Vw. You must watch this !

anotherbaldrick

Is this for real ?

http://www.youtube.com/embed/nd5WGLWNllA?rel=0

Strider590

anotherbaldrick wrote: »

Is this for real ?

http://www.youtube.com/embed/nd5WGLWNllA?rel=0

Try this instead, far less aggravating than a fullscreen of pixelated video.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nd5WGLWNllA

wba31

gotta love the Germans...

bigjl

Oh, I don't know we have had several brand new Merc Sprinter go up in flames recently, due to an unknown electrical fault under the bonnet.

The first one went back to Mercedes, there is one of the others looking very sorry for itself at the WestHam fitters.

£165000 odd each, oops................

Strider590

bigjl wrote: »

Oh, I don't know we have had several brand new Merc Sprinter go up in flames recently, due to an unknown electrical fault under the bonnet..

I'd heard it was a fault with the oil filter

bigjl

Strider590 wrote: »

I'd heard it was a fault with the oil filter

Really?

Merc initially tried to blame the RAC as they had replaced a bulb on one of them two days earlier, when the others went up Merc got very silent:D.

From the one I had a look around the fire seemed to start around the front right side of the engine bay, or at least that is where the fire was most intense.

Where is the oil filter strider?

I haven't driven the new ones much as I have been on FRU's for 3 years and now on secondment.

Very comfy by all accounts, but crap in every other way.

You have to loce the Mayor of London and his LEZ, which means we have to get rid of all our 2.7's or fit particulate filters, and the main reaosn why we bought the 2.2's.

Have just heard they are going to get rid of our Renault B120 "BigFoot" major incident supply units for similar reasons, we have 6 or 7 of these massive things, 4x4, huge wheels and tyres, all on 1995 M reg, none have done much more that 10000km in 16 years, but are fitted with top spec VDO Dayton SatNav, taken from totalled FRU's by all accounts:rotfl:

And they are going to replace them with 313 CDi LWB Sprinters with tiny blue lights on the roof.

What an insult, we want the "BigFoot", who cares how old they are, they only get used two or three times a year, they should just pay the £100 a day when they are used.

Then send a surcharge to TFL for responding to the major incident, maybe £250 a time.

The fact that they are giving an exemption to "travelling showmen" but not to "BigFoot" is an insult.

They are so big that even at 6'1" I have to climb up into the cab.

You have to laugh they look like an early Renault Master that has been put on a Tractor chassis:rotfl: