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Pm sent, Glenn.

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  Cavette said:
  skattrd said:
I've been with plusnet for the past 3yrs and I've no complaints.

The call centre is in Leeds, and when I've had an issue it's been fixed quickly.

 

If you do go for plusnet please put skattrd1 down as referrer as it gets me 50p off my monthly bill /pimp :D

 

 

Thanks, Chris, I have just gone with them and gave them your user name mate.

 

Muchos gracias Senor Cavette.

I'll get you a beer/brew at Chumley ;)

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  cort16 said:
The battery I bought for my SD1 just over a year ago is stuffed after sitting in the car for the last 3 months without it moving. I had it on charge all last night and this morning it still didn't have enought to crank it over.

The local factors shafted me on it when I bougjtit as it has the terminals the other way around so was 70+ quid! I've just taxed it so I need to get the battery on it so I can get it in for it's MOT. This could get expensive.

Most batteries are sold with a 3-year warranty these days - check it out.

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That w**ky pet thread. If all the people who owned children/servants/slaves started a thread there'd be an Internet Imassacare*

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  andrew e said:
That w**ky pet thread. If all the people who owned children/servants/slaves started a thread there'd be an Internet Imassacare*

 

I could kind of see the point of it if it was pictures of people's pets in or on their interesting old cars - but as it mainly seems to be just random pictures of animals, I'm inclined to agree.

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FFS, you don't haveto open and read the AS pet thread - if it doesn't interest you, bloody well ignore it and stop whinging about it!

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Someone posts an old photo of a car on facebook.

Mong comments 'love the 57 chevy!!'

It's a Vauxhall Victor.

 

Is it wrong that this wound me up so much?

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There's a lot of idiots on facebook, I either just laugh or ignore most of them, or add them as friends and have them reply to everything I post on there and call me Triggles... :roll:

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  trigger said:
There's a lot of idiots on facebook, I either just laugh or ignore most of them, or add them as friends and have them reply to everything I post on there and call me Triggles... :roll:

That makes you sound all cute, cuddly wuddly and furry like a soft kitten or summat. You should either be residing on that Pet thread or the end of somebodys bed, all curled up... :mrgreen:

Transits. UTTER UTTER SHITE!!!!

There I was, pulling out onto the A10 this morning and....fook all. Not enough power to boil an egg ( limp mode) and traffic bearing down on me. I limped back to a side road at a maximum 30MPH and awaited Mr AA man.

He turns up, I explain the powertrain light is on ( its actually the light thats supposed to go on for PETROL engines, mines diesel :roll: ) and he goes on to explain how he has lost cound of the amount Duratorq TDCis that have gone into limp mode. " Fucking useless engines" apparently.

Mine is with a garage awaiting a filter change, which wont cure it, so i will be back there again early next week sometime.

They really dont build fuck all to last now.

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  freebird said:
  trigger said:
That makes you sound all cute, cuddly wuddly and furry like a soft kitten or summat. You should either be residing on that Pet thread or the end of somebodys bed, all curled up... :mrgreen: .

 

I must have you as one of my FB friends then, sorry but I still don't know which one you are!

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Fuck a duck it looks like I'm going to need some kind of special slide hammer injector thingy to get the injectors out the smart. I was hoping I was just going to unbolt it and it would pop out. I hope it doesn't end up like this. :shock::shock:

 

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They can't all be that bad, my VAJ mechanic pal swaps injectors on late 2000s VWs in minutes, they always come out easy (but cost about a grand each). On the other hand, the mechanic up the road from him was telling me how he'd tried to pull an injector out of some renault? with an engine crane and in the end just lifted the entire front end of the car off the floor. He wellied the thing with heat, hammers and swearwords for hours but in the end he gave up and left it dangling in the corner of the workshop. He forgot about it for a few weeks until he got a call from the alarm company in the middle of the night after it finally came out, the car dropped off the crane and rolled across the floor into the fire door.

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Thanks cobblers you're filling me with confidence. I think it's getting near the point I might have to take it to someone who knows what they're doing.

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To be fair I've not actually attacked it with anything more aggressive than trying to lever it out with a screwdriver. I thought I better consult the manual I've got for it (which turned out to berubbish) before trying to lever it out with a 6ft pry bar or whatever.

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If there are people moaning on the internetwebs about getting them out then they are probably a bastard, that said there's probably 1000 pages on mumsnet moaning about how hard it is to operate a tin opener/the benefits system/plentyoffish as a 19 year old 16 stone mum of 3

 

I'm not sure what it all depends on since some just fly out and others write the engine off, but I reckon if it is stuck , the main issue is that the usual "a bit of heat and some penetrating oil" are going to do absolutely fuck all to remove something that spends it's life swimming in diesel at a 1000000 million PSI anyway.

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  cobblers said:
If there are people moaning on the internetwebs about getting them out then they are probably a bastard, that said there's probably 1000 pages on mumsnet moaning about how hard it is to operate a tin opener

 

Have you tried those ones with the rotating heads, that look like Phillips razors? They’re a fucking pain in the arse to use! I usually have to resort to stabbing tins with a knife to get them open.

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Missed out on a cheap Xbox 360. I'm sure it probably didn't work, or at least that's what I think now I lost it :lol:

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  Rover414 said:
Missed out on a cheap Xbox 360. I'm sure it probably didn't work, or at least that's what I think now I lost it :lol:

 

It’s OK it would break after two months anyway :wink:

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  SambaS said:
Steve Gibbons Band is the tits

 

+26

 

theres no spitting on the bus :D

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Not much having much luck in the car department the last few days. I splashed out on a new battery and it still doesn't spin over. I can hearthe solenoid clicking but it doesn't spin so I recon the starters decided to chuck it during the 3 month lay up. I think I've got a spare though so ill need to go and dig it out. It somewhat scuppers my plan to go out for a Sunday cruise in it before the mot runs out.

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Seriously FO. My family didn't want to know when wanted 6 cylinders rover...found 101 reasons couldn't collect. Bought pug got it transported. Family found 101 reasons is shouldn't do it can't be arsed. Car turns up. Oh it looks ok. Oh it has five doors. Ohi can sell my 3 door and use yours. Knowing I will be nice. Ok you pocket a grand and drive mine around with your kids putting green sticky things in the back....... :twisted:

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  The Moog said:
Seriously FO. My family didn't want to know when wanted 6 cylinders rover...found 101 reasons couldn't collect. Bought pug got it transported. Family found 101 reasons is shouldn't do it can't be arsed. Car turns up. Oh it looks ok. Oh it has five doors. Ohi can sell my 3 door and use yours. Knowing I will be nice. Ok you pocket a grand and drive mine around with your kids putting green sticky things in the back....... :twisted:

 

Tell them to fuck off.

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  John F said:
  The Moog said:
Seriously FO. My family didn't want to know when wanted 6 cylinders rover...found 101 reasons couldn't collect. Bought pug got it transported. Family found 101 reasons is shouldn't do it can't be arsed. Car turns up. Oh it looks ok. Oh it has five doors. Ohi can sell my 3 door and use yours. Knowing I will be nice. Ok you pocket a grand and drive mine around with your kids putting green sticky things in the back....... :twisted:

 

Tell them to fuck off.

 

Seconded. 'Oh well it's family'. Fuck right off.

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Tell them if they want to use it, they can buy it, at whatever silly sum you name. :wink: Don't offer it at less than five figures. Then you can buy my 406 and I can buy Mr Duke's Cherry, and............... :mrgreen:

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