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[Floatylight]

23 minutes ago, Tim_E said:

The Aussie model, is it?

To be fair my phone has recently started doing this. I wonder if it's an Android update bug. Do you use Android?

Yes android..

[artdjones]

1 hour ago, louiepj said:

My 18 year old son pays £1400 for a 1.2 polo with a black box.

I just helped a friend's daughter buy her first car, a 2005 Yaris 1.0. €1500 insurance for a twenty year old.

[louiepj]

ABS light came on due to sensor wire coming free from securing grommet on the Alhambralaxy and chafing through, so I ordered cheapest sensor on ebay for quick fix.
Didn't go well as sensor was giving wrong resistance and failing abs self test so I chopped them up and made my own.
Will be a temporary repair till it fails again or i remember to buy a decent replacement.

[artdjones]

On 3/5/2021 at 9:49 PM, chancer said:

Great wee vans, had one for 10 years now. That one seems to be sitting pretty high at the back, the gap between tyre and back bumper is huge. Has it just had a new axle fitted?

I took off the caps in the centre of the rear hubs today to straighten them as some moron had mangled them by driving them in too far. The stub axles look new, so I'd say it has had an axle in the past couple of years.

[SiC]

My first insurance policy was £1200 in 2004 on a 1.7CTDi Civic. That's pretty much £1900 in today's money. So prices haven't changed that much really. However none of this black box crap when I started driving though. Probably a good thing as I'd be paying even more considering how I used to drive! 

It does get better as you get older. I'm now 35 and just paid £80 for the year to insure the BMW E28 for a year. All of my 7 cars together cost less than a grand to insure for a year. 

Just don't crash for a good few years though...

[GrumpiusMaximus]

I think we pay around £500 for our joint policy.  Early thirties, have been driving for years with no claims and have sensible cars.  Not terrible.

Stung a bit that my partner's Dad was quoted at around £100 a year for a 1.25 Fiesta a couple of weeks ago!

[Tadhg Tiogar]

2 hours ago, Tadhg Tiogar said:

....and we're up to 7 LEDs (fully charged) on already. Better not be false reading 

Still holding, so started up and had the dim-dip mode running:

...and bizarrely the outside temperature sensor (third LCD on the right) seems to have reset itself to read correctly instead of showing tropical temperatures:

[GeorgeB]

21 hours ago, High Jetter said:

Was a) the car not securely on the stands, b) the exhaust subject to excessive force, or c) being careful not worth the risk?

a) No.  It was securely on the stands.

b) I was waggling it to try and get a joint apart.

c) Because of what I was doing I went for the advised safety precaution and used axle stands. It didn't help.

[GeorgeB]

9 hours ago, Steve79 said:

This mornings mot for the aero hot did not fall in its favour

 

Did you really put it in for an MOT without checking the lights?

[richardmorris]

14 minutes ago, Tadhg Tiogar said:

Still holding, so started up and had the dim-dip mode running:

...and bizarrely the outside temperature sensor (third LCD on the right) seems to have reset itself to read correctly instead of showing tropical temperatures:

And you win tonight’s CX raffle for having three working LED displays! I’ve not used my ctek charger yet, but my dad put it on his modern ds4 with good results.

[Tadhg Tiogar]

2 minutes ago, richardmorris said:

And you win tonight’s CX raffle for having three working LED displays!...

Yes, but I had to cannibalise three half-broken units just to make one good one! It's all down to the polarising filters leaking out over time.

[Skizzer]

1 hour ago, GeorgeB said:

Did you really put it in for an MOT without checking the lights?

How tedious, the sad lonely troll is back again.

Fuck off Ben, get a life.

adds to ignore list again

[outlaw118]

On 3/12/2021 at 5:16 PM, Asimo said:

And while I am thinking of work for the forum gurus, how about a function that detected a duplicate link so as to prevent repeated posts all pointing to the same ad?

I suggested this some time ago, there must be some way of detecting duplicate IRL's (or whatever they're called)

[GeorgeB]

4 minutes ago, Skizzer said:

How tedious, the sad lonely troll is back again.

Fuck off Ben, get a life.

adds to ignore list again

What was wrong with that question?

Fuck off yourself.

[Tadhg Tiogar]

4 hours ago, SiC said:

My first insurance policy was £1200 in 2004 on a 1.7CTDi Civic. That's pretty much £1900 in today's money. So prices haven't changed that much really. However none of this black box crap when I started driving though. Probably a good thing as I'd be paying even more considering how I used to drive! 

It does get better as you get older. I'm now 35 and just paid £80 for the year to insure the BMW E28 for a year. All of my 7 cars together cost less than a grand to insure for a year. 

