Please login or register.
1 Hour 1 Day 1 Week 1 Month Forever
Login with username, password and session length

This section allows you to view all posts made by this member. Note that you can only see posts made in areas you currently have access to.

61

General Car Chat / Re: Anyone on here got an Astra K auto?

« on: 09 June 2023, 13:02:17 »

Well, I won't be doing that again.

Took the cover off the the gear selector, can't see bugger all underneath it.

Clipped it back on, selector wouldn't come out of park!

Took the cover back off, wiggled the selector, eventually it came out of park.

Put the cover back on and it seem to select OK now.

Bloody cars!

Nothing like the Omega set up in there :'(

62

General Car Chat / Re: Anyone on here got an Astra K auto?

« on: 08 June 2023, 18:55:29 »

Hmmm, it's funny it's happening on both our cars.

Can't be a coincidence.

have the cars been left in the hot sun recently 

Vauxhall ignition barrels   have a habit of sticking in when you pull the key out
the center section should spring out slightly
assuming it's a standard old style metal key 

It's nothing to do with the ignition barrel Dave, it's to do with the gear change not always triggering the park sensor.

63

General Car Chat / Re: Anyone on here got an Astra K auto?

« on: 08 June 2023, 17:18:58 »

Hmmm, it's funny it's happening on both our cars.

Can't be a coincidence.

64

General Car Chat / Anyone on here got an Astra K auto?

« on: 08 June 2023, 12:42:39 »

We've got 2.

Intermittently both cars fail to engage park properly, so you cannot remove key from the ignition.

With the ignition switched on and moving the gear leaver backwards and forwards it eventually releases the key.

I've searched for a solution (seems like a common problem) but results don't seem to offer a satisfactory cure.

Any ideas please?

Vauxhall deny any knowledge of the fault - surprise surprise!

65

General Car Chat / Re: So what have you done to your car today?

« on: 24 May 2023, 18:54:30 »

I suspect its regional differences.

Like now many beans make 5.  The yanks get it wrong, as I was taught:
2 Beanz
Half a Bean
A Bean and a half
And a Bean.

My Dad taught me ;-

1 bean
2 beans
a bean and half
and half a bean.

and my Uncle used to say ;-

a bean a bean and half a bean
half a bean
a bean a bean.

66

General Discussion Area / Snooker

« on: 24 May 2023, 18:32:47 »

I've just realised I'm now the second best snooker player in the world.

In every league match I played this season, I came second

67

General Car Chat / Re: Lotus Carlton PR nightmare

« on: 05 May 2023, 16:46:59 »

I wonder if my Carlton Gsi is still on the road H456LOE.

68

General Discussion Area / Re: Migalot banned ?

« on: 14 July 2022, 12:18:23 »

I can log on with my VPN

69

General Discussion Area / Re: Helloosss

« on: 05 November 2021, 07:50:31 »

Hi Dave, sorry about the foot but great to hear you're alive and kicking, well, perhaps not kicking.

70

General Discussion Area / Re: Text Messages to EMAIL

« on: 25 October 2021, 18:53:14 »

Went to Nandos last night (not my first choice of eatery, but that's another story) and they expected me to scan a QR code to view the menu online on my phone. No paper menus any more.

Then you're expected to register as a user on the site to order your meal. At this point I told them they could take an order verbally or foxtrott oscar and they reluctantly did so.

I was probably sat at the table an extra 10 minutes as a result, but I was early for my film anyway, so thought I might just as well be wasting their time as my own.

CBA to go through the hassle again to order a desert.

You little devil you

71

General Discussion Area / Re: Heat pumps

« on: 22 October 2021, 08:40:26 »

I had a woman with a heavy hardly decipherable accent phone me up yesterday pertaining to be some government scheme offering grants to replace my boiler.

Told her I haven't got a boiler, I've got a fireplace with a coal fire.

She asked me how old it was, I told her 250 years old.

She then asked if I was a homeowner, I told her I was a caretaker.

She asked me what that was, I replied it meant I take care not to fall for scam phone calls.

72

General Discussion Area / Re: Heat pumps

« on: 21 October 2021, 17:15:25 »

I've got an Ideal W2000 at least 32 years old.

73

General Discussion Area / Re: Sticky for Jokes

« on: 13 October 2021, 18:43:15 »

Dog to Owner 'I've been barking for ten minutes and you keep shouting at me to shut up, anyway - your cars gone'.

74

General Discussion Area / Re: The worlds gone mad

« on: 13 October 2021, 18:35:05 »

£100,000 for every door camera? I'll bet Rishi has got it spent already 

There's eight in our close, £800,000 - whoopee

One of my neighbours has got one, and two cameras overlooking the street. £300,000 f**k me 

Let me know how you get on when you take them to court

75

General Discussion Area / Re: The worlds gone mad

« on: 13 October 2021, 18:28:41 »

£100,000 for every door camera? I'll bet Rishi has got it spent already 

There's eight in our close, £800,000 - whoopee