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General Discussion Area / car insurance - motor legal protection

« on: 14 May 2014, 23:01:55 »

For some reason I always add on motor legal protection to my policy. why I`m not sure never used it & cost is £27.95. Tried to read the small print applicable to this & it turns out another company handles this anyway. So am  I wasting £27.95.

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General Car Chat / Mk2 Focus

« on: 07 May 2014, 23:15:35 »

Bro in-law seems hell bent on buying one  56 reg 1.6LX with 34k miles £2500. from a bloke a couple doors down.
Nearly every panel looks to be scratched or scuffed some of these might polish out. Original cam belt so that needs sorting, new pads on the last service. drives ok but drones/ road noise at speed. Every wheel seems to have a different cheapo tyre on it 
Anything iffy or a known fault with these 

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General Discussion Area / WW2 yarn

« on: 19 March 2014, 22:24:34 »

Never heard of the US airfield  Mount Farm, Oxford.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ie3SrjLlcUY&list=LL-FVfPqpU3jUz6PANryzwYg

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General Car Chat / Jaguar XJ12 Vanden Plas

« on: 07 February 2014, 23:17:39 »

go here & she`s £25k
http://www.westlondonautocentre.co.uk/car-details.php?carID=892

But here she`s dropped to £15k 

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Jaguar-XJ12-Vanden-Plas-LHD-Saloon-/171163651652?pt=Automobiles_UK&hash=item27da260e44

Not too sure about the colour, but I could get used to it 

http://www.westlondonautocentre.co.uk/car-details.php?carID=918

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General Car Chat / Some weird looking vehicles under the hammer

« on: 25 January 2014, 22:36:07 »

Check out the dune buggies @ 7.00

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dXS6zbKcrrE

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General Discussion Area / Chill out..............

« on: 13 January 2014, 23:37:59 »

......................

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=43yvS6bPZDs

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General Car Chat / Mitsubishi GTO

« on: 10 January 2014, 23:54:07 »

Loved the sound of this GTO when he gave it some welly.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bqCu5Mh_TO4

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General Car Chat / power cut

« on: 30 December 2013, 01:18:36 »

This happened on Monday the 23rd with big storms hitting the south coast

Just as I drive into a Shell petrol station a power cut hits.
My first thought was bugger, "they`re closing early" & then I noticed all the street lights were out. 

They have on-site back-up power, & within 5 minutes the pumps were on-line.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mhULCIQLOK0

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General Car Chat / I suppose everybody has to start learning somewhere.........

« on: 17 December 2013, 22:44:38 »

.........but she very nearly ruined my day

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=azMVcMRV63w

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General Discussion Area / our generation is f*cked

« on: 15 September 2013, 14:10:32 »

severe over-acting, but so true. 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3mA5fCFqqz0

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General Discussion Area / the next time I get stuck here.........

« on: 13 September 2013, 23:16:04 »

..........I might get my garden shears out 

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General Car Chat / ozzy trucker with a dash cam

« on: 06 September 2013, 22:15:11 »

Bad language alert.

this bloke really cracks me up he effing swears @ effing everything. 

https://www.youtube.com/user/AdelaideTruckCam/videos

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General Discussion Area / young trucky has a new ytube channel

« on: 02 September 2013, 23:24:30 »

She`s just posted a new vid 

I catch the occassional word here & there


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=erPeX6kewFc

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General Car Chat / traffic light timings

« on: 30 August 2013, 23:44:44 »

Are there any national set limits for traffic lights to change from green to red 

Following another car today, I saw one 40 mph board, the road in front widened into seperate lanes with traffic lights in the distance. As we approached the traffic lights, the car in front safely passed thru on a green light. as he did so the light went to amber so I braked & came to swift halt as the light changed to red. The bloke behind wasn`t happy & I got verbals & the finger. The route I was travelling was unfamilar to me.  but that amber light was really short before it changed to red. I reviewed the timing on my dashcam footage it was just under 3 seconds from the start of amber to the red light. I`m no mathmetician but I was about 2 seconds behind the bloke in front. If I had continued then I would have passed thru the junction on a red towing a saxo. My speed was about 30 mph & the traffic wasn`t too heavy. How far was I from those lights when the amber came on? In other words how far did I travel in 2 seconds at a speed of  30mph. Or did I over-react to the lights changing.  The old girl pulled up nice & square & the brakes feel strong following a complete change of the brake fluid. 

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General Discussion Area / how to upload an image?

« on: 26 August 2013, 19:45:41 »

OK I`ve set up a dropbox account & got an image I can see on dropbox

tried several times to upload it to OOF and ? anyone ?

here`s the dropbox link -  https://www.dropbox.com/s/inapw0baa8xmdga/c%20coy.jpg

The bloke on the right of the image is my grandfather with other officers & NCO`s from C company 2nd South staffs Regiment.