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by Metro1000
Fri Jul 10, 2020 10:43 pm
Forum: The Tow Bar
Topic: How do you handle death?
Replies: 63
Views: 22416

Re: How do you handle death?

Ian, There are many similar quotes out there, but George Eliot's "Our dead are never dead to us, until we have forgotten them", sums most of them up nicely, and steers us well along the path that we should, at our own pace, tread when faced with the death of our loved ones. During the height of lock...
by Metro1000
Tue Apr 02, 2019 11:24 am
Forum: The Tow Bar
Topic: Change of car............ Again.
Replies: 22
Views: 14284

Re: Change of car............ Again.

"Has a harddrive to upload music too - much like the BMW does" So does my 2008 407, 20GB, but it shares that with the maps. Nice to see VAG are getting with the times :lol: "But time will tell how I get on with it - given its basically an A6 - which I've had 2 of in the past - I'm sure it will be fi...
by Metro1000
Tue Nov 13, 2018 6:58 am
Forum: The Tow Bar
Topic: First Car..........
Replies: 44
Views: 26911

Re: First Car..........

Now for the next one..... :headbang:
by Metro1000
Wed Aug 15, 2018 6:32 am
Forum: The Tow Bar
Topic: First Car..........
Replies: 44
Views: 26911

Re: First Car..........

Shame that, but she is in good company,most of us failed it once. "choosing a safe place to park" is the one that caught me out in 1981. Lauren got a cancellation after two weeks,but you have to be flexible on timing, so keep Cassie practicing every day
by Metro1000
Fri Aug 10, 2018 10:24 pm
Forum: The Tow Bar
Topic: First Car..........
Replies: 44
Views: 26911

Re: First Car..........

Enough for a handbag and some spare shoes as i recall from the one I had as a loaner once..
by Metro1000
Fri Aug 10, 2018 10:09 pm
Forum: The Tow Bar
Topic: First Car..........
Replies: 44
Views: 26911

Re: First Car..........

A particularly excellent choice Mark. Now on my 8th Peugeot. Does it have a wine compartment in the boot? :-o
by Metro1000
Mon Jul 10, 2017 9:36 pm
Forum: General
Topic: Calling electronics gurus
Replies: 13
Views: 8054

Re: Calling electronics gurus

Yes, indeed, I forgot to change the liquid phase filter as it was well hidden inside the reducer. I eventually got one from Latvia for a few quid. The real problem was "heavy ends" (oil remnants in the gas) building up inside the injectors, a half hour strip down and some petrol fixes that. System w...
by Metro1000
Fri Jan 13, 2017 6:16 pm
Forum: General
Topic: What have you done to your D3 this week?
Replies: 2016
Views: 475200

Re: What have you done to your D3 this week?

Send three of them on the train
by Metro1000
Fri Jan 13, 2017 5:32 pm
Forum: General
Topic: What have you done to your D3 this week?
Replies: 2016
Views: 475200

Re: What have you done to your D3 this week?

Clive,
Yes, and I doubt he will be keeping the D3 as a weekend toy. So yes, the end of an era, although I am doing the Bardenas Reales in the Peugeot in early June...
by Metro1000
Sun Apr 17, 2016 9:43 pm
Forum: Non Club Events
Topic: Les Comes 2016
Replies: 145
Views: 70670

Re: Les Comes 2016

Are the Polish rear seat occupants planning to join us. They'd deffo need to be in the last group, and at the end of it. :lol: :lol: Well Jessica would sign up in a heartbeat. Like myself, she enjoys good company, local food and drink, and snores like a pig. She has tried to persuade me to "do" Spa...