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gotta love 'a dagenham dustbin', as Bob says they are cheap to fix and easy enuf to work on. Reckon i'm gonna pull the injectors on my MK6 soon and have them tested / replaced as it's a bit lame atm.

yerra gas man Marcus, them pics are both interesting and funny.

J the Iveco dealer in Exeter had a brand new single cab 4x4 sat on the forecourt last year, apparently if ya want the double cab version there is something like a 5 month waiting list due to production schedule. They were keen to sell it on to a tree surgeon i know but he opted for the long wait and ordered a double cab. I reckon one kitted out with tool storage and a bed bunk would be 65k or there abouts.

i always got the impression the Rangers up to 2006 were the better ones to own as a few folks around here have 2009, 2010/11 2.5 models and head gaskets appear to be a problem. I think the 3.0 is the one to avoid too.

ya seen the Land Cruiser Pickup that Milner Off Road are selling?

It's the Isuzu Troopers that had the (sometimes but not always) troublesome 3.0 TDI engine from 1998 till the end of production/sales in about 2005. As the Op is looking for a pickup then they need not concern themselves with the worries associated surrounding that sometimes dodgy Isuzu (it is actually a Caterpillar power plant!) engine as it was never fitted to the pickups. The low tech bomb proof older Isuzu pickups (2.5, 2.8 or 3.1) that were available up to 2003 are now very hard to come by, i 'lucked out' last December and found a perfect one for good money that will give me years of service (fingers crossed) and will legally tow 2700kg. The later Isuzu Rodeo pickups available from 2003-2012 are available with either a 2.5 or a 3.0 TDI motor, most of them can legally tow 3000kgs and are in my opinion a good used buy if you can find one that is not too rusty underneath. I personally think Hilux's are awesome but physically a bit on the small side and generally under powered and gutless whether they be n/a or turbo charged and they are too feckin' expensive compared to the competition. If ya were after a cheap 4x4 truck that didn't have to be a pickup i'd look at a Vauxhall Frontera. Lettuce snow how ya get on.

sounds like doo doo to me. You sure it is not a 560xp? Look at the black serial number plate and it shud state the year it was made.

i wonder if the chain has jumped off the drive sprocket?

good idea regarding a secondary kill switch where it is easy to see it / easy to reach it. I was impressed at your 'word inclusion' at 4.07 !

now that looked bad Minkey, how'd ya get it out?

got any actual pics of the machine in question? had it any distinctive markings, dents etc? couple of weeks ago i spotted a plea regarding a stolen Ford Anglia in Exeter on Facebook. Keyboards in the west country went 'white hot' with activity as it got shared all over the place. Someone spotted said stolen classic car on the back of a car transport trailer being towed by a white van, then it was spotted by someone else, so on and so forth. Van and trailer seemed to be taking a convoluted route via B roads to get onto the A303 which made some of us think the thieves were tipped off about the attention they were receiving on social media and they were trying to 'shake off unwanted attention'. Next thing it was spotted on the A303 being pulled over by Avon and Somerset's finest, then my phone rang as my mate drove by and spotted the 'hard stop' as it was taking place in a layby. car was returned to it's rightful owner. Social media can be used to good effect sometimes.

sorry ta read this Stubby. Tell her to keep her chin up and you keep all 3 of yours up too! 40 is still a big number, she just needs to aim and go for it. Keep on truckin' xx

more sad news. RIP wendelspanswick.

get it shared upon Facebook too.

Joe i'm fairly certain it's merely a sticker with an X on it and that's it really! Ohh i enquired about importing a new CS2511 from the saw king in Oregon USA but with all the porting and muff mods and postage it came in at over £920 (GBP!) so i thought better of it!!

we thought yew'd never git here! Welcome pard.

she must've put those jeans on with an aerosol can!

they don't loike it up 'em.

21 lbs ! thas good goin slim.

Spotted this deudder day. Chap chopped it and shortened the body to make it into a pickup. J plate, 6 cylinder 2.8 TD it sounded lovely. I had to laugh at the roof bars!

get on Eggs. Me and the missus are eggsited fer ya!

more or less snowed in up here and i will not risk going out.

gotta link to it on ebay?

so what ya drivin' at the moment then?

23 hoss power! now that'd be useful. My ole Greenmech micro chipper was only 14 hp but very effective.