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[vulgalour]

Because I'm shit at working out modern number plates I thought 56plate was brand new.  It isn't, it's ten years old, which makes the OMGHGF less surprising.

 

EDIT: We've had this new plate system for above a decade (17 years?  We're getting on for TWO decades!).  Why can't I get my head around it?  Why does everyone else find it easy?

[Kiltox]

Picked up a 56-plate Corsa for work which promptly broke down at Cobham services just off the M25 with head gasket failure, so I'm currently sat in an AA van having said vehicle recovered to mine. Fun.

Ouch. At least it's not yours though!

[strangeangel]

 spotted strangeangel's Spacy

 

 

*cough* FUSION *cough*

[beko1987]

Because I'm shit at working out modern number plates I thought 56plate was brand new. It isn't, it's ten years old, which makes the OMGHGF less surprising.

 

EDIT: We've had this new plate system for above a decade (17 years? We're getting on for TWO decades!). Why can't I get my head around it? Why does everyone else find it easy?

Here here! I still think V/S plates are brand new, I was 11...

[beko1987]

Picked up a 56-plate Corsa for work which promptly broke down at Cobham services just off the M25 with head gasket failure, so I'm currently sat in an AA van having said vehicle recovered to mine. Fun.

Can't you get it recovered to where you were taking it and claim all teh cash for the job? Just get the driver to pause momentarily near your hose so you can jump out...

[beko1987]

Also fun fact, Cobham is where I was taken off the m25 when the wheel fell off the zx! My mate who was with us had to leave after 10 minutes before the time limit and drive about for 20 minutes then come back to avoid a fine as he drove in, I was on a flatbed so my plate was obscured!

[New POD]

I have owned the ex-ColC and JohnK MV6 for 11 days and done 1154 miles at an average of 31.3 mpg.  I have ordered a Cabin Filter, wiper blades and front brakes from various sources, including Euro Car Parts, and Omegod of this Parish.

[For Fiats Sake]

The modernish panda has gone back to the garage for the aircon to be sorted (not blowing cold) and a mystery knocking going over cobbled streets, yes we still have cobbled streets in Halifax, I have to drive down one every day to leave work and the panda clonks away.  So they've given me a new 500 convertible.  I had a 500 for a short period of time before I got the first of my modernish panda's and most of the running gear is panda based.  Sports seats, sat down lower and a firmer ride are the main difference, was quite pokey for a 1.2.  Had a big central screen thing which is just for fancy radio and phone pairing and not a sat nav which seems a bit pointless.  Awful TFT display with a picture of the car and the slowest reacting digital rev counter and MPH in digits which still underread by 5mph.  I liked the DAB radio and managed to get radio 4 extra for some comedy programmes, but apart from that I don't know why people would want to pay 16k for a retracting roof 500.

I will be glad to get back into the Dame Edna Panda.

 

 

 

 

[drum]

As I was driving through the town in my allegro, I saw a man alerting his wife and children to my presence. I'd like to think he was impressed, but I suspect he was pointing and laughing.

[New POD]

Also fun fact, Cobham is the centre of the UK attack industry. Hush Hush now, nothing to see here

 

Edited for erm no particular reason. Missiles etc ??

[hairnet]

In an attempt to improve my chances of selling my car I put it in for an mot (current one runs out in February).

 

It failed on a broken spring and two balding tyres.

 

I'll be ordering a pair of Uniroyals tonight and have put the winters on for the retest so will be driving around looking like a twat for the next few days.

 

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mmmm scoatish stone hoose ,,,,,,,,,,

[johngarty]

The modernish panda has gone back to the garage for the aircon to be sorted (not blowing cold) and a mystery knocking going over cobbled streets, yes we still have cobbled streets in Halifax, I have to drive down one every day to leave work and the panda clonks away.  So they've given me a new 500 convertible.  I had a 500 for a short period of time before I got the first of my modernish panda's and most of the running gear is panda based.  Sports seats, sat down lower and a firmer ride are the main difference, was quite pokey for a 1.2.  Had a big central screen thing which is just for fancy radio and phone pairing and not a sat nav which seems a bit pointless.  Awful TFT display with a picture of the car and the slowest reacting digital rev counter and MPH in digits which still underread by 5mph.  I liked the DAB radio and managed to get radio 4 extra for some comedy programmes, but apart from that I don't know why people would want to pay 16k for a retracting roof 500.

I will be glad to get back into the Dame Edna Panda.

 

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What a fugly looking motah.

[Six-cylinder]

I have been to Camberley this afternoon and parked in a multi-storey carpark. No tickets just entry your reg number and a bill will be produced when you are ready to leave it said on the notice. Trouble is it said it did not recognize the reg number of the in the Sovereign S2 on black and silver plates so it seems the entry reader can't cope!

[hairnet]

The modernish panda has gone back to the garage for the aircon to be sorted (not blowing cold) and a mystery knocking going over cobbled streets, yes we still have cobbled streets in Halifax, I have to drive down one every day to leave work and the panda clonks away.  So they've given me a new 500 convertible.  I had a 500 for a short period of time before I got the first of my modernish panda's and most of the running gear is panda based.  Sports seats, sat down lower and a firmer ride are the main difference, was quite pokey for a 1.2.  Had a big central screen thing which is just for fancy radio and phone pairing and not a sat nav which seems a bit pointless.  Awful TFT display with a picture of the car and the slowest reacting digital rev counter and MPH in digits which still underread by 5mph.  I liked the DAB radio and managed to get radio 4 extra for some comedy programmes, but apart from that I don't know why people would want to pay 16k for a retracting roof 500.

