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General Car Chat / Re: So what have you done to your car today?
« on: 24 July 2023, 20:36:40 »Swapped out the steering wheel and airbag for a nice wooden wheel and leather covered airbag.
have you been watching American Youtubers?
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have you been watching American Youtubers?
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General Car Chat / Re: £661.44.
« on: 24 July 2023, 19:18:53 »£55.12 X 12...you see.
I still thought it was still £500 (ish)
It was around £550 for a one off payment for the year, a little over 4 years ago for my R320. My ML350 is 'only' £365
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General Discussion Area / Re: Don't get old
« on: 23 July 2023, 19:54:18 »
I'll have to ask my Dad ..... he was 86 last week & drives a Chrysler Grand Voyager
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General Discussion Area / Re: Don't get old
« on: 22 July 2023, 19:48:12 ».....
I don't think old people should swap to automatic cars as they age because you are partially right about the pedals. Although it's not confusion, but terror causing them to freeze in place. ....
people should swap to autos as soon as they've passed their test in a manual!
I've driven autos for the past 30+ years
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General Discussion Area / Re: Don't get old
« on: 22 July 2023, 19:45:42 »I wonder how many of us would fail the driving test if were required to take it again unannounced?
Quite a number.
A number of years ago, when I was invited to do a speed awareness course, in the days when it was both classroom & practical driving on the road, I was told I wasn't allowed to left foot brake in the automatic car ..... just incase I pressed both at the same time! So that would be a fail ..... obviously I would never exceed the speed limit!
But we all know what we should or shouldn't be doing when driving. So if a driving test was suddenly sprung on us, we'd know to look in our mirrors every 50 ft .... not cross our arms when turning the wheel ....tyres & tarmac etc etc etc
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General Discussion Area / Re: Don't get old
« on: 20 July 2023, 16:14:03 »....
and Admiral not only took money from my bank without my permission ( .....
Hastings did that to me years ago. I phoned in the week between Christmas & New Year to tell them NOT to auto renew, They took a monthly payment at the end of Jan. The first girl I spoke asked why I didn't just cancel it .....
WTF would I cancel a policy when there was about a week to go?I've never used them since! (maybe I should let it go after nearly 20 years!
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General Car Chat / Re: So what have you done to your car today?
« on: 20 July 2023, 16:06:41 »I once chopped three of my fingers off with a woodsaw. I wanted to use sticky tape to hold them on, but wifey insisted I go and get them stitched back on properly.
Now that's worth a mention
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General Car Chat / Re: So what have you done to your car today?
« on: 20 July 2023, 14:02:08 »should it not be insulation tape?Don't be silly. Blue roll and sellotape.Seemed to have leaked a lot of blood over the engine bay, before needing a good sit down with a brew with loads of sugar.Oh dear
Stitches?
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General Discussion Area / Re: Don't get old
« on: 18 July 2023, 18:26:32 »
it seems that insurance has generally gone up a lot .... a few lads at work were recently complaining about how much theirs had gone up
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General Discussion Area / Re: What has P*ssed you off today?
« on: 17 July 2023, 20:33:05 »
sincere condolences Nick
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General Discussion Area / Re: More scams
« on: 17 July 2023, 15:18:54 »On the very rare occasions when the house phone rings ......
... at our house, if it's not a cold caller ........... it'll either by my Mum or SWMBO's Mum
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General Car Chat / Re: So what have you done to your car today?
« on: 16 July 2023, 23:34:54 »Not too shabby considering the weights and how well they goJust a small word of warning, Al, Brent crude oil is up about 6% over the last week. The last thing you need is £2 a litre petrol with your gas guzzler.Qué sera, sera. The R Class wasn't exactly economical... 28.1mpg over 19,252 miles. If it does 24/25 mpg I will be happy enough
That's something like what I got off mine ..... the ML350 easily does high 20s & low 30s if you're gentle with your right foot
... easily does low 20s too
...and it will shift
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General Car Chat / Re: So what have you done to your car today?
« on: 16 July 2023, 23:32:37 »It is DERV .... but it's 2.2 tonne, permanent 4x4 & has the aerodynamics of an brick .... and automaticJust a small word of warning, Al, Brent crude oil is up about 6% over the last week. The last thing you need is £2 a litre petrol with your gas guzzler.Qué sera, sera. The R Class wasn't exactly economical... 28.1mpg over 19,252 miles. If it does 24/25 mpg I will be happy enough
That's something like what I got off mine ..... the ML350 easily does high 20s & low 30s if you're gentle with your right foot
... easily does low 20s too
I thought it ran on derv.......so 50 MPG minimum.
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General Discussion Area / Re: More scams
« on: 15 July 2023, 22:20:16 »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
I had an almost identical call. He even knew my name, but it stank. the conversation went no further
As the saying goes, if it sounds too good to be true . . .
Just why would a current supplier volunteer to reduce their price by 40%?
and even if they would, why would they phone you to tell you?