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General Discussion Area / Re: Drink driving question

« on: 27 September 2017, 12:20:35 »

Might seem like a world away from DD, but what if someone was walking around with a gun and shooting the place up....? If the owners know of this person walking about with a live firearm by their side, the campsite whether it private land or not would surely be breaking the law...? I would say that the old duffers think they know better and can handle a drink and then drive their cars .... It shouldn't be allowed and the campsite management should all be held accountable...



BTW I used to go to a campsite that had a lot of static caravans on site, probably 90% of people who go there either own or have use of a static caravan and it is a very close knit community. If you rock up with a tourer, no matter age it is, they have a tendency to look down on you and think they are better....

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General Discussion Area / Re: Dead Person

« on: 27 September 2017, 08:09:26 »

Jack and Vera was the best comedy act on TV ..... so true to life, when they both stopped so did Coronation Street. Its gone like MindBenders now, and its all about getting 1 up on the next person, affairs and murder. Utter trash and drivel now. It used to be the best SitCom on TV...

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General Car Chat / Re: Might be of interest

« on: 25 September 2017, 13:03:07 »

Sounds like the engine in my '67 Beetle LOL

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General Car Chat / Re: aldi h7 bulbs

« on: 24 September 2017, 13:17:46 »

Aldi and Lidl products are generally good value and decent quality. 

This is true, we think they are cheap stuff but over in Germany and that way, they are like Asda and Tesco's are.... We over here just aren't used to the quality of their stuff... Most of it is TuV approved too....

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General Car Chat / Re: Irmscher rear spoiler saloon

« on: 24 September 2017, 11:43:27 »

An Irmy spoiler for a PF isnt worth that much. I bought 1 for £10 for my FL but never got round to fitting it as its a different profile on the bootlid. Never bothered to sell it on either... Same with my genuine Irmy front grille I have too. A steinmetz grille might be worht a tad more than an Irmy item as they are a bit rarer than the Irmy items. Dunno about the foglamp parts though...

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General Car Chat / Re: Pictures of Dr. Opti's new car

« on: 13 September 2017, 17:35:52 »

Surprising what a Mondeo looks like with a bodykit fitted LOL



















Seriously though, thats a very very nice car indeed. Your a lucky fella to have 1 of those

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General Discussion Area / Re: Well, that was a waste...

« on: 10 September 2017, 10:26:06 »

Sounds like a strained tendon to me, I did something very similar to my right hand a few years ago, but it was my first finger (index ?) that I hurt... I didnt bother with the hospital though, just knew it would waste mine and their time...

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General Discussion Area / Re: Panasonic CF 18B

« on: 06 September 2017, 10:13:04 »

If its only being used for DIAGs on cars (especially VIDA/DICE for Volvo) it will be perfectly fine if you upgrade the memory to its max and also get the biggest HDD you can that will fit.... The IDE drives are still available new, but limited on capacity. 1 Tb HDD should be fine for a while, but does depend on the file sizes placed upon it. Minimum that XP wants to run is 500Mb, it only recognises upto 2Gb anyway so just max it out... If there is new firmware available to flash the BIOS do it, it might allow more to be done with it and possibly make it a bit quicker too... You could also maybe look into replacing the CPU also for a faster chip thats compatible with the motherboard/BIOS, if its possible...

Iv still got an old 386 PC that runs perfect and actually boots up quicker than my main PC, it doesn't like to connect to the interweb though.... LOL

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General Car Chat / Re: I`m not selling

« on: 02 September 2017, 15:28:28 »

Just put my Mini's reg in and came back with nearly £7K....!!!!

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General Car Chat / Re: We buy any car

« on: 02 September 2017, 15:23:59 »

I was once curious to see what WBAC would give me for my old '94 L plate Astra F 1.4 LSi....

£60 was the valuation before inspection BUT £30 of that would be for 'administration purposes'.....

I sold it privately and got £100 more than I paid for it 7 years before .....

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General Car Chat / Re: Battery or alternator

« on: 19 August 2017, 22:59:09 »

I have a quick test to check whether its battery or alternator.. might be a bit unconventional, but it works everytime...

Get the engine running, then remove the earth cable from the batttery.... if it keeps running, the alternator is fine, if it stops the alternator needs replaceing....

It can however, cause a bit of damage to the alternator, so do this at idle....

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General Discussion Area / Re: VM router box v3 port forwarding

« on: 13 August 2017, 21:30:48 »

Thanks for the advice on the router, I'll take a look at buying 1 in the near future...

I jumped on YT and thats solved my problem, so looks like its OK for now...

Problem I had was the old router needed restarting - no exxageration - 20 times in 1 day.....!!!!

I had to threaten to cancel my contract with VM to get them to come and change the router.... idiots...!!!

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General Discussion Area / VM router box v3 port forwarding

« on: 11 August 2017, 16:26:06 »

Does anyone know how to setup port forwarding on the newer V3 Superhub that VM supply please.

Iv recently had to have them come out to my VM box and the 'engineer' replaced my older box with the new V3 box, but now I can't get to setup port forwarding for remote viewing of CCTV

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General Discussion Area / Re: Anyone applied for a passport recently?

« on: 27 July 2017, 15:34:49 »

Sounds about right leaving everything to the last minute...

My eldest has just left school, wanted to open a bank account, but didnt want to be there to do it, he thought Id do it for him.... I told him to grow up and deal with something for once....

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General Discussion Area / Re: Electric Mini

« on: 25 July 2017, 20:56:27 »

With an announcement, not that long ago from Volvo where they are not going to produce petrol engined cars after 2018 (?), I reckon that petrol engined cars will be left behind and the hybrid's will be the future... Once hybrid's become the 'norm' Hyrdrogen engined cars will be the future.... I reckon it'll be within the next 50 years that hybrids and hydrogen engined cars will be the 'norm'...

Electric only cars would need to be able to do long distance - say 400 miles on a single charge, before they become popular enough to weed out the hybrid's....