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General Car Chat / Re: Age old question....

« on: 05 December 2023, 22:15:48 »

If you could live with left hand drive why not import a good example low kilometrage Omega from the continent?

There  are three 50k miles example for about £7000  in Germany( suchen .mobile.de website)I could put you in touch with the chap at Specialist vehicles who imported ours.

LHD wouldnt be for everyone! Overtaking and car park barriers to name just two but maybe Convert it to RHD?

An Omega from further South might be even better but low mileage jobs are harder tocome by in Spain in my experience and often do not have any service history at all. My local garage was gobsmacked when I insisted on him filling in the logbook.

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General Discussion Area / Re: Not so clever now is he.

« on: 05 December 2023, 09:00:26 »

Rodents are a problem in Spain forcars especially rural properties like ours.

Our VW dealer spotted some very minor gnawing marks and recommended packing spaces with polystyrene from product packaging. Had some reservations and avoided hot areas and moving parts. Took it to a different garage for its next service and they all vanished.

I can just imagine their lunchtime-conversation.

We spend a fortune on bait ( most of which doesnt work or only works when fresh and have a selection of traps……..

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General Car Chat / Re: Car features

« on: 02 December 2023, 17:14:04 »

Before each journey......I switch off the start/stop nanny (unless the car is in sport or sport plus) when the system is inoperative.

I also turn off the dangerous 'so called safety feature' of lane assistance, which drags the cars towards every cyclist or pothole when I pull out to pass.

I also have front collision avoidance feature which slams on the brakes every time it feels I take a corner too fast. I can't switch this off completely, so turn it down to it's least intrusive level. F*ucking hate all this crap.

I am thinking older cars are better for thinking drivers. Maybe a ten year old Mseries low mileage for your next car?. At least this Astra allows me to switch off stop start once for the entire hire priod. VW, I have to do it every time car is started. The hire car has changing screen lane colour if you get too close and a flickering orange light. Thought it was low oil first time it vaguely flickered.

We are in the grey era before the norm is self driving cars with human driven cars being highly regulated. Driving data downloaded to a database trawled by AI looking for offenders ( vigorous braking, acceleration and of course speed limit violations)

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General Car Chat / Car features

« on: 01 December 2023, 15:30:47 »

Flew into Leeds airport yesterday and picked my hire car up in dark, snowy, icy conditions. In fact it had four inches of snow on it .

It was an Astra ( well a Peugeot Or similar I guess)

Show me the controls please. He said just put lights on auto. Where is the handbrake. Electronic. We have an electronic handbrake on our golf. On off or autohold ( seperate light and button) On this car no such feature. In the end I concluded it must go off automatically as you set off.

Worst feature especially on the country roads around Harewood House, was it put main beam on whenever it could but didnt dip when another car came along! Didnt take me too long to find a “ manual “ setting on the dash.  How would that work on the much vaunted autonomous cars……?

I just am not a fan of the interlocks on modern cars .

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General Discussion Area / Cruise ship pollution

« on: 01 December 2023, 07:05:39 »

Caught the tail end of a piece on the one show last night so open to correction…..

The European cruise ships create the equivalent pollution of 1 billion cars.

The chief “ eco officer” for MSC was proudly explaining what they were doing to reduce impact on the environment. .Some things were impressive like water and sewage handling. In Southampton they “ plug” the ship into the mains so theydont have to run the engines while docked. That mist be a thick cable………

Where are the environmentalists demanding the banning of cruise ships? Perhaps just stop oil folk could superglue themselves to the water line?

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General Discussion Area / Re: Word Association.

« on: 30 November 2023, 11:26:31 »

Baxters

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General Discussion Area / Re: Word Association.

« on: 29 November 2023, 23:39:55 »

Crap

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General Discussion Area / Re: What has P*ssed you off today?

« on: 29 November 2023, 23:39:10 »

Merc drivers.   All of them.  Is it a requirement for a lobotomy upon purchase.

How oppsing slow can they all drive, and just how much fresh air can they give way to.

 

Just the opposite here. The stereotypes drive , Mercs, Audis and of course BMW. My favourite expression is xxxxxx coming through ,make way. Theybasically are compelled to drive their car as fast as possible and have all specified no indicators on factory options  ( but then most Spaniards dont indicate as other Spaniards are telepthic from birth). The higher the performance model the more like tit they drive.

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General Discussion Area / Re: Christmas adverts.

« on: 29 November 2023, 16:17:28 »

I allways look forward the 27th as it means annother year before it all starts again.

Lets face it, xmas is for the kids, the throughout our family now is 30. 

No cards/cash/pressies, A text is all we manage.

What does the text say?  “ Happy Holidays, from Scrooge”

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General Discussion Area / Re: The state of the NHS

« on: 29 November 2023, 07:54:36 »

I am really impressed with the Spanish health service. Yes there are waiting lists but not as big or long.

Our gp is truly excellent. We are helping some friends out at moment. He has wound dressed three times a week by nurse. His wife is in hospital with various chest issues. During yesterday dressing, doc came in and logged on to her history and read verbatim all the notes for the last 24 hours. Then precis’d what it meant.

Another time we had had a small accident. Made appointment for next morning, gp saw us and said can you get to local hospital now ( yes) for xray. He made the appointment. 30 mins later we had the xray after waiting five minutes. Back to surgery.  Sat in room full of current appointments. Doc came out after his next two patients, pointed at us and said come in. Reviewed xray and got treatment. We can log on digitally and view our history and xrays, blood tests.

One huge difference is when you go into your gp, first question is “ are you walking each day?”  In Britain your answer would be mind your own business you cheeky bugger……….

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General Discussion Area / Re: What has P*ssed you off today?

« on: 28 November 2023, 18:25:10 »

The Post Office. 

They charged me £3.40 to send a C4 sized envelope, with nine sheets of A4 in it, first class, recorded delivery! 

Nowt wrong with that. Seems a bargain to me. Half a pint.?

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General Discussion Area / Re: The state of the NHS

« on: 27 November 2023, 23:04:01 »

What I cannot udersand is ; if it was my business I would have a concerted effort to reduce waiting lists.

If you were royal mail and had a back log of parcels ……………..


If you were Amazon and had a back log of orders despite having the stock.


Recently we moved heaven and earth and got my dad to his cancer  app at York ( an hour away) . He waited and eventually was seen. Cnsultant looked athe skin cancer and said “ I cannot operate on that” sent hiim home. Just a tick in the box to reduce waiting lists.

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General Discussion Area / Re: Landline woes now!

« on: 24 November 2023, 22:36:15 »

What is a landline? Sounds like something from the olden days. My dad still has one but he is 97 and the only person without an App ( apparently)

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General Discussion Area / Re: Leeds is quite a big city

« on: 23 November 2023, 19:24:53 »

Well that isn’t true. Certainly in Europe you have to register , no more swallows using health service of the country they happen to be in and of no fixed abode.

If you pay tax it is best to register with the new country you have moved too otherwise you probably end up paying too much and end up with problems when you dispose of assets.

The process is well documented.

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General Discussion Area / Geert Wilders

« on: 23 November 2023, 09:19:47 »

A change in poliitics in theNetherlands