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a few pics of "my old girl" not bad for nearly 200k!, came to my possesion in a right old state, no lights or switches, no mirrors, no power steering pump, and half a building site inside, not many mods done so far apart from replacing all the parts missing, and fitting a jom lowering kit, fitting a cheapy chinese dvd/radio/cd player double din. loads still to do including 2 new wings, complete interior (after been used as a build site) complete alloy wheel re-furbish, and tinting the windows.

why would you want to change it ?

the new rules are pants !!!! and this is coming from a mot tester !!!

i have jom's on my sdi estate , slammed "to the max" very,very harsh ride !!!!

the two allen key adjusters are one for up and down and the second is left to right, as was mentioned probably bulb incorrectly fitted.

hi denis, my word you still on here !!!! glad to see your still happy with the brand

totally agree jb, that's why i use my "discretion" if they are not quite right, but not taking "the pee" i will advise saying characters incorrect but not likely to be missread.

yep was mandatory for manufacturers, so all will be in place, from 1/1/2012 as far as the mot rules go any HID,XENON etc. lights have to have h/light washers and suspension leveling system, otherwise it WILL fail mot test, so not relevant to manufacurers spec, cos they all have them, but relevant to retro fitting of hid's, cos if you only have hid bulbs it will fail!!!! hence why i was warning ppls!!! (this is coming from a very experienced mot tester) btw loads of new rules for the mot test "came into play" from 1/1/2012 !!!!

just a quicky, don't know you guys are aware but as from 1st jan 2012, new rules for retro fitting hid light's, they must have self levelling sensors hooked up to the suspension and also headlight washers otherwise they will fail the mot !!!

hi, thank you, yeh did quite a few on here lol.

halfway on gauge is normal operating temp, also diesels take like 4...ever to warm up.

if its a fab vrs it's 40k

sounds like the throttle valve body needs the basic setings re-setting

hi all, as the title says "not quite a newbie on here" since i've been on here (off and on) for nine years, having looked around the site nice to see some "old" names. Any way still working on the skuds (only as a independent specialist) and not a dealer any more. Btw good look to the site colin !

My friend thanks all of you for there thoughtful comments, He was never looking for an answer to be told what to do, he realises that only he can decide, he opened up and broke down the other day,now he's middle thirty's but thinks old school (men don't cry or show there feelings, and has a big big problem showing he's feelings they all lay inside of him and are unable to reach his mouth)He says that he's mentaly exhausted by all this, he feels that he has gone through hell and back going this way and then the next, he's gone through guilt,saddness,worthlessness,wished the ground would just open up and swallow him up, he looks at his 8 year old son and thinks to himself why an earth did you deserve to have a Ahole for dad for feeling the way he does, he also does the same for his wife,It was never a question of love or lust he doesn't give a flying F what any of them look like, just wanted/still does be apart of there lives share all the good/bad times etc.My friend has never even kissed a girl whilst being married let alone gone all the way (old school comes in again) although he has had many many opportunities. With all the things going on in the world today and ppl's with much bigger probs as he, he also feels embarresed that he should feel unhappy/moaning about such a trivial event. The girl in question's relationship is going ok and was never ment to be a kop out of that, as mentioned in a thread, (she has her reasons for telling him she feels the same) she has infact told my friend that she never ever wanted to get in the way of his marrige and that they should work on there marrige to make it good(btw he's marrige is o.k he would say he's neither happy or unhappy in it). To cut a long story short he's spoken to the "other woman" as much as he could (given he's inability to express him self) and thinks they have agreed to have there own lives and if they ever meet up in the middle by any chance then sobeit. He's still very emotional about it but hopes with time he can put this behind him. sorry about the long post ... my fingers are hurting now... once again my friend thanks all of you for your input in this very hard time for him.

8 years old

He might not think so and does he spend his whole life wondering and beating himself up over it?

he's been the other half in the marrige and has obviously done the same.....apart from give birth that is

He would never do That "have he's cake and eat it" he just wouldn't do that to either of the women involved he's just not like that

Hmmm.. No he didn't did he.

long story so i'll try and keep it as short as possible, i have a friend he's been married for 10 years and has a son, he loves his wife and son and would do anything for them even die for them (as anyone would), he has a good job and a nice house and lives fairly comfortably. now here's the problem approx 18 years ago he met a girl and fell in love with her at first sight,they have kept in touch over the years and have become very good close friends in the last couple of years and see each other daily, now my friend has always kept his feelings to himself regarding this girl but has always loved her madly, not so long back after a drunken text conversation he let slip his feelings for her and to his astonishment she revealled that she felt the same way(he had absoulutly no idea that she felt this way just thought that he was a good friend) he is now stuck between a pillar and post as what to do. key facts are these... 1. he loves his wife and child and doesn't want to hurt them in anyway and doesn't want to leave them financially insecure. 2. he loves this other girl so bad it hurts. 3. he doesn't want to split up the newly relationship that the girl has just formed 4. it draws him to tears thinking about "what the hell he's gonna do" 5. he's thought about "ending it all" but that aint an option as he just can't leave his child fatherless, or upset both the women that he loves, neither will his life insurance pay out to his wife. anybody out there been in same situation that wants to share some good advise to him (he knows that only he can make the decission) but would like to hear from anyone that has been through it.

also could be the rear brake weight valve spring, re-the brake squeak as mr rapid said, also you can adjust the rear brakes so that the shoes don't travel that far across the backplate thus preventing the sqeak.

looks like my old house where the original roof was lightweight slate, then replaced with concrete tiles with the extra weight adational beams are put in to stop sagging and roof beams collapsing in.

oh please...................... you can't mess with a classic.

bit of bodywork, a couple of bits of welding, a rip in the seat and a litle bit of tlc is required.