Administrators hughezee Posted December 16, 2017 Administrators Report Share Posted December 16, 2017 Couple of shots of Alan's motor, a well-maintained beast as well nevertheless in need of specialist knowledge and the correct tools as several garages couldn't help, all sorted now and a he's very happy 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Graymalkin Posted December 16, 2017 Report Share Posted December 16, 2017 Looks great. Welcome to the club. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Administrators hughezee Posted December 16, 2017 Author Administrators Report Share Posted December 16, 2017 21 minutes ago, Graymalkin said: Looks great. Welcome to the club. Alan joins the impartial forum group of coupe owners which makes 7 now, but will be attending meets etc 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mangoman Posted December 16, 2017 Report Share Posted December 16, 2017 Welcome to the Club "Golf-Lima-Foxtrot".... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Founding Member AhsyV6 Posted December 16, 2017 Founding Member Report Share Posted December 16, 2017 Welcome mate 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
welland99 Posted December 16, 2017 Report Share Posted December 16, 2017 6 hours ago, Mangoman said: Welcome to the Club "Golf-Lima-Foxtrot".... I like registration numbers that have a good ring to them. My old Merc e class (sadly now at the garage in the sky after 8 years ownership ) ended with Foxtrot Golf November, which I loved! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
welland99 Posted December 16, 2017 Report Share Posted December 16, 2017 7 hours ago, hughezee said: Couple of shots of Alan's motor, a well-maintained beast as well nevertheless in need of specialist knowledge and the correct tools as several garages couldn't help, all sorted now and a he's very happy Welcome Alan. Nice motor! What kind of special tools and knowledge were lacking at other garages? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
welland99 Posted December 16, 2017 Report Share Posted December 16, 2017 I'm collecting a new (used) car next week in flat black colour. It's many years since I last had a car in a flat colour, and I've never had one in flat black. It looked impressively shiny when I saw it last week and i hope that I don't get bored of the colour. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moderators Laird_Scooby Posted December 16, 2017 Moderators Report Share Posted December 16, 2017 Welcome aboard Alan and Goes Like F...! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mangoman Posted December 16, 2017 Report Share Posted December 16, 2017 17 minutes ago, welland99 said: I like registration numbers that have a good ring to them. My old Merc e class (sadly now at the garage in the sky after 8 years ownership ) ended with Foxtrot Golf November, which I loved! It's funny I just automatically saw the phonetic alphabet... Mine not so much - "Sierra-Tango-Romeo". (A bit of a mouthful to say the least!). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moderators Laird_Scooby Posted December 16, 2017 Moderators Report Share Posted December 16, 2017 Talking of the phonetic alphabet, until you mentioned it i hadn't realised something blatantly obvious : Juliet Uniform Romeo Victor Oscar Juliet Lima Papa Juliet Those are my Sterling, Coupé and Volvo respectively and oddly enough, my Jeep was Kilo Juliet Foxtrot. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Administrators hughezee Posted December 16, 2017 Author Administrators Report Share Posted December 16, 2017 2 hours ago, welland99 said: Welcome Alan. Nice motor! What kind of special tools and knowledge were lacking at other garages? The inability to fault find and diagnose the ABS system and SRS system, even the majority of main dealers no longer support the coupes software and cannot read all the codes. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moderators PTR200S Posted December 17, 2017 Moderators Report Share Posted December 17, 2017 Welcome Alan from over here too ! Looks like a nice motor, clean too Plan on doing anything to it, mods etc? or is it a good one just to keep standard? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mangoman Posted December 17, 2017 Report Share Posted December 17, 2017 17 hours ago, Laird_Scooby said: Talking of the phonetic alphabet, until you mentioned it i hadn't realised something blatantly obvious : Juliet Uniform Romeo Victor Oscar Juliet Lima Papa Juliet Those are my Sterling, Coupé and Volvo respectively and oddly enough, my Jeep was Kilo Juliet Foxtrot. The most interesting Reg I ever had was on one of my Jeeps, as seen here: It was only after I had bought it that I realised that the letters and number all meant something. I suppose I should have kept it but wasn't sure if I could at the time.... "M" - My wife's name, Marinha. "59" - The year of my birth. "S" - My eldest daughter, Shelley-Anne. "C" - My second daughter, Candice. "J" - My son's name, Justin. A major coincidence or what! I believe the chap I sold it to was going to export it to Holland after his contract was over. I sold it in 2008 or thereabouts. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moderators Laird_Scooby Posted December 17, 2017 Moderators Report Share Posted December 17, 2017 The reg is still on a Jeep according to the DVLA, tax expired 1/3/2010 and MoT about a year later so it looks like it has gone to Holland although there's no export marker that i could see. Might be worth a phone call to DVLA to see if they can help track it down. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Administrators hughezee Posted October 29, 2018 Author Administrators Report Share Posted October 29, 2018 Alan returns to HQ for more TLC and a power steering cooler pipe, not forgetting the standard 25bhp mod' on the back ? 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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