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Post by 1doohan » Sat Jul 28, 2018 11:53 am

£2 in Tesco....£9.?? something at GSF. It's an outrage!!!
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Post by firebobby » Sat Jul 28, 2018 12:46 pm

Is it any good ??
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Post by buzyg » Sat Jul 28, 2018 10:47 pm

A Tesco's connoisseur her. :thumbsup:
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Post by TitanTim » Sat Jul 28, 2018 11:27 pm

I've suddenly gone back to the 1970s :)

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Post by Smartbear » Sat Jul 28, 2018 11:33 pm

TitanTim wrote: Sat Jul 28, 2018 11:27 pm I've suddenly gone back to the 1970s :)

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Are you wearing a terrible jumper? :P
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Post by TitanTim » Sun Jul 29, 2018 7:06 am

Smartbear wrote: Sat Jul 28, 2018 11:33 pm
TitanTim wrote: Sat Jul 28, 2018 11:27 pm I've suddenly gone back to the 1970s :)

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Are you wearing a terrible jumper? :P
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I remember my dad using Redex in our Hilman Avenger :)

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Post by Ewazix » Sun Jul 29, 2018 8:00 am

It was REALLY good at shifting cr@p from inside the petrol tank and sending it up the line! :P
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Post by Crazy Harry » Sun Jul 29, 2018 8:42 am

I got my first ticket to 'produce' at the police station (all your driving documentation) in 1978 using a good glug of Redex. My Mk2 Cortina had been miss firing on the homeward leg of a trip to the midlands - it was early evening and I had no tools so I kept going for about two hours getting slower and slower.

I got home, took the plugs out and they were all black with carbon, cleaned them and twisted the distributor around a little where a slack pinch bolt had let it slip. Big glug of redex and as it was now a quiet mid week evening I razed my way away round the village to let it work - now not all of it was down to the redex alone because there was a hell of a build up of carbon in the engine which promptly burnt away. In fact when I looked behind me it was like the Red Arrows white smoke trail - so I knew it was working!

I had to stop at a junction where unfortunately a beat copper was stood on the kerb (remember those days?) it all when wrong when the smoke trail caught me up and you couldn't see over the road. I thought 'produce' was a good result given the policing methods then - and since I had test; insurance and license. A winning combination and not always available to all of my mates.

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Post by TitanTim » Sun Jul 29, 2018 11:00 am

Crazy Harry wrote: Sun Jul 29, 2018 8:42 am I got my first ticket to 'produce' at the police station (all your driving documentation) in 1978 using a good glug of Redex. My Mk2 Cortina had been miss firing on the homeward leg of a trip to the midlands - it was early evening and I had no tools so I kept going for about two hours getting slower and slower.

I got home, took the plugs out and they were all black with carbon, cleaned them and twisted the distributor around a little where a slack pinch bolt had let it slip. Big glug of redex and as it was now a quiet mid week evening I razed my way away round the village to let it work - now not all of it was down to the redex alone because there was a hell of a build up of carbon in the engine which promptly burnt away. In fact when I looked behind me it was like the Red Arrows white smoke trail - so I knew it was working!

I had to stop at a junction where unfortunately a beat copper was stood on the kerb (remember those days?) it all when wrong when the smoke trail caught me up and you couldn't see over the road. I thought 'produce' was a good result given the policing methods then - and since I had test; insurance and license. A winning combination and not always available to all of my mates.
Distributor, Redex, carbon, white smoke along with the one easy piece will be comeplete double Dutch to the younger members on here :D

Still miss a manual choke on cold mornings at traffic lights :lol:

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Post by Smartbear » Sun Jul 29, 2018 3:17 pm

TitanTim wrote: Sun Jul 29, 2018 11:00 am
Crazy Harry wrote: Sun Jul 29, 2018 8:42 am I got my first ticket to 'produce' at the police station (all your driving documentation) in 1978 using a good glug of Redex. My Mk2 Cortina had been miss firing on the homeward leg of a trip to the midlands - it was early evening and I had no tools so I kept going for about two hours getting slower and slower.

I got home, took the plugs out and they were all black with carbon, cleaned them and twisted the distributor around a little where a slack pinch bolt had let it slip. Big glug of redex and as it was now a quiet mid week evening I razed my way away round the village to let it work - now not all of it was down to the redex alone because there was a hell of a build up of carbon in the engine which promptly burnt away. In fact when I looked behind me it was like the Red Arrows white smoke trail - so I knew it was working!

I had to stop at a junction where unfortunately a beat copper was stood on the kerb (remember those days?) it all when wrong when the smoke trail caught me up and you couldn't see over the road. I thought 'produce' was a good result given the policing methods then - and since I had test; insurance and license. A winning combination and not always available to all of my mates.
Distributor, Redex, carbon, white smoke along with the one easy piece will be comeplete double Dutch to the younger members on here :D

Still miss a manual choke on cold mornings at traffic lights :lol:

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You had to be a bit handy to keep those old things going-here’s one of my first cars :oops:
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Post by Keet » Sun Jul 29, 2018 3:29 pm

Oh for the days when you could lift a car bonnet and see the road underneath! :D
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Post by TitanTim » Sun Jul 29, 2018 3:58 pm

Smartbear wrote: Sun Jul 29, 2018 3:17 pm
TitanTim wrote: Sun Jul 29, 2018 11:00 am
Crazy Harry wrote: Sun Jul 29, 2018 8:42 am I got my first ticket to 'produce' at the police station (all your driving documentation) in 1978 using a good glug of Redex. My Mk2 Cortina had been miss firing on the homeward leg of a trip to the midlands - it was early evening and I had no tools so I kept going for about two hours getting slower and slower.

I got home, took the plugs out and they were all black with carbon, cleaned them and twisted the distributor around a little where a slack pinch bolt had let it slip. Big glug of redex and as it was now a quiet mid week evening I razed my way away round the village to let it work - now not all of it was down to the redex alone because there was a hell of a build up of carbon in the engine which promptly burnt away. In fact when I looked behind me it was like the Red Arrows white smoke trail - so I knew it was working!

I had to stop at a junction where unfortunately a beat copper was stood on the kerb (remember those days?) it all when wrong when the smoke trail caught me up and you couldn't see over the road. I thought 'produce' was a good result given the policing methods then - and since I had test; insurance and license. A winning combination and not always available to all of my mates.
Distributor, Redex, carbon, white smoke along with the one easy piece will be comeplete double Dutch to the younger members on here :D

Still miss a manual choke on cold mornings at traffic lights :lol:

Tim.
You had to be a bit handy to keep those old things going-here’s one of my first cars :oops:
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I remember when I did day release from Work to do my Planning Course at Birmingham Uni between 1985-89 I used to take it in turn driving with another lad from work. He had a Mini 850 with a slipping clutch. We were always late when it was his time to drive as it took us ages to get over Barr Beacon hill. At the time I had a Mazda 323 GT with twin carbs :)

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