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General Discussion Area / Re: Farage and Coutts.

« on: 19 July 2023, 23:08:01 »

My sympathy for Farage has no beginning.

The fact that it's Farage has no relevance.

Don't remember any fuss in the press about the accounts I've had closed.

It's about companies not wanting to do buisness with certain customers for whatever reason.  Gobshites who spout off in public with views that don't align with those companies view only have themselves to blame IMV. I'm sure Nige could get a basic bank account - you know no bank card, no credit card, no cheque book, no overdraft - infact I believe Nat West offered him one when the fuss first erupted.

No different to some of us who don't want to do buisness with British Airways, Wetherspoons, eBay, Amazon, Yodel etc.

Most businesses don't hold such power over an individual's ability to live a normal life. It doesn't help that they're a bunch of lying (as proven by Farage's SAR), self interested leeches. If it weren't for the myriad of legislation put in place over these past few years, dirty money would be flowing freely throughout the banking system. In fact, they'd probably be fighting over it.

If Coutts held "such power over an individual's ability to live a normal life", and that individual is Farage, then he's an even bigger cretin than I thought. Coutts is a bank for "High Net Worth" customers and rule #1 is don't put all your eggs in one basket.

A bank tried to dick me over about 30 years ago - I went a few pence overdrawn whilst I was out of the country and their T&C's were that for that quarter and the following you had to pay a charge for each cheque you wrote, and every cash withdrwawl. Ever since I've had about 5 accounts with different banks - Currently LLoyds, HSBC, TSB, Nationwide and Halifax. If one of them pisses me off then I open another account somewhere else, and transfer to that account, typically getting a £100 transfer bonus.

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General Discussion Area / Re: Farage and Coutts.

« on: 19 July 2023, 16:07:44 »

My sympathy for Farage has no beginning.

The fact that it's Farage has no relevance.

Don't remember any fuss in the press about the accounts I've had closed.

It's about companies not wanting to do buisness with certain customers for whatever reason.  Gobshites who spout off in public with views that don't align with those companies view only have themselves to blame IMV. I'm sure Nige could get a basic bank account - you know no bank card, no credit card, no cheque book, no overdraft - infact I believe Nat West offered him one when the fuss first erupted.

No different to some of us who don't want to do buisness with British Airways, Wetherspoons, eBay, Amazon, Yodel etc.

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General Discussion Area / Re: Farage and Coutts.

« on: 19 July 2023, 15:50:00 »

My sympathy for Farage has no beginning.

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Omega General Help / Re: Trouble with A/C

« on: 19 July 2023, 15:48:00 »

Does the compressor clutch actually engage? From memory there is a triangular plate on the front of the compressor - this will spin if the clutch is engaged (AC is on). It will be stationary if the clutch is disengaged (AC off). It ain't gonna work unless the clutch is engaged.

The expansion valve is basically a small oriface (hole) where the AC gas expands from a high pressure to a low pressure, getting (much) colder as it does so. The main fault with these is they get blocked if there is any debris in the system. Again from memory, yes its behind the dash on an Omega B.

But check and double check that the compressor clutch is engaging. Any number of things can stop this from happening. You need to make 1000% sure the triangular plate is actually spinning. 

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General Discussion Area / Re: Farage and Coutts.

« on: 19 July 2023, 13:27:56 »

Since when did banks become the moral guardians of all that is right and good?

Banks are private buisneses, and free to decide who they want to deal with, and who they don't. Obviously they've decided they don't want Farage, either due to pressure from other (more valued) customers, or some internal management choice.

Coutts won't deal with me either - although in my case it's because I'm skint :-)

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General Discussion Area / Re: Low RPMs when I first start the car in the morning

« on: 15 July 2023, 20:00:09 »

My bets would be either the coolant temperature sensor, or the idle air control valve.

Does your code scanner show live data? if it does, then first look at the engine coolant temp sensor value - does it look sensible? Starting from 20C ish when cold, rising to 85-90C when warm?

Don't know what sort of IACV is on the 2L, but a good clean with carb cleaner shouldn't hurt it. It may also be possible to watch the IACV duty cycle on the code scanner. Sometimes you can even control the IACV to set the idle speed during diagnosis.

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General Car Chat / Re: Can someone lend me 90p

« on: 08 July 2023, 14:21:24 »

Hmmmmm, Airbags? Traction Control? Don't think so.

And for a purist like me  - wrong bonnet badge and the rear suspension looks suspiciously high. Not convinced by the front track width either - would want the front wheels off for a look at the front wishbones.

No interior pictures - several givaways there too if you know what you're looking for.

Not certain, but it also looks like the front wings have the narrow indicators - nothing wrong with that on very early cars (don't know where the break point was) but I'd want to check the VIN number for build date and make sure they're the correct wings for that car. Listing claims 1991, which I think should have the wide indicators.

