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6 hours ago, C8RKH said:
........If it doesn't work then I can use it to, ta-daaa, blow some leaves, grit, mud and any other crap that was lying on the ground all over my previously gleaming paintwork......
ETFY Andy,
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When I first met 'my' Jennifer, she had a 944.
Going on her experiences, he's going to need at least another 2 kids to be able to afford the running costs.
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Ordered my rear dampers and springs last Monday and they arrived Wednesday.
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@ferk1966 Parts and labour, at an independent Lotus specialist last summer, came to about £430 to replace the metal master cylinder in my NA.
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1&2 Brian & Jackie
3&4 Tosh & Jane
5 David (flying solo for this one)
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Sorry to hear your news Tim
RIP and run free over the 'rainbow bridge' big boy.
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1 hour ago, Kimbers said:
I just want to wash the car! You know, Soapy water, a sponge and a quick wipe down, I don't want to start my own valetting business!
You used the 'S' word. Go stand in the naughty corner, right now.
Microfibre, or better still lambswool, mitt and nothing else, otherwise you might as well have a cleaning kit that comprises of these..............
@Bibs Personally, I wouldn't be using that microfibre cloth in your ValetPro photo there - it's touching the ground so is only fit for the bin!!!!!!!
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The supermarket has been swept for the last time
RIP
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Every time I'm in the neighbourhood, I make a diversion round by the showroom and stare longingly at it through the window - once I did even go in and drool all over it,
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Thank goodness it's way too large to fit in my shopping bag.......................................................
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I realise that a fair number of us (me included) took our cars off the road for the winter and so they weren't out there in the public domain to garner reactions, but they should by now be emerging from hibernation and so the time is right to resurrect this thread.
Mine hit the road again on Friday afternoon and it has already given rise to 2 polar-opposite reactions.
Heading down the A1 on my way to the Jim Clark anniversary weekend, I was making what might best be described as 'brisk progress' ("Good Morning, Officer!") on one of the dualled stretches. I was in the process of overtaking a fairly lengthy and closely grouped line of significantly slower vehicles when I became aware of a pair of headlights growing steadily larger in my mirrors. A quick glance in my rearview reassured me that I was not about to see my licence consigned to the paper-shredder, that is not unless the local rozzers have one of those not-so-mini Minis with the sat-on-by-an-elephant rear rooflines on their fleet.
As they homed in on me they started vigorously flashing their headlights and weaving from side to side, clearly in an attempt to attract my attention for whatever reason, leaving me with 4 options to consider as a solution to the situation: 1, hit the 'evaporate now' button and instantly disappear into thin air but then I remembered being informed that that option hadn't been specified on the build sheet when my Evora went down the line at Hethel; 2, dive into one of the small gaps between the vehicles on my left and hope that the newly-fitted discs and pads were sufficiently effective to prevent me rear-ending somebody (but not so efficient that the one behind rear-ended me); 3, proceed at undiminished pace and complete the overtake then pull in when it was safe to do so; or 4, assume that they were perhaps concerned that for me to continue at such a velocity I might risk incurring some sort of penalty and therefore I should come off the loud pedal, reduce my speed to around the legal limit (and also by default increase my safety factor by reducing the differential between me and the other traffic), continue with the overtake and (eventually) pull in when safe to do so.
I chose option #4,
- but in truth I had made that decision whilst the Mini was still closing in on my rear bumper, mainly because I know that stretch of road intimately and had already looked well ahead. When I returned to the inside lane at the completion of my manoeuvre, the Mini pulled alongside and the young lady at the helm clearly felt that in light of the considerable additional time it had taken me, I must be in need of a coffee break. At least I think that's what she was signalling by her use of the Gareth Hunt Nescafé handshake - if you're too young to remember, Google is your friend, with the Urban Dictionary explanation being particularly descriptive, . She then accelerated off into the distance but if her intention was as outlined in #4, she should really also have paid heed to it herself - oh how I laughed when I observed the brake lights on her car illuminate, way too late, as she blasted past the mobile camera van parked at the top of the next hill .
Redressing the balance, on the return journey on some lovely twisting cross-country roads I had another car follow me for several miles. He never got too close but he did keep pace with me and followed through on every overtake, although he never showed any interest in getting in front of me. On the approach to a roundabout, it was clear from our lane choices that we were going our separate ways at which point he then accelerated to get alongside me, looked over with a big grin on his face and gave me a 'thumbs-up'
. His humble chariot, by the way, was only a McLaren MP4-12C, .
