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That VAG stereo does look a bit of a faff. I recently (ish) invested in one of these:

 

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http://www.halfords.com/webapp/wcs/stores/servlet/product_storeId_10001_catalogId_10151_productId_788105_langId_-1_categoryId_243051

 

It's a DAB radio, and broadly speaking, it's actually really really really really good.

 

Sound quality/balance/etc is better than the 2 other fairly pricey decent proper brand stereos. HOWEVER, almost every conceivable feature is accessed via the big round volume knob thingy. Aaargh. It has track << >> buttons, but to change folders/directories (it's an MP3 machine with USB) you have to press one of the other buttons, then dial the big button until you've found what you want. To set something to repeat (folder/track) you have to press a different button, then dial the big button, etc etc etc. It's an absolute ballache and requires absolute focus and concentration. Fine at home, useless in the car. Completely ruins an otherwise brilliant unit.

 

Oh aye, and "t' north" begins at Worksop, btw.

 

Nottinghamshire = Midlands. Yorkshire = Northern.

 

Scotland is a different matter, being from Aberdeen, I view people from Yorkshire as Northern, and people from Dumfries as Southern. And people from Edinburgh as tourists.

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My Mondeo came fitted with a Kenwood DNX5220BT stereo.

 

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It's a all singing, all dancing SatNav/Bluetooth handsfree/DVD/ Ipod stereo and to be frank it's a PITA, At night it's so bright that it's glares in your face, The controls are fiddly to use meaning you have to take your eyes of the road and considerate on the stereo meaning a chance of DEATH, The hand free is a right arse to set up everytime you want to use it and i don't get on with the Garmin based sat nav, It's just so hard to understand!.

 

But on the plus side it is pretty decent for playing your ipod through

 

On other stereo related grumpy news, The Kenwood CD player i bought for my Escort turned up a few days ago, I also bought the Ford ISO plug thinking it would be a simple plug and play jobby, No chance, I've never seen a Ford radio like it, The plug is different to my old Fords.

 

I think it's to do with the balance toggle on the dash, I have my power cables but then i have just 4 single speaker cables going into the radio even though there's 4 speakers in the car with two wires going into each speaker, How the hell do i wire that up?, How can 4 wires turn into 8?!.

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  autofive said:
the real question is where does the north begin?

 

my opinion: Leeds/Manchester

 

anything below that is either the midlands, or the south :D

 

T' North is everything above the M25, on the right is marshes and swamp people, to the left it's all farmers and sheep and below we have that adorable gay bit and then France.

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If you can get gravy in a chip shop, you're in the North.

If your barman isn't Australian, and knows what a pint of mild is, you're in the North.

If you see Skoda Favorits, Nissan Bluebirds, Blue rinses, you could be bloody anywhere.

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If you can't even get proper chips in a chip shop, you're in the South.

If your barman resides in an Irish theme pub that was an insurance office 3 years ago, you're in the South.

If you only see high end Skodas and Nissan Jukes, you're in the South.

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If female shop assistants call you 'love', then you're in the North.

If male shop assistants call you 'love', then you're in Brighton.

Anything in between is in the Midlands.

Posted

If people around you are bitching about "southerners" you're in the north.

If people around you are bitching about "northerners" you're in the south.

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I'm sure I've heard Spalding named as "Englands most southerly, Northern town."

 

I think, rather than chips and gravy or fizzy lager and wine bars, its all about the old "Baff or Barth" debate.

 

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^^ BAFF

 

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^^ BARTH

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You know you are in the north once the "baffs" are full of coal

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'ow the ecky thump did tha gerra picture of wor front room?

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Aye. Did yu spill wor lass? Ootside, noo.

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Found a veritable OJC treasure trove today with a Proton MPi blocking in two Mitsubishi Lancers of the same style and a Nissan Laurel, plus a couple of other motors I could ID.

 

Photos... nope. There was an old boy right next to the lot of em in a Nissan Micra giving me daggers for even stopping to look. Grrrr.

 

 

Oh yeah, and the camera's dead. Fffk.

Posted

"Active grille-shutter"

 

Does anyone else see these new ford Focus ads and just think "fuck me, that's a lot of things to break". And the least said about these stop-start engines the better.

Posted

Active grille shutters like the Class 50 where they slammed shut on the bodysides, without warning, and scaring the shit out of me when I was about 13? That kind of active grille shutter? Been around 40 years mate. Old Skool.

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Telesales twats. I hate these bastards at the best of times and we're supposed to be on the telephone prefernce list thing where the wankers don't call us. To make it worse the wankers that called tonight were the ambulance chasing type and asking about accident claims. Mrs C took the first call and as we were involved in an accident a couple of years or so ago thought it was genuine and told them to call me back later.

