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General Discussion Area / Re: UK flooding reaches Germany!
« on: 22 July 2007, 14:10:30 »
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4097
General Discussion Area / Someone take this guys outside and give him a slap
« on: 13 July 2007, 13:30:02 »
I am not one for rubbishing peoples cars, especially if they have put a lot of time and money into it....
This i can make an exception for though
http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/modified-ex-police-vauxhall-omega_W0QQitemZ270143218674QQihZ017QQcategoryZ9858QQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem
:-/ :-/ :-/
This i can make an exception for though
http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/modified-ex-police-vauxhall-omega_W0QQitemZ270143218674QQihZ017QQcategoryZ9858QQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem
:-/ :-/ :-/
4098
General Discussion Area / Re: Vista or XP???
« on: 11 July 2007, 22:05:09 »
I bought a vista powered lappy for work in March, hated it....
Sent it back and replaced all my IT kit with Mac...best move i ever made
Beautiful, quick, quiet, easy to use and so user friendly, i don't know that i would go back to the PC again........
Sent it back and replaced all my IT kit with Mac...best move i ever made
Beautiful, quick, quiet, easy to use and so user friendly, i don't know that i would go back to the PC again........
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General Discussion Area / Re: 'New' car?
« on: 13 July 2007, 12:39:53 »
i have been doing a lot of thnking about the whole replacment car scenario......
Currently a 300C will set you back 30K for a Diesel, these are far more popular than the petrol models.
I borrowed one for a weekend, i was getting 35 mpg and wasn't giving the thing an easy time of it....
I have looked at secondhand prices, on the dealers forecourt they are still in the mid 20's for a year old model, hand out for another 2/3 years and they will be mid teens for a fully loaded diesel.
The petrol engines ones will plummet in value and will contiune to do so whilst petrol is as dear as it is.....mind you will it ever get cheaper? An LPG conversion would help it but i still believe that it wont stop the depreciation too much.
Personally i am going to get myself another miggy, hang out for another year and see what the prices are like then, the other consideration is road tax, the 300c is the highest banding (currently £300)
I would love one now, they have massive presence, are so well put together, offer real value for money and currently dont seem to have much being said about then in a negative way
Currently a 300C will set you back 30K for a Diesel, these are far more popular than the petrol models.
I borrowed one for a weekend, i was getting 35 mpg and wasn't giving the thing an easy time of it....
I have looked at secondhand prices, on the dealers forecourt they are still in the mid 20's for a year old model, hand out for another 2/3 years and they will be mid teens for a fully loaded diesel.
The petrol engines ones will plummet in value and will contiune to do so whilst petrol is as dear as it is.....mind you will it ever get cheaper? An LPG conversion would help it but i still believe that it wont stop the depreciation too much.
Personally i am going to get myself another miggy, hang out for another year and see what the prices are like then, the other consideration is road tax, the 300c is the highest banding (currently £300)
I would love one now, they have massive presence, are so well put together, offer real value for money and currently dont seem to have much being said about then in a negative way
4100
General Discussion Area / Re: Had A Big Shouting Match With VX LOL
« on: 12 July 2007, 19:16:39 »
this will sound like a really silly Q but....
What are the inner edges of your tyres like?
When mine have worn the car vibrates and has a knocking noise, replace the tyres and it all goes away
What are the inner edges of your tyres like?
When mine have worn the car vibrates and has a knocking noise, replace the tyres and it all goes away
4101
General Discussion Area / Re: Do cars have a soul?
« on: 11 July 2007, 22:20:27 »
do cars have a soul....hmmm a deep question!!!!
I believe that people form bonds with iteems like cars, especially if you have had the car for a long time, have travelled a long distance or it has seen you through one of lifes challenges.....
In my opinion my miggy has been instrumental in the sucsess of my business, it has not let me down, has always got me where i needed to go and in the great scheme of things has not cost me a great deal of money to run.
An engineer would say that a lot of what i have just said is because i have a strict mantainence regieme and everything has been dealt with when required, but that wouldn't explain why the radio would not work for a day or so when the Aux belt tensioner started to make a rumbling noise and then started to work again for no reason!!
Who knows, i believe that part of us stays with the car when it gains a new owner
I believe that people form bonds with iteems like cars, especially if you have had the car for a long time, have travelled a long distance or it has seen you through one of lifes challenges.....
In my opinion my miggy has been instrumental in the sucsess of my business, it has not let me down, has always got me where i needed to go and in the great scheme of things has not cost me a great deal of money to run.
An engineer would say that a lot of what i have just said is because i have a strict mantainence regieme and everything has been dealt with when required, but that wouldn't explain why the radio would not work for a day or so when the Aux belt tensioner started to make a rumbling noise and then started to work again for no reason!!
