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[vulgalour]

It's weird that so many folks seem to be getting the London letters from the DVLA except for those people I know who live in or near London.  I mean, we've got four cars here and of all of them only one is exempt from the charge, I think, and one definitely isn't exempt, so you'd think we'd get a notification since we're close enough to be likely to go into that there London town.

[LightBulbFun]

On 21/08/2021 at 23:10, Tadhg Tiogar said:

Also replaced the rear 21+5w dual filaments with Osram red LED equivalents. Surprised to find they do work like original bulbs and don't trigger the "bulb out" warning. The Osrams are the only LEDs which have managed this so far.

you might want to put the original bulbs back for reasons explained at 15:47 in this video

 

[LightBulbFun]

9 hours ago, dollywobbler said:

I've had one for the 2CV, which has never paid a congestion charge. I live in Wales and the M25 is as close as I ever get to driving in London...

this photo says otherwise!  (ahh memories, I look forward to hopefully recreating it with my own Model 70 at some point )

55 minutes ago, vulgalour said:

It's weird that so many folks seem to be getting the London letters from the DVLA except for those people I know who live in or near London.  I mean, we've got four cars here and of all of them only one is exempt from the charge, I think, and one definitely isn't exempt, so you'd think we'd get a notification since we're close enough to be likely to go into that there London town.

yeah funnily enough I have not had any letters with regards to ULEZ despite living in Central London next door to the Congestion Zone/current ULEZ zone LOL

 

strangely any historic vehicle I punt into the ULEZ Checker still says it has to pay despite them being exempt

I wonder if thats because the ULEZ checker cant check what taxation class a vehicle is in, but the ANPR cameras can?

or are a load of 40+ year old vehicles going to be falsely charged come the 25th of October because someone at TFL forgot to make historic vehicles exempt like they say they are

 

certainly on the TFL website they say it goes by what taxation class a vehicle is in,

which brings up an interesting problem because a Car in the disabled tax class is Congestion charge exempt, but wont be ULEZ exempt, however a car in the historic vehicle taxation class will be ULEZ exempt but not congestion charge exempt

so what do you do if your disabled person running a historic vehicle, you cant have it in 2 tax classes at once LOL

[Split_Pin]

1 hour ago, GingerNuttz said:

Put some permatex No.3 on the paper gasket and it'll seal it up no probs. 

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/254414117464?epid=9017006844&hash=item3b3c435a58:g:ReMAAOSwUrZdxFIB

All I use on paper gaskets these days 

I was looking for that, is that the stuff that's like treacle?

[vulgalour]

25 minutes ago, LightBulbFun said:

so what do you do if your disabled person running a historic vehicle, you cant have it in 2 tax classes at once LOL

Hooray for British Bureaucracy! *waves tiny counter-signed-documents-in-triplicate flags*

[bobdisk]

On 8/23/2021 at 5:38 PM, LightBulbFun said:

this photo says otherwise!  (ahh memories, I look forward to hopefully recreating it with my own Model 70 at some point )

yeah funnily enough I have not had any letters with regards to ULEZ despite living in Central London next door to the Congestion Zone/current ULEZ zone LOL

 

strangely any historic vehicle I punt into the ULEZ Checker still says it has to pay despite them being exempt

I wonder if thats because the ULEZ checker cant check what taxation class a vehicle is in, but the ANPR cameras can?

or are a load of 40+ year old vehicles going to be falsely charged come the 25th of October because someone at TFL forgot to make historic vehicles exempt like they say they are

 

certainly on the TFL website they say it goes by what taxation class a vehicle is in,

which brings up an interesting problem because a Car in the disabled tax class is Congestion charge exempt, but wont be ULEZ exempt, however a car in the historic vehicle taxation class will be ULEZ exempt but not congestion charge exempt

so what do you do if your disabled person running a historic vehicle, you cant have it in 2 tax classes at once LOL

Both the Kitten and the Daf, come up with the same page that says "charges apply", even though they are both registered Historic Vehicles, and the Daf is sorn.  At the bottom of the page is "You need to register your vehicle with us if you believe it meets the required standards for ULEZ or LEZ" I did that for both a couple of weeks ago, they were accepted but still get that "charges apply" page for both if I go to the "check vehicle" page. But if I go to the "registered" page, I get this:

@LightBulbFun, look at REV again!

[GingerNuttz]

1 hour ago, Split_Pin said:

I was looking for that, is that the stuff that's like treacle?

Thick brown shellac type stuff and looks like treacle.

[Split_Pin]

Aye that's that's it, I've bought some

[wuvvum]

Passed this on the M4.

