- 101. Daily Driver (was: Re: Great Info in Today's People) (score: 1)
- Author: "Dean Dashwood" <Dean.Dashwood@enron.com>
- Date: Wed, 28 Jun 2000 10:37:06 +0100
- I consider a Daily Driver to be car which is used in the same way as a "normal" car would be. I consider my car a daily driver, but I don't drive it daily (because I get the train to work, and I live
- /html/spitfires/2000-06/msg01078.html (7,788 bytes)
- 102. Re: Appology / Warning (score: 1)
- Author: "Dean Dashwood" <Dean.Dashwood@enron.com>
- Date: Wed, 28 Jun 2000 10:48:34 +0100
- It certainly used to be true that you couldn't get infected by an e-mail virus until you opened an attachment. Viruses can't be contained in text, only in programs (incuding scripts, macros, applets
- /html/spitfires/2000-06/msg01079.html (9,252 bytes)
- 103. Rear spring question (score: 1)
- Author: "Dean Dashwood" <Dean.Dashwood@enron.com>
- Date: Thu, 29 Jun 2000 09:55:18 +0100
- I'm after some advice on a subject about which I know absolutely nothing, but I know for a fact that there are several of you out there who know lots - the rear spring! My car is a '77 1500 with a s
- /html/spitfires/2000-06/msg01120.html (8,667 bytes)
- 104. Re: Back-up lamp wiring access ? (score: 1)
- Author: "Dean Dashwood" <Dean.Dashwood@enron.com>
- Date: Thu, 29 Jun 2000 17:02:15 +0100
- I'm speaking from the point of view of my 1500 now, so I don't know how different this will be to your car. My lamps do not have a ground wire, they simply ground through the lighting assembly. When
- /html/spitfires/2000-06/msg01147.html (8,725 bytes)
- 105. Re: Rear spring question (score: 1)
- Author: "Dean Dashwood" <Dean.Dashwood@enron.com>
- Date: Fri, 30 Jun 2000 15:10:56 +0100
- Doug, thanks for the reply - it made me smile! Actually, this garage I went to was the same one I mentioned a while ago on a thread about finding garages that will work on our cars - last year, when
- /html/spitfires/2000-06/msg01185.html (8,706 bytes)
- 106. RE: Throttle control problems (score: 1)
- Author: "Dean Dashwood" <Dean.Dashwood@enron.com>
- Date: Tue, 2 May 2000 11:24:06 +0100
- Did you manage to fix this? I finally got round to looking at the problem on my car this weekend, and this is what I found. (Apologies if I use some incorrect terminology, I don't really know my way
- /html/spitfires/2000-05/msg00048.html (10,778 bytes)
- 107. Re: TRF Catalog!! (score: 1)
- Author: "Dean Dashwood" <Dean.Dashwood@enron.com>
- Date: Wed, 3 May 2000 10:44:33 +0100
- Thought I'd add in my £0.02 to this one (just in case there weren't enough contributors ;-)). Every now and then, a thread pops up on this list where someone has had a problem with a big supplier,
- /html/spitfires/2000-05/msg00101.html (10,522 bytes)
- 108. Re: Only in Britain! (non-lbc) (score: 1)
- Author: "Dean Dashwood" <Dean.Dashwood@enron.com>
- Date: Wed, 10 May 2000 10:39:38 +0100
- And another "Only in Britain" story - this time of political correctness gone a little bit mad. With Euro 2000 (the European soccer championships) only a few months away, the video for England's offi
- /html/spitfires/2000-05/msg00349.html (8,511 bytes)
- 109. Getting Better All The Time (score: 1)
- Author: "Dean Dashwood" <Dean.Dashwood@enron.com>
- Date: Thu, 11 May 2000 09:52:28 +0100
- People let you pass like this in San Diego? Around here, if you're stuck behind someone who's driving slower than you, and the road's too busy or too windy to overtake, tough! <snip> I was able to le
- /html/spitfires/2000-05/msg00390.html (7,210 bytes)
- 110. Re: Popping out of 2nd -- what's failing? (score: 1)
- Author: "Dean Dashwood" <Dean.Dashwood@enron.com>
- Date: Thu, 11 May 2000 09:58:27 +0100
- I don't know anything about the inside of gearboxes, but a club-member had a fairly similar problem to the one you describe. Her car popped out of 3rd gear, at almost any engine speed. Fortunately,
- /html/spitfires/2000-05/msg00391.html (8,273 bytes)
- 111. Re: High RPM Smoke (score: 1)
- Author: "Dean Dashwood" <Dean.Dashwood@enron.com>
- Date: Mon, 15 May 2000 09:39:47 +0100
- Jeff, I'm not surprised your engine doesn't like the choke being pulled out more than 1/2". This thing was designed for British winters, not California summers! Even here in England, unless it's very
- /html/spitfires/2000-05/msg00570.html (7,690 bytes)
- 112. Spitfire Ale (was RE: shows) (score: 1)
- Author: "Dean Dashwood" <Dean.Dashwood@enron.com>
- Date: Tue, 16 May 2000 09:57:18 +0100
- You can get Spitfire Ale in a lot of pubs around here - and there were some cool ads for it last year, especially on posters on the tube in London. Check out their website: http://www.shepherd-neame.
