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[Joey spud]

I got a parking charge notice through the post the other day.

It claimed I was parked in a disabled bay at a Retail park in Torquay and they had multiple photos to prove it.

Only problem is their evidence shows a 73 plate Kia that they think is actually my 63 plate CRV currently parked outside my kitchen window 230 miles away from there...

[horriblemercedes]

1 minute ago, Joey spud said:

I got a parking charge notice through the post the other day.

It claimed I was parked in a disabled bay at a Retail park in Torquay and they had photo evidence to prove it.

Only problem is there evidence shows a 73 plate Kia that they suggest is actually my 63 plate CRV currently parked outside my kitchen window 230 miles away from there...

Presumably just a mistake. Fat-fingered parking attendant hit the 7 key rather than the 6.

 

Have you pointed it out? I would think they would instantly abandon it...

[Joey spud]

Yes you are spot on with the six and seven mix up. Alas you can't ring up and talk to anyone you can only appeal by letter or email so I emailed them pointing out their error and got an automated email back saying i will be contacted within 30 days with their decision.

[High Jetter]

I saw a 62 reg car, with full display of giffer badges on the front grille, get a ticket on double yellows today. For extra points he was blocking a pedestrian crossing area. On the rear window was a sticker 'Don't commit crime' 🤣

[quicksilver]

7 hours ago, NorfolkNWeigh said:

I feel I need to apologise to @quicksilveron this thread, I inadvertently ruined his shot of a Scania yesterday by nipping round it i on the roundabout on the Buckingham Ringroad yesterday, I was the fool in white Iveco van. In my defence I’d been stuck behind since the end of the Tingewick Bypass.

Nice Popeye Doyle hat, by the way.

So that was you?! Don't worry about it, that sort of thing happens all the time so I'm used to it, and you didn't cut the truck up like so many others often do there. Turns out I've seen that one before and already got a good shot of it anyway.

And I have no idea who Popeye Doyle is, except I guess he wears a hat like mine.

[junkyarddog]

Fog hasn't lifted here for two days. 

Luckily the foglights work on the shitbox Jetta 

 

[SiC]

5 hours ago, Joey spud said:

Yes you are spot on with the six and seven mix up. Alas you can't ring up and talk to anyone you can only appeal by letter or email so I emailed them pointing out their error and got an automated email back saying i will be contacted within 30 days with their decision.

If it's anything like I've had before, you'll probably get to 30 days and not have a response where they ghost you after not bothering any further.

[Yoss]

9 hours ago, beko1987 said:

Nice! 

Is it dented yet? 😂

I've always been curious what the average postie van milage is. I clocked a gander at my parcelforce blokes van a few months ago (bigger boxer iirc) and it was over 160k which didn't seem as high as I thought it might 🤔

We have little pug diesel vans now they replaced all the combos and their all quite battered and filthy 

The mileage will be much lower than you expect for a van that is so royally fucked. I came off my last van duty about three years ago, I'm back on the trolleys now which is a much better place to be.

But my van at that point was about nine years old and had only done 38k which sounds good. But my delivery started just over a mile from the office and I covered between six and seven miles a day. You would use fourth gear on the way out but barely would on the delivery itself. So it did most of that 38k in second and third gear. About once a month I'd have to fill it with diesel where I might use fifth gear for about ten seconds. That's ten seconds a month! So as you can see if you measure it in engine revs it would be equivalent to much more. 

We also never wash them. There is a hose in the yard and they could easily stretch to a bucket and some shampoo but there is no time in our duties to do it. It could be somebody's full time job as we have forty odd vans but they would never stretch to that. 

Most of them have lichen growing on them but I took these pictures in February 2020. There is a sponge pad beneath the scuttle, I don't know if it is a cabin filter but this is what happens when you never wash it. It was the same on both sides. 

This is carbon offsetting. I don't know if it is ULEZ exempt but it should be with this. 

[somewhatfoolish]

PSA did go through a phase of fitting strange blobs of foam rubber by the scuttle, presumably to reduce noise transmission; even on clean ones they do impressions of grow bags.

