Happiest house I ever lived in was a number 13, had a green front door too and green is supposed to be “unlucky” because green is the colour of Irish Leprechauns and if you used too much of it you might offend them and they would steal your children, destroy your crops and make your cows go dry.
If folk want to believe this sort of thing then I suppose it’s a free country. 
My dad said he was looking at cars last weekend and said he was chatting to a salesman who said it had been quiet on new sales and people had said they will wait for the new reg as they don’t want a 13 reg
Professor:
Hope this works out Kindle. Here is our new additiom the day I picked it up.
That is a stunner 
I think in cars that 13 regs haven’t effected much as there seems to be loads around, more than I ever saw of 12/62s by this time. Truck markets been fairly good too, but I put that down to all the orders going in before E6.
Professor:
and to cap it all it was built in england so i have helped keep someone in our country in work
I didn’t think they made the larger Daf’s in this country. Only the LF?
hammer:
Professor:
and to cap it all it was built in england so i have helped keep someone in our country in workI didn’t think they made the larger Daf’s in this country. Only the LF?
Our CF was assembled in Leyland, but that was back in '05 so think it is still the case.
delboytwo:
I think its could be down to the reg number, some just don’t want 13 on there truck.
Which is why DVLA are willing to put a 62 on it FOC.
The European truck market sales could increase with a change in legislation.
Why don’t they introduce similar legislation to what they have in America and Canada?
We have combined length regulations, They have trailer length regulations. If we could pull 45’ trailers behind a Longline Scania or Volvo VH for example, Then the truck manufacturers would have more scope to out design one another and get some interesting and practical lorries that hauliers will want.
limeyphil:
Then the truck manufacturers would have more scope to out design one another and get some interesting and practical lorries that Drivers will want.
Fixed that for you. Hauliers would want something like an Axor but even cheaper, then they stand a chance of selling a good few…
dew:
limeyphil:
Then the truck manufacturers would have more scope to out design one another and get some interesting and practical lorries that Drivers will want.Fixed that for you. Hauliers would want something like an Axor but even cheaper, then they stand a chance of selling a good few…
Hauliers will want a good image, But logistics companies will count the pennies, buy the cheapest, Then pay the none job pen pushers five times the saving.
Axors are ■■■■ #fact
Lovely truck Professor, hope you have many happy years with her.
PS someone please tell me DAF have ditched the metal bumper that rusts after a few months ! 
Fallmonk:
Lovely truck Professor, hope you have many happy years with her.PS someone please tell me DAF have ditched the metal bumper that rusts after a few months !
The bumpers didn’t rust if you had them painted properly from new, ours hasn’t and it’s been on since 2005!
dew:
hammer:
Professor:
and to cap it all it was built in england so i have helped keep someone in our country in workI didn’t think they made the larger Daf’s in this country. Only the LF?
Our CF was assembled in Leyland, but that was back in '05 so think it is still the case.
All LFs, including the new Euro 6 one, are designed and built in Leyland (the 4-pot engine in the new one is made in China, though). Much of this production is exported to mainland Europe
All RHD CF and XF are assembled in Leyland.
The MX11 and 13 engines are built in Holland, but have a lot of British designed and built hi-tech hi value components, including the fuel injection and turbo, so they are the most British mainstream truck you can buy.
Fallmonk:
Lovely truck Professor, hope you have many happy years with her.PS someone please tell me DAF have ditched the metal bumper that rusts after a few months !
The bumper is now galvanised, so you’ll have to look at the number plate to see how old the truck is (before you just looked at how much of the frotn bumper had gone scabby).
From what I have been told initially the euro 6 trucks will come from Eindhoven ,as Leyland will be doing the last of the euro 5
GasGas:
All LFs, including the new Euro 6 one, are designed and built in Leyland (the 4-pot engine in the new one is made in China, though). Much of this production is exported to mainland EuropeAll RHD CF and XF are assembled in Leyland.
The MX11 and 13 engines are built in Holland, but have a lot of British designed and built hi-tech hi value components, including the fuel injection and turbo, so they are the most British mainstream truck you can buy.
Pretty much as was then, I used the word “assembled” carefully, as parts will have come from all over the world, but it’s final build was done in Lancashire, then ours came via the Walton Summit dealer to us.
norb:
From what I have been told initially the euro 6 trucks will come from Eindhoven ,as Leyland will be doing the last of the euro 5
That’s possibly true for, say 4x2 tractors in CF and XF. All the LF are British from the start though.
Because they build crap.
58,59 plate axor(hear the groans now) but in general they had sorted out brake disc,gearbox,oil leak,water leak problems) then the 60 plate came along built somewhere else (think it was s.Africa) and what a piece of crap.
Thats why nobody wants new trucks,they are bloody garbage.
GasGas:
norb:
From what I have been told initially the euro 6 trucks will come from Eindhoven ,as Leyland will be doing the last of the euro 5That’s possibly true for, say 4x2 tractors in CF and XF. All the LF are British from the start though.
Except the LF cab 
As you say all RHD drive vehicles for uk and export are built at Leyland.but initially for euro 6 all rhd except lf will be built at eindhoven as Leyland do the run out of euro 5 and Leyland at the moment isn’t geared up for the euro 6…The lf is really the last brisith designed truck
norb:
GasGas:
norb:
From what I have been told initially the euro 6 trucks will come from Eindhoven ,as Leyland will be doing the last of the euro 5That’s possibly true for, say 4x2 tractors in CF and XF. All the LF are British from the start though.
Except the LF cab
As you say all RHD drive vehicles for uk and export are built at Leyland.but initially for euro 6 all rhd except lf
They “build” bugger all at Leyland anymore, they bolt the bits from Holland Belgium and France together and call it a “truck” and all the profits go back to north america.
They let “leyland motors” invest millions in the LAP(Leyland assembly plant) instead of spending money on r+d into updating their vehicles which killed em stone dead then bought it for about 30 quid and then divided the spoils between bloody DAF and Volvo and finally Paccar bought it, who couldnt build a truck if it jumped up and bit em.