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General Car Chat / Re: Car Insurance - Recommendations?

« on: Yesterday at 22:55:19 »

I've lived abroad for more than 2 years a couple of times, and a call to the insurers when I got back to explain the circumstances sorted the NCB quickly and without hassle both times. 

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General Discussion Area / Re: Insurance Renewal Due

« on: Yesterday at 22:27:39 »

Relatively inexpensive insurance quotes above.

Being an old bastard can be a good thing at times.

Can't wait until I'm 34 and can get cheap insurance!                                                       

After you reach a 'certain age', they hammer you again.

By the time I get to that stage they'll probably be routinely euthanising people of a 'certain age' so I won't have to worry about my car insurance.     

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General Discussion Area / Re: Insurance Renewal Due

« on: Yesterday at 17:37:29 »

Relatively inexpensive insurance quotes above.

Being an old bastard can be a good thing at times.

Can't wait until I'm 34 and can get cheap insurance!                                                       

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General Car Chat / Re: Omega seat swap - questions

« on: Yesterday at 17:34:10 »

My Mondeo Titanium X's drivers seat is a bit flat as well. 

I've always assumed that it was a cab before I bought it, as although it had a reasonable mileage, a few of the switches like the AC, Hazards and the heated seats, were worn, so I think it had a fat bastard sat in it for hours going nowhere very far. 

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General Car Chat / Re: Project anyone?

« on: Yesterday at 12:27:49 »

These have to be the ultimate in quirky French cars! 

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

« on: 30 April 2024, 19:11:02 »

This relentless effing shitty cold wet weather!   

It's May tomorrow and it's about time we had a bit of Global Warming/Heating/Boiling or whatever they call it this week! 

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General Car Chat / Re: Project anyone?

« on: 30 April 2024, 15:59:47 »

Can't see anyone spending the thousands needed to put a 1.4 Renault back on the road.

Someone who wants something a bit quirky?    There are currently 10 bidders.

If you want something with a bit more ooomph, how about this?      You'd need deeper pockets tho... 

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General Car Chat / Re: Omega seat swap - questions

« on: 30 April 2024, 15:35:53 »

I'm only at the very start of looking at this Ste, but my initial thoughts are to leave the seatbelt as untouched Ford at both ends, which takes care of pretensioners. The only other SRS components afaik are the seat occupancy sensors. Something to be worked out but I'd hope to be able to take across the Ford items.

As I said, still early stage thinking   

Buy a cushion 

^This!^     K.I.S.S.      

I suspect what seems like a fairly easy project at first glance could turn into a nightmare. 

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General Discussion Area / Re: Humza Useless quits

« on: 29 April 2024, 13:51:35 »

It all just shows what a complete and utter clusteropps devolution is. 

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

« on: 29 April 2024, 13:44:18 »

Omega was £415 to tax so that's gone up £20 
Still .... at least the council will have that cash to fix all the bloody pot holes 
car insurance renewal £100 too much (compared to other sites) so I'll have to waste my time arguing them down again 

C'mon Dave you know that's not how it works. 

Your twenty quid is more likely to go towards Mohammed's nice hotel than a pothole. 

Mohammed and his mates will soon turn that nice hotel into a pot hole.

 

Guess who pays to fix up the pothole hotels when Mohammed and his mate have all been given council houses? 

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General Car Chat / Re: Project anyone?

« on: 28 April 2024, 23:25:55 »

Can't be many of these left?   

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

« on: 28 April 2024, 23:18:57 »

Omega was £415 to tax so that's gone up £20 
Still .... at least the council will have that cash to fix all the bloody pot holes 
car insurance renewal £100 too much (compared to other sites) so I'll have to waste my time arguing them down again 

C'mon Dave you know that's not how it works. 

Your twenty quid is more likely to go towards Mohammed's nice hotel than a pothole. 

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General Discussion Area / Re: Rwanda

« on: 28 April 2024, 23:15:58 »

Because the British Govt are utterly spineless and don't want to upset the French. 

Rishi should tell Micron that if they don't stop the boats from launching off the beaches, we will! 

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General Discussion Area / Re: Sticky for Jokes

« on: 26 April 2024, 10:54:26 »

My wife and I were watching Who Wants To Be A Millionaire while we were in bed...

I turned to her and said, 'Do you want to have Sex?'

'No,' she answered.

I then said, 'Is that your final answer?'

She didn't even look at me this time, simply saying, 'Yes..'

So I said, "Then I'd like to phone a friend."

And that's when the fight started...

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General Discussion Area / Re: SMETS2 smart meters

« on: 25 April 2024, 22:02:53 »

Finally got around to agreeing to have the meters replaced. Both gas and electricity were over 20 years old so 10+ years overdue.....

Waited all afternoon on Monday - no show.

Rescheduled for this morning - British Gas installer arrived and got on with swapping the meters.

Electrical meter swapped first and left to establish communications while the gas meter was swapped.

Gas meter swapped. Waited. Waited a bit longer.

I now have two shiny new dumb meters 

To be fair, Auckland is a fair way for the British Gas installer to go between jobs.