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General Car Chat / Harry Metcalfe's Jag
« on: 10 November 2025, 10:17:18 »
Don't know if anyone has followed this Jag XJC V12

Harry bought it for something like £5000 or £6000, spent a shed load on it £70odd thousand IIRC & then when sold went for silly money.

https://www.iconicauctioneers.com/1978-jaguar-xjc-rec16093-2-nec-1125

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General Car Chat / Harry's Garage
« on: 23 September 2025, 20:21:51 »
This is pretty interesting .... he makes a good point.

https://youtu.be/itCrrA9ju0g?si=mJFP2vxTqEG93jgH

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General Car Chat / Smart brake calipers
« on: 16 June 2025, 17:46:06 »
Just replaced the brake pads on the mighty 84bhp Smart 451 ....  ::) and noticed that the 2 slider pins on the calipers are different from each other .... there's a little black plastic/rubber 'seal' at the end of one of them.
Anyone any ideas?  :-\


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General Car Chat / One for Marks DTM ....
« on: 24 April 2025, 18:28:04 »
When a Jag was a Jag  ;)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2scJmVMyL5Y

How labour intensive is it .... all done without safety specs or Hi-Viz vest ..... though I suspect that the journal polisher claimed a few fingers/hands/arms in its day  :o (at 4mins 15secs)

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General Car Chat / spotted an Omega
« on: 23 December 2024, 12:38:31 »
Just seen an Omega!  :y :y
It's been ages since I last saw an Omega out & about & todays Omega was the Holy Grail version ie 3.2 Elite estate!
It was in that rare silver too!  ;D ;D

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General Car Chat / insurance
« on: 24 September 2024, 20:07:01 »
car insurance is up next month and renewals arrived the other day. Surprisingly they're literally only a few quid different from last year but what I do find odd is that the 2 cars that cover the least mileage a year are the 2 policies that have gone up. While the Smart I go to work in (6/7000 miles per yr) & the ML that is used to tow with (5/6000 miles per yr) have gone down a few quid each  :-\

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General Discussion Area / can you believe ....
« on: 04 May 2024, 20:52:15 »
 ... it was 42 years ago today that HMS Sheffield was sunk during the Falklands 'war'?  ???

I was in Pompey on Whale Island at the time ..... it was silent in the mess when the news was released.
doesn't time fly?

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General Car Chat / Tesco pay at pump
« on: 20 March 2024, 16:13:37 »
Just used one of their new touch screen fuel pumps.
Am I imagining it or ... on the old pumps if you just put your debit/credit card in, that the machine just registered the fact that you were going to pay at the pump or did you HAVE to choose pay cashier or pay at pump.

Woman cashier said you had to choose  ..... I said you didn't  :-\ :-\  ::)

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General Car Chat / Mark Drakeford
« on: 14 March 2024, 11:56:22 »
Surprised at the level of anger at the 20mph limit. Just shows that they live in a different world from the rest of us .....

BBC News - Mark Drakeford defends 20mph law before stepping down
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-68562547

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General Car Chat / Lotus Carlton/Omega
« on: 19 February 2024, 09:29:30 »
Some tongue in cheek but entertaining  :y :y

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FYfyPtA9sNI

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General Discussion Area / Elgin Marbles
« on: 28 November 2023, 11:34:49 »
Haven't the Greeks watched James Acaster? .....  ;D

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x73PkUvArJY

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General Discussion Area / bank card fraud
« on: 29 August 2023, 13:56:58 »
yesterday evening Mrs B went to a cashpoint at a petrol station/Co-op to get cash for our daughter. She commented at the time that it was a grotty, dirty thing.
For what ever reason .... 6th sense  :-\ .... she looked at her on-line banking on her phone when we got back home less than an hour later. There had been 3 payments of around £35 to a local shop selling 'back to school' stuff .... uniforms, pens etc and 3 payments to Next on line for around £40/£45 taken from her bank. In total around £250
She obviously phoned her bank to sort it out .... hadn't quite tied the cashpoint & the fraud together .... but talking to her bank, that's exactly where the fraud had taken place.

All sorted now & the money was back in her account last night, but just goes to how quick these buggers are. And would they have taken more if Mrs B hadn't noticed as quick?

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General Discussion Area / anyone with a spare £20 000
« on: 31 July 2023, 08:24:08 »
https://www.theguardian.com/society/2023/jul/30/step-to-riches-disused-stairwell-in-london-could-be-yours-for-just-20000

 ??? ??? ???

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General Car Chat / electric cars
« on: 25 July 2023, 20:25:26 »
What They Really Mean for You

On BBC1 ...anyone watching it .... ?

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General Discussion Area / More scams
« on: 12 July 2023, 21:14:54 »
I was phoned earlier by 'Chris from O2' who was informing me that O2 were reducing by mobile phone bill (my phone is actually by O2) by 40% .... I didn't need to disclose any personal info ... all I needed to do was to tell him what the code was that he was about to text me. He did send me a text that was headed O2 UK and a 6 digit number. It included all the relevant phrases that a real message would have included.
I said that I'd no way of verifying that he was infact Chris from O2 and it smelt a bit fishy ..... but he carried on with his spiel ... even phoned me back after 'we got cut off' and suggested that I could Google the number he rang on to prove he was from O2.
I fvcked him off & did google the 0208 number ....  various messages about it  being a scam.

So ..... he did send me a ''code number.'' I'm curious as to how this code would have enabled him to scam me  :-\ :-\ :-\

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