[artdjones]

4 hours ago, junkyarddog said:

Fog hasn't lifted here for two days. 

Luckily the foglights work on the shitbox Jetta 

 

Blazing sunshine in West Cork.

[artdjones]

4 hours ago, junkyarddog said:

Fog hasn't lifted here for two days. 

Luckily the foglights work on the shitbox Jetta 

 

I think the whole of Ireland has been in a pall of gloom for the last fortnight, and the far South is the first place it's breaking up at all. I know I spent the weekend before last in Thurles, Dundalk, and Belfast. I left Cork in overcast drizzly conditions, and saw no change wherever I went.

[Snake Charmer]

It's a bleeding long walk round this bastid thing, my feet hurt! Open a rear door and the electric window drops like a modern car to clear the seals. Does it in extravagant 1962 style by a good six inches. All sorts of electrical items not playing ball apart from the roof that works perfectly and disappears totally into the boot.

All the electric toys even an electric bench seat but a manual remote drivers door mirror paired with a total pauper fully manual passenger door mirror.

[High Jetter]

28 minutes ago, artdjones said:

Blazing sunshine in West Cork.

Must have been a shock 😃

[artdjones]

24 minutes ago, High Jetter said:

Must have been a shock 😃

I think everyone feels better for it.

[High Jetter]

59 minutes ago, artdjones said:

I think everyone feels better for it.

Less to complain about tho. Next target tourists? 😃

[Yoss]

I didn't really know where to put this, it could go in any number of threads but here we are. 

This is definitely not shite yet, but it's a brave choice and they certainly weren't worried about depreciation so good for them. 

 

Could also have put it in the parking thread but everyone parks like this in this road. 

 

Also a good colour combination with the bright blue BMW behind. 

[High Jetter]

3 minutes ago, Yoss said:

I didn't really know where to put this, it could go in any number of threads but here we are. 

The bile thread?

[Yoss]

10 minutes ago, High Jetter said:

The bile thread?

Good shout. Like I say, so many threads it could go in. Parking thread, cars I never knew existed, cars in colour, electric etc... 

[High Jetter]

The WTF is it thread?

[Zelandeth]

5 hours ago, Yoss said:

The mileage will be much lower than you expect for a van that is so royally fucked. I came off my last van duty about three years ago, I'm back on the trolleys now which is a much better place to be.

But my van at that point was about nine years old and had only done 38k which sounds good. But my delivery started just over a mile from the office and I covered between six and seven miles a day. You would use fourth gear on the way out but barely would on the delivery itself. So it did most of that 38k in second and third gear. About once a month I'd have to fill it with diesel where I might use fifth gear for about ten seconds. That's ten seconds a month! So as you can see if you measure it in engine revs it would be equivalent to much more. 

We also never wash them. There is a hose in the yard and they could easily stretch to a bucket and some shampoo but there is no time in our duties to do it. It could be somebody's full time job as we have forty odd vans but they would never stretch to that. 

Most of them have lichen growing on them but I took these pictures in February 2020. There is a sponge pad beneath the scuttle, I don't know if it is a cabin filter but this is what happens when you never wash it. It was the same on both sides. 

This is carbon offsetting. I don't know if it is ULEZ exempt but it should be with this. 

Saw a brand new looking RM branded DAF 7.5 ton wagon on the M1 today...crawling along the hard shoulder at about 20mph with the hazards on. 

A good omen of things to come I'm sure!

The absolutely hanging 08 plate Vauxhall Combo we used to see locally has recently been replaced by a 13 plate Fiat which is in even worse state than the Vauxhall was - it honestly looks like someone has rolled it, just pushed it back onto its wheels and continued as if nothing happened.  Literally every panel on the nearside is stoved in.

[Schaefft]

1 hour ago, Yoss said:

I didn't really know where to put this, it could go in any number of threads but here we are. 

