Potential expenses at that age/mileage

– injectors
– manifold flaps
– turbos
– gearbox ( I think it’ll be the multitronic. Which is better than the tiptronic. Still, worth budgeting for an oil change)
– dpf (although may be just pre dpf?)
– suspension and bushes. Lots of bits to wear and creak, clunk and generally be a pain

Also, check the VED bracket.

If it’s a good one and you maintain it, great.

If it’s a dog and you’re not prepared to keep on top of things, it could be ruinous.

It’s ace. Wife had got me one for Christmas. Lost hours on SMW and SMK already. Relieved to still be awesome at SMK, disappointed at the hard work I’m making of SMW.

Haven’t even looked at the other games on there yet!

I’ll have to check ours when I get home, but a google of the model number throws up images identical to our Samsung Ecobubble.

I wouldn’t call it quiet, but I don’t think it’s excessively loud. Ours stand directly on concrete floor though.

EDIT: What sort of floor is yours stood on?

By plastic gloves do you mean the latex type? These make my hands sweat almost immediately – is that a good idea at that temperature?

Note that I have no experience of wearing them at -25°C!

Thanks for that.

Can someone just remind me of the upside of Brexit? Hell, can anyone even tell me the base case for it?

I’m still as angry about it today as I was on the morning of the result.

Can anyone post a link to the assessment reports published by Mayor of Londons Office/Camecon?

They’re being discussed in the news but I can’t find the reports.

Broken connection, failed relay. Who knows? Time to break out the multi-meter and start to work backwards from the bulb holder.

If that’s not your cup of Darjeeling, look up your local mobile auto-electrician.

The NHS is going to be in better shape wirh substantially increased funding as a result of Brexit.

That’s some properly lazy trolling.

How quickly are you hoping to achieve this aim?

I reckon you could be looking at a years work to get there. 32 minutes is really slow, 25 minutes is a bang average time for anyone who isn’t physically impaired.

Sub-20 is fast at any age.

Good luck!

I’ve got a pair of Asics gore tex road shoes. Great for running in the rain and I don’t find them any sweatier than my open weave shoes.

Not sure where to start.

I’m not the target audience. Disney have given a firm 1 finger salute to Star Wars nerds like me and set their stall out. This was about winning a new generation of fans. Fine. But why not just go with a completely fresh set of characters in TFA? Hanging on to Chewie, Han, Luke & Leia and refs to Vader have contributed to the nonsense they’ve ended up with in TLJ. Should have just started TFA clean, maybe a little further in to the timeline with the old crowd already dead.

This would have made more sense. The saga continues for the next generation of fans with the intervening movies like Rogue One and Solo for the older fans.

Episode VIII was just a terrible mess. IX is going to be a reboot of the the rebooted reboot. I think In years to come TLJ will be largely erased from the Star Wars consciousnesses, a la the Machete Order which ignores Epsiode I.

A “quantitative economic forecast of outcome” does not exist, he said. “That is not there. We have not done that. What is there is the size of the industry, the employment and so on.”

So, someone spent a couple of hours on google searching terms like ‘size of UK car industry’.

DD won’t be held to account. None of them will. Apart from the rabid minority, Parliament just want Brexit done and dusted and its impact really doesn’t matter to them. There will still be a Parliament so they will all have their careers intact.

There are essentially two types of new car protection. Those traditionally sold by dealers that are nothing more than a polish and sealant which last a few months at best.

More recently ‘ceramic’ paint protection has become available. These can genuinely offer years of paint protection if applied correctly. Be aware that costs can vary.

My advice is to step away from the dealer. Don’t even let them prep the car. Find a local detailer with a good reputation and get them to apply a new car protection. Expect to pay anything from £200 – £1,000 depending on what level of protection/ products you choose!

Google GTechniq for an idea of what can be done. There are other brands who offer similar products.

Label M Matt Paste.

Let’s face it, our overblown sense of self-importance got us in to this mess in the first place. A correction is long overdue.

Are we now painting the agreement to ‘honour our commitments’ as ‘progress’?

BTW – no deal is still an appalling idea.

I thought it was better than a bad deal?

The appalling idea was Brexit per se. If this Government actually takes us out of the EU, I’m of a mind that perhaps the pain of a couple of years under the terms of a hard Brexit is worthwhile so that the 52% actually understand what membership gave us.

Out of interest, if we do leave, what’s the process for reapplying in the future? Who would be likely to veto our application?

