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

« on: 20 May 2025, 19:19:28 »

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Looking on the bright side there is £0 road tax this year, but £195 after that.

Lucky for you that the new rules (40K+ snob tax) for EV's started for EV's registered after 1st April 2025, otherwise you'd be paying £195 + £425.  :y

Quote: A new Jaguar I-PACE, registered on or after April 1, 2025, will pay a first-year road tax of £10, with a standard rate of £195 for subsequent years if the on-the-road price is below £40,000. If the on-the-road price exceeds £40,000, the first-year tax will be £435 (including the expensive car supplement), and £425 will be added annually for five years after the second tax payment.

So, when Mrs Opti replaces it with a new one a few years down the line you'll be back to £195 + £425. They are taking the piss aren't they. 

They've been quite canny.

All remaining I-Pace were registered on 1st March (so they get a 25 plate) but a month before the government 'theft tax' of £425 for the next 5 years kicks in saving a total of £2125.

I'm into year 2 of paying the extra £425 on the BMW which I'm not happy about.

Also, how is it fair that an electric car will pay £195 from next year when an old duffer from Barnsley only pays £20 as his derv Grandland  belches black smoke into the atmosphere.

Can't be right, can it.

It'll probably be charged using electricity generated at Drax, the giant wood burning stove, where they're busy chopping down forests in North America, Scandinavia and the Baltics to feed it.   

You didn't think going green and sustainable was going to be cheap did you?   

Yeah....

But on the one hand the government says it wants to cut pollution, and in the next breath allows black derv smoke to block out the sun for only £20.

Your Milk Float will be much heavier though, causing more wear and tear to the roads and will emit more brake dust and rubber particulates from the tyres. 

Cough up! 

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

« on: 20 May 2025, 18:40:39 »

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Looking on the bright side there is £0 road tax this year, but £195 after that.

Lucky for you that the new rules (40K+ snob tax) for EV's started for EV's registered after 1st April 2025, otherwise you'd be paying £195 + £425.  :y

Quote: A new Jaguar I-PACE, registered on or after April 1, 2025, will pay a first-year road tax of £10, with a standard rate of £195 for subsequent years if the on-the-road price is below £40,000. If the on-the-road price exceeds £40,000, the first-year tax will be £435 (including the expensive car supplement), and £425 will be added annually for five years after the second tax payment.

So, when Mrs Opti replaces it with a new one a few years down the line you'll be back to £195 + £425. They are taking the piss aren't they. 

They've been quite canny.

All remaining I-Pace were registered on 1st March (so they get a 25 plate) but a month before the government 'theft tax' of £425 for the next 5 years kicks in saving a total of £2125.

I'm into year 2 of paying the extra £425 on the BMW which I'm not happy about.

Also, how is it fair that an electric car will pay £195 from next year when an old duffer from Barnsley only pays £20 as his derv Grandland  belches black smoke into the atmosphere.

Can't be right, can it.

It'll probably be charged using electricity generated at Drax, the giant wood burning stove, where they're busy chopping down forests in North America, Scandinavia and the Baltics to feed it.   

You didn't think going green and sustainable was going to be cheap did you?   

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General Car Chat / Re: I've Got A Stiffie!!

« on: 20 May 2025, 17:09:03 »

Thanks sir Tig, I shall investigate next time I put some washer fluid in, or it breaks down. 

Given it's a ford, I can't imagine they'll be ar$ed to change the design between the Mondeo and galaxy. 

Yes I think it will be the same or very similar. 

The steel cable itself has a plastic coating apart from the last 10mm where it connects to the catch and it is exposed to the elements.     Doh! 

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

« on: 20 May 2025, 14:26:05 »

Gave the RR a quick wash setting of for Oxfordshire in the morning got a cottage for three nights, catch up with the Grandson who's at Brize Norton and see the wifes cousin for her birthday, looking forward to a couple of pub meals 🍺🍺🍺

If you're a Clarkson's Farm fan, his pub is a stone's throw away (but arguably not walking distance from Brize), right at end of dual carriageway bit of A40, Burford end.  Also Diddly Squat shop is only a few miles on the way from Burford to Chipping Norton.

Used to be a few decent pub-grub pubs round there, but most of them have turned a bit artisan, so you pay a fortune for a "chef" to sprinkle some dew over a bare bit of plate.

Kaleb needs a good kicking.

I heard he's been replaced with some young blonde thing with a nice arse and bouncy tits? 

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General Discussion Area / Re: EU UK reset

« on: 20 May 2025, 14:22:27 »

Ursula von der Leyen seems to get whatever she wants from British Prime Ministers, so I can only think that she must give an amazing blow job!   

I hear he is not 'overly attracted' to women.

Well now you mention it, it is curious how a 21 year Ukrainian man knows so much about him. The house he owns, the flat where he used to live and the car he used to own. 

Rent boy?

Apparently the Ukrainian is a 'Male Model'.   

And it's pure speculation on my part, but the flat that the media have described as 'somewhere Starmer used to live' was/is in fact a 'shag pad'. 

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General Discussion Area / Re: EU UK reset

« on: 20 May 2025, 09:57:56 »

Ursula von der Leyen seems to get whatever she wants from British Prime Ministers, so I can only think that she must give an amazing blow job!   

