XRV Engine Transplant

[austin]

Jumpers, woolly hats??? I thought Scotlandshire was in the middle of a heat wave! Good news on the engine john.

 

[Lowflyer]

Heat wave Austin ???
Are you looking at the same forecast ??

Snowing today and I have to go to Grangemouth tomorrow for a seminar at a silly o'clock start , that VRS is absolute sh1t in the snow

Thanks for the comments on the engine, sounds tighter than the old motor , ( should be, 60k miles less on the clock )
Time will tell if it lasts as long, I will try hard to nurse this one.






Liar liar pants on fire

 

[Steve T]

Austin,

That IS my summer wear

A picture wot I took not 10 minutes ago out of the front window . . . . .

NOW I've got my thermals on
Don't you just luv British weather

Steve T

 

[Philwhiskeydrinker]

Blimey Steve, a little chilly, breezy with the odd shower here but nowt like that!
To think, we are nearly into May.

 

[Raymo]

cUOTE="Philwhiskeydrinker, post: 25743, member: 124"]Blimey Steve, a little chilly, breezy with the odd shower here but nowt like that!
To think, we are nearly into May.[/QUOTE]


Drove from Aberdeen to Huntly ( was over for grandsons 4th Birthday, met the wife over there after work), so drove in a bit a sleet no probs

after kids in bed, fish & chips from Huntley's finest chipper and chatted over a nice fire, 9pm wife says oh its starting to lay and so we set off to Alford........



I followed the wife ( fortunately she has snow tyres on the front ... ( me 4x4 pug with snow tyres ), Blizzard all the way ,,,,

mental.....

3-4" of fresh snow.. wife lost it on a bend into a wee bridge , recovered it no problem , I hit the same black ice under the snow and the esp and other trickery battered in and the car did its job.. took us an hour ( 20miles), few other 4x4... on the road all the sensible folk cabined up with fires on...

I know it was forcast but it was still a shock....

Summer next week

 

[Hamster]

We,ve actually had snow in Stourbridge ( west mids ) this afternoon.
Nothing like you,re enjoying though, lasted 3 minutes.

 

[Lowflyer]

Well,

My fears were confirmed,set off at 0500 this morning heading south to a seminar in Grangemouth.
Heavy snow in the highlands , on the A9 particularly
Came across a curtainsider on it's side near Slochd summit, unfortunately, just missed a yellow vulture by a metre, pity it didn't take the barsteward out , no traffic to speak of, so no major time lost.
Anyways, cracked on slithering until I came to the lowlands where no snow at all ????

Would appear us Highlanders have obviously upset the weather gods



Again

 

[Barftone]

I blame it on Brexit

 

[Lowflyer]

I blame it on Trump


We're all dddooooooommmeeeedd