Jazoli Posted March 23, 2018 Share Posted March 23, 2018 Fuck you ebay Screenshot_20180323-120405.png 40 minutes ago I could have sent Gareth £50 and we could have got £75 off all our parts Bastards Nope, vehicle parts and accessories are not included in the promotion as I've just tried it to buy some bluetooth intercoms for the bike and some brake discs. Slartibartfast, oldcars, richardthestag and 1 other 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cavcraft Posted March 23, 2018 Share Posted March 23, 2018 Anyone who rings you at home trying to sell you stuff, especially if you’re on the TPS thing, deserves everything they get abuse wise. mercrocker, chaseracer, richardthestag and 3 others 6 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
5speedracer Posted March 23, 2018 Share Posted March 23, 2018 I've never been into a chip shop that sells scampi.Eh!! Sent from my Redmi 4 using Tapatalk Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
omegod Posted March 23, 2018 Share Posted March 23, 2018 I you asked for scampi in a chippy round here they'd probably batter you myglaren, The Moog, eddyramrod and 6 others 9 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
beko1987 Posted March 23, 2018 Share Posted March 23, 2018 Nope, vehicle parts and accessories are not included in the promotion as I've just tried it to buy some bluetooth intercoms for the bike and some brake discs.Thats good then, happier now! Jazoli 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eddie Honda Posted March 23, 2018 Share Posted March 23, 2018 Got no sleep last night as it got too late to go to bed because red-eye flight to catch Dublin > Glasgow. Packing at 3am to find no clean undercrackers, socks or jeans. Left home with toothbrush, passport and phone charger. Spend £40-odd quid buying said stuff. Now in a fucking Irish bar waiting for a mate to finish work next door. Only good thing today was the air hostess was bang tidy. oldcars, The Moog and Cavcraft 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Frogchod Posted March 23, 2018 Share Posted March 23, 2018 "Now in a fucking Irish bar" How is that a grump ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chaseracer Posted March 23, 2018 Share Posted March 23, 2018 "Now in a fucking Irish bar"How is that a grump ? Keith, you've clearly not been in a fucking "Irish" bar recently... Eddie Honda, Mr_Bo11ox and Cavcraft 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chaseracer Posted March 23, 2018 Share Posted March 23, 2018 If your sliding bits of wood up the seats they will catch on the cup holders moulded into the back of the middle seat and stop dead. You won't notice this and fuck your hand up, or whatever jammed will recoil back and smack you in the bollocks. We're not laughing at you either, Sam. Much... Cavcraft 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cavcraft Posted March 23, 2018 Share Posted March 23, 2018 Some special case has messaged me five times to ask questions all clearly already stated on the advert. The penultimate was 'what's the lowest you'll take' when it said no offers, and the last was 'will you take (£50 less than already cheap asking price) today' so I just said what do you fucking think?No replies as of yet, I hope he says he was going to turn up tonight with all the money and take it away, as soon as someone says that you've know you've taken them big time. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
M'coli Posted March 23, 2018 Share Posted March 23, 2018 "Now in a fucking Irish bar"How is that a grump ?Seriously, you have to ask that of a guy who lives in Ireland, who then flies to Scotland, and ends up in a fucking Irish bar in Scotland???!!! Supernaut, Eddie Honda, Tadhg Tiogar and 2 others 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Supernaut Posted March 23, 2018 Share Posted March 23, 2018 Seriously, you have to ask that of a guy who lives in Ireland, who then flies to Scotland, and ends up in a fucking Irish bar in Scotland???!!! Not only that, he's a Scottish guy living in Ireland who flew to Scotland to end up in an Irish bar in Scotland. richardthestag, Eddie Honda, Exiled_Tat_Gatherer and 5 others 8 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tadhg Tiogar Posted March 23, 2018 Share Posted March 23, 2018 ^^Surrealism and the art of circular serendipity. chaseracer and alcyonecorporation 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John F Posted March 23, 2018 Share Posted March 23, 2018 Not only that, he's a Scottish guy living in Ireland who flew to Scotland to end up in an Irish bar in Scotland. bubbles.gif After about 10 seconds, that GIF started to look like an octopus swimming... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
richardmorris Posted March 23, 2018 Share Posted March 23, 2018 Still waiting for a call back from the Mercedes dealer for a quote for the suspension arm and balljoint replacement. A week tomorrow, not heard back from the regular guy since the middle of Feb and not at all from the second mobile specialist recommended by the paint shop I use. So it’s booked into my Citroen specialist on Tuesday once I’ve nursed it over there gently. I know lee will do it well, just didn’t want to drive it that far. On the plus side it’s now dried out after the snow melt flooding and the rear window still works. Not risking it for the family funeral though, so it’s off in the 2cv up the motorway network tomorrow. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cort16 Posted March 23, 2018 Share Posted March 23, 2018 That PSA deal isn't looking great for Vauxhall, they're shutting 1-3 UK dealers https://www.am-online.com/news/latest-news/2018/03/21/psa-group-plans-to-cut-one-in-three-vauxhall-retail-sites Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
