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Markeh

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  1. Best mate finally got her 2008 back from the bodyshop after the rear door got damaged during a break-in. Apparently £5.5k total cost to the insurance. So close to being written off it seems! But the kicker is this. She's had a fault with the drivers door for some time as the wiring was breaking up, so no speaker, and the remote locking wouldn't lock the door, had to be locked via the key. Clearly after fitting a replacement rear door they've scanned it or discovered the issue, assumed it was part of the vehicle damage somehow and fixed it! Shed have paid her excess to get that repaired, probably.
  2. I'm reasonably close to your proportions, give or take an inch, this list has given me great disappointment. I have managed to just about wedge myself into a pair of old Beetles and I can confirm the current shape Micra can accommodate.
  3. I'll start with cars I've not owned but have driven. 2013 Suzuki Splash 1.0 petrol Did not like. Engine seems alright enough but didn't handle very well. Horrid gearchange. Did fit in it and was spacious enough though 2018 Suzuki Ignis Bloody lovely! Shame Suzuki seats are not designed for people with big arses and that I need to carry people/things a lot, otherwise I could quite happily buzz about in one of these. Peppy little engine, handles really well, much better gearchange than its predecessor. 2019 Nissan Micra little petrol turbo thingy A little small on the inside for me but again, drove very well, handled well, was plenty quick enough - was disappointed to hand it back (was a courtesy car) 2022 Nissan Joke Mk2 I used to request not to have the Mk1 Juke if possible when I got a courtesy car, I never really fit in them properly. The new one is a lot better. Not comfortable enough as a long term vehicle for me sadly. Then what I've owned: 1999 Vauxhall Corsa 1.0 Basic everything, would feel prehistoric now but back then was ideal. Not particularly at home on the motorway, unsurprisingly. 2004 Renault Megane 1.6 Pretty damn competent. Handled reasonably well, lots of kit, just about enough power, 2004 Peugeot 206 SW 1.4 - I only drove it maybe 300 yards, I'm not reviewing it. 2007 Fiat Sedici 1.6 I quite liked this. Enough grunt, capable enough, 4WD was a nice bonus. Nice high driving position. This was a reasonably well worn example so didn't handle the best. I'd have another. 2010 Vauxhall Meriva 1.6 Sufficient 'an car'. Pretty unremarkable in all respects. Surprisingly spacious. I'd have another as a station/tip run car quite happily. 2012 Skoda Octavia Scout 2.0 CR I agreed to sell it half an hour after getting it home, draw your own conclusions. In fairness this was a fairly well abused 250k ex-paramedic/blood car - I believe it's still doing splendid service for a friend of a shiter, and had I known it would have passed it's MOT without much hassle I'd maybe have given it a bit more of a chance! 2018 Nissan Qashqai 1.6 turbo Bloody wonderful. Handled everything you could throw at it. Surprisingly chuckable on a B-road. Slightly out of date tech was the only downside and had I bought a 2019 or 2020 one that would've given me the two things it lacked (adaptive cruise and CarPlay/Android Auto) 2021 Nissan Qashqai 1.3 MH Not quite as good. A little lacking in power unless put into sport mode. All the tech's there and the design is great but it's a bigger, softer car than its predecessor and it shows. Also mine's been a pain in the arse. I don't think I'll be having another when this goes back!
  4. In an update to my friend's saga for getting a courtesy car after someone broke into hers, she finally picked up an Enterprise i10 on Saturday morning. With an EML on the dash, a battery warning if she sits in the car with the ignition on for more than a moment or two, and a dodgy TPMS sensor that keeps telling her she's got a low tyre but not which one, and all are testing fine. On the bright side, my taxi commitments ended as of Friday morning, and she's discovered she likes Android Auto in the i10.
  5. I've told her to do this - think she's going to try tomorrow. To be honest I told her to tell them to shove it and just buy the door I saw on Ebay in colour with a window for £150! I've also suggested she just take the car to the bloody garage itself (cars not even at the garage it's meant to be assessed at yet!) given its an hour up the road. FWIW the garage it's going to have been helpful. It's the other links in the chain that are worse than useless.
  6. To follow up on this - they've not even attempted to pick it up today. The reason the garage can't fetch it themselves is because its in a yard that can be no more than a mile into a different postcode. The breakdown company that can move it naturally won't prioritise it (think a certain coloured flag), Utter pisstake. So that's her stuck here til next week probably and my weekend plans probably cancelled. Not like I wanted to do things this weekend - oh wait - it's a Bank Holiday I'd booked off, my birthday and we also have family visiting too. Sigh.
