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Postby rustytransit » Thu May 04, 2017 11:47 pm

Whilst driving in my transit mark 7, beautiful van with a grumbling gearbox, I come across on a regular basis mark 8 vans with the drivers wing hanging off , what's going on here then , can any body tell me ?
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Re: observation question

Postby bambi mk 1 » Thu May 04, 2017 11:51 pm

To much Red Bull :lol:
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Re: observation question

Postby Punto443 » Fri May 05, 2017 7:58 am

Known fault on customs, the dour hinges are weak and high winds catch them and bend them!
Causing them to catch the front wing.
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Re: observation question

Postby boltondigger » Fri May 05, 2017 6:38 pm

Punto443 wrote:Known fault on customs, the dour hinges are weak and high winds catch them and bend them!
Causing them to catch the front wing.


yea whats happened to them now? did ford fix them all or just the ones that broke ,and bollox to anyone it happens to once out of warranty?
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Re: observation question

Postby loot » Sat May 06, 2017 6:59 pm

Someone said that Ford upgraded the check straps a little shorter so the door wouldn't swing open so violently, also a member showed what appeared to be a finger scoop on his 16 plate custom so you can grab the door quickly, another guy told me that the fix was to adjust the wings forward a bit more (the gap seemed to confirm this when i looked) but tbh who knows?

Ford refuse to admit there's a problem tho.
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Re: observation question

Postby rustytransit » Sat May 06, 2017 7:41 pm

Latest van i saw today with buckled wing was a 16 plate . So I doubt they have fixed the problem.
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Re: observation question

Postby loot » Sat May 06, 2017 8:36 pm

Hmm 16 or 66? Maybe they really flung the doors open? :lol:
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Re: observation question

Postby Altransit » Sat May 06, 2017 8:43 pm

But wasn't the OP talking about Mk8's :?: :?
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Re: observation question

Postby loot » Sat May 06, 2017 10:33 pm

Maybe, maybe not :lol:

Early mk8 tippers used to bend and the front plastic wheel arches would pop off at the back :shock:

Don't they do any bloody testing? Not even basic stuff like a 5 minute drive to mcd's?
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Re: observation question

Postby ned » Sat May 06, 2017 10:36 pm

loot wrote:Hmm 16 or 66? Maybe they really flung the doors open? :lol:


Could be NOS, you know the ones stood in a field for a year or two before being registered. N
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Re: observation question

Postby loot » Sat May 06, 2017 10:52 pm

nedforceone wrote:
loot wrote:Hmm 16 or 66? Maybe they really flung the doors open? :lol:


Could be NOS, you know the ones stood in a field for a year or two before being registered. N

There's a yard not far from me on the deeside industrial zone and there's around 100 Ford vans sat there with no number plates fitted, no red customs tho, but there's a little caravan there probably security :lol:
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Re: observation question

Postby ned » Sat May 06, 2017 11:04 pm

loot wrote:
nedforceone wrote:
loot wrote:Hmm 16 or 66? Maybe they really flung the doors open? :lol:


Could be NOS, you know the ones stood in a field for a year or two before being registered. N

There's a yard not far from me on the deeside industrial zone and there's around 100 Ford vans sat there with no number plates fitted, no red customs tho, but there's a little caravan there probably security :lol:


Most security guards couldn't secure their pants let alone a yard full of vans :lol: Deeside industrial zone eh, I used to deliver/collect from a place called spool multi media on there (they went bust in 08) isn't the ice rink there somewhere.

I actually saw a red custom tother day probably the only red one I have seen in the flesh. N
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Re: observation question

Postby loot » Sun May 07, 2017 12:00 am

nedforceone wrote:[qute="loot"]
nedforceone wrote:
loot wrote:Hmm 16 or 66? Maybe they really flung the doors open? :lol:


Could be NOS, you know the ones stood in a field for a year or two before being registered. N

There's a yard not far from me on the deeside industrial zone and there's around 100 Ford vans sat there with no number plates fitted, no red customs tho, but there's a little caravan there probably security :lol:


Most security guards couldn't secure their pants let alone a yard full of vans :lol: Deeside industrial zone eh, I used to deliver/collect from a place called spool multi media on there (they went bust in 08) isn't the ice rink there somewhere.

I actually saw a red custom tother day probably the only red one I have seen in the flesh. N[/quote]
Ah spool, they used to throw computer game cassettes 8 their skip for loot to collect :mrgreen:
Can't really spool a cd lol
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Re: observation question

Postby ned » Sun May 07, 2017 12:13 am

Aye spool, the company I worked for bought all their machine when they went under, they also took on alot of their customers, now if you only got the cassettes out of the skip you missed the dodgy porn videos n DVDs :wink: Computer game cassettes that must have been the '80's. N
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Re: observation question

Postby loot » Sun May 07, 2017 6:56 am

nedforceone wrote:Aye spool, the company I worked for bought all their machine when they went under, they also took on alot of their customers, now if you only got the cassettes out of the skip you missed the dodgy porn videos n DVDs :wink: Computer game cassettes that must have been the '80's. N

Yes probably :oops: remember you'd buy the magazine with a cassette that had some games on :lol: although i never remember if any were good, possibly demo games?
Bloody free stuff from a skip :?
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