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[HillmanImp]

I don't get the too many pages thing. I only look at the last few. Does it take longer to load on some systems or something?

 

I wouldn't mind a 'foreign ebay tat' thread though. I have to say I don't like the mix of both and we are getting a lot of them on the tat thread these days but am not sure what everyone else thinks. 

 

I like the foreign ones but would prefer to peruse them in a foreign thread.

[Guest Hooli]

So a Scottish ebay thread then?

[New POD]

Lad passed his test and as usual is getting arse raped trying to insure cheap car such as a corsa 1.2.

 

2k plus which is frightening! 

 

Question is......

 

I've just had a quote for a 2004 corsa with him as a named driver for £880. 

 

I have full ncb but in the quote I left it at zero. 

 

Is it possible to do that?

 

I want to help him out but don't want to buy him a cheap car so a substantial discount on his insurance would be better.

 

Oh beware being accused of fronting :

 

When my daughter (aged 17) passed her test she had been learning to drive in my wife's BINI cooper, and we wanted to add her as a named driver. Initially they declined then eventually it was an Extra £2000, after I threatened Aviva with moving all 3 cars and house insurance to another vender. 

They were not happy that my wife had a second car she could use (the MX5), when my daughter was using the BINI, but as wife had had 2 cars for more than a couple of years they were persuaded that the BINI wasn't bought just so daughter could have a car.  I was very aware of being accused of fronting, and this all meant that my daughter couldn't ever use it for college, or for attending any work placements.

For the last 8 months, she's had her own insurance with us as named drivers, but the keeper is still my wife.  There was some phone discussions with the insurer which were followed up by email, before taking out the policy.  Where is car kept? 26 weeks of the year - L37 26 weeks of the year Cardiff.

Is she using it to get to university ? No - she's using it to drive to her rented house close (1 mile) to university and she walks because parking is expensive and it would take longer in a car.

You need to pick a car that only giffers would drive, that never get crashed - like a Honda jazz, or something equally unfashionable to young people. A 1.2 corsa is probably the most likely car to be in accident.

[The Moog]

I don't get the too many pages thing. I only look at the last few. Does it take longer to load on some systems or something?

 

I wouldn't mind a 'foreign ebay tat' thread though. I have to say I don't like the mix of both and we are getting a lot of them on the tat thread these days but am not sure what everyone else thinks.

 

I like the foreign ones but would prefer to peruse them in a foreign thread.

Why not start one? Or ask whoever started the Bulgarian one to rename it to be foreign Tat

[3VOM]

SVM?

How do you remove the centre console cubby box armrest thing in a 960 to get to the handbrake adjustment? One website says there's a panel in the bottom of the storage with two screws behind it, others are talking about clips and screws behind ashtray which I can't see.

[ruffgeezer]

Now I have a van, I'm considering selling my trailer, any ideas as to what to price it at chaps?

 

 

[alf892]

Now I have a van, I'm considering selling my trailer, any ideas as to what to price it at chaps?

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Whatever you sell that for it will cost more to replace when you sell the van!

[ruffgeezer]

Whatever you sell that for it will cost more to replace when you sell the van!

 

True but I rarely use it as it's such a pain to get out, it entails moving 3 or 4 cars off of the driveway to get it out each time.

[GrumpiusMaximus]

Had some success on auto trader with sub £1000 heaps (therefore free), not sure if I would pay though.

Had excellent luck on one of their premium ads selling my old Fiesta a couple of years ago. Brother works for Autotrader so got a free advert and got loads of calls almost immediately. Was quite impressed.

[catsinthewelder]

Please could you wait until the end of the month to rename/repurpose the BG tat thread.  It is currently quite handy

[SiC]

Just sorting through all my tools and come across some sockets my dad gave me. What on earth is a 2 inch socket useful for? Trucks and lorries Battle Tanks?

 

This is it next to a 3/4" socket (~18mm ish).

[SiC]

What is this? How would you use it?

 

I'm guessing it's something to do with threads.

[Ghosty]

You need to pick a car that only giffers would drive, that never get crashed - like a Honda jazz, or something equally unfashionable to young people. 

 

Rover R8 200/400.

 

Kia Pride.

 

Mazda Demio.

