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[New POD]

9 hours ago, Tadhg Tiogar said:

I usually try to find out what their upper limit is, without actually outbidding them. After all, if they want it badly enough, let them pay more for it.

How do you do that ? 

[Split_Pin]

Folks,

Don't be tempted by car roffles on Facebook unless it's a proper National Lottery Bonus Ball with the live You Tube footage.

I paid £20 for a roffle for a Mini but it was based on 100 numbers and a random number generator.

Despite tagging me and lots of others when it was time to pay, conveniently Facebook wouldn't let the 'owner' tag everyone when the 'draw' took place so there is absolutely no evidence of what number was actually drawn.

Someone let slip on the comments who actually won and lo and behold it was a guy with the same surname living in the same town, who also happens to sell a few cars on the side. So it's fair to conclude that both brothers have some sort of small time car sales business between them on the side.

Basically the 2 brothers still have the car between them, got the full asking price and nobody can prove anything.

I think my head buttons up the back

[Tadhg Tiogar]

1 hour ago, New POD said:

How do you do that ? 

One giveaway clue is if your leading bidder has put in several protective bids in order to put as much distance between him and the chasing pack. All you need to do is bid repeatedly whilst checking to see how many of those protective bids you have exceeded. You then pull out when there's only the other fella's top bid left. It's great craic once you get the hang of it!

[spike60]

4 minutes ago, Tadhg Tiogar said:

One giveaway clue is if your leading bidder has put in several protective bids in order to put as much distance between him and the chasing pack. All you need to do is bid repeatedly whilst checking to see how many of those protective bids you have exceeded. You then pull out when there's only the other fella's top bid left. It's great craic once you get the hang of it!

It'll be ok until high bidder cancels their bid and you're left having a high bid in excess of what was needed.  

[Tadhg Tiogar]

3 minutes ago, spike60 said:

It'll be ok until high bidder cancels their bid and you're left having a high bid in excess of what was needed.  

You can do the same.

[spike60]

My daily passed it's test this morning with no advisories, preparation was limited to emery taping and copaslipping a front brake pipe although it's just had pads and discs on the front. Genuine MB bits were the same delivered as all but the cheapest ECP. I'll do the pipe when I service it soon, the heat shield will have come out from around the bulkhead so ball ache.

Here it is among the fag ends in a damp car park. 

 

 

 

[spike60]

7 minutes ago, Tadhg Tiogar said:

You can do the same.

A Merc SEC sold near me recently and the high bidder cancelled his bids in the last minute leaving leaving the auction winner having paid £400 more than needed to beat the next bid.  I wouldn't be paying, it's either the sellers mate or just a fucking shit trick.

[Tadhg Tiogar]

3 minutes ago, spike60 said:

.......Here it is among the fag ends in a damp car park. 

 

 

That looks like an excellent location for some telly detective brooding behind the wheel.

[Split_Pin]

Finished the garage.

2 racks, a workbench and 16 doocots for sundries, latter still to be fitted. There's much more room now and I'm fairly sure the Audi would still fit in too. Fence sprayer is going to my neighbour.

Corsa doesn't sound very good but I guess it's not been  driven for ages and sounds are amplified with the car being nose in to the garage. Regular driving will probably fix.

[SiC]

2 hours ago, Split_Pin said:

Folks,

Don't be tempted by car roffles on Facebook unless it's a proper National Lottery Bonus Ball with the live You Tube footage.

I paid £20 for a roffle for a Mini but it was based on 100 numbers and a random number generator.

Despite tagging me and lots of others when it was time to pay, conveniently Facebook wouldn't let the 'owner' tag everyone when the 'draw' took place so there is absolutely no evidence of what number was actually drawn.

Someone let slip on the comments who actually won and lo and behold it was a guy with the same surname living in the same town, who also happens to sell a few cars on the side. So it's fair to conclude that both brothers have some sort of small time car sales business between them on the side.

Basically the 2 brothers still have the car between them, got the full asking price and nobody can prove anything.

I think my head buttons up the back

Report to Gambling Commission?

[Split_Pin]

Didn't know there was such a thing!

[Jazoli]

Lots of dire warnings on the OBC and a lack of power and eml on the Insignia meant something had broken, a quick scan and YouTube search led me to this

 

So £25 on ebay later and a new one is supplied the next day 

 

And all is well again, apart from having to go out and get a jubilee clip.

[Skizzer]

9 minutes ago, Split_Pin said:

Didn't know there was such a thing!

There is. Facebook raffles are almost always illegal, for good reason, i.e. they’re usually bent.

News story here: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-41124992

Moral: Just say no.

[busmansholiday]

A man has just left a box at my front door.

What could be in there?

Yessss

 

Thank you @ruffgeezer, although Mrs BMH's first comment was "WTF".

[Tadhg Tiogar]

Going to collect Enterprise Kangoo hire van

[Tickman]

1 hour ago, Split_Pin said:

Finished the garage.

2 racks, a workbench 

Garage looking good, how good are the shelves and bench?

