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    #21
    Have you checked your tyre pressures?

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      #22
      FFS you are a contractor.

      Buy a new car, something expensive and eco unfriendly that belittles permies.

      HTH

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        #23
        Well, we'll have to wait and see if he can fix it. I'm still plumping for the starter switch.

        threaded in "I've had the same problem and it was the starter switch" mode.
        Insanity: repeating the same actions, but expecting different results.
        threadeds website, and here's my blog.

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          #24
          Originally posted by zeitghost
          I remember a similar fault on a Triumph Spitfire/Vitesse (a pile of tulipe if ever there was one...).

          Engine started ok, but stopped as soon as you let the key go.

          Turned out to be the ballast resistor to the coil (which is shorted out during starting...).

          That's very unlikely to be what's wrong with your car, but hey! I've got to keep my posting averages up.
          A Triumph Spitfire was the only car where I was unable (due to the front cross member getting in the way) to bonk inside... so took her outside & we did it over the boot..... down a dark country lane - suddenly illuminated by car coming around the bend... I ducked down into a ditch trousers around ankles leaving her to recover her composure alone!

          Ahhh whatever happened to.....
          How fortunate for governments that the people they administer don't think

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            #25
            Over the boot???
            How unromantic!!
            A true gentleman will shag a bird over the bonnet.
            hth
            We must strike at the lies that have spread like disease through our minds

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              #26
              Roger?

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                #27
                Originally posted by Fleetwood
                Over the boot???
                How unromantic!!
                A true gentleman will shag a bird over the bonnet.
                hth
                I tend to agree - I found TR7s to be a crap car but possessing a wonderful bonnet for polishing
                How fortunate for governments that the people they administer don't think

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                  #28
                  And just to completely hijack this thread the best bonking vehicle ever was a Series IIa LWB Land Rover...front bench seats or a matteress in the back
                  How fortunate for governments that the people they administer don't think

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                    #29
                    Originally posted by DimPrawn
                    Buy a new car, something expensive and eco unfriendly that belittles permies.
                    What? and look like a complete twat!

                    Those who drive huge 4x4s nowadays just look like drug-dealing lowlife (in the towns) and simply don't make any sort of statement in the country.

                    It's cool to be eco-friendly Prawn!

                    What subaquatic rock are you living under?

                    You've come right out the other side of the forest of irony and ended up in the desert of wrong.

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                      #30
                      I've done my bit for eco, I've traded down from a V12 to a V8.

                      HTH

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