Just don't crash for a good few years though...

That is very good going.

I've got the two cars under Admiral for about £620 total this year, and even that feels like a bargain for London area. I'm considerably older than you but picked up two claims in the last six years, so that's knocked the premium somewhat.

[artdjones]

13 hours ago, Tadhg Tiogar said:

That is very good going.

I've got the two cars under Admiral for about £620 total this year, and even that feels like a bargain for London area. I'm considerably older than you but picked up two claims in the last six years, so that's knocked the premium somewhat.

It's miniscule by Irish standards. I've got a friend just coming up to 30 who's had a couple of claims against him in the last few years, one of which hasn't been finally settled. He made the mistake of emigrating to Holland last spring so that himself and his wife could help look after her father. Because of Covid it didn't work out, so they came back 3 months later. He then tried to get insurance on a 1 litre car and couldn't get a better quote than €5000 pa.

[SiC]

13 hours ago, Tadhg Tiogar said:

That is very good going.

I've got the two cars under Admiral for about £620 total this year, and even that feels like a bargain for London area. I'm considerably older than you but picked up two claims in the last six years, so that's knocked the premium somewhat.

That's one non fault claim (but total loss) for myself in that mix too. Never appeared to made much a difference to my quotes though. Two nine year plus NCB, one 1 year NCB, one two year NCB and the rest classics. 

I'm in a village in Somerset, so that also helps. That being said, the last place we moved from was on the outskirts but still inside Bristol and the prices were only a tad more to what I'm paying now. 

[Borsuq]

Went on my first drive of the year. Feels good.

[captain_70s]

28 minutes ago, SiC said:

That's one non fault claim (but total loss) for myself in that mix too. Never appeared to made much a difference to my quotes though.

Fannying about on comparison sites recently.

Insuring a classic is about £200-400 a year with commuting included and no "other car for daily use", depending on mileage (having a daily car brings it down to £100-200 a year).

A post 1990 "modern" runs £500-700, I have 0 no claims due to running classic policies for years, but it seems that a year of NCD only knocks off about £30, then each year after takes a tenner of the yearly policy.

It seems it's mostly down to location, I'm looking at insuring old worthless shitters, but my mate lived a couple of streets over from me a while ago and his quotes for a JCW Mini and later a BMW 135 were similar to mine at £700 odd a year. I'm 29 now but it was cheaper to insure a fleet of three cars at 23 up in the rural north east than it is to insure a single car in Glasgow.

[Steve79]

21 hours ago, GeorgeB said:

Did you really put it in for an MOT without checking the lights?

Definitely, the battery was on charge all night as it was totally flat and didn't have time to faff around before the mot.

Still have 12days left on mot and mate owns the mot station so have left him to sort it.

[spike60]

I planned to do some necessary fettling to the 2007 Merc E class daily this weekend but the suspension arm had it's post arrival date amended from 12/3 to 26/3 after being posted RM in the UK, the wheels weren't ready at the refurbisher as promised and the non vital impact gun battery pack took 5 days to send first class. Hmm. Won't be doing that then.

As we haven't seen a gritter for a week or so I fitted a battery on  the old S class which has been hibernating since the end of October and brought it out blinking into the light and gave it a run out of about 10 miles. All was well, or at least as well as most 36 year old cars. It pulls like fook to the left, the headlining is saggy and it is a little tappety at warm idle, - exactly like it was when I put it away. Oh, and the aeriel now sticks. Here it is with 5 month old work grot and fresh garage dust, the camera lies a bit.

All looks OK in the Merc world after it's first run of the year.

 

One odd habit it has is the gearbox leaks when parked for a good while though it's fine in regular use. Two oil slicks on the garage floor (car was turned round after 3 weeks) from the winter though drive is clean when the car is use. Any ideas?

[rainagain]

On 3/13/2021 at 8:45 PM, GeorgeB said:

Did you really put it in for an MOT without checking the lights?

I know you shouldn't feed the trolls but I couldn't resist this

[Tadhg Tiogar]

2 hours ago, spike60 said:

...One odd habit it has is the gearbox leaks when parked for a good while though it's fine in regular use. Two oil slicks on the garage floor (car was turned round after 3 weeks) from the winter though drive is clean when the car is use. Any ideas?

Not that odd. Some Citroens do it as well - mine included, but it's never a consistent leak. If I park it on a paved driveway, there will be a stain underneath within a couple of days. But if I park it on the street, the tarmac stays bone-dry.

...and in the end, it wasn't a gearbox leak but a very slow weep from a LHM pipe or its connector above the gearbox. It was so elusive that it's taken me this long to track it down.

