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Liteace
8th January, 2011, 11:01 AM
No safety on the production line, gloves, hard hats and you didnt need a 4x4 with masive wheels to get through the snow

http://www.youtube.com/swf/l.swf?video_id=S4KrIMZpwCY
Liteace
5th May, 2011, 08:43 PM
I pulled the steering wheel off me 1986 Toyoya (shed) liteace today as I had to take out clocks to spay a bit of UB40 down speedo cable cause it had a squeak thay was doing my ~~~~~ing head in, its stopped now. I had to take a pic of the horn connector, I cant believe its done 26 years & 760.000Klms of work on windy roads and its still OK, WTF did they make them out of in those days


http://www.digital-kaos.co.uk/forums/members/44003-liteace/albums/saxo/4878-img-0342.jpg


http://www.digital-kaos.co.uk/forums/members/44003-liteace/albums/saxo/4879-img-0343.jpg
Meat-Head
5th May, 2011, 09:06 PM
done 26 years & 760.000Klms of work on windy roads and its still OK, WTF did they make them out of in those days



had a low milage escort in once, it was basically a pilr od phosper-bronze poo

Yes it's lasted, dare for for a laugh to price a new one.
guess ?125689087

Had alternater brushes done over 100k
Liteace
5th May, 2011, 09:14 PM
Ive never touched the alternater on this in the time Ive had it, I cant see it lasting that much longer but you never know !
Meat-Head
5th May, 2011, 11:12 PM
Ive never touched the alternater on this in the time Ive had it, I cant see it lasting that much longer but you never know !

off topic:-


Tlphone Portable + Mas = Pop-corn (http://www.koreus.com/video/telephone-portable-mais-popcorn.html)
rideon
12th May, 2011, 09:40 PM
No safety on the production line, gloves, hard hats and you didnt need a 4x4 with masive wheels to get through the snow

http://www.youtube.com/swf/l.swf?video_id=S4KrIMZpwCY
Yeap,'good old days' ,nowadays life is much easy
YouTube - Controller Area Network for Vehicle Applications
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The day when a customer will come in with the dashboard blue with 'a critical error has occurred 'is not that far....
A Picture Worth a Thousand Words:
Meat-Head
12th May, 2011, 10:12 PM
The day when a customer will come in with the dashboard blue with 'a critical error has occurred 'is not that far....
A Picture Worth a Thousand Words:

at least you can say 'it's ~~~~ed, you need a new one'