NeilMH

Happy birthday Mrs B

Yuk.

Good stuff

Put spare wheels/winter tyres on mine on a week ago. Don't see a downside.

Just wanted to say good luck to the OP in sorting out solution/new engine or whatever. If I ever listed all the mistakes/misjudgements I have made over the years on car-related matters, purchases etc I would be able to fuel ekona's keyboard for life. I would be classified as dead stupid (not just terminally so). No danger I will admit to them all in case my wife looks at thus thread and works out how much it all cost.

Mine was on the driveway for 4 years - no problems - I just used to treat the roof regularly. Personally I'm not a fan of covers but others are. Was used in all weathers using winter tyres when appropriate.

I think the thread could reasonably extend as far as shuttlecocks.

Sarah

That's excellent Amy

38 cars later and the only dodgy thing I ever found was a Jim Reeves cassette jammed in the player of the Toyota I bought for my son last year

Yes, very interesting.

It's good that wmr1980 has joined the thread. I was hoping someone could put forward some of the points my father might have made had he still been here.

It’s a shame that there doesn’t seem to have been a counter argument from a “religious intellectualâ€. Anyway.... My father became a Priest later in life (after having served initially in the Navy and then later going on to become a senior Police Officer). In between he somehow managed to pass his bar exams, wrote several textbooks, founded a male voice choir – amongst other things. Anyway, as far as I could tell he wasn’t thick. It’s a shame he is no longer here to put his side of the argument because I would find it difficult to do so. Anyway, my point is that there seems to be a largish number of people who appear to be highly intelligent and yet still believe.....it would be good to hear from someone like that. My early life had a large input from the Cof E and my recollection of it was pretty positive i.e. the emphasis on trying to be a good person and treating others as you would wish to be treated. Mine was a benign education in the sense that it wasn’t rammed down my throat. I stopped going to church in my late teens and I can never remember my father trying to persuade me (I think his view was that “push†needed to come from me). The things I found difficult were the gap between what people professed to believe and their behavior in day-to-day life and how few of them used to do anything to actually make a difference in the real world – my Dad used to say “too heavenly to be any earthly goodâ€. Later, I found it frustrating and sometimes amusing the extent to which the church tried to become “trendyâ€, but without much social leadership when it gets down and dirty. It reminds of the modern politician who tries to work out what everyone wants and then miraculously believes in that.

Following your latest adventure with interest

Just changed mine over. Have always had 2 sets of wheels.

Kev, you are my hero Steady on chaps. There are people's feelings to consider My budget won't run to an F-Type, sob, sob.

Good stuff. Glad it was all sorted out in the end

Always been a fan of Avons.....summer and wet use was very good. I wasn't quite so sure in cold weather but that might just be the effect of very low temperatures on that particular compound or my imagination.