Member Since: 24 Sep 2023
Location: Highlands
Posts: 346
rrhool wrote:
... Drive from Plymouth to Norfolk yesterday, 350 miles of never ending rain. Difficult driving conditions, lots of road spray...
What gets my goat is that modern road surfaces (at least the ones favoured by Transport Scotland) seem to make the spray a lot worse than it used to be. It's a much smoother surface for dry weather conditions but is horrible in the wet. On the A9 you can see the short sections of new cut-in surface from a distance because of the plume of spray above them.
Of course it would help if it would just stop raining for a bit - according to SEPA data, my local weather station has recorded above average rainfall for each of the last 12 months!Previously:
2010 FL2 TD4e GS
‘93 Defender 110 200TDi CSW - still got this, non-runner on SORN.
‘87 Defender 90 4 cyl Petrol
‘83 110 CSW V8 - best ever!
Range Rover 2-door V8 (not sure of year - 4-speed box and vacuum diff switch)
Series III SWB Diesel
7th Jul 2024 7:11 am
gstuart
Member Since: 21 Oct 2016
Location: kent
Posts: 13908
Funny u saying that as saw this video a while back about different materials
Member Since: 24 Sep 2023
Location: Highlands
Posts: 346
Yes, that's the effect you get on parts of the Scottish trunk road network!
A couple of years ago after a fast run down and back to Glasgow in the FL2, I had to stop on the way back north and replace a water-logged air filter, simply because the ambient incoming air was just saturated. I'm guessing that at cruising speed the engine is drawing somewhere above 2,000 Litres of air per minute and even if the majority of the spray comes out of the intake before reaching the paper filter, it is expecting a lot for all that moist air not to have an effect on the filter.Previously:
2010 FL2 TD4e GS
‘93 Defender 110 200TDi CSW - still got this, non-runner on SORN.
‘87 Defender 90 4 cyl Petrol
‘83 110 CSW V8 - best ever!
Range Rover 2-door V8 (not sure of year - 4-speed box and vacuum diff switch)
Series III SWB Diesel
7th Jul 2024 11:30 am
JordsDisco
Member Since: 22 May 2020
Location: Newcastle
Posts: 1571
Unusually, a fault developed on SWMBOs Mazda. The exhaust heat shield became slightly detached and rattled.
Long story short, it’s under warranty so I called Mazda Assistance. They wanted to know a long list of things including, is our driveway chipped or tarmaced? Then asked me if I’d like them to come out now (last night) or this morning, when I said now they said they couldn’t do that as this morning was the only available appointment- I didnt know you had to make an appointment when the car goes wrong. Then when I suggested the fault was a loose heat shield and asked if it was covered under the warranty, they didn’t know and referred me to the dealership, who was shut over the weekend. I now feel I should have just repaired it myself, but then what’s the point in having a warranty?
7th Jul 2024 11:43 am
JordsDisco
Member Since: 22 May 2020
Location: Newcastle
Posts: 1571
Moan of the day!
Eldest and his partner/GF/cohabitee, what ever you call it when people live together without being legally married, go on holiday, Naples, Barcelona, Nice, Monaco and Paris. Not bad, particularly as he’s a student on his second degree. They come back and travel 120 miles to visit us for a couple of days, so far so good.
However, despite buying them a new washing machine last year, they bring their holiday clothes with them for mum to wash and iron! The best bit is she’ll do it.
They sent me a photo on holiday, but despite temptation, I won’t put it up here and shame them! Their washing is a different matter.
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19th Jul 2024 11:37 am
DSL Keeper of the wheelie bin
Member Since: 11 May 2006
Location: Off again! :-)
Posts: 72964
They’re not very well ironed or folded.
19th Jul 2024 12:11 pm
JordsDisco
Member Since: 22 May 2020
Location: Newcastle
Posts: 1571
That’s before being washed and ironed.
19th Jul 2024 12:28 pm
mark the spark
Member Since: 22 Jun 2011
Location: southampton
Posts: 2499
if you / the wife enable this type of behaviour it wont change ,they dont see it as an issue ....if you dig down perhaps the wife offered . but yes the entitled generation have absolutely no " taking the p1XX " filter i have one of those and if left to my wife shed run our house ...you end up in the situation of the cost to preserve a relationship v having liberties taken conundrum .MY05 SE D3 Manual my first LR what a car
MY10 HSE D4 auto
MY14 XXV more buttons than the spaceshuttle
19th Jul 2024 1:51 pm
DSL Keeper of the wheelie bin
Member Since: 11 May 2006
Location: Off again! :-)
Posts: 72964
Ah, the joy of no kids.
