HAPPY NEW YEAR ....boys and girls.

May we all have a safe and prosperous 2025 from the Bonny Bonny Banks Of Loch Lomond.
🎆✨🎆✨🎇🎆✨🎇🎆✨

 

150 sealladh
Agus mar sin canamaid uile gu math tha mi ag ràdh co-dhiù
Bliadhna Mhath Ùr Frank

 

It is strange.
150 views to my post and not one apart from you responded.
Disregard Johnny as we PM'd A Happy New Year when discussing the very same topic changing times not just on this forum but many are suffering from a lack of empathy and friendly team spirit.
Hay Ho....onward and upwards.lol

 

HNY gents!

It can be a little tumbleweed to posts here then a massive flurry!!

I'm also from Scotland Frank, but now live in Andorra and Spain.

 

Hey up. Hello and Happy New Year.
Can you speak Spanish and is it as hard as Scottish Gaelic?

 

I can speak Italian, and I am learning Spanish as I go, I get along and people I find are helpful but when in Spain I often find people want to better their english so I ask in Spanish and they reply in English!! Confuses the hell out of me!!! lol

In Andorra its Catalan which is like French and Italian rolled into one.....not easy!!

 

I have a similar experience. I'm learning g German. So when we have German guests ( which can be 200 to 300 Germans per year) I want to speak to them in German. However they want to better their English so its quite strange. As you say a half and half conversation.
I have driven in the Basque country a few times and stayed in the mountains, which were very similar to our Scottish mountains. They didn't like speaking Spanish either. It was Basque they spoke.

 

I admittedly read it and didn't react. Sorry about that. I had my hands a bit full at the time...

Hyvää Uutta Vuotta, should I say, to keep the translators busy.


Intake manifold off

 

What's the job you are doing?

 

A simple spark plug change (Brisk Premium Evo; a couple of more mpg, a few more hp/torque and smoother running than OEM) and cleaning all electrical connectors while I was at it. Just regular maintenance, I thought about pulling the left-hand side valve cover to investigate the very slight oil seepage to #7 plug hole but eventually left that for later as the engine runs great.

 

Nice one.
How do you find those pesky vw D type electrical connectors to unplug?

 

Thanks. The connectors are easy. Push them in a bit and push down on the lever, there's a rocker inside that lifts the tab and releases the connector. They're very easy to break unless you know how they work, though, and I've paid my dues in broken connectors in the past. Fortunately they're cheap and readily available at automotive electrics stores.

 

That's good to know. Thanks.🙂