More Scrappage, GRRRR

[FredTransit]

Just found an interesting article on the Bangernomics website

 

http://www.bangernomics.com/Bangertorial.html

[mattblack]

Give me an old fashioned primatic gravity fed heating system over one of those new fangled combi's any day. I suppose its like Boilahshite!

I thought we were the only people who still had a primatic system... 20+ year old 'Glow-Worm' FTW! Only disadvantage I can see is you can't put flushing stuff/inhibitor in.Re. benefits, I've been unemployed since the end of March. Should be starting a new job in the next week or so though. Signing on is not a pleasant experience, I recon jobcentre staff must hit the cooking sherry/aldi vodka/meths as soon as they get home.

[Father Ted]

Give me an old fashioned primatic gravity fed heating system over one of those new fangled combi's any day. I suppose its like Boilahshite!

I thought we were the only people who still had a primatic system... 20+ year old 'Glow-Worm' FTW! Only disadvantage I can see is you can't put flushing stuff/inhibitor in..

Not really an issue if the system is not overpumped and doesnt draw fresh cold water into the heat exchanger - once its been round the system a few times the water doesnt seem to cause the same oxidisation as fresh water. We replaced our primatic tank with a new one 14 years ago, i gather they cant be easily got hold of now.Replaced a leaky Vulcan Continental with a Baxi Solo, its a 40,000 BTU, but its been "turned up" to pump out 50,000 BTU according to the manometer anyway.I run the system using a pair of thermostats coupled to a solid state relay "OR gate" so when either the room stat or cylinder stat call for heat it cycles up - the house is maintained at a constant 60 degrees and the thermostat cranked up in the morning and evening to 70 if needed ( the cylinder is set at 55 degrees). Sounds costly Not really to heat a 3/4 bed well insulated semi costs £40/ month over tthe whole year for heat and water for 5 of us (oh and cooking gas too).having the boiler cycle on a low light almost constantly oddly makes for very little in the way of soot and crap inside, I only hoover it out once a year and there really is very little crap inside when I pull the front off.Ahh, boilershite.

[Guest]

Lately it seems like every other thread on here involves old boilers of some description.

[MrRegieRitmo]

[pogweasel]

Lately it seems like every other thread on here involves old boilers of some description.

Literally PMSL. Bastard!!

[whitevanman]

Lately it seems like every other thread on here involves old boilers of some description.

carefull what you say next.................the ladeez dont like to be dissed

[FredTransit]

I don't know who you mean

[pogweasel]

Boiler scrappage update:Rads are all in (lovely), gas piped up, tomorrow the boiler goes in. Amusingly, the plumber lad managed to drill through the still-live cold feed today, flooding the kitchen. Still, he owns a Mk1 Escort and a Caterham R300, so I will forgive him. At least I am off nights now so won't be awoken tomorrow after 2hrs kip to find him poking about my bedroom.

[mouseflakes]

This is an interesting scrappage victim.

 

Allowing for scene tax, might it have made more than £2,000? (low miles, one owner).

 

Having said that though - it's quite rusty.

 

How did it pass an MOT with this riveted sill repair? Looks over a year old so must have been tested with it, if the test was still current when it was scrappaged.

 

[Volksy]

A lot of MOT testers think these, and older VW vans are separate chassied, so sills aren't structural. However they arn't and they are..Could be why.. or a bent MOT...

[Dukestar25]

Father Ted wrote:

Wild horses and the promise of a weekend of wild doggy doggy style sex with Anneka Rice and Carol Vordeman with a giant tub of swarfega would not persuade me to part with my Baxi gravity fed heating system. It may be old, it may (alledgedly) be inefficient, but it has 2 movng parts in the entire system (gas valve and water pump) and because of its set up costs me less than my neighbours newish Woooster combisshite to run, and has broken down less in 14 years than Jons has in 3 years.

Carol Vorderman doesn't really do it for me, but i do agree with you about the Combi's, a friend of mine has had his replaced TWICE in five years with several breakdowns in between.My free-standing Baxi is as reliable as they get. Even so, I applied for a 'warm front' grant a year or two back, as I recieve the qualifying benefits and am below the required earnings threshold, as I was also informed that a Combi is cheaper to run blah, blah... anyway, everything was fine and I was going to get a new Combi fitted but then the engineer of the company who were to fit the new heater vito'd my application because my Baxi was STILL WORKING!!!

[trigger]

Carol Vorderman doesn't really do it for me,

What! I always used to watch countdown just so i could perv at her ever growing... 'knowledge'.

[Dukestar25]

Carol Vorderman doesn't really do it for me,

What! I always used to watch countdown just so i could perv at her ever growing... 'knowledge'.

Well, maybe then - I was more taken to Anneka Rice in that jumpsuit. The camera always used to get a good rear end shot of her too .. grrrr!!!

