Seriously?

[Steve 940]

Originally Posted by Othen

This is nice:

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/226103527544

Very nice indeed 👍👍

Gorgeous colour, but appears to be in a rather different league of motor, than the sub £10k rust buckets we’ve mentioned previously.

Worth a look as not a million miles away from you, expect you will always be able to resell in the future.

What’s the worst that can happen ?? 😀

Cheers
Steve

[360beast]

Originally Posted by Othen

This is nice:

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/226103527544

Rebuilt rear dampers on that one, I'm going to go against everything I've said on here about working on them and say I used to really enjoy rebuilding them, such an interesting job and very satisfactory seeing and feeling the difference after, I used to do the front ones too. Shimming the front springs was a pain though as the springs even new ones always gave them an odd ride height so we would fit them which took ages with the specialist hand operated spring compressor and then you would measure it and say one side was 10mm lower you would put a 10mm shim in and it would end up going up about 5mm or 15mm it got very tedious!

[Steve 940]

Originally Posted by 360beast

Rebuilt rear dampers on that one, I'm going to go against everything I've said on here about working on them and say I used to really enjoy rebuilding them, such an interesting job and very satisfactory seeing and feeling the difference after, I used to do the front ones too. Shimming the front springs was a pain though as the springs even new ones always gave them an odd ride height so we would fit them which took ages with the specialist hand operated spring compressor and then you would measure it and say one side was 10mm lower you would put a 10mm shim in and it would end up going up about 5mm or 15mm it got very tedious!

😀. Luke, I think you may need to lie down in a darkened room….

Does look appealing though, wafting through the countryside, just as long as it’s not on top of a recovery truck 😀😀

Cheers
Steve

[360beast]

Originally Posted by Steve 940

😀. Luke, I think you may need to lie down in a darkened room….

Does look appealing though, wafting through the countryside, just as long as it’s not on top of a recovery truck 😀😀

Cheers
Steve

I had a hernia operation yesterday and I'm in hospital, the drugs must be in my system still 🤣

The recovery truck would definitely be cheaper to get around in

[Laird Scooby]

Originally Posted by 360beast

I had a hernia operation yesterday and I'm in hospital, the drugs must be in my system still 🤣

The recovery truck would definitely be cheaper to get around in

Definitely a side effect of Oxycodone.....................

[Steve 940]

Originally Posted by 360beast

I had a hernia operation yesterday and I'm in hospital, the drugs must be in my system still 🤣

The recovery truck would definitely be cheaper to get around in

Well that’s excused then, 👍 best wishes for your recovery.

Cheers
Steve

[Othen]

Originally Posted by 360beast

I had a hernia operation yesterday and I'm in hospital, the drugs must be in my system still 🤣

The recovery truck would definitely be cheaper to get around in

Best wishes for a swift recovery Luke.
I had a little hernia operation about a month ago, but mine was a local anaesthetic procedure, so I was home the same day. The good news is that recovery is fast and pretty well painless.
Get well soon.

[Othen]

Originally Posted by Steve 940

Very nice indeed 👍👍

Gorgeous colour, but appears to be in a rather different league of motor, than the sub £10k rust buckets we’ve mentioned previously.

Worth a look as not a million miles away from you, expect you will always be able to resell in the future.

What’s the worst that can happen ?? 😀

Cheers
Steve

I started looking at the problem from a different perspective Steve; I wondered what 30 grand would buy and the answer is something quite nice.
For the price of replacing my Skoda Superb diesel estate with a new one I could get something like this (I've owned the Skoda from new and it will probably be good for another decade without any major costs - so I could just run it on a morte and spend the money elsewhere.

Just thinking aloud

[360beast]

Originally Posted by Steve 940

Well that’s excused then, 👍 best wishes for your recovery.

Cheers
Steve

Thanks Steve, I'm home now.

I went to the doctor's Monday morning, was at hospital for 9:30am and had a bed at 7:30pm (quick for the Worcester royal) and then I kept getting pushed back down the queue as it wasn't urgent but I had it done yesterday at 12 and I've just got home.

Originally Posted by Othen

Best wishes for a swift recovery Luke.
I had a little hernia operation about a month ago, but mine was a local anaesthetic procedure, so I was home the same day. The good news is that recovery is fast and pretty well painless.
Get well soon.

Thanks Alan, how did you get on with recovery? This is my second one so I've now got an = sign scar on my stomach, they had to remove my belly button and reconstruct it after because it was right next to it, absolutely no pain from the wound site though which is weird as my last one was really painful.

[Othen]

Originally Posted by 360beast

Thanks Steve, I'm home now.

Thanks Alan, how did you get on with recovery? This is my second one so I've now got an = sign scar on my stomach, they had to remove my belly button and reconstruct it after because it was right next to it, absolutely no pain from the wound site though which is weird as my last one was really painful.

Hi Luke,
I chose to pay for private treatment (mainly because I thought the NHS would never have fixed the problem) at a specialist (the Oxford Hernia Centre). I quite glad I did, treatment was quite excellent compared with the NHS. I was in control of things all the way through, everything happened spot on time and I was able to go home the same afternoon.
The OHC gave me some painkillers to take home, but I didn't bother with them. I had a day sitting on the sofa watching daytime telly and was pretty well back to normal by the end of the week.
I hope it all goes as well for you Luke.