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Post by Deleted on Aug 30, 2016 15:49:19 GMT
Just had the police on the line, my wife has been hit by a truck while driving the Landcruiser. She's ok, the Landcruiser less so.
I think the police just want me to go down to stop her killing the truck driver.
The bloody thing was going to the garage to be sold tomorrow (the car that is). Will I never get shot of it?
More details later.
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Post by Humph on Aug 30, 2016 15:55:29 GMT
Glad your wife is ok. The car is just a car. Hope it all works out for you.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 30, 2016 17:42:17 GMT
Lets hope the wife is fine and the plastic Jap a write off (....and not the other way around).
Now for some Man Maths - with what to replace the Landcruiser?
Subaru?
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Post by Deleted on Aug 30, 2016 18:39:02 GMT
Wife is fine, although its worth tiptoeing around just now.
The LC has lost a rear light and a chunk of plastic trim down the side. Having retrieved the bits if they were metal they'd want a bit of sanding, filling and spraying.
But they're plastic so the little mounting bits are all broken and ao they need replacing at about a squidrillion dollars each and no doubt a 40yr lead time.
Shitty plastic POS.
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Post by Humph on Aug 30, 2016 18:46:40 GMT
You can make a very neat temporary rear light lens with Quality Street wrappers . Don't ask me how I know, it's complicated. But all the required colours are available.
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Post by tyrednexited on Aug 30, 2016 19:04:35 GMT
...I suspect the Chilean lead-time for Quality Street may also be quite long.......
....though a tin might fit in the diplomatic bag if they eject the Ferrero Rocher....
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Post by WDB on Aug 30, 2016 19:13:26 GMT
Bad luck, but good to hear it was the car that took the damage.
Modern cars do seem to be made of clipped together plastic bits that break at the slightest provocation and are expensive to replace when they do. The fleeces would tell you to get an ancient Land Rover, but isn't the problem there that there are no plastic bits to break, so everything else breaks instead?
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Post by Humph on Aug 30, 2016 19:16:23 GMT
I loved my old Land Rover, and yes bits fell off it fairly often but you could just nail them back on mostly.
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Post by tyrednexited on Aug 30, 2016 19:23:35 GMT
...not quite as comfortable as mine, of course, but one of these might suit the old lifestyle admirably........  |
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Post by Humph on Aug 30, 2016 19:29:48 GMT
Hell of a roof box ! Not immediately obviously all that aerodynamic. I note it has an "awning" though. I'm given to understand that they are to be desired and admired in certain circles. My brother in law is terribly proud of his.
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Post by tyrednexited on Aug 30, 2016 19:32:57 GMT
i'm not sure if you're joking or not, but that's a tent! (no good for someone with my knees, but reasonably snake-proof)  .  |
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Post by Humph on Aug 30, 2016 19:35:18 GMT
Oh right, no I genuinely thought it was a roof box. Funny old place to put a tent eh?
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Post by tyrednexited on Aug 30, 2016 19:37:02 GMT
....well, where else would you put one on a Landy..........  IWOOT! |
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Post by Humph on Aug 30, 2016 19:40:26 GMT
I wouldn't start there. ( as someone once said )
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Post by Deleted on Aug 30, 2016 19:47:37 GMT
Funnily enough an English couple just came past driving all over LA in one of those....   |
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