My first job after leaving school was punching holes in metal number plates and adding the plastic numbers which were held in place with star washers on the numbers' plastic pins. Then I made up metal brake pipes and adding the male or female connectors to them, the end of the pipe was formed into a small mushroom head so the connectors wouldn't come off and sat inside a v shape recess in the connector.
Ah - Harry Bucklands... My first ever car went to die there, around 28 years ago - a 1978 Mini Clubman Estate, baby-crap brown (I no longer live in Gloucestershire).
As an American, it's utterly fascinating how British motorists have to buy their license plates on the private market, and the variety of number treatments that have arisen as a result.
I have started making no plates of bad drivers , I put them on my bicycle and ride in bus lanes and go in and out of car parks with anpr it’s great fun
OK, 195bhp isn't a bad figure......... But I bet you'd still be significantly more chuffed with the figure if only it had those last 5 on that total . :D
Here's the thing, no complaints about these plates, I ordered a set of these from Chase Lane and they're fine, great quality etc. However, I'm in Scotland, specifically Renfrewshire and I got pulled for having these and the absolute bellend of a cop had no problem telling me they were illegal. So I went on line to the .gov website and it states that modern day plates, unless your car is of a certain age (which I can't recall) then they have to me made out of a "reflective material" not a "material which is made to be reflective" so I argued my case with him and said how the number plates on his X5 M were made from plastic with a foil behind it, and that plastic is not naturally reflective. Aluminium however by its very nature would be more naturally reflective than plastic. Safe to say he couldn't argue with that and went on my way, albeit 15 minutes late.
Superb plates just one thing with the high miles when was the cambelt changed or do these use timing chains the cambelt in my carlton snapped a few years ago but i knew the engine was non interference so no damage done .
No chains, just a belt. The recommended interval varies based on engine model, but range form 70K to 150K or every 10 years whichever comes first. Being a T5 I would guess that the frequency is nearer the 70K mark than the 150K. All engines are interference, so having a belt snap could be expensive. Also the average mileage for waterpumps on these cars is around 250 - 300K. Seeing this car is close to 500K it might be worth considering changing that at the same time. I just looked at the receipts for my 1999 V70 and I changed the belt when I first got the car in 2007 with 107K on the clock. Then again in 2017, by which time the car had clocked up 157K. Due to a change of circumstances and Covid the car has only done 12K over the past 6 years, so chances are it will be 2027 when the car has its 3rd change of timing belt
Woah! Ace Geoff, love that! Could've done with some "special plates" the other day, nice cheeky fine from Oxford council, never going there again, atleast my fine money might help to pay towards making their roads driveable
@@altern8tive Awesome. The woke, tiny Swedish elf puppet doom goblin worshiping, climate catastrophising sheeple normie vaxholes deserve to be taught a lesson. This is a great way to do it. Peace
