Date: 28-03-24  Time: 10:45 am

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Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
« Reply #1150 on: 16 January 2017, 06:45:57 pm »
It's always worth a look on youtube to see if there's an easy way to carry out car maitenance tasks. It certainly helped me out in ths summer when a dipped beam needed changing on my Vectra.

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I've looked up loads of really helpful youtube instructional videos.

I now can't believe I used to take watch bracelets in to the shop and pay to have links removed after finding how easy it was to do at home without any special tools from a youtube vid.

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Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
« Reply #1151 on: 16 January 2017, 11:18:05 pm »
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Funny seeing as the VW golf managed the same safety rating and all you had to do was pop the bonnet and unscrew the bulb from rear of the headlight.


Yes but being a VW you could only do that on a testing rolling road under laboratory conditions  :rolleyes

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« Reply #1152 on: 17 January 2017, 08:35:01 pm »
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Funny seeing as the VW golf managed the same safety rating and all you had to do was pop the bonnet and unscrew the bulb from rear of the headlight.


Yes but being a VW you could only do that on a testing rolling road under laboratory conditions  :rolleyes




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Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
« Reply #1153 on: 28 January 2017, 08:33:06 pm »
Fukcing Lambda sensors! WTF! I swear the more advanced vehicles get, the less you can fix yourself . . .
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Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
« Reply #1154 on: 28 January 2017, 08:44:09 pm »
Fukcing Lambda sensors! WTF! I swear the more advanced vehicles get, the less you can fix yourself . . .


Think of the polar bears , the cat converter needs it to make your nasty emissions into farm fresh exhaust gases.
But know what you mean had one go on my car a while back put me into safe mode couldn't go over 45mph and accelerate like moped

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Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
« Reply #1155 on: 29 January 2017, 12:12:40 am »
Fukcing Lambda sensors! WTF! I swear the more advanced vehicles get, the less you can fix yourself . . .


Think of the polar bears , the cat converter needs it to make your nasty emissions into farm fresh exhaust gases.
But know what you mean had one go on my car a while back put me into safe mode couldn't go over 45mph and accelerate like moped

I had one go in a Peugeot 307 I bought for £300, it behaved completely normally, i.e. Crap.

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Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
« Reply #1156 on: 29 January 2017, 05:47:41 pm »
Was that the 307 or a new CAT for £300 lol you get what you pay for.
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Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
« Reply #1157 on: 29 January 2017, 06:59:07 pm »

The £300 307 was a 2003 model 1.6 petrol 5 speed, leccy windows and working air con with 103000 miles on it, oh yes and 12 months MOT. It drove perfectly apart from it being a Peugeot, but it had an emissions warning on the display. It never made any difference to the drive. I paid more than £300 for a car that was in a lot worse state 30 years ago. We only bought it as a temporary car while we were finding the wifes new car. Sold the Peugeot after 6 weeks for £300 to a very grateful buyer.

As much as I hate the more modern Peugeots, I couldn't believe the value for money, I mean, a reliable car with a full MOT and working air con for £300.

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« Reply #1158 on: 30 January 2017, 12:23:14 am »
My mrs just picked up a 1996 Toyota Corolla 31k on the clock full Toyota service history every year from new 1 owner from new absolutely mint inside ( like a time capsule ) years mot, air con , leccy sun roof ,windows, mirrors, mot til sept 17 for the outrageous sum of £100
A lorry wrote off her 110k mileage Clio in Dec and she got weighed in a grand off the insurance less £250 Excess and got a £28 refund off the remaining on her insurance premium as this one is cheaper to insure.
The owners were emigrating and just wanted the money donated to charity.
Now that's what I call a bargain  :lol

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Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
« Reply #1159 on: 30 January 2017, 01:09:59 am »

Bloody hell, that should last her a while!

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Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
« Reply #1160 on: 30 January 2017, 02:17:22 am »
She's loving it , drives nicer than her 54 plate Clio , she's got a couple of grand to get a new car but changed her mind after driving this one, its tatty on the outside, car park dints and that but then she's not bothered about parking it and worried it'll get scratched.
Weirdly it's got all the extras but not remote central locking , it's really pissing her off especially when it's raining  :lol

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Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
« Reply #1161 on: 30 January 2017, 08:49:22 am »
Fitting a remote central locking system is cheap and easy if it has central locking already.

Pick up a kit for under £20 on fleaBay
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Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
« Reply #1162 on: 30 January 2017, 10:27:30 am »
Fitting a remote central locking system is cheap and easy if it has central locking already.

Pick up a kit for under £20 on fleaBay
I'm not gonna tell her that she'll have me trying to fit it and probably foccing it up , everything mechanical I look at lately fucks up :'(

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Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
« Reply #1163 on: 30 January 2017, 10:56:38 am »
I'm not gonna tell her that she'll have me trying to fit it and probably foccing it up , everything mechanical I look at lately fucks up :'(

You will be OK, its just a few wires and nothing mechanical :pokefun
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Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
« Reply #1164 on: 30 January 2017, 11:10:57 am »
I've just had a look at a few on the bay and amazon.
If my shit Midas touch ends soon I'll get her one

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Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
« Reply #1165 on: 01 February 2017, 07:43:17 pm »
This doesn't so much annoy me, i find it more embarrassing than anything.
It's probably been mentioned before, but people who try their hardest to get some form of personalized number plate out of nothing.


Todays winner was a fella driving a Porsche 911, with the number plate.....P80RCS.


I mean, really?  :rolleyes
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« Reply #1166 on: 01 February 2017, 07:45:50 pm »
This doesn't so much annoy me, i find it more embarrassing than anything.
It's probably been mentioned before, but people who try their hardest to get some form of personalized number plate out of nothing.


Todays winner was a fella driving a Porsche 911, with the number plate.....P80RCS.


I mean, really?  :rolleyes
He could have been a dyslexic pig farmer  :lol

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Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
« Reply #1167 on: 01 February 2017, 09:14:25 pm »
This doesn't so much annoy me, i find it more embarrassing than anything.
It's probably been mentioned before, but people who try their hardest to get some form of personalized number plate out of nothing.


Todays winner was a fella driving a Porsche 911, with the number plate.....P80RCS.


I mean, really?  :rolleyes

Probably cost him nearly as much as the porsche too  😂😂

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Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
« Reply #1168 on: 01 February 2017, 10:50:21 pm »
Am I missing something?  What is P80crs supposed to say? Porkers?? What's so good about that? It's not even close!

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« Reply #1169 on: 02 February 2017, 06:40:39 am »
Am I missing something?  What is P80crs supposed to say? Porkers?? What's so good about that? It's not even close!


That's because you've changed the numbers again, it was P80RCS, and that was my whole point......
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« Reply #1170 on: 02 February 2017, 09:18:04 am »
Ahhh, now the beer haze has cleared I can see that with squinty eyes and viewed from the back of a galloping horse, in a dim light, it might say something not unlike Porsche, if you really tried hard.

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Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
« Reply #1171 on: 02 February 2017, 09:45:08 am »
There used to be some blonde bimbo around Frimley that drive a Mercedes cabriolet with the reg F1LLY

Not quite sure what it meant :pokefun
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Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
« Reply #1172 on: 02 February 2017, 10:50:53 am »
I was down in the Keys in florida about 15 years ago and saw a plate that said WAS HIS. No ambiguity there.

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Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
« Reply #1173 on: 02 February 2017, 12:07:41 pm »
One of the first personal plates I remember seeing was COM1C in 1966 on Jimmy Tarbucks 280SL Mercedes, although there was a wealthy MP named Nabarro who had a fleet of posh cars with NAB1,NAB2 etc. Often spotted around Belgravia in the 70's was Fiona Richmond's Radford Mini Cooper S which had FU2.
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Re: Today's "What Gets My Goat"
« Reply #1174 on: 09 February 2017, 08:29:29 am »
I give my visor a nice clean this morning to get rid of last night's rain and grime, I get half a mile down the road and the car in front squirts their windscreen to clean it goes all over my visor..... well that was worth me cleaning it!  :'(
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