Who knows, i believe that part of us stays with the car when it gains a new owner
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General Discussion Area / Re: And Devon / Barnstaple members
« on: 02 July 2007, 22:31:35 »Quote
.... If you fancy meeting me and Mrs Jv6cdx and Doggy for a beer over the next few days while I'm in the area, get my number from Either LB66 or TB, and give me a shout
shame i am up in Nottingham..........
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General Discussion Area / Re: Jim has fixed it
« on: 02 July 2007, 22:30:13 »Quote
We've been working on this all evening. Although we think we know how it happened, we do not yet fully understand why it happened. End result is Apache threw a strop, most likely due to the weaknesses in Linux kernel's memory management. Why the kernel struggled to manage the situation, and what caused the situation to develop is still being looked at.
Apologies for the inconvenience.
there are words on the screen, i have tried to read them out aloud, still it doesn't make sense......
Never mind....is the forum still working??? yes.....the technical side i will leave to the technical guys
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General Discussion Area / Re: Botch jobs!
« on: 01 July 2007, 23:08:09 »
worse stealer bodge job i have seen was when i picked up my E30 325 SE after a large service.
Had asked for the antifreeze to be changed as well as the service, paid a fortune for the all the work, drove it 10 miles down the road and the temp guage shot off the scale......There was little/no water in the engine, had warped the head and blew the core on the rad.
the dealer claimed i had drained the system and ragged the nuts off it and so created the damage, 6 months later and a small claims court case, they paid up and repaired the car.....
The other bodge i have found this weeked was done by my local robbing, scumbag, halfwit, muppet, pea brained morons who work for the local Vaux stealers, when they did the cam belt on my miggy the left hand exhaust cam was 2 teeth out!! Now it has been done properly she really flies along, up until now she has always been a touch sluggish.
I would NEVER use my local dealers again, they are a waste of space
Had asked for the antifreeze to be changed as well as the service, paid a fortune for the all the work, drove it 10 miles down the road and the temp guage shot off the scale......There was little/no water in the engine, had warped the head and blew the core on the rad.
the dealer claimed i had drained the system and ragged the nuts off it and so created the damage, 6 months later and a small claims court case, they paid up and repaired the car.....
The other bodge i have found this weeked was done by my local robbing, scumbag, halfwit, muppet, pea brained morons who work for the local Vaux stealers, when they did the cam belt on my miggy the left hand exhaust cam was 2 teeth out!! Now it has been done properly she really flies along, up until now she has always been a touch sluggish.
I would NEVER use my local dealers again, they are a waste of space
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General Discussion Area / Re: Beware finance.
« on: 24 June 2007, 23:36:17 »
i have been in debt myself, a large sum of money as well, today thinking about it scares me.
Now i have no credit cards, the miggy is paid next month and the next car will be bought cash, we have a mortgauge and that is it, if the money isn't there we cant have the luxuaries......
I work for a large credit card company, i do a lot of the training for their collections dept, they speak to people who have fallen behind with thier payments and try to negotiate a way forward, we hear some very sad stories, and then there are others who run up debt and have no intention of paying it back (they see bankruptcy as an easy way out )
If you are in dificulty and you want help you have three free options....
if you owe less than £8K with less than 2 lenders the CAB will give you advice on how to deal with these debits.
More than £8K and more than 2 creditors, two companies who are excellent and FREE, CCCS www.cccs.co.uk or payplan www.payplan.co.uk.
There are lots of debit management companies, many of them will charge lots of money and give crap advice, CCCS and Payplan are free and charitable organizations.
hope that helps anyone who needs help
Now i have no credit cards, the miggy is paid next month and the next car will be bought cash, we have a mortgauge and that is it, if the money isn't there we cant have the luxuaries......
I work for a large credit card company, i do a lot of the training for their collections dept, they speak to people who have fallen behind with thier payments and try to negotiate a way forward, we hear some very sad stories, and then there are others who run up debt and have no intention of paying it back (they see bankruptcy as an easy way out )
If you are in dificulty and you want help you have three free options....
if you owe less than £8K with less than 2 lenders the CAB will give you advice on how to deal with these debits.
More than £8K and more than 2 creditors, two companies who are excellent and FREE, CCCS www.cccs.co.uk or payplan www.payplan.co.uk.
There are lots of debit management companies, many of them will charge lots of money and give crap advice, CCCS and Payplan are free and charitable organizations.
hope that helps anyone who needs help
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General Discussion Area / Re: Budget Sat Nav
« on: 25 June 2007, 09:27:21 »
I am a big fan of the windows smartphone, i have had one ever since they first came out in 2001 and have watched them develop into something that is very usable today and does everything that i want from a device.
