No safety on the production line, gloves, hard hats and you didnt need a 4x4 with masive wheels to get through the snow
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8th January, 2011, 11:01 AM #1V.I.P. Member
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Not built like they used to be
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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
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had a low milage escort in once, it was basically a pilr od phosper-bronze poo
Originally Posted by Liteace
Yes it's lasted, dare for for a laugh to price a new one.
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Had alternater brushes done over 100k
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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 !
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off topic:- Originally Posted by Liteace
Tlphone Portable + Mas = Pop-corn
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Yeap,'good old days' ,nowadays life is much easy Originally Posted by Liteace
[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ajwzNfePQAo"]YouTube - Controller Area Network for Vehicle Applications[/ame]
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:Last edited by rideon; 12th May, 2011 at 09:51 PM.
A failure will not appear till a unit has passed final inspection
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at least you can say 'it's ~~~~ed, you need a new one' Originally Posted by rideon
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