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AndyC Member Since: 30 Nov 2007 Location: Where the snow dosen't melt when the sun is shining! Posts: 4165 |
Can you post a photo so I can compare with my removable towbar fitting PS - I am not a grockle (vanner) either 2007 Freelander 2 HSE TD4 Manual with Premium Pack & Moonroof. Stornoway Grey with Ebony Black Pleather, Clear Indicators, Body Side Mouldings etc. |
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24th Apr 2008 7:57 am |
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rogern Member Since: 15 Apr 2008 Location: Shropshire Posts: 15 |
Will do, later today |
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24th Apr 2008 8:01 am |
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chicken george Member Since: 05 Dec 2007 Location: N. Yorks Posts: 13289 |
my new motto " I'm not, and never will be a grockle" At work
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24th Apr 2008 9:00 am |
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npinks Member Since: 28 Jun 2007 Location: Ls25 Posts: 20090 |
Just because you have a towbar, us caravaners don't assume you'll be towing a caravan, like non caravaners jump at.
Former Mod/Member, with the most post & Chicken George Arch nemesis |
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24th Apr 2008 9:23 am |
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Matei Member Since: 07 Feb 2008 Location: Galati Posts: 782 |
[/quote] You are right. In some countries with more hectic driving (Romania included) tow bars are used more to make the car behind you keep a bigger distance from your rear bumper. Actually when I bought my FL2 I tackled with the ideea of having one installed but as I did not see one (the dealers did not have them on stock) I did not know which type would be best for this pourpose. Also no mudflaps have the same effect when it rains. FREELANDER 2 TD4 SE (XS UK) IZMIR BLUE SIDE STEPS COLD PACK BI-XENON TINTED WINDOWS - AND PROUD OF HER |
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24th Apr 2008 10:26 am |
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AndyC Member Since: 30 Nov 2007 Location: Where the snow dosen't melt when the sun is shining! Posts: 4165 |
JUST TO PUT YOU GUYS RIGHT What is the origin of the word 'grockle'? This slightly dismissive term for a 'tourist' was, as several of our readers have noted, first popularized because of its use by the characters in the film The System (1962), which is set in the Devon resort of Torquay during the tourist season. Some older dictionaries suggested that this might be a West Country dialect word. Other scholars have suggested that it might originate in a comparison of red-faced tourists (in baggy clothing with handkerchiefs on their heads) to 'Grock', the famous clown. The word grockle was indeed picked up by the script-writer from the locals during filming in Torquay. However, it was apparently not an 'old local dialect word'. According to research by a local journalist in the mid-1990s, the word in fact originated from a strip cartoon in the children's comic Dandy entitled 'Danny and his Grockle'. (The grockle was a magical dragon-like creature.) A local man, who had had a summer job at a swimming pool as a youngster, said that he had used the term as a nickname for a small elderly lady who was a regular customer one season. During banter in the pub among the summer workers, the term then became generalized as a term for summer visitors. This seems to have occurred in, or only shortly before, the summer in which The System was filmed: we know of no instances of the word dating from before the release of The System (though one or two people from the south-west remain convinced that they knew it before then). IN ADDITION THERE IS EVEN A GROCKLES.COM WHICH EVEN HAS A TRACTOR'S WEBPAGE (just for our chicken farmers I guess). http://www.cricketnetwork.co.uk/main/s59.htm 2007 Freelander 2 HSE TD4 Manual with Premium Pack & Moonroof. Stornoway Grey with Ebony Black Pleather, Clear Indicators, Body Side Mouldings etc. |
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24th Apr 2008 11:07 am |
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AndyC Member Since: 30 Nov 2007 Location: Where the snow dosen't melt when the sun is shining! Posts: 4165 |
OK rogern - WHAT every happened to those pickies 2007 Freelander 2 HSE TD4 Manual with Premium Pack & Moonroof. Stornoway Grey with Ebony Black Pleather, Clear Indicators, Body Side Mouldings etc. |
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26th Apr 2008 5:31 pm |
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rogern Member Since: 15 Apr 2008 Location: Shropshire Posts: 15 |
Hi
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28th Apr 2008 12:58 pm |
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npinks Member Since: 28 Jun 2007 Location: Ls25 Posts: 20090 |
is there any identical points for reference at each side you can take a measurement from
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28th Apr 2008 1:07 pm |
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npinks Member Since: 28 Jun 2007 Location: Ls25 Posts: 20090 |
I have just looked for a westafellia towbar for the FL2 are you sure they got the correct tow bar for 07 onwards cars?
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28th Apr 2008 1:33 pm |
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rogern Member Since: 15 Apr 2008 Location: Shropshire Posts: 15 |
Hi
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28th Apr 2008 2:43 pm |
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rogern Member Since: 15 Apr 2008 Location: Shropshire Posts: 15 |
I have just taken some measurements
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28th Apr 2008 2:52 pm |
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rogern Member Since: 15 Apr 2008 Location: Shropshire Posts: 15 |
This is the spec from the instruction booklet that came with the towball.
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28th Apr 2008 3:04 pm |
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AndyC Member Since: 30 Nov 2007 Location: Where the snow dosen't melt when the sun is shining! Posts: 4165 |
Just checked mine for comparison, rogern - the towball is slap bang in the middle (equal distance from each sensor) 2007 Freelander 2 HSE TD4 Manual with Premium Pack & Moonroof. Stornoway Grey with Ebony Black Pleather, Clear Indicators, Body Side Mouldings etc. |
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28th Apr 2008 3:18 pm |
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