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Originally Posted by Tombie
Is the pop rivet for cleaning your teeth?
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Originally Posted by Tombie
Is the pop rivet for cleaning your teeth?
I normally offer customers to take with them:
*a genuine fuel filter
*top turbo hose (2.7 or the 3.0) although I tend to say suck it up and change it before they go.
*a cheap **** diagnostic tool for clearing codes.
*I prey and give a sacrifice to the engine gods.
*Everything else your mechanic should have changed or recommended changing before you go (oh god putting myself in it now).
*make no mistake there is a degree of... anticipation... I dunno, there is something going on in my brain when customers say "we are off into the middle of the wild blue yonda"
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Originally Posted by DazzaTD5
And yep, we are off again in about 7-8 weeks for a trip to the Vic high country - yes, taking the brick.
That’s a piece of grass carried in by the Samoyed….Quote:
Originally Posted by gavinwibrow
I find it interesting…
People will drive their car a couple of hundred km a day without thought.
Put a weeks worth of driving in a day on the table and they start to panic about spares.
I trust my vehicle to go fine between servicing. So why panic about a trip in between those intervals.
Only stuff to solve life threatening situations is necessary.
No panic, but the difference between being able to fix it on the side of the road or a 1000km flat bed trip can influence ones mood. If my wife happened to be in the car when the flat bed was required, that could be life threatening.Quote:
Originally Posted by Tombie
You might have got a Wednesday car, but mine was built at 8am on a Monday morning after the entire factory went out on a 2 day weekend bender. **** breaks. Being able to fix it and carry on is one of lifes little pleasures. Admittedly the tools spend more time fixing other peoples stuff, but the consequential free food and booze is another of lifes little pleasures.
Indeed, I’m just wary carrying the weight as it’s a bigger contributor to breakdowns…
Sorry sweetie, you'll have to sit this one out. Your extra weight is making the Disco less reliable.Quote:
Originally Posted by Tombie
I might up my private health before I try that one.
That would be a brave move indeed [bigrolf]Quote:
Originally Posted by BradC
I trust mine too - The difference is location, location, location.Quote:
Originally Posted by Tombie
Around town I don't sweat, as should there be an issue i can catch a cab/uber where i'm going (or get in the backup car), and get it fixed nearby with parts already here. I also don't have a family in the back, with a limited hard-earned holiday leave window to work in.
I agree the urban cycle is 'arduous' in the servicing context, however to then take it through hundreds of km of corrugations, mud, water, loaded and towing, it is obviously a higher duty cycle again. If something was just 'hanging on' around town, it will fail on a trip like that. The car is wildly over-serviced, but it is also pushing 13 years old, with 230k km on the clock.
So, I think spending a few hundred $ to carry known vulnerable light-weight parts isn't that silly? Prematurely ending the trip will cost a LOT more than that...