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Messages - Andy B

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General Discussion Area / Re: New car technology .
« on: 30 January 2024, 08:25:03 »
My E Class had it, but I never used it…………..

Don’t know what your E Class was like for parallel self parking but the BMW reverses in with one hell of a tight rake. It goes in at a steep angle and swings the front bumper in far closer to the vehicle in front than I’m happy with.  :o  That’s probably why I never use it, but in fairness it can park itself in a fairly tight space.  :)
My ML needs a gap of the car plus 1.3 metres ..... but as you say, it always seems very close at the front of the car  ???

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General Discussion Area / Re: New car technology .
« on: 29 January 2024, 16:26:12 »
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 and after 50 years of using wing / door mirrors, altering my line of vision to look at the door panel to see what was behind wasn't as easy as it sounds. ....

I've had my ML for over 4 & a half years. It has a reverse camera but I still default to using the mirrors first .... I maybe use it for the final bit of parking etc
My daughter though uses her reverse camera by default  :-\
Got to admit, in these days of larger vehicles with smaller windows, I am grateful for front and rear parking sensors. I've never driven a car with a reverse view camera, and I don't think I'd find any use for it.
As for the ones that actually park themselves, no way.
My ML will parallel park itself ..... it's pretty clever when it does it, though I rarely use it cos by the time I've remembered  what buttons to press on the steering wheel, I could have parked it myself.  ;D

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General Discussion Area / Re: New car technology .
« on: 29 January 2024, 11:10:21 »
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 and after 50 years of using wing / door mirrors, altering my line of vision to look at the door panel to see what was behind wasn't as easy as it sounds. ....

I've had my ML for over 4 & a half years. It has a reverse camera but I still default to using the mirrors first .... I maybe use it for the final bit of parking etc
My daughter though uses her reverse camera by default  :-\

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General Discussion Area / Re: What has P*ssed you off today?
« on: 28 January 2024, 08:51:29 »
how long have we got?
I could go on & on re the incompetent and arrogant management & Anti-personnel at work  .... but I'd better not! 
:-X :-X :-X
Incompetent? You've only got to cook some beans and put them in a can  ;D
They're cooked in the can  ;)

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General Car Chat / Re: Project anyone?
« on: 27 January 2024, 20:51:23 »
I had an 827 Vitesse with the Honda V6 in it, cracking car which I miss a lot.

I was once lent one as a courtesy car ..... my undying memory of it was its turning circle. The Amoco Cadiz could have made a smaller U turn! And also its massive understeer!

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General Discussion Area / Re: What has P*ssed you off today?
« on: 27 January 2024, 20:48:39 »
how long have we got?
I could go on & on re the incompetent and arrogant management & Anti-personnel at work  .... but I'd better not! 
:-X :-X :-X

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General Discussion Area / Re: Dead Person
« on: 12 January 2024, 17:57:47 »
When I left school, 30 was an imaginary number. In two years it will be 30 years since I left school.

Although from recent events it would seem that 52 is a reasonable time to go :-X

Sprog!  ::) ::)

It'll be 45 years this coming summer since I left school & joined up!  ???

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General Discussion Area / Re: Back to school today!
« on: 09 January 2024, 20:27:38 »
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She probably doesn't need to if she rarely goes out and has to wear a blanket on the rare occasions she does venture over the threshold.  :-X   ;D

You're not far from the truth ....  :-X

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General Discussion Area / Re: Paula Vennels
« on: 09 January 2024, 18:25:15 »
I find it astonishing that it went on for so long, 15 years or so I think, and apparently no one at the Post Office thought it strange that there were so many Post Masters with their hand in the till.  :-\

more like 20

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General Discussion Area / Re: Back to school today!
« on: 09 January 2024, 17:15:27 »
Surprises me how many People never bother to learn the lingo of the country they're in.   :-X

Mrs Maqmood (aka Mrs Mack) down the road has lived here for 50 ???? years & doesn't speak English!  :-X

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General Discussion Area / Re: Paula Vennels
« on: 09 January 2024, 15:38:03 »
but why has it taken 20 years & a 4 part mini series on telly for anyone in gov to do anything about it? There was a Panorama episode about some years ago detailing most of Mr Allan Bates vs The PO

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Omega Electrical and Audio Help / Re: Number Plate Bulb
« on: 06 January 2024, 22:14:16 »
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New AI cameras  could be set to ticket you by post when driving with tat in the window  :P

bring it on!

I can never believe that some people think it's OK to stick their phone/satnav directly in front of them on the screen!!!!!

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Omega Electrical and Audio Help / Re: Number Plate Bulb
« on: 06 January 2024, 22:12:10 »
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so,,, for example ,,,, someone has their windscreen partly blocked with "magic tree air fresheners" might NOT  like the resulting certificate  ??? :P :-X

 :o :o :o :o :o :o :o :o   ::)

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Omega Electrical and Audio Help / Re: Number Plate Bulb
« on: 06 January 2024, 22:11:02 »
Well, I did what I shouldn't do at the moment and laid on the floor and found the clip to release the bulb unit, before getting into the inner part where the bulb was.  Bulb changed, so another thing off the list before the MOT in January. :y

To think the Vx dealer wanted £27 to do that! :o :o

My MOT tester failed me for a Dip beam bulb a few years ago, he fitted me one and when the Test bill came in I asked about the bulb as ther was no charge.  all I got was see you this time next year. :y :y
A few years back Mrs B's Citroen went to AN Other local tester (because I'd left it to the last minute .... ie the MOT had expired  :-X) he failed it for a duff rear bulb & then subsequently passed it after he'd fitted a new one. No charge for the new bulb but ....... fast forward some time, I discovered that he'd broken the rear cluster. Obviously I couldn't then prove it.
I hold my hands up for letting the MOT expire & not checking the car properly before submitting it for test ..... but he didn't hold his hands up for over tightening the cluster's thumb screw & breaking it  :-X
They say that most people don't complain about bad service but then never ever use that service provider again ..... count me in with 'most people'

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General Discussion Area / Re: Good riddance
« on: 31 December 2023, 19:16:49 »

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