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Post by MikeyH » Tue Oct 08, 2024 5:30 pm

Not the state the roads are in :headbang:
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Post by enuff_zed » Tue Oct 08, 2024 5:41 pm

BarrE85 wrote: Tue Oct 08, 2024 4:59 pm Do you think there could be an E85/86 out there on over 50k with original springs?

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Post by enuff_zed » Tue Oct 08, 2024 5:44 pm

MikeyH wrote: Tue Oct 08, 2024 5:30 pm Not the state the roads are in :headbang:
Step-daughter followed me along some back roads a while back. When we stopped she asked if I was drunk as I was all over the road.
I explained I drove those roads every day and was avoiding all the potholes and manhole covers.
She mocked me and said in her Discovery Sport she didn't feel them anyway.
My riposte was to ask why she thought she's had 3 punctures in 6 months. :roll:
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Post by MikeyH » Tue Oct 08, 2024 5:49 pm

Yes, there was a Discovery (Sport?) By the roadside a while ago with a flat tyre. It was so low profile it could have been on a Ferrari. Why do they make a model of an off roader with such stupidly thin tyres I wonder :wink: :D
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Post by enuff_zed » Tue Oct 08, 2024 5:59 pm

MikeyH wrote: Tue Oct 08, 2024 5:49 pm Yes, there was a Discovery (Sport?) By the roadside a while ago with a flat tyre. It was so low profile it could have been on a Ferrari. Why do they make a model of an off roader with such stupidly thin tyres I wonder :wink: :D
Because they are driven by women who would rather push me and my zed into a ditch than risk getting mud on their tyres!
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Post by MikeyH » Tue Oct 08, 2024 6:03 pm

enuff_zed wrote: Tue Oct 08, 2024 5:59 pm
MikeyH wrote: Tue Oct 08, 2024 5:49 pm Yes, there was a Discovery (Sport?) By the roadside a while ago with a flat tyre. It was so low profile it could have been on a Ferrari. Why do they make a model of an off roader with such stupidly thin tyres I wonder :wink: :D
Because they are driven by women who would rather push me and my zed into a ditch than risk getting mud on their tyres!
:rofl: :rofl: About right :thumbsup:
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Post by BMWZ4MC » Fri Oct 18, 2024 12:49 am

I had an OEM rear spring fail in 2009 at 2.5 years old and fewer than 30k miles. I’ve since had a KW rear spring fail after almost 50k miles at ten years old.
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Post by Bing » Sat Oct 26, 2024 11:23 am

I had a spring fail on my MR a while ago, maybe a year... At that point the car was 16 years old and on about 106k, and they were the originals.
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