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General Discussion Area / Has anyone heard of this scam?

« on: 15 May 2008, 18:21:59 »

Received this today... Got to be a scam??

BMW AUTOMOBILE COMPANY  BMW LOTTERY COMMISSION  Ticket Number:*************   Serial Number:BMWP***********  Reply Email: bmwgroup.claimsdept@live.com  This e-mail is to congratulate you as your email address have won you a new BMW 2008 X6 xDrive 35i Car and a cash prize of £750,000.00 Pounds {GBP} in this years 2008 BMW Online Promotion Award Programme held today 15th of May, 2008. To file your winning claims, Please Immediately Contact;    Winning Claims Agent: Mr Larry Brain  Email: bmwgroup.claimsdesk@live.com Tel: (+44) 704 574 4183    Note: You are required to Provide Him with your Full Name(s)Ticket and Serial Number(same as above) Country and Personal Phone Number.    Engr. Krysta TELLER  Promotion Announcer. BMW Lottery Commission.    ---- Msg sent via KSU Webmail - http://atmail.com/

What do people think? And, other than calling the phone number, what harm could emailing a reply do just in case it is genuine?

I do enter a lot of online draws so it could, potentially, be genuine!! Not that I'm holding my breath!!  :-/ :-/ :-/ :-/

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General Discussion Area / Fantastic sunny day...

« on: 10 May 2008, 14:58:53 »

... At the seaside!

The downside is I'm at work in a bl00dy glass box!

worse still... The air con only chills the air to luke warm!  

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General Discussion Area / Mrs Lazydocker's Car

« on: 30 April 2008, 21:05:36 »

Had a poke around SWMBO's car on Tuesday as the MOT's due on the 10th.

I picked her up a J reg Orion 1.8 Ghia at the end of Feb last year for £175 as she was getting made redundant in March and had to give back her company car. Cost me about £75 (max) in parts and about 4 hours of my time last year to get it through its MOT. Changed both wishbones, a rear wheel bearing, and a metal brake pipe (made my own) and welded a little plate on rear chassis... Easy!!  

This year was not so good... Needed a wishbone (so I'd do a pair), the same wheel bearing, front pads and an almost complete inner and outer sill. Decided it wasn't worth doing so it went to it's makers today and I got £100 as I could deliver it to the yard. I hadn't even serviced it as she's only done 5k miles and I never got around to it!!!  

Got her another cheapie last night... 1993 on a K, Rover 220 Coupe wit an MOT which is just 9 days old and pretty comprehensive history!!   Cost me £260!! She's over the moon with it! Pity the Rover Tin worm has attacked the bottom of the drivers door  

The moral of the story... If you want to keep a car, don't put cheap bits on, especially as the ball joint was worse than the one I replaced last year!!  

If the car is a cheap runaround (£140 ish for a year's motoring is cheap!) then do as you wish!  

Trouble is... She's already decided she likes this car and wants to keep it for a few years!  

Still, at least the Miggy's safe and I wont have to fight her for it any more!  

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General Discussion Area / This seems cheap... Any good???

« on: 18 April 2008, 17:00:38 »

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=200185021778&_trksid=p3907.m32&_trkparms=tab%3DWatching

And before you all start shouting about genuine Vx parts, I just thought I'd ask!!  

It seems too cheap for a good kit and think I'll go Vx but thought I'd get the experts opinions!  :-/ :-/ :-/ :-/ :-/ :-/

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General Discussion Area / Service and cam belt

« on: 02 April 2008, 21:25:30 »

Was going to do a full service and cam belt change until someone recommended a chap to me. He used to be a plod mechanic and he's just quoted me £60+kit to do cam belt or £90+parts for full service! He doesn't mark up his parts prices either or i can supply my own!

I'm looking at it like this... I've got to either buy or hire a locking kit (he does have one!) and i'll probably only need to do it twice, perhaps 3 times in my ownership. Then set aside the time to do it and then get my hands dirty, which i'm not sacred of, whereas he can do it whilst i'm at work!

I'm not concerned about doing it, as i used to make a living on the spanners, but am seriously thinking at that price i might as well get him to do it for me!

What do you guys think?