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[BorniteIdentity]

the mx5 PASSED its mot retest today (with a catalyst borrowed off a mate) the CO emissions were still just within limits but a pass is a pass and I'm happy with that.

 

next year, I'll plan ahead and take it to the mx5 specialists down in Newcastle (ak automotive) and I won't have all this does it / doesn't it need a cat test nonsense.

 

the borrowed cat will be coming off asap, the car sounds and drives crap just now, she'll be roaring again by next week

What a load of nonsense and faff.

 

Sadly, the weather doesn't look great but enjoy it nonetheless.

[fraser.innes.3]

 

I just landed a job decommissioning submarines with a 15 year contract..

 

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If that is Rosyth, then a lot of them were recommissioned in the late 90s, but never left the docks. At a price of 50 million each. Used to drive past them all when I went to visit my staff there.

 

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[fraser.innes.3]

I don't want to cast aspersions on your new mates memory, but if he paid £11,000 for it, he was robbed.

I would have thought more like list of £8.5/9 , I'm sure £11k would have bought an RS Turbo!

My mate paid 11.5k for a 1.6 orion ghia in 86, so not too far off.

 

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[DodgyBastard]

If that is Rosyth, then a lot of them were recommissioned in the late 90s, but never left the docks. At a price of 50 million each. Used to drive past them all when I went to visit my staff there.

 

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It's Rosyth but I used a random pic from Google of a submarine.

There's 7 subs at Rosyth and another 20 at Devonport.

 

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[Kiltox]

Busy day tomorrow - offloading some shite and taking on some new

[taxi paul]

I have mine and my daughters car on a multicar policy with admirall. Renewal price £1;923.00 for both. Rang them today and said " I have been with you for five years now and Direct line can do the same cover for £200. Less. Can you match it ?" . Straight away a few adjustments and a loyalty discount and et voila new price £1,702.00. I rang aviva ,who sent me a letter saying car insurance from £196.00 per annum fully comp. My price for 52 yrs of age with 17 years no claims an eye watering £976.00 . How old are these low price drivers and where do they live.

[DodgeRover]

It's Rosyth but I used a random pic from Google of a submarine.

There's 7 subs at Rosyth and another 20 at Devonport.

 

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Do you think you could sneak one out the back doors when nobody is looking, I bet there's a good market for slightly used nuclear subs...

[Craig the Princess]

I have mine and my daughters car on a multicar policy with admirall. Renewal price £1;923.00 for both. Rang them today and said " I have been with you for five years now and Direct line can do the same cover for £200. Less. Can you match it ?" . Straight away a few adjustments and a loyalty discount and et voila new price £1,702.00. I rang aviva ,who sent me a letter saying car insurance from £196.00 per annum fully comp. My price for 52 yrs of age with 17 years no claims an eye watering £976.00 . How old are these low price drivers and where do they live.

Bloody hell, do you live in Mosul? I know a 17 year old would need to pay through the nose but I can't believe you would need to pay a grand. What do the meerkats say?

[Guest Hooli]

 How old are these low price drivers and where do they live.

 

40 years old & near Doncaster, £173 on the Saab 9-5 2.3t.

[garbaldy]

I have mine and my daughters car on a multicar policy with admirall. Renewal price £1;923.00 for both. Rang them today and said " I have been with you for five years now and Direct line can do the same cover for £200. Less. Can you match it ?" . Straight away a few adjustments and a loyalty discount and et voila new price £1,702.00. I rang aviva ,who sent me a letter saying car insurance from £196.00 per annum fully comp. My price for 52 yrs of age with 17 years no claims an eye watering £976.00 . How old are these low price drivers and where do they live.

45 postcode TD12 4JD

Lancer £240

Pug 206 £145

Tiger 800 £128

Classic colt and rangie* £205

Mini 1600 daughters car £1144

All the above are fully comp with zero voluntary excess and the daughter passed her test last week and has her own insurance.

 

Postcode really is the key

 

* Cough cough don't tell anyone.

[Kiltox]

Prepped* my quality* used car for collection by removing 3 months worth of general litter from the back

[Kiltox]

I was paying £1700 a year for road risks only trade cover, third party only. Now £550 for the Duster on its own fully comprehensive with a £250 excess because I have 0 private no claims

[The Moog]

 

 

Do you think you could sneak one out the back doors when nobody is looking, I bet Cavcraft would kill for a shonky XUD Bosch pumped sub..

Efa

[Guest Hooli]

I was paying £1700 a year for road risks only trade cover, third party only. Now £550 for the Duster on its own fully comprehensive with a £250 excess because I have 0 private no claims

 

Won't they mirror your years of claim freeness? I've done that going from classic to normal insurance, got a discount worth the same as NCD everytime. All it needed was a letter saying 'Kiltox has been with us x years & never claimed' from the old company.

[Kiltox]

Some insurers might however they tend to be the ones they quote £2000 with 0NCB!

[Guest Hooli]

Set light to it & get your monies worth then

[HMC]

Oops, I did it Again

 

It might seem like a crush

 

But it doesn't mean that I'm serious

 

Yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah

 

Due to arrive next week, I'm definitely out of space now!

[RobT]

^^Get rid of the 2008 Merc, then lack of space solved!

[anonymous user]

I have started "upgrading" the interior of the C15 camper, I need to cover up the headache inducing fabric

Fortunately this is something I can do with a staple gun.

It is also doing a job that the van couldn't, delivering a piece of furniture which would have been too long for the van but just squeezes down the middle of the camper.

No it's not my coffin, it's a set of bookshelves.

[phil_lihp]

What engine's in that 800 then? Did they ever do a V8? Looks very clean.

[chodweaver]

Level unlocked: fitted new Voyager spark plugs. Difficulty level: fiddly/raining. One point lost: old spark plug dropped onto subframe/rear cross member.

Jubilation level: elevated

 

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[HMC]

What engine's in that 800 then? Did they ever do a V8? Looks very clean.

Rover 2.0 t series turbo. This one is the 180bhp job which I felt more than enough for these but they can be had in 200bhp flavour too

[Kiltox]

One shitter inflicted on its new owner, now on a train for collection capers!

[egg]

Postcode really is the key

 

It's funny really, I live in a workaday coastal town with it's fair share of teenage messing about and coastal deprivation etc (its perfectly ordinary really, not Rhyl but not Sandbanks either!), but premiums seem low here and I can only think that the huge number of garaged giffer-mobiles keeps the prices down.

 

£180 for the Fusion, £150 for the Mondy (both with business cover) and £109 for the Fav on classic insurance.

[reb]

I'm £275 a month for the Golf at the moment, which works out at something like £3k a year I think. I think they were getting annoyed I changed cars every few months. Hopefully come renewal I can fit both the Golf and the pug into the same cost. I've been driving less than a year though, and combining that with something with "GT" in the name isn't great.

 

 

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[HMC]

This arrived today, hauled behind some suitably shitey transport....

[Supernaut]

So... does anybody near Manchester want a Citroen Xantia for MEGA CHEAPS?

 

I... just won a car in Manchester. It's Japanese, and quite nice looking actually.

[bub2006]

Stop teasing me with that xantia!

[Kiltox]

£7.59 for a pasty and a coffee in Bristol Temple Meads. Fucking hell!!

[bub2006]

£7.59 for a pasty and a coffee in Bristol Temple Meads. Fucking hell!!

I made the error of eating in a national trust cafe a while back. Two small bottles of pop, two piece of cake and a child's jacket potato was nearly 18 quid.