 

Anyhow long story short they called back and when I questioned them for their phone number (as I'd sussed straight away they were chancers) and the geezer mumbled something. It took a few minutes to get it out of them so I asked for their web address. Whilst on hold for a bout five minutes I could hear at least two other people in their office ringing people up and using different company names. I challenged the fucking gobshite about this when he eventually started speaking again and I got his 'boss' who told me they were solicitors and avoided any pertinent questions at which point I finally snapped and told them I was going to help them look into accident claims and drive my fucking car through their window, block the door off and set fire to their building with them in it. He then repeated some shit about them being a genuine company so I told him to fuck off and put the phone down.

 

Ten minutes later my daughter (who wasn't about when I spoke to them) told me they called again, she asked them to stop calling and the dickhead on the phone went into a rant about how I'd called them (not true) to sort it out and she was a 'silly little girl' and that she could complain all she wanted but they weren't arsed.

If anyone finds out who these wankers are (unlikely I know) please let me know. The twat I spoke to said they were called 'Rescue Accident Help Line' and quoted 0845 956 2811 which doesn't actually exist oddly enough.

 

Rant over, I'm going for a lie down to try and not think about finding them and petrol bombing their fucking office.

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  Albert Ross said:
Active grille shutters like the Class 50 where they slammed shut on the bodysides, without warning, and scaring the shit out of me when I was about 13? That kind of active grille shutter? Been around 40 years mate. Old Skool.

 

Longer than that. I'm sure there were some posh pre-war cars that had thermostatic grill shutters.

Posted

Yup, spot on Seth. Bentley MkVI/Rolls-Royce Silver Dawn for a start. Very odd!

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I bet they were properly engineered though. I'll eat my own arse if more than 10 percent of these focus ones are still working 5 years from now. And the automatic parking thing. And all the other shite they ladle on to cars now to make people think they're driving a lexus. Wonder if they've sorted out the rust-proofing yet?

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  Cavette said:
Telesales twats. I hate these bastards at the best of times and we're supposed to be on the telephone prefernce list thing where the wankers don't call us. To make it worse the wankers that called tonight were the ambulance chasing type and asking about accident claims. Mrs C took the first call and as we were involved in an accident a couple of years or so ago thought it was genuine and told them to call me back later.

 

Anyhow long story short they called back and when I questioned them for their phone number (as I'd sussed straight away they were chancers) and the geezer mumbled something. It took a few minutes to get it out of them so I asked for their web address. Whilst on hold for a bout five minutes I could hear at least two other people in their office ringing people up and using different company names. I challenged the fucking gobshite about this when he eventually started speaking again and I got his 'boss' who told me they were solicitors and avoided any pertinent questions at which point I finally snapped and told them I was going to help them look into accident claims and drive my fucking car through their window, block the door off and set fire to their building with them in it. He then repeated some shit about them being a genuine company so I told him to fuck off and put the phone down.

 

Ten minutes later my daughter (who wasn't about when I spoke to them) told me they called again, she asked them to stop calling and the dickhead on the phone went into a rant about how I'd called them (not true) to sort it out and she was a 'silly little girl' and that she could complain all she wanted but they weren't arsed.

If anyone finds out who these wankers are (unlikely I know) please let me know. The twat I spoke to said they were called 'Rescue Accident Help Line' and quoted 0845 956 2811 which doesn't actually exist oddly enough.

 

Rant over, I'm going for a lie down to try and not think about finding them and petrol bombing their fucking office.

 

We get them calling all the time a work. Usually people selling advertisment space. A quick C U L8TR and down goes the phone. BAM.

edit 4 grumps: tooth ache. only it's not tooth ache but gummy problems that HURT LIKE HELL when it flares up and the dentists doesn't seem to know what the cause is. Oww.

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[/pedant mode] The Bentley MkVI and RR Silver Dawn were post-WW2, sorry...[/exit pedant mode]

Posted

Shurely not giving the car a front like a barn door would have been a more effective way of reducing drag.

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These telesales shits bother my dad every fuggin day, despite him being registered with the TPS. He has given up answering the phone altogether and told everyone he knwos to just leave a message. if he's in and he hears them leaving one he picks up. Basically theyve rendered his phone useless.

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I looked into this thing where you can block witheld numbers from calling you, the flip side of which is that the hospital/rozzers/doctor can't call you but I could have lived with that. However because we're not with B.T that service doesn't work. Yip-fucking-ee.

 

Oh, and to add to my fantastic mood at the moment the Merc didn't hit reserve on eBaY but within five minutes of it ending I've received two (yes TWO) messages from different people asking for my phone number as they'll 'turn up tomorrow with cash'. This despite them not knowing how much I want for it. Happy fucking days :roll:

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  eddyramrod said:
[/pedant mode] The Bentley MkVI and RR Silver Dawn were post-WW2, sorry...[/exit pedant mode]

 

Reading FAIL! Sorry...

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  tonedepear said:
I bet they were properly engineered though. I'll eat my own arse if more than 10 percent of these focus ones are still working 5 years from now. And the automatic parking thing. And all the other shite they ladle on to cars now to make people think they're driving a lexus. Wonder if they've sorted out the rust-proofing yet?

 

Vibrating steering wheel alert if you wander over a white line, wonder what the next technological innovation will be, talking dashboard ? :roll:

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