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WherryNice
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All of our British sold VW stuff has a sump plug(always has) but for a while they promoted the extraction of oil via dipstick tube. This has now mostly been abandoned and on many models they prohibit extraction stating that not enough oil is removed when using that method.
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3 hours ago, BroadAmbition said:
There is NO dipstick either - Horrors
Not sure if it is the same but the VW models that don't have a dipstick usually have a level display in the Service menu on the infotainment unit.
Not quite the same as a proper dipstick I know but better than just a low level light.
Edit to say, I assume most people know Audi and VW are the same family, along with Seat, Skoda, Bugatti, Lamborghini,Porsche, MAN, Ducati and probably others...hence my comment:)
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1 hour ago, BrundallNavy said:
Potter pilot will do private boats and have their own list for clearance, Wroxham pilots do not do private boats.
1 hour ago, PaulN said:Thank you Brundall Navy.
Wroxham Pilots told me that they weren't insured for private boats and so I assumed this applied to Potter Heigham as well. So that is really good to hear and when the water level looks a little lower in the summer, I may well give them a ring
The Wroxham pilots took my parents private boat through and back again last summer, I was quite surprised when they told me! Not sure if it's a service they now offer or maybe my folks just got lucky when they rang. It was a different pilot each time though.
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2 minutes ago, floydraser said:
Best garage ever!
Haha, thanks.....it would be even better if it wasn't on the first floor!
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This is the only 2 wheeled steed that I currently own, a rather protracted project that may get finished 'one day'.
Owned plenty of other stuff over the years but not had anything on the road for 5 years or so, boats have taken over(and increased!)the toys budget somewhat.
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You definitely get more house for your money the further you get up the A12/A14/A140/A47..........although actual riverside property is of course a different matter.
I'm in the very North East of Essex so I imagine the difference must be greater the further down the A12 you started from...
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Barnes are hiring Encore and Serenade(Elite range cruisers in case you don't know) out for day hire between 29th March and 11th April! Quite pricey but they make one hell of a dayboat!
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3 hours ago, Turnoar said:
It may have been mentioned earlier in the thread but I notice Windboats Lady Beryl II up on Apollo duck
She is also on the list, lovely craft!
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Ah I'm sorry to hear that Riverman but thank you for posting, I'll let my folks know.
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Been on the market for a while that one, she is on my Euromillions immediate purchase list (among many others!)
Another listing here with a few more pics.
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My folks moored there between 1996 and 2014, both in the basin just before you enter the Broad and also the one that is on the Broad itself, sort of in front of their house. I forget when Ray passed but he was definitly about when they first went there.
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14 hours ago, Helian said:
Are Bondons still operating in any manner? I thought they had sold out to Russell Marine some time ago.
My Mum phoned Celia Bondon about a mooring for their new boat at about this time last year and she was still operating then. Russell Marine(now Marine Tech) are on on the main bit of what was Bondons yard but Celia has the private basins still(or did recently anyway).
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Depends exactly where you mean, Bondons have a fair number of yachts on the front just before you enter the Broad and other moorings further round the Broad itself, next to Marine Tech.. sorry but I dont know the number.
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Oh well as we're doing trains....(not a great video)
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1 hour ago, grendel said:
if there is structural damage it should be categorised as such, and then the repair should have to be taken to a dvla centre and inspected to make sure the work leaves the car safe to use, I have had one car where minor damage was wrongly categorised as structural and had to experience this process,I have also purchased cars written off under a lessor category, and the reason can be a simple as a small dent in a non replaceable panel (such as an integral rear wing on an estate car) where the repair would entail re- skinning a complete side of he car.
54 minutes ago, Happy said:The requirement of taking these cars to a DVLA centre has now stopped!
Was it a VIC(Vehicle Identity Check)that you took your car in for Grendel? If so they should only have been checking it's identity and that it wasn't a stolen car being placed onto the write off's ID.
Like Happy says that scheme doesn't operate anymore, I think because they didnt find many ringers.
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When it comes to cars I wouldn't touch a write off or damaged repairable(they dont all go through the insurance) unless I knew exactly what had been damaged and how it was repaired. Bolt on and superficial panel work is no problem but anything structural is a no from me.
I have seen some absolute horrors, often purchased from the auctions, come through our workshop.
A recent one was an '18 plate Golf that had had a frontal crash and been 'repaired' and bought to us for alignment and radar calibration.
