Workshops in Scotland

Sorry to anyone who takes offence, but it's blatant plug time!!!!

I can do it, I am based near the historical cathedral city of Elgin, 30 miles East of Inverness on the Moray coast. Just let me know exactly what you require doing and it'll be done, at a very favourable labour rate. Badger

Hello Brian. I still remember you demonstrating how to blow the water plugs out of a Ford Capri 3lt engine at Kinloss. To david, Badger is worth try and still a good friend.

"Badger" wrote in news:csc6ug$o7k$ snipped-for-privacy@titan.btinternet.com:

There's nothing wrong with the blatant plug if you can stand up to scrutiny and are prepared to be shot down if you don't match up!

Sorry to be blunt but the Inverness firm that is usually recommended seems to have gone to pot and I am still smarting. Not only did they keep my vehicle for an excessively long period but when it was returned there was no oil in the gear box!

In the future, I would certainly be willing to travel the extra miles to Elgin if you can match the recommendations.

Derry

Want to tell me who that was? Off-list preferably, I don't want to be involved in public slander of another garage especially when the evidence is heresay. Remove the nospammers and ammend to btinternetdotcom. Have heard some disappointing stories of a 4x4 business in Inverness recently, they installed one of my engines for a customer some months back and were never off the phone to me - asking things they really shouild have known if they were used to working on landy's! A friend tells me they have got themselves a reputation for "failing to deliver", with many vehicles left "round the back" for long periods.

Derry, my new workshop should be built and up and running by mid-June with any luck, you are then more than welcome to pay me a visit and "try me". Badger.

"Badger" wrote in news:cse4uf$s4d$ snipped-for-privacy@hercules.btinternet.com:

As a very experienced barrack room lawyer, I'd prefer not to say more, even off list, as defamation needs not only to be true but provably as such in a court of law to be totally safe!

But if you took a guess, your chances of coming up with the right answer would probably be more than 50%. And there's a lot more to it than I have posted here.

Derry

Haha, yes, I'd forgotten all about that four wheeled heap of misery! Lying on the tarmac outside the block underneath that bloody thing. Best move I ever made, selling it! Your memory must be better than mine John, that must have been what, early1986?? BTW, it wasn't a water plug, it was the oil pump drive on the "crapi", the water core plug blew on the princess!

Now look what you've made me do.... publically admit to having owned an austin princess! DOH! The shame, the shame.

Badger.

At least we know why you were banished to the northern frozen wasteland. :-)

What frozen wasteland? This is the "Costa del Moray", I'll have you know. Near enough the lowest rainfall in Scotland, not that you'd think it this last week! As for the princess, I drove it up here! :-( Then I bought a Jag :-o Then I saw sense and got a landrover 110 :-| Then I fitted a V8 :-) Then I fitted a BIGGER V8 ;-)) Does that get me off the hook? Please? Badger.

You can go off some people really quickly, you know. I've just remembered why we exported the unwanted part of the family to the North Island (NZ) many, many years ago!

Badger.

'Tis a lovely part of the world and hopefully I'll get back there in the next couple of years. Anyway, in it's day the Princess wasn't a bad car!

The Scots exports all ended up in the South of the South Island, round about Dunedin. A fair bit of the population down there still speak with a Scots accent.

Those of us in the North enjoy the good weather and traffic jams. :-)

Incidentally, you want a 450bhp Rover motor?

I've an aunt and uncle in the North of the North island somewhere!

Only if it's not going to cost a lot, I've spent too much money recently! Badger.