[ashmicro]

This should probably be in the Miserable Old Bastard Complaining thread but anyway - I lost my job at the back end of 2007 and had to do the Job Centre Experience. I'd never signed on since I was a student in the holidays (and even then I worked for part of the time) and I must say it was the most soul destroying experience. To be fair to the JC staff, they were pleasant enough to me but dealing with that crowd of fucking no-hopers every day must sap the life blood out of you. And as you say, not a scrap of help. Beloved is a midwife so she sees knock-off knob-head extended families and theit knocked up women first hand (though unfortunately for her it's not their hands she has to attend to) A dismal experience at times.

I worked in several Belfast JobCentres some years ago. It is soul destroying, and the pay is SHIT. Yet these fucking mouth-breathers came in every week/fortnight with better mobile phones and trainers than I had.One cunt took a swing at me one time too. I gubbed him, went home and resigned by fax.Said Chav wanted me prosecuted but the RUC told him to nob off, it was all on CCTV and I was defending myself.All that said, the system allows it, and implicitly encourages it.

[andrew e]

Sending a 1995 Clio owned by wife and mother to the grave, for a new Picanto in August....

[FredTransit]

Sending a 1995 Clio owned by wife and mother to the grave, for a new Picanto in August....

Shame on you, OK it's only a clio, but have you taken no notice whatsoever in what I have said about getting the discount anyway?

[r.welfare]

If you can get a £2k discount off a £6k Picanto without using the scrappage allowance, I will eat my hat. £2k off a £12k Astra or something, sure, but not off a bottom-feeder supermini.

[andrew e]

Nothing off small cars whatsoever Fred... been looking... Bought new by my wife in 1995, Unfortunately the single injection point system has gone pop, its a £600 tops car that's done 130k. Be sad to see it go, but ultimately a 17 year old version of myself would have totalled it anyway after having it 2 weeks.... on the plus side it means the mother in law has power steering and more upright seats - the seating postion was the reason she never had my mums 28k 2002 Megane, when it was PX'd for a new Fiesta 2 weeks ago.

[Mr Lobster]

^ as R.Welf says, you won't negotiate a £2k discount off a Piccanto. Few hundred quid maybe but thats about all.Shame to see anything scrapped but the reality is the vast majority of cars probably only had a year or so left anyway. Not that I'm condoning the whole scrappage scheme y'know just that it's not all cherishable old stuff thats going. An awful lot of it is getting fairly close to the end of its realistic working life without significant investment.Been keeping an eye on what the Citroen dealer next to work is sending for scrappage destruction. This weeks haul has seen a 'T' plate Xsara Estate, 405 and two Escorts, none of which looked particularly lovely tbh.

[FredTransit]

I read on RR that the crappage scheme will be ending early.

[Justin Case]

RR first with the news? :

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article ... ugust.html

[FredTransit]

No, that's where I read it first.......

[fiatdaft]

not all manufacturers offer discount,you will get it off a pre reg car though,but you will still pay the sticker price, that on some models will look 4-5 k off the list price but its still classed as a secondhand car.

[Vin]

The Panda 4x4 that started this thread off didn't get scrapped....I've bought it Pompei's mate who used to own it, is also a mate of mine, and I knew this car inside and out (we used to go to shows, my 45 CL, this 4x4). Alright, I may have paid over the odds, but I would have gladly paid that 3 years ago when my mate sold it (only I didn't have it then....) as the only other in this condition I know of is in a heated garage in Bradford.It now has a role in my Sister's wedding in August, I am driving my other sister as bridesmade to the church in it. The bride is being driven to the church by my Dad in my 126 FSM.......

[M'coli]

The Panda 4x4 that started this thread off didn't get scrapped....I've bought it Pompei's mate who used to own it, is also a mate of mine, and I knew this car inside and out (we used to go to shows, my 45 CL, this 4x4). Alright, I may have paid over the odds, but I would have gladly paid that 3 years ago when my mate sold it (only I didn't have it then....) as the only other in this condition I know of is in a heated garage in Bradford.It now has a role in my Sister's wedding in August, I am driving my other sister as bridesmade to the church in it. The bride is being driven to the church by my Dad in my 126 FSM.......

Bless! That's so good, I have a soft spot for the 126 and the Panda.

[Gompo]

Well done for rescuing the Panda. On a slightly related note I've just been trying to find a Puch t-shirt..

[andrew e]

SUPURB WORK

[dollywobbler]

Excellent! Quite a few classics have been saved now. Top work.

[Mr Lobster]

http://www.am-online.com/news/story/Suz ... s/42900507

Suzuki dealers have seen some unusual and classic cars traded in under the scheme. These include a Fiat Coupe, Triumph TR7 and Spitfire, BMW 2002, Jaguar XJ Sport, Mercedes-Benz 380 SLC, several MGBs and a Rover Mini Italian Job