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** GED ** Mud Obsessed
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Posted: Sat Jan 30, 2016 10:30 am Post subject: Hey, Nightbar.
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just in case they post you to a type 45
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Nightbar Difflock Royalty
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Posted: Sat Jan 30, 2016 1:58 pm Post subject:
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That'd funny if it wasn't true...
...we've known about this for years...
...and no-one has mentioned the (alleged) significant defects in the gas turbines or their management system yet
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** GED ** Mud Obsessed
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Nightbar Difflock Royalty
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Posted: Sat Jan 30, 2016 4:54 pm Post subject:
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Not all you read is often the full picture...
...and no-one is denying what's been published so far as well.
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Xpajun Mud Obsessed
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Posted: Sat Jan 30, 2016 6:25 pm Post subject:
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Nightbar wrote: | Not all you read is often the full picture...
...and no-one is denying what's been published so far as well. |
Doesn't that mean that the problem is worse than what has been published?
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** GED ** Mud Obsessed
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Posted: Sat Jan 30, 2016 9:43 pm Post subject:
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The Ministry of Defence’s admission they now need major work comes after years of trying to hush up engine failures, or attempts to dismiss them as “teething trouble”.
A former First Sea Lord said the disclosure was "extremely worrying".
Lord West of Spithead said: “Clearly there is a major fault here. Initially people were saying these are teething problems and you always have teething problems with new ships. It is quite clear it is more than teething problems now."
"It is bad enough fighting your ship when people are dropping bombs on it and blowing bits of equipment out and you keep it going - that's what we're trained to do. You don't expect suddenly to lose all power when you are steaming along normally," he said.
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** GED ** Mud Obsessed
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Posted: Wed Feb 10, 2016 9:43 am Post subject:
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bit more than T-cut then.......
http://forces.tv/78957393
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Mr Tyre Mr Tyre
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Posted: Wed Feb 10, 2016 5:10 pm Post subject:
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** GED ** wrote: | The Ministry of Defence’s admission they now need major work comes after years of trying to hush up engine failures, or attempts to dismiss them as “teething trouble”.
A former First Sea Lord said the disclosure was "extremely worrying".
Lord West of Spithead said: “Clearly there is a major fault here. Initially people were saying these are teething problems and you always have teething problems with new ships. It is quite clear it is more than teething problems now."
"It is bad enough fighting your ship when people are dropping bombs on it and blowing bits of equipment out and you keep it going - that's what we're trained to do. You don't expect suddenly to lose all power when you are steaming along normally," he said. |
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Xpajun Mud Obsessed
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Posted: Wed Feb 10, 2016 7:29 pm Post subject:
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Is there any wonder about there being 5000 defects considering the name of one of the destroyers:
Captioned: Type 45 destroyer HMS Defender sailing from Portsmouth
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** GED ** Mud Obsessed
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Posted: Wed Feb 10, 2016 11:16 pm Post subject:
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Nightbar Difflock Royalty
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Posted: Thu Feb 11, 2016 6:34 am Post subject:
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Not long ago I had the choice of a couple of ships to join...
...and I chose the Southampton because her pennant number was D90...
...guess what? Spent most of her time breaking down.
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Mr Tyre Mr Tyre
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Posted: Thu Feb 11, 2016 2:54 pm Post subject:
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Nightbar wrote: | Not long ago I had the choice of a couple of ships to join...
...and I chose the Southampton because her pennant number was D90...
...guess what? Spent most of her time breaking down. |
A friend has a L494 RR Supercharged that has spent most of it's time broken down, i think him and the AA call centre people are all on first name terms.The dealer said to him Monday, we ought to think about changing it for you, his reply was i am changing it i have an ML63 AMG coming March 1st.
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Big Dunc Just got MTs
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Posted: Thu Feb 11, 2016 3:26 pm Post subject:
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A friend of mine had one of the first Evoques.
It spent most of its first year off the road and in a garage, and my friend reckons he put over 12,000 miles onto Land Rover courtesy vehicles.
On one occasion I was having a beer with him and the conversation was along the lines of:
So whats it at the dealers for now?
It needs a software update.
I thought you said that was the problem when I asked you two weeks ago.
It was and its still there, apparently the dealer is waiting for some boffin at land rover to actually write the software update....
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** GED ** Mud Obsessed
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Posted: Thu Feb 11, 2016 4:56 pm Post subject:
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funny............
when i mention landrovers breaking down........
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Xpajun Mud Obsessed
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Posted: Thu Feb 11, 2016 6:37 pm Post subject:
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** GED ** wrote: | funny............
when i mention landrovers breaking down........ |
Stop knocking Landrovers
Landrovers spend as much time off-road as any other 4x4
albeit in a garage
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Mr Tyre Mr Tyre
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Posted: Thu Feb 11, 2016 7:41 pm Post subject:
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Xpajun wrote: | ** GED ** wrote: | funny............
when i mention landrovers breaking down........ |
Stop knocking Landrovers
Landrovers spend as much time off-road as any other 4x4
albeit in a garage |
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Nightbar Difflock Royalty
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Posted: Thu Feb 11, 2016 9:00 pm Post subject:
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Just think of it of intelligent maintenance...
...requesting help before catastrophy
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marlais Gate Opener
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Posted: Mon Feb 15, 2016 11:22 am Post subject:
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You mean catastrophe...........
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** GED ** Mud Obsessed
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Posted: Mon Feb 15, 2016 8:25 pm Post subject:
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marlais wrote: | You mean catastrophe........... |
if the man with the 1.05 billion pound boat filled with Sea Viper air defence systems, 1 × 48-cell Sylver A50 VLS, 48 Aster 30 missiles, 2x quad harpoon missile launchers, a 4.5inch naval gun, 2 × Oerlikon 30 mm guns, 2 × Phalanx CIWS, 2 × miniguns and 6 × general purpose machine guns, a couple of lynx helicopters AND a merlin armed to the rotors and crewed by 235 angry village people rejects says its catastrophy......
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jojo Mud Obsessed
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Posted: Mon Feb 15, 2016 8:35 pm Post subject:
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Yeah, OK, but how do you bump start a type 45?
J
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absquatulation Off-Road Guru
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Posted: Mon Feb 15, 2016 9:41 pm Post subject:
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jojo wrote: | Yeah, OK, but how do you bump start a type 45?
J |
Get out and push?
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Posted: Mon Feb 15, 2016 11:09 pm Post subject:
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jojo wrote: | Yeah, OK, but how do you bump start a type 45?
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why do you think they are building successor`s
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Mr Tyre Mr Tyre
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Posted: Tue Feb 16, 2016 8:12 am Post subject:
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[quote="jojo"]Yeah, OK, but how do you bump start a type 45?
J[/quote
A long chain, 4 knots of speed,and someone with a loudspeaker to shout NOW maybe
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Nightbar Difflock Royalty
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Posted: Tue Feb 16, 2016 11:12 am Post subject:
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Works for me...
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