19th Jul 2024 1:54 pm
JordsDisco
Member Since: 22 May 2020
Location: Newcastle
Posts: 1571
So true!
They do tell me they know how lucky they are, but I think that refers to a house I let them have rent free.…. I have dropped massive hints about redecorating or getting new carpets, but it falls on deaf ears, the same as occasionally cutting the grass, although their neighbour sometimes cuts that for them!
19th Jul 2024 2:04 pm
JordsDisco
Member Since: 22 May 2020
Location: Newcastle
Posts: 1571
Yodel, need I say more? What an absolutely rubbish company, how on earth they are still is business is a mystery.
Okay, a small package was sent from Dundee destined 140 miles north. It took 3 days to get 20 odd miles to Perth where it was then sent to a national hub near London. Another two days there before being sent to Farnbourgh where it has sat for 4 days.
It should head north now, but I am not counting on it. It could go worldwide yet before it get lost.
Its just a pity I didn’t think to have a guess the mileage competition to donate the proceeds to charity although no one would have come close.
29th Jul 2024 7:01 pm
Worms
Member Since: 24 Sep 2023
Location: Highlands
Posts: 346
I feel for you on this.
Perth seems to be the black hole of parcel delivery for the Highlands. It's where it all seems to go wrong for a number of companies. Sending it south from there, though, is inexcusable.
The one that gets my goat is that when things reach Perth, they are often logged as "delivered" or "out for delivery" when in truth there is at least one extra depot to go before that final home-delivery step. Sometimes this is because it has been passed from the National company to a local delivery courier, so as far as the National is concerned it has reached their final destination. As far as the supplier is concerned you've received your goods, when in practice it is still in transit and can be a week away from delivery.
I've also encountered a problem of van loads being made up 24 hours before the van leaves the depot, also a parcel logged as arriving at the depot after 18.00 on a Friday is too late to get onto the delivery van on Monday. If you add in a once-a-week delivery on our route, then it can easily be 8 days between arrival at the local depot and delivery, despite the supplier promising a 48 hour delivery and charging double for delivery to a Highland address.Previously:
2010 FL2 TD4e GS
‘93 Defender 110 200TDi CSW - still got this, non-runner on SORN.
‘87 Defender 90 4 cyl Petrol
‘83 110 CSW V8 - best ever!
Range Rover 2-door V8 (not sure of year - 4-speed box and vacuum diff switch)
Series III SWB Diesel
30th Jul 2024 7:48 am
JordsDisco
Member Since: 22 May 2020
Location: Newcastle
Posts: 1571
Yep, it’s not the first time I’ve come across this and the point you make about Perth marked as out for delivery, although there are one or two couriers that seem to be worse than others.
You sort of accept extra charges up here. I did come across, as I am sure you have, companies wanting to charge over £100 for the delivery of a small parcel that costs £20 for example. I’ve made the points to a few they should use the Royal Mail Special Delivety, but apparently that’s a step too far. One firm even said what if the contents got damaged. There must be something negative in the evolutionary scale for that remark.
PS the parcel seems stuck in Farnborough. That’s five days now, some people have shorter holidays. 🙄
This is all it is, just 600cm long. Could do with it now tbh, but hey ho, that’s life.
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30th Jul 2024 9:40 am
Moo D3 Decade
Member Since: 13 Aug 2010
Location: Wiltshire
Posts: 14232
JordsDisco wrote:
Moan of the day!
Eldest and his partner/GF/cohabitee, what ever you call it when people live together without being legally married, go on holiday, Naples, Barcelona, Nice, Monaco and Paris. Not bad, particularly as he’s a student on his second degree. They come back and travel 120 miles to visit us for a couple of days, so far so good.
However, despite buying them a new washing machine last year, they bring their holiday clothes with them for mum to wash and iron! The best bit is she’ll do it.
They sent me a photo on holiday, but despite temptation, I won’t put it up here and shame them! Their washing is a different matter.
Click image to enlarge
I blame the parents.... New Defender L663 110 SE (known as Noddy!)
Sold Volvo XC90 R-Design (known as Basil)
Sold - D4 HSE (Known as Gerty)
No longer the Old Buses original owner
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05 S manual owned from March 2005
D4 Face lifted
Still original injectors and turbo
V8 Front brakes
BAS Remap, Allisport Intercooler and deCat
EGRs blanked
T-Max split charge
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30th Jul 2024 10:53 am
mark the spark
Member Since: 22 Jun 2011
Location: southampton
Posts: 2499
pjm-84 wrote:
Contractors....
consultants MY05 SE D3 Manual my first LR what a car
MY10 HSE D4 auto
MY14 XXV more buttons than the spaceshuttle
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