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just rounded it off to the nearest 100 when i checked it out. i likes an even number

Monday nights run destinati same location last night, same time, around 9pm looking east looking west.. looking north east with Slievenamon in the distance not bad for a mid range camera phone..

the Superb is definitely longer than an octy. its cabin is longer than a passat, which is what its really meant to be...

dont go anywhere near the bloody things. nothing to do with being "a vauxhall driver", they are just appallingly bad and will break your brain and wallet...

is that the red delete, or something else?

Hi @Gerrycan all is okay, life is just being a bit of a dose the last couple of weeks, with spud jr waking during the night -makes getting up early for a run a non- runner (pun intended.) and evenings. . for some reason its getting later when the 2 spuds are in beds and i mught get out, but its then getting too late - near 9pm starting a run up a big hill... its not ideal. but i have been out - did a new route the other night that i did something odd on - i drove to a start point. its a route i spotted while looking at the strava maps through a forest block on a mountain side up to a small lake. irs lovely up there, so lovely i left my head phones out on the way back down and just listened to nature. being fully off road it feels more natural and calm up there. and a decent climb the whole way up too... isolated, eerie, calm, half waiting for the lady of the water to come back and tempt into the water (bit of irish folklore on that )

keep it 👍

i havnt seen a del sol in the metal in years!! the beat is a funky little thimg, and being bright yellow is exactly right for it. it couldnt be "anthracite" or "meteor grey". Dragon Green yeah

new slimer, thats why you bought it

Nicely done Jars, (and to the surgical team) fingers crossed the post op care and recovery is just as successful :) edit- make sure the surgical team know all your virtual friends are damn glad they didnt c0$% it up too!

/\ this....

problem with using tiger seal / tec7 etc is - you will never get the scuttle out again without smashing it. do you have any pics? it might be possible to get some thing made to fill the channel and let you reclip it. (3d printers to the replicate the original is what im thinking)

@jars @skomaz tha ks for asking and answering before i had to ask. it was new i formation for me too!!

the Polish mechanic i sold mine to for scrap sent the block to poland to get it reconditioned, because noone here doing them would do one that the block side bearing had failed on rather than the piston side. when he got back and rebuilt it it was probably the most perfect 2.0cdti in Ireland. i still didnt want the car back though when i found the second key after about 2 months i called up to him and he had my 2009 hatch sitting there, without the engine back in it yet, and a 2011 estate parked beside it with the same problem... i told him take my engine, alloys, leather interior and gearbox/clutch etc and put it into the estate to make 1 better car and set fire to the remains of mine... one of the rear shocks had started leaking on his compound while it was parked up aswell....

back to from whence it came and start looking for money back. the HG didnt fail on the drive home, that was sold with the fault, no way it wasnt known about...

yup... i had one, a diesel... it ate its own big end block bearings. the radiator sprung a leak. the egr may have had a problem (never got to look at it properly), the alarm developed a fault, the boost actuator solenoid stopped working intermittently, the aux belt tensioner failed, the dmf started to self destruct.... all with less than 130k miles on it.

i gave the initial post a love it for a couple of reasons- admitting youre terrified and have had tears is healthy and yet not done by men in general even less so spoken about, the "brave face" being the norm. as such i commend that open honesty even among relative strangers. weirdly the surgical decision is great - they are pre planning your future care by avoiding a more strenuous procedure in the future when you might not be as physically able to take that strain, instead setting up a much less demanding future. also, the fact they are doing this preplaning means they clearly have great confidence in the surgery going well, you being physically able for it, and that the long term prognosis is "this lads gonna be around long enough to need a turbo upgrade in a few years so lets do the pipework now". yes it will mean more work down time, but the benefits of being then able to work more effectively and potentially for a longer time.... thats worth the few days of fear.

also started looking at trail running shoes last week. had narrowed it down to 2 pairs, so stopped into sports direct in cork on my lunch break today. Salomon speedcross vario 2 and asics trail scout 2 i went with - trail scouts. the salomons were lovely, snug fit, look brilliant. but.... the flap of material that the bottom lace loop is on came up over my big toe in just the wrong place and when i started walking around it was a bit sore. i dunno if anyone saw me jumping around the shop testing the heel strike cushioning.. imo a good idea they should bring into shoe shops is a treadmill so you could jump on see how they feel when moving properly. esp for sports runners..

well the last few weeks have been a bit odd. too late at to get out for q run or the weathers been ****e. then a week and a half of night shifts. but, i did get my first proper 2 plus hrs cycle last thursday completely guilt free legs were a bit jellied after that. but kharma being what it is... spud sr picked up a stomach bug that caused to destroy his bed on friday evening, so that wrote off the night... so, i got out last night at 9pm (still a bit of light) and set off up the hill on foot. twas rough given it had been a good 2 weeks since i was out last. but, i made it to the cross, then on to the top of the hill behind it - my second phase target achievement point when i started the rough cycling last summer. then descended a slightly longer way to stretch it out and my phone battery died before i was finished! luckily strava recovered most of it when i turned it back on, so it wasnt all lost. might get lucky later on and get another hoofer done. earlier though, 9pm is too feckin late to be going on an hour plus run..

i dunno about a mondeo but i got bored while on the phone outsude my car today at work so tried it.. can confirm - 2013 mk2 octavia diesel - this doesnt work

worth remembering that carparts4less and exp are the same company... so not surprised neither could tell you..

our green paety minister for transport suggested we "slow down" "avoid 1 journey a week" among other things to cope with thw fuel crisis. fine suggestions in theory but as he is also a stumbling dope of a man (referred to russia as "the USSR, eh i mean Soviet Un... eheheh russia" in an interview) noone take him seriously. as the dept responsible for providing public funding for public transport projects he is signing off on way more money for me to spend in work though so i think hes great....

or maybe its a mondeo thing?

actually, june isnt that far away 😳

and the woods.. into the trees... only 4.5k to go from Sir Thomas's Bridge, up the Blueway