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[stuboy]

thinking of buying a number plate, seller says all i need to do is send v5 details over, this right??

Anyone have any ideas?

[xtriple]

If it's from a vendor then they need to assign t to you before it can be assigned to your car, so not sure. However, rules seem to change daily so best to go on the DVLA website and check, it seems to be all on there and easy t read.

 

 

For the DVLA that is!

[They_all_do_that_sir]

Think theres an £80 DVLA transfer fee

 

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[davehedgehog31]

Hit a big fucker of a pothole in the Alto last night and thought the steering was quite heavy when I parked up. 

 

Flat tyre, of course. Luckily the spare is in the boot and seems to be a full size tyre rather than a scabby space saver. 

[Tadhg Tiogar]

Think it might be a good idea to buy one of those Pela-type suction pumps to draw out some of that burnt gearbox fluid whilst waiting for the CX to be called in for the rebuild.

[Arthur Foxhake]

The 24 hour bug I reported about on Saturday had me in bed again until today. Finally woke up without stomach cramps and a headache and raging temperature.

So I changed the oil and filter on the Transit and fitted a new track rod end. Good times.

Then I lost a game of fart roulette. Bad times. Fucking virus.

[vulgalour]

Suitable boards for doing the Princess boot interior panels (that BL never installed to any trim level) got from Hobbycraft for a tenner.  £2 for magnets, since the boards are going directly to metal bits.  Leather salvaged from a sofa we binned, that in turn was given to us for free.  I could well end up with the boot custom retrimmed in black for for a mere £12.  Then I just need to find a decent sized orange rug to make a new carpet.  Happy days.

[320touring]

The 24 hour bug I reported about on Saturday had me in bed again until today. Finally woke up without stomach cramps and a headache and raging temperature.

So I changed the oil and filter on the Transit and fitted a new track rod end. Good times.

Then I lost a game of fart roulette. Bad times. Fucking virus.

Does that mean the merc doesn't need painted camo now?

[Arthur Foxhake]

My boss is convinced I caught the virus from the merc!

[skattrd]

A little work done on the 205 today, new drop link and wishbone fitted to the o/s and new CV boot to the n/s.

 

 

The journey home from the garage definitely involved less clonks from the suspension.

I have now noticed that the steering wheel is a tad askew, if it annoys me enough I'll think about fixing it.

[DodgeRover]

Think it might be a good idea to buy one of those Pela-type suction pumps to draw out some of that burnt gearbox fluid whilst waiting for the CX to be called in for the rebuild.

I would just leave it and let the garage sort it tbh.

[Tadhg Tiogar]

I would just leave it and let the garage sort it tbh.

I'd agree with you, but I'm strangely drawn to having a closer look at the debris and shite that's suspended in the fluid....

[wuvvum]

I bought an updated map disc for the sat nav in the Rover 75, as the existing maps were rather out of date.  The package also included a firmware update disc, but when I looked into the system I found that it was actually already running the latest version.  So I just popped the new map disc in and... it's made bugger all difference as far as I can see.  The new estate at the end of my road (which has been there a couple of years now so should feature on a "2018" map) doesn't show up.  In fact the disc which came with the sat nav when I bought it says 2014 on it - and it's missing a number of roads / features that were in existence before 2014.  So maybe BMW map updates are just really shite, I don't know?

[Tadhg Tiogar]

.... maybe BMW map updates are just really shite, I don't know?

....or maybe they just don't think it's worth catering for Rovers anymore?

[Lord Sterling]

If anyone remembers the Ferrari 500bb I posted a few weeks ago - it’s going up for sale at Sotheby’s gold auction.

https://www.theguardian.com/business/2018/oct/16/sothebys-gold-ferrari-and-24-carat-bedding-auction?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other

Cool, I might put in a bid.

[NorfolkNWeigh]

I bought an updated map disc for the sat nav in the Rover 75, as the existing maps were rather out of date.  The package also included a firmware update disc, but when I looked into the system I found that it was actually already running the latest version.  So I just popped the new map disc in and... it's made bugger all difference as far as I can see.  The new estate at the end of my road (which has been there a couple of years now so should feature on a "2018" map) doesn't show up.  In fact the disc which came with the sat nav when I bought it says 2014 on it - and it's missing a number of roads / features that were in existence before 2014.  So maybe BMW map updates are just really shite, I don't know?

I think like all of us , you've been spoiled by Google Maps/ Waze etc. Car sat nav is shit, I recently rented a Tucson that was brand new with 4 miles on the clock, the nav didn't have a by-pass on it that's been open for 5 years. Whatever I'm driving, and sometimes it's shit that costs as much as a house, I've always got my destination set in my phone too.