It was doing rather well considering - it must have been cruising at 65, admittedly down a slight hill, but Wyverns were never a performance vehicle. 

[Mrcento]

Thinking of putting the Cinquecento and Civic up for sale.

Cinq taking up room and to be honest, done what i want with it now so would be better at somebody who used it.

Civic, good car, now totally behaving after a rocky start with MOT and some electrical gremlins, but driving it every day, i keep coming back to the same conclusion, It's too Jiggly for me. Not outright bad a ride, but just enough to be annoying.

Looking at wafters.

[320touring]

5 years today since I bought this tub.. it's had its ups and downs, but all in, it's not the worst!

[JJ0063]

Was dismantling a pallet last night, all going well until I stood straight on a batton that had two nails sticking straight up. Fuck me that hurt. Straight through my trainer and into my foot.

Today my foot feels so bruised and I’ve got to move my old dears contents of her house on Friday, brilliant! 

[Split_Pin]

15 hours ago, Mrcento said:

 

Looking at wafters.

Thoughts? 

[Split_Pin]

4 hours ago, JJ0063 said:

Was dismantling a pallet last night, all going well until I stood straight on a batton that had two nails sticking straight up. Fuck me that hurt. Straight through my trainer and into my foot.

Today my foot feels so bruised and I’ve got to move my old dears contents of her house on Friday, brilliant! 

Tetanus shot 100% required please.

[Zelandeth]

Ooh, look what DPD just dropped off for me.

Odds of actually having time to install it in the garage today?  So far looking like slim to none.  Between that and the extension hose I should be able to reach all corners of the drive with a minimum of hassle hopefully.

[brownnova]

One out! 

Delivered to the seller  buyer this afternoon… of course the brake lights decided to stop working en route. Seller was good about it though and wouldn’t take my offer of recompense as a gesture of good will. 

[JJ0063]

1 hour ago, Split_Pin said:

Tetanus shot 100% required please.

Booked for 11:15 tomorrow! Thought I best play it safe. Last one was 2008 so will be due.

[Split_Pin]

Good man, I always get one if something like that happens to me. 

Last time was 2013 when I jumped a fence to take a pee and literally ripped myself a new arsehole on a rusty nail.

[Arthur Foxhake]

13 minutes ago, JJ0063 said:

Booked for 11:15 tomorrow! Thought I best play it safe. Last one was 2008 so will be due.

Silly fucker! How are the bimmers going?

[Timewaster]

1 hour ago, brownnova said:

One out! 

Delivered to the seller this afternoon… of course the brake lights decided to stop working en route. Seller was good about it though and wouldn’t take my offer of recompense as a gesture of good will. 

I'm confused. Did you mean seller or buyer? 

[Fumbler]

Bush repair has been done.

First picture was the trial fit and the second is with the suspension on high and fully pressed in. Had to put 500ml of LHM back in the system, fingers crossed it holds up until Friday.

[Dyslexic Viking]

Took the Audi on a longer drive today nice weather and little traffic was a great drive.

 

 

 

[Spurious]

10 minutes ago, Dyslexic Viking said:

Took the Audi on a longer drive today nice weather and little traffic was a great drive.

 

 

 

We need a communal Audi thread. #madeinInglostadt 

 

Here's mine enjoying the sunny Pennines last week. 

[JJ0063]

2 hours ago, Arthur Foxhake said:

Silly fucker! How are the bimmers going?

335d is just the best thing I’ve ever had

 

e30 is on eBay 😂😂

[Dyslexic Viking]

13 minutes ago, Spurious said:

We need a communal Audi thread. #madeinInglostadt 

I am only interested in the older Audi and not those from the 90's and newer so do not know about such a thread. But one thing is for sure yours is very nice.

[stuboy]

Well as some u may remeber misses has her princess wagon which she loves dearly, well she maybe replacing with her dads old car see picture (not actual car but exactly the same ) her dad bought a used car on finance and trade in made naff all difference to payments so there is talks to let her use this... ( and no its not having pink stickers on it etc etc )

[brownnova]

53 minutes ago, Timewaster said:

I'm confused. Did you mean seller or buyer? 

Buyer… silly me! 

[brownnova]

A small selection of the offerings of from Mavericks car night tonight. 
 

Lancia Beta Montecarlo

A big Chevrolet! 

Vermillion Allegro

The ex @cms206Montego! 

And an Austin 7 Special. 

There were 200 plus cars again… but these were the highlights! 

[Ghosty]

37 minutes ago, stuboy said:

( and no its not having pink stickers on it etc etc )

 

[OM646]

1 hour ago, Spurious said:

We need a communal Audi thread.

Indeed we do. I don't work on my 80 enough to make it deserve its own topic