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[Supernaut]

6 hours ago, SiC said:

When stuff like this happens and I need to fall back to something solidly reliable, my frankly bizarrely crazy mind goes.

HONDA HONDA HONDA

Or TOOOOYOTA 

Sung to the tune of badger badger mushroom. (Scarily some on here will be too young to remember this first circulating the internet)

Just not one from the Scottish rust belt please.

It's been 20 years!

 Now I feel old too.

 

[SiC]

5 minutes ago, Supernaut said:

It's been 20 years!

 Now I feel old too.

 

Sush grandad!

B3ta newsletter back in business btw

https://b3ta.com/newsletter/issue883/

[reb]

4 minutes ago, Supernaut said:

 

Now I feel old too.

 

We're not the young team anymore.

[Supernaut]

1 minute ago, SiC said:

Sush grandad!

B3ta newsletter back in business btw

https://b3ta.com/newsletter/issue883/

I never got into b3ta...

I feel like I missed out.

[stuboy]

Nowt exciting, did a 3 day course, lots of writing and practical stuff and wait 2 weeks for work to be 'marked'.

[richardmorris]

8 hours ago, beko1987 said:

There's a girl at work who is younger than my car who is pregnant... Makes me feel very old

Your car is pregnant?

[Burnside]

Saw this rather nice looking land yacht today, a Plymouth Fury III. Never seen one up close before, but definitely would if I could!

 

 

[lesapandre]

Media absurdity: Subaru, Porsche and BMW drivers are more dangerous than Skoda or Hyundai...

https://www.theguardian.com/business/2023/nov/11/bmw-subaru-and-porsche-drivers-more-likely-to-cause-a-crash-study-finds

[Split_Pin]

20 minutes ago, lesapandre said:

Media absurdity: Subaru, Porsche and BMW drivers are more dangerous than Skoda or Hyundai...

https://www.theguardian.com/business/2023/nov/11/bmw-subaru-and-porsche-drivers-more-likely-to-cause-a-crash-study-finds

'Researchers hypothesised' 😂

'2011-2015 data examined' 😂

Fiction peppered with out-of-context anecdotes from through the years.

As you say, absurd.

[wuvvum]

Collection mission time.

It's going to be a long one.

[SiC]

Well my Mercedes E320 cost £87 more a year to insure than my Porsche Boxster. So presumably the insurance company though me, as a Porsche driver, was much less risk than me as a Mercedes E-class driver. 

[wuvvum]

Big-engined Mercs are surprisingly expensive to insure given the average age of their ownership. 

[Split_Pin]

Same for 75s, well for me anyway and compared to much faster cars.

[SiC]

For me estates always have been a lot more expensive cars to insure. Our A4 was expensive and so is my wife's current Civic Estate. 

[beko1987]

52 minutes ago, wuvvum said:

Collection mission time.

It's going to be a long one.

Hope that's not part of the poo count vocabulary later... 

[barefoot]

41 minutes ago, Split_Pin said:

Same for 75s, well for me anyway and compared to much faster cars.

My 2.5l 75 estate costs just £360 on the same multivehicle policy as my 944S and Scirocco. 

[wuvvum]

Train #2 is a bit* busy.

[Split_Pin]

I thought my 75 was dear but its only about £220 a year. The TT is about £180 or so.

[Shep Shepherd]

I fitted a new set of eBay-sourced rubber floor mats to The V70 today:

They're a great deal better than the set that they replaced as they fit properly and clip onto the pegs in the carpet, something which the previous Halfords specials never did.

I'm so impressed with them that I've just ordered a matching load space mat ^^

[wuvvum]

Just boarded train 5 of 6.

Brenda Line was rammed with people heading to the protest.  Bit more room on this one.  All on time so far, although the day is yet young. 

[Split_Pin]

1 hour ago, Shep Shepherd said:

I fitted a new set eBay-sourced rubber floor mats to The V70 today:

They're a great deal better than the set that they replaced as they fit properly and clip onto the pegs in the carpet, something which the previous Halfords specials never did.

I'm so impressed with them that I've just ordered a matching load space mat ^^

I got a set of those for my old 93. I liked them so much I kept them and the fronts fit my SLK perfectly. They smell great too!

[HillmanImp]

Oh fuck, I think I might be starting a project. 

I only spotted a bit of rust behind the wing......then a bit more under the bumper.... then some on..... and so on. 

Now I need a new bumper back in addition to the bonnet and front and rear o/s doors. 

Might actually be cheaper to pop over to France for the weekend and just buy fucking loads of bits. 

Any pointers as to where to look for French car spares? Can do ebay.fr but are there other places? 

[Conrad D. Conelrad]

5 minutes ago, HillmanImp said:

Any pointers as to where to look for French car spares? Can do ebay.fr but are there other places? 

Der Franzose might have some bits, usually good service. https://www.franzose.de/en/Home/

[SiC]

24 minutes ago, HillmanImp said:

I only spotted a bit of rust behind the wing......then a bit more under the bumper.... then some on..... and so on. 

Now I need a new bumper back in addition to the bonnet and front and rear o/s doors. 

As many know too well on here, I've been there too many times and know that feeling...! 🤣

[wuvvum]

Y tho?

[wuvvum]

Proper train.

Sadly not mine. 

[alcyonecorporation]

1 hour ago, wuvvum said:

Y tho?

Depressed table space invader says: 

'I hope we don't meet a horse from the internet'.

[lesapandre]

Just got a copy of Raymond Baxter's autobiography - 'Tales of My Time'.  Baxter was in his time a well known journalist and TV presenter amongst other things:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raymond_Baxter

When I open the book  - a 'change of address card' for Baxter dropped out - postmarked 28 September 1968 addressed to BMC at Abingdon.  

Baxter was 1967-1968 Director of Motoring Publicity for the British Motor Corporation. 

Amazing what you find. Just a bit of euphemera but quite charming.

[SiC]

1 hour ago, wuvvum said:

Proper train.

Sadly not mine. 

Those exact HSTs (and probably that exact one too) often is my train into work. The Hitachi HSE IET are slowly replacing them and getting more frequent but presumably these HSTs are filling in when the others inevitably break. 

They're still as comfy as the Hitachi and quieter thanks to the power cars being at each end rather than the drive motors under you. 

[83C]

5 minutes ago, SiC said:

Those exact HSTs (and probably that exact one too) often is my train into work. The Hitachi HSE are slowly replacing them and getting more frequent but presumably these HSTs are filling in when the others inevitably break. 

They're still as comfy as the Hitachi and quieter thanks to the power cars being at each end rather than the drive motors under you. 

Different acronym for the Hitachi trains - Super Hitachi Intercity Train.