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Update from the shite dangerous driver I reported a few weeks back.

They'll notify me what happens? That's nice tbh.

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  On 16/11/2019 at 17:54, Aston Martin said:

Update from the shite dangerous driver I reported a few weeks back.

They'll notify me what happens? That's nice tbh.

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At least you have a response.

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It's from G4S though, so the projected six months for the response will turn into six years, be hugely overbudget and somehow involve a prison riot.

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Haven't driven the P38 Strange Rover for about 3x weeks so I thought I'd give it a run. As it's a Land Rover they all leak something-mine leaks electricity. Being unusually organised I put the battery on charge. Today I connected the battery and it started 1st time. Too go to be true. It rewarded me by deflating the suspension as I was taking the current millstone to work. 3miles on the bumps stops before it decided to rise to the occasion- ooh err missus! I then treated it to 30 pictures of her maj for some squashed dinosaurs as the fuel light was on. Got home in the style to which I'm not usually accustomed. The grump ? I went to pop the bonnet to disconnect the battery and one of the bastard cables snapped! My the electricity will all leak out in 3x days and my RAC does not cover home start. Bollocks! (I was going to call them out with a flat battery and casually mention the broken cable and let them open it). Do I park it up a mile away and then call them or do I say fxxk it and take it to the garage and let them open it?

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  On 16/11/2019 at 19:24, burraston2006 said:

Haven't driven the P38 Strange Rover for about 3x weeks so I thought I'd give it a run. As it's a Land Rover they all leak something-mine leaks electricity. Being unusually organised I put the battery on charge. Today I connected the battery and it started 1st time. Too go to be true. It rewarded me by deflating the suspension as I was taking the current millstone to work. 3miles on the bumps stops before it decided to rise to the occasion- ooh err missus! I then treated it to 30 pictures of her maj for some squashed dinosaurs as the fuel light was on. Got home in the style to which I'm not usually accustomed. The grump ? I went to pop the bonnet to disconnect the battery and one of the bastard cables snapped! My the electricity will all leak out in 3x days and my RAC does not cover home start. Bollocks! (I was going to call them out with a flat battery and casually mention the broken cable and let them open it). Do I park it up a mile away and then call them or do I say fxxk it and take it to the garage and let them open it?

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Plasma cutter?

 

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Just went on the Rimmers website. I think I need a beer or three after seeing their prices!

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  On 16/11/2019 at 20:57, burraston2006 said:

Just went on the Rimmers website. I think I need a beer or three after seeing their prices!

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I can sort of see a market for windscreen stickers reading "Rimmed by Rimmers"

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  On 16/11/2019 at 13:02, jamiechod said:

I can see this gap insurance becoming the next ppi as surely they have to make it crystal that your gap policy is pointless if buying on pcp/hp

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I've thought this for ages-ever since a number of colleagues took out PCP's on cars (mostly Fiat 500's and Audi A3's) and were all encouraged to take out Gap insurance. Something fishy is going on...

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  On 17/11/2019 at 00:25, Jerzy Woking said:

I've thought this for ages-ever since a number of colleagues took out PCP's on cars (mostly Fiat 500's and Audi A3's) and were all encouraged to take out Gap insurance. Something fishy is going on...

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The next mis-selling scandal?

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I've been coming to an annual event up in Livingston every year since 2015.  We're now very much becoming victims of our own success.

2015 we had 153 attendees.  Last year was just under 300 if I remember right.  This year we had 420 attendees registered in advance...and it's painfully apparent that we have now thoroughly outgrown our venue.  Last two years we've had to use an overflow hotel for accomodation (two this year), but we were managing to still make the event space work reasonably well.  The only event last year I remember there being people turned away from due to the room being at capacity was the closing ceremony.

Many queues, Impossible to get through even the usually wide open communal areas in the hotel etc...it just feels overcrowded. 

I mean it's great to see our little event going from strength to strength, but it's obvious that there's going to be changed next year.  Either it will be a cap being placed on the reg numbers, or a new venue.

The latter is the most likely.  Fair enough, but having been here since 2015 (14 actually, but 15 was the first year we were here), this hotel feels like home.  The hotel love us and basically just hand us the keys on a silver platter for the weekend.  Moving will mean starting a new relationship from scratch.

We'll make it work...but things changing is always a bit hard to watch for me.  Makes me really nostalgic for my first trip up here back in 2015.

 

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  On 17/11/2019 at 00:37, Tadhg Tiogar said:

The next mis-selling scandal?

