Tarted up Scanias/Volvos a question for you all.
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Im averaging about 1800 miles a week at the minute depending on where ive got go, now clearly i spend alot of time on the motorway.
Now this brings me to my question, i overtake most Scanias/Volvos with considerable ease, some not but mostly i sail past, (18t Merc Axor is what i pilot).
So why is it when i look in my mirror and see a wall of fairy lights baring down on me they go past like im stuck in mud.
Do i need to buy some lights???
yes its a slow day ive been up a while.
Now this brings me to my question, i overtake most Scanias/Volvos with considerable ease, some not but mostly i sail past, (18t Merc Axor is what i pilot).
So why is it when i look in my mirror and see a wall of fairy lights baring down on me they go past like im stuck in mud.
Do i need to buy some lights???
yes its a slow day ive been up a while.
cossy400 said:
Im averaging about 1800 miles a week at the minute depending on where ive got go, now clearly i spend alot of time on the motorway.
Now this brings me to my question, i overtake most Scanias/Volvos with considerable ease, some not but mostly i sail past, (18t Merc Axor is what i pilot).
So why is it when i look in my mirror and see a wall of fairy lights baring down on me they go past like im stuck in mud.
Do i need to buy some lights???
yes its a slow day ive been up a while.
No just some Irish plates, magnet and some fishing line Now this brings me to my question, i overtake most Scanias/Volvos with considerable ease, some not but mostly i sail past, (18t Merc Axor is what i pilot).
So why is it when i look in my mirror and see a wall of fairy lights baring down on me they go past like im stuck in mud.
Do i need to buy some lights???
yes its a slow day ive been up a while.
cossy400 said:
Thats the thing they are not all irish.
Am i imagining it all..............
Is your limiter set dead on 90K or 85 like alot seem to be ?? Its easy for MB to plug it in and reset it I had mine done and gained a couple of kms.. makes a big difference.. but if you know yours is 90 km and people are coming past they have fiddled with something ...Am i imagining it all..............
My Scania R series (complete with its light bar) was calibrated with bald tyres (just under 2mm) and new ones fitted afterwards, the result it did 59mph whilst reading 56mph on the speedometer/tachograph
Before it was calibrated it was passed by everything, afterwards I can count on one hand the times I was passed on the limiter.
Common practice and perfectly legal, I'm 99.9% this is why some come sailing past you, I never had a mercedes pass me after the calibration, ironically enough it was two Scanias that "just" managed it
Before it was calibrated it was passed by everything, afterwards I can count on one hand the times I was passed on the limiter.
Common practice and perfectly legal, I'm 99.9% this is why some come sailing past you, I never had a mercedes pass me after the calibration, ironically enough it was two Scanias that "just" managed it
powerstroke said:
cossy400 said:
Thats the thing they are not all irish.
Am i imagining it all..............
Is your limiter set dead on 90K or 85 like alot seem to be ?? Its easy for MB to plug it in and reset it I had mine done and gained a couple of kms.. makes a big difference.. but if you know yours is 90 km and people are coming past they have fiddled with something ...Am i imagining it all..............
Dont think the garage in my yard would go for it thou.
t nav always reads 55mph. martin mrt said:
How it passes most thing with ease at 55mph baffles me, i drove a Daf a while back set to 55mph (confirmed via GPS) and it wouldn't pass anything other than supermarket/bluechip companies set to 50/52mph
I was glad to get my Scania back, as that few mph made a huge difference.
Sat nav says 55, and i was suprised when they gave it me and i was passing stuff I was glad to get my Scania back, as that few mph made a huge difference.
naughty naughty.
4key said:
A common one is to swap over to a diff from a coach, the different gearing gives you a higher speed at the same revs so you can keep your mpg down whilst flying along and the tacho is still showing 90kph.
Remember going abroad it a Daf 95 ATI with a coach diff on it, those were the days.
chilistrucker said:
ah yes, the flashing overspeed!
a tad annoying.
don't get me started on bloody tassled curtains
a waste of space, and dangerous.
I got in a volvo fh the other day to move it and it was hard to see out, table and a pot with cutlery and pens infront of the wheel right in your line of sight, tassled curtains and god knows what else festoning the cab and round the inside of the screen , lads on the yard dont know how he drives it!!! a tad annoying.
don't get me started on bloody tassled curtains
a waste of space, and dangerous.
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