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1155 including parts, I think thats a great deal.

P.P.S : Also avoid cinemas within the city like Deira City Center and festival city. Even when I was living in Sharjah I would go to Ibn Batuta at that time it was away from big population and very few went there, now it has also gotten busy over the weekends but still better than the ones in the city.

32" inches .. Massive! Lol Barry you need to get with the times. Specially when TVs are so cheap!!! We are in the age where 42-55inches is the norm. Anyways I love going to the cinema but avoid weekend rushes for thr same reasons so its usually weekday late shows where its quite and almost empty. Usually let the first week go when most have already watched it. P.S : Watch A Time To Kill with Sammy Jackson. If you havent watched it.

TBH I was never too much of a radio fan, terrestrial or not. I'm too opinionated to listen to stuff I dont like and not be in control of the playlist. Only time I ever really listened to radio was while on commutes.

Ironically nowadays the only time I sit down with music when Im producing some new tunes or mixing or mastering my own or some clients tracks. Other than that, specially of late, I don't listen to any music. Its been over a year and half since I got my Range Rover and still haven't given its 12 speaker sound system a decent workout. I don't even have any radio stations set on it!

The only movie I watched recently was Black Panther and found it meh at best. The crappiest Marvel Hero movie till date, taking the title away from Iron Man 3

Disagree to the extent of protest. There are many properly restored RRCs and other classic without them being gutted of thier souls and replaced with useless batteries. One of my strongest beliefs is electric is NOT the way to go but being rammed down peoples throats because people have become lazy in innovation and money for new innovation is hard to come by so they are just screwing around with electric because its the lowest hanging fruit at the moment. Look at the 59s and 60s even big manufacturers were experimenting with all sorts of things, like jet powered planes and even nuclear powered planes. Now everybody is just like sheep going down the electric avenue. Which even after 2 decades has show no real improvement or feasibility. Biggest leap till now has been Tesla that also because ot was backed by huge money but its also starting to show its cracks as time goes on. And really hasn't caught on anywhere except the lower east coast of the USA. Close to home base.

I wouldn't advise that, since a lot of cars also use the same for other warnings for example in my car although I dont have the 120 buzzer the annoying gong, goes off if any warning light comes on or it detects something wrong too And why do you want to drive over 120 anyways?

What a waste of a Range Rover Classic

That's just the grumpy old man in you! Do you ever recall your dad saying the same thing! bah new music, what new music, good music ended in the 40s! Lol I agree most of today's stuff is just meh at best but there are still some good artists out there and every now and then a good tune comes along from crappy ones too. P.S : Never been a fan of Pink floyd, hate the Beatles and Elvis Presley. Jimi Hendrix was mediocre at best and his only claim to fame was dying young. CCR, Eagles, The Who, Journey among many others I can dig from the 70s and being am 80s child I like most of 80s and 90s stuff. Even weird britpop stuff like Bros Blue Mercedes SlyFox Sanita etc etc

You probably got one made during Barry's stint at seagate ! LOL

I did some research on this sometime back and seems like the general consensus was that hard drive failure rate of any brand not SSDs go up after 2-3 years so if you are really worried best to replace with new drives after 2-3 years.. Although personally Ive had good luck with Seagate and Toshiba.

They have had the similar Road star program here for many years now. Dunno if its still active. Where am unmarked car follows a random car for 10-15 minutes and if the person drives perfectly following all rules, he is pulled over and awarded I think 5000 cash on the spot. Abu Dhabi had something similar but I think it was on 1000dhs

Well hopefully your stay here in UAE will convert you from a diesel head to a proper petrolhead

Slightly off topic : Why are you so obsessed with diesel motors, ok I get it petrol is expensive and all back home, we have a saying loosely translated mean passion has no price. Even when financially struggling the thought never crosses my mind to get something less thirsty than my V8s Even the noun is petrolhead not diesel head And up until very recently diesel engines have been abhorrent in every category save cheaper fuel and better mpg, how does a car person get so funky about them. When I was growing up and even into my 30s cant think of any car from factory that would be a car guys car. Only post 2005 ish have some cars come out with good diesel engines. I'll give you an example being a huge Range Rover when I heard and saw the performance of a 2003 TD6 L322 made me want to burn my range rover and buy a corolla. Sounded like a tractor and went like a glacier. I could not and still cannot fathom would would pay around £50,000 and buy that POS new from tge show room floor..

For me there is no.more good live band guitar based music worth listening to for atleast the last 15 years. All the big metals bands either stopped or went weird aka Metallica. They most recent music that I can think off that I really like is Bruno Marrs 24k magic. www.youtube.com/watch?v=UqyT8IEBkvY And recently a friend introduced me to some house music that Ive also started to dig www.youtube.com/watch?v=qi1OVCtfYgo www.youtube.com/watch?v=qVxRXt0pKnI www.youtube.com/watch?v=dUSy25teF40

