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Talking of eBay, I sent a message to someone selling a car last night and when the copy appeared in my email it had my full name, email address and phone number showing as part of the message, guy I was speaking to confirmed he could read it too.
Tried to contact eBay to sort it out and spent 45 minutes on chat getting passed around from one disinterested script reader to another so no use there either,

Breach of GDPR, surely?

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  On 13/02/2022 at 18:54, Agila said:

At about 18 seconds I thought the bayonet might accidentally* catch her in the head.

Disappointed.

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Pity it didn't , can you imagine this happening 20 years ago , people just think they can do as they wish , the problem is they pretty much can , would she have done that in front of the White House or any state building in another country , I doubt it 

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  On 12/02/2022 at 10:05, chaseracer said:

Go back, with the snag list.  Speak with Rob.

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I'm not enjoying this new list of snags alongside the four figure bill. 

A test drive would have highlighted these faults. Sure, some of them may be coincidental/bad luck but to hand the car back and let you discover them... IMO, that's poor customer service. 

All it needed was a phone call to say, "we're running a bit late and your blower motor controller has failed."

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  On 12/02/2022 at 11:15, Metal Guru said:

Can nobody overtake these days? I live approx 50 miles in all directions from any motorway / dual carriageway way , so spend most my driving life in rural A roads. Nearly everytime I get stuck in a queue (6-10)  of cars following a slow lorry / bus / caravan or worse tractor at 20-40 mph.  No one will attempt an overtake unless there is a mile long straight and then they pull out at 20 mph in 6th gear and take the whole straight to pass. And then everyone bunches up so you can’t overtake the queue in reasonable bits. Absolute rubbish driving, you might as well be on a train!

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Same here, most of my driving is country A- and B-roads. 

I've made peace with it and I just make sure my cars have enough buttons to entertain me while I'm trundling at 20mph. 

To be honest the whole area around us has been decimated by HS2 and associated heavy machinery. 

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  On 13/02/2022 at 19:03, Wack said:

people just think they can do as they wish

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Speaking of which. It's now ok to not pay in full for stuff.

Young lad had £30 on him at a petrol station and put £30.03 in and was rightly asked to pay £30.03. 

Of course race got brought into it.

Do you know what we would all do if we only had £30, yeah I'd put in 25,26, or 29 quid in. That's it, I wouldn't expect anyone to bale me out or blame someone else doing their job.

https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/bp-garage-threatens-call-police-26205227

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  On 12/02/2022 at 19:21, Dyslexic Viking said:

I am very bored. And have cabin fever. I hate winter.

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I felt a bit the same today. Nothing like Norway, but just rainy and cold and there was stuff I wanted to do outside but couldn't. 

Spring* is coming. 

(*snow)

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  On 13/02/2022 at 19:14, grogee said:

I'm not enjoying this new list of snags alongside the four figure bill. 

A test drive would have highlighted these faults. Sure, some of them may be coincidental/bad luck but to hand the car back and let you discover them... IMO, that's poor customer service. 

All it needed was a phone call to say, "we're running a bit late and your blower motor controller has failed."

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They do a test drive after work is done and apparently all was well. Indeed, mechanic man was very baffled. He also told me "well it's not the end of the world is it?"

What they didn't seem to notice is that the speedo needle was bouncing around like a mad thing. The cables are known to kink and eventually snap and mine was no exception, but now you drive at 5MPH and it's showing between 25 and -10 on the speedo, whereas before it was only a little bump. In fact, the needle didn't steady out until I was at an indicated 75, which is far, far worse than before I had the work done.

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They can be awkward to get the speedo working smoothly, I had to take the binnacle off again a couple of times when I had BXs. I got quite good at it.

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  On 13/02/2022 at 19:37, artdjones said:

They can be awkward to get the speedo working smoothly, I had to take the binnacle off again a couple of times when I had BXs. I got quite good at it.

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It does make me wonder if it has fallen off or requires bodging to work again. I'll see what Chevronics say tomorrow. If they want it back again (and probably they will) I won't be a happy bunny.

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  On 13/02/2022 at 19:25, grogee said:

I felt a bit the same today. Nothing like Norway, but just rainy and cold and there was stuff I wanted to do outside but couldn't. 

Spring* is coming. 

(*snow)

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Yes winter is shit but is fortunately about 6 weeks to April and spring now I look forward to this. And about the middle of April the road salt is gone and the old cars can be driven again.

But I must try to make this year interesting as the last 3 have been very boring.

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  On 13/02/2022 at 17:38, Bren said:

Oil not arrived as of yet

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It's cold out, will take time to flow in your direction. 

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  On 13/02/2022 at 19:24, Agila said:

Speaking of which. It's now ok to not pay in full for stuff.

Young lad had £30 on him at a petrol station and put £30.03 in and was rightly asked to pay £30.03. 

Of course race got brought into it.

Do you know what we would all do if we only had £30, yeah I'd put in 25,26, or 29 quid in. That's it, I wouldn't expect anyone to bale me out or blame someone else doing their job.

https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/bp-garage-threatens-call-police-26205227

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I’d say it’s not an unreasonable request. A pump can legally dispense 0.5% under , so that would be 15p worth., so asking for 3p to be waived , you could still be 12p overcharged.

