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[Bear]

Fucking hell the AA are absolute shite. Good thing I'm not a motoring writer.

[SiC]

5 hours ago, RichardK said:

Fucking hell the AA are absolute shite. Good thing I'm not a motoring writer.

Are they trying to avoid covering you?

I know I've read in T&C's that they don't necessarily cover someone who has a flat in their spare tyre. Whether they enforce that is another matter. 

[egg]

For the fifth or sixth time since we've lived here someone has scraped my parked car. Thank fck it wasn't the Mondeo this time as the i10 was parked in the Mondy's spot. They left a note. People just cannot drive.

[JJ0063]

It’s what he would have wanted x

[wuvvum]

3 hours ago, SiC said:

I know I've read in T&C's that they don't necessarily cover someone who has a flat in their spare tyre. Whether they enforce that is another matter. 

I had to argue with the call handler to get them to come out when I had two blowouts on a trailer in the same journey (the fact that I had 3+ tonnes of Saviem tipper truck on the trailer was of course completely unrelated).

[Tony McVeigh]

Reply to egg:

Yep, people can't drive, as experienced when my Twingo got totalled when parked at 01:00 - plus side, got my 205 with the payout 😁

[HillmanImp]

Yeah, you never know whats going to happen. Look at the damage done to this guys car that was caught on his ring doorbell. The person who did it was obviously drunk. 

 

[Tony McVeigh]

Hilarious!!

 

[Datsuncog]

You told me you'd deleted that.

[egg]

One of those days, daughter's school taxi (Touran) 'smouldering' at side of road on way to pick her up....luckily another taxi that comes our way can bring her home. 

It's done 250,000+ miles though.

[stuboy]

Plugs arrived... just gotta find time to fit them whilst looming after mini stuboy 

[Low Horatio gearbox]

Inching closer to having the XJ back .. this week.

[Low Horatio gearbox]

4 hours ago, wuvvum said:

I had to argue with the call handler to get them to come out when I had two blowouts on a trailer in the same journey (the fact that I had 3+ tonnes of Saviem tipper truck on the trailer was of course completely unrelated).

Same experience with the AA after running over road debris thet holed the fuel tank  - fun fact plasterboard at 65 mph will hole a plastic Volvo petrol tank.  "We dont recover acccident damaged"  vehicles. It took 3 phone calls and a 4 hour wait and the patrolman was half a second from striking up and lighting a fag next to the car..

[Split_Pin]

I just came here to say I think these are such handsome buggers:

 

[Crackers]

I hate car hunting. I've got my sights set on buying a cheap barge for the winter, but as usual, I've got a fairly specific set of criteria. Bring on weeks upon weeks of frustration... if anyone's got a decent 530d/E320cdi/Saab turbo/Volvo T5 they want to part with, I'm interested...

[Dick Cheeseburger]

1 minute ago, Split_Pin said:

I just came here to say I think these are such handsome buggers:

 

No wonder.

They are were the future present now then. 

[Split_Pin]

17 minutes ago, Dick Longbridge said:

No wonder.

They are were the future present now then. 

A classic advertising strapline indeed. (Except the carried over engines and suspension!)

[Dick Cheeseburger]

1 minute ago, Split_Pin said:

A classic advertising strapping indeed. (Except the carried over engines and suspension!)

I still clearly remember the tv adverts from when the Calibra was launched. As a car-mad young teen, I wanted one! Fortunately I have managed to own a couple of Cavalier GSIs over the years so same difference. Ish. 

[HillmanImp]

23 minutes ago, Crackers said:

I hate car hunting. I've got my sights set on buying a cheap barge for the winter, but as usual, I've got a fairly specific set of criteria. Bring on weeks upon weeks of frustration... if anyone's got a decent 530d/E320cdi/Saab turbo/Volvo T5 they want to part with, I'm interested...

Its a nightmare these days. No £500 bangers that'll last a few months, they're all £1,500 now. 

If you were flush in the good old days, you'd maybe chuck an extra £500 in and throw a grand to get something a bit fancy but that's gonna be a £2.5k car now. 

If it grenades itself, thats a lot of money to lose. 

So you may as well go for a much better car thats 10 years newer and (hopefully) much less likely to blow up for not much more, say £3.5k. 

Bangernomics isn't making sense like it did. 

I think here is the place to buy, that Xantia @TheXUDfilesfiles is selling looks a proper barg. 

[Crackers]

3 minutes ago, HillmanImp said:

Its a nightmare these days. No £500 bangers that'll last a few months, they're all £1,500 now. 

If you were flush in the good old days, you'd maybe chuck an extra £500 in and throw a grand to get something a bit fancy but that's gonna be a £2.5k car now. 

If it grenades itself, thats a lot of money to lose. 

So you may as well go for a much better car thats 10 years newer and (hopefully) much less likely to blow up for not much more, say £3.5k. 

Bangernomics isn't making sense like it did. 

I think here is the place to buy, that Xantia @TheXUDfilesfiles is selling looks a proper barg. 

Couldn't have said it better. £1500 isn't gonna get me much, and for the sort of car I want, it'll be absolutely scraping the barrel for the ropiest, most risky examples.

However, a £3500 E-Class is potentially a worse proposition than a £1500 one... it's at risk of all the same faults as a £1500 one, but you stand to lose more money when it lets go. You're just paying the extra for it being a much better example while it's working. I could only risk it on a really short-term purchase, hoping it'll work properly for 6-7 months and then sell again for a small loss some time next year. 

What I really need is for someone on the forum to sell me a nice Saab estate in petrol turbo flavour so I can stick a Noobtune map on it (m8). That'd do nicely for a few months.

[reb]

If I needed an car for the winter I'd either buy @TheXUDfilesxantia or @jcr's fabia, even with the cost of an MOT for the Fabia it's still about the best bangernomics you could manage in the current market.

[sdkrc]

@Crackers have you considered a Lexus in your barge search?

http://www.autotrader.co.uk/car-details/202207318315849

[jcr]

24 minutes ago, reb said:

If I needed an car for the winter I'd either buy @TheXUDfilesxantia or @jcr's fabia, even with the cost of an MOT for the Fabia it's still about the best bangernomics you could manage in the current market.

Jcr will even deliver it to you....

[Ghosty]

1 hour ago, Crackers said:

Volvo T5

@GeordieInExile sell him the 850! 

[OM646]

Seems like the w203 failed the inspection (Portuguese equivalent of an MOT) over a shot track rod end.....sodding hell

[GeordieInExile]

10 hours ago, Ghosty said:

@GeordieInExile sell him the 850! 

I would if there was a suitable replacement on here that I could immediately stick the money into, but nothing is taking my fancy.

[Split_Pin]

After much deliberation I bought myself this:

Thanks to a thread search on here I read that the Dewalt DCF899 was a good bet. I went for the higher power battery too. My budget was £250, this just exceeded it.

I did look at the Ryobi equivalent which already came with a battery for £178 but I'd need to spend another £84 on the 5ah powerpack. 

[Fumbler]

Behold. An new tensioner pulley.

I chose metal because metal is better.

So better in fact that my finger was nommed while undoing the old one. Ho hum.

 

[hairnet]

have them hands ever done a drop o work
 

[Fumbler]

1 hour ago, hairnet said:

have them hands ever done a drop o work
 

Heh. In all seriousness, I'd just cleaned them very thoroughly before putting the plaster on.