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New POD got a reaction from greengartside in 1987 Ford Sierra Sapphire 1.8L - Earning its keep - see page 28
I was stopped by plain clothes police drugs squad officers for overtaking them down the Dock Road in Liverpool. It was a week after I passed my driving test. In my dad's dangly mirror beige base 1.6 estate. Probably doing 80 mph in what is Now a 30. I think it was a 60 in those days. Got a bit of advice at the side of the road.
Not taking the advice I spun that car on the coast road at Southport about 6 months later. No visible damage. 🤔
A few years later I got his Sapphire 1.8LX up to an indicated 136 on a German Autobahn at 2 am heading for Stuttgart. He was asleep. When he woke up he was complaining about how much fuel I'd used.
He took me off the insurance when I got his 2.0 16V ghia estate sideways on a motorway roundabout in the dry. Probably shouldn't have done it with him in the passenger seat. 30 years later he still won't put me on his insurance.
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New POD got a reaction from catsinthewelder in 1987 Ford Sierra Sapphire 1.8L - Earning its keep - see page 28
I was stopped by plain clothes police drugs squad officers for overtaking them down the Dock Road in Liverpool. It was a week after I passed my driving test. In my dad's dangly mirror beige base 1.6 estate. Probably doing 80 mph in what is Now a 30. I think it was a 60 in those days. Got a bit of advice at the side of the road.
Not taking the advice I spun that car on the coast road at Southport about 6 months later. No visible damage. 🤔
A few years later I got his Sapphire 1.8LX up to an indicated 136 on a German Autobahn at 2 am heading for Stuttgart. He was asleep. When he woke up he was complaining about how much fuel I'd used.
He took me off the insurance when I got his 2.0 16V ghia estate sideways on a motorway roundabout in the dry. Probably shouldn't have done it with him in the passenger seat. 30 years later he still won't put me on his insurance.
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New POD got a reaction from scruff in 1987 Ford Sierra Sapphire 1.8L - Earning its keep - see page 28
I was stopped by plain clothes police drugs squad officers for overtaking them down the Dock Road in Liverpool. It was a week after I passed my driving test. In my dad's dangly mirror beige base 1.6 estate. Probably doing 80 mph in what is Now a 30. I think it was a 60 in those days. Got a bit of advice at the side of the road.
Not taking the advice I spun that car on the coast road at Southport about 6 months later. No visible damage. 🤔
A few years later I got his Sapphire 1.8LX up to an indicated 136 on a German Autobahn at 2 am heading for Stuttgart. He was asleep. When he woke up he was complaining about how much fuel I'd used.
He took me off the insurance when I got his 2.0 16V ghia estate sideways on a motorway roundabout in the dry. Probably shouldn't have done it with him in the passenger seat. 30 years later he still won't put me on his insurance.
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New POD got a reaction from inconsistant in 1987 Ford Sierra Sapphire 1.8L - Earning its keep - see page 28
I was stopped by plain clothes police drugs squad officers for overtaking them down the Dock Road in Liverpool. It was a week after I passed my driving test. In my dad's dangly mirror beige base 1.6 estate. Probably doing 80 mph in what is Now a 30. I think it was a 60 in those days. Got a bit of advice at the side of the road.
Not taking the advice I spun that car on the coast road at Southport about 6 months later. No visible damage. 🤔
A few years later I got his Sapphire 1.8LX up to an indicated 136 on a German Autobahn at 2 am heading for Stuttgart. He was asleep. When he woke up he was complaining about how much fuel I'd used.
He took me off the insurance when I got his 2.0 16V ghia estate sideways on a motorway roundabout in the dry. Probably shouldn't have done it with him in the passenger seat. 30 years later he still won't put me on his insurance.
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New POD got a reaction from AnnoyingPentium in 1987 Ford Sierra Sapphire 1.8L - Earning its keep - see page 28
I was stopped by plain clothes police drugs squad officers for overtaking them down the Dock Road in Liverpool. It was a week after I passed my driving test. In my dad's dangly mirror beige base 1.6 estate. Probably doing 80 mph in what is Now a 30. I think it was a 60 in those days. Got a bit of advice at the side of the road.
Not taking the advice I spun that car on the coast road at Southport about 6 months later. No visible damage. 🤔
A few years later I got his Sapphire 1.8LX up to an indicated 136 on a German Autobahn at 2 am heading for Stuttgart. He was asleep. When he woke up he was complaining about how much fuel I'd used.
He took me off the insurance when I got his 2.0 16V ghia estate sideways on a motorway roundabout in the dry. Probably shouldn't have done it with him in the passenger seat. 30 years later he still won't put me on his insurance.
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New POD got a reaction from Low ontime in The grumpy thread
What you actually need is lemon juice, honey, boiling water and 2 paracetamol.
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New POD got a reaction from loserone in Wtf is going on with car insurance prices?
The thing is with pets, they don't have the same calculation of total loss as on a car.
If your overly interbred cavalier King Charles spaniel cost you £700 from a dodgy back street dealer, and it has an accident, where the cost of new legs is £800, they don't say "nah, it's a write off. You can buy a second hand one the same age for £400, so after we've taken off your excess, here's £200. Now fuck off"
Plus, they have wearout similar to a badly maintained prince engine in a mini. Or a k series. So it's like you are asking them to insure the camchain and the head gasket, when we know that at 8 years, there will be signs of heart failure.