[Tadhg Tiogar]

No, not this.

This is the one they wanted to give me for the same rate:

That's generous, but I haven't driven a LWB van since 1992. Fortunately a mother and daughter walked in, needing a big van, so I passed it to them.

Enterprise dug this one out of the back:

Much more like it. It has a small dent on the n/s/r wheelarch, and a three-quarter tank of fuel. Should be grand for the trip south.

[Split_Pin]

23 minutes ago, Tickman said:

Garage looking good, how good are the shelves and bench?

Very little metal for your money and bit shoogly when empty but now that I have loaded the bottom ones with heavy stuff they feel solid.

The worktop is just laid in so I need to find a way of attaching it properly before fitting a vice.

[anonymous user]

Socially distanced photo in motorway services. Yes I know it's less than 15 minutes from my house but I needed a pee.

I used it to go shopping at Lidl, what would Hayacinth Bucket have thought.

It's definitely not a car for doing a bank job, apart from the leisurely progress it is rather conspicuous. I feel that I need to wear a tie to drive it. (Not just a tie, that would be unpleasant)

I think the speedometer is under-reading as it wasn't showing 30mph but set off a 30mph sign. I shall have to check it against something else.

The kickdown on the box is quite amusing it does work but in a "are you really sure you want to do that" way and if you ease off fractionally changes back up as if to say "No, I didn't think so"

I'm delighted with it.

I've had to do car juggling again when I got home, so it's at the back again  the Mx5 is in front and the Kia in front of that.

[Skizzer]

4 minutes ago, anonymous user said:

Socially distanced photo in motorway services. Yes I know it's less than 15 minutes from my house but I needed a pee.

Never thought I’d find myself missing Sarn services.

[mitsisigma01]

25 minutes ago, anonymous user said:

Yes I know it's less than 15 minutes from my house but I needed a pee.

Nice, but how come toilets in services are open but ones on the sea front at Worthing aren't ?

[Six-cylinder]

C15 parts scavenging is happening now!

[Split_Pin]

Now waiting in like an absolute trumpet for an ECP 'next day delivery' that's probably not gonna arrive........

[richardmorris]

18 hours ago, Ghosty said:

See? Legit D Turbo. 

Looking at the spec of it (metallic(?) paint, sports steering wheel, sports seats, GTI front bumper, driving lights, full size leccy sunroof, central locking) only backs it up, it's basically a moredoor STDT. 
Cash withdrawn, train tickets booked, I'm doing my packing, it's almost collection time. 

In other news there was a hit and run outside work today, where a van pulled out of a parking space without looking and slammed an A-Class into a Jazz belonging to the motorbike mechanic next door, before fucking off with a flat tyre. A-Class now needs a new nose, and Jazz a couple of doors... C30 was safe, luckily. 

Must have been the day for dangerous drivers. Leaving work yesterday a bmw  pulled out of the lane on my left a little close for comfort, then the other bmw following it also pulled out on me - queue full emergency stop and swerve onto the verge whilst blowing up one of the twin tone horns. Abs did it’s job though. Half a mile further along the same road some dozy oap in a fiat 500 pulled out from their drive on my right straight in front - slammed the brakes on and overtook. Must have pressed the Klingon cloaking shield button! 

[MKT]

New car arrived today, needs some work to get it back on the road but rather happy to have picked up an EG5 without a ton of shite mods on it!

[Tadhg Tiogar]

2 hours ago, Tadhg Tiogar said:

.... Should be grand for the trip south.

It has been many years since I last drove through the West End and South London. I'd like to report that today's journey was complete insanity, with cyclists taking all kinds of random paths.

Still, we're here in Gipsy Hill, at modest fuel consumption rate, and waiting for the fella to turn up to show the Aladdin's Cave of CX parts.

 

[Supernaut]

7 minutes ago, MKT said:

New car arrived today, needs some work to get it back on the road but rather happy to have picked up an EG5 without a ton of shite mods on it!

Wowzers! Haven't seen a clean 90s Civic in ages!

[Kiltox]

2 hours ago, Tadhg Tiogar said:

No, not this.

This is the one they wanted to give me for the same rate:

That's generous, but I haven't driven a LWB van since 1992. Fortunately a mother and daughter walked in, needing a big van, so I passed it to them.

Enterprise dug this one out of the back:

Much more like it. It has a small dent on the n/s/r wheelarch, and a three-quarter tank of fuel. Should be grand for the trip south.

Had that before with Hertz - they delivered a Ford Kuga to my work instead of a Transit Connect  

They changed it out pretty quickly when I told them I’d be using it like a van regardless 

[anonymous user]

1 hour ago, mitsisigma01 said:

Nice, but how come toilets in services are open but ones on the sea front at Worthing aren't ?

Presumably the motorway service ones are open mostly for the poor bloody hauliers, to reduce the number of bottles of Lorry drivers' Tizer being lobbed out of windows 

[Tadhg Tiogar]

One of the previous users of this van left this CD behind in the overhead shelf: