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General Car Chat / Re: Pissed off being ripped off for insurance

« on: 16 March 2025, 09:30:20 »

I tend to get quotes from the 3 main comparison sites and compare their prices, and then go to topcashback and see if the cheapest price is available with a cashback. 

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Yes I'm the same now always check at renewal time not worried about cashback, but I don't like being taken for a ride when it comes to renewing.

Yep, if you have to argue every year with your insurer for a reasonable premium, it's time to find a new provider. 

I rarely renew, just shift to the cheapest. They don't value customer loyalty. 

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General Car Chat / Re: Pissed off being ripped off for insurance

« on: 16 March 2025, 08:24:12 »

I tend to get quotes from the 3 main comparison sites and compare their prices, and then go to topcashback and see if the cheapest price is available with a cashback. 

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General Discussion Area / Re: Scrapping nhs England

« on: 16 March 2025, 08:19:48 »

I hear there are roughly 500,000 civil servants in the UK.

Can't be right, can it?

No its a hell of a lot more than that. The NHS alone employs well over half a million.
Then there are the Quangos and NGO organisations which are funded by taxpayers and are effectively Govt organisations in all but name.
Those currently working at NHS England wont end up on the dole. They will be found similar jobs in a different quango, and in a lot of cases probably use the opportunity for promotion and bigger salaries.
The Govt. wont care because they have got the headlines they wanted and thats the only thing that matters.
Starmer is a pound shop Blair.

Qungos are NGO's. That's the NGO bit in a quaNGO 

Quasi Non Govermental Organisation. 

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General Discussion Area / Re: Scrapping nhs England

« on: 15 March 2025, 20:50:16 »

Apparently this is the reaction of a Cabinet Minister when he heard the news that NHS England was going to be abolished.

 'I was a on a trip, and when I first got the message it looked as if we'd just privatised the NHS. It took me a few minutes to check,'

 

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General Car Chat / Re: Getting a bit desperate now

« on: 15 March 2025, 06:57:35 »

If it sorts itself out when you stop and turn it off, and on again.  Try disconnecting the battery for 10 minutes or so, that can sometimes clear electrical gremlins out. 

I'd have to borrow a spanner. 

That would be getting a bit desperate! 

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General Car Chat / Re: Getting a bit desperate now

« on: 15 March 2025, 06:31:42 »

If it sorts itself out when you stop and turn it off, and on again.  Try disconnecting the battery for 10 minutes or so, that can sometimes clear electrical gremlins out. 

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General Car Chat / Re: Getting a bit desperate now

« on: 14 March 2025, 20:47:32 »

Picked my son up from the train station to take him for a dental appointment. On the way there is a steepish hill from a roundabout, the speed limit goes from 30 to 60 and everyone accelerates up the hill in a show of relief. I noticed the engine was revving higher than usual and didn't seem to want to change up. I pushed it into manual and the arrow on the dash was telling me to change up from 4th to 5th, but it wouldn't. Just revving away in 4th. Once we got back on the flat, it seemed to behave normally, it just felt like it was slipping going uphill.
I'm not prepared to spend money on a gearbox service, so do I footle around until I'm ready to buy something different or do I bite the bullet?

There is nothing decent, diesel and auto, around for around £10K, which is all I want to spend 

Gearbox is electric/electronic fault. My old astra had similar, but different.

How do you know?  Have you read the codes? 

Turn it off and on again. That should sort it!                                                     

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General Car Chat / Re: Date of manufacture V date of registration.

« on: 14 March 2025, 17:05:47 »

Yes Tigger I am talking Morris Marina and other BL tat here.

The Morris Marina was a fine motor car in its day, especially, as a Coupe with the superb 1800TC engine! 

They shared parts with equally desirable motors such as the Ranger Rover and Lotus Esprit. 

I'm guessing door handles......certainly nothing to do with the handling.

I know the front bumper from the Ford Anglia was also fitted to the Lotus Elan +2.

Got it in one! 

I'm sure that the Morris Marina had similar spongey handling to an early Range Rover though. Maybe not quite so wallowy.

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General Car Chat / Re: Date of manufacture V date of registration.

« on: 14 March 2025, 15:10:57 »

Yes Tigger I am talking Morris Marina and other BL tat here.

The Morris Marina was a fine motor car in its day, especially, as a Coupe with the superb 1800TC engine! 

They shared parts with equally desirable motors such as the Ranger Rover and Lotus Esprit. 

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General Discussion Area / Re: Scrapping nhs England

« on: 14 March 2025, 15:00:41 »

Smoke and mirrors.  I read that the Department of Health has around 1500 civil servants, so if the Department of Health is going to take over the functions of NHS England they will need thousands of new employees.  I wonder where they will find the qualified and experienced people? 

Can you imagine though if the Tories had done this?  Labour and their corrupt friends in the media would have kicked up a massive shitstorm and claimed that the Tories planned to sell the NHS to Donald Trump or something equally preposterous.

oppsin hypocrites! 

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General Car Chat / Re: So what have you done to your car today?

« on: 13 March 2025, 20:29:23 »

I really dislike main dealers. They are crooks. Perhaps an Indy is the way to go.

I bet that the receptionists in main dealers have nicer titties though! 

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General Discussion Area / Re: Boiler problems

« on: 12 March 2025, 21:34:39 »

How old is your Baxi Tony? What model is it and is it a condensing one?

When you run the hot water tap on the bath, what does the boiler do?  Does it start up and run OK? Or does it start up and stop, start up and stop, start up and stop etc?

Same question for the shower.....

It's probably/possibly got two heat exchangers. The main one for the central heating and a smaller secondary one for the hot water.

I had a Ideal condensing combi that wasn't heating the water properly (CH was fine) and it turned out that the secondary heat exchanger was scaled up. I pulled it out, and flushed it with some descaler a couple of times to get the worst of the crap out and then left it in a bucket of descaler over night. Put it all back together in the morning and the water was piping hot!  The descaler was ordinary kettle descaler from the super market and cost about £1.75! 

Not saying this is your issue though and it sounds like your gas man has looked at the heat exchanger anyway.  Although I'm not sure what you meant by 'heat exchanger panel'

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General Car Chat / Re: So what have you done to your car today?

« on: 12 March 2025, 18:00:45 »

Priced up first service for M240i from the dealer I bought the car from.

This consists of an oil and filter change and a new pollen filter........£417 for SFA really.

Apparently the pollen filter alone costs £122... taking the piss.


I'm tempted by a couple of 'indies' who assure me they have full access to the BMW database and all service records.

I'll see what they come back with.

Sooo..... you pay over 40 grand for a new car, then blanch at paying a measly £400 for a service, done by a spotty 18 year old. 

After the spotty knuckle-dragging neanderthal teen has finished the oil change he'll wash the car with a gritty sponge.

Generic pollen filters are about £12 from Ebay, up to about £35 for genuine BMW.

5 minute job to change.

If you're that tight you could take it to ATS for their basic oil and filter change which will cost about £135 and bung the £12 pollen filter in yourself! 

Who needs service history?    Just keep the receipts.    What could possibly go wrong?                                                                       

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General Car Chat / Re: Nissan Cumquot

« on: 11 March 2025, 20:57:19 »

Does anyone by any chance have the engine torque specs for this...

I ordered a Haynes manual in the vain and misplaced hope that it would be useful, only to find that the one engine it doesn't cover is the 1
3... I mean what the actual ffrrr

I think it's a grunt, a fart and another quarter turn.

Yes. FT! 

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General Car Chat / Re: Nissan Cumquot

« on: 11 March 2025, 08:18:48 »

Sounds like you have a good challenge on your hands there Al.