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La Gata Negra has gone in for a service and check-over ready for sale. Sadly only a very few kms have been added in the last three and a half years. Since the beginning of the COVID lockdown in March 2020, here in Spain, the only journeys of any distance have been using the Jag estate and then...

Laydeez and genalmenn, I proudly but with some trepidation, introduce Jerry. A slightly larger but similar format, successor to a Jag X-Type, seven years younger and therefore with later bells and whistles. I believe, when sold new in 2016, it was the top spec and dearest in the Peugeot 508...

Well, we ain't gone nowhere since last March, so the "Fun" motor and the "Workhorse" have been sleeping, whilst only "Runabout" has been running about. The "Sack shifter" has been in the workshop, having a regular once-over and ITV (MoT), so has been idle also. Being decrepit old gits and...

Whilst snow is regularly seen on the two thousand metre mountain range just to the north of us, here, we are supposed to be sub-tropical. So just stop it, you silly meteorological idiocy!

Having been a pioneer of modern computing in the sixties, and sticking with the state of the art developments up to the millennium, I like to feel part of the evolution process. Some of the latest tricky stuff is quite awe inspiring, and Boston Dynamics are up the front with robots. The motor...

My car is fibbing. It says a tyre is deflated; and it ain't. My guess is the thingy in the valve has gone duff. Q1 - do you think I am right? Q2 - do the thingies in each wheel incorporate a battery, which might be flat? Q3 - do I get the naughty thingy/valve replaced, as first action? Q4 - is...

My rear parking assistance is now not working! I get the message "the parking assistance cannot be used at this moment" on selecting reverse gear. But it seems the front sensors are working and displaying the proximity as expected. Neither the small dash screen nor the NG4 screen menus have...

I had a warning up about a deflated tyre. So checked it and was a little low, so added air, as you would. The warning and the dash lamp are still showing. I am not aware that I have to reset anything, so am suspecting the sensor in that wheel is faulty. Do you think that is the case; i.e...

I have, this evening, loaded up my RCZ for a short vacation down South in Spain. The baggage was not excessive, but had to be juggled to enable the boot lid to be closed. Why? Because a bulge in the underside of the boot lid contacted the cases. No big deal, you might say, as the RCZ has a good...

LGN just had a full service and an ITV (MoT) inspection. It FAILED the ITV. "WHAT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!" "Well sir, [all in Spanish of course] it is a bureaucratic problem with the papers." "WHAT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!" "Don't panic sir; do you use the tow bar?" "No, it just happened to be on the car, as...

Our chap and his missus are figging - bashing trees and collecting and drying figs. This morning I heard a different sound from the normal whacking and bucket filling. From our balcony I could see that he was doing a sort of clog dance, on the spot, close to the house. On enquiring "que hace?"...

You might think, "aagh, he's waffling on about cats again", what with LGN and Ounce; but no, a bit more thought provoking and a tad sinister. With the hope that at least one person finds it interesting, and you might just find it more stimulating than the spam recently flooding in here, I give...

Bring a bucket! :lol: https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-manchester-49583338 Reminded me of: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whisky_Galore!_(1949_film) And I think my mum and dad took me to the local cinema to watch it. :clap: Cripes, I am ancient. :wtf:

Please may I make a simple suggestion, which will make the destruction of the very frequent garbage we are receiving these days far less of a problem. When I visit the site, frequently, I select "Un-Read" to catch up. I can quickly select that which is genuine RCZ and not the dross from Russia...

Now here's a thought provoking bit of a WAFFLE. We all have a pride in our motors and maybe occasionally push our luck; but generally we value them highly and treat them with a risk oriented tenderness. After all, despite being insured, we would be pained if dents or worse befell our "pride and...

No, not doctors, but WAFFLE on documents. Thinking about EuroCoC, got me going on the number of documents you are expected to carry here in Spain when driving. Things evolve, so there may be some recent relaxation, but certainly when we arrived fourteen years ago the following were needed to be...

Look at these and go a bit green, except they will still get stuck in traffic and encounter stone chips and kamikaze flies. https://www.topgear.com/car-news/superc ... rs-quail#1

Rickydow is the reincarnation of Stanley Unwin! :clap: :lol: [not funny if you are a moderator; sorry!] :oops:

Hola todos, Just back from a couple of weeks(ish) down south in our holiday home. :dance: Any of you going to Spain for your hol's, and not too experienced at being a guiri? [means same as a sucker holidaymaker, grockle, in the SW of England] If you want to know anything that might help in...

Just received a set of top quality mats for the Jag from Lew's company. PERFECT!!!!!!!!!!!!!! :thumbup: :thumbup: :thumbup: :thumbup: :thumbup: https://ambassadorcarmats.co.uk/