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hotel21 Administrator Offline Posts: 12766 Doghouse Gender: Drives: into lamposts	wash your estate with one bucket of water - honest 23. Nov 2009 at 22:16
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Andy B Over Active Poster Offline Posts: 21988 Bury Lancs Gender: Drives: 1999 3.0 Elite auto/TDM	Re: wash your estate with one bucket of water - honest Reply #1 - 23. Nov 2009 at 22:19 bloody hell!!
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cruisetopoland Omega Knight Offline Posts: 1352 UK Gender: Drives: various	Re: wash your estate with one bucket of water - honest Reply #2 - 23. Nov 2009 at 22:23 Similar effect on the paint to our local Morrisons car wash.... JESUS
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hotel21 Administrator Offline Posts: 12766 Doghouse Gender: Drives: into lamposts	Re: wash your estate with one bucket of water - honest Reply #3 - 23. Nov 2009 at 22:25 Burning question is, though.... Did it get the dirt off??
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cruisetopoland Omega Knight Offline Posts: 1352 UK Gender: Drives: various	Re: wash your estate with one bucket of water - honest Reply #4 - 23. Nov 2009 at 22:29 hotel21 wrote on 23. Nov 2009 at 22:25: Burning question is, though.... Did it get the dirt off?? No, but they worked out where the sunroof was leaking...
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tunnie Over Active Poster Offline Posts: 22520 London, W3 Gender: Drives: 2.2 CD (LPG'd) & BMW R1200 GS	Re: wash your estate with one bucket of water - honest Reply #5 - 23. Nov 2009 at 22:38 i recognise that, believe i posted that some time ago
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Jimbob Global Moderator Admin Team Offline Third nipple removal completed succesfuly Posts: 20462 Chester / Flintshire Gender: Drives: 52 3.2 MV6 Estate & 98 3.0 MV6 Manual Estate	Re: wash your estate with one bucket of water - honest Reply #6 - 23. Nov 2009 at 22:40 No Need!
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cruisetopoland Omega Knight Offline Posts: 1352 UK Gender: Drives: various	Re: wash your estate with one bucket of water - honest Reply #7 - 23. Nov 2009 at 22:48 Jimbob wrote on 23. Nov 2009 at 22:40: No Need! Huh?? It's a hideous old Escort estate. This vintage were CRAP new and only got worse with age. Doing the automotive world a big favour, methinks
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tunnie Over Active Poster Offline Posts: 22520 London, W3 Gender: Drives: 2.2 CD (LPG'd) & BMW R1200 GS	Re: wash your estate with one bucket of water - honest Reply #8 - 23. Nov 2009 at 22:59 http://www.omegaowners.com/forum/YaBB.pl?num=1249661015
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cruisetopoland Omega Knight Offline Posts: 1352 UK Gender: Drives: various	Re: wash your estate with one bucket of water - honest Reply #9 - 23. Nov 2009 at 23:07 tunnie wrote on 23. Nov 2009 at 22:59: http://www.omegaowners.com/forum/YaBB.pl?num=1249661015 Some of us new'uns not seen it before-along with many repeat posts
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Re: wash your estate with one bucket of water - honest
Reply #10 - 23. Nov 2009 at 23:12

mmmm how much does that bucket hold ??? If its one of these

http://www.baumpub.com/heg/products/6991/3/liebherr_canada.html

then 40 cu.meters .... thats 40 x 220 = 8800 gallons !!

At 10lb to a gallon thats 88000 lbs !!!

at 2240 lbs to a ton thats just under 4 ton of water !!

No wonder it bent !!

(you metric kiddies can do your own sums !!! )

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Reply #11 - 23. Nov 2009 at 23:31

Entwood wrote on 23. Nov 2009 at 23:12:

mmmm how much does that bucket hold ??? If its one of these

http://www.baumpub.com/heg/products/6991/3/liebherr_canada.html

then 40 cu.meters .... thats 40 x 220 = 8800 gallons !!

At 10lb to a gallon thats 88000 lbs !!!

at 2240 lbs to a ton thats just under 4 ton of water !!

No wonder it bent !!

(you metric kiddies can do your own sums !!! )

Does that explain my water bill?

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Re: wash your estate with one bucket of water - honest
Reply #12 - 23. Nov 2009 at 23:34

Entwood wrote on 23. Nov 2009 at 23:12:

mmmm how much does that bucket hold ??? If its one of these

http://www.baumpub.com/heg/products/6991/3/liebherr_canada.html

then 40 cu.meters .... thats 40 x 220 = 8800 gallons !!

At 10lb to a gallon thats 88000 lbs !!!

at 2240 lbs to a ton thats just under 4 ton of water !!

No wonder it bent !!

(you metric kiddies can do your own sums !!! )

so .... if that 'small' amount of water weighs 4 tons, just think of how many tons of water have battered various bridges around the Cumbria area. Huh

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Stevie-blunder Omega Knight Offline Posts: 1218 Wolverhampton Gender: Drives: 98 omega 2.5td auto and Rolls Royce Silver Spur	Re: wash your estate with one bucket of water - honest Reply #13 - 24. Nov 2009 at 01:06 Andy B wrote on 23. Nov 2009 at 22:19: bloody hell!! My sentiments exactly
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bobdent Omega Lord Offline Drives better than an Omega Posts: 6705 A pub in Hertfordshire Gender: Drives: 2002 3.2 MV6 Irmscher Estate	Re: wash your estate with one bucket of water - honest Reply #14 - 24. Nov 2009 at 10:01 I reckon the excavator driver was about to crush it not wash it!
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