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The weather kept defeating me so in the end I 'cheated' and got them fitted 'professionally' as my car was in at Craig Moncrieff in Edinburgh this week for its pre-season service and health-check.
His comment on this little job was that the mudflaps were being held in place "by magic" as the only remaining parts of the original brackets were the mountings. I hadn't made the task easy for him either, as my barge boards had been fitted using copious quantities of seam sealer so removing the A-panels was not a quick 5 minuter,
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After its winter lay-up (159 days, not that I was counting
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At the pre-flight briefing the CO stressed that, following some complaints from a few of the local residents about ultra-low flying, we were to maintain a minimum separation of 250' between any ground object and the belly of our aircraft.
At the post-flight debrief it became apparent, judging by the veins standing out on his neck, that this wasn't an acceptable compromise solution,
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Here we go again,
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Just came across these pics that I took a couple of years ago in a back street in Honfleur in Normandy - thought you might appreciate them in this thread,
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2 hours ago, 2GOOD said:
Has Lazy D still got his?
As far as I'm aware, yes - or at least he still had it when we passed each other about 5 months ago.
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2 hours ago, 2GOOD said:
Too many in Scotland are selling their Evoras.
FTFY.
4 down this year already,
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I'm with Lee in his prediction - hopefully we're proved correct,
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Northbound at J45 yesterday (28th March) about 1630.
Blink and you'll miss it but you can just see it way over on the right-hand side, exiting on the sliproad, in this short dashcam clip..........
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Unfortunately, I'm working nightshift Saturday and Sunday so will need to give this one a miss. I know, sleep is so overrated but I suppose I should give it a try,
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Being double-coated, ours are never clipped but at this time of year (and in the autumn) they cast like mad, so much so that we end up with something like this.............
Thinking it was a good idea, I bought this publication for Jennifer but she didn't seem that impressed...........................
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15 hours ago, jonnyboy said:
I get the hairy chested argument but it' odd that the exige gets one.
Is that actually a cup-holder in the Exige though? I thought it was the luggage compartment!
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15 hours ago, jonnyboy said:Oh and where are the fecking cup holders?"
I've posted this before and I make no apologies for posting it again.
If you've got an Evora, this is the only cup-holder you should ever use................................................
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@electro_boy Haven't forgotten about you mate. The guy who manufactured these diffusers isn't down at his workshop all that often at the moment but he has promised to check his stock and let me know first opportunity he gets.
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Some of you might recall about a year or so back I posted this :
For whatever reason, despite it being a pretty clear-cut case in the eyes of everybody else involved, the driver of the Merc decided that instead of putting his hands up ("It's a fair cop, guv") he wanted his day in court and today was that day.
So for me it was no shift worked last night (or tonight), an early start this morning with a 2 hour drive to the court, only to spend the entire day sitting in an almost featureless 'witness room' with nothing to relieve the boredom other than a TV permanently tuned to 'Jeremy Kyle's Greatest Hits' then be told 8 hours after first arriving there that the guy's lawyer had been granted an adjournment until June when I'll need to go through the same palaver all over again,
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. His humble chariot, by the way, was only a McLaren MP4-12C, 
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Paint finish and Gtechniq
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No Lotus Content (well not unless you count my Evora lurking in the background).
Last July we attended National Alfa Day with my good lady's Giulietta, which we've owned from new so I'm entirely responsible for its current condition. The Rosso Competizione (8C red) paint was a £2k option so I've lavished quite a bit of care and attention on it to keep it looking the part over the then almost 7 years and 90k miles we'd had it.
In preparation for its 'big day', I spent the entire long-weekend before giving it a full detail - initial rinse, snow foam, second rinse, full claying, third rinse, 3-bucket wash with lambswool mitt, pat down with microfiber drying cloths, machine polish, colour enhancer coating, 3 layers of Gtechniq Crystal Serum Light (the DIY version), then finished off with a final layer of Gtechniq EXO Hybrid Coating. A lot of man-hours but the final effect was well worth the effort.
Fast forward to today. 10 months down the line and a further 10k miles on the clock and the car has not yet been washed again since that pre-show session detailed above. Sure, I've had to do some localised treatments with bird-lime neutraliser and an absorbent cloth following the inevitable avian attacks, but the car has not had a bucker near it.
It has been very difficult to resist the temptation to unreel the hosepipe but I was interested to see just how resilient the Gtechniq products were before I consider putting them anywhere near the Evora,
. Apart from some brake dust deposits now settling on the front wheels, I think the pics below speak volumes and the blue beast will shortly be undergoing a similar pampering weekend.