Saaamon:
Mine sounds like a bag of spanners when its idling lol, spose the exhaust drowns that out on yours!
It’s a EX Irish truck so you know what there like
Legend_Scania:
Saaamon:
Mine sounds like a bag of spanners when its idling lol, spose the exhaust drowns that out on yours!It’s a EX Irish truck so you know what there like
Done 3 times more mileage than it says on the clock 
Saaamon:
Legend_Scania:
Saaamon:
Mine sounds like a bag of spanners when its idling lol, spose the exhaust drowns that out on yours!It’s a EX Irish truck so you know what there like
Done 3 times more mileage than it says on the clock
she isn’t bad for her age
Good points about Scania, entry/exit v good, visibility front and rear excellent, all switches and controls well placed, good all round quality feel but dammed overpriced. Would love one over this crap MAN but at end of day its all down to individual preference.
There’s nothing that great about them nowadays. The V8 was what always made them special and still is.
Sooner have a Leyland Roadtrain… 
Just the feel of the curtains on the newer ones makes my skin crawl…got the same texture as the vertical blinds at home…chuffing horrible!! Would people still rate Scanias if they had a Merc engine in 'em and would people still ‘dis’ Mercs if they had Scanny engines in 'em? Big new Gigaspace with a 730 in and heaps of grunt at the ready or a Topline 510 that couldn’t pull the skin off a rice pudding?
Actrosman:
Just the feel of the curtains on the newer ones makes my skin crawl…got the same texture as the vertical blinds at home…chuffing horrible!!
So that’s why the Tangs buy frilly ones and have them half way across the side windows, they like feeling them!
or a Topline 510 that couldn’t pull the skin off a rice pudding?
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Lol like that ill be stealing that phrase if you wouldn’t mind .
Karl86:
or a Topline 510 that couldn’t pull the skin off a rice pudding?
Lol like that ill be stealing that phrase if you wouldn’t mind .
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Have you been living in a cardboard box since 1986?
Saaamon:
Karl86:
or a Topline 510 that couldn’t pull the skin off a rice pudding?Lol like that ill be stealing that phrase if you wouldn’t mind
Have you been living in a cardboard box since 1986?
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Lol I once may as well off done from where I was brought up but not quite just not heard that before from round my neck off the woods.
Seen the new Scania’s
No more R500 or R620 I think there another R5 series missing 
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Wonder if santa will bring a R730 this Xmas …
Wonder how much a R730 can be chipped to 
Saaamon:
Legend_Scania:
Saaamon:
Mine sounds like a bag of spanners when its idling lol, spose the exhaust drowns that out on yours!It’s a EX Irish truck so you know what there like
Done 3 times more mileage than it says on the clock
Only three…its a low milage one then.
NewLad:
Ok so I’m in a bread van, P cab Scania the bed is comfortable however I have seen bigger cot beds for width. The [zb] doors don’t lock from the outside and there are NO curtains first time in this wagon usually have a Renault Premium and would work for free to get it back. Possible night out tonight too any ideas on how to block the light out as will be on 15hrs at 1530. Oh and before anyone says the things listed will be going on a defect note
Roll of cellotape and a heap of free newspapers .
Just like the seventies !
Juddian:
We all used to night out in day cabs at one time if the digs were full or we got caught out, two planks of wood across the bonnet and one plank lying across 'em
I love these old wives tales.
Shoshaye:
Juddian:
We all used to night out in day cabs at one time if the digs were full or we got caught out, two planks of wood across the bonnet and one plank lying across 'emI love these old wives tales.
You had to be there…
eeh wen i were a lad we used to dream of an orange box… 
lol,Next thing you’ll be telling me is all lorries had gear sticks and no heated leather seats.i can’t decide whether to sleep on the top or bottom bunk tonight.
Shoshaye:
lol,Next thing you’ll be telling me is all lorries had gear sticks and no heated leather seats.i can’t decide whether to sleep on the top or bottom bunk tonight.
Some of 'em had two gearsticks apparently, and you hoped no bugger opened either of the doors as you slept, or the plank that side would drop and the plank in his sleeping bag would slide down getting splinters up his arse on the way to a crash landing.
Couldn’t pull a greasy man out of a bath is a better one.
Or couldn’t pull a greasy stick from a dog’s arse…