- /html/spitfires/2000-05/msg00692.html (6,907 bytes)
- 113. tops and interiors (score: 1)
- Author: "Dean Dashwood" <Dean.Dashwood@enron.com>
- Date: Wed, 17 May 2000 14:59:46 +0100
- I just ordered a tonneau cover from these guys - due to be deliverd in about 2 weeks. I'll let the list know what it's like when it arrives. Apparently, these are the guys that supply TSSC. Another g
- /html/spitfires/2000-05/msg00784.html (7,240 bytes)
- 114. Re: wreck (score: 1)
- Author: "Dean Dashwood" <Dean.Dashwood@enron.com>
- Date: Thu, 18 May 2000 09:53:49 +0100
- Earl, sorry to hear about this, but at least you're basically ok, albeit a bit worse for wear. Anyway, just wanted to wish you all the best, and hope that you mend soon, and I'm sure the rest of the
- /html/spitfires/2000-05/msg00834.html (7,477 bytes)
- 115. Car Names (was Re: Thanks to a list member, Susan Hensley) (score: 1)
- Author: "Dean Dashwood" <Dean.Dashwood@enron.com>
- Date: Thu, 18 May 2000 09:57:08 +0100
- Sorry Jeff, you can't have that name, I've already used it! Oh, all right then, I suppose we can share it. I thought it was the perfect name for my car, especially since I'm a big Stephen King fan, t
- /html/spitfires/2000-05/msg00835.html (8,343 bytes)
- 116. Voltage regulator problems? (score: 1)
- Author: "Dean Dashwood" <Dean.Dashwood@enron.com>
- Date: Fri, 19 May 2000 09:47:28 +0100
- Is it only the radio that has problems, or is it CDs, etc, as well? I'm thinking that it could be interferance, not supply voltage problems. Where is your arial mounted, and is the wire routed anywh
- /html/spitfires/2000-05/msg00889.html (7,922 bytes)
- 117. Re: Heat Shield Mounting (score: 1)
- Author: "Dean Dashwood" <Dean.Dashwood@enron.com>
- Date: Mon, 22 May 2000 10:20:34 +0100
- ISTR that my heat shield is mounted directly onto the inlet manifold, on the studs which the carbs sit on. The sequence is manifold-gaskets-heatshield-gaskets-carbs. The contents of a "head gasket s
- /html/spitfires/2000-05/msg00998.html (7,333 bytes)
- 118. Re: Don't want speeding ticket (score: 1)
- Author: "Dean Dashwood" <Dean.Dashwood@enron.com>
- Date: Tue, 23 May 2000 09:48:45 +0100
- Patrick et al, I think the point Richard is making is that if you change the diff ratio, or the tyre size, the speed of the car at any given engine speed will change slightly. But you are correct in
- /html/spitfires/2000-05/msg01019.html (8,385 bytes)
- 119. Re: speedos and rotating diameter (score: 1)
- Author: "Dean Dashwood" <Dean.Dashwood@enron.com>
- Date: Tue, 23 May 2000 18:20:15 +0100
- It's very rare that I disagree with you (in fact, I don't think I ever have), and I'm not sure if I'm disagreeing in this case, or just misunderstanding you. If you change your tyres, then, at a giv
- /html/spitfires/2000-05/msg01049.html (8,606 bytes)
- 120. Re: So, who wants to sell me a Spitfire OD tranny? (score: 1)
- Author: "Dean Dashwood" <Dean.Dashwood@enron.com>
- Date: Tue, 23 May 2000 18:24:16 +0100
- Good point about more things to go wrong. In fact, in the time I've had my car, the overdrive has gone wrong far more times than anything else. But it's always been a simple electrical problem (brok
- /html/spitfires/2000-05/msg01050.html (10,780 bytes)
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