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A question for Island dwellers off the mainland?
SteveD CB500K0:
Hendon.
Daughter’s graduation.
2015
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Green1:
Mersea a place where the strood has caught me out more than once. I'v been mad enough to cross it when I should have known better. The Aprilia has gained most of its corrosion crossing that bugger and even snapped a chain because I was to lazy to clean it.
Never understood the don't need your brakes due to regen argument. I only ever change the disks and pads once in a vans lifetime. At 140k on my Ranger and 135k on the Doblo. I don't expect to do it again until at least 260k.
Disks on the back are a stupid idea my DRW Transit is due another set of discs due to the lack of use and full of corrosion ::)
McCabe-Thiele (Ted):
--- Quote from: SteveD CB500K0 on January 12, 2025, 07:56:01 PM ---Hendon.
Daughter’s graduation.
2015
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That photo takes me back Steve, our Unit Beat Car Moggies could all be opened & started with the same key due to wear in the lock cylinders. Even though I was 23 in 1971 having held a full car licence since I was 17 I was not allowed to drive a Panda until I had passed my Panda only test, you were not allowed to use the Blue light until you had passed your Standard Driving Course that was 3 weeks residential course at HQ. The Ventoras were fitted with rear L plates & a driver under instruction plate. It was a 3.3 Litre Vauxhall Ventora police spec, standard Victor Trim with Ventura mechanicals. Best part of the course was the skid pan at HQ driving an old battered Zodiac.
taysidedragon:
My dad was Scenes of Crime, iirc they had unmarked Viva HA vans to get around in. Later on some bright spark in purchasing decided that it was a good idea to buy Mini vans for 6 foot plus officers. Not a popular decision.
We're well off the original thread, none of these cars would have survived for long on salt-swept islands!
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