PeteB

I got a feeling today that the bottle of wine I had in front of the TV has laid me low! Odd, I don't usually suffer from the after effects of booze but today, I feel tired, my head hurts and my belly is complaining! She went of to work - at least I think so, she was gone this morning! Tom at work today too - he got a load of his Subaru scrap closer to the tip, it's now in boxes by the gate. The Audi is still unwell, the air suspension issues don't fill me with well being, the wiper arm does what they do and fell off the spigot. That'll have to come off and get drilled and tapped to take a big washer to stop it from coming off the arm. I don't appear to have working heated seats and I cannot get the face vents to vent hot air neither. I am beginning to wonder if I brought a lemon. I wished the tech section of this forum had some wise people to tap into for advice.... Rugby is one TV soon again and then I'll be full on chef doing the Sunday roast. Pork, I don't know why I got pork, we have had pork four days on the trot - beef would have been much better. She told me a couple of mind boggling stories from a work colleague last night. A girl from up the village also does the same job - they asked if the could synchronise shifts so that they can car share, apparently that is difficult - they start (at the moment) 30 mins adrift! Poor girl was telling this story that she lived with her elder sister for a while in a suburb of Nottingham. The family moved after she woke up one night to find a large black chap stood at the end of the bed in a psychotic state (possibly from drugs) who refused to let her out of her room! How bizarre and very frightening. This poor girl has also been a victim of sexual harassment from another employee at the airport. A bloke in an aligned department who has a very responsible task, watching over people coming in and out of the country, was taking pictures of this lass every time she bent over to check a suitcase etc. A right sorry state that lead to - his phone camera was full of pictures of girls backsides as they went about their duties! He no longer works there and I doubt he will get another job where a CRB check will be done! Just what the heck was going through this chap's mind that made him think that this type of behaviour was acceptable? Oh well, best do some more research into air suspension issues...

Stake

Cost

Didn't sleep much after she got up at 03:00, eventually got to sleep but never got up until 09:30! A few household chores done then into town to shop and go to the bank to sling some dosh into an ISA and see about swapping my mortgage to them too. I went in the Q7 as the front suspension had risen! The light was still on and the back was slightly down so I went in that. I wished this forum was more active on the tech side - other forums I'm involved with seem to have that 'help' side. I looked at the VWAudi forum, but there isn't much tech stuff there either. Cynically, I think that that is a vehicle for flogging car insurance etc.... Watched Tigers beat Saints at Twickers on the box and will probably get to see another match later. She is fed up with the lousy hours and Airport Security hassles at EMA so is looking for other work up there - the East Midlands Gateway stuff is a real growth area, so competition between employers will start to get worthy! UPS and DHL seem to pay well for checking parcels etc - no dealing with stroppy public who think that they shouldn't be searched, have vile BO, other staff not carrying their weight etc...Good luck to her. She is a grafter. I got to remember to put the green Poinsettia in the garage every night for the next 10 weeks or so to get a good red top to it for Christmas - damn thing will smell of gas after being in there that long!

released

Didn't get much sleep thanks to inconsiderate guests noisily coming and going so today seemed a long day. Met my contact at Gateshead council and hung this chipper on a John Deere compact. It turns out that this has a momentary switch for hydraulic flow and we need constant. Solved that with an elastic band holding the switch in with an M10 nut - real redneck repair! Someone drove it across toon in the rain to site. They had cut back some overgrown Blackthorn to chip, awful stuff but it did it. They are after two if the budget can be found! Good laugh and good demo, everyone came away smiling despite the rain and the thorns! Got it back on the trailer and headed south! I had to stop a couple of times to tie off some emails and phone stuff. Including an angry African demanding that I give his vat back, despite being told that he needs to talk to the Revenue, as they demanded it! Silly idjut tried to strong arm me with threats of Trading Standards etc, I had to explain what 'bring it on, chap!' meant! All this meant that my call to Langley was too late! Now watching a good rugby arch between Bath and Exeter! Will be in bed straight after as she is up at 3 again!

