Price cap will no longer be universal for the full 24 months. Details incoming…

My local independent tyre fitter was cheaper than any of the online places. He was also able to order in and fit them same day.

In the past I’ve also found other independents willing to price match or at least get close enough to an online price to make it worthwhile.

TLDR; go to your local indy!

It sounds like part of the clutch has broken/disintegrated and is preventing engagement.

The only way to tell what has failed is to get it on a ramp and start stripping it down. You’d have to start with the clutch anyway so fingers crossed it’s that!

What’s the age/mileage of the IQ? Toyota will honour the warranty out to 10 years if you’ve kept the servicing up with them. That won’t cover a clutch but it should cover the worst-case of a gearbox replacement.

There’s a sit down restaurant/cafe at the main entrance to the park. The Peppa Pig bit itself has a couple of smaller concessions selling stuff too. You won’t go hungry.

Cheers, not sure why I didn’t get that email nor why it’s not available on their website

Any Shell customers received confirmation of what their tariff will be from 1st October? Aside from acknowledging the energy price guarantee takes effect from 1st October my account doesn’t seem to have any details of the actual rates.

I know i can find these elsewhere but it seems shoddy that they’ve not been communicated directly to customers will less than 48hrs until they take effect!

No, but I earned myself a few hundred quid when I did. However, once I’d rinsed the new account offers with all the online betting companies the returns significantly diminished relative to the amount of effort it required and I lost interest.

Be interested to hear of your experience if you do restart. I probably actually have more free time now as my kids are older.

We still have 3 yrs left of what was a 5 yr fix @ 1.69%. I’ve been doing the sums on what rates of between 3.5% – 5.5% will look like for us.

If I were remortgaging now I’d be fixing for as long as possible. It’s going to be a bloodbath for lots of people whose deals expire after base rates hit 3 or 4%.

I’ve been paying the maximum monthly DD Shell will allow to build up some equity for the winter. Now sitting at £867 credit, between that and the £400 Gov EBSS it should flatten out the spike in usage/costs for the next 6 months!

I’m expecting the typical ~3% nominal increase. Inflationary price increases this year are approx. 20% for direct vendor costs. Other operational expenses i.e. utilities/facilities will also be well up on 2020/21.

They’ve already announced a need to reduce overall op-ex by 5%; I can’t see many CFO’s signing off 10% pay rises in the private sector (except perhaps for the energy suppliers!!).

I bought a refurb duo pro from that seller a few months back when they had a similar offer on. The machine was missing a few of the accessories the listing mentioned but they sent them out straight away when I raised it.

It was obviously used as it had some light scratches and one small dent on the drip tray but it’s been faultless in the few months I’ve had it.

Edit – just checked and the discount was 25% when I got mine (June)

Are you saying it’s worth £3.5K trade-in now (i.e. broken) or that’s it’s value if in good running order?

Is the £6.5K ‘retail’ what you think it’s worth in a private sale or what you see car dealers selling them for?

If it runs, I think you need a second opinion. If it’s a non-runner you need to be very realistic about its value if you chose to repair it.

Anyone know how the new vaccine is to be rolled out to kids 5+?

We took ours to be jabbed on 1st September to local walk in centre and were turned away as they stopped giving first doses on 31 August. No guidelines on when they would resume.

Couldn’t find anything helpful online.

Current usage per annum:
Gas: 17,000 kWh
Electric: 4,500 kWh

Current avg. monthly dual fuel bill = £235. Here’s where i think we’ll be per month with the next few rises:
October’22 cap = £430
January’23 cap = £670 (est)
April’23 cap = £820

£10,000 per year on fuel is a terrifying prospect. A couple of years ago (and in a smaller home) we barely spent £1,000 a year.

Bosch Heat Pump dryer here. We have it in the utility room where the boiler is also located so the room is always warm which I assume helps the dryer work more efficiently.

I reckon on a like for like load it uses 25% of the electricity of our old vented dryer. Two reasons for this:

1. It’s more efficient
2. (IMO opinion more importantly) it detects when the load is dry and stops drying. Our condensing dryer was in the garage so you’d just set a load of towels to E.g 2 hours and walk away

We use it as little as possible though. Either line drying in the day or using an airer and dehumidifier if drying overnight

+1 for Jabra 510

-1 for the annoying lady who says “to connect the jabra speak 510…” every time I redock my laptop! 😂

@Infidel

Out of interest how much have you been quoted for the 14 panels and inverter all in?

What are the thoughts on suppliers/installers? Lots of bad press about companies folding and owners being left with no warranty.

We toyed with joining the local authorities group buy scheme earlier this year but it didn’t fill me with confidence and the quote we received didn’t seem to offer much discount on market rates. I’m now think more seriously about an install. Do I go local or with a national company like GET or EON?

At the very least inflation encourages people/companies to spend their cash reserves or borrow money as it’s driving the NPV of projects down

I’m far from an expert, but I can’t see this being anything close to a universal truth in business particularly if there are shareholders to keep happy.

We are no longer in a short-term issue it’s now a mid-term concern.

Disaster capitalism, innit?