When I was first starting off my safari career and I hardly could drive on sand. There was a big group and right with all the senior management also in the camp which was very rare to see things went smoothly, but as soon as the guests arrived the camp generator died and there was a huge panick and no matter what it refused to come on. There was a spare generator but that was at a new camp site being built and none of the drivers knew the location of the new site. I had been there only once seeing this as my chance to prove my worth ans to make inroads into company to get more work. I said Ive been there and can bring the generator. I had been there once, but hardly knew my way around the desert or knew how to drive on anything but tracks So the manager handed me his keys and like a super hero I took the land cruiser pickup both fuel tanks topped up as far as the needle can go because he had a company fuel card and kept what ever car he was driving always topped uo anyways so started up and got on my way. Our camp was exactly on the spot where emarat petrol pump on maliha road is after the bridge and the road ended at the bridge, but the road to maliha was being constructed and the bull dozers had just leveled out the sand on what today is the maliha kalba road. Me being a noob had no idea how soft bulldozed sand is. Less than a km out I got on to the bulldozed track and the pickup sank up to its axels in powered sand. I had seen a few peope rocking the car to get out so tried that to self recover. Nothing I tried and tired but nothing, dug as much as I knew but. Car wouldnt budge, dunno how much time had passed but it was quite dark by then and I knew even if I got out now I woild for sure get lost in the dark as I barely knew my way around in the day. And if I called someone to help me out I knew it would be the end of my safari career for doing something as stupid as jeopardizing such a big operation. I heard the call to prayer over my car radio and I made a very deep prayer that please god save me skinand get me out of this situation and save whatever credibility I have left. And gave it one more try and like a miracle the car came out but by now it was pretty dark and alot of time had gone by I knew I still wouldnt be able to get the gene. Then my phone rang...gulp. I picked it up out safari manager asked where are you I said Im almost at the new campsite. He said no need now as they were able to fix the generator and get it running and told me to comeback eveb though I lied and said I can bring the other gene just in case because I was almost there. TOTAL LIE, but he said no need come back as the pick up is needed. I also knew our manager was a very smart fox. So what I did was put the car in low and really ripped around the sand in 1st and 2nd for a good while until I had used up half a tank of gas and then went back to the camp and handed him the keys back.He thanked me and said good job. But I kept my eye on the car and later in I saw him checking then fuel gauge on the car. So that was ne saving ny safari career before it ended by lying through my teeth and some devine intervention. Oh and just for reference the new campsite was in the area opposite the bidayer shops where you take the tunnel underpass to head into the desert. So quite a drive from Kalba gas station to there, specially for a newbie on his own And this is just one of the many stories I have in this field. Sometimes I think I could write a book just on such events.

Datsun.......enough said

Lol well if you are a glutton for punishment then there is nothing I can do about it, but I do understand what you are saying, some cars have a soul and character and no matter how crappy they are people will still spend loads and keep the running on the road, while majority of the cars are just transport like white goods like a washing machine and good at their jobs but you will never day dream about one or put up a poster of a washing machine in you bedroom no matter how good it is as doing laundry! Unfortunately most modern cars are like that, no matter how good reliable and cheap they are I know I will never get a Pajero, Pathfinder, Prado etc etc becaus to me they are souless cars and dont talk to me. Just bland like a fridge to me. I would rather get a tiny Suzuki Samurai which has loads more character and soul than all of the above combined. If you don't smile everytime you drive your car or at least look back at it once just to get one more glance while walking away after you have parked it, then you are driving a fridge. :)

Barry here is something more along your lines https://tnydu.biz/DOvvl4

Ewww....You couldn't pay me to drive that fugly prehistoric turd! Don't take it the wrong way barry but as the saying goes Dont meet your heroes. While the romance, myth and mystery might exist amongst most classics but in a reality majority of them are real turds to drive, even a modern Tiida drives and handles better than most of them and sometimes even faster. While I might like a lot of classic muscle cars, I know I will never buy one because of this. Who wants a 7 ltr V8 that puts out only 180hp, slower than a modern van, sloppy drum brakes, crappy 3 speed boxes, no power steering and handling like a cart. Resto mods are different thing though but supremely expensive. Looks of a classic bit with all the modern underpinnings. That I can go for.

As one of my paindo friends used to say. Mr Bushy

You can also try putting in 500ml of ATF 100kms before your next oil change and use a fully synthetic oil due to both fluids having greater detergent qualities. But you could end up with new leaks as sludge might actually be holding some leaks back. Also nothing will actually fully clean your motor without actually pulling it apart but will help of you do a couple if these cycles. Also sludge builds up overtime and a temp overheating issue will not cause it. If your car overheated so much as to turn your oil into sludge ot would surely blow the head gaskets as well cause other serious damage. So its probably been building over time, due to poor oil quality, low oil quality and delayed changes or all off the above. And I would surely have the motor cleaned up, as the sludge could be blocking oil passages which lubricate and cool vital parts of the engine. When I bought my disco at 170k it was slightly sludgy as I could see from the oil cap. But after continuous use of diesel oil when the engine was stripped at 300k for a new timing chain and gears and general cleanup. Didnt find any sludge anywhere.

Its probably because of it huge size, not everyone is a fan of oversized vehicles like the Navigator, expedition, GMC Suburban XL. Im just a glutton for punishment and like big 4x4s. And also the base model Patrol is or was cheaper than most in its class. Just add Platinum LE badging and no one would know you were driving the budget version.

Well you were lucky enough to find someone to patch up your car so you won't be stranded, now go get it replaced ASAP and if you can afford it change the other hoses as well as they probably are of similar age and in similar condition. And AC freon has nothing to do with the engine cooling system. You probably have a leak somewhere in the AC system