Vinyl

receptacle

In a Premier Inn, south of Newcastle airport. Decent carvery supper, amazed at how much some people will pile on their plate though! She was up at 03.30 and never slept well afterwards until around 6.00 then lights out! Rook of emails and phone calls followed by a drive north, stopping at a couple of sales calls on the way. On to a trade dealer who wanted advice on one of our old units, another problem overcome. I got asked if I can call by Langley Mill on the way back. They sent a package in error, the wrong part needs collecting. We sent a flywheel weighing some 70kg to a customer, only they sent the wrong one! He has 12 units all the same and we sent the wrong one..... I was supposed to have a dealer meeting first thing with our Tech Services Manager and the dealer Groundcare Manager and their Parts manager. We are transferring our parts business in the North of England to them and we need to discuss terms, online systems, returns and warranty stuff. My colleague calls off as his Ranger has died and Bristol Street are a shower. He cannot get here/anywhere. Then I hear he is off down south in a van with some parts that are needed!!!! She has just confirmed that she has no objection to me having a drag car of some sort! Bless her! But only once I have mended the Q7, cleared a Focus off the drive, sold Sweet 16, cleared the garage of parts, emptied the patio of scrap Subaru bits, mended and sold the three commercial mowers, saw bench and mended the grey Ferguson! Oh, there was also mention of the new bathroom and garden wall! Well, that's next year sorted!!!🤔

Grimsby

Shoot

Sorry, this has been batted around a bit but.... My 56 plate S Line does not appear to be fitted with adaptive air suspension - or is it? It has sagged at the front, did used to be able to have the rear lowered and raised from the button in the rear but their is nothing on the screen that links to any settings - active or otherwise! Would an S Line come with air filled bags but not adaptive? Please help as their is no mention of non adaptive suspension in the book other than 'applies to vehicles fitted with....'

Tiring day! The flight from Crete was delayed by over two hours - the anticipated collection was post 23:00 and bed at 01:30. This ended up at bedtime at 04:00 and alarm going at 07:00! Quick cup of tea and drag the trailer over to a Fishing Lake, Caravan/Lodge place close to Chapel St Leonards, North of Skegness. Really nice spot, well run and well maintained. Not rammed in static caravans and lovely people there too. Managed to unload the machine, mount it on the tractor and do the demo with a laugh and enjoyed being out and on the tools etc. The only downer was an Ops issue with the compact tractor. These things have a safety device so that if you fall out of the seat the engine is killed. It does mean that there is a process in starting a static piece of kit to ensure that the engine still runs. The Rep and myself couldn't work it out and the owner hadn't a clue. We phoned the manufacturers rep and he said that it was impossible - but we know different! How else could it run a chipper, saw bench, mixer etc! We did they demo with me sat on the seat, thus squishing the micro switch and they brought the chipper. We are on 8-10 weeks build so the local Rep will lend them a hire machine to get on top of their work while theirs is built. Sweet! The second demo didn't happen as the customer changed his mind on the timing so I left the machine in their depot for them to do the demo on their own. I've every faith in them doing so - they don't need their hand holding.... I wasn't expecting the grief that I had from their workshop mind! Sometimes, our own spare parts people are our worse asset! Wrong parts sent out - queries not answered etc leaving the local people in the dark with an annoyed service customer! This lack of awareness, lack of care or just plane awkwardness is common and gets up my nose! On that note, I am after a quote for an old wood fence to be removed and replaced with a block wall around two sides of my garden. I selected three local builders and phoned them asking for a quote for this. Not one of them has bothered to ring back. As a salesman, I cannot understand this mentality - it they are too busy, it isn't their type of work or beyond their capabilities, they just need to say so. Then I can ring up another three! I've said to my parts people 'have you phoned them to let them know it is on back order?', I'm quite often met with a bovine expression and complete silence! Criticising people for poor effort, poor communication and poor manners hurts me as, quite often, they are good people who I have a laugh with and help out where I can. We all screw up at times, but a good rescue is controlled by how that !Removed! up is managed and communication is key. They often think 'selling' is easy and they have the hard job! I got to 'sell' it to the owners, managers, parts people, service men, reps as well as the chap who is buying it! they just have to pack a parcel.....

