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Chiltern. Again. Not the trains this time.

Their poxy compo claim form* doesn't recognise the ticket number, so asks for various reference numbers without stating what numbers they are.  Useless oppswits.


*I really aint interested in the money, it's peanuts. It costs them far more to process the claim than the value of the claim.  I'm happy to waste an hour each time they cancel trains purely as a matter of principle.

Merseyrail did the same and all their trains were brand new

But some rail fanatic botherer who keeps stalking my on youtube works for the train operator in Liverpool, and reckons their service is brilliant.  But then he is an HS2 fanatic as well, so clearly deranged

Now wasn't there another dictator in Germany who did that?

I was considering the similarities myself the other day.  And considered if Hitler was always a nutter, or just surround himself with yes-men too scared to contradict him, thus either he or his staff were doing more and more outrageous and unacceptable things?


I suspect Trump's (EU perceived) issues are due to poor information from his advisors, as I've said here before.  Be that Greenland, Afghanistan or domestic US issue.

Illegal immigration is a big issue for the populous of many countries, US included.  It's usually the reason cited for how the majority voted in Brexit, as ironic as that sounds.

You will have to bring it round one day tunnie , looks a decent enough car and at a good price - had you bought with your own money, depreciation would be wiping out a fair chunk of that monthly cost, and general wear/tear items the rest.

I've found all beemers a little too stiff for around the last 15+ years, and that tends to aggravate by back issues, but not sat in a milk float version. So would be good to flatten your battery give it a go.

We must be due a curry, if you can arrange an overnight pass away.   Hmmm, curry, beer, pissing around with cars... ...just like the old days

Probably not any benefit in going away from the wasted spark setup.

Why doesn't the ECU and you get along?  Just interested, and certainly not knocking the idea of replacing it, but it's quite a large task with lots of learning needed.

I would agree, use the yellow lever under the gaitor cover for this

Normally, a stuck open stat would cause slow heat up, but you say yours is normal?  ie, will reach normal temp within about 2 or 3 miles of gentle driving?

The video certainly does look like it's suddenly getting a load of cooler coolant to the sensor after revving.  No fans stuck on?

Clucking bell.....sounds like a good deal.

They are currently an extremely good deal for those of us who Ms Reeves currently likes to ream out via PAYE. The 'trick' is that the net cost is low because we would otherwise be giving the money away in Tax. My car for example has a scary gross lease cost of something like £1150 per month, but because there's no way I could get to keep all of that, the net cost of having it as a company car is much lower.

Arguably you could put the gross amount into a pension and run a cheaper car - but where's the fun in that 

I thought you were an accountant? 

Clucking bell.....sounds like a good deal.

They are currently an extremely good deal for those of us who Ms Reeves currently likes to ream out via PAYE. The 'trick' is that the net cost is low because we would otherwise be giving the money away in Tax. My car for example has a scary gross lease cost of something like £1150 per month, but because there's no way I could get to keep all of that, the net cost of having it as a company car is much lower.

Arguably you could put the gross amount into a pension and run a cheaper car - but where's the fun in that 

That's really cheap, that is!