Max6979
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I bought the new BS7671 ( Big Yellow Book) last week and as I handed over the cash I immediately regretted it. What item have you bought which caused immediate regret?
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What Is The Worst Item You Bought?
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Is that because you got them in the wrong order?In a fantasy world What would you get RR? Ball n chain?
Just Pondering...
As for the worst thing I have bought electrical: a bahco electricians knife, you'd get better quality in an Xmas cracker and a butter knife would be sharper!
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Just hopingIs that because you got them in the wrong order? NEVER SAID THEY ERE FOR THE SAME PERSON,
In a fantasy world What would you get RR? Ball n chain? BALL AND CHAIN WOULD BE A WASTE OF TIME, SHE WOULD NOT WANT TO GET AWAY FROM ME. I could get her something to put her clothes in so they did not get ruined for the next couple of months
Just Pondering...
As for the worst thing I have bought electrical: a bahco electricians knife, you'd get better quality in an Xmas cracker and a butter knife would be sharper!
An XS750 Yamaha. Pile of crap. Moral, never buy a motorbike in the dark without test riding it!!!!!!!!!
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A Fiat Punto...
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A Mk 4 Ford Cortina.
I still can't think what possessed me to buy it. It was a saloon car FFS, I don't normally "do" saloon cars, such impractical things, and it was a carp tow car as well. It was probably just that the car before was a heap of ferrous oxide and this guy offered me a sensible trade in for that pile of rust.
It was the first car I ever had with automatic choke, and Ford had not yet learned how to make an automatic choke that worked. Fine starting from cold, but drive it 10 miles, nice and warm, park it for 10 minutes and it would not start. You had to crank it over and over and over again with your foot to the floor and eventually it would go. I was convinced it was putting the choke on when not needed and flooding it.
I kept it for less than a year, which is a short time for me.
It jumped it's cam belt a tooth within a week of buying it, but in fairness that was sorted under the warranty by the dealer.
I still can't think what possessed me to buy it. It was a saloon car FFS, I don't normally "do" saloon cars, such impractical things, and it was a carp tow car as well. It was probably just that the car before was a heap of ferrous oxide and this guy offered me a sensible trade in for that pile of rust.
It was the first car I ever had with automatic choke, and Ford had not yet learned how to make an automatic choke that worked. Fine starting from cold, but drive it 10 miles, nice and warm, park it for 10 minutes and it would not start. You had to crank it over and over and over again with your foot to the floor and eventually it would go. I was convinced it was putting the choke on when not needed and flooding it.
I kept it for less than a year, which is a short time for me.
It jumped it's cam belt a tooth within a week of buying it, but in fairness that was sorted under the warranty by the dealer.
One was a Fiat Ducato / Talbot |Express transit type van , the cheapest piece of mobile carp ever to take to the roads .
And recently , my own fault, a Region 1 DVD .
Oh and a Bahco (+) (-) MCB screwdriver small version , ....flutes just sheared off .
And recently , my own fault, a Region 1 DVD .
Oh and a Bahco (+) (-) MCB screwdriver small version , ....flutes just sheared off .
I had a fiat fiorino ,
great little van,
so basic it almost ran on a wound up rubber band,
everything could be fixed with a socket set,
I made an engine mount out of uni strut for mine,
great little van,
so basic it almost ran on a wound up rubber band,
everything could be fixed with a socket set,
I made an engine mount out of uni strut for mine,
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Bought the daughters a Fiat Cinquecento
fire engined model
Had a heated rear window fitted to it as we pushed it so many times in winter
fire engined model
Had a heated rear window fitted to it as we pushed it so many times in winter
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What was wrong with it??
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The good thing about those though, was that they were zero-interference. So if the cam belt went, then chances are all it would need would be a new cambelt. No bent valves etc
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I once had a 2.0L Ford Cortina that was the same regarding the timing as I found out when the cam belt broke in the middle of Glasgow. Car stopped lifted up the bonnet saw frayed bits sticking out from the cam belt cover. Fortunately just along the road was a car spares outlet (can't remember which one) so I bought a new cam and with a few simple tools in the boot of the car mainly a 1/2 AF socket and a shifter I think, I took off the cam belt cover, removed the old cam belt, lined up the timing marks fitted the new belt and was away in about 45 minutes job done.
Unfortunately like all the Fords I owned in the 80's and early 90's rust beat them, and although I could sort a Ford mechanically at that time I was rubbish at and didn't enjoy sorting the bodywork.
Lucky it was the 2.0 & not the 1.6 ltr Ford as that recked the engine.
