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Ok if you can handle a >£1100 service bill now and again. Our lad had to get 4 new tyres/Haldex service, etc. Great car, but they had to get rid of it - could not fund its upkeep. Lesson learnt. This was several years ago, too.
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Yes - since I retired about 12 years ago, just when Lidl and then Aldi arrived, I have bought just about everything of use on the car or for diy, from these supermarkets. You know, when I first started going to Lidl in Falkirk about 12 years ago, when it was new, customers - mostly pensioners - were skulking about the place looking as if they were worried that someone might see them! My kids used to joke about me going there - all different now.
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Aldi tomorrow these are always value for money such that you can always get one more than you need. http://uk.aldi.com/uk/html/offers/special_buys3_30480.htm
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Mine passed this week, too. Two advisories ("common") from my fussy garage man! Expecting someone to come up from London this week with a view to buying. Wish me luck.
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You have been raised in cynical times - and you are located in Essex. (wink)
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Agree with coullstar entirely. Come on - it has not been well looked after, but the guy is honest with the revealing photos. "Madam - you've been using this car, haven't you? and you don't have OCD due to it, like so many?"
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I gave up on p2g after experience like that. I now use UPS standard via the agent http://www.transglobalpremium.co.uk Good so far. However, the nature of this type of service and the number of bad apples out there doing the job means you can get a rough deal at anytime from anybody IMO.
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Snake oil and bad science?, but out of curiosity I tried one of those chunks of alloy you put in the fuel tank, decades ago.
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Chris Gaskell (RW1) Gathering at 1pm at Stanford Hall to Honour Him
craigowl replied to KIPVW's topic in General Car Chat
Wow, what a blow. Chris helped both myself and my son with technical queries some years ago. What a "pillar of the community" he was. -
Oh, bristolb, I feel an excommunication coming on! ---------- Post added at 11:24 AM ---------- Previous post was at 11:17 AM ---------- One of today's Lidl speshuls. A toilet seat with brown starfish on it? Who said the Germans had no sense of humour? http://www.lidl.co.uk/cps/rde/www_lidl_uk/hs.xsl/our-offers-2491.htm?action=showDetail&id=1294&ar=11
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Ah, right! Bit too pert - prefer the Jennifer Lopez and Nigella types.
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I'm not getting it, by the way - the lady and her bum.
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I need to get a course on more-illuminating writing from you, Wullie!
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Oops! Seems to have killed the thread stone dead for some reason. "More tea, vicar?"
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"But bishop, the anus is not designed for penetration." Speaking of arses, which you are, this was the unforgettable show-stopping line quipped at coffee-time after a service at my wife's church. The Bishop of the Episcopal Church of Scotland, attended local small churches from time to time. On this occasion, discussions on gay relationships were in vogue and very controversial. The line was uttered by a lovely elderly lady* - a neighbour and friend of ours - who had been a nurse all her working life. The bishop, actually a very liberal man, seems to have taken this professional medical opinion in his stride - as it were. Would have loved to have been there! *RIP Beatrice.
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Pic from Easter 1966. (Monday 4th April). In Coire an-t-Sneachda, Cairngorms.
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Strange - I have never experienced damage here in Scotland. Maybe your authorities acquired a model of gritter that really blasts the stuff out. Normally it is only Cheshire rock salt - I would guess - and is not as hard as road gravel.
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Pic is here - same date (24th) 1979. Altitude 65m only (lower than Barnsley, by 'eck!). Plenty of other events in UK in March. Our definition of "spring" is man made and nature will not conform, of course. The media are turning us into a nation of pussies, too. To put things into perspective, we need to remind ourselves that millions of troops lived outside, fought and died in Europe in conditions worse than ours this week. Probably in conditions at times like those on Cairngorm summit today: "Latest reading at 0648, 24 Mar Temperature -9.5 C, Mean Windspeed 73 mph, Gust Windspeed 85 mph." This week will have seen huge drifts of windslab snowbeds building up on the mountains in Wales, Lakes and Scotland. Don't go until somebody else has triggered them, or they have stabilised!
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Dogger/Spoonfed tuning - UTTERLY HORRID SERVICE
craigowl replied to Abdul's topic in Suppliers Forum
Yes, people often claim the Americans know how to deliver good customer service and we don't. I know from experience that they can flip and become extremely obnoxious. Andi - for word "racist" I think you meant to say "racism"? -
Having fun with ParcelForce due to 1st time ebayer giving me the wrong post code. Edited to protect the innocent. "Susan, Have tried to ring your number a couple of times without success. Here is current situation regarding your parcel: 1 - Post code should be E2 - you gave E1. 2 - Parcel currently held at Charlton depot about 2 miles away from you as crow flies. Apparently this is the wrong depot for delivery to E2 postcodes. 3 - The correct depot for E2 is in NW London (further away of course.) 4 - The parcel was marked down for return to sender (me here near Edinburgh) due to wrong address! 5 - I have instructed ParcelForce to send parcel to you using E2 address and a note about ringing for porter on arrival at gate. 6 - Parcel will be sent to Coventry hub at teatime today. 7 - Parcel should return to NW London depot overnight. 8 - Parcel should then be going out to your E2 London address tomorrow morning. I expect you are working hard somewhere in the metropolis, but if you see this today, if you got a taxi or drove to the Charlton hub with a proof of identity, maybe it would be possible to pick the parcel up before it goes away on another tour of England? The Charlton depot's phone number is 0844 ***** - option 5. Not a great deal of fun with your first ebay purchase, but at least you will know your post code - I expect you may have just moved in?............... Keep in touch. Best wishes Iain"
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Yeh, maybe your are right! Here is a photo of the street me and my best man grew up in, taken in Nov 1985 just prior to demolition. He went on to become a principal teacher of physics, has climbed all the Munros and we can never meet up with him and his Mrs 'cos they are always on holiday in Florida, China, etc. We are proud of our roots... from lowly beginnings, etc. Photography? - wish I could've done a course like that. 49 years and still trying!
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My best pal from school - we both live in Linlithgow - he taught at Falkirk Tech latterly, he said parts of it reminded him of our home town, Dundee. What higher recommendation can you get?!