Workshops in Scotland

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David

Guest

• Jan 15, 2005

• #1

Hi,
I hope somone can help me with some info ?

I will be comming to Scotland from Norway this Summer and was wondering
are there any good workshops in the Inverness area ?
I'm hoping I can get a main service on my tired 87 RR 3.5 V8 While it
will cause mimimum disturbance to our family hols.

Any web addresses would be great too

Cheers....David

 

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Badger

Guest

• Jan 15, 2005

• #2

"David" <[email protected]> wrote in message
news:[email protected]...
> Hi,
> I hope somone can help me with some info ?
>
> I will be comming to Scotland from Norway this Summer and was wondering
> are there any good workshops in the Inverness area ?
> I'm hoping I can get a main service on my tired 87 RR 3.5 V8 While it will
> cause mimimum disturbance to our family hols.
>
> Any web addresses would be great too
>
> Cheers....David

Sorry to anyone who takes offence, but it's blatant plug time!!!!

I can do it, I am based near the historical cathedral city of Elgin, 30
miles East of Inverness on the Moray coast.
Just let me know exactly what you require doing and it'll be done, at a very
favourable labour rate.
Badger
www.bhengineering.co.uk
www.roverv8engines.com

 

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John Oakes

Guest

• Jan 16, 2005

• #3

Badger wrote:
> "David" <[email protected]> wrote in message
> news:[email protected]...
>
>>Hi,
>> I hope somone can help me with some info ?
>>
>>I will be comming to Scotland from Norway this Summer and was wondering
>>are there any good workshops in the Inverness area ?
>>I'm hoping I can get a main service on my tired 87 RR 3.5 V8 While it will
>>cause mimimum disturbance to our family hols.
>>
>>Any web addresses would be great too
>>
>>Cheers....David
>
>
> Sorry to anyone who takes offence, but it's blatant plug time!!!!
>
> I can do it, I am based near the historical cathedral city of Elgin, 30
> miles East of Inverness on the Moray coast.
> Just let me know exactly what you require doing and it'll be done, at a very
> favourable labour rate.
> Badger
> www.bhengineering.co.uk
> www.roverv8engines.com
>
>
Hello Brian.
I still remember you demonstrating how to blow the water
plugs out of a Ford Capri 3lt engine at Kinloss. To david, Badger is
worth try and still a good friend.
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Thank You

John N Oakes
Manchester, England.

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Derry Argue

Guest

• Jan 16, 2005

• #4

"Badger" <[email protected]> wrote in
news:[email protected]:

>
> "David" <[email protected]> wrote in message
> news:[email protected]...
>> Hi,
>> I hope somone can help me with some info ?
>>
>> I will be comming to Scotland from Norway this Summer and
>> was wondering are there any good workshops in the
>> Inverness area ? I'm hoping I can get a main service on my
>> tired 87 RR 3.5 V8 While it will cause mimimum disturbance
>> to our family hols.
>>
>> Any web addresses would be great too
>>
>> Cheers....David
>
> Sorry to anyone who takes offence, but it's blatant plug
> time!!!!
>
> I can do it, I am based near the historical cathedral city
> of Elgin, 30 miles East of Inverness on the Moray coast.
> Just let me know exactly what you require doing and it'll
> be done, at a very favourable labour rate.
> Badger
> www.bhengineering.co.uk
> www.roverv8engines.com
>
>

There's nothing wrong with the blatant plug if you can stand up
to scrutiny and are prepared to be shot down if you don't match
up!

Sorry to be blunt but the Inverness firm that is usually
recommended seems to have gone to pot and I am still smarting.
Not only did they keep my vehicle for an excessively long period
but when it was returned there was no oil in the gear box!

In the future, I would certainly be willing to travel the extra
miles to Elgin if you can match the recommendations.

Derry

 

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Badger

Guest

• Jan 16, 2005

• #5

"Derry Argue" <derry(delete)@adviegundogs.co.uk> wrote in message
news:[email protected]...
> "Badger" <[email protected]> wrote in
> news:[email protected]:
>
>>
>>
>
> There's nothing wrong with the blatant plug if you can stand up
> to scrutiny and are prepared to be shot down if you don't match
> up!
>
> Sorry to be blunt but the Inverness firm that is usually
> recommended seems to have gone to pot and I am still smarting.
> Not only did they keep my vehicle for an excessively long period
> but when it was returned there was no oil in the gear box!

Want to tell me who that was? Off-list preferably, I don't want to be
involved in public slander of another garage especially when the evidence is
heresay. Remove the nospammers and ammend to btinternetdotcom.
Have heard some disappointing stories of a 4x4 business in Inverness
recently, they installed one of my engines for a customer some months back
and were never off the phone to me - asking things they really shouild have
known if they were used to working on landy's! A friend tells me they have
got themselves a reputation for "failing to deliver", with many vehicles
left "round the back" for long periods.

