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General Car Chat / Re: So what have you done to your car today?

« on: 14 October 2025, 22:52:57 »

You have my sympathies

Oh I don't know. I'm only there for a day, then off round some islands. New city for me, so usually something interesting to see.

Probably just hard working foreigners.

Sound like brummies to me. Although they definitely aren't on speaking terms with the VAT man that's for damn sure.

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General Car Chat / Re: So what have you done to your car today?

« on: 14 October 2025, 17:44:57 »

If you're off to Pittsburgh, you might be in for a surprise 

Afraid not Al. MIA on Thursday out of T3. 

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General Car Chat / Re: So what have you done to your car today?

« on: 14 October 2025, 12:28:05 »

Paid a local outfit £30 to wash and valet the milk float ahead of our trip to Heathrow tomorrow. Absolute bargain in my book, it took three of them 35mins to get it looking as good as when BMW dropped it off. 

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General Car Chat / Re: Milk Float Ordered

« on: 11 October 2025, 18:38:48 »

He implied the control box would go directly underneath or to the side of the meter box as it cannot go inside the meter box itself.

This is. How my install was done. If your interest stretches that far I can take some pics next time I'm out there. 

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General Discussion Area / Re: Dead Person

« on: 11 October 2025, 18:34:26 »

Ian Watkins - former lead singer of the Lost Prophets - 58.

Some public spirited inmate at HMP Wakefield has saved the UK taxpayer the ongoing burden of his upkeep. 

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General Car Chat / Re: So what have you done to your car today?

« on: 05 October 2025, 22:41:41 »

Did 420 miles in the milk float today. Comfortable though it was, I was very much ready to step out of it by the time I was done. 

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General Car Chat / Re: Milk Float Ordered

« on: 04 October 2025, 13:26:45 »

Does it come with the B58 lump?

Possibly one of the best engines ever produced.

Presumably depends on the year. The 1 series cut over from N55 to B58 in Sept 2016. My m140i was one of the first with the B58, and yes, favourite engine in any car I've had, shame about the electrical gremlins - I still miss that car   

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General Discussion Area / Re: Dead Person

« on: 04 October 2025, 07:54:11 »

Has she has kicked the bouquet.

Came in looking for this. Glad you didn't disappoint 

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General Car Chat / Re: Milk Float Ordered

« on: 03 October 2025, 14:34:55 »

We also had Octopus do ours and can't fault them. Came when they said (initial am/pm slot with a call 30mins before arrival), did a good job and when I had an issue with my smart charger - lost signal so was no longer "smart" they came out and replaced the unit with the same level of service 

I can't speak to cost as the charger came as a package with the car, so it was "free". 

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General Car Chat / Re: Milk Float Ordered

« on: 03 October 2025, 10:08:59 »

No long then 

Our delivery date got moved around a fair bit but was on a much longer timeline than yours to begin with (c9months iirc). I'm also intrigued what you're planning to tow. 0-60 tests with the caravan attached? 

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General Car Chat / Re: Milk Float Ordered

« on: 02 October 2025, 14:07:55 »

What does Jimmy have? M50 has been out for some time, M60 is new this year.

Oh no, yours will be a rocket ship compared to mine. Mine is the iX40, so the big SUV with a mere 325bhp. That's instant enough for quick overtakes so I can only imagine what nearly twice that will feel like. Enjoy it! 

Yours also has a bigger battery than mine, plus its less of a lard ar$e so I would imagine 280 miles in normal driving should be achievable. How long have you got to wait? Looking forward to seeing the pics.

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General Car Chat / Re: 03 Fiesta 56k

« on: 30 September 2025, 09:13:30 »

Cost of repair ?
Value when selling it ?
Never going to be worth the bother unfortunately.

But using that basis of calculation would have put every omega in the scrap yard a decade ago  .

There's value in a reliable cheap car beyond its cash resale value.

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General Car Chat / Re: An Hour to Kill so took a test drive in a chinky MG

« on: 29 September 2025, 10:22:27 »

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£75k BMW vs £50k Tesla Y = Very similar monthlies. 

I think the two elements you won't see in the calculation are the level of 'manufacturer support'  each car has in the lease market, and yes, depreciation. Tesla for example, I found really variable in there monthlies when I looked over time. What I suspect they were doing is using very variable levels of discounting to lease providers to smooth any drop offs on private sales/leases and then pulling them again when demand was up.

I was going to have a model y, so looked at them over a period of a few months and the payments fluctuated by around £100pcm. Didn't go for it in the end though as swmbo didn't like like it as much as the BMW.

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General Car Chat / Re: An Hour to Kill so took a test drive in a chinky MG

« on: 29 September 2025, 10:17:04 »

Or he's trying to save face without admitting that he took the Chinesium positive marketing money...

Or he's flip flopping his narrative on a frankly desperate attempt to keep himself relevant. Like the other sad TV has-bins who moved over to social media...

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General Discussion Area / Re: I need to get out more....

« on: 22 September 2025, 12:25:56 »

...I should be playing with DJI's latest, but no, I find myself pissing around with....

What a saddo.

New toy?