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Work wanted to know why I had to be off to take mum down to Chichester for daily antibiotic infusions for a week...

Actually had to get a note from the hospital to confirm they wouldn't provide transport.

Bus/train is 2 hours each way assuming they operate over Easter weekend and taxi is £50 each way plus waiting and 1.5x for the Bank holidays. Not withstanding being unable to wear a shoe on the affected leg and walking with two sticks.

It's cheaper for me to be off unpaid and miss the flying/trip pay than use "public" transport 

The Vectra unit has a different plug set 

The NCDC unit is identical.  It was only fitted for about 2-3 years when the Vec-C got a minor facelift and the "double digit" range of headhunts (with the CD70 being the replacement for the NCDC on the posher Vectras.

The difference, iirc,  boils down to the CanBus that the Vectra C used that the Omega didn't have, hence the differences in the wiring.

Which is what causes the (almost identical looking) CID to be different hardware.  The NCDC/NCDR series all have a CAN bus

Front grill and front bumper fog lights are about the only things you're going to be able to fit... Unless you fancy shipping over the chrome wheels too

Oh, and that assumes the Choltern Slug runs on time. Which it rarely does.

This only works, of course, if visitors/workers/residents can easily get there on clean, reliable public transport, and this particular area seems to have that.

And there lieth the problem.  I think public transport is generally usable within the city centre.  It all falls apart as soon as you try from even the suburbs.


Take my journey into work, should I chose to use public transport all the way...

1.5m walk to bus - 40m? allowing a few minutes grace so as not to miss it
1hr on the bus to do about 11 miles
A short, but around 12 min walk due to a road from bus station to train station
Clearly, as public transport is not joined up, about a 50m wait for next train
An hour on train to one end of Brum city centre
About 10-12min walk to the other side of the city, if I choose to brave a slapping walking through the usual Little Palestine, about 25m if I walk around avoid that area - which I certainly would at my normal morning arrival time.

It's around 4hrs each way.  If I could park, it's about 1hr15m in the car.  Sadly, you can't use public carparks in Brum city centre, as the gangs control them and use the parked cars for parts on demand.


And, to add a nail in the coffin of public transport, Banbury's official train station drop-off point, as still signposted, WILL get you a £90 fine each and every time, reduced to £45 if you pay within 30 days.  Only registered taxi registrations are allowed to use the drop-off, even though they have a adjacent taxi rank, as part of local council corruption.

The Vectra unit has a different plug set 

The NCDC unit is identical.  It was only fitted for about 2-3 years when the Vec-C got a minor facelift and the "double digit" range of headhunts (with the CD70 being the replacement for the NCDC on the posher Vectras.

The difference, iirc,  boils down to the CanBus that the Vectra C used that the Omega didn't have, hence the differences in the wiring.

That's correct STEMO, the Catera was only available as a sedan (4 door) and only the 3.0 V6 and 4 speed auto. They are becoming hard to find in decent shape in my area. May have to find one to satiate my Omega cravings when not in Europe.

That being said, I am going to try and bring a few Catera parts to class up the Omega while I am there. 

The Vectra unit has a different plug set 

The NCDC unit is identical.  It was only fitted for about 2-3 years when the Vec-C got a minor facelift and the "double digit" range of headhunts (with the CD70 being the replacement for the NCDC on the posher Vectras.

....
 or productivity drops because everyone is constantly having to mess around swapping cars around waiting for the charger to be available......

apparently that was one of the excuses at Heinz for NOT providing charging stations regardless of who was paying for it) Ironically, work tied in with  some lease company to provide leccy cars.

Good to see them using a bit of common sense  People are workshy enough without encouragement.

We have access to an EV scheme, but it's salary dependent, so even if you can afford to and want to lease something half decent you can't because of an arbitrary 15% of net salary cap because the payments come out of your pay. You don't even have the ability to top it up.

Which makes a mockery of the scheme being offered as it's effectively closed to 80% of the staff

Putting petrol into a car that's bought and paid for is still more cost effective than leasing a sitbox Chinesium EV... Even at £1.54 a litre and 21 mpg

It's still retarded thinking. The presumption is that everyone who works there lives within public transport range of the building. It's the same lefty idiocy that means new housing developments are built with less than one space for every three units

In the US where planners still have a brain, the building is put on top of the parking if space is tight.