Did you mean a true third world country? Or a country split in three? Or did it just autocorrect from ‘turd’?

‘Third Country’ is an EU term. It refers to any country truly outside the EU i.e. without membership or any kind of single market access.

Is anyone keeping a running total of what the combined cost of Brexit will be to the UK, across Government and Industry?

If we just tell Barnier et al to go **** themselves, at what point would the penalties of being a true third country outweigh the upfront/on-going cost of access to the single market?

I’m warming to idea of no deal, just to see what happens!

We have gravity fed cold and hot. They’re not equalised and are both a bit shit. We fitted one of these, it’s reasonably quiet and it does the job*

https://www.screwfix.com/p/stuart-turner-techflo-tp-s-positive-head-shower-pump-1-5bar/2713d

*when I say it does the job, it’s fine when it works. We’re on the third pump in 3 years. The first shat itself inside 6 months and was replaced under warranty. The second sprung a leak at the pump seals on both the hot and cold end but for £100 is was easier to replace like for like than change to an alternative pump and potentially mess about with new fitting. If it goes again before we move, I’ll look for an alternative.

Hmmm, seems this does tick all the boxes!

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Nespresso-EN550-B-Lattissima-Automatic-Machine/dp/B00T4GWD7E/ref=sr_1_2?s=kitchen&ie=UTF8&qid=1511345037&sr=1-2&keywords=lattissima

Cheers, all. A veritable minefield! Who knew it would lead me to question my own environmental credentials?

Just so it’s clear, drugs not being on the pharmacy shelves is the absolute worst case. Best case is a huge cost to both national agencies and pharma industry to implement new processes to replace perfectly good ones with a yet to be defined knock on effect for the general public (but most likely increased cost and less choice) and no net benefit.

This, for me, is Brexit in microcosm.

I appreciate the UK is still a ‘big 5’ market in Europe. However, this all fails to consider that some companies may simply withdraw their products from the UK rather than have to put in place a UK specific supply-chain…

I’ll be honest, this seems highly unlikely in the overwhelming majority of cases. But, it’s a risk.

Even if the MHRA get busy with their stamp, there could certainly be short-term supply issues. Not all Pharma companies are multi-national behemoths with vast spending power, some are small, niche and operate on incredibly tight margins.

Unless all such licenced medicines are grandfathered on exit, which is entirely within our gift.

That’s a big leap for the MHRA to take without a deal to back it up.

It’s not just the licensing but the life-cycle management and safety monitoring. How will this information, gathered within the EU be shared with a third country? If no sharing deal in place, how does the MHRA hit the ground running in less than 18 months for this additional workload?

Sounds pretty good to me. Best of both worlds.

I don’t see an upside from an industry perspective nor from the viewpoint of a national authority.

National authorities require the funding, resource and expertise to make the correct assessment of new medicinal products. Remember that the EMA reserves it’s centralised procedure for special cases. I have first hand experience of just how stretched MHRA resources are right now.

In addition, there is the impact to overall development costs from having to engage multiple agencies to get products to the market. The EMA granting assessment via the centralised procedure is very attractive and highly prized. It offers significant cost and time saving, which ultimately reduces the cost of the product to end user. In the case of the UK, this means the NHS.

Well TP talked about the EMA being the licensing body which it isn’t, it’s an advisory body, so I chose to check what he was saying myself.

I didn’t. I said this:

– 12,000 centrally licensed medicines (i.e. blanket licensed in all EU via the EMA) will no longer be licensed in the UK.

The licenses come via the EMA. There are no centrally approved medicines in the EU that have not been reviewed by the EMA. The Licensing authority is the EC. However, you may like to note that even the MHRA in the link I provided don’t bother to make that distinction. They and many others in the Pharma industry refer to EMA as the licensing agency, nobody within the industry would bother to correct it. Unless you actually deal with the EMA and the authorisation procedures, I honestly doubt you’d know or care that EC approval is the formal licensing after EMA (CHMP) opinion. For you to attempt to use it to undermine my point is quite laughable.

Countries that MRA’s with Europe don’t automatically accept the EC decision and grant license. It just means that whats good enough for the EMA is also an acceptable pathway for that country.

e.g. if a Pharma company goes to the EMA for scientific advice, agrees a development plan for their new medicine and meet all EMA guidelines, then that is the minimum threshold to apply for a medicinal license in Europe. The EMA then reviews that and gives an opinion.

