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General Discussion Area / Re: Haltrac Hoist

« on: 31 August 2023, 17:00:20 »

electric hand/parking/emergency brakes ..... the answer to a problem that never existed.

At least my ML's only goes on when I tell it to & not automatically when the car stops.

Agree. Plus the stupid interlock . Open your door and the handbrake comes on.

Not always .....  It'll go into Park if already in Drive, but doesn't always put the parking/hand brake on. In 4 plus years I've never quite worked out when or why it'll put the brake on. I know that if it puts on itself, it won't auto release & I have to release it - that's caught me out once or twice.

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General Discussion Area / Re: Haltrac Hoist

« on: 31 August 2023, 12:15:32 »

electric hand/parking/emergency brakes ..... the answer to a problem that never existed.

At least my ML's only goes on when I tell it to & not automatically when the car stops.

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General Discussion Area / Re: Burger King

« on: 30 August 2023, 14:14:45 »

Burger King has been taken to court somewhere, probably America, on the grounds that their Whopper isn't really a Whopper! 

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-66654440 

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General Car Chat / Re: The engineering that went into this......

« on: 30 August 2023, 13:11:09 »

....

Impressive for something from 1977 built by communists.

I was amazed that the V12 still used a rope type rear crank seal

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General Discussion Area / Re: Haltrac Hoist

« on: 30 August 2023, 08:09:28 »

For some reason, none of my tools are older than 10yrs, 6 weeks......

 

Is it really that long ago?!

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General Discussion Area / Re: bank card fraud

« on: 29 August 2023, 17:33:35 »

As they shopped on line I would immagine the bank/police will have gained acces to thier delivety address so thay can go pick the fraudsters up.

I've no idea how it works cos I've never done it, but you can have stuff delivered to the big yellow Amazon lockers .... you then show a barcode & it opens the appropriate locker door (I've collected stuff from them for my daughter) no delivery address required.

Six police cars and man with a deerstalker and magnifying glass hanging around would probably tip them off 

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General Discussion Area / Re: bank card fraud

« on: 29 August 2023, 15:17:40 »

As they shopped on line I would immagine the bank/police will have gained acces to thier delivety address so thay can go pick the fraudsters up.

I've no idea how it works cos I've never done it, but you can have stuff delivered to the big yellow Amazon lockers .... you then show a barcode & it opens the appropriate locker door (I've collected stuff from them for my daughter) no delivery address required.

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General Discussion Area / Re: bank card fraud

« on: 29 August 2023, 14:25:58 »

How did that work then? 

Some kind of scanner attached to the cashpoint that swiped Mr B's card details? 

That scam has only been going for about 20 years 

I've heard of it but have yet to see anything untoward on a cashpoint 

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General Discussion Area / Re: bank card fraud

« on: 29 August 2023, 14:25:00 »

I hope the bank cancelled the card and sent a new one out.

Yes to both 

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General Discussion Area / Re: bank card fraud

« on: 29 August 2023, 14:13:09 »

How did that work then? 

Some kind of scanner attached to the cashpoint that swiped Mrs B's card details? 

we assume so .... 

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General Discussion Area / bank card fraud

« on: 29 August 2023, 13:56:58 »

yesterday evening Mrs B went to a cashpoint at a petrol station/Co-op to get cash for our daughter. She commented at the time that it was a grotty, dirty thing.
For what ever reason .... 6th sense  .... she looked at her on-line banking on her phone when we got back home less than an hour later. There had been 3 payments of around £35 to a local shop selling 'back to school' stuff .... uniforms, pens etc and 3 payments to Next on line for around £40/£45 taken from her bank. In total around £250
She obviously phoned her bank to sort it out .... hadn't quite tied the cashpoint & the fraud together .... but talking to her bank, that's exactly where the fraud had taken place.

All sorted now & the money was back in her account last night, but just goes to how quick these buggers are. And would they have taken more if Mrs B hadn't noticed as quick?

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General Discussion Area / Re: Haltrac Hoist

« on: 29 August 2023, 13:40:45 »

not sure of the oldest but I've a pair of ramps that are over 40 yrs old ... theyre good enough to put my Smart on but I'll pass at putting 2.2t of ML on them 

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General Car Chat / Re: The engineering that went into this......

« on: 29 August 2023, 08:33:52 »

.....
.. and they shouldn't really sound like this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P_GNk0Yn6lg

But I'm inclined to forgive him. 

 

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General Car Chat / Re: The engineering that went into this......

« on: 28 August 2023, 18:37:02 »

I fell asleep and only saw the beginning and the end, which was enough to get the gist of it all. 

I did enjoy the following youtube vid though which was an episode of Harry's Garage and he took his 16 year old L322 Range Rover to visit a neighbouring farmer who happened to have an almost identical Range Rover. It was Jeremy Clarkson. 

Two old blokes chatting about Range Rovers was surprisingly entertaining and I managed to stay awake!   

I enjoyed that too 

I wouldn't mind Harry's XJC V12 ...... 

Converted to a 5 speed manual if memory serves.

Yes .... He spent some serious money on it though. IIRC he paid something like £5k or £6k on it in the first place but spent about £70k in total ... and then a bit more on the fuel injection.

But Jags should be auto's 

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Omega General Help / Re: Horn not working - 1999 MV6

« on: 27 August 2023, 21:56:02 »

Test the horns directly & go from there .....