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Messages - Kevin Wood

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General Car Chat / Re: vauxhall mokka tyre pressure fault
« on: 12 August 2023, 08:29:10 »
We get at least two breakdown calls a week where by the driver has pulled over because there is a warning on the instrument cluster for a low washer fluid level!
I had that one come on the other day, and I nearly dismissed "bloody Jaguar sensors", but it was genuine ;D
My one gives me no trouble.. Because it's now in the bin!

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General Discussion Area / Re: What has P*ssed you off today?
« on: 18 July 2023, 20:28:38 »
Yep, this was the bit past loomies, so definitely their fault. >:(

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General Discussion Area / Re: What has P*ssed you off today?
« on: 18 July 2023, 19:14:27 »
People doing 40 in a NSL zone >:(

Wucking fankers.

Mind you, the V8 dispatches such frustrations with a lovely burble >:D
Be grateful you still have NSL areas.

Oxfordshire is infecting everywhere around here, so 50mph limits are the norm in these parts.  So every knob jockey drives at 35...

..or like my commute this evening. 50MPH limit with average speed cameras. The knob jockey in the Audi A5 in front insists on slowing down (from 50) to 40 MPH past each camera.

I mean, he's driving an Audi, so I obviously wasn't expecting much in the way of grey matter, but... ;D

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General Discussion Area / Re: What has P*ssed you off today?
« on: 17 July 2023, 22:35:41 »
Sorry to hear this, Nick. Our thoughts are with you.

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General Car Chat / Re: I've been given this for free.
« on: 14 July 2023, 20:22:43 »
As someone who works in a BMW dealership dealing with techs all day, my advice is to not do it. We will find out as the system will flag an animist for the tech to investigate and they are obliged by BMW to raise an appropriate “info only case” and a warranty marker is placed on the car. This makes any warranty claims relating to the running gear almost impossible to claim, extends the delay for anything not related to the running gear and makes it unlikely you will be able to trade it back to a dealer as they have to check for the markers as part of their due diligence.

We have had so many people try it, they all fail.

Interesting.

Yet quite a number of people will openly ECU remap their M3, M4, or M5 virtually from new. Presumably they think they are unlikely to have any engine failures.

There was a man on Carwow who took his M5 competition out to 1000 BHP. ;D

It was properly rapid. ::)

Yes, but these people are BMW drivers.  Oops! did I say that out loud? ::)

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General Car Chat / Re: AGM battery life expectancy.
« on: 13 July 2023, 07:28:33 »
Currently boiling away...
That's never good for an AGM.  ;)

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Saw an advert about how the global shipping industry is a mahoosive contribution to climate change, and that the solution is to build more energy efficient ships powered by wind or hydrogen or solar power...

Er no, how about not transporting ship loads of crap around the world to begin with. ???

Well, that's novel. ;D

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General Car Chat / Re: Project anyone?
« on: 08 July 2023, 21:20:03 »
I would be lying if I said that this wasn't tempting...

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/204385198012


Is that £4000 what they pay you to take it away dispose of the body in the boot?

FTFY. ;D

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General Car Chat / Re: Cooked it
« on: 03 July 2023, 21:56:33 »
Guffers cambelt do was elevenish years ago  :o

Yep, they're just in the process of bulldozing the venue and turning it into a housing estate.

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General Car Chat / Re: So what have you done to your car today?
« on: 28 June 2023, 07:21:14 »
Got a shiny new MOT on the Mondeo.  :y

Relief for another 12 months. :)

Really? These Mondeos have some interesting optional extras.  ;)

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General Discussion Area / Re: Washing Machine woes
« on: 22 June 2023, 22:51:07 »
You are supposed to be able to split them, then bolt them back together, sealing with sikaflex or similar.

Our last machine went through 3 sets of bearings, so yes, it's pretty dismal that you can't replace them.

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General Discussion Area / Re: Titanic
« on: 21 June 2023, 07:22:26 »
I wager that if/when they find it there's no one in it.

It is a pretty good cover story for a Reggie Perrin job... ;)

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General Car Chat / Re: Adblue
« on: 19 June 2023, 19:53:40 »
.. or get a proper car. ;)

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General Discussion Area / Re: Wickes
« on: 16 June 2023, 20:23:01 »
Wickes rarely have enough stuff in stock to complete a job anyway, IMHO, so I'd be more than happy to steer a wide berth. ;D

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General Car Chat / Re: Ferrari 308
« on: 16 June 2023, 17:57:29 »
For me, anything that came after the F40 , is a tarts handbag of a car produced for footballers with too much money but no sense of style or class.


Ferraris(and similar) were only ever meant for one of two things:


Racing


or


Flashy toys for the fashionable. And like lots of fashion goods, they're not very durable or well made.


This seems to be an Italian thing.

The Italians do passion while the Germans prefer pragmatism. :)

.. and making it as complex as possible. ::)

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