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

« on: Yesterday at 22:07:44 »

Same here. The road into our village has to be seen to be believed.
People are sticking traffic cones in them as a warning, so people can weave around them instead of wrecking their cars.
Two emergency Ambulances got seriously held up the other day because of it.

Yes same thing happening round here.  Our country is literally falling apart at the seams. 

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/gift/67c061358632ae55

Feast on this, young Tigger.

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General Car Chat / Re: Stellantis to bring back diesel

« on: 17 February 2026, 11:01:19 »

We have a program internally to extend ICE life ( it is already reported in the news)

Yes. But will you be able to sell them in the UK, that's the question.

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General Car Chat / Re: Stellantis to bring back diesel

« on: 16 February 2026, 20:53:16 »

It's mainly aimed at Europe, I think. Millipede will probably ban them from being imported.

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

« on: 16 February 2026, 18:52:49 »

....
I go supermarket shopping 3/4 times a week. If I got arsey about inconsiderate parking, I would spend half my life complaining.

when we use my car for the supermarket shop, I park on the other side of the carpark to the store & put my nearside wheels on the white line to 'discourage' people from parking next to me 

I bet they still do though! 

Whenever I park at the far side where there is loads of space, I always come back to find some numpty has parked right next to me. 

Top of the bus syndrome

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General Car Chat / Re: Stellantis to bring back diesel

« on: 16 February 2026, 18:39:47 »

If the last car on earth was made by Stellantis I'd rather walk, so not bothered what form of dead dinosaur they burn.

You'll be ok, Kevin, the gay jag will be along soon 

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General Discussion Area / So.....Starmer has u-turned..

« on: 16 February 2026, 18:05:43 »

.....on cancelling local elections.....and the government is paying Reform's costs for the upcoming (no longer necessary) legal action.
Dear me 

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

« on: 16 February 2026, 17:22:28 »

Got back to a note on the windscreen.

"THANK YOU FOR YOU'RE INCONSIDERATE PARKING !

NEXT TIME ALLOW SPACE FOR OTHERS TO BE ABLE TO GAIN ACCESS TO THEIR VEHICLES....."



I wouldn't mind, but it is perfectly in the space... Centred and straight

Still at least they spelt 'their' correctly.

Oh, and definitely a girl from using a circle for the dot of the exclamation mark 

I have 'history'  at work for where I park ie I routinely park my Smart where there is no marked space ..... but not in anyone's way.
I recently parked it in a space but well over to one side .... but still within the white lines .. so that it gave me more room to open my driver's door without clouting the car next to me. I was 'shouted at' for not parking in the centre of the space by the lad who then parked to my passenger side because that reduced the amount of room he had to get out of his car.
You can please some of the people .......   

I go supermarket shopping 3/4 times a week. If I got arsey about inconsiderate parking, I would spend half my life complaining.

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General Car Chat / Re: E-Royal Mail Vans

« on: 16 February 2026, 17:05:09 »

………
It was my 'A' series engine that laid a real, thick, blue smoke trail, every time I deaccelerated then accelerated, until that uncle taught how to replace the very worn and broken valves!!

The problem here was that the valve stem rubber seals would become hard and would start riding up and down on the valve stem, instead of staying in the recess designed to hold them in place. On my van, I used to lay a smoke trail deliberately, by doing what you describe, if someone was sat too close behind me. 

Great for cyclists too 

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General Car Chat / Re: Stellantis to bring back diesel

« on: 16 February 2026, 17:04:02 »

Planet killing soot chucker's should meet the same end as the dinosaur.

If they were hit by a meteorite, they'd take all the other vehicles with them 

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General Car Chat / The numbers in this article are staggering

« on: 16 February 2026, 17:02:49 »

Ghost number plates
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/gift/d033997d688bfaa4

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General Car Chat / Stellantis to bring back diesel

« on: 16 February 2026, 16:45:42 »

Tee hee

https://www.autoblog.com/news/diesel-isnt-dead-stellantis-reverses-course-in-europe

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

« on: 15 February 2026, 17:14:30 »

Applying to renew my driving licence. Download One Login app, register, scan photo page on passport, scan biometric chip on passport, take photo of myself. After each stage, you get sent back to one login to sign in again, luckily I saved my details in passwords, and each time receiving an OTP by text.
When I deleted the texts afterwards, there were five of them.
Anyway, all done.

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General Car Chat / Re: So what have you done to your car today?

« on: 14 February 2026, 22:02:09 »

Shiny new MOT on the BMW 530d 

Well a few advisories, so not that shiny really, but a pass is a pass! 

Well, the MOT is new and shiny, even if the car perhaps isn't in some areas - always a good feeling


Much concern with the advisories?

Nothing I wasn't aware of, a couple of chips in the windscreen (but not in the field of vision), rear tyres wearing on the inner edge, slight play in the front ball joints and 'steering arms deformed but serviceable' which is my seized and knackered front track rods. 

I was going to get a new set of tyres for winter, went get to it aligned as I knew the rears were scrubbing on the edges, but they couldn't shift the front track rods. Took it to my local garage and they couldn't shift them either and then couldn't fit me in to fit new ones for a couple of weeks, but I was going away, so it's turned into a bit of a saga! 

Yes, lots of older people use Saga when they go away.

Is it true they do good deals Uncle STEMO?

They don't do deals to North Yorkshire, and that's as far as I get these days 

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General Car Chat / Re: So what have you done to your car today?

« on: 14 February 2026, 15:17:48 »

Shiny new MOT on the BMW 530d 

Well a few advisories, so not that shiny really, but a pass is a pass! 

Well, the MOT is new and shiny, even if the car perhaps isn't in some areas - always a good feeling


Much concern with the advisories?

Nothing I wasn't aware of, a couple of chips in the windscreen (but not in the field of vision), rear tyres wearing on the inner edge, slight play in the front ball joints and 'steering arms deformed but serviceable' which is my seized and knackered front track rods. 

I was going to get a new set of tyres for winter, went get to it aligned as I knew the rears were scrubbing on the edges, but they couldn't shift the front track rods. Took it to my local garage and they couldn't shift them either and then couldn't fit me in to fit new ones for a couple of weeks, but I was going away, so it's turned into a bit of a saga! 

Yes, lots of older people use Saga when they go away.

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General Car Chat / Re: So what have you done to your car today?

« on: 13 February 2026, 15:39:15 »

Shiny new MOT on the BMW 530d 

Well a few advisories, so not that shiny really, but a pass is a pass! 

Well done, Tigger