madrat Posted March 23, 2018 Share Posted March 23, 2018 speaking of Vauxhall, there new adds are annoying, "a British brand since 1903(or something) they have been German and American for as long as I can remember. NorfolkNWeigh, wuvvum, chaseracer and 1 other 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Parky Posted March 23, 2018 Share Posted March 23, 2018 Trouble is with all the negative publicity it just reduces the chances of people buying them in case they aren't around for warranty purposes or the effects on resale. We saw that with MG Rover and I am rather worried about Vauxhalls future. Not so much the brand, if it became Opel I wouldn't be too bothered but there's a lot of folk reliant on that factory and that's what worries me. If the government changed the tax laws on company cars we might see a return to the halcyon days of Reps cars. Not sexy but Vauxhall made a packet out of that market coalnotdole, Cavcraft, madrat and 1 other 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fraser.innes.3 Posted March 23, 2018 Share Posted March 23, 2018 Typical, I arrange to sell the P38 roffle rover, and my grand voyager snaps a driveshaft just south of Gloucester today. Out of the 4 cars we have, only one is operational, so I will spend tomorrow trying to get the megane moted. Of course the voyager is an auto so cant be towed! Sent from my EVA-L09 using Tapatalk Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DeeJay Posted March 23, 2018 Share Posted March 23, 2018 Got no sleep last night as it got too late to go to bed because red-eye flight to catch Dublin > Glasgow. Packing at 3am to find no clean undercrackers, socks or jeans. Left home with toothbrush, passport and phone charger. Spend £40-odd quid buying said stuff. Now in a fucking Irish bar waiting for a mate to finish work next door. Only good thing today was the air hostess was bang tidy.Irish bar in Scotland is probably a lot cheaper than an Irish bar in Ireland. Eddie Honda, Supernaut and Datsuncog 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tadhg Tiogar Posted March 23, 2018 Share Posted March 23, 2018 Irish bar in Scotland is probably a lot cheaper than an Irish bar in Ireland.The only "Irish" bars I found were in Temple Bar, so I avoided those places. Likewise much of Galway City. Eddie Honda and John F 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AlabamaShrimp Posted March 23, 2018 Share Posted March 23, 2018 Typical, I arrange to sell the P38 roffle rover, and my grand voyager snaps a driveshaft just south of Gloucester today. Out of the 4 cars we have, only one is operational, so I will spend tomorrow trying to get the megane moted. Of course the voyager is an auto so cant be towed! Just keep the range rover then stonedagain and bigfella2 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
M'coli Posted March 23, 2018 Share Posted March 23, 2018 Irish bar in Scotland is probably a lot cheaper than an Irish bar in Ireland.Aye, maybe, but fuck-all use when you're gantin' after a pint of Heavy. Eddie Honda 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wuvvum Posted March 23, 2018 Share Posted March 23, 2018 That PSA deal isn't looking great for Vauxhall, they're shutting 1-3 UK dealers https://www.am-online.com/news/latest-news/2018/03/21/psa-group-plans-to-cut-one-in-three-vauxhall-retail-sitesThat article makes for interesting reading. the Kia Sportage among the models now outselling its once popular Corsa hatchback.Could that be because the Corsa they are flogging now has basically been around since 2006? Even the Fiesta's now been renewed, and that came out two years later. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
somewhatfoolish Posted March 23, 2018 Share Posted March 23, 2018 Next time, put the phone down and when it rings again pick it up saying "Howdy, Huntsville Penitentiary, Execution Unit" Many years ago when on work experience as a teenager I was instructed to answer the (non-customer facing) phone with "Allo; Bureau des Étrangers?" in the manner of Bergerac. Not many casual enquirers bothered trying again. chaseracer 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sierraman Posted March 24, 2018 Share Posted March 24, 2018 Sense says replace Vauxhall with Opel, base everything on a PSA platform. Can't see the reason from a commercial perspective in persevering with a brand only sold in the UK. Its not like you could stage a renaissance of the brand, Omega aside it's just been a load of cack since they finished the cavalier. It would be like bringing back Bimbo Bread. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ghosty Posted March 24, 2018 Share Posted March 24, 2018 If you're being extreme you could start selling Peugeot/Citroen products rebadged as Vauxhalls or Opels, and withdraw Citroen and Peugeot so as not to compete with themselves... Then a couple of years down the line reintroduce Citroen with a neo-retro styled 2CValike. Done well they could be a great Fiat 500 competitor (will they ever stop making those?!) Supernaut, sierraman and Roobarb 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zelandeth Posted March 24, 2018 Share Posted March 24, 2018 Uuuuuuuurrrrrggghhh... Someone remind me why I do international travel again? I remember the trip being actually fun...now it's just a stressful mess. Virginia Atlantic's relatively recently overhauled Airbus A330s...seats apparently bought off Audi. I've sat on park benches with more padding. The most useless infotainment systems I've used in years with resistive touchscreen interfaces...which is great when the guy in the seat behind you decides to start playing a very enthusiastic game of Bejewelled. Pretty sure I wound up with concussion from that...then a hostess managed to dump about 2/3rds of a 2 litre bottle of water in my lap. About 15 minutes into an 8 hour journey. I just about dried out when we arrived at JFK for the connection. After the usual kerfuffle at the border control point (they really can't get their heads around the whole me being married to a US Citizen thing) which wasted an hour, we found our departure gate. ...and realized with about 10 minutes to boarding that the pre-booked seats (which we paid £30 odd each for!) had all been changed, and we were scattered all over the plane. I was already having a bad day by this point, was in quite a lot of pain, and getting quite overwhelmed by the world in general. Then spent two hours sandwiched between two people I didn't know, one of whom was a very loud, very drunk Russian, who then fell asleep on my shoulder and spent the latter two thirds of the trip drooling on me. Overbooked flight too...so no chance of shifting... Having finally escaped from that aircraft, limping my way through the terminal, I managed to get bodily bowled over by a mother chasing four out of control children. Not so much as a sorry...and a scolding from the nearby TSA security guard for knocking over their barrier tape thing because I fell into it. Have finally made it to our overnight hotel...then all I've got to do is survive the traffic getting out of Fort Lauderdale as far as the Overseas Highway heading south...and we should be good. No more bloody air travel at least. Think I may just have to impose a family ban on my being involved in trips like at least until my mental state improves. A couple of years back I'd have just shrugged my shoulders, however I counted it a major victory in that I managed to neither have a total breakdown nor physically chuck anyone out of the aircraft today... Feel really bad that the cracks have been showing lately. Should qualify one of my earlier comments... I've absolutely no issues with Russians or anyone else from that area in general. Aberdeenshire was home for 30 years, and we see a lot of folks from those areas up there - and quite a few are bloody good mates. You've not lived until you've been working behind the bar the night that a bunch of Peterhead trawlermen decided to have a drinking contest with their Russian counterparts. That was a hell of a night (in a good way), and while there were some very sore heads the following day, no trouble. Even if one poor bloke had to go back to work with Mario's eyebrows and moustache still drawn on with permanent marker... The guys from Peterhead lost the drinking game. Badly. The annoying idiot I got saddled with today just happened to be from that corner of the world. Roobarb 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cavcraft Posted March 24, 2018 Share Posted March 24, 2018 Struggle to see why PSA bought them, tbh. Did wonder if they'd just do away with GM based engines so they could fit their own, and thus save a few quid, but if they bought them to take out a rival it'd be a bit odd. The biggest worry is job losses, not just the factory but any dealerships going too. sierraman 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SiC Posted March 24, 2018 Share Posted March 24, 2018 Sense says replace Vauxhall with Opel, base everything on a PSA platform. Can't see the reason from a commercial perspective in persevering with a brand only sold in the UK. Its not like you could stage a renaissance of the brand, Omega aside it's just been a load of cack since they finished the cavalier. It would be like bringing back Bimbo Bread.I imagine the Vauxhall branding costs bugger all to do. They don't even change the bumper mouldings now. If you look under the Griffin vauxhall badge, the plastic moulding has the Opel logo on it. So essentially the only cost is a custom bit of chrome plastic on the cars, Vauxhall plastic letters and then the dealer signs. Even if it went to Opel the brochures would be custom to the UK over France/Germany/Spain/etc due to language and trim differences. So to keep the Vauxhall branding is likely cheaper for marketing than moving to Opel. Especially as most natives here know a Vauxhall, not an Opel. So a big advertising campaign would be needed to move it over. Remember it used to be owned by the penny pinching GM. If they could have saved money by moving the branding to Opel, they would have done. I bet there is a cost analysis report in a draw in an office somewhere on this. sierraman and Cavcraft 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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