As a Telegraph reader (no I am not a raving Tory or a fan of our increasingly our increasingly monotonous political leaders)

Get in there UKIP!!!

I buy the paper for excellent sports coverage and various other sections with good information even if many of the contributors are way up their own backsides and great letters from readers and of course Matt cartoons.

Honest John is very informative in the Saturday Motoring section but seems to be obsesive in his hatred of the Dpf. Are we diesel owners all going to end up bankrupt in smouldering wreck. Surely they would not fit them if they were c-ap and newer versions are less problematic!!

Anyway back to today and hidden in the rest of the half hundedweight of newspaper and supplements is an extra one, an 8 page "New Car Guide"

Very thin on content but with one page headed SUVs written by some very doubtful bloke (could be a lass?) Kyle Fortune obviously a posh boy whose dad had an MGB (BOB) and sent him to a third rate public school where he got a D in English and ended up as tea lad on the motoring section on the Colchester free paper.now waiting to inherit his fortune of get a job in a B movie.

After various chat about the Land Rover Offerings including the daft brass, funny looking back end evoq, Toyota find me a sand dune sandcruiser,

overpriced BMW,Audi,Mercs,boring heavy Volvos, and Froggie half arsed attempts.Far east jelly mould jobbies and the uber naff Ford Koo Stark.

Then before the mention of our great snow monster the lack of immigration control, cheap as chips, watch the lead on your roof buy some lucky pegs get me some Pledge to polish with my Duster.

On to the magnificent YETI

Quote " offers a brilliant all round package package" YES WE ALL AGREE but then.......

"though like so many of the affordable SUVs it doesn`t feature four wheel drive" DO YOUR HOMEWORK KYLIE BOY

Concludes we have a car with rugged good looks which we all agree about, bet he like rugged good looks.

Rant over, not worth a pint but perhaps a drink for the posh boy :cocktail:

Cheers

Peter.

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Perhaps "rich boy's" fag can bring him a suitable drink..........................nightshade and arsenic cocktail perhaps?

what's wrong with posh boys then?

Nothing George, just this particular "rich boy" who has obviously done NO research.

(Still at work so my trip to The Village Hall is looking for likely! If I'd left early I was going to marshal a car rally in Hafren)

Wrote that post specially for you Graham as I thought you might be working. I was ploughing through the newsprint drinking 2 or 3 large glasses of Argie Malbec.Best thing from galtieri land since corned beef!!!

Oh and George I went to public scool briefly and was a fag but I`m not posh, bet you went to Gordonstoun before Vitnery School. Do you need to be posh to be a vet or have strong hands and get on well with animals.

Cheers (sorry cant give you both a pint as smilies not working)

Peter

Thanks for the excellent article Peter and without doubt a better read than your paper.

Not that I read papers, other than the occasional glance at the Saturday edition of the Yorkshire Posts TV supplement during the week, in a forlorn effort to see if there's anything worth watching between the ever increasing sing, dance, skate, jungle, brother, street, enders etc. drivel, IMHO of course.

TP

what's wrong with posh boys then?

Freshacre - Only because I'm bored, feeling a bit mischievous today, and know once we go up 'the fields' to help my son on his land we'll be sweating buckets doing dry stone walling so I'll take it out on someone else..........

.........was your text above a typo? Should it have read, "What's right with posh boys then?" lol ;-)

(I hasten to add before anyone burns me at the stake, Freshacre will see this as the good banter it is, and I, in my defence, teach Military Skills to the local Private [Posh boy & Girl] School Combined Cadet Force every Thursday, and they are thoroughly nice kids)

(Furthermore - I'm an ex-squaddie of 23 years and it's just inbred to take the micky!)

HI TP

Only started getting the Telegraph when I retired and had time to read it used to get our national paper the YP every day but still get one on Saturday if only for the Country Section (George you would like that bit) and Ian Macmillans Yorkshire slant on life in general in the magazine,

Good walk in YP near Fridaythorpe last week which we might do later this week if it stays dry and we can get some gardening done.

Cheers :beer: :beer:

Peter

More interesting perhaps was the CAR mag 2nd hand SUV section this month. Old X5 for Yeti money anyone?

As for unresearched newspaper articles ... always insider the motivation of the newspaper proprietor (doing a favour to a dealer owner?), editor (selling ads or even had help writing it from a manufacturer?), or writer (had a nice lunch with some PR team?). And never underestimate the possibility of incompetence ! ;-)

Good walk in YP near Fridaythorpe last week which we might do later this week if it stays dry and we can get some gardening done.

Cheers :beer: :beer:

Peter

There's a very good 6/7 mile circular out of Fridaythorpe to Huggate (good pub food), which cuts across Huggate Wold, around Horse Dale and back via Holm Dale; same walk :wonder: Can be found in Pathfinder Guide No. 49.

Also try this if not already aware of the site;

http://walkingtheriding.eastriding.gov.uk/home/

TP

Pedant alert.

How can you walk a riding? Surely that is contradictory?

I'll get my coat on the way out............................

I quite agree with your comment on Honest John's dislike of DPFs.

I have a Yeti SE 110PS CR which is coming up for 8000 miles and 2 years of enjoyable driving.

Does this mean I should be worried and put some money aside for repairs?

Has anyone had major problems with the DPF

No

No, not in 50k miles.

Just give it a good run in a lower gear than you would normally to get it good and hot, I do this about once a month no problems so far .

No problems in 60k miles!

I had no issues at all in 54000 miles prior to selling it in exchange for the same engine in a 'Berb.

It is a magical diesel - though I can't comment about those 'lesser lumps' of 140 and 110 b-h-pees.

Had a DPF failure in a Toyota T180 a few years ago. Replaced under warranty no issues but dealer suggested that I was being too soft on the engine and a hard bit of exercise once a month would do the trick such as holding lower gear than I would normally do for a couple of miles is sufficient. Not talking redlining, just work her a bit every so often. It was first diesel I'd had so blissfully ignorant.

There's a very good 6/7 mile circular out of Fridaythorpe to Huggate (good pub food), which cuts across Huggate Wold, around Horse Dale and back via Holm Dale; same walk :wonder: Can be found in Pathfinder Guide No. 49.

Also try this if not already aware of the site;

http://walkingtherid...ng.gov.uk/home/

TP

Thanks TP looks a great site and the walk you mentioned would be just the job as we say in Yorkshire.

Looks as though weather will be a problem later in the week so must get back to my chainsaw before it starts raining!

Cheers :beer:

Peter.

Now I know why I've always read "The independent", but to be honest they all probably talk rubbish ;-)

JeZ