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General Discussion Area / Re: What has P*ssed you off today?
« on: Today at 20:18:58 »....
except when the bin was filled with lumps of broken concrete.
.... and who would do such a thing?
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.... and who would do such a thing?
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General Discussion Area / Re: What has P*ssed you off today?
« on: Today at 11:39:39 »....
They dont even carry the bins anymore like they used to. They just wheel them to the truck.
Bunch of woosies.
I remember bin men carrying the bins out on their shoulders .... they had a big leather pad they put the bin on
SWMBO used to work in waste management. The binners were a bolshy lot!
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General Car Chat / Re: So what have you done to your car today?
« on: Today at 11:35:00 »I've just bought a pattern crank shaft/position sensor for my Smart!!
Dealer wanted £164+vat! Pattern Hella sensor was almost £45 delivered .....
Something in the water? Or rather the weather....
The galaxy died at some traffic lights yesterday, started straight back up. Nothing on the diagnostics scan suggests to me a crank position sensor failure brought on by high under bonnet temps.
Sadly with no other evidence to go on my only option is to fire the parts cannon at it. Still, at £25+VAT it's not a massive ask on one of these.
The car actually died Friday evening after I'd dropped my grand daughter off at home. I left it outside her house Friday night, went to work in the ML. I tried starting it on the Sat evening but it wasn't having it. I called recovery yesterday who I arranged to meet at the car, I got there 1st, put the key in really just to take it out of gear but tried starting it ..... & away it went first time!
Code reader suggested it was the crank sensor ....
Sensors on line were all kinds of money from about £8 
Anyway, the sensor is dead easy to get to if it dies again.
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General Discussion Area / Re: What has P*ssed you off today?
« on: Today at 10:07:22 ».....
What do these people think happens in the parts of the world where 30 degree temps are the norm for much of the year ?
they have an early start to the day before the sun gets too high & then have a siesta
Mad dogs & Englishmen ......
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General Car Chat / Re: So what have you done to your car today?
« on: Yesterday at 16:02:19 »
I've just bought a pattern crank shaft/position sensor for my Smart!! 
Dealer wanted £164+vat! Pattern Hella sensor was almost £45 delivered .....
Dealer wanted £164+vat! Pattern Hella sensor was almost £45 delivered .....
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General Car Chat / Re: PHEV
« on: 22 June 2025, 19:53:18 »All interesting information and with seeing other reviews I am still looking at options.
Little things like the umbrellas in the doors impress me, (it does not take a lot)
Marshalls have a Sportline on offer with the Panoramic roof and the winter kit fitted. so after wondering what other options they offer I went on the car configuration on their site and see they have HUD and a few other options. Color options, some good but the Red, Silver and Grey were the only ones that caught my eye, The one i mentioned earlier is black and looks stunning, but they are are sod to clean.
Still cant decide on Diesel verse PHEV. then with the other thread Do I buy it or lease it, I think if I lease I want the option to buy . As Tunnie says its down to costing /taes etc, This will be a company car if I do go for it.
Is Skruntie a yank?
Well we know Americanisms grip Andy Beanz's shit, and I've noticed that people are saying Caribbean more these days rather than the proper Carabbean, which is annoying.
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General Discussion Area / Re: Potty Mouthed Pensioners - AI generated but funny.
« on: 19 June 2025, 14:28:47 ».....
She was invited to a local old folks care home for a Christmas knees-up but declined the offer as ‘It will be full of old people’. She was 91 at the time.
My Mum's 'Auntie' did similar .... she was around 100 at the time & was eventually persuaded to go into an old folks home. She stayed there for a matter of weeks before she went back home .... same reason, it was full of old people.
She very nearly saw 3 centuries, born back end of the 1800s & died about 1998
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General Car Chat / Re: Smart brake calipers
« on: 17 June 2025, 08:32:40 »Did you remember which one went in which hole when you reassembled?
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General Car Chat / Smart brake calipers
« on: 16 June 2025, 17:46:06 »
Just replaced the brake pads on the mighty 84bhp Smart 451 .... and noticed that the 2 slider pins on the calipers are different from each other .... there's a little black plastic/rubber 'seal' at the end of one of them.
Anyone any ideas?
and noticed that the 2 slider pins on the calipers are different from each other .... there's a little black plastic/rubber 'seal' at the end of one of them.Anyone any ideas?
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General Car Chat / Re: Travel Costs (Train)
« on: 12 June 2025, 20:10:26 »
2 years ago we travelled to London from Manchester. Each ticket was almost £40 each way (off peak) far easier than driving & no parking at the other end. That was the 1st time I'd been on a train though for years other than the tram into or from Manchester.
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General Car Chat / Re: Range Rover insurance renewal
« on: 12 June 2025, 19:55:22 »....
..... because they can't tell the difference between the pedal in the middle and the pedal on the right.
My Dad's cars have only had the 2 pedals for the past 40 Plus years .... 1 for each foot
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General Car Chat / Re: Range Rover insurance renewal
« on: 12 June 2025, 13:50:43 »......
.... One of the very few advantages of age.
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but then they get you when you get very old. My Dad's (he's 88 next month) insurance for his Chrysler Grand Voyager was around £1500 last year.
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General Discussion Area / Re: Dorset police
« on: 06 June 2025, 14:36:00 »Well... this copper has got nearly 100 grand now, so ....
But that's only a couple of years pay at best .... so it won't last long.
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General Car Chat / Re: Fifty quid for a set of tyres.
« on: 30 May 2025, 07:06:42 »
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As it only cost £3750 I suppose there was extra money left over for tyres and petrol (lots of it)
You say "only" £3750 ..... but 4 years earlier my parents "only" paid £2200 for their 3 bed semi house