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Re: [LUG] OT: Cars was Re: Is anyone actually going today?

 



On 7 February 2011 08:16, <stinga@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

>From my experience with cars a haynes manual is of little use unless you have a laptop, lead and software to work out whats gone wrong - unless its a visual or audibly obvious mechanical fault. And Haynes normally says take it to a dealer for the bits I can diagnose...
Tom te tom te tom

I tried that on my landrover, the laptop just sat there doing nothing.
I think I should have plugged it somewhere, but I could not find a socket. Stupid software. ;-)

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