I took one look, saw the absolute shambles(not the actual word I used)of a repair and refused to work on it.(it was still bent!) My boss agreed and that was that.
Sadly someone has probably bought it, thinking they have a bargain but in reality it's a pile of junk.
Of course not all write offs end up like that but it pays to be very wary and you need to know what you are looking at.
I'd feel the same way about a boat, I wouldn't want to buy one of those seen in the videos without knowing what had actually happened to it.
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38 minutes ago, NorfolkNog said:
Ditto
Great! We're up to three quid already then.......
Small acorns and all that..............
Sweet, only £1'499'997 to go......anyone else?
6 minutes ago, MauriceMynah said:I got small acorns. :-)
Hmmm, I feel there's a 'Mighty Oak' gag in there somewhere......
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44 minutes ago, NorfolkNog said:
C'mon, somebody must have 1.5m in their back pocket..............
I could probably manage £1.50.......
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22 minutes ago, NorfolkNog said:
Not sure if this helps - it's a bit small scale.
Thanks Howard, it kinda helped as it confirmed Alexander Cruisers were where Cove is and I have now dug out out my copy of Robin Godber's book 'A Broad Experience'. Using the pictures in that I have worked out that Alexander were located in the first basin as you approach by road.
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Wasn't part of Cove formally Alexander Cruisers yard? Anyone know which bit was which?
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5 hours ago, Robin said:
Good question, At the moment her hull still has its original planks, the ribs are original along with her keel and frames, 75% of her transom is original and the aft cabin roof. The engine and gearbox are all original.
The glass in the windows seem to be the originals (OK I'm clutching at straws with that one)
I would guess she is about 50% original so i have replaced the handle on Triggers broom but still have the original head.
Perhaps a question for the forum is at what percentage does a boat go from being an original to a replica?
My opinion is if it still has most of its original keel its still original.
Robin
I think it depends as much on how the work was carried out as it does on how much material was replaced.
For example if an old boat was laid up on the hard and someone built a new exact copy next to it but then transferred a few bits and pieces over from old to new then I would think of it as a replica as both boats 'existed' at the same time.
However if the old boat was taken apart and rebuilt in such a way that the form of the boat is always visible in the same place then even if the same amount of material is replaced with the same old bits and pieces re-used then the boat is still original.
Leo is rebuilding Tally Ho in this manner and I quite agree with it, as you can tell.
If you think about it, as humans, we are all 'triggers broom' as all of our cells get renewed over time, it's only the things that aren't physical that keep 'us' as 'us'.
Just my opinion of course.
On a side note, I formed these opinions after a short spell working for a car 'restoration' place that would often 'restore' a car(Minis inparticular) by basically building a new one(not always with a brand new shell either!)and whacking the number plates and VIN on it from the old car.
Sometimes the old car also lived on under another ID too.
I found it all rather murky but was too young to really say much about it at the time.
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The chinese that delivered to Ranworth(actually located in S.Walsham) closed a while ago now.
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From a newbie perspective the trouble with the posts is that on other parts of the system you can go outside of the channel without any issue(I'm thinking Barton) so when you get down to Breydon after a few days, feeling like you're getting the hang of it etc, you perhaps don't give the channel quite the same respect as you need to....
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Been looking through the folks photo collection today and found this one, taken at Watchet harbour sometime between 2001 and 2006. The boat with the blue hull appears to be an ex-Aston Aquafibre 42!
Possibly this one.
http://www.broads.org.uk/wiki2018/index.php?title=Boat_Details&BoatId=4990&BoatHistory=7740.
Please excuse the dodgy picture quality, it's a photo of a photo and is actually a much wider shot. They had no idea the Aston was there.
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Car Talk
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Hi John, not sure about the other brands, I only work on VW. I would like to think that Audi and Porsche have followed suite but there are often surprising differences across the VW Group brands. I think extraction would be fine if changing the oil really regularly but with the extended intervals we have now it doesn't seem the best idea.
I think with boats it is also a case of 'needs must', draining not being an easy option in most cases. Personally I extract via dipstick on my boat but thats because it has no pump fitted! I also change oil far more often than official intervals so am not too bothered if a bit remains.
A lot of things like the electric handbrake are being added to vehicles in preperation for autonomous operation, manual gearboxes are the next thing to be quietly phased out I think. Quite a few models(mainly high performance) in our range no longer have a manual option.