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General Car Chat / Maybe I should give up on this whole new car malarkey....

« on: 10 April 2019, 17:52:42 »

Currently killing time in the office while I wait for the AA man. Not as one might predict for him to come and fix the crusty terracan, oh no! Rather, its the shiny new golf that seems to be horse to combat...

https://ibb.co/DrY7cWY


So, on balance it seems that petrol cars are exactly twice as reliable as electric ones, being as the BMW lasted nearly 5000 miles before it suffered a failure to proceed, VW's effort, a mere 2250 miles.

Well, you've got to laugh haven't you 

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General Discussion Area / Oh the Humanity!

« on: 09 April 2019, 11:19:43 »

Clearly, I work for absolute monsters!   

https://metro.co.uk/2019/04/08/woman-says-view-builders-yard-outside-made-cat-depressed-9135486/

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General Car Chat / The new milk float...

« on: 12 March 2019, 13:09:22 »

Well, its finally here, so far I've driven it exactly 0.3 miles so I don't have much to say other than its ridiculously quiet. Especially since I drove here in the Terracan this morning. 

The leasing company managed to ignore my instructions to deliver it fully charged, so according the golf's brain, it has about 120miles of range with the climate set to 19 degrees and my heated seat on. I doubt that this will be an issue as that's 30 more than my daily commute. Plus I am planning to go and play with a motorway charger on the way home. I want to be able to use them and know the app for my phone works before I pull up at one with <10% in the 'tank'!

I took two very quick snaps as its bucketing it down here:
Exterior
Interior

I haven't embedded them as I am not smart enough to know how to resize them  .

Sunday may be the first test of long distance usage. A friend of mine is working at Cheltenham Festival and needs to get back to London, a round trip of c280 miles. So probably 2 rapid charges.

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General Car Chat / Well that put a spanner in the works...

« on: 16 February 2019, 17:52:40 »

So much for main dealer servicing. Skoda will be getting a bollocking come Monday morning!

As part of the recent service, the garage changed the brake fluid and bled the brakes (this was about 3 weeks ago). SWMBO was maneuvering the car this morning when I called a halt to proceedings. See if you eagle eyes OOFers can spot the issue...



Words fail me.

50

General Car Chat / Just a gentle reminder...

« on: 18 October 2018, 08:50:17 »

That people are basically awful and not to be trusted.

Came out to the swede this morning to find that some delightful scrote has taken the time to steal....

My headlight wiper blades!  I mean come on! They are about £8.99 a pair delivered, don't form part of the MOT, clearly no second hand value. WTF is wrong with people?!

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General Car Chat / Hyundai Terracan - who had one?

« on: 11 October 2018, 16:15:11 »

Its looking more and more like this self build is going to come off and I'll need something that is 4wd and can tow a good amount. Budget of around £2-3k max and I don't want to be lying under it every verse end - I'll be busy enough thanks! 

So far, the pick of the pack is the terracan, followed closely by the shogun. I'd prefer 2 pedals over 3 in any event.

I seem to remember someone on here had one. Tilbo maybe? Wondered how they are to own and tow with.

TIA 

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General Discussion Area / Student loans repaid

« on: 21 September 2018, 09:55:05 »

Today, the last Direct Debit for my student loan repayment left my bank account, meaning that this year both SWMBO and I will join the ranks of the estimated 30% of students who actually pay back their loans.

A very useful £400pcm to add back into the kitty, but in some ways a sad moment, my youth now feels a bit further away than it did before.

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General Discussion Area / Selecting home network hardware

« on: 07 September 2018, 22:54:52 »

As part of the new house design, and off the back of the other network related thread, I've been thinking about network hardware and it's raised a couple of questions. Which hopefully a few members here, or indeed our esteemed leader may be able to answer.

Im planning to run in cables down to network sockets for TVs, PS4, SWMBO'S work pc and a few Sonos products. I'll also need to retain WiFi for ad hoc phone and tablet browsing.

 I'll need to run in some cable to add a secondary WiFi point and network sockets in the detached garage building (part of which will surreptitiously become my office in due course). I also may want to run a cable down to a greenhouse at the end of the patch of land for a raspberry pi project in the long term. So, questions...

1. Can someone recommend an alternative to the BT/sky homebox router that will support c 10 wired connections in the main house and do WiFi and act as my ISP box.
2. Can I run network cable alongside the ringmains without causing interference/impacting performance.
3. As per 1. But a smaller unit for the garage C5 wired connections and some WiFi.
4. Is there a max run length for network cable, if so, what is it. 5. Budget, particularly re. 1& 3, the WiFi doesn't need to be enterprise grade stuff, so neither does the price tag .

Thanks in advance 

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General Car Chat / 3.0 Elite - low mileage, sensible money, not even silver!

« on: 08 August 2018, 13:15:53 »

In case anyone is looking.

Ebay Linky

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General Discussion Area / Meanwhile in Milton Keynes

« on: 07 August 2018, 00:01:10 »

Probably not ideal for a children's party. 

https://imgur.com/gallery/jgMqtLe

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General Discussion Area / Headphone repair/modification advice

« on: 30 July 2018, 23:30:41 »

I have an old pair of B&O A8/Earset headphones knocking about, but the cord has become partially detached where it needs the headphone body and I get intermittent sound in one ear.

I'd like to get the wiring replaced and an in-line mic added for taking calls on the mobile. Anyone know of a midlands based (or alternatively mail order) company that can provide such a service?

TIA

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General Discussion Area / Down to the nitty gritty

« on: 16 July 2018, 14:38:03 »

So, house has been on the market for three weeks today and we have an offer on the table. 

Need to press a bit more as its not enough, but its not daft either... time to get down to brass tacks as my granny used to say. 

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General Car Chat / Say what you see...

« on: 05 July 2018, 19:43:04 »

Spotted this on the street and have no idea what it could b, thought I’d put it out to the OOf collective wisdom. It’s badged Ghia everywhere other than a small fez horse on the umberplate. Any offers? Never seen anything like it before 

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General Discussion Area / One for the British Historians...

« on: 30 June 2018, 19:37:20 »

SWMBO asked me a question over coffee this morning that I couldn’t answer and I couldn’t charm up a ready answer from google...

When did British monarchs stop persecuting the Protestants/Catholics (delete as appropriate depending on the persuasion of the monarch)?

Clearly we don’t do it now, and don’t think we did in Victorian/Georgian times, but don’t know other than that. So, I thought I’d throw it out to the OOF historians/eyewitnesses and see what the answer was 

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General Discussion Area / Meanwhile, in Stoke...

« on: 25 June 2018, 12:59:52 »

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-stoke-staffordshire-44123428