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Old 9th August 2016, 04:16 PM
HPsauce HPsauce is offline
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Default Another year, another MOT

The old girl passed again with flying colours, no observations.
To quote the tester (mate of mine) "Try as hard as I could I couldn't find anything even slightly wrong, very tidy".

He did however note (I had warned him) the odd gearbox/throttle behaviour driving it to/from his place of work, a couple of times. He had, when I described it to him beforehand, suspected the Throttle Position Sensor, but now doesn't. Said it was more like being in the wrong gear.
I think that's consistent (insofar as anything is!) with the F125 switch occasionally playing up and not reporting correctly the gearbox status.

So, that's the next job.
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2003 D2 FL S8. Irish Green Pearl/Beige. Solar sunroof, auto-dim mirrors, electric rear seat functions, ski hatch retrofit; extended leather. Aftermarket DVB-T, reversing camera and full XCarlink (Bluetooth etc.).
2016 Volvo V40 T5 Cross Country (4WD) with ALL the toys including adaptive cruise etc. etc. Osmium Grey with Blonde/Charcoal leather interior. Polestar performance "optimisation". (A much rarer model than a D2 S8 by the way!) Oh, and a brand new engine at just under 30,000 miles on the factory one!
Finally: gone, but not forgotten.....
1998 D2 PF S8. AgateGrey/Platinum. Every option (I think) except electric rear seats, tiptronic steering wheel, ski hatch, towbar & dimming door mirrors.
e.g. Cruise control, NavPlus/TV, Bose, GSM, Xenons, Solar roof, Parking sensors, Alcantara/leather everywhere of course. (internal dimming mirror added later)
1998 (very early) Ford Focus 1.8 Zetec; ABS/TCS, Heated screen/mirrors, Aircon, Auto-dim mirror, Leather, Trip computer, Cruise control, OEM Ford SatNav with CD changer.
And before that a lot of Rover 800s, a few oddities, a lovely Triumph Dolomite 1850HL with Overdrive and way back in my schooldays an Austin Seven aka Mini 850!
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