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As a Ford Ranger owner I am allowed :wink: I actually have not had any problems with my Fords, on my second Ranger. I took the R off and now I drive an ANGER!

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I own a Focus and a Kuga…

…I love my mechanics, they give me discount.

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Well…the Focus has been a relative dream.

  • Leaky coolant pipe (after the thermostat, quite bloody annoying)
  • Some dingbat put the wrong fuses in and cut bloody wires at some point in the past causing me a right pain in the sack with the immobilizer
  • timing belt needed changing

HOWEVER, it still goes like stink.

The Kuga on the other hand

  • 4 new fuel injectors
  • New oxygen sensors
  • new throttle body
  • new clutch
  • new flywheel
  • new fuel pump
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Fitted a quick shifter onto my CRF.
It was made for another bike, so had to do lots of DIY and made a bracket for it. Still need to round it off nicely, but works perfectly.



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Had my exhaust manifold repaired it had 3 nasty cracks

new inner and outer cv joints on the driver side fitted as well as new boot cover on the passenger side fitted

and my Audi R8 coolant and Oil caps has arrived, definately much better looking than the standard A3 ones

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Not a fan of Peugot’s but this sounds amazing!

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Very cool! Wonder why he chose to put a Formula Renault engine into anything other than a Clio, never mind a Peugeot?

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Joh this dude is pushing the envelope.

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Very cool. The real Hoonigan

Does anybody know but I once spoke to someone who said that Ken Block is all flashy on his courses but he apparently did actually enter the European WRC Rally and was totally useless on a real circuit. Just wondering if that is true.

He does Ok in rally cross, but still not the best. He has excellent control over his car, but he is not as fast as the rest of the field.

Btw, is that Peter Solberg’s son? Clearly he has the right upbringing :grin:

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I love watching WESS and this kinda hard enduro

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The Nurburgring 24 hour endurance race is on this weekend

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i was thinking this week about what an amazing driver colin mcrae was cause its exactly 13 years this month since he died.

2006 x games where he shifted down while his car was busy rolling anticipating to pull away immediately when it lands on its wheel, he still ended up getting 2nd place due to that

Sebastian Loeb might have won the wrc titles 9 times compared to Colin’s 1 title but colin was more exciting to watch he was always going flat out where loeb is a more calculated precision focus driver.

there was also a wrc race where the bonnet flew up and he drove the whole stage just on nicky’s pacenotes

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I had no idea this was a thing.

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There is something soothing yet terrifying about a truck drifting around a dirt corner!

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Very cool. Still think the Dakar truck drivers are the masters of off-road truck racing though. Mind you, many of them are Russian, Ukrainian, and Khazaks, so they probably did/do some of the Truck Rally stuff too.

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