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Post by Humph on Oct 25, 2016 18:41:03 GMT
Near Bannockburn that.😉 (where the Scots put an, albeit temporary, stop to an immigration issue of the time)
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Post by Avant on Oct 25, 2016 21:42:46 GMT
If you have a connection with Scotland, it has that hold on you. I've never lived there but my mum came from Edinburgh and I still have cousins there. Either to see them or for work, I must have been to Scotland every year of my life, and going to Edinburgh I have a curious feeling of 'coming home;' rather than going - especially if I'm not in a hurry and can go on the A68 from Bishop Auckland over the bleak Durham moors via Tow Law, down into the Tyne Valley, up into the Cheviot Hills and over Carter Bar. Then I'll come back via A701/A74M/M6 and try to stay a night in what I still like to call Westmorland. The Eden Valley was well-named Eden: the tourists bound for the Lake District and Yorkshire Dales tend to miss it.
PS - I do find it irritating being called a Junior member - do we really have to be graded? As I moderate the HJ forum, I don't have time to post on here all that often.
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Post by WDB on Oct 26, 2016 5:59:36 GMT
Oi, Avant! Toast. Now!
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Post by Hofmeister on Oct 26, 2016 7:07:20 GMT
Thats the trouble with fags, they are always getting uppity, never know their place.
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Post by Humph on Oct 26, 2016 8:27:35 GMT
Your mother was from Edinburgh Avant? Makes perfect sense now, you always have seemed to be quite naturally a bit of a cut above both intellectually and culturally. 😉
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Post by tyrednexited on Oct 26, 2016 8:52:27 GMT
Your mother was from Edinburgh Avant? Makes perfect sense now, you always have seemed to be quite naturally a bit of a cut above both intellectually and culturally. 😉 Muirhouse, not Morningside, though.......  |
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Post by Deleted on Oct 31, 2016 10:27:18 GMT
Well by enormous coincidence I've just spent the best part of a week in and around Stirlingshire/Dunbartonshire. I was billeted on the banks of Loch Lomond, right on the border of West Dunbartonshire and Argyle & Bute, and spent some time up in a village where my father's family hail from, Drymen. A village which claims to possess the oldest licensed pub in Scotland. Which I visited of course. Lovely grub and local whisky (Glengoyne). Had a day out in Edinburgh and one in Stirling. I really like Stirling and the surrounding country, as described by Espada above.
Went up last Saturday, but had to come back on Tuesday to collect son from a school trip, and drove back again on the Wednesday morning and home once again this Saturday just gone. Many miles put on the E Class, just short of 2k in all.
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Post by WDB on Oct 31, 2016 10:53:31 GMT
400 miles each way and you did it twice in a week? I know an E is as good a machine as any for long trips but that's still more than I'd have fancied.
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Post by Humph on Oct 31, 2016 10:56:31 GMT
Yeah, welcome to my world ! 😕
How's your back Al? Must be all knotted up what with all that leaning to one side?
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Post by WDB on Oct 31, 2016 10:57:53 GMT
Vić, you didn't mention you had a bootful of Crocs.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 31, 2016 11:33:20 GMT
Strangely, with the car loaded with people and suitcases, it seems to have corrected the lean a bit. It's not as bad as it was and sometimes seems fully gone. Hey ho.
The car did one of those limp modes on the final journey back - pulling over and restarting the engine cleared it. Again, no warning light on the dash. I expect the diagnostics are right and there's a moderately dodgy sensor in the turbo. Not worth replacing the turbo unless it becomes a regular embuggerance I suppose.
The gearbox is still a bit "tuggy" when cold after the oil change, but once up to temperature it's fine. So, I think I will live with all three things for now - no need to spend until they actually cause a "showstopper" problem, if at all. Maybe another gearbox oil change next year.
I think I'll probably keep the car 4 more years.
As for WDBs' comment about distance, yes, it was a bit of an ask of me I suppose. But I had no choice really other than trying to do it by train, which was more expensive and I wouldn't have liked being stuck on a broken down train between Glasgow and Reading with an 11 year old waiting for me at the other end. At least in a the car if there were traffic problems then google satnav would have been my friend. I had a night in my own bed between journeys, so no biggie really. I like driving and don't often get to do long ones. And there's Tebay Services to enjoy, along with the Preston-Loch Lomond scenery.
The car used a bit more than half a tank on each journey, which I think is quite remarkable. Really quite frugal.
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Post by WDB on Oct 31, 2016 11:36:22 GMT
It is a big tank! Mine showed 42 on the computer for the Durham trip. Probably more like 39 in reality which is as good as it ever gets. Wouldn't call it frugal but not bad for a heavy, commodious car.
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Post by Humph on Oct 31, 2016 11:41:28 GMT
One of the many things that went wrong with my Espace was a partial collapsing of one side of the rear suspension. Ok I had been using it to collect paving slabs when it happened, might have asked a bit much if it on reflection, I drove around with it like that for a few days on the basis that it would sooner or later need a dealer visit fir some other enforced reason but then one day I went a bit too quickly over a speed jump and it cured itself.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 31, 2016 12:00:06 GMT
It is a big tank! Mine showed 42 on the computer for the Durham trip. Probably more like 39 in reality which is as good as it ever gets. Wouldn't call it frugal but not bad for a heavy, commodious car. Aye, but you have to push yours harder, with it being a small 4-cyl engine.
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Post by WDB on Oct 31, 2016 12:13:25 GMT
Wouldn't have expected you to fall for a fleecy myth like that, Vić. Any car will burn fuel at a rate determined by the mass it has to move and the amount of air it has to displace to move it. Which means your 6 and my 4 might come out about the same - possibly with an adjustment for different emissions standards - but not that yours will use less because it's 'working less hard'.
Next you'll be telling us you drive in fourth in town because it saves fuel.
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