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As one of the major providers of GAP went bust recently (Lamp) its probably not going to be an enormo scandal.

The insurance thing is very roughly that if you're the sort of person who leaves sorting your car insurance to the last minute you're likely to be the sort of person who takes other unnecessary risks so the premium is loaded to take account of that.

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Debate the aesthetics to your hearts content but I did end up ordering/buying the wood trim for the SLK. However, it would seem that the Gods don't like the wood look in Mercedes small sports car as after nearly 4 weeks, still no sign of it arriving. I e-mailed them a week ago and got no reply. It was £97 which I paid by Paypal. I looked a few days after first purchase and the price has gone up to nearly £110.

I am seriously tempted to try for a refund through Paypal but want the trim...

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Why is it that at any event involving more than about ten people is there *always* a contingent who have absolutely zero concept of how to behave acceptably?

Just in the closing ceremony of where I've been this weekend, and there were a group of three people in the row behind us who spent the whole time talking loudly among themselves, complaining about how they hated the jokes being made during the ceremony (most of which are basically tradition now after nine years), and even laughing through the part where we were told that there would be no convention next year.  Which for some of us is quite a profound bombshell.  Granted it was later alleviated by the news we're moving to a new venue in early 2021, but it could really have done it without non stop babble from behind me.

Moving to a new venue is a bit of a grump too.  It's a good thing really as we've utterly and completely outgrown the Livingston Mercure.  It just isn't able to cope with a party of 482 (final number for this year) people.  So "next year" we're moving to the Crowne Plaza hotel in Glasgow... that's...quite a jump!

It's very much needed and good news...but this hotel feels kinda like home.

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Car batteries. First off, neighbour's 308 which now seems to involve having to be the illegitimate love child of Einstein and a contortionist to get out (gave up with that one) and then fucker on this 2010 Astra, which is the same. Instead of piss arsing about bolting all kinds of shit to the top of batteries, why don't they just leave it to the usual two 10mm and one 13mm nuts? Bastards.

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Recently for some reason I keep getting sent the wrong item by eBay sellers.  I'm not just talking about the wrong type of brake pads (which has happened twice now), but completely the wrong thing.  A couple of weeks back I ordered a GPS speedo and the seller sent me a turtle ankle pendant.  Then last week I ordered a lightbulb and the seller has sent me a container of slug killer.

Has eBay's ordering system shat itself or something?

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  On 17/11/2019 at 22:00, wuvvum said:

Recently for some reason I keep getting sent the wrong item by eBay sellers.  I'm not just talking about the wrong type of brake pads (which has happened twice now), but completely the wrong thing.  A couple of weeks back I ordered a GPS speedo and the seller sent me a turtle ankle pendant.  Then last week I ordered a lightbulb and the seller has sent me a container of slug killer.

Has eBay's ordering system shat itself or something?

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I suspect the algorithm doesn't translate your order well into Chinese. 

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As a private hire taxi driver I occasionally get evening contract jobs taking school kids to sport events. Pick them up from school, take them to the venue, wait and take them back to the school. Did so last Friday. Dropped the kids off and just hung about waiting. Needed a pee so got out of the car and went in search of a loo at the venue. Found a door and could see that there was a toilet just beyond so went in and used the facilities. Just getting back into the car and a woman appeared asking if 'she could have a word' . "Excuse me, I don't want to appear rude but smoking and vaping is prohibited on school premises" I was doing neither, it was a cold evening and it was just my breath! Explained but got reported anyway. Ticked off for that plus for going to the toilet on my own as apparently I can't go into a (almost deserted) school alone. 

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  On 16/11/2019 at 23:33, Tadhg Tiogar said:

I can sort of see a market for windscreen stickers reading "Rimmed by Rimmers"

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They have the monopoly on much of the BL stuff. The p&p bumps it up even more.

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My 944 has just been dropped off by my local, friendly specialist.

The MPG had gone to shit and it was consuming coolant...  Apparently not OMGHGF, but corrosion on the bottom of the head. 'Anyway, while its all in bits, we might as well replace the belts, pulleys, tensioners, waterpump, drop in a quick bit of a service etc.'

As you can imagine the car brought with it a bill.

I've been on this forum for nine years, bought three cars from here and the bill was more than three times my total autoshite expenditure, it's a lovely car, but I can see why there's not many of the fuckers left.