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New POD got a reaction from goosey in The grumpy thread
What you actually need is lemon juice, honey, boiling water and 2 paracetamol.
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New POD got a reaction from andyberg in The grumpy thread
What you actually need is lemon juice, honey, boiling water and 2 paracetamol.
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New POD got a reaction from EyesWeldedShut in Basically nicked the design mate
The tooling designs on the rear pillar have been reused on these Suzuki cars and possibly the rear window.
Ignis
SC100 flying zit.
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New POD reacted to SiC in Forum maintenance - 25th Jan @ 5PM - All Done
Its that time again! The forum software has an update out and is also a good time for me to apply any operating system updates while there.
Changes are here for those that are interested: https://invisioncommunity.com/release-notes/
Nothing really exciting apart from general bug fixes.
My plan is to do it tomorrow and probably will take an hour all being well. If someone is happening to be doing a collection mission or need access to the forum, let me know and I can postpone it.
Another heads up that I'll need to do a much bigger operating system rebuild at some point soon as the current OS is coming to its absolute end-of-life in a few months time. I need set aside a day to properly sort and test this but hopefully most of it can be done in the background until I can flick the switch to move across. This may cause a bit more disruption but as always I'll try to keep that minimal.
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New POD got a reaction from grogee in eBay tat volume 3.
The market for these must be tiny. Who spends £2300 on things so "rare" and niche ?
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New POD got a reaction from sheffcortinacentre in The grumpy thread
Can someone explain why Donald Trump is so popular? How the fuck is it that he's going to be allowed to run for office
Does nobody look at his moral compass and think, "No. We should not vote for a misogynistic criminally intent narcissistic crazy cunt"
And Biden? Look, I think the other side could have picked a better person to lead the USA. Not someone who clearly is tired out by it all. He will loose against trump, because the USA is mad.
I'm actually grumpy because I have convinced myself that the UK is as Bad and the idiots will vote the Tories in for another 5 years of shit.
(Not that it won't be shit under labour, but at least the ones I've actually met, seem to have a social consciousness)
I know it not the politics thread, but it's making me grumpy.
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New POD got a reaction from grogee in The grumpy thread
Can someone explain why Donald Trump is so popular? How the fuck is it that he's going to be allowed to run for office
Does nobody look at his moral compass and think, "No. We should not vote for a misogynistic criminally intent narcissistic crazy cunt"
And Biden? Look, I think the other side could have picked a better person to lead the USA. Not someone who clearly is tired out by it all. He will loose against trump, because the USA is mad.
I'm actually grumpy because I have convinced myself that the UK is as Bad and the idiots will vote the Tories in for another 5 years of shit.
(Not that it won't be shit under labour, but at least the ones I've actually met, seem to have a social consciousness)
I know it not the politics thread, but it's making me grumpy.
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New POD got a reaction from chadders in The grumpy thread
Can someone explain why Donald Trump is so popular? How the fuck is it that he's going to be allowed to run for office
Does nobody look at his moral compass and think, "No. We should not vote for a misogynistic criminally intent narcissistic crazy cunt"
And Biden? Look, I think the other side could have picked a better person to lead the USA. Not someone who clearly is tired out by it all. He will loose against trump, because the USA is mad.
I'm actually grumpy because I have convinced myself that the UK is as Bad and the idiots will vote the Tories in for another 5 years of shit.
(Not that it won't be shit under labour, but at least the ones I've actually met, seem to have a social consciousness)
I know it not the politics thread, but it's making me grumpy.
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New POD got a reaction from myglaren in The grumpy thread
Can someone explain why Donald Trump is so popular? How the fuck is it that he's going to be allowed to run for office
Does nobody look at his moral compass and think, "No. We should not vote for a misogynistic criminally intent narcissistic crazy cunt"
And Biden? Look, I think the other side could have picked a better person to lead the USA. Not someone who clearly is tired out by it all. He will loose against trump, because the USA is mad.
I'm actually grumpy because I have convinced myself that the UK is as Bad and the idiots will vote the Tories in for another 5 years of shit.
(Not that it won't be shit under labour, but at least the ones I've actually met, seem to have a social consciousness)
I know it not the politics thread, but it's making me grumpy.
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New POD got a reaction from chodweaver in The grumpy thread
I'll have you know, I take it in a leather case with my initials sewn into it.
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New POD reacted to hairnet in Astra mk4 Estate/skip/daily
https://www.centralpanels.co.uk/product/vauxhall-astra-g-mk4-1998-2004-new-rear-wheel-arch-lh-estate/
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New POD got a reaction from Coprolalia in The grumpy thread
I'll have you know, I take it in a leather case with my initials sewn into it.
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New POD got a reaction from mercedade in The grumpy thread
I'll have you know, I take it in a leather case with my initials sewn into it.
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New POD got a reaction from myglaren in The grumpy thread
I'm sorry for your loss. For her it might be a relief that it was so quick. (Not that it is much consolation)
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New POD got a reaction from myglaren in The grumpy thread
I'll have you know, I take it in a leather case with my initials sewn into it.
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New POD got a reaction from outlaw118 in The grumpy thread
I'm sorry for your loss. For her it might be a relief that it was so quick. (Not that it is much consolation)