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Vir Campestris wrote:
On 08/02/2019 20:25, Bob Eager wrote:
It was always a real pain jump starting a Mini...

Back in the early 80s I had a Mini. One winter I found that if the
overnight temperature was much below zero it wouldn't start. I found I
didn't have to push it very hard to be able to bump start it - single
handed - and it really mattered to me to make the battery last another 6
months. I needed the money.

I discovered that with my Mini van too. Until one day it was parked on a
steeply camber road, and I couldn't push it away from the kerb between
parked cars. Hence the jacking up one wheel trick. The happy days of yoof.

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