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General Car Chat / Re: Land/Range Rover insurance
« on: 28 February 2024, 07:52:13 »
Thank god for the Mersey.... ...to separate the scousers and taffs
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The more I hear about new cars the less I think about getting one.How much of that is actually due to genuine unreliability, and how much is due to perceptions generated on and via social media?
Part of the job is building rapport with the passengers and also seeing that sprogs are suitably strapped in... It's easy enough to call the kids cheeky little monkeys without giving colour a second thought and whilst our announcements might now be Everyone/Everybody most of us call people Sir/Madam and the crew darling...Yeah, but if I was on one of you flights, I'd be nicer to the trolley dollies that I would to you .
Absolutely every person I encounter gets treated the same unless the rapport suggests otherwise be that positive or negative... The really nice person will get treated much better than the hoighty toity arsehole regardless of how much money they spend.
This is exactly right. It's all very well saying you should run an older XYorZ but when any kind of minor repair at a garage, or even routine items like suspension bushes runs well into three figures it makes much less sense to buy cheaper older cars.And as Omegas (as we are an Omega site, some people might still have one ) aged, I suspect it was relatively high garage bills for relatively simple work that made them depreciate hard, and in turn made even minor service type work uneconomical in the minds of some - those who argue its not worth spending £800 to sort out the worn out front suspension on a car worth £500...
For a lot of people a £500 bill (easily achieved these days) will quickly become £6-700 by the time the credit card company has had its due.
Presumably a similar notion to a wet clutch, although the idea of soaking a rubber band, synthetic or otherwise, in engine oil does seem to be asking for premature failure...And even if the belt survives, the debris off the belt will block all oilways around the rest of the engine...
Loads of info on this on LR forums some love them & some hate them, " you pays your money & take your choice" and then pray luck is on your side..Plenty on all the Jaguar forums as well, with all sorts of rash comments like guarantees it won't last 80k miles. Mind you, my car is the V6 diesel, and I'm apparently guaranteed a snapped crank before 100k.... ....so I assumed it must have snapped about 60k ago, and I've not noticed
Near enough.Ellesmere Port is not Liverpool, it's not even Merseyside.Back in the seventies my cousin bought a brand new Alfasud looked great, but after 4 years every panel including the roof had bubbled up with rust, his sister had a Fiat Strada which was just as bad.Much like my Astra GTE, only that was 3yrs old when I got shot of it. No idea where that was made, kinda guessing in Liverpool. By Italians.
As an owner of a very early, 130k example that looks to have been serviced by independent garages but to JLR intervalsI should add, its on its original chains as well.
I just caused some embarrassment on my walk with the dog. As my wife says, I would cause an argument in a telephone box
On Grimethorpe muckstack, there are loads of lovely conifers that have been growing for about 20 years, just starting to look full and smell lovely. They're cutting them down! When I asked why, I was told they shouldn't have been planted in the first place, they are an invasive species. What about these twáțs who come over on boats? I asked. They're an invasive species, are we gonna chop their fùckin legs off?
Silence. I walked off.
Back in the seventies my cousin bought a brand new Alfasud looked great, but after 4 years every panel including the roof had bubbled up with rust, his sister had a Fiat Strada which was just as bad.Much like my Astra GTE, only that was 3yrs old when I got shot of it. No idea where that was made, kinda guessing in Liverpool. By Italians.
Whats my excuseI believed its all called Italian Character.Alfa Romeo have made some beautiful looking cars over the years.Indeed, and most of them handle pretty well as well... ...when they are working
And not turned to dust.
It's why the Italians thrash their cars, because they don't have much time before they dissolve!