I hear he is not 'overly attracted' to women.

Well now you mention it, it is curious how a 21 year Ukrainian man knows so much about him. The house he owns, the flat where he used to live and the car he used to own. 

Even curiouser, a 26 year old Romanian man has been arrested in connection with the arson attacks.  I wonder how Starmer knows these young men from Eastern Europe.   

Even curiouser still.... Why are the media showing zero interest?    After all it's not every day that a sitting PM is targeted like this?    Injunction?     

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

« on: 20 May 2025, 09:49:27 »

Astra went off to car heaven this morning.

RIP.

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General Discussion Area / Re: EU UK reset

« on: 19 May 2025, 20:05:28 »

Ursula von der Leyen seems to get whatever she wants from British Prime Ministers, so I can only think that she must give an amazing blow job!   

I hear he is not 'overly attracted' to women.

Well now you mention it, it is curious how a 21 year Ukrainian man knows so much about him. The house he owns, the flat where he used to live and the car he used to own. 

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General Car Chat / Re: I've Got A Stiffie!!

« on: 19 May 2025, 15:58:57 »

Well that got your attention! 

It's a 2008 Mk4 with 178,000 miles and it had 113,000 when I bought it. So it almost certainly has the original gearbox oil, although I'm pretty sure it's a sealed for life unit, so I'm not even sure if it's possible to change the oil. 

Box of matches? 

Happened to my best mate's '59 plate estate at about 130k.

Like you he tried spraying all sorts on it and it didn't cure it. Apparently the linkage on these are cables in a tube, bit like a mower throttle. These can corrode and bind up against the inner wall of the sleeving. If so, the only solution that works beyond the very short term is to replace the cables. Parts are £80-100 for new, £30+ for used off ebay depending on how long you're planning to keep the car. You could pop the linkage off the gearbox end and see how stiff/notchy it feels to try and rule out anything with the box itself. That said I would have thought you'd get whine/crunchiness before stiffness in the gear shift. 

Having recently been under the bonnet of the galaxy, I suspect the PITA factor of changing the cables will be significant. 

Thanks Jim, that's a good point about gearbox noise, there are no funny noises, it sounds normal. 

Agreed that changing the cables would be a PITA though. 

Talking of PITA Ford jobs Jim, next time you pop the bonnet on your Galaxy have a quick looky see at the end of your bonnet release cable. On mine the end 10mm of the cable at the catch was totally unprotected, which is why they rust out and snap. Depending on the age of your Galaxy, I expect it is the same setup and you might save yourself a lot of hassle even if you just give it a smear of grease. 

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General Discussion Area / Re: EU UK reset

« on: 19 May 2025, 15:45:53 »

Ursula von der Leyen seems to get whatever she wants from British Prime Ministers, so I can only think that she must give an amazing blow job!   

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General Discussion Area / Re: 10mph!

« on: 18 May 2025, 19:41:00 »

Yes and give it to the people turning up on the beaches to invade fkg🤡s

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God alone knows what diseases these filthy scummy bastards are bringing into this country.

Apparently rates of HIV and TB have gone up significantly in the UK over the last 5 years or so, and a few cases of Typhoid as well.   

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General Car Chat / Re: I've Got A Stiffie!!

« on: 18 May 2025, 14:07:20 »

Well that got your attention! 

Yes it's my gear lever on the Mondeo. It got a bit stiff and 'notchy' when changing gear. 

I pulled the gaiter off and greased what I could see of the linkages, but that hasn't made any difference.

It's a 2008 Mk4 with 178,000 miles and it had 113,000 when I bought it. So it almost certainly has the original gearbox oil, although I'm pretty sure it's a sealed for life unit, so I'm not even sure if it's possible to change the oil. 

Box of matches? 

Not really.

At your age I guessed it had little to do with erectile glory.

Oi I'm only 19 in Lord Opti years! 

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General Car Chat / I've Got A Stiffie!!

« on: 18 May 2025, 00:13:19 »

Well that got your attention! 

Yes it's my gear lever on the Mondeo. It got a bit stiff and 'notchy' when changing gear. 

I pulled the gaiter off and greased what I could see of the linkages, but that hasn't made any difference.

It's a 2008 Mk4 with 178,000 miles and it had 113,000 when I bought it. So it almost certainly has the original gearbox oil, although I'm pretty sure it's a sealed for life unit, so I'm not even sure if it's possible to change the oil. 

Box of matches? 

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General Car Chat / Re: Who owns a milk float on here?

« on: 17 May 2025, 14:10:54 »

Well, it would do you a disservice not to mention it

It didn't take long to get from "I'm not driving a milkfloat" to "We've bought one to share".

Obviously at some point I will drive it, but it's not my car, or my choice of car. There is a little Germanic coupe I can drive.....and I may even buy another Signum.

.....although not with a £735 taxable 2.8 V6 turbo.

If you're after another hack modern classic, Uncle STEMO's dealers have a 2.2i Vectra. 

https://www.modusmotorcompany.co.uk/used-cars/vauxhall-vectra-2-2i-16v-cd-5dr-knottingley-202406221007344

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

« on: 17 May 2025, 14:07:17 »

Going to pick it up now 

Good for you. Looks nice! 

Did he take your Astra off your hands?