So, in the example of Canada, that strategy will broadly be acceptable to Health Canada (national authority). However, they still review the whole package and grant their own license. They will ask the applicant different questions and the product can either be refused approval or approved with a different set of conditions to the EC.

teamhurtmore – Member
Tell you what as this is your centre of excellent ll me where (1) the EMA grants licences (as claimed above)

Via the centralised procedure, the EMA (CHMP) provides opinion, EC provides license (authorisation). How many sources would you like?

1) From EMA themselves:

http://www.ema.europa.eu/ema/index.jsp?curl=pages/about_us/general/general_content_000109.jsp

2) From the MHRA (bottom of p.2):

http://www.mhra.gov.uk/home/groups/comms-ic/documents/websiteresources/con025908.pdf

This does not mean all medicines in the UK are licensed by the EC but some are. In the no deal scenario, these products will no longer be licensed in the UK at the point of Brexit.

The news that at a former colony has pinched our seat on the UN ICJ must put a bit of a dent in May’s vision of a post-EU Global Britain.

Are you suggesting that the EMA is a licensing body?

Well, the EC is for the products authorised via a centralised procedure (which is what I’m referring to). One license which covers all EU. EC grants licenses based on the opinion of the CHMP, which is the part of the EMA responsible for human medicinal products.

craigxxl – Member
Seems that EMA doesn’t actually do a great deal at the moment other than replicate the work of the various member states own agencies. The idea was for it to replace these but at the moment appears to work in conjunction with member states rather than replace.

I can assure you, the EMA does a great deal. The fact it couldn’t replace member states own regulatory agencies is not a failing of the EMA or the EC.

If we hit the wall of a ‘no deal’ Brexit on the 19th March 2019, the UK and remaining EU states will feel the impact.

– At least 750 UK company sponsored clinical studies will be running in mainland Europe without a valid clinical trial authorisation.

– 12,000 centrally licensed medicines (i.e. blanket licensed in all EU via the EMA) will no longer be licensed in the UK.

– 37 million UK prescriptions per month that are manufactured in the EU will no longer be freely importable.

When my Wife’s old Nissan Qashqai had the exact same symptoms, it was the injectors. Fortunately, fixed under warranty as the repair came to about £1,500.

How badly?

I did mine about 10 years ago. I think 8 weeks of Physio got me back to a light jog and after 12 weeks I was cycling and by 16 weeks I was fully recovered (i.e. back to competitive football). I was very diligent in sticking to the exercises prescribed by the Physio and I didn’t try to rush anything. Never had so much as a twinge since.

So the Nursery are charging £60 per day?

That’s about the going rate in my area (in fact, slightly less than we pay for TP Jr.)

Are you using Childcare Vouchers or Tax-Free Childcare? Depending on whether you or your partner are a higher rate tax payer, you may be able to reduce your costs by switching to Tax-Free Childcare.

In that sort of sized cross-over/SUV, take a look at the Mazda CX-5 too.

For us this was a better all round package than the X-Trail, Kia thingy or the CR-V. It just edged out the Tiguan as the local Mazda dealership are less shit than VW.

This insurance part of this is easy. Neither the OP or his partner in crime would be the registered owner or keeper of the vehicle. That will be VWFS. Knowing this, the insurance company will only care about the insurance policy holder, main driver and their address. This can be the OP, the name on the finance document is completely unrelated.

Cheers, All. I’ll go with the first option.

Was chatting to a colleague about his Outlander PHEV. He returns up to 70 mpg on a 50 minute commute. He uses a specific strategy of alternating between ICE and electric to achieve this.

He freely admits that on a very long journey the electric motor contributes very little and the MPG drops to low 30’s.

Around town it can get up to 170 mpg as it is almost exclusively running electric. Not sure what duration it maintains that for.

Having read much about the owner experience of PHEV’s, I have concluded that they can loosely be categorised in two ways; Those who just get in them and drive, without any thought and those who actively seek to exploit the economy on offer. The former are those reporting awful mpg figures. However, I appreciate there are different motivations for buying one. Some buy them because of the low BIK and some buy because they genuinely want to return high MPG.

My guess is that Luke will not turn to the dark side per se. He has simply realised that manipulation of the force by humans has caused all the universes problems and so he has decided to get rid of all the Jedi & Sith. Thus creating an agnostic utopia for all the little people who prefer to fight with blasters. Oh, wait…