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Used to be able to start tractors with the keys from old sardine cans, or the dipstick.

Having been brought up on agricultural machinery we didn't bother with spanners AF WW etc, we just used a Stilson with a 3ft length of scaffolding pipe which usally sorted things, and if that didn't it was a 14lb lump hammer and the oxy-acetylene torch.

First started driving landys aged 12 (1950 series 1 Mk1 and 1952 series 1 Mk2) in the fields of Yorkshire dales and 40 years later have a P38 and a Series 3 lightweight both located in Tuscany.

I didn't believe in fairies but then in the 1960's they were made legal.

Have just had a Van AAken Smart box fitted, and on first short run my trip computer said 56mpg, but now I've done some longer runs on dual carriageway 110kph and autostrada 130kph limits, where it is easy to stick the cruise control on and run for at these speeds for 30 or 40 kms at a stretch...

Just a thought, have a 99 P38 which is LHD, were the RF receivers fitted to cars for export market the same as for GB, or is it just that the frequencies used in Italy for wi-fi etc are different? I only ask as I've had no prblems with battery drain, but then I do live out in the sticks at the...

I reset the trip computer just before getting on to the autostrada and this was the figure I got after a 30km drive on cruise control at 130km/hr. As you say the figure is an average, unlike other trip computers (like the one on the Volvo V70 I used to have as a company car) it doesn't give you...

A colleague of mine is related to the person who created this:chitty Some people obviously have too much time on their hands.

And I thought the art of repartee was dead, ever thought of doing stand up?

Oh dear, maybe my kids are right when they quote Oscar Wilde at me i.e "Sarcasm is the lowest form of wit"

Sorry only eat mortadella here in Italy what is spam?

Has anyone had any experience with the Van Aaken Scan Gauge? On the website it says it can act as a trip computer, and also read and reset error codes on the cars computer all for £111.75, also says some codes can be customised, and written specifically by the user. Sounds like a good...

Must say I was surprised but checked on tinternet for conversion tables and they all say to change litres/100 km to miles/gallon put 280 over figure in litres/100km and my trip computer says 5L/100km, maybe its the trip computer thats like everything Italian, prone to exaggeration. It did say at...

Mine came with a Becker combined radio, CD player and GPS, only disadvantage is you have to insert the data CD at the begining of each journey. I've set it up with a male voice and am about to introduce it to my Garmin Quest which has a female voice, but am concerned they will either bicker...

Sure the job was easy once I'd reassured myself I had identified the sockets/plugs correctly, but having paid £300 directly to Van Aaken I just feel they should be more professional in their instructions. Just about to fill in their customer satisfaction form, which will be fun.

Has anyone had problems with the instructions for fitting a Van Aaken Smartbox? Don't get me wrong, now its fitted it "does what it says on the tin", but when I opened the delivery package and took out the fitting instructions clearly labelled Range Rover 2.5 TDS the illustration was of the...

Has anyone had problems with downoading RAVE 2, I tried it using Roxio and it won't let me open most of the pdf files. Any suggestions

Hi, New to the forum, and live in Italy, where parking "rules" are completely different: 1) As most Italian cars are scuffed/dented etc any way, parking by touch is normal 2) On street parking attendants encourage you to double park if you are "only going to be 5 minutes" 3) Zebra...