I was looking for the source of a power steering leak on my old Maserati last week. Everything was covered in fluid with drips off all low lying parts. Sprayed it with brake cleaner (which appears to be paint friendly as it evaporates so quickly it doesn't get chance to soften the paintwork) so everything was clean and dry. Started the engine and could immediately see that it wasn't leaking from a hose or banjo joint as I'd hoped but I've got to take the rack off and source some suitable seals.....

Spray it all with brake cleaner which will clean it all off and evaporate very quickly leaving everything clean and dry. Then run it to see if you can see the origin.

Where did you disconnect them? Could be glove box light or sun visor mirror lights?

You only coming for the one day then? Normally we make a weekend of it.

Martyuk wrote:

My workshop is probably 15 miles south of Swindon - just outside Marlborough.

I've been there at least 4 times, so what made me think Reading???

Marty's workshop on a farm near Reading. Some book into a Premier Inn (with a pub attached), at least one in the past has bought a caravan though. In my case her indoors came with me, she was on cleaning the old foam and glue off headlining shells duties when we did the mass headlining session, otherwise buy her something nice so she lets you out to play cars for a weekend.

Martyuk wrote:

The next time I'm over there,

If you ever get over there before hitting retirement age..... A mate who's a full time professional musician has been told as the theatres are going to remain closed, he's unlikely to get any work until next year.

Best I can manage I'm afraid, can't find an LR number on it anywhere......

I'll have a look at the numbers on my old one tomorrow. My car is also a 98 and I suspect plod would have specified the 120A option. It died a couple of years ago after around 300k miles but it's on a shelf in the garage waiting for the time I decide whether to sling it or get it reconditioned.

If anyone needs their AC recharging, a mate has just started his own mobile business. He's using a Clio for doing that but as he completed a full restoration on one of the last soft dash, long wheelbase, Classics last year, he could always bung his kit in the back of that.

That way, if Simon came as well we could have an AC and LPG diagnostics session too.

I reckon we'd be looking at July or even August.

How did you get rid of the Joying logo along the bottom? That would annoy the hell out of me....

Same here, Maltings Off Road, fitted first time everything lined up. Cheap too.

Looking at the URL it looks like it's just the file name you've posted. Open the video, copy the URL from the address bar, start your post, click the URL/Link icon (fourth one along, looking like a chain), and paste the URL into the little box that pops up.

Morat wrote:

But no, there's no danger of any government seizing land in the UK. When land is needed for roads or w/e they have a thing called a CPO (Compulsory Purchase Order) where a value is calculated and the owner has to accept it.

There's the odd exception where they need to buy the land and offer a price, the owner rejects the offer so they up it until he does but just occasionally someone refuses to accept the offer no matter what it is. So you end up with a situation like this https://www.google.co.uk/maps/place/Whitefaced+Woodland+Sheep/@53.6415939,-1.9547333,663m/data=!3m1!1e3!4m13!1m7!3m6!1s0x487bda4f42ef164f:0x50ffd5e56e229444!2sM62!3b1!8m2!3d53.6625082!4d-1.8533994!3m4!1s0x487bc3fbb249a0cb:0xcf09aa3b3269ba94!8m2!3d53.6416195!4d-1.9520896?hl=en where a landowner refused to accept the offer (probably in the hope that the motorway wouldn't be built) so they ran the motorway either side of his house......

Upload it to Youtube and post a link to it.

The worst offenders are the ramblers, those that want to walk in peaceful, quiet countryside and bugger anyone else. They will claim that off road vehicles, both 2 and 4 wheeled, are noisy so disturb the peace of the countryside and damage the natural habitat of wildlife. Sometimes they have a point and some green lanes have been churned up by overuse by vehicles but once they win in getting them banned from one place, it makes it easier for them to lobby to get them banned from others.

That's the biggest problem in this country, virtually every square inch of land is owned by someone so it is private property. There's footpaths and bridleways (the difference being you can only walk along a footpath but you can also ride a horse (and I think a bicycle) on a bridleway) and even where these cross somebody's land, woe betide anyone that strays off the marked path. There's a few, very few, green lanes that are classified so they can be used by anyone, but in many cases they are either overgrown so impassible or someone has laid claim to them.

All I will say is that Halfords (and ECP) need to take a few lessons from Screwfix, or even Argos! Turned up there to find a queue out, stood there for ages and it didn't move then eventually it did but very slowly. After an hour and 5 minutes it was my turn. Gave the order number and the girl then called someone to get it for me. Out of the staff that were in the store most seemed to be wandering around doing not a lot but possibly the slowest moving of them all finally wandered over with my 5 litres of brake fluid.

Now it appears that even if full lockdown is relaxed, social distancing is going to be with us for quite some time. Did a Click and collect order at Screwfix last week. Within 5 minutes I got a text to tell me my order was ready. Drove down there, no queue, just a table at the doorway. Guy asked me for the order number and he picked it up from a shelf just inside the door and put it on the table. Picked it up and went home. So why can't Halfords and ECP actually get the items you've ordered out ready so all you have to do is pick them up rather than waiting until you get there before getting them?

Didn't your car have a big dollop of filler in the rear corner when you got it? I suspect someone has spot welded to the panel to pull a bigger dent out then covered the lot in filler.