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  On 18/11/2019 at 11:17, Bobthebeard said:

As a private hire taxi driver I occasionally get evening contract jobs taking school kids to sport events. Pick them up from school, take them to the venue, wait and take them back to the school. Did so last Friday. Dropped the kids off and just hung about waiting. Needed a pee so got out of the car and went in search of a loo at the venue. Found a door and could see that there was a toilet just beyond so went in and used the facilities. Just getting back into the car and a woman appeared asking if 'she could have a word' . "Excuse me, I don't want to appear rude but smoking and vaping is prohibited on school premises" I was doing neither, it was a cold evening and it was just my breath! Explained but got reported anyway. Ticked off for that plus for going to the toilet on my own as apparently I can't go into a (almost deserted) school alone. 

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I hate people like that, it doesn’t matter how clear the facts are they won’t listen as they’ve got their job to do and they’re never wrong 

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  On 18/11/2019 at 12:57, barefoot said:

My 944 has just been dropped off by my local, friendly specialist.

The MPG had gone to shit and it was consuming coolant...  Apparently not OMGHGF, but corrosion on the bottom of the head. 'Anyway, while its all in bits, we might as well replace the belts, pulleys, tensioners, waterpump, drop in a quick bit of a service etc.'

As you can imagine the car brought with it a bill.

I've been on this forum for nine years, bought three cars from here and the bill was more than three times my total autoshite expenditure, it's a lovely car, but I can see why there's not many of the fuckers left.

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A friend of mine bought a 1984 944 around the turn of the millennium in Galway.At the time the only Porsche dealership in the Irish Republic was Belgard in Dublin,so he waited until he visited the UK,then dropped it off at the dealership in Bournemouth,telling them to make sure everything was in good shape mechanically.When he went back the bill was £5000.So they are a car that can eat money.

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  On 18/11/2019 at 14:10, artdjones said:

A friend of mine bought a 1984 944 around the turn of the millennium in Galway.At the time the only Porsche dealership in the Irish Republic was Belgard in Dublin,so he waited until he visited the UK,then dropped it off at the dealership in Bournemouth,telling them to make sure everything was in good shape mechanically.When he went back the bill was £5000.So they are a car that can eat money.

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Could probably have bought a house for £5k back then ;)

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  On 18/11/2019 at 11:17, Bobthebeard said:

As a private hire taxi driver I occasionally get evening contract jobs taking school kids to sport events. Pick them up from school, take them to the venue, wait and take them back to the school. Did so last Friday. Dropped the kids off and just hung about waiting. Needed a pee so got out of the car and went in search of a loo at the venue. Found a door and could see that there was a toilet just beyond so went in and used the facilities. Just getting back into the car and a woman appeared asking if 'she could have a word' . "Excuse me, I don't want to appear rude but smoking and vaping is prohibited on school premises" I was doing neither, it was a cold evening and it was just my breath! Explained but got reported anyway. Ticked off for that plus for going to the toilet on my own as apparently I can't go into a (almost deserted) school alone. 

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Do you not have to be CRB checked to school work, in which case being alone is of no consequence? What a jobsworth. Fire a complaint right back, the way education works these days they have to respond.

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To whoever it is down our street who cannot leave for work at 5.30 a.m. without slamming their car door at least 12 times, over a period of ten minutes...

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My 944 is for sale if anyone wants it. 

Its a special edition that costs fuck all to run I promise. 

Its is absolutely not a money pit. Honestly. 

I'd happily drive it anwhere in the country. Swear down. 

No rust. Cubs honour. 

No warranty implied or given. 

 

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  On 18/11/2019 at 16:16, Datsuncog said:

To whoever it is down our street who cannot leave for work at 5.30 a.m. without slamming their car door at least 12 times, over a period of ten minutes...

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Yep, same happens to me... normally on a weekend when I've got an hangover and I'm thinking how many doors has that car actually f****ing got!

 

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  On 18/11/2019 at 16:27, HillmanImp said:

My 944 is for sale if anyone wants it. 

Its a special edition that costs fuck all to run I promise. 

Its is absolutely not a money pit. Honestly. 

I'd happily drive it anwhere in the country. Swear down. 

No rust. Cubs honour. 

No warranty implied or given. 

 

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Swap for practical estate?

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  On 18/11/2019 at 15:42, mrbenn said:

Could probably have bought a house for £5k back then ;)

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Not quite that bad,but lots of people were only earning £10-12 thousand pa then for a 40 hour week.

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  On 18/11/2019 at 16:30, Tenmil Socket said:

Yep, same happens to me... normally on a weekend when I've got an hangover and I'm thinking how many doors as that car actually f****ing got!

 

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@Datsuncog

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