  7. Insurance issues. Best mate had her car broken into in the early hours of Friday morning. Not huge amount of damage (bent a rear door back, broke the glass) and not a lot taken (mint humbugs and a phone charger!). Insurance won't provide courtesy car or cover any transport costs until the car's been assessed in case it's a write off, which while I can understand was probably in the small print, is also a royal pain in the arse for her (car is a Pug 2008 worth approx 5k, didn't seem to be any damage to anything other than the door, while not impossible it's unlikely to be a write off, she lives a 60 mile round trip from work and there isn't a feasible way to get there via public transport). The breakdown firm she pays for through her insurance too picked the car up Friday evening. The yard they were meant to take it to was shut, so it went to a yard a little further away. The garage who are repairing the car will only collect the car if it's in the same postcode area as her home address (so in our case, any NG postcode) - the car was taken to a yard over the border under a DE postcode, so nope, no joy, breakdown people now need to go pick it up again and take it to the garage up in that there South Yorkshire. Obviously they don't find this out until late on Monday, so now we have to hope the car's collected today, maybe assessed tomorrow and a courtesy car provided maybe Thursday. A courtesy car that has to be delivered to the policyholder in person, within the NG postcode, between the hours of 8 and 5 on a weekday. Of course she works full time in a different postcode area, so that's going to complicate matters even further. I'm sure there are perfectly valid reasons for everything I've just described and that it was all detailed in the small print that she didn't read upon taking the policy out. But as a result, I'm now stuck with her in my spare room and taking her to work and back every day until they provide transport (I'm about half as far away from her work). Granted, she's covering my petrol and helping round the house. But now I'm grumpy as I'm having to get up an hour or two earlier each day and it's disrupted a load of my plans. Safe to say I think she'll be checking the fine print next time she renews her insurance - and probably avoiding a certain company with a nodding dog mascot...
  8. FRA 17K, properly spaced on a Bentayga outside a reasonably rough looking pub near me earlier - I have a hunch it belongs to the former owner of the cash and carry that was round the corner. Given it was properly spaced, it actually looked pretty good!
  9. Technically, there's nothing in the rules that'd stop me posting my current Qashqai given it's a fairly new shape and there aren't millions of them yet - but that feels like cheating, so here's my best shot:
  10. Apparently someone upstairs didn't think we had enough on our plate with an uncle suddenly becoming terminally ill so now it's my gran's turn for a similar (albeit less unexpected/out of the blue) diagnosis. This becomes a problem as carrying on as normal albeit with a bit of dark humour is my coping mechanism, and that doesn't sit well with much of the family (although it at least does with my gran - very shortly after telling me she joked that I'd finally get her Kitchenaid mixer I called dibs on 10 years ago!) - so it's probably going to be a rather tense and unpleasant few months when dealing with other relatives. Nothing like going away for a week and being brought back down to earth with a thud not 12 hours after getting off the damn plane.
  11. I've been a passenger in several in Turkey over the years where they were commonly used as minibuses.
  12. Mine tried to get me to buy a DAB radio on Subscribe and Save every 2 months recently. If they're that shite I think I'll save myself the hassle! Current grin - all inclusive holiday entertainment that's so terrible it's actually funny. Other night we had random acrobats, who I can only assume hadn't performed here before, as upon doing a human pyramid one of them audibly twatted his foot on the canopy over the stage, at which I definitely didn't* let out an Edna Krabappel style "Ha!". We've had some random bands involving most of the entertainment staff playing even more random songs. I did not expect to hear a saxophone cover of Dragostea Din Tei (recommend not googling if unfamiliar - you're not missing much) that's for sure. This evening is one where the vocalist clearly knows enough English to get by but not enough for the English language songs she's singing, so a lot of the words are made up. Their performance of "Living Next Door to Alice" did at least reveal where the rest of the British were sat in the bar to the bewilderment of the mostly German/Polish present. Hey, they're here to entertain - they're just entertaining me in a way I didn't expect. And it's better than sitting in the room reading my book, if only for the presence of a bar.
  13. Have we had a Perodua Kelisa on here? I have vague recollections of a Kenari and possibly even a Nippa, but not a Kelisa.