As for sat nav i use i-go, it's format looks to be identical to mio and i my opinion it is far faster and more acccurate than Tom Tom. the maps are seamless through europe and the POI stuff is far more useable.
Tom Tom cornered the market due to them being the first one to supply at a price that joe public could justify. I had one of the original Tom Tom Go units, this was before they started numbering them. The other thing that helped Tom Tom was the fact that they managed to get their units into the likes of Halfords.
As for sat nav i use i-go, it's format looks to be identical to mio and i my opinion it is far faster and more acccurate than Tom Tom. the maps are seamless through europe and the POI stuff is far more useable.
Tom Tom cornered the market due to them being the first one to supply at a price that joe public could justify. I had one of the original Tom Tom Go units, this was before they started numbering them. The other thing that helped Tom Tom was the fact that they managed to get their units into the likes of Halfords.
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General Discussion Area / Re: Weight of a 3.0 v6 engine?
« on: 22 June 2007, 00:24:50 »Quote
QuoteI know where there is one possibly two for grabs, i have a feeling the guys isn't clued up as to what he has, they both have huge mileage on them and the cars they came out of looked like they had been to the moon and back at least twice
Well I'll have one of them then....
Lets add another consideration to the pot...
A V8 is fairly cheap to get hold of but, by the time its re-built and with a small amount of tuning your talking a grand.....you then need a gearbox etc to.....not easy to get for these....
An american V8 is not easy to get and the ones of choice are mega bucks (many housands) adn again you need the gearbox.
A 3.0 manual Omega can be got for a couple of hundred quid and you have everything you need sat waiting to be transfered over.......
So it wins on cost to.
let me confirm this......
the guy has two SDi vitesses, both c or d reg and the inlet set up is slightly different in that instead of having one inlet it has the two that go into the chamber and effectively two throttle bodies rather than a single
if thats a twin plenium then i am sure that is what he has there
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General Discussion Area / Re: Weight of a 3.0 v6 engine?
« on: 21 June 2007, 17:31:02 »Quote
For info, approx V8 bhp figures
3.5 - 160-190bhp (dependent on version, most were the lower power ones, higher power were the Vitesse engines)
3.9 - 188bhp (Range rover engine, basicaly 3950ish cc)
4.0 - 188bhp ish (Range rover engine, basicaly 3950ish cc but, cranka dn oil pump etc changed, slight block mods like cross bolts on mains)
4.2 - Rocking horse muck!
4.4 - 200bhp
4.6 - 222bhp (Stroked version of the 4.0)
5.0 - 340bhp (TVR engine)
All are fairly rough figures but, show its not an engine that produces much bhp per cc, it is good for torque though and hence why it eats the pre95 Range Rover gearboxes if taken off road....
And I havn't mentioned any of the specials like the twin plenum 3.5s either as you aint liekly to find one!
Note also with a Rover V8 engine, you are very likely to need to re-build it as there not hugely good at high mileage with cam, follower, timing chain, sprocket and valve gear wear being all to common.
I know where there is one possibly two for grabs, i have a feeling the guys isn't clued up as to what he has, they both have huge mileage on them and the cars they came out of looked like they had been to the moon and back at least twice
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General Discussion Area / Re: Who has troublesomE teenagers over 17?
« on: 22 June 2007, 23:08:54 »
I have known my 17 year old stepson for 9 years now, i have played a large part in his developing years and he knows that i have a no messing attitude.
He left school and wanted to be a mechanic, managed to mess that up
Then decided to go back to school, didnt bother turning up
Then tried to get onto a government scheme, messed that up
Now is trying to get a job.
On the flip side he is very handy around the house, he is helping my wife a lot with her M.E. and seems to be maturing, i hope that in time he will grow out of his current miserable moody attitude, in the same way i hope his red hair grows out!!
He left school and wanted to be a mechanic, managed to mess that up
Then decided to go back to school, didnt bother turning up
Then tried to get onto a government scheme, messed that up
Now is trying to get a job.
On the flip side he is very handy around the house, he is helping my wife a lot with her M.E. and seems to be maturing, i hope that in time he will grow out of his current miserable moody attitude, in the same way i hope his red hair grows out!!
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General Discussion Area / Re: SP30
« on: 19 June 2007, 18:21:18 »Quote
Don't forget to notify your insurance company, otherwise you may invalidate your insurance.
If it is your first set of points then they dont tend to load the insurance premium.
Just about everyone at somepoint has had 3 points and so the insurance companies now see that as the norm unfortunatly