breakdown truck

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UKJeeper
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Re: breakdown truck

#571 Post by UKJeeper »

Or they were designed and built to cope with more than the average Corsa, Fiesta, etc.

Which reminds me, i have to offload the chucks of oak tree filling the back of the YJ... :D
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Re: breakdown truck

#572 Post by TerryG »

The back of my range was filled with fence posts yesterday evening. The farms pickup has suffered an incident (hit by a young lady who is insured by "drive like a girl" and stereotypically, she did!). They were free if I could collect them then and there. Big cars are damn handy some times! (other times eg when filling up with fuel they suck!)
Understeer: when you hit the wall with the front of the car.
Oversteer: when you hit the wall with the back of the car.
Horsepower: how fast you hit the wall.
Torque: how far you take the wall with you.
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#573 Post by rich. »

have you thought of gpl or fitting a diesel?
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#574 Post by UKJeeper »

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#575 Post by rich. »

linky no worky :( have i broken the internet again?
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Re: breakdown truck

#576 Post by JPB »

Yes, Rich. You've killed the interwebs stone dead. Here's what you should have been seeing:

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8-)

It's no use for France though, as some thoughtful soul has put the steering wheel in the correct place. Shame they didn't do likewise with the wipers but hey, you can't have it all ways.
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"Home is where you park it", so the saying goes. That may yet come true.. :oops:
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#577 Post by rich. »

:lol: :lol:
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#579 Post by JPB »

Buying a manual DAF 77/Volvo 340 is much the same as having a dog but biting the postman yourself. Nasty gearchange, nothing like the same incredible acceleration from rest 'til the car's maximum speed of around 52mph oh, and the speedometers tend to under read as three of the points on my licence can demonstrate! :evil:
I was never as happy as I was the day that the gable end of a house fell on top of what had, a few months earlier, been my fifty quid example of the 340. The tumbling masonry scratched the paint really quite badly and cracked on corner of the windscreen yet still the evil Dutch sod refused to die. Dead now though, and its pulleys and belts are in another example. It was a decent car in fact, but its speedometer cost me sixty quid and those points. :x

Do the world a favour please, Rich. Go and view the 340 and accidentally burn it to a crisp during your visit. Pretty please?
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Re: breakdown truck

#580 Post by UKJeeper »

JPB wrote:Yes, Rich. You've killed the interwebs stone dead. Here's what you should have been seeing:

Image

8-)

It's no use for France though, as some thoughtful soul has put the steering wheel in the correct place. Shame they didn't do likewise with the wipers but hey, you can't have it all ways.
LHD? In that case...

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/281220883731
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