> In the future, I would certainly be willing to travel the extra
> miles to Elgin if you can match the recommendations.
>
> Derry

Derry, my new workshop should be built and up and running by mid-June with
any luck, you are then more than welcome to pay me a visit and "try me".
Badger.

 

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Derry Argue

Guest

• Jan 16, 2005

• #6

"Badger" <[email protected]> wrote in
news:[email protected]:

>> Not only did they keep my vehicle for an excessively long
>> period but when it was returned there was no oil in the
>> gear box!
>
> Want to tell me who that was? Off-list preferably,

As a very experienced barrack room lawyer, I'd prefer not to say
more, even off list, as defamation needs not only to be true but
provably as such in a court of law to be totally safe!

But if you took a guess, your chances of coming up with the
right answer would probably be more than 50%. And there's a lot
more to it than I have posted here.

Derry

 

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Badger

Guest

• Jan 20, 2005

• #7

"John Oakes" <[email protected]> wrote in message
news:[email protected]...
>
> Hello Brian.
> I still remember you demonstrating how to blow the water
> plugs out of a Ford Capri 3lt engine at Kinloss. To david, Badger is worth
> try and still a good friend.
> --

Haha, yes, I'd forgotten all about that four wheeled heap of misery! Lying
on the tarmac outside the block underneath that bloody thing. Best move I
ever made, selling it! Your memory must be better than mine John, that must
have been what, early1986??
BTW, it wasn't a water plug, it was the oil pump drive on the "crapi", the
water core plug blew on the princess!

Now look what you've made me do.... publically admit to having owned an
austin princess! DOH! The shame, the shame.

Badger.

 

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EMB

Guest

• Jan 20, 2005

• #8

Badger wrote:

> Now look what you've made me do.... publically admit to having owned an
> austin princess! DOH! The shame, the shame.

At least we know why you were banished to the northern frozen wasteland.



--
EMB

 

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Badger

Guest

• Jan 20, 2005

• #9

"EMB" <[email protected]> wrote in message
news:[email protected]...
> Badger wrote:
>
>> Now look what you've made me do.... publically admit to having owned an
>> austin princess! DOH! The shame, the shame.
>
> At least we know why you were banished to the northern frozen wasteland.
>
>
What frozen wasteland? This is the "Costa del Moray", I'll have you know.
Near enough the lowest rainfall in Scotland, not that you'd think it this
last week!
As for the princess, I drove it up here! :-(
Then I bought a Jag :-o
Then I saw sense and got a landrover 110 :-|
Then I fitted a V8
Then I fitted a BIGGER V8 ;-))
Does that get me off the hook? Please?
Badger.

 

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Badger

Guest

• Jan 20, 2005

• #10

"EMB" <[email protected]> wrote in message
news:[email protected]...
> Badger wrote:
>
>> Now look what you've made me do.... publically admit to having owned an
>> austin princess! DOH! The shame, the shame.
>
> At least we know why you were banished to the northern frozen wasteland.
>
>
You can go off some people really quickly, you know.
I've just remembered why we exported the unwanted part of the family to the
North Island (NZ) many, many years ago!
<Really, Really Big Grin>
Badger.

 

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EMB

Guest

• Jan 20, 2005

• #11

Badger wrote:

> What frozen wasteland? This is the "Costa del Moray", I'll have you know.
> Near enough the lowest rainfall in Scotland, not that you'd think it this
> last week!
> As for the princess, I drove it up here! :-(
> Then I bought a Jag :-o
> Then I saw sense and got a landrover 110 :-|
> Then I fitted a V8
> Then I fitted a BIGGER V8 ;-))
> Does that get me off the hook? Please?

'Tis a lovely part of the world and hopefully I'll get back there in the
next couple of years. Anyway, in it's day the Princess wasn't a bad car!


--
EMB

 

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EMB

Guest

• Jan 20, 2005

• #12

Badger wrote:

> You can go off some people really quickly, you know.
> I've just remembered why we exported the unwanted part of the family to the
> North Island (NZ) many, many years ago!
> <Really, Really Big Grin>

The Scots exports all ended up in the South of the South Island, round
about Dunedin. A fair bit of the population down there still speak with
a Scots accent.

Those of us in the North enjoy the good weather and traffic jams.

Incidentally, you want a 450bhp Rover motor?

--
EMB

 

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Badger

Guest

• Jan 21, 2005

• #13

"EMB" <[email protected]> wrote in message
news:[email protected]...
> Badger wrote:
>
>> You can go off some people really quickly, you know.
>> I've just remembered why we exported the unwanted part of the family to
>> the North Island (NZ) many, many years ago!
>> <Really, Really Big Grin>
>
> The Scots exports all ended up in the South of the South Island, round
> about Dunedin. A fair bit of the population down there still speak with a
> Scots accent.

I've an aunt and uncle in the North of the North island somewhere!
>
> Those of us in the North enjoy the good weather and traffic jams.
>
> Incidentally, you want a 450bhp Rover motor?
>
> --
Only if it's not going to cost a lot, I've spent too much money recently!
Badger.