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Oh well, I suppose  it's an excuse to start my taxi tales thread about the chod I worked during my last stint as a licensed taxi operative.

 

What happened to the part worn tyre idea? I thought it was a pretty good plan.

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Fuck sticks, up nice and early (for a day off) as I was planning on going to my in laws to strip my Cortina down ready for the bodywork and my nice, modern Focus won't start, unbelievable.

 

The shitting thing turns over but doesn't quite fire up, I got diesel from Sainsburys on the way home on Sunday when i last used it and had lots of problems with the pump which kept tripping itself, It took a good 5 minutes to just put £20 in, I wonder if I got contaminated fuel?.

 

If this was the case would it not run for a bit on the good fuel in the lines then conk out? Have you got home start?

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I've had a right 'mare with it this morning, my dad came round to take a look and after re-priming the system with a small funnel and a cup of diesel we got it running again but the system is full of air, we think the fuel inlet pipe might have a damaged seal so I've ordered a new pipe from Ford at £36, I have a new filter too but there's no point it changing it until the new pipes arrived on Saturday as it's a right bastard to bleed.
 
It was running nicely for a while but it's died again, Googling about the air in the system brings up a lot of results so it must be a common issue with them, since I've owned the car it's always started then cut out again so i think it's been bubbling since it was last serviced but we've bad it worse today by fiddling with it.
 
You can see the air bubbles in this quick video i made.

View My Video

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I've not had much luck lately, hopefully i can blag a lift to work for the next few days!

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I'm off to "college" on the 20th to to "learn" how to be a taxi driver again. Deep joy. Seven days of my life I won't get back.

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I'm off to "college" on the 20th to to "learn" how to be a taxi driver again. Deep joy. Seven days of my life I won't get back.

College? Taxi driver?

:-)

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I've not had much luck lately, hopefully i can blag a lift to work for the next few days!

 

Hey I know someone.

 

I'm actually thinking of going back to driving a taxi. 

 

 

I'm off to "college" on the 20th to to "learn" how to be a taxi driver again. Deep joy. Seven days of my life I won't get back.

 

Bollocks. Oh well.

Was probably a little far away anyhow.

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College? Taxi driver?

:-)

Sadly yes, apparently they teach you how to mediate with difficult punters and let the thought of someone doing a runner go over your head and simply let them go. Some fucking hope though, a blast in the eyes with Jif lemon with jalapeño juice and a swift clip round the ear with a BFO spanner has never failed yet so I can't really see the converting me to the caring, pragmatic sort of person they want driving a taxi. 

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T Mobile. Chiselling cunts.

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I have been unable to make posts in the ebay tat thread since the end of November, for some reason I am no longer able to cut and paste links and photographs from there to here (It used to come up with a message asking if I wanted to allow access to my clipboard, it doesn't anymore), nor  can I quote posts on here. When I try to upload photographs on here, from my pc, it does not show them in preview, but does sometimes come up in the post (with a big attached images label), so this makes it difficult/impossible to put text/pic/text/pic. Whilst this is good for everyone else on here, I would like to get back to posting mindless drivel so need some help.

 

Now as far as I am aware I have not changed any settings on my laptop, although I am fairly illiterate with such things, it runs windows explorer 11 browser (as I have discovered), any sensible ideas what I need to do to sort it out?

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I'd post a screen shot to show the problem but can't paste anything into the menu bar above, lol.

 

(top left button clicked). :-(

 

 

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I have been unable to make posts in the ebay tat thread since the end of November, for some reason I am no longer able to cut and paste links and photographs from there to here (It used to come up with a message asking if I wanted to allow access to my clipboard, it doesn't anymore), nor  can I quote posts on here. When I try to upload photographs on here, from my pc, it does not show them in preview, but does sometimes come up in the post (with a big attached images label), so this makes it difficult/impossible to put text/pic/text/pic. Whilst this is good for everyone else on here, I would like to get back to posting mindless drivel so need some help.

 

Now as far as I am aware I have not changed any settings on my laptop, although I am fairly illiterate with such things, it runs windows explorer 11 browser (as I have discovered), any sensible ideas what I need to do to sort it out?

Its definitely a problem your end,personally i would try firefox,but i hate internet explorer with a passion.

 

Tim,what is your pc setup,os &  browser?

 

http://autoshite.com/topic/15522-help-needed-how-to-post-pics/

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It makes me very grumpy that anyone uses IE these days. It has been a total crock of shit for the last 10 years what's wrong with all you IE users? Do you perform self harm in other areas of your life?

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All this computerised MOT stuff is great if you lose your certificate, but if you're trying to tax your car early and be a bit sneaky, it's a right load of shit. 

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It makes me very grumpy that anyone uses IE these days. It has been a total crock of shit for the last 10 years what's wrong with all you IE users? Do you perform self harm in other areas of your life?

 

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I have to use Firefox at work...

 

I feel dirty enough having had to install Office 365 on my new hard drive but I got it for free so needs must.  :-)

 

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That appears to have worked so I fear my IE days are numbered.  :-(

 

Humbug, all this new fangled malarky...

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It makes me very grumpy that anyone uses IE these days. It has been a total crock of shit for the last 10 years what's wrong with all you IE users? Do you perform self harm in other areas of your life?

I'm clinging on to Netscape Navigator, surely the Austin Princess of browsers.

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I still use IE as I prefer the interface, but I always open up Autoshite on Firefox as IE simply can't cope with it.

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I still use IE as I prefer the interface, but I always open up The Internet on Firefox as IE simply can't cope with it.

Efa

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Hmm, Firefox, eh, I'll give it a go.

 

Well I wonder if this will work, let's try cutting and pasting a link.

http://autoshite.com/

 

Now to try to upload a photograph.

 

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Well that seems to work, so hard luck I seem to be back, the ebay tat thread won't know what's hit it.

 

 

 

 

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I still use IE as I prefer the interface, but I always open up Autoshite on Firefox as IE simply can't cope with it.

F12+User agent string IE6.

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F12+User agent string IE6.

Absolutely! Errrrr....

Use hairy string when operating under cover?

Posted

That iPhone showed up today and it's absolutely fine, aside from one thing.

 

It's locked to fucking Vodafone.

I want to get a contract on Three for fuck's sake, I'm seriously tempted to just buy a pay as you go SIM, and take the £20ish hit myself, I can't be arsed dealing with the halfwit seller any more. I could do it for free, but I'd need to borrow the details of someone who'd had a Vodafone contract for over year to do it, and well, that's fraud innit?

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That iPhone showed up today and it's absolutely fine, aside from one thing.

 

It's locked to fucking Vodafone.

I want to get a contract on Three for fuck's sake, I'm seriously tempted to just buy a pay as you go SIM, and take the £20ish hit myself, I can't be arsed dealing with the halfwit seller any more. I could do it for free, but I'd need to borrow the details of someone who'd had a Vodafone contract for over year to do it, and well, that's fraud innit?

I had an iphone 3GS and took it to a local shop* who unlocked it for £15.

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That iPhone showed up today and it's absolutely fine, aside from one thing.

 

It's locked to fucking Vodafone.

I want to get a contract on Three for fuck's sake, I'm seriously tempted to just buy a pay as you go SIM, and take the £20ish hit myself, I can't be arsed dealing with the halfwit seller any more. I could do it for free, but I'd need to borrow the details of someone who'd had a Vodafone contract for over year to do it, and well, that's fraud innit?

What iOS and baseband is it on? And what model is it?

 

Baseband is listed as "Modem Firmware" in Settings>General>About. It's near the very bottom.

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I had an iphone 3GS and took it to a local shop* who unlocked it for £15.

 

 

You did well then because I either had to pay £70 and lose the 'phone for a fortnight or go through my carrier and pay £20.50. I chose the latter and had a month or six weeks of absolute hell with Orange, who then redeemed themselves.

3 are ok but the network is surprisingly patchy despite some of their promises. I went sim only by the way and have said myself a small fortune.

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