DFB's Garage

[DFB]

That dealership looks like a hospital, so clean!

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I've been going to that dealership since 2003 for both sales and service. My uncle was the spare parts manager there for decades too. It hasn't always been plain sailing, but what is?

That service department sits behind a new showroom built to sell and service Jaguar-Landrover, Honda and LDV. Ford's are sold in another building, but benefit from the new service facility. It was built a few years ago and is a massive upgrade from what went before it, which is now an expanded spare parts warehouse. Overall, the new building has changed the whole customer experience for the good........................pruning out some dead wood helped too.

[Klasse Act]

Great pics of the Falcon right there

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[Tasmania]

The XR6 up on the lift this week for its annual service...................read: oil and filter change.












Actually, it was quite confusing for the service advisor. The odometer reads just 31,000 km (19,600 mile), but his computer said it was in for 105,000km (65,240 mile) service. I made things worse when I said its already had the 105,000km service a few times now. He looked backwards and forwards a few times in confusion, then took a photo for reference. In actual fact, being a 2008 with 15,000 km (9360 mile) service intervals, in theory it would have been in for the 225,000km (140,000 mile) service. In the end, I told him to just change the oil.

He then mentioned that they didn't have their detailer in to wash today. That made me VERY happy actually...................regardless, I still told him NOT to wash it, which he agreed it looked perfect anyway. I should have tipped him.

Are you not doing the service yourself because of the stamp they put in the booklet come on Deyon you got all the gear. It's way better doing it yourself you DON'T has to stress about other's driver/scratching your car and after the fact you feel more one with the car.

[Klasse Act]

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[DFB]

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The Master!

[DFB]

Clouted two birds on the way home last night, the stupid things flew out of a tree and swooped down in front of the Ranger. Looking back in the mirror, I only spotted the one on the road despite hearing two distinctive thuds. When I got home, I gave the car a quick look over from above and below and left it that.

Later in the evening, I went out into the garage for something and was startled by something scratching around under Ranger. I then spotted something looking out from the lower bumper intake................



I must have stunned the bird, which explains why I didn't notice it in there after work. Of course, it was stuck in there and couldn't squeeze through the opening. That area of the car is sealed up with a plastic undertray, so I'm sure you can guess what came next.

I ended up removing three of the four 15mm bolts, enough for the undertray to hang down, but of course the stupid thing didn't want to get out. Several minutes of banging on the undertray, then a guiding prod with a mop handle had it falling out of the bumper, where it then scurried its way from under the car and out of the garage into the next-door neighbors garden.

Well, that's a new one for me. At least I got to use my 1/2-inch socket extension for the first time.

[Big Dave]

I had a similar incident with some magpies many years ago, in my VN Commodore. There were 4 of them picking over some roadkill on a country road, when I came around the bend at 100km/h, only 3 made it out of the way. So I pulled over to check as I didn't want to keep going with a dead bird stuck somewhere. It was stuck in the large intake under the bumper, so I put some gloves on and reached in, the damn thing pecked at me, I jiggled the plastic bumper a bit and it fell out the bottom, then took off and flew away, like nothing had happened. I guess it was taking off with its wings spread as we collided and that may have cushioned the impact. No damage to the car either, the bumper was unpainted plastic, being the base executive model, but with the police options.

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[Tasmania]

You wait till your mother hits a sparrow in a Honda accord and later on in the coming weeks you tell her that there is a smell coming from the front of the car...

Only to hook the little dead body out of the wheel arch vent like thing and say I TOLD you your car stank!

[Big Dave]

You wait till your mother hits a sparrow in a Honda accord and later on in the coming weeks you tell her that there is a smell coming from the front of the car...

Only to hook the little dead body out of the wheel arch vent like thing and say I TOLD you your car stank!

Or she drives over a plastic bag that gets stuck to the exhaust, and slowly melts with the lovely smell of burning plastic.

Or this one, which happened to me while driving my lowered 95 VR V8 Commodore in Tasmania. On a country road with multiple dead kangaroos, wallabies, or maybe pademelons all over the place, and traffic coming the other way, you scrape the bloating carcass on a cross brace, or suspension component, or something, so that when you turn the AC on, the smell of decomposition comes in, for the next week, till you spend a whole day driving up the freeway back to Sydney in the heavy rain. It took another 6 months to kill off the ants that came with the "bits", their nest was hiding behind the rubber windscreen seal.


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[Tasmania]

Or she drives over a plastic bag that gets stuck to the exhaust, and slowly melts with the lovely smell of burning plastic.

Or this one, which happened to me while driving my lowered 95 VR V8 Commodore in Tasmania. On a country road with multiple dead kangaroos, wallabies, or maybe pademelons all over the place, and traffic coming the other way, you scrape the bloating carcass on a cross brace, or suspension component, or something, so that when you turn the AC on, the smell of decomposition comes in, for the next week, till you spend a whole day driving up the freeway back to Sydney in the heavy rain. It took another 6 months to kill off the ants that came with the "bits", their nest was hiding behind the rubber windscreen seal.


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I was walking once on the same road i use for the last 10 year's and this is summer period and their was a decent size bloated wallabie and an on coming 4x4 ran straight over the top and...."POP" like a balloon guts everywhere and me holding my breath.