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General Discussion Area / Re: car cd players

« on: 07 July 2023, 23:04:17 »

IIRC the head unit is all part & parcel of the dash screens .... I think you'll struggle to integrate a stand alone CD unit into what's already there. I'd guess there's a USB somewhere (father in law has a C4 Spacetourer but I can't think what's in it) .... it'd be easier & cheaper to load your CDs onto a memory stick

This. I ripped (I believe that's the street cred term used by the yoofs) all my CD's onto a memory stick. Quite depressing that 1000 CD's easily fit onto one $10 memory stick. My newest car (2013) has a 32GB limit on memory sticks, but I suspect later cars support even more.

Just gotta work out how to get it to work it in the LC now. The CDP09 is a bit skippy.

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General Discussion Area / Re: What has P*ssed you off today?

« on: 30 June 2023, 15:04:19 »

Damn and blast. Just been out to get some stuff out of the boot of the LC and discovered the rear number plate light housing is gone. Don't know if it fell off of it's own accord or some scrote has nicked it. Not sure if I've got a spare either.

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General Discussion Area / Re: What has P*ssed you off today?

« on: 29 June 2023, 14:15:55 »

In other news, something that has pissed me off because it shows how we now live in a woke dictatorship....
Nigel Farage (love him or hate him, thats not the point here) has banked with the same bank - both personal and business) for 35 years.
He has been contacted by them to say they are going to close all of his accounts. He has tried hard, even contacting the Chairman, to find out why, but they will give no explanation.
He has so far contacted six other banks to try and open new accounts but all of them refuse to let him open an account with them.
This really is scary stuff.

I've seen this as well and he's going to give more details on his GBNews show tonight at 7pm.

It's not just him. Lawrence Fox and his Reclaim Party had their banks accounts shut down, but I'm not sure what the outcome of that was.

Then there's Canada where hundreds of people participating or even donating to the 'Truckers Protest' in Ottawa had their bank accounts frozen. 

It's bloody sinister.  You vill own nothing and you vill be happy! 

I wouldn't be surprised if it's not to do with US Tax rules. Many UK banks now refuse to allow you to open a bank account if you are subject to IRS tax becasue they then have to comply with complex US regulations. There was a spate of letters a few years ago sent out by UK banks asking customers if they had any US 'interests'. If you said yes, they closed your account. If you didn't answer, they closed your account. If it turns out that you - err  - misrepresented the truth - then chances are they'll close your account.

They won't give you a reason because that would be against US law, and they don't want their own US activities to be under threat.

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General Discussion Area / Re: Russia

« on: 24 June 2023, 22:47:43 »

Dead man walking.

Wagner shot down 5 Russian helicopters today, including a KA52 'Alligator'. That's a few million dollars worth of kit and expensively trained pilots gone. 

The bigger military loss will be the "An26", coz it wasn't an An26 - it was an IL-20 which is an electronic surveillance plane similar to the USAF/RAF's RC-135's.

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General Car Chat / Re: Pink doors on red Astra

« on: 23 June 2023, 21:42:00 »

Just do one panel per day Uncle Stemo 
N/S rear door
N/S rear 1/4
rear hatch
rear bumper
O/S rear 1/4
O/S rear door
O/S front door
O/S front wing
bonnet
front bumper
N/S front wing
the roof
all the glass
N/S front door again

2 week cycle
a bit like  'painting the Forth Bridge'   

That reminds me. Need to start (thinking about) cleaning the car for Billing. That's only 4 weeks away.

4 weeks? You could build a car in four weeks.

Major problem is the Polish/Bulgarian/Albanian hand car wash in Ilchester have fvuked off home for whatever reason, so muggins 'ere will probably have to do everything himself. It takes weeks of planning before I end up deciding I CBA. 

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General Car Chat / Re: Pink doors on red Astra

« on: 23 June 2023, 21:22:44 »

Just do one panel per day Uncle Stemo 
N/S rear door
N/S rear 1/4
rear hatch
rear bumper
O/S rear 1/4
O/S rear door
O/S front door
O/S front wing
bonnet
front bumper
N/S front wing
the roof
all the glass
N/S front door again

2 week cycle
a bit like  'painting the Forth Bridge'   

That reminds me. Need to start (thinking about) cleaning the car for Billing. That's only 4 weeks away.

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General Car Chat / Re: Never been so embarrassed

« on: 22 June 2023, 10:13:34 »

My story is about rental cars in the USA. Pitched up at a petrol (well gas) station somewhere in Hicksvill Texas running on fumes. Spent 10 minutes trying to find the petrol filler cap. Eventually had to ask the petrol station attendant - it was behind the number plate.

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General Car Chat / Re: Can 'lane assist' be permanently disabled?

« on: 12 June 2023, 17:17:43 »

Presumably it's using an optical sensor to see the white lines. Find the sensor, and stick some tape over it?