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  1. 10th June 2022, 04:55 PM #1
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    Jilden aka bee utey

    Just copying this post here from the Mods section that many don't look at.

    Sad news indeed. DL


    Memorial for Beeutey

    Hello,
    Just wondering if there is any official memorial thread for Jilden Reichardt? I had a search around and couldn't find one. Perhaps if there is one already, this post could be re-homed there.

    Lovely, knowledgeable and talented fellow who kindly shared allot of his time here. He deserves to have a few hundred pages of people saying nice things about him.

    Watching him work was like nothing else. A cross between a musician with total mastery of their instrument and Scrapheap Challenge. The first time we met he diagnosed and fixed the ignition in our V8 County in a matter of minutes using parts he has just sitting under his house and barely charged us anything. He also converted the County to EFI with great economy and skill, tidying up and modernising the LPG while he was at it. He came to us to fix a brake line and ended up sorting out a steering wobble that other mechanics had dismissed for years as "just an old car thing".

    Everyone we sent to him came back with a blank expression of shock. Who'd have thought a red motor could start so easily on gas in an Adelaide-hills winter? What do you mean a 35 year old petrol V8 can be daily-driven without incident and surprising fuel economy? How did such a good repair cost so little?

    Truely a born engineer and problem solver. I wish we'd met him decades earlier. He will be missed.

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  2. 10th June 2022, 05:16 PM #2
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    Oh no! Such sad news! My thoughts and prayers are with his family.

    I never met Jilden, but he had been a huge help for me on this forum over the years. Much of the confidence I have in maintaining and tuning my V8 County (which is my daily driver and family expedition vehicle) is due to what he taught me.

    Whenever I meet fellow Land Rover owners who are struggling with their V8's or LPG I always tell them to join AULRO and ask beeutey!

    What a loss.

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    I has never met Jilden but he was very helpful on here and a true gent. Very sad indeed.
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    Sad and unexpected news. He was always happy to freely offer advice on most things automotive, but particularly knowledgeable on LPG and solar power. It was quite obvious that he was a true gentleman, when you met him.
    Sincere condolences to family and friends.
    RIP Jilden.
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    Oh no, this is extremely sad news Jilden aka bee uteyJilden aka bee utey
    Rest in peace Jilden.

    Can the world please stop taking the good ones now Jilden aka bee uteyJilden aka bee utey
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    Very sad - he’s was always so helpful and willing to lend his time and expertise to anyone that needed it.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Epic_Dragon View Post
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    Can the world please stop taking the good ones now Jilden aka bee uteyJilden aka bee utey
    The good ones go first........... the rest need further 'education'.

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    A great loss to the LR community indeed, I don't and never have owned a LPG vehicle and even I know he was a very knowledgeable and helpful expert.
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    This is very sad news indeed. Like many others I never met him face to face but I did talk to him via phone a number of times and still have him in my phone contacts.

    Like others have said, he was a real gentleman and always willing to offer a helping hand - i have some of his gear on my 101 and a big box of modern LPG equipment that he provided to go onto the engine some day.

    A top bloke who will be sadly missed from both the personal side and from the technical side.

    My condolences to his family.

    RIP Jilden you will be missed.

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    Sad, another good one gone... :-(

    Though I never met beeutey, he was always keen to assist when I was sorting problems with the P76 v8 in my old stage 1. He even sent me a few missing carby linkage bits for postage cost only.

    Rest in peace mate.
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