[Floatylight]

I bought an updated map disc for the sat nav in the Rover 75, as the existing maps were rather out of date. The package also included a firmware update disc, but when I looked into the system I found that it was actually already running the latest version. So I just popped the new map disc in and... it's made bugger all difference as far as I can see. The new estate at the end of my road (which has been there a couple of years now so should feature on a "2018" map) doesn't show up. In fact the disc which came with the sat nav when I bought it says 2014 on it - and it's missing a number of roads / features that were in existence before 2014. So maybe BMW map updates are just really shite, I don't know?

Be careful with the firmware updates, a few years ago I popped a firmware update disc into my Magnetti Marelli unit in a C8 only for it to brick the unit, only resolution was to send it to Magnetti Marelli HQ in Italy for repair at a cost of 400 Euro + Carriage!!!

 

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[wuvvum]

Yup, the firmware disc has stayed in its packaging - I'm always dubious about these kinds of things, especially with modern* cars where it seems you have to leave the passenger rear door open, switch on the right indicator and the left map reading light, and riverdance backwards round the car thrice whilst singing Bohemian Rhapsody in F# minor or the whole thing will crash and burn.

 

....or maybe they just don't think it's worth catering for Rovers anymore?

It's a BMW CD - the entire setup is BMW.

[egg]

I still use paper maps. 

 

But to be fair, I don't really go anywhere much.

[GrumpiusMaximus]

My estate is barely on Google Maps.  My house isn't.  If you look at it from the street view, it's all fields.  They haven't had a car up here since 2009, apparently.  The roads are all marked on the map view but my postcode isn't on there so there's always the phone call to check where I am...

 

I trust Google Maps to a point - but there have been a few instances recently where they haven't updated for all the new builds in quite a while.  Noticed it around Swanscombe the other day, too.

[wuvvum]

Heh, just looked at Google Streetview and they sent a car up the "main" road which my road joins onto in October 2015, so it shows the new estate (or the bit which had been built by then), but the camera car didn't drive onto the estate itself for some reason.  It did however manage to pap my neighbour in his diesel Piaggio Porter pickup, stopped on the wrong side of the road nattering to someone.

 

The car has been up my road twice - the first time presumably in 2009-10 as I had the Humber Hawk on the drive, the second time in March 2011 when the drive was home to a rather less glamorous Skoda Estelle...

[Timewaster]

Google maps is amazing. Imagine showing it to someone from the 1980s they would have thought you were James bond.

You can look at, zoom in and twirl around streets all across the globe in minute detail.

 

And what does everybody look at?

 

Their own bloody house!

[anonymous user]

BMW sat navigation is not wonderful, a few months ago I drove my brother's BMW in London. The car was less than a month old, but the sat nav was pretty useless sending us down blocked off streets and insisting it was right by taking us in a big circle. Fortunately there was a Tom Tom sat nav in a bag in the car which worked better.

[cros]

Fuck my old boots, I've just seen the worst car advert ever, and its for the Poundland. The message is that its capable of running a woman about to sprog to hospital at no more than 30 mph. And the wireless can change channel at the touch of a button. Is that it?

[Cavcraft]

I'm not saying the VW Golf car I had when I was younger was the most unreliable of cars, but the last six pages of the handbook contained the local bus and train timetables.

[LightBulbFun]

Google maps is amazing. Imagine showing it to someone from the 1980s they would have thought you were James bond.

You can look at, zoom in and twirl around streets all across the globe in minute detail.

 

And what does everybody look at?

 

Their own bloody house!

 

to be fair I have been using/abusing it to try and look for invacars from outer space yay satellites 

 

(The Google earth Pro Desktop app even has a time machine function, which has been handy to... look at my own house that didn't exist yet, in 1945 )

 

which while on the subject of shit sat navs, coincidentally was roughly when a "street" here was last still a Road and not just a walk way in the park, yet all the satnavs still think its a road... 

[alcyonecorporation]

Short of coins.

 

https://www.ebay.co.uk/usr/teabagthrottle

 

Any interest in these die cast/resin piles?

[davehedgehog31]

Had been getting on well with the Suzuki.

 

Came out to a flat tyre, changed it last night. Took it round to the garage to do the pressures, exhaust started blowing, fuck off. Not to worry, I'll take it to work this morning. Got about 5 miles away, went to brake, pedal traveled almost to the floor before offering any resistance and then a further panicked squeeze offered some uneven grabby braking, fuck right off. Nursed it home and abandoned it for the Citroen, at work so not looked at it yet.

[egg]

I haven't bought tickets, but some of you might be interested in tickets/prizes in this raffle to support the Vulcan 558 (I have no affiliation)

 

https://www.vulcantothesky.org/raffle

[Noel Tidybeard]

Fuck my old boots, I've just seen the worst car advert ever, and its for the Poundland. The message is that its capable of running a woman about to sprog hospital at no more than 30 mph. And the wireless can change channel at the touch of a button. Is that it?

 

its got to be one of the most pathetic limp wristed wooly liberal adverts of all time

 

its knocked the golf of 1st place- you know the "naughty" man revving his gti flog to 3500rpm!!!