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Old 7th March 2015, 09:44 PM
HPsauce HPsauce is offline
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Default Southeast caffeine-free micro-meet 7/3/15

Well Adrian and me to be precise in the Staines/Chertsey area about 10am today, arranged rather late yesterday.
Met up so that I could acquire a part-worn Michelin PS2 255/35R20 tyre from him to use as a spare on my new FE 20's.

Agreed a venue of the Red Lion in Thorpe which opens at 10am to "do the deal" then talk car crap over a coffee. No, opens at 11am despite what the web site says.
Headed for the Hungry Horse Twynersh, just over a mile away. Also opens at 11am.
So we just stood in the empty sunny car park, had a natter and headed off.

On a positive note (plug!) Adrian gave me an RNS-D navigation CD to try on different (even better) media than the last one I bought from him, which has had fairly regular "glitches" (read errors) though usually recoverable after an eject/reload. So far, so good - it's working fine.

Made some nice fresh real coffee, grinding the beans myself, when I got home.
I've been using this place since it opened in 1978 when we lived nearby: http://www.monmouthcoffee.co.uk/our-shops/covent-garden
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2003 D2 FL S8. Irish Green Pearl/Beige. Solar sunroof, auto-dim mirrors, electric rear seat functions and extended leather. Ski hatch retrofit. Aftermarket reversing camera. DVB-T and XCarlink now removed as redundant.
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". (Even rarer than a D2 S8!) 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. Agate Grey/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. Added Auto-dim mirror, Leather seats, 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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