December 2009
I know a guy, drives a cherry picker for a living. He lives in my area, N. London , and is usually seen fitting banners to local lamp posts. About 2 months ago he told me he was off to Manchester to fit banners there, and I thought what a pointless journey, they must have local cherry pickers there ?
Spoke to him today, and he told me that he just returned from a tour of the Wester Isles ( Western Isles ? ), driving that cherry picker ( looks like it's based on a Nissan Cabstar ) from London, having left London at 4pm , getting to Thurso (?) at 8am next day, no rest. He did a day there before driving to the Isles via a 6 hour ferry crossing somewhere.
His company would have got the work as they were cheapest . So there we have it, pure folly , man does 1000's of miles when a local alternative was priced out. Driving a cherry picker from London to the Wester Isles. World gone crazy Read more
Twice over the past couple of days when I've started the car it has only just about idled below normal level, & has refused to accelerate. The first time I discovered the dipstick had been pushed up out of position. The second time this hadn't happened. On both occasions the car did eventually start as normal. Would this be a piston ring problem? Or something simple in the ECU? Or something else? Thanks.. Read more
Check the cambelt timing immediately
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Sorry, woodbines, no (I am assuming you are not TiC here). Efficient does not mean the same as Economic or Economical. Efficient means achieving an end with least use of resources, which can be money, manpower, materials or time. The fact that bean-counters only know how to quantify beans is the fundamental problem.