Should I tell the hire van lot I'm technically I'm in a furrin cuntree

[hairnet]

Where am I??

 

Yes it is tat related

 

Secret squirrel ftw

[catsinthewelder]

Swansea?

 

 

I've had tracker alerts binging up all week because a customer keeps driving one of ours past the port in Dover.

[Richard]

Northern Ireland isn't a foreign country.

 

I had a hire company try to tell me it was once, and they wouldn't budge. The next company asked if I was taking it outside the UK, I just said I wasn't.

[chaseracer]

Northern Ireland isn't a foreign country.

 

 

This.

 

And if certain parts of the UK are terra non grata, they should have made that clear.  Do they have a similar attitude toward the Isle of Wight?

[Richard]

It was Arnold Clark and there's a strong chance I was speaking to someone who thought East Angular was abroad too.

[Tamworthbay]

This.

 

And if certain parts of the UK are terra non grata, they should have made that clear.  Do they have a similar attitude toward the Isle of Wight?

don't know about foreign country, but it's in a different time zone -1930s the last time I went.

[Richard]

I think Hairnet might be in Dublin though, since he sailed from Holyhead.

[John F]

At a guess, "Downtown" is from Co. Down so he's in Norn Iron. So not (very) foreign from a hire vehicle perspective.

 

Tat collection with van... squirrel reference... Are you buying a Scott Flying Squirrel, hairnet?

[warninglight]

Aye, if you're picking up Downtown, you're likely somewhere north of Newry, and well within the UK!

 

Coming from Banbridge I have a decent knowledge of where you can pick up the Northern and Southern stations!

 

If you did sail to Dublin then I'd expect  you to be fine anyway. Surely that's what the EU is all about.

[colino]

Hire companies have all their own rules.  AC for example states Mainland UK only, unless prior arrangement (mucho additional cash plus recovery liability etc., transferred to you).  That means that you can take it to NI no problem, over the ferry and everything but don't dare set a wheel over the border to Eire.

[NorfolkNWeigh]

Surely they would have been on the phone by now if they weren't happy.

A bit like if you allegedgedly exceeded the speed limit by a quite substantial amount in a rented Merc.

[mercrocker]

don't know about foreign country, but it's in a different time zone -1930s the last time I went.

 

 Disagree!

 

 The dash display quite clearly states it was already twenty to eight.

[chaseracer]

 Disagree!

 

 The dash display quite clearly states it was already twenty to eight.

 

All right, 1940s... 

[Des]

Northern Ireland isn't a foreign country.

 

Fucking well is, Tiocfaidh Ar La. Heinkel bubbles were made in Turfland, so that's my guess for the collection matter.

[saucedoctor]

Downtown Radio broadcasts (or did) from Newtownards, Co. Down. My cousin used to be a presenter on there.

 

There's a Heinkel Bubble at the bottom of Clarendon dock, if anyone wants it. My mate's dad chucked it in 40 odd years ago. He was a docker, and a big lad. Leaned against this thing while having a smoke, and the whole lot cracked, all over. So they turfed it in and said no more about it. There's an early Morris Landcrab down there as well.

 

Some companies haven't a clue. I had to phone Mercedes Assist when my C Class FTP one Sunday, and I actually had the girl on the other end of the phone to look up a map of the British Isles, and then explain to her that I lived on the smaller of the two islands, and that a Merc Dealer in  Scotland wasn't gonna be all that handy.

 

Rover/The AA were no better. My 214 broke down on the M5 out of Belfast and I had to keep saying "I'm nowhere near Birmingham! It's the M5 in Northern Ireland!"

[Alfamale]

Enterprise wouldn't let me take their S-Max to the Isle of White. When I mentioned we were off golfing and it would possibly get a bit muddy they suggested I might prefer to take a transit van instead. They got told to do one and I would leave their precious S-Max in Portsmouth. Yeah right....

[hairnet]

Haha south included in it due to EU bullshit

 

Corsavans are indeed shit

 

More than hour driving and dead leg

 

And I'm not tall

[hairnet]

This

 

And big thanks to martin

 

No fittage pics as due to glass soft top it has to come off for ht to go on placca don't apparently

 

Breakfast included this view this morning

 

And secret squirrel because I'd posted a cryptic message which the man of the house picked up on and it was a surprise as they didn't know I was there till I knocked one the door at 8am

 

They also don't own a car younger than 15 years old lol

 

Oh and the furrin cuntree thing is a joke I've been coming here 40 years lol

[Eddie Honda]

Insurance is automagically pan-Euro 3rd party.

 

I've been charged wee a bit extra for hiring a van in Dublin and taking it over the water. It's not so much insurance as a)repatriation in the event of a Breakdown and B ) bugger off with no intention of bringing it back.

[hairnet]

I wouldn't wanna keep it

[Eddie Honda]

True.

[Pillock]

They probably already know exactly where it is, any hire company that doesn't put a few hundred quids worth of tracker on their £20k van won't be trading long.

[Des]

Wot no Heinkel? TUT TUT TUT.

Little known factoid, everyone's heard the old ZZZZZ about the 2CV designed to transport a beret wearing, snail hunting François across a cratered up former battlefield smoothly enough to not upset the chickens in the back nor interfere with a handjob from the mistress. Well the brief for the Heinkel was that it would carry a flat cap donned Seamus, his Jack Russel, a hefty daughter and a sack of spuds across a bog without sinking, on a sup of petrol, and get on with it before some nosy bollocks comes to see what we're up to.

[hairnet]

They probably already know exactly where it is, any hire company that doesn't put a few hundred quids worth of tracker on their £20k van won't be trading long.

this lot are old skool hence corsavan

 

20k?? more like 2k

[warninglight]

Haven't been to Newcastle for a while! Part of my old stomping ground there!