beer

After sorting a couple of emails that came in overnight, I towed a trailer via Rochdale to Dunnockshaw, collected the machine that was the wrong spec and sorted a couple of other things while I was there. The sales guys were out selling stuff so I then drove back down the M6/M5/M42 to Junction 3 to head to the factory. The roads seemed to be full of muppets with no lane discipline - idiots doing 40 in 50 section ignoring the fact the trucks and people like me are on a time limit, so need to keep up speed! I emptied that out and went and loaded the two machines I need for demonstrations tomorrow. There was a quick panic as my colleague had decided that he needed my loaded trailer despite already having the other, better trailer and would bring it back in tomorrow! To be fair, neither of us is very good at looking at the diary and we both ignored it this week...He kept his and I kept mine so I can get to my demonstrations tomorrow without to much hassle. This is our busy period and we are both very busy with a lot of things on the go. The one machine that I got to play with tomorrow is mounted on the three point linkage of a tractor and powered by the pto shaft. A new shaft came with the demo unit so that had to be cut down as they are supplied too long. I hope that I got it the right length or they have a workshop if it is too long. Tea was left over sausages, eggs and tinned tomatoes on toast - my aging Mum rang a few mouthfuls in and didn't hear me say that I was eating and I didn't have the heart to cut her off! She was in a talkative mood so my tea is now congealed... Her and her daughter are on the way back from Crete right now so I got to pick them up from Manchester - another 3+ hours of driving on top of the lot done already.

craft

I just got mine and brought with the heart and in a way, wished I had brought it from the nearer source instead of the slightly cheaper S Line with less mileage. Damn thing broke down and this garage in Oldham just said - 30 day warranty has gone! Too much grief trying to get it back! The joys of car ownership. Look at loads, don't be hasty and buy the one that gives you that feeling rather than looking at keyless start and entry and is further away etc....

Nose down, with amber and green light flashing. No sound of a pump going under the car. Rear is fine. I hope it isn't raining at the week as I'll have a grovel underneath to check about!

Hmm, thanks for that Piotr, I like to understand how things work myself! I'll visually check things at the weekend!.

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Teach you to be more careful and not bump it!

Philanthropic

Hi All My 2006 Q7 S Line has slammed at the front - I only recently got it and the warranty is a mute point. Is there an air suspension ghuru in the house? I cannot get the MMI thing to show the suspension settings screen and the front is on the floor! Anyone got a diagnostic hint at what to look for? Would a bag failure result in nose down? Is it a hose? You could hear the air pump on my old Range Rover but this is silent!

We recently discovered that an order I took for a machine to go to Lancashire County Council was delivered with the wrong spec. So that has to be collected and then the new one sent up when it is made in a couple of weeks! Poor girl who got the spec wrong on the internal order was fair frightened of the kicking she'll get! I drove down to Alcester to get a trailer and hand in my expenses, do a bit of socialising, ruffle a few feathers and sort out a couple of other issues then back home for more screen work. One issue that I got to resolve is a foreign chap who brought one of the old Ford Ranger tow tugs that had starship mileage off of us. He sent it to The Namibia so has exported it. He now thinks that as it is out of the country, it should have been zero rated and that we have to refund the VAT element to him. The deal was all a little odd from the start with money being transferred in four lumps from his wife (of a different name) and I delivered it to a shady private address in Coventry. He insisted on keeping all of the V5 but agreed to email me a bill of lading etc. I emailed these to VOSA and they accepted that we no longer were the keepers. He very nicely sent me pictures of the truck in the desert etc in Namibia as proof that it got there. But, the tax man suggests that as we had no control over the 'export', that the payment came from a woman in Coventry and that he is not VAT registered, then he pays....another two hours of my life lost! I'll be honest, selling two, well used, Ford Rangers was a most trying exercise with several shady people suggesting that I take a cash bung to lower price, or half cash and half through the books or despite the advert stating that the sale was 'plus vat', it wasn't applicable in their case! I once agreed to a viewing based on a price of £7k + vat, I drove the hour to show him the truck and he had a plastic bag with £5k in it and I could write what I liked on the receipt. Hard work.....These Rangers will do four years and I'll have that job again! After yesterdays bother my Q7, I need some technical help from the forum so best getting typing and begging for answers. I am a bit stumped as to why my S Line doesn't appear to have controllable suspension but it is on air!?! or at least the back does now but the front end is 'slammed'!

Casual