Sadly not quite tall enough 😂

This is the DI vessel I use. Except it was ‘only’ £73 when I bought it:

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/233514230848?mkcid=16&mkevt=1&mkrid=711-127632-2357-0&ssspo=dgUAaQIeSH2&sssrc=2349624&ssuid=RN7E9QloS1i&var=&widget_ver=artemis&media=COPY

Also bought a cheap water conductivity meter to test the output quality. The resin lasted about 6 months of frequent car washing and a couple of downstairs window cleans. I was pretty wasteful with the car washing as was using DI for the whole wash but now I only use for final rinse.

Bought 25L bag of resin (enough for 2x refill) for £90.

Not cheap but zero water marks on my cars is worth that to me.

We moved in to current house 2 years ago and took the recommendation of the cleaner all the neighbours use (£50 per month…). They chipped paint off all the wood framed windows so they got told to foxtrot oscar.

I have a DI cylinder anyway as I’m a sad car detailing obsessive so I’ve been cleaning the downstairs windows myself. The upstairs windows are starting to look very sad now though, can anyone recommend an extendable hose-fed brush that isn’t rubbish?

CEO of Brewdog posted yesterday about the true extent of price increases affecting their operation:

https://www.linkedin.com/posts/james-watt-21a5a912b_the-inflation-numbers-are-lying-to-us-activity-6960531883411546112-zg6y

TLDR it’s 25%. Obviously that doesn’t mean it 25% at a national level. But BoE talking about 13% seems on the optimistic side. In my industry costs are easily 20% up on pre-COVID.

Also bear in mind BoE won’t stop at 1.75%. We were at ~5% pre-2008 and what 10% in the early ’90’s?

I’m not relishing renewing my mortgage in 3 years time, let alone in the next 18 months. It’s really really really bleak and those living month to month are going to truly suffer. Also consider that due to the decade of austerity we have less of a welfare structure than ever so further for people to fall.

Is he on an interest only mortgage??

(12,000 kWh/year)

WTAF! I thought we profligate at using 5,500!

Daft place to put a window but they can have absolutely no reasonable objections to you building a mirror extension. That doesn’t mean they won’t though…

Shame the current owners didn’t elect to build the same extension with a party wall agreement at the same time. Would have have been a relatively cost effective move and negated this situation.

LEGO Optimus with his older (original G1) brother:

Are you going for a time or is your aim solely to complete?

Assuming the latter, don’t get hung up on transitions or using too many gels! I’d eat something at transition and try to limit gels en-route. Your moving time will be >4 hours, so spending 5 – 10 mins total in each transition isn’t really a big deal. Eat, drink, have a sit and a stretch.

Just done a tech support chat with Garmin and they’ve offered me a refurb 945 for £130 in exchange for my broken one. Is the Fenix 6 Pro bringing anything else to the party??

My 945 appears to have just died (the HRM and accelerometer aren’t working). It’s 3 years old, I use it for running, swimming, cycling and as a golf GPS so the Fenix 6 Pro seems an ideal replacement. The refurb unit @ £260 looks ideal. Anyone bought an Amazon refurb?

I’ve nothing constructive to add to this thread only to state that since having kids the owners of dogs who aren’t under control have elevated themselves to a level of contempt I’d never previously held.

I could list dozens of individual incidents of dogs utterly terrifying my kids. I don’t believe there’s a single incident where the dogs owner admitted they were in the wrong. Generally, they seem to blame us – some highlights were the lady whose dog made a bee-line for my son on a beach and whilst she blamed my son said dog was off destroying another family’s picnic; another was the lady with two uncontrolled dogs who again implied we were in the wrong as ‘she lived in a house on (i.e. facing) the park’.

Both the 4wd? If so, probably not. More likely with the 2wd 180bhp.

The dealer will only know what the manufacturer tells them. This is usually a confirmation of build week, date of actual build and a shipping date. Delivery from shipping date is logistics dependent. The Sportage is made in Slovakia; in a normal world you’d expect 2-4 weeks from DOM to delivery at the dealer. However, some manufacturers are building cars to near complete then having to park them up while waiting for some final components to arrive then retrofit.

Ask the Kia dealer whether the car has been built, if not find out the build week and whether this is locked or still estimated. They will also have experience of time from build to delivery and what specs may be causing delays. Just ask some direct questions.

How much do Mazda want for the AA/CarPlay enablement? It was £250 on our 2017 CX5 when I enquired a couple of years ago.

Just buy whatever is the cheapest smart tv usb stick and use that instead. Roku/Amazon/NowTV etc.

We had this a few years ago, except they were also finding their way in to our bathroom. I left the hive alone and we velcro’d a mesh over the bathroom window so we could still air the room but stop the bees entering. Late summer after all the hive activity stopped so I went up a ladder and blocked the hole.

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Did you get one @tallpaul?

Still showing as available to buy for me?

Yes, thank you. Logging on at 07:30 was probably unnecessary :lol:

Cool, thank you

Is that LEGO Optimus Prime going to be on general sale? Not sure what ‘exclusive’ means – will it only be available direct from LEGO? If so, what’s the chances of bagging one? Aside from having a LEGO account, is there anything else I need to do order one tomorrow?

Sorry, lots of questions (can you tell I’m slightly excited?!)

I’ll play with the angle and see how she gets on. Thank you!