  14. The only good Turkish chod I've managed to catch so far. Didn't appear to be a straight panel on it. Bonus Chamade in the background. They do love a hatchloon over here This looked delightfully shonky in person. Other highlights* include a battered Scudo still performing duty as a taxi (most have moved onto Doblos, Lodgys or Tourneo Connects by now), a smiley Transit Luton, and a Tempra I couldn't get a pic of. Was hoping the hotels shuttle bus to the beach would be interesting (last year's was a Defender 110!) but sadly it's just a Crafter.
  15. Recent addition - a manager at my work knows I do buying and selling. Offered me his old Hyundai i30 for £2k as a flip car. 64 plate, lowish miles, but Cat N after being twatted in three separate accidents inc one with a bin lorry, had dinged up bumpers which had affected one of the rear quarters and a buggered AC condenser. Lack of spare cash to take a risk made me say no. He took great delight in telling me the first dealer he went to paid him £3600 as it sat without any haggling or hassle.
  16. Currently in Turkiye and I'd forgotten just how much chod is on the roads here. Multiple flavours of elderly Renault and hatchloons aplenty. Won't be travelling further afield this time so no exciting* hire car although we might strike it lucky with the odd cab.
  17. I get this roughly once a week when I accept a best offer - usually because I've not accepted it within 0.2 picoseconds and they've bought something else.
  18. A very poorly looking Range Rover (which a quick check of the quite distinctive private plate tells me is a 2022 Evoque - ouch indeed) abandoned in the Q-Park on Brindleyplace in Birmingham spotted yesterday. Couldn't stop for a photo but was covered in warning signs and taped off. Based off the damage and where the car was parked, it looks like someone's brakes hadn't quite worked coming down one of the multi-storey ramps and they decided to use the Evoque instead, decent wallop to the front, deploying the front and side airbags and probably popped the bonnet as well.
  19. Out for dinner with my best mate from uni and her fiance on Thursday night - it's her late mum that was the former owner of my Meriva - and she happened to mention her nan was potentially looking to get rid of her car as it was causing her trouble. 07 Corsa D. Bought new. 12000 miles on the clock. It looked mint when I saw it while picking up the Meriva. I don't think she'll actually get rid of it, but have thrown my hat into the ring. This adds the number of vehicles I'm potentially enquiring about to three, if we include my friend's dad's Insignia (my friend being the former owner of the Sedici) and my sadly soon to be late uncle's old SLK. Despite the fact that what I really need is a tiny shitbox or a van.
  20. EDIT: almost forgot this - when he toured with this album he had a floating car going around the stadium and it featured heavily in a lot of the on stage visuals.
  21. When looking to replace my Corsa B in 2014 I'd seen a nice Megane II. 3dr 1.6 Dynamique, in the grey-green they came in, with the optional 17" alloys and a glass roof. 95k, was well looked after, but I turned it down as the air con condenser needed replacing. The 5dr 1.6 Dynamique in black I eventually bought was a good car but had teething troubles, was higher mileage, worse condition, didn't have the alloys or the roof and cost more, but the air con worked. What I should've done was buy the 3dr and get the condenser replaced. Carbaba seemed to show that BT05CGO went to Ireland a few years back.
  22. This was my original plan (I've known he was ill for the last month or so), but his condition deteriorated significantly over the past couple of days and they've moved to end of life care - given the rate he's deteriorated at, I don't think I'm going to get time to. Will double check my travel insurance (fortunately I'm still covered on the one I took out last year)
  23. Trying to book a holiday abroad was problematic enough given I am terrible for actually choosing a suitable trip - cancelled one week of leave at work last month cos I couldn't find anything I wanted at the price I wanted, figured I'd try again in a couple of weeks and see what I could get. Unfortunately, it now looks like a family member is extremely close to deaths door. Now I'm not that close and there's nothing I can do anyway, but sadly I'll be judged if anything happens before I go away and I don't cancel it/for not coming back early if something happens while I'm away, and I'm not in a position to throw £££ down the drain if it happens. So looks like I'm either wasting a week off, cancelling my leave again or maybe I'll be swapping a week in all inclusive sunshine for a few days in a caravan somewhere not too far away.
  24. Oh god the battery warnings on this era of Fujitsu are a pain in the arse. It seems to prevent lawsuits or any other assorted grief, they try and artificially limit used batteries to something like 50% of its capacity. As far as I can tell it does this on age or some arbitrary statistic without actually checking the battery. Automatically installed by Windows Update too.
  25. I wish your brother's project team and manager could teach my manager/higher ups - I get pestered several times daily some days!
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