This is definitely not shite yet, but it's a brave choice and they certainly weren't worried about depreciation so good for them. 

 

Could also have put it in the parking thread but everyone parks like this in this road. 

 

Also a good colour combination with the bright blue BMW behind. 

It's a shame Genesis hasn't really caught on in Europe, despite the success of Kia and Hyundai. They are currently trying to gain market share by concentrating on electric cars here since it works so well with their non-premium brands and I can only wish them the best, they are all great cars. The G70 petrol I rented was a really good car and looked no less premium than an A4 or Lexus IS.

[Metal Guru]

On 13/11/2024 at 01:31, Lord Sterling said:

Seems to be a fairly.commom thing amongst this era of Vauxhall estates. Although whilst all Vectra B estates, SRi/GSi will have roof bars and spoilers combined:

Only thr Vectra C GSI has spoiler/roof bars combo:

As my old C' SRi didn't;

Of course, by this point, the "SRi" (Sport Refinement Injection) didn't really mean anything anymore. 

Even on the Zafira A and B, were the roofbars an option or subtle:

I'm glad I've got mine, I even have a spare set. Never had to use mine but it's good know it's there if ever I need it. I have a couple of times had to transport stuff on the roof of a car without a roof rack etc...

Pedant point. Roof RAILS are fitted to the car. You have to attach roof BARS to these. You can’t put things directly on the roof (well you can but not advisable), you need the bars.

[artdjones]

8 hours ago, High Jetter said:

Less to complain about tho. Next target tourists? 😃

I think it's more likely for tourists to complain about Ireland. Not necessarily the weather, no-one expects perfect weather here, but the sheer expense of accommodation. So many hotels have been taken out of circulation that mediocre bed and breakfast establishments can charge €120-150 a night per room.

[Yoss]

7 hours ago, Zelandeth said:

Saw a brand new looking RM branded DAF 7.5 ton wagon on the M1 today...crawling along the hard shoulder at about 20mph with the hazards on. 

A good omen of things to come I'm sure!

The absolutely hanging 08 plate Vauxhall Combo we used to see locally has recently been replaced by a 13 plate Fiat which is in even worse state than the Vauxhall was - it honestly looks like someone has rolled it, just pushed it back onto its wheels and continued as if nothing happened.  Literally every panel on the nearside is stoved in.

There was a time when we'd repair things like that. You can see them now by the different state of pogweaseledness on some vans. But as you can see they don't really bother anymore. 

[beko1987]

Our Peugeot vans don't seem to pogweasel like the combo vans did, but their still new*

Ours are always plastered in mud (which hides the damage well) around here from all the back lanes they have to drive down. Usually always some 'how tf did that happen' sill or roof damage too

[EyesWeldedShut]

8 minutes ago, Yoss said:

There was a time when we'd repair things like that. You can see them now by the different state of pogweaseledness on some vans. But as you can see they don't really bother anymore. 

Our local RM place runs absolutely knackered looking Partners - dents, scratches, plastics all shattered/missing and paintwork pogweasled or just pink instead of red. Last week he turned up in a proper shiny red Fiat Doblo (14 or 17 plate - not sure) with NO damage. Turns out nobody likes driving that one so it's some sort of depot spare that gets shunted around West Wales as needed. Looked tidy  

[Momentary Lapse Of Reason]

12 hours ago, High Jetter said:

The bile thread?

The bible thread - right at the start ?

[hairnet]

On 13/11/2024 at 11:49, horriblemercedes said:

Presumably just a mistake. Fat-fingered parking attendant hit the 7 key rather than the 6.

 

Have you pointed it out? I would think they would instantly abandon it...

send them a letter billing time and telling them the attendant needs to put down cheezburger/tea/reason for living before using implement

[Marshall2810]

Helping Dad do the headlining in his Saab today with added volvo/merc action. Nice weather is helping

[richardmorris]

20 hours ago, quicksilver said:

 

And I have no idea who Popeye Doyle is, except I guess he wears a hat like mine.

Gene Hackman, in the French Connection.