RhodieBill
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Useful height wheelie bins
Absolutely..... Is it Portsdown Hill next Saturday, 28th?
Useful height wheelie bins
That I think I can do. With the days getting shorter might want to make it earlier or another venue?Absolutely..... Is it Portsdown Hill next Saturday, 28th?
Haven't thrown a bucket of water over it in nearly 2 weeks...
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Of course with such a heavy dew this morning I was a bit too fast at opening the boot lid so the drain channels couldn't take it and I have a damp boot now
Did my usual of starting the car and dropping the top straight away, and as I was parked slightly facing downhill you can guess where all the beaded water from the roof went... I've a wet lap now.
That’s one day, two at max... parked it up for the rest of the weekA week away and 770 miles in the SLK and didn't miss a beat bless her, averaged 29.9 mpg best day returned 36.8 mpg
I always wait till all the paintwork is dry before lowering the roof.Haven't thrown a bucket of water over it in nearly 2 weeks...
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Of course with such a heavy dew this morning I was a bit too fast at opening the boot lid so the drain channels couldn't take it and I have a damp boot now
Did my usual of starting the car and dropping the top straight away, and as I was parked slightly facing downhill you can guess where all the beaded water from the roof went... I've a wet lap now.
I know that a lot of you have larger fuel tanks than me but I have just filled up at Asda and it cost me 3.1/2 what my first car cost me, it was a Standard Ten and it cost me £22.00 !!
I always wait till all the paintwork is dry before lowering the roof.
A few miles at 70mph works most of the time ...You need to carry a squeegee LK
A few miles at 70mph works most of the time ...
wheres the comedy value in thatI always wait till all the paintwork is dry before lowering the roof.
Driving with the roof up, what’s all that about?A few miles at 70mph works most of the time ...
Makes you appreciate getting it down more and enables others to enjoy the spectacle of that big solid roof folding away.wheres the comedy value in that
Driving with the roof up, what’s all that about?