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General Car Chat / Re: Astra K electronic handbrake
« on: 18 October 2024, 12:46:22 »
Thanks everyone, I've found a man that can.
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General Car Chat / Astra K electronic handbrake
« on: 17 October 2024, 14:12:42 »
Stopped working,
Message on dash says 'Service parking brake '
Run diagnostics- Inoperative 0v. Not very helpful.
Can't go crawling about anymore as I'm 85.
Any suggestions or is it a trip to the stealers?
Message on dash says 'Service parking brake '
Run diagnostics- Inoperative 0v. Not very helpful.
Can't go crawling about anymore as I'm 85.
Any suggestions or is it a trip to the stealers?
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General Discussion Area / Welsh 20 mph.
« on: 17 September 2023, 19:11:08 »
I hear that the speed awareness course in Wales is now fully booked until 2050.
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General Discussion Area / Re: Sticky for Jokes
« on: 15 September 2023, 18:12:40 »
You're in the final of the club golf tournament.
After the 17th, you and your opponent are tied.
You tee off on the 18th, straight down the middle of the fairway, 260 yards drive.
Your opponent hooks his tee shot into the woods.
You spend 10 minutes helping him find his ball.
You take your next shot, he says, I'll carry on looking and if I can't find it I'll go back to tee and play another ball.
You play your next shot, it lands six yards from the pin.
Your opponent shouts found it, his ball lands 4 inches from the pin, a gimme.
Here's your dilemma, do you take the lieing bastards ball out of your pocket, or do you keep your mouth shut!
After the 17th, you and your opponent are tied.
You tee off on the 18th, straight down the middle of the fairway, 260 yards drive.
Your opponent hooks his tee shot into the woods.
You spend 10 minutes helping him find his ball.
You take your next shot, he says, I'll carry on looking and if I can't find it I'll go back to tee and play another ball.
You play your next shot, it lands six yards from the pin.
Your opponent shouts found it, his ball lands 4 inches from the pin, a gimme.
Here's your dilemma, do you take the lieing bastards ball out of your pocket, or do you keep your mouth shut!
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General Discussion Area / Re: What has P*ssed you off today?
« on: 08 September 2023, 18:19:44 »
Birmingham City Council, and the retards who keep voting for them.
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General Discussion Area / Re: Salamander Shower Pump
« on: 08 September 2023, 18:17:48 »You could just turn it off, shower under a dribble and save the planet!Barry knows all about dribbles
Pot and kettle come to mind
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General Discussion Area / Re: Salamander Shower Pump
« on: 07 September 2023, 17:48:30 »Is it thermostatic? If so, valve failing?
No experience with any shower valves beyond Aqualisa, so could be barking up the wrong tree completely
No idea if it's thermostatic, gut feeling says it's not.
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General Discussion Area / Salamander Shower Pump
« on: 07 September 2023, 13:40:44 »
This morning the shower pump started 'hunting'.
It works either full on hot or full on cold but any temperature in between it 'hunts'.
It works either full on hot or full on cold but any temperature in between it 'hunts'.
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General Discussion Area / Re: And we wonder why car insurance premiums are high.
« on: 27 August 2023, 13:08:45 ».your wifes husband being you?I guess the old duffer means a friend of his wife who's husband...........
Let's make it nice & easy by saying " some bloke" 😁
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General Discussion Area / Re: And we wonder why car insurance premiums are high.
« on: 24 August 2023, 18:35:32 »A friend of my wife's husband front ended his Nissan Note(someone has to own one).A friend of yours then, Barry?
It was taken in for repair and he was provided with a courtesy car - nearly 5 months ago!
Repairer says they are awaiting parts.
It's a 2013 Nissan, I would have thought the cost of the courtesy car and repairs must be more than the cars worth.
if you met him, you wouldn't want him as a friend - bit of a w*n*e*
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General Discussion Area / Re: And we wonder why car insurance premiums are high.
« on: 23 August 2023, 17:43:03 »Nearly new cars are being written off for minor bolt on damage due to parts lead times and shortages.
Yes, but they haven't written this one off - yet.
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General Discussion Area / And we wonder why car insurance premiums are high.
« on: 23 August 2023, 17:38:23 »
A friend of my wife's husband front ended his Nissan Note(someone has to own one).
It was taken in for repair and he was provided with a courtesy car - nearly 5 months ago!
Repairer says they are awaiting parts.
It's a 2013 Nissan, I would have thought the cost of the courtesy car and repairs must be more than the cars worth.
It was taken in for repair and he was provided with a courtesy car - nearly 5 months ago!
Repairer says they are awaiting parts.
It's a 2013 Nissan, I would have thought the cost of the courtesy car and repairs must be more than the cars worth.
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General Car Chat / Re: Front or Back?
« on: 09 August 2023, 10:59:32 »That must be mostly motorway driving AutoAddict!
Centre Lane job.
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General Car Chat / Re: Front or Back?
« on: 08 August 2023, 18:15:20 »Best tyres should be on the rear, as most people can deal with understeer or front end lock-ups, less people nowadays can cope with oversteer. More so with cheap budgets, where the dry v wet grip is so dramatically different, and can catch people unawares.
I usually put the best on the rears if the car setup allows, even with the decent tyres I choose.
I don't have a problem with oversteer/understeer as I never go over 35mph, and 5mph around corners.
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General Discussion Area / Re: What has P*ssed you off today?
« on: 05 August 2023, 14:27:00 »People who stand in doorways/gangways, when good honest folk like myself want to proceed unimpeded.I notice people do this at the end of escalators - they reach the end and stop and have to think where they want to do, and then get all shitty when the escalator piles more people into them.
Not me, I only do that when I get out of a lift, bus or train.