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

« on: 18 November 2025, 17:26:28 »

So, turns out it was bent as well.  So the bill for welding and straightening was 160 notes. Ouch.

I discovered a cracked rim on my ML the other year .... I reckoned it was more cost effective to buy a used rim than repair the cracked one. 

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

« on: 18 November 2025, 14:05:18 »

Yet another puncture.  I'd had a good run for a few months, but thats now 2 in a week.

I'd not had a puncture for years

..... I replaced all 4 tyres on the ML & then got a puncture within a couple of weeks!!!! 

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

« on: 17 November 2025, 16:48:01 »

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Turns out I had 0.6l left in the tank

I never believe my cars when it tells me I have so much fuel or so many miles left. The Smart will tell me I have 4.0 litres left which should mean there's room for another 31 litres ..... in reality there's room for another 25/26

I used to take the Omega down to zero miles or not much more 

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

« on: 17 November 2025, 16:39:42 »

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£110 later....

I see your £110 & raise it to the £116 it cost to fill my ML ..... and just to add to the kick in the wallet I then filled the Smart with another £40(?) 

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General Car Chat / Re: Harry Metcalfe's Jag

« on: 12 November 2025, 11:59:54 »

Harry has a fantastic collection of vehicles, I watched about an hour of his stroll round his warehouse collection on YouTube last week £140,000 must be like pocket change to him.

He does have a great selection of both cars and bikes.....including a 'widowmaker' 750 2 stroke Kawasaki triple and 6 cylinder Honda CBX.

they have one of them at The Lakeland motor museum 

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General Car Chat / Re: Harry Metcalfe's Jag

« on: 10 November 2025, 16:24:24 »

https://youtu.be/qBNl32_eu6M?si=PWldkslkBAfVKBh2

@ 6min 50sec
'over hundred thousand gone into this car' ..... 

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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 Discussion Area / Re: BBC bias

« on: 06 November 2025, 12:02:37 »

And important, current, news stories are pushed back to 1 liners, with their concentration on whatever is happening at Stockport.  Don't get me wrong, that was a very sad attack for the local community, but it doesn't need a 10 minute delay update every single day.

Stockport? I must have missed that one 

He'll have meant Southport ....  It's all the same up Norf for a Suvverner 

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General Discussion Area / Re: Staggering Incompetence

« on: 05 November 2025, 13:42:57 »

and incredibly they've done it again .... but it's taken them a week this time to realise!!!!!!! 

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/c5ylvz217ept

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General Car Chat / Re: Project anyone?

« on: 04 November 2025, 15:16:50 »

Anglia Car Auctions via UK Barn Finds ....

I loved mine, but not sure I loved enough to spend so much on it! 

https://www.instagram.com/reel/DQmGECFiWIK/?igsh=MTd1dTl0MTlzc3loaw%3D%3D

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

« on: 03 November 2025, 12:27:17 »

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.... and they don't scratch the doors around the handles with their rings.

that's my gripe too 

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General Car Chat / Re: In Autocar magazine letters this week.

« on: 31 October 2025, 21:52:32 »

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Mine has staggered wheels anyway for reasons I never understood, so a full sized would be problematic I guess.

and where would you stop if you had directional tyres on staggered rims? You'd need to carry 4 spare wheels... just in case.

Mine is a space saver .... no idea if the the full sized (265mm?) tyre would even fit in the spare wheel well 

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General Car Chat / Re: In Autocar magazine letters this week.

« on: 31 October 2025, 19:46:09 »

I noticed on YouTube there was a ML for sale & during the walk round it showed under the boot floor  ..... this car did NOT have a spare but mine does, despite there being an air tank in there for its suspension.

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General Car Chat / Re: In Autocar magazine letters this week.

« on: 31 October 2025, 19:29:21 »

And how much will the AA's agents rape you for to come out and fit a new tyre.

Its a simple question when buying a new car, and I would pull out at the last minute until the salesman throws one in....

Yep...absolutely.

Even if the dealer has to make slightly less profit he should do this as a gesture  of goodwill.

but not all cars have the space to stow a spare 

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

« on: 28 October 2025, 12:13:18 »

My ML now changes the time itself however the first time we altered the clocks after I bought it, nothing happened which surprised me considering that the R Class before it did it itself. I found a tick box in the head unit that after I ticked it, the car now does it all by itself.

One of the 3 clocks in my 451 Smart I left from last summer so is now correct ..... just need to change the other 2 now!