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Problem with all these ‘flipping’ shows is that people with mince for brains actually start thinking they could see a car for sale for £1000, bid them £200, spend £50 then ‘flip’ it for £3000. 

Those guys on ‘flipping bangers’ were a pair of fools, it was funny to watch if I’m honest, this premise that anybody makes money selling £500 cars. The Alfa showed what a set of rank amateurs they were.

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13 hours ago, MikeR said:

No more than that Boxter job on W Ds , oh look the heat shield is loose .  it rattles

tin can , snips and some rivets   ...  sorted ?

Nah , whole new zorst  system , and drop the back bumper to fit !!

If you are buying and selling cars you do the bare minimum then get it sold on. Nobody fucks about improving them for a future owner. Who gives a shit! 

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21 hours ago, Timewaster said:

Yes I remember that flipping bangers. 

They cubed the car still with the wheels they had just paid to refurbish. 

There are so many flaws in that format. 

1. Buy shitter. 

2. Take pictures and put on ebay. 

3. Fix the old shitter. 

Nonsense. I still like to watch it though. 

While I like the kind of cars featured in Flipping Bangers, that show is so frustrating to watch at times. Artificial time limit, placing an advert before the car is finished, botched paintjobs with a rattle can, dumb decisions like scrapping that Alfa without selling good parts like the refurbished wheels (it had a good interior as well iirc), etc.

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Utter balls that it is, it beats watching Midsomer murders. 

I suspect chief inspector Barnaby is actually a deranged serial killer himself, and he's spending the entire episode trying to pin his vicious deeds on innocent members of the public. Surely people getting murdered everywhere he goes can't be a coincidence.

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19 minutes ago, D.E said:

 

I suspect chief inspector Barnaby is actually a deranged serial killer himself, and he's spending the entire episode trying to pin his vicious deeds on innocent members of the public. Surely people getting murdered everywhere he goes can't be a coincidence.

This is why I would never recommend accepting a friend request from Jessica Fletcher, they were dropping like flies everywhere she went

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4 hours ago, D.E said:

While I like the kind of cars featured in Flipping Bangers, that show is so frustrating to watch at times. Artificial time limit, placing an advert before the car is finished, botched paintjobs with a rattle can, dumb decisions like scrapping that Alfa without selling good parts like the refurbished wheels (it had a good interior as well iirc), etc.

I suspect chief inspector Barnaby is actually a deranged serial killer himself, and he's spending the entire episode trying to pin his vicious deeds on innocent members of the public. Surely people getting murdered everywhere he goes can't be a coincidence.

I would have thought you'd be watching something like Moordvrouw or Baantjer 😉

 

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I was recently outraged to discover that the moon is not peopled by knitted mice that live on soup made from string.  What a lot of old nonsense the Clangers is.   

Makes me wonder if any other TV programmes are full of complete shit they've made up to make them seem more entertaining. 

Turn it off! 

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1 hour ago, Remspoor said:

I would have thought you'd be watching something like Moordvrouw or Baantjer 😉

 

Who needs detectives when a clown and an acrobat can solve mysteries and crimes!😁

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On 17/10/2021 at 14:37, Timewaster said:

Yes I remember that flipping bangers. 

They cubed the car still with the wheels they had just paid to refurbish. 

 

 

6 hours ago, D.E said:

dumb decisions like scrapping that Alfa without selling good parts like the refurbished wheels (it had a good interior as well iirc), etc.

For some reason that pissed me off far more than is rational...

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1 hour ago, D.E said:

Who needs detectives when a clown and an acrobat can solve mysteries and crimes!😁

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Bassie & Adriaan and a Honda. Those who have never lived in The Netherlands must wonder what we write about.

The only Brit/ Dutch detective is Van der Valk.  I suppose there was the first series of Baptiste too.

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The TV has gone. Now looking at all of the "options" for a new one. The choice is  a bit confusing.

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49 minutes ago, iainrcz said:

That's torn it.

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Because......... fashion.

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50 minutes ago, iainrcz said:

That's torn it.

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Fart Fast* fashion?

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On 10/17/2021 at 3:52 PM, anonymous user said:

I would imagine Midsomer Murders is quite popular, what with it usually being middle class people being bumped off, several at a time

 

Doesn't Bergerac drive a 75 in the earlier ones? 

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2 hours ago, Remspoor said:

Bassie & Adriaan and a Honda. Those who have never lived in The Netherlands must wonder what we write about.

The only Brit/ Dutch detective is Van der Valk.  I suppose there was the first series of Baptiste too.

Mk 1 Prelude. Cracking cars.

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On 10/17/2021 at 8:33 PM, puddlethumper said:

Front pipe on my 305 van broke off from the back box and was scraping the road. Fuck me it's loud. Bugger.

I remember when the front pipe on my Laguna 1 cracked somewhere near the manifold joint.

It started as nicely rorty and seamed happier to rev. As the pipe failed further, it got too loud and very unpleasant.

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12 minutes ago, High Jetter said:

Mk 1 2 Prelude. Cracking cars.

EFA

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/\ Was just going to write that meself.

This is a (Dutch) Mk1:

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11 minutes ago, Tadhg Tiogar said:

EFA

I drove a good number of them when working for a Honda dealer. Mk 2 was soft, less sharp IMHO

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Fscking Hermes.  They've gone and lost the parcel with what was meant to be the replacement alternator for the Jag in.  Shows as delivered yesterday morning...it wasn't.

Have checked with everyone one our (short) street, and the same house number on both neighbouring ones and all likely areas they could have chucked it, no package.

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14 hours ago, Remspoor said:

Because......... fashion.

 

14 hours ago, Tadhg Tiogar said:

Fart Fast* fashion?

I'm well pissed off. They're only about 2 years old. I'd only just worn them in.

As for fashion, I'd rather have my balls clapped between two bricks.

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2 minutes ago, iainrcz said:

I'm well pissed off. They're only about 2 years old. I'd only just worn them in.

As for fashion, I'd rather have my balls clapped between two bricks.

Is this how sweatshop label Boohoo Man got its name?

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16 minutes ago, Garythesnail said:

Isn't a just a two door Acclaim in an appropriate colour?

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Looks a bit wider than an Acclaim. 

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On the subject of WD, the most laughable for me were the 325 Touring where MB told the buyer it had been fitted with a new stainless steel exhaust.

The other one was the two tone crapi - rattled canned by Ed. Even in the finished shots the wings were as distinctive as black on white.

Absolute piles of cack. Very, very few lasted more than a year or two after the programmes.

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I'm using a PC without an adblocker, the first time for me in many years. The first ad I see is this, using a screenshot from a BigCliveDotCom video and claiming to save energy bills by 90%. I guess I shouldn't be surprised, but crummy cons like this haven't changed one bit.

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Our local air ambulance has been grounded for the last few days. Some kind of failure meant it couldn't take off again after being called out.

They've had to bring in a security company to protect it, clearly they don't trust the scum bags in the area not to fucking touch it.

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Together energy. We fucked them off last month and went back to octopus because they were shite. We paid them but they still want £32 that we paid weeks ago. They now want " documentary proof". Well you can have it. And get in the fucking sea.

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3 hours ago, Garythesnail said:

Isn't a just a two door Acclaim in an appropriate colour?

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Nope, it's bigger than that.  Acclaim was a rebadged Ballade (so Civic-based), Prelude is closer to the Accord in size.

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This just popped up on me faceache feed. Post it on AS I though.

Hmmm! Where? Ah!! Should cause some more grumpiness or less depending where you sit on the "All Vauxhalls are shite!" Mantra
 

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