I will be glad to get back into the Dame Edna Panda.

 

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dont dis pandaaaaaaa

[Kiltox]

Get that out of my sight before I set fire to it

[cobblers]

TFT display with a picture of the car and the slowest reacting digital rev counter

My Abarth "595" has the same TFT display but with older software and the revcounter is just about alright, the other week they gave me a new one as a courtesy car and it had fancy new software and graphics on the dash meaning the revcounter was so laggy you could get it to hit the limiter before the display said 3500rpm. Completely unreadable when driving too - useless!

 

That touchscreen stereo is shit too, the one I had defaulted to LOUD RADIO every time you turned it on, no matter what you did with it when you turned it off. that would be enough to put me into a deep deep depression over the space of a few weeks, you couldn't even tune the radio to static or something, it would only lock to an actual FM station which is honestly my idea of hell.

[fatharris]

Guy at work bought a Range Rover sport a couple of months back, done the usual when he bought it, cleaned it, fitted dash cam, y'know, normal stuff.

 

Battery light came on and he returned it to the garage for work.

 

Gets the car back and checks the dashcam - the mechanic had been using it to ferry his missus to the shops, and his mate somewhere else all the while joking about driving the car.

 

Another Chao has it another time and tries to do burnouts in it by standing on the brakes, flooring the throttle in "D" and letting go of the brakes.

 

The police have arrested the mechanic for TWOC and it's not looking good for the garage.

[hairnet]

Get that out of my sight before I set fire to it

its not a p38 theres fuck all rang wi it did 500 miles in 18 hours

 

apart from sat too high and my right leg goes to sleep and the aerial is shit and cant get rte radio its gr 12

[Lord Sterling]

Ouch. At least it's not yours though!

Yep, I finally got home at gone 11pm. Here is to another early start. Sigh....

 

Can't you get it recovered to where you were taking it and claim all teh cash for the job? Just get the driver to pause momentarily near your hose so you can jump out...

Car was recovered to mine, it got parked up and will now await further recovery. I still get paid for the job anyway but only once it's at it's destination which it should be by today.

[barefoot]

Just nipped to Castle Donington Co-Op in the Jaguar.

Not something I try to do because - fuel economy - but Scirocco ftp.

Parked up next to a chap in an Immaculate J registered black X300

He came from the next village, Shardlow. 

But because fuel economy, he'd come via Stoke on Trent!

Goes there regularly apparently, doesn't know the place, just the roundabout at the Mier Tunnel 

where he turns around and comes back!

[Kiltox]

its not a p38 theres fuck all rang wi it did 500 miles in 18 hours

 

apart from sat too high and my right leg goes to sleep and the aerial is shit and cant get rte radio its gr 12

Having spent 4 days putting an engine in one only to find it's still fucked they can all die

[M'coli]

Aye, but not being able to get RTé is a bit of a deal-breaker, to be fair.

[barmatt]

This all sounds good - if you can make use of it CF I'd be more than happy for you to be a temporary custodian! Car seems to be in the Norfolk countryside sans MOT so epic collections or Shiply would be in order...

 

 

 

Do you know how much work it needs for an mot? I could potentially go and have a look at it and stash it here for a little while if neccesary.

[hairnet]

Having spent 4 days putting an engine in one only to find it's still fucked they can all die

Cheaper to buy than fix - I never buy bikes excepted stuff cost more to likely fix than buy - if I could afford to do that I wouldn't buy sub 1k stuff

[dollywobbler]

Had yet another go at cleaning the S-MX's interior, then got the Bilt Hamber out for this pair.

[vulgalour]

For a second there I thought you'd had the weirdest crash.

[dollywobbler]

Ha! No. I have, however, discovered that the nearside front tyre on the S-MX is down to the chords. I'm ashamed. I've never done that before! Clearly, motorway speeds on an actually-dry motorway have hastened the demise of that tyre. It was merely a bit low on tread a couple of weeks ago when I last checked...

 

It's not going anywhere until the new tyres arrive - allegedly tomorrow.

[twosmoke300]

I did tell you it was bald on the inside !

[dollywobbler]

I did tell you it was bald on the inside !

 

Aye. It's a fair bit more than bald now...

 

Getting hold of tyres has proved frustrating. I really hope they do actually turn up tomorrow.

[New POD]

Just nipped to Castle Donington Co-Op in the Jaguar.

Not something I try to do because - fuel economy - but Scirocco ftp.

Parked up next to a chap in an Immaculate J registered black X300

He came from the next village, Shardlow. 

But because fuel economy, he'd come via Stoke on Trent!

Goes there regularly apparently, doesn't know the place, just the roundabout at the Mier Tunnel 

where he turns around and comes back!

 

 

I understand not the logic. So in order to achieve more than 10 mpg on a short journey of oh 2.5 miles each way, thus consuming 1/2 gallon of petrol, he drives 40 miles each way so he can push up his fuel consumption to what 27.5 MPG, by sitting it on cruise at 50 mph, and consumes 3 gallons, but hey his fuel consumption is better.

 

Plus he went over the Meir Tunnel and Not through it, (something that is fun/loud in the mx5 in 2nd, with the top down at the redline)

 

Knob I say. Knob.