Best smoker barges 1-5 large [Vol 16]

Best smoker barges 1-5 large [Vol 16]

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McGee_22

6,727 posts

180 months

Thursday 9th July 2020
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PrinceRupert said:
I just wanted to share this as possibly the worst thing I've ever seen.

Anyone else see a little boys comic face in the veneer to the left of the parking brake switch?

olly755

3,070 posts

163 months

Thursday 9th July 2020
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therealsamdailly said:
My wife keeps something similar to that under her side of the bed. I've often wondered what it was for
Hmmm.

<mentally reels off growler puns>

Bonefish Blues

26,815 posts

224 months

Thursday 9th July 2020
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McGee_22 said:
PrinceRupert said:
I just wanted to share this as possibly the worst thing I've ever seen.

Anyone else see a little boys comic face in the veneer to the left of the parking brake switch?
The one with the baby seal just above and to the boy's rh?

SpeckledJim

31,608 posts

254 months

Thursday 9th July 2020
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Bonefish Blues said:
McGee_22 said:
PrinceRupert said:
I just wanted to share this as possibly the worst thing I've ever seen.

Anyone else see a little boys comic face in the veneer to the left of the parking brake switch?
The one with the baby seal just above and to the boy's rh?
Same as with all these fun little games, all I can see is my mother and father screaming.

carinaman

21,326 posts

173 months

Thursday 9th July 2020
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PrinceRupert said:
I just wanted to share this as possibly the worst thing I've ever seen.

Not a Randle Handle.

cornershop

2,136 posts

197 months

Thursday 9th July 2020
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Bonefish Blues said:
McGee_22 said:
PrinceRupert said:
I just wanted to share this as possibly the worst thing I've ever seen.

Anyone else see a little boys comic face in the veneer to the left of the parking brake switch?
The one with the baby seal just above and to the boy's rh?
And the smiler on the RHS of pic under brake mechanism

nullogik

225 posts

143 months

Thursday 9th July 2020
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BlueMR2 said:
https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Mercedes-S280-Automatic...

This could potentially be a nice car.

Doesn't mention why the seller was given the car (presumably some kind of work/or a yearly service) however a fresh battery and maybe a cheeky CR pro / MB V2.0 with RED 38 pin adapter could tell you why the SRS light is on.
A very oddly specced car. Base engine but has costly optional full leather interior (dash and doors) with two tone seats and electric reclining rear bench in a SWB (albeit the S280 was only available as a SWB). Someone obviously didn't care much about engine size but wanted a very nice interior.

Such a pity MB have removed the flexibility of being able to choose whatever individual options you want and instead you only have a few "packages" to select from. It removes the fun of discovering examples like this which have a strange combination of options chosen by the original owner.

Speed addicted

5,576 posts

228 months

Thursday 9th July 2020
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nullogik said:
BlueMR2 said:
https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Mercedes-S280-Automatic...

This could potentially be a nice car.

Doesn't mention why the seller was given the car (presumably some kind of work/or a yearly service) however a fresh battery and maybe a cheeky CR pro / MB V2.0 with RED 38 pin adapter could tell you why the SRS light is on.
A very oddly specced car. Base engine but has costly optional full leather interior (dash and doors) with two tone seats and electric reclining rear bench in a SWB (albeit the S280 was only available as a SWB). Someone obviously didn't care much about engine size but wanted a very nice interior.

Such a pity MB have removed the flexibility of being able to choose whatever individual options you want and instead you only have a few "packages" to select from. It removes the fun of discovering examples like this which have a strange combination of options chosen by the original owner.
I’m assuming that double glazing wasn’t standard either?
Maybe the first owner wanted the quietest and most comfortable way of getting about town.

I think the manufacturers might have grouped options together to (obviously) make people spend more, but also to make the cars more sellable in the used market.

Some of the wackier specs must have been a real hassle to move on once they’d been traded in.

tobinen

9,237 posts

146 months

Thursday 9th July 2020
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140s all had double-glazing

I was messing about on the Porsche website configuring a new 992 Turbo S. Green exterior, red interior, badge delete, no options. I've love the spare cash to order it.

John Locke

1,142 posts

53 months

Thursday 9th July 2020
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PrinceRupert said:
I just wanted to share this as possibly the worst thing I've ever seen.

People who do things like that should not be allowed to live.

More positively, earlier today, I saw & test drove the X-Type estate (bargey enough?) currently being fettled by fellow PHer Gallons Per Mile. Hoping to make the deal in October when his family has finished borrowing it, and I expect to have a need of a "doesn't matter too much" car for carrying buiding materials, and tip runs.

PrinceRupert

11,574 posts

86 months

Thursday 9th July 2020
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John Locke said:
People who do things like that should not be allowed to live.

More positively, earlier today, I saw & test drove the X-Type estate (bargey enough?) currently being fettled by fellow PHer Gallons Per Mile. Hoping to make the deal in October when his family has finished borrowing it, and I expect to have a need of a "doesn't matter too much" car for carrying buiding materials, and tip runs.
Is this the one that was leaking oil? Is it still leaking oil?

John Locke

1,142 posts

53 months

Thursday 9th July 2020
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PrinceRupert said:
Is this the one that was leaking oil? Is it still leaking oil?
That's the one; yes it is, but hopefully it won't be by October.

Macron

9,894 posts

167 months

Thursday 9th July 2020
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John Locke said:
That's the one; yes it is, but hopefully it won't be by October.
Why, will it all have left the car by then? Must be thick stuff.


Why has no one bought this 5.5 E500 yet? Yes it’s a repost, it looks good.

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Mercedes-Benz-E500-Spor...

And this XF with thread connections is also appealing with the work done, yet other cars go and this does not. Car buyers are weird.

https://www.pistonheads.com/buy/listing/10611082?u...


21st Century Man

40,942 posts

249 months

Thursday 9th July 2020
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I considered one of these for far too long, maybe even as much as a minute.


ian316

4,150 posts

106 months

Thursday 9th July 2020
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What is Japanese for Gerald?

olly755

3,070 posts

163 months

Thursday 9th July 2020
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I don’t know, what is Japanese for Gerald?

Bonefish Blues

26,815 posts

224 months

Thursday 9th July 2020
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Gerald-San?

McGee_22

6,727 posts

180 months

Thursday 9th July 2020
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Bonefish Blues said:
Gerald-San?
laugh

olly755

3,070 posts

163 months

Thursday 9th July 2020
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Bonefish Blues said:
Gerald-San?
He’s in Eastenders isn’t he?

LetsTryAgain

2,904 posts

74 months

Thursday 9th July 2020
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Any thread experience with the R class Merc?
It'll be a year or two yet probably, but they definitely are coming down to a 'northern working man' price point.
Very, very difficult to find a petrol though, compared to an abundance of diseasels.

It'll be replacing my W211 when that finally gives up the ghost.
Knowing my luck, it'll go on, and on, and on!
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