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    Retired project and programme manager, now learning to be Philosophical. Very fond of motorbikes (modern & vintage). Researching ancestry and learning Tai Chi.
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    Chorley, Lancashire, UK and Gayton, Wirral

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    MY07 Octavia Scout 2.0tdi 180 BMM 4x4 Estate in Silver Grey (metallic blue to you and I)
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    2007

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  1. TFTD Friday: If you don't want to work you have to work to earn enough money so that you won't have to work - Ogden Nash
  2. Yabba Dabba Doo! - Fred Flintstone
  3. Moral? Read before sending! PG [Contents mildly suggestive]
  4. Just an FYI these cars of ours have an annoying habit of turning on random warning lights if the battery has been disconnected or the voltage has gone low. If that's the cause the lights clear up after a short run - usually less than a mile. The reason behind this behaviour is the various computerised controllers in the cars which don't tolerate insufficient voltage to operate properly and tend to throw up incorrect error conditions when they're deprived of their life-essence
  5. Looking from behind the car with the tailgate open the pull handle fixes via a single torx screw through a hole in the lower tailgate panel (i.e. the upper one as you're looking at it) midway to the right. Technically I believe one is supposed to be able to remove and replace the pull handle rubber without removing said panel but it's never worked for me, so just prise off the panel (use plastic levers or you may mark it) to get to the fitting. To fit the new one, push the screw boss end through the panel before replacing the panel on the tailgate and then using your trusty torx screwdriver jiggle the fixing screw into place. It sounds worse than it is, honestly I'll take a piccy of the fitted location for you later.
  6. TFTD Thursday: The harder you work, the luckier you get - anon
  7. Remember when flight safety reviews at least tried to entertain?
  8. TFTD Wednesday: Don't handicap your children by making their lives easy - Robert Heinlein
  9. Couple of drops of SuperGlue into the sounder; that'll deal with the noise element
  10. TFTD Tuesday: The Bushmen of the Kalahari don’t have a word for a bee, which they call ‘the little black and yellow fly, that farts jam; he has no teeth in his mouth, but a sharp arrow in his ass.' - Jody Daniel
  11. Good time to sell off Boeing shares, maybe?
  12. Those brown marks look like rust, and if so the reflectors in the headlamps may have deteriorated as well. If that's the case the only answer would be replacement headlamps. There are plenty of units available via breakers - eBay is a good starting point - and when I last checked you could pick up a pair of units for under 100 squid. Remember you will need facelift lamps, not pre-facelift.
  13. TFTD Monday: A door is what a dog is perpetually on the wrong side of - Ogden Nash
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