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Diesel was at £1.51 a litre the other day, not been that expensive in a long while if I remember rightly, I also paid £25 for 15L of E5 Premium, whereas before E10 came out I could get 15L for about £15, I know premium is more expensive anyway but still, a charge on the ordinary motorist, who run about in perfectly good old cars, no need for new ones to be built, besides there is more to go wrong with new cars

 

 

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501 capless bulbs   , why does my offside side light eat them , the last one lasted a night !!!

I must average 1 a month despite trying different sources !!

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Does the fitting vibrate a lot? That's what usually kills the lower power bulbs prematurely.

That said, new bulbs (lucas in particular) are all total dog dirt nowadays. I repaired a Volvo truck dash the other month and had to put a full set of 38 bulbs in it (someone had pinched them when it was on the shelf) Before I had even finished bench testing it, 10 of the 12 backlight bulbs had gone, they lasted ten minutes!

I reckon it's because nobody is investing in incandescent bulb manufacture anymore so unless you're buying from sylvania or whoever, your bulbs are going to be made of worn out shite old equipment in a dying industry nobody really cares about.

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  On 14/02/2022 at 13:41, GingerNuttz said:

I'm a rust magnet 😂

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Nice motor none the less. 

 

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Yeeesssss!

I've driven that, before I moved down this way.

 

That'll be looking amazing after you've been over it with your mad skillz.

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  On 14/02/2022 at 13:51, Supernaut said:

Yeeesssss!

I've driven that, before I moved down this way.

 

That'll be looking amazing after you've been over it with your mad skillz.

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It's not too bad tbf, got most of the dents out and noticed the inner arch had gone. 

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Bonnet is far better than expected too.

 

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This morning they announced redundancies at work. Our team is safe but the time this morning where we didn't know what was happening/that we were okay has given me flashbacks to when it happened at my last place and has left me feeling shit most of the day so far.

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  On 14/02/2022 at 13:41, GingerNuttz said:

I'm a rust magnet 😂

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Nice motor none the less. 

 

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How has a brand new* car managed to get that rusty?

 

Oh yes.  Scotland.

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Lovely weekend entertaining my parents who were down from Kent, ruined today by a £300 vet bill for the black cat who has an infected fanny and the start of kidney disease.

£700 the 2 cats have cost in the last 2 months in medication and vet appointments. And I feel more is on the cards.

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Why when my wife is clearly exhibiting all the signs of post traumatic grief, do I take her actions as anger towards me?  Had a brilliant Friday, Saturday, and most of Sunday and then the shit went to fan. 

Why why why why why am I such a fucking arse. I then made it 100 times worse today, because I mistook the actual words coming out of her mouth as something other than the cry for help, and instead took it all as a personal insult. 

And now, why the fuck is she now 2 hours away, alone and sad on Valentine's day. Why the fuck am I such a cunt? 

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  On 14/02/2022 at 18:11, New POD said:

Why when my wife is clearly exhibiting all the signs of post traumatic grief, do I take her actions as anger towards me?  Had a brilliant Friday, Saturday, and most of Sunday and then the shit went to fan. 

Why why why why why am I such a fucking arse. I then made it 100 times worse today, because I mistook the actual words coming out of her mouth as something other than the cry for help, and instead took it all as a personal insult. 

And now, why the fuck is she now 2 hours away, alone and sad on Valentine's day. Why the fuck am I such a cunt? 

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It's possible you are not.

You just started a day early.

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  On 14/02/2022 at 18:11, New POD said:

Why when my wife is clearly exhibiting all the signs of post traumatic grief, do I take her actions as anger towards me?  Had a brilliant Friday, Saturday, and most of Sunday and then the shit went to fan. 

Why why why why why am I such a fucking arse. I then made it 100 times worse today, because I mistook the actual words coming out of her mouth as something other than the cry for help, and instead took it all as a personal insult. 

And now, why the fuck is she now 2 hours away, alone and sad on Valentine's day. Why the fuck am I such a cunt? 

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I don't think you sound like a cunt at all. It's not easy for anyone involved to live with problems like that and you can't be expected to do the perfect thing every time it goes wrong. 

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  On 14/02/2022 at 18:15, Mally said:

It's possible you are not.

You just started a day early.

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I understand your first sentence. 

Not sure I'm clever enough to understand the second one..

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I swear my car has a mind of its own and doesn't like the cold weather, as the radio keeps cutting out but didn't do it in summer

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  On 13/02/2022 at 18:09, Wack said:

This makes me fucking grumpy , this cunt needs to be relieved of £300 by way of a fine , straight to the cash machine or a trip to court 

Have some fucking respect

 

 

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That is not a real Guardsman. They would never stand like that. He is not dressed smartly enough either. Just more Titwank entertainment for you.

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  On 14/02/2022 at 16:43, Rocket88 said:

“ cinch “ is not a verb, you over manicured twat…..

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It's ad-wanking. "Quote me happy". "Find your wow." 

Get fucked you parasites. 

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