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Location: Liskeard
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Brilliant vantage point for them!
Ben looks something like this:
2011 - 2015: 3 x FL2
2015 - 2017: 2 x D4
2017 to date: FFRR SDV8
2023 to date: 2 x FL2 as “second” cars 🙄
2021 to date: Hinckley built ‘14 Triumph Trophy 1200
2022 to date: Hinckley built ‘14 Triumph Trophy 1200 & sidecar!
(One of only two known to exist in the world!)
18th Apr 2015 5:39 pm
DSL Keeper of the wheelie bin
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18th Apr 2015 5:45 pm
DSL Keeper of the wheelie bin
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Location: Off again! :-)
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SWEEEEEEEEEEEET!! As Clarkson would say.
Re vantage point, especially when the occasional pheasant or cat wanders into the garden.
Talking of going off topic, it looks like your dog's a bit bigger than mine!
Maybe yours is just further away?
18th Apr 2015 6:08 pm
Red Merle
Member Since: 30 Aug 2014
Location: Liskeard
Posts: 7441
I think this qualifies as going brilliantly off topic now! 2011 - 2015: 3 x FL2
2015 - 2017: 2 x D4
2017 to date: FFRR SDV8
2023 to date: 2 x FL2 as “second” cars 🙄
2021 to date: Hinckley built ‘14 Triumph Trophy 1200
2022 to date: Hinckley built ‘14 Triumph Trophy 1200 & sidecar!
(One of only two known to exist in the world!)
18th Apr 2015 6:16 pm
DSL Keeper of the wheelie bin
Member Since: 11 May 2006
Location: Off again! :-)
Posts: 73085
It's what we do so well.
18th Apr 2015 6:18 pm
Hairy Dan
Member Since: 19 Jan 2011
Location: Co. Durham
Posts: 12319
Guy wrote:
Maybe yours is just further away?
Cheers Ian
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Turbos more prone to problems?
Same engine?
Same gearbox?
Just a face lift?
Don't recognise any of that at all.
Del,
Turbo's go if you don't use them.
Engine was updated as well as increased CC's Most of the issues on the later ones are sorted.
Gearbox - nope, even the 6speed was the later 6HP28 rather than the 26 in the early D3's (I think the 28 went in the D3 from about 2008?)
And the gearbox's are actually pretty reliable if they are looked after and the oils changed properly.Mark.
2006, D3 SE Auto - gone but not forgotten.
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19th Apr 2015 8:19 am
DSL Keeper of the wheelie bin
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My turbo gets used, just not all of the time.
19th Apr 2015 9:37 am
Ent
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I think there has been 3 revisions to the 3l power plant.Club Exped trailer
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19th Apr 2015 9:47 am
RODDO
Member Since: 06 Jan 2015
Location: Sheffield
Posts: 44
I'm told Highways England as they are now will be running Berlingo vans soon.
No it's not a joke, it's all in a cost saving exercise
20th Apr 2015 6:23 pm
Red Merle
Member Since: 30 Aug 2014
Location: Liskeard
Posts: 7441
I have a lot more respect for the Wombles now that I've stopped and spoken to them, but I'd still pay to watch them try and retrieve a 44 tonne lorry with a Berlingo van!
May we assume that, if they are running Citroens, they'll be shortening their change cycle from 3 years / 300,000 miles to somewhere nearer to 2 1/2 months / 20,000 miles? That'll be a lot of landfill....2011 - 2015: 3 x FL2
2015 - 2017: 2 x D4
2017 to date: FFRR SDV8
2023 to date: 2 x FL2 as “second” cars 🙄
2021 to date: Hinckley built ‘14 Triumph Trophy 1200
2022 to date: Hinckley built ‘14 Triumph Trophy 1200 & sidecar!
(One of only two known to exist in the world!)
20th Apr 2015 6:35 pm
RODDO
Member Since: 06 Jan 2015
Location: Sheffield
Posts: 44
They also have a strain gauge on the disco's/shoguns and have been stopped pulling LGV's
Basically they will turn up, cone off and wait at scene for a recovery operator when the sh-t happens on the motorways.
20th Apr 2015 7:28 pm
Red Merle
Member Since: 30 Aug 2014
Location: Liskeard
Posts: 7441
But Berlingo's! No one's ever going to take them seriously! It'd be like turning up in a Renault 4....
Then there's the small matter of keeping the roads clear and the emergency services running when the rubbish weather arrives. But then, when I think of snow drifts and floods, I often think "Citroen Berlingo van". So, that's alright then!2011 - 2015: 3 x FL2
2015 - 2017: 2 x D4
2017 to date: FFRR SDV8
2023 to date: 2 x FL2 as “second” cars 🙄
2021 to date: Hinckley built ‘14 Triumph Trophy 1200
2022 to date: Hinckley built ‘14 Triumph Trophy 1200 & sidecar!
(One of only two known to exist in the world!)
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20th Apr 2015 7:36 pm
Russell
Member Since: 23 Aug 2007
Location: Kent
Posts: 10564
RODDO wrote:
I'm told Highways England as they are now will be running Berlingo vans soon.
No it's not a joke, it's all in a cost saving exercise
Think someone is pulling your leg. They will not last amonth before they fall apart. We are light on cars and had a C8 for 16 months it looked like it was 10 years old and had had 2 turbos and major engiine work, 3 front seat replacments and wanted another and one of the rear seats had been replaced as well.MY17 D5 1st Edition Namib Orange
MY15 D4 HSE Kaikoura Stone
MY12 D4 HSE Nara Bronze Sold and gone
MY11 D4 HSE Stornaway Grey Sold and gone
D3 S spec Silver Sold and gone
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