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General Discussion Area / Re: Word Association.
« on: 29 August 2020, 19:41:38 »
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General Car Chat / Re: Removing footwell trim panel on Vectra
« on: 29 August 2020, 19:40:01 »
In your pic, there's a silver looking pin. Pull that out with pliers.
Push the footrest forwards and down away from the centre console.
Slide towards the brake pedal and it should fall off.
It's held by the pin and located by a tab under the side panel.
Push the footrest forwards and down away from the centre console.
Slide towards the brake pedal and it should fall off.
It's held by the pin and located by a tab under the side panel.
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General Car Chat / Re: 'professional drivers' .....
« on: 29 August 2020, 12:00:30 »
Food production os somewhat seasonal and weather driven...
A minor and temporary inconvenience. Alot of the UK asparagus production happens around here, so I sympathise with the sentiment but try to be tolerant to it.
A minor and temporary inconvenience. Alot of the UK asparagus production happens around here, so I sympathise with the sentiment but try to be tolerant to it.
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General Car Chat / Re: 'professional drivers' .....
« on: 28 August 2020, 20:51:00 »
You presume that it's always a truck at the front of the queue.
Someone doing 65 in lane 3 will screw up a perfectly good four lane motorway
Someone doing 65 in lane 3 will screw up a perfectly good four lane motorway
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General Discussion Area / Re: Any news form the belligerent scouser?
« on: 28 August 2020, 15:41:07 »I was thinking of the £50 VW Polo that was my mates first car, bought for my Bro for his first car, then used by me for a year and sold for £200. With almost 200k on it.We had an 03 Octavia that outlasted half of the staff... I think it lasted about ten years before they remembered to sell it.It's always the cheap old sheds that last for ever
Steady now!
I remember the MoT bloke saying that he refused to fail it on emissions because although it looked like a total piece of shit, nothing else was wrong with it
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General Car Chat / Re: 15K Omega
« on: 28 August 2020, 10:42:41 »Omegas are big, heavy and very thirsty but have tyres NOT tracksI hope they get it or close to it as this sort of thing generally tends to pull the "lesser" cars upwards in price which would mean mine then could potentially be worth the thick end of £50Best fill the tank up then
so technically a car , not a tank
I see the military are considering scrapping all their Challenger and Warrior tanks to invest in cyber technology.
so maybe there is a cost effective replacement on the cards for Omega owners
buy a used tank , no more rust issuesthough the fuel bill will be about the same
£75 of second hand petrol would add £25 in value to Bazas Omega, doubling its value
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General Car Chat / Re: 'professional drivers' .....
« on: 28 August 2020, 10:41:01 »
On my last point things you do will range from letting a woman with a push chair cross the road or let someone out into a queue or give a cyclist a bit more space; and at the opposite end, run through a light just as it switches from amber to red when you could easily have stopped or pulled out at a junction when perhaps you shouldn't have and fluffed a gear change or simply been more important than the person in front (and the next person in front etc).
There's twice as many vehicles on the road compared to when I passed my test, probably, so there's even less chance of getting to the front of the queue, so why waste time and energy trying?
You, and you alone have control over your behaviour and how you react to the world around you, so rather than drive around being pissed off with everyone else take a step back and get on with your day.
There's twice as many vehicles on the road compared to when I passed my test, probably, so there's even less chance of getting to the front of the queue, so why waste time and energy trying?
You, and you alone have control over your behaviour and how you react to the world around you, so rather than drive around being pissed off with everyone else take a step back and get on with your day.
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General Car Chat / Re: 'professional drivers' .....
« on: 28 August 2020, 10:14:16 »
Being able to drive faster than the next person is a luxury, not a right.
Speeds are set by traffic flow and volume, not signs.
And if ANYONE thinks that they would drive any differently than any truck driver, then perhaps they should get an appropriate licence and put their money where there mouth is.
The reality of life is that you probably do one courteous thing and one really obnoxious thing every time you get in the car.
Speeds are set by traffic flow and volume, not signs.
And if ANYONE thinks that they would drive any differently than any truck driver, then perhaps they should get an appropriate licence and put their money where there mouth is.
The reality of life is that you probably do one courteous thing and one really obnoxious thing every time you get in the car.
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General Car Chat / Re: 'professional drivers' .....
« on: 28 August 2020, 01:13:55 »Re read that post and ask yourself what makes you so special...Not illegal but it should be.
Agree
I`ll try & find one of my bike cam vids, it took me the best part of 5 miles to weave thru traffic on the M27 to get to the head of a rolling road block caused by 2 professional drivers.
Nether of them willing to give way to the other
(Whilst you're at it, consider that both drivers may not be as au fait with the nuances of our Highway Code as British drivers... ((78Bex lives about 20 minutes from Portsmouth Harbour, so a significant percentage of the trucks heading to/from are foreign)) ).
Last time I drove along it, the M27 is at least three lanes along its entire length (except the M3 and M275 junctions) and currently has a 50mph limit from Fareham to the M3. So on that stretch two trucks side by side are irrelevant.
Driving isn't a race, but rather a means of getting from point A to point B. And whilst you live in a highly populated area, I would politely suggest that slow journeys are the result of traffic volume and not trucks. It is theoretically possible for me to get from my house in rural Sussex to the heart of the New Forest (including the entire length of the M27
) in 45 minutes, an hour and a quarter is a realistic clear run and a poorly timed reality of traffic and road works can see nearly 2 hours. It is what it is.
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General Car Chat / Re: 'professional drivers' .....
« on: 28 August 2020, 00:03:00 »Not illegal but it should be.Perhaps, but the insinuation was that someone was doing something wrong...
And it illustrates the point that those who most often cry foul about such things are usually annoyed that they've not been able to do the selfish thing that they were trying to do... ie car driver gets pissy because a truck has the audacity to move to lane two to pass a slower vehicle and prevents said car driver from passing both trucks in lane 2 only to have to cut back across lane 1 to the slip road.
If the truck hadn't pulled out, would we have seen a video about 'a nasty person flashed their lights and nearly rear ended me as I carved them up because I nearly overshot my exit... '? Probably not
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General Car Chat / Re: 'professional drivers' .....
« on: 27 August 2020, 23:49:14 »
The Dutch truck overtaking (just) isn't doing anything wrong. Although a motorway it is only two lanes, so being in lane 2 is perfectly legal as it would be on a dual carriageway.
And you had no business to be overtaking either of them as you clearly intended to exit at the imminent junction.
And you had no business to be overtaking either of them as you clearly intended to exit at the imminent junction.
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General Car Chat / Re: 15K Omega
« on: 27 August 2020, 22:13:12 »I hope they get it or close to it as this sort of thing generally tends to pull the "lesser" cars upwards in price which would mean mine then could potentially be worth the thick end of £50Best fill the tank up then
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General Car Chat / Re: “The Fall” on Netflix...
« on: 27 August 2020, 22:12:30 »On to season 2. She’s still monumentally fit. But she’s down graded from the omega to a 1 series. Puts me right off! 🤦♂️Only season 2? I really must get out more...