[Uncle Jimmy]

Just sorting through all my tools and come across some sockets my dad gave me. What on earth is a 2 inch socket useful for? Trucks and lorries Battle Tanks?

This is it next to a 3/4" socket (~18mm ish).

Turning the crank over on trucks maybe.

[artdjones]

What is this? How would you use it?

 

I'm guessing it's something to do with threads.

It's a thread restoring file.

[Talbot]

It's a thread restoring file.

And bloody useful they are too.

[Talbot]

Now I have a van, I'm considering selling my trailer, any ideas as to what to price it at chaps?

Trailers like that go easily for £100-£150 on the bay of snot. I have a similar smoll trailer that I have just about wrecked, but it's going to be cheaper to repair it than buy a replacement.

[robinmasters]

Just sorting through all my tools and come across some sockets my dad gave me. What on earth is a 2 inch socket useful for? Trucks and lorries Battle Tanks?

Even Cheech & Chong couldn't manage that in one go.

 

If you can be nicked for being drunk in charge of a car, just because you're in it with the keys, how does it work with campers? Do you lock the ignition key in the glove box and have a second key for the back or something?

[5speedracer]

So a Scottish ebay thread then?

English eBay thread!

 

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[Tickman]

SVM?

How do you remove the centre console cubby box armrest thing in a 960 to get to the handbrake adjustment? One website says there's a panel in the bottom of the storage with two screws behind it, others are talking about clips and screws behind ashtray which I can't see.

 

On my 940 there was a panel at the back of the arm rest basically on top of the tunnel whick took about 5 minutes to figure out how to remove (just force) and then there was a large nut on a tube that the cable ran in that could be turned by hand.

 

 

Hopefully the same on the 960 but I have never even been in one!

[andy18s]

Just sorting through all my tools and come across some sockets my dad gave me. What on earth is a 2 inch socket useful for? Trucks and lorries Battle Tanks?

Its for the sump plug on the 1965 Bumgrape Frightening mk 2

Just remember it's lefty tighty on those....

[3VOM]

If you can be nicked for being drunk in charge of a car, just because you're in it with the keys, how does it work with campers? Do you lock the ignition key in the glove box and have a second key for the back or something?

When I had a motorhome and went on related websites, this had never been conclusively decided, probably because there hadn't been any case law (and even then it would likely be a Magistrates Court so not precedent creating). Suggestions included giving the keys to someone else for safekeeping (e.g. landlord of pub whose car park you are staying overnight in), time delay safes and whether you are in your pyjamas. It really would come down to how good your barrister is.

[bramz7]

Any locals know of an old car happy MOT places in or around Basingstoke?

[PiperCub]

Have a mate in Basingrad, the local garage he uses for stuff he can't be arsed with and for MoT's is apparantly very good and reasonably priced (he's used them for years), I'll try to remember to ask him the details tonight and let you know.

[sierraman]

Rover R8 200/400.

 

Kia Pride.

 

Mazda Demio.

I'd probably avoid the Kia Pride, apart from being quite scarce, I wouldn't fancy being in a bang in one.

[Guest Hooli]

Just sorting through all my tools and come across some sockets my dad gave me. What on earth is a 2 inch socket useful for? Trucks and lorries Battle Tanks?

 

This is it next to a 3/4" socket (~18mm ish).

 

2" AF nuts....

[angielou123]

Hello, Just wondering if it's ok to use the battery off my old fiat punto in my corsa? Ever since I have done, my hazard's have got a mind of their own. I have to disconnect battery at night or they flash and run it down by morning?  I've tried changing the hazards switch and the interior light switch, which for some reason will also control the hazards. If I get a new battery for the corsa will that fix it?

[AMC Rebel]

Anyone fitted anything like this?

 

 

https://www.summitracing.com/int/parts/sne-550-851/overview/?retaillocation=int

 

 

[sierraman]

Renewed my insurance on the 29th Apr, still showing as uninsured. Why might this be?

[CortinaDave]

Can we have a NEW NEWs 24 thread VOLUME 2 thread, cause the current one is too many pages.

Ditto Ebay Tat Volume 3 - can we move to Volume 4

This would be handy. I cant look at ebay tat on my phone as it opens to pages from 2012! no way im scrolling forward through eleventy billion pages to get to the last few days. Its fine if im on my laptop though