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waremark wrote:It is difficult on a slope to transition after stopping from footbrake to handbrake without a slight irritating roll-back. How do others cope?

Does that happen if you apply the handbrake before you release the footbrake?

David

So, is Shell and BP fuel the same, or isn't it? I suspect that on the Isle of Wight it might be. Curious! Especially since there's a chuffing great Exxon refinery just across the water at Fawley! Maybe the ferry companies will only take petrol tankers on board one day a week, so that if they blow u...

If I had been looking for the overtake, I would have been rather closer to the target vehicle, I think. And from that position, yes, if this video represented all the information I needed, I would be minded to go.

David

From a manufacturing point of view, it is the end of an era, but I believe that a very high proportion of all the Defenders ever built is still on the road (or track), so their days are far from numbered!

David

Rainmaker wrote:Please bear in mind I live in Liverpool

You're very welcome to drop me a line and we'll arrange a drive: it's often easier to explore these things in practice!

David

Horse wrote:IIRC RainX is petrol-based

The solvent smells more like alcohol to me - ispopropanol, perhaps?

David

Slaidburn... Forest of Bowland.... NE? That's the dark lands of Lancashire surely. :D still to a Merseysider it's probably near enough... ;) No, it's very close to the Yorkshire border. The parish of Slaidburn is in the Diocese of West Yorkshire and the Dales, lying as it does well within the histo...

is there ever any driving days in the north east? Stewing away in the back of my mind is a day based at Slaidburn on the east side of the Forest of Bowland. I imagine I would include routes going north and east as well as west from there. I haven't been for a proper recce yet, but it looks like you...

Adamxck wrote: cavalcade (?)

"Motorcade" is the term often used.

jont- , who's driving in that first one?!

David

Strangely Brown wrote:I see the brain symbol simply as "thinking", as opposed to blind obedience.

Oh. I thought it was a turd.

David