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General Discussion Area / 1917
« on: 19 February 2020, 19:55:52 »
went to see this last night ..... very very well filmed considering the topic of WW1 fatalities etc
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General Car Chat / Top Gear
« on: 02 February 2020, 20:13:41 »
They're playing with a stupidly fast McLaren that costs £2million ..... you'd think it would be able to display speed in mph as well as kph! 
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General Discussion Area / Alarm speaker
« on: 05 January 2020, 15:45:11 »The alarm on my caravan
should beep once or twice when arming or dis-arming. Trouble is, at the moment, though the siren will blast out if the alarm is triggered, the speaker that should beep is only very very faint. I've opened up the alarm & think I've identified the little speaker itself as fubar'd .... if I put 9 volts across it (easier to use a 9 volt battery than bring a car battery into the house 
) I get a similar clicking sound as I do when arming or dis-arming.Anyone any suggestions as to where I might get hold of a similar speaker to this?
TIA
I found this which looks like it might be OK
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General Discussion Area / How much?
« on: 24 December 2019, 12:05:57 »
SWMBO usually gets a turkey crown from the supermarket/Costco but this year decided she wanted a fresh turkey and she was going to buy it from a proper local independent butcher. It was duly ordered the other week and she went to collect it yesterday. In hindsight she should have probably asked how much it would be as she ordered it but she didn't ..
... £68!!!!
It'd better be bl**dy nice!
... £68!!!!
It'd better be bl**dy nice!
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Omega General Help / abandoned Omegas
« on: 27 November 2019, 20:39:40 »
There's been a semi abandoned 2.5 Omega near me that has sat there un-loved for at least a few years that I know of click here
Jut walked passed today & it's slowly disappearing under the greenery .....
I wonder how many others are like it
Jut walked passed today & it's slowly disappearing under the greenery .....
I wonder how many others are like it
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General Car Chat / Money obviously can't buy taste ....
« on: 26 November 2019, 10:33:36 »
.... https://www.autoblog.com/2019/11/21/mercedes-maybach-gls-600/#slide-2188561
IMHO it's bl**dy awful ...... but so is the Bentayga
IMHO it's bl**dy awful ...... but so is the Bentayga
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General Car Chat / Fingers crossed I've not broke it
« on: 26 November 2019, 09:57:54 »
.... SWMBOs car is due a service, I'm too bone idle to crawl under it so I A framed'd it to Citroen which is about 6 miles awayand due to traffic barely got to 30mph the whole journey.
When I got there I realised I'd left it in Reverse & not neutral (it's a slush box auto) 
I drove it around their car park OK
When I got there I realised I'd left it in Reverse & not neutral (it's a slush box auto)
I drove it around their car park OK 54
General Discussion Area / Top 5%
« on: 22 November 2019, 13:48:07 »
If anyone was watching question time last night ..... https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/50517136
Not sure what he must do for a living in Bolton if he's earning more than £80k ...
Not sure what he must do for a living in Bolton if he's earning more than £80k ...
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General Discussion Area / Cse woodwork
« on: 18 November 2019, 08:11:56 »
I wish I'd had chance to respond to the idea that I only had a CSE wood qualification to my name before the thread was locked. 
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General Car Chat / sat-nav vs dash cam conflict
« on: 21 October 2019, 20:26:36 »
I have a Smart Fortwo with a factory sat-nav like this and swapped mydash cam over from my dead Smart to my 'new' one.
I hard wired the dash cam with a hard wire kit directly to the SAM (fancy fuse box/ECU/relay) in the passenger foot well which apparently is where the GPS antennae for the sat-nav is.
The result is ..... the sat-nav now can't see the satellites.
Help.
Is moving the 12 volt/5 volt transformer? as far from the foot well as it will go (bearing in mind a Smart isn't very big) or can I use a capacitor somewhere like we had to do years ago to stop wipers & alternators etc whining & clicking over the radio?
I hard wired the dash cam with a hard wire kit directly to the SAM (fancy fuse box/ECU/relay) in the passenger foot well which apparently is where the GPS antennae for the sat-nav is.
The result is ..... the sat-nav now can't see the satellites.
Help.
Is moving the 12 volt/5 volt transformer? as far from the foot well as it will go (bearing in mind a Smart isn't very big) or can I use a capacitor somewhere like we had to do years ago to stop wipers & alternators etc whining & clicking over the radio?
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General Car Chat / There are some clever buggers out there ....
« on: 01 October 2019, 11:01:27 »
Read this the other day. The clever bugger! 
https://x8r.co.uk/ NO Omega bits though
https://www.autocar.co.uk/car-news/features/meet-engineer-who-fixes-what-car-makers-can%E2%80%99t
https://x8r.co.uk/ NO Omega bits though
https://www.autocar.co.uk/car-news/features/meet-engineer-who-fixes-what-car-makers-can%E2%80%99t
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General Discussion Area / Any swimmers?
« on: 16 September 2019, 22:33:48 »
https://www.bbc.co.uk/newsround/49719210
I'm not sure I could manage 4 lengths of the local swimming pool these days
I'm not sure I could manage 4 lengths of the local swimming pool these days
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General Discussion Area / north south divide
« on: 16 September 2019, 15:43:15 »
I went to Burnley today .... someone has to every now & then
There was a house for sale further up the road from where I was going so, to be nosey I looked to see how much it was for sale at. The estate agent obviously had other houses for sale and there right at the bottom of the list were 3 houses for a price not even I thought you could buy a house for ....
There was a house for sale further up the road from where I was going so, to be nosey I looked to see how much it was for sale at. The estate agent obviously had other houses for sale and there right at the bottom of the list were 3 houses for a price not even I thought you could buy a house for ....
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General Car Chat / car insurance
« on: 16 September 2019, 15:33:49 »
Why can't insurers just give their lowest/best/most competitive quote without you having to phone them?
Merc's insurance is due next month and, bearing in mind they wanted another £100 & something when I swapped from the R Class to the ML last March/April, their renewal quote was £760 ..... so I phoned them. 'Have you got any other insurance with us?' he asked, to which my reply was 'I have my house insurance with you ... you must already know that'
Quote went down to £681 ...... so why they couldn't have quoted me that in the first place without me phoning them?
Merc's insurance is due next month and, bearing in mind they wanted another £100 & something when I swapped from the R Class to the ML last March/April, their renewal quote was £760 ..... so I phoned them. 'Have you got any other insurance with us?' he asked, to which my reply was 'I have my house insurance with you ... you must already know that'
Quote went down to £681 ...... so why they couldn't have quoted me that in the first place without me phoning them?