds sweet as a nut compared to mine. 1.6 diesel remapped to 145hp apparently.
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Do the fogs work?
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Tut, it was the first thing I checked.
I'm not sure a 1.6 diesel would be up to hauling my shite around. There must be a reason the new ones are 2.0 again.
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Isn't that the neighbour that you said never services them either?
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That's what I thought as well.

The new ones might be 2.0 now just for production efficiency reasons, for example if a lot more 2.0s than 1.6s were being made it might make sense to stop making the latter.
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Same vans but the guy I who I thought was the gaffer was just an employer. The gaffer is a weedy, little, baldy, gay bloke with his fringe brushed from the back of his head. Canny enough though.
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LynehamHerc wrote: Tue Apr 20, 2021 2:51 pm That's what I thought as well.

The new ones might be 2.0 now just for production efficiency reasons, for example if a lot more 2.0s than 1.6s were being made it might make sense to stop making the latter.
I was reading that the bigger engines are easier to get through the modern WTLP emissions.
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At last!
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Started work on rebuilding a fuel pump for a guy in Texas. Named Tex.
The fuel pump smelled like horses and had chunks of hay in the intake valve.
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You couldn't make this up.
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But, the pump is the later arm; kit had the wrong bits in, and the main vacuum pump spring is fractured. Now the delay incurred when Things Don't Go Totally Right begins.

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paulplom wrote: Tue Apr 20, 2021 7:32 am An option. Do they beat you down on price?
This minus the 9k I owe plus the 10k government loan gives me £14k to buy a trafic. I wonder what's out there.
Compare that to your hand-back figure.

And the cunts do chip you for everything, including wanting the money within a week.
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