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General Discussion Area / Vauxhall prices
« on: 08 October 2008, 12:42:29 »
Just been to my local dealer . There's a sign at the service desk (next to parts where I was going to) explaining that the the charge now for 'diagnostic check' is almost £85!!! I asked to confirm if that was just to Tech II the car ...... and the answer was a definite YES!  :o :o  :o  :o

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General Discussion Area / Admiral Multi-car Insurance
« on: 25 September 2008, 10:04:29 »
Has anyone had any experience of this, good or bad? On the face of it, it looks good in that they'll cover my Omega for around £250, against other companies quotes that seem to be around £400, as part of a multi-car policy covering 3 cars.
A down side that's obvious is that next year all 3 car's insurances will require renewal at the same time & Admiral's charges deter you from paying monthly.
TIA

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General Discussion Area / Gridlock in Gloucester in the 50's & 60's
« on: 06 September 2008, 21:23:32 »
Found this. If only we had gridlock in the cities like that now ...... as long as we could still have our motorways. ;D

[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CDtjscPwrKY[/media]

There was a transporter full of Metropolitans towards the end. they weren't even very common in their day.

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General Discussion Area / owner's handbook
« on: 03 September 2008, 18:18:13 »
Would someone post the link to the downloadable owner's hand book please .... I was sure I had it.  :-/  :y

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General Discussion Area / Evo's on the M6
« on: 30 August 2008, 20:31:50 »
Any one know what was going on on the M6 this afternoon, about 3-ish?
As we were travelling north, we saw, what must've been hundreds of Mitsibishi Evo's travelling south in convoy. It was around Stafford area.

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General Discussion Area / Touching the Void
« on: 10 August 2008, 10:35:40 »
I was lent a copy of this film/documentry from someone at work a little while back but never got around to watching it. As there was the usuall Saturday night sh1te on telly last night we watched it.
Bloody Hell! Talk about on the edge of your seat  viewing. I know it's not exactly a new film but if you haven't watched it ..... you need to.  :y

The title of this clip isn't meant to cause a 'debate' .... it was the first Youtube clip I found.
[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nWhmOwGqcMQ[/media]

Realised that the same person has it all in 12 parts. You'll need a spare hour & half though.

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General Discussion Area / council employees
« on: 03 August 2008, 20:06:48 »
Right then! Who's had their council job re-evaluated & just had the outcome this week end?
Months ago my wife was talking about this, and how various staff in other department are grades above or below her. The council swore blind that it wasn't a cost cutting excerise & it was so that people doing the same job in various parts of the country all got paid the same.
SWMBO's salary before all the re-evaluations took place was a little over £19k, not a particularly fantastic salaryanyway. While we were away this week end her new re-evaluated salary arrived on the door mat. [size=16]£4500[/size] less a year! That's £80 a week! She's almost in tears.
It's funny how everyone in her office has also had a pay cut. And the unions are supporting it.
One lad in the depot is Corgi reg'd & they've re-evaluated his job at £10 000 LESS

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General Discussion Area / MOT time
« on: 29 July 2008, 09:06:03 »
Ta-dah!! Arrived 0730 this morning for this years MOT test. Drove out 35 mins later & £48 lighter in the wallet, with a green pass certificate (and a yellow advisory  :-[ for both front tyres which I knew were passable but border line when I went in)

not wishing to tempt fate for coming years, this car has never failed an MOT.  :-X

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General Discussion Area / wireless internet
« on: 03 July 2008, 00:00:37 »
A few weeks back I carelessly 'lost' my daughter's wireless conection to the internet via an Orange Livebox-1330. The only thing I could put it down to was removal of power when I was decorating ie removing sockets. As daughter was mostly at uni at the time it was something that could be lived with until I (or someone who knew what they were doing   :-[ ) could sort it.
Today I've brought home a replacement Dell laptop for her (problem with charging on her old Gateway) and I can't make it 'talk' to the internet.
I can get as far as the screen asking me for the keycode from the bottom of the modem (how do I tell a zero from an Oscar?), it can see it, as it can the Sky box from next door - signal is apparently strong. However I then get the message that "Windows cannot connect to Livebox-1330 due to an unknown error"
HELP!!!!  :(  :y

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General Discussion Area / Lakes - We're banned next year!
« on: 29 June 2008, 19:28:11 »
Re the Lakes visit.
Granted we were a bit late on leaving Burns Farm this afternoon - about 4 o'clock, but as we were heading back to the 'van Linda was marching across the fiel to unplug us because we were 'stealing her electric' & apparently we owed her another £8!
I sent a £10 deposit way back, and when I turned up, I said who I was to her daughter(?) who then asked for another £10. As far as I was concerned that was that. To then be screemed at across the field 'cos we apparently then owed more money really p***ed me off.
It's perhaps a good job that we're banned next year, not that I think we'd want to go back, cos Burns Farm seemingly needs to go on communications & organisation course so the left hand knows what the right hand is doing. As far as Linda was aware, we were going to use the field on the other side of the wall from where the 3 caravans & Mark(Chopsdad?) were pitched, but we all pitched where the daughter(?) told us on 3 seperate sections of the site.
Considering the number of paying customers in tents on the 2 or 3 pitches at the opposite end of the site I don't think that Burns Farm did too badly out of the week end despite of us 'stealing' some electric!

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General Discussion Area / computer help
« on: 25 June 2008, 09:52:54 »
Right ..... after being passed from just about every piller & post Tesco has I've been offered a replacement for my daughter's Gateway lap top - there's problem with the charger making contact inside somewhere.
I know that when you 'delete' information from a hard drive the info is still actually there until it's written over the top of again, the computer is just told to ignore it, but what's the minimum I should do regarding deleting files - other than sticking a screw driver through the hard drive?! ::)  :-/  :-/
Any help should be in a Janet & John reading level type way! (for the younger viewers that means, easy to understand!  ;))

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General Discussion Area / Barvarian Motor Werk
« on: 12 May 2008, 21:32:00 »
What engine oil do you reckon for a new-ish 730d? My brother's car is asking for a bit more oil & is unsure what should be going in it. I reckon fully synthetic - of the Vauxhall trade Club variety  :y
Opinions please.

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General Discussion Area / Non starter
« on: 22 April 2008, 09:02:17 »
For the very first time since I got my diseasal Astra on the road it failed to start for me this morning.  :( Even when it has 50% diesel & chip oil in it started first turn of the key after the glow plug light went out. This morning I initially forgot about the glow plugs & spun it over (been in the Omega more over the wk end) but then allowed the glow plug light to time out. After 3 or 4 goes I gave up & used the Omega instead. I'd even tightened up the 'fan belt' a little so the screech wouldn't disturb the neighbours at 5 in the morning ..... again! ::) Used it last night OK when I nipped out to fill it up.
Any suggestions?
Astra G 1.7 low blow turbo.

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General Discussion Area / eBay mpg
« on: 19 April 2008, 00:47:52 »
How is it the land of eBay seems to be able to get morempg than the rest of us.
40-50mpg! 'dangle berries'

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General Discussion Area / Fiat BravA 1.4
« on: 08 March 2008, 10:33:26 »
Does any one know anything about Fiat cars? Sisiter-in-law's car has just put an amber warning lamp on - engine shaped like ours but no flash or spanner through it - from the hand book it appears to be an emmisions warning. It runs like a bag of spanners on idle but seems to pick up OK when you rev it. Anyone know if you can do a paperclip test on it?
Should she just scrap it before the rust takes hold?  ;D

Is there a decent Brava Owners Forum?
TIA

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