[Jmac]

2 hours ago, spike60 said:

I planned to do some necessary fettling to the 2007 Merc E class daily this weekend but the suspension arm had it's post arrival date amended from 12/3 to 26/3 after being posted RM in the UK, the wheels weren't ready at the refurbisher as promised and the non vital impact gun battery pack took 5 days to send first class. Hmm. Won't be doing that then.

As we haven't seen a gritter for a week or so I fitted a battery on  the old S class which has been hibernating since the end of October and brought it out blinking into the light and gave it a run out of about 10 miles. All was well, or at least as well as most 36 year old cars. It pulls like fook to the left, the headlining is saggy and it is a little tappety at warm idle, - exactly like it was when I put it away. Oh, and the aeriel now sticks. Here it is with 5 month old work grot and fresh garage dust, the camera lies a bit.

All looks OK in the Merc world after it's first run of the year.

 

One odd habit it has is the gearbox leaks when parked for a good while though it's fine in regular use. Two oil slicks on the garage floor (car was turned round after 3 weeks) from the winter though drive is clean when the car is use. Any ideas?

23 more miles and you will have 123456 on the mileage 😀

[Cord Fourteener]

7 hours ago, captain_70s said:

Fannying about on comparison sites recently.

Insuring a classic is about £200-400 a year with commuting included and no "other car for daily use", depending on mileage (having a daily car brings it down to £100-200 a year).

A post 1990 "modern" runs £500-700, I have 0 no claims due to running classic policies for years, but it seems that a year of NCD only knocks off about £30, then each year after takes a tenner of the yearly policy.

It seems it's mostly down to location, I'm looking at insuring old worthless shitters, but my mate lived a couple of streets over from me a while ago and his quotes for a JCW Mini and later a BMW 135 were similar to mine at £700 odd a year. I'm 29 now but it was cheaper to insure a fleet of three cars at 23 up in the rural north east than it is to insure a single car in Glasgow.

You lot are making me think I get cheap insurance. 

Classic Porsche 924 sdp 4000 miles per year: £100 (now swapped for Volvo)

'89 Volvo not on classic but on sdp limited mileage 4000 (odometer is not working though): £100

Pretty much all my recent early 2000s powerful cars including Saab 93 2.0 turbo and BMW 325i on full business insurance 20,000 miles:£200-£300

I don't have masses of NCB, a few years currently but I do have 22 years as a licensed driver and named driver. 

I also have a backwater rural Welsh postcode. Maybe that's the clincher. 

 

[Tadhg Tiogar]

7 minutes ago, Tim_E said:

...I also have a backwater rural Welsh postcode. Maybe that's the clincher. 

That kind of helps. The sort of place where nobody can go (partly because Count Drakecula won't allow it)

[Cord Fourteener]

14 minutes ago, Tadhg Tiogar said:

That kind of helps. The sort of place where nobody can go (partly because Count Drakecula won't allow it)

Literally the only crime in our area is organised farm machinery theft. And the occasional speeding ticket or car crash related offence. I don't even lock the house or car doors, sometimes I forget to take the keys out of the cars. 

[Carlosfandango]

Still up to me hole in Land Rover repairs and trying to get to the RRC restoration but in the meantime, got the Bonnie started today in anticipation of some better weather. 
 

CFD 

[wuvvum]

Got almost nothing done on the fleet this weekend, due to wind, rain and the fact I've been mostly playing with pushbikes.  The Renault 6 got its second halogen headlight bulb, and the petrol C2 and Rover 75 got a new driver's side wiper blade each, but that was about it.  Oh, I bought a new mini jump pack off eBay and it arrived on Friday, and got put more or less straight to work as the Felicia had a flat battery.  It's one of these:

It was only £25, but it's a lot chunkier than the last one I had, and it has an LED voltage indicator built into the lead assembly.  It spun the Skoda over very nicely.

Storm Whateverthefuckthisonewascalled has finally done for the car cover which has been on the Renault 6 for most of the winter.

I'm trying to decide whether to get another - maybe slightly more robust this time - or whether it's close enough to spring that I don't need to.

I went for a bike ride this afternoon on my new (to me) folding mountain bike that I'd spent half of Saturday afternoon fettling.  The ride was cut short because it started to rain, but I did come across this surprisingly tame pheasant - usually when I come upon pheasants whilst out on the bike they shit themselves and fly away in a panic, but this one didn't seem in the least bit phased by my presence - it was only about 5 feet away but was just wandering around quite nonchalantly.

[mitsisigma01]

Found this whilst scrolling thru tinterweb earlier, thought it could come in useful on some threads on here 😉

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