Who does the hivemind recommend for online sales of cherished watches? I’m thinking of a pre-owned Seamaster or Submariner.

Google says leaking seal on high level rear brake light is a common fault. If not that, then the boot seal or rear light clusters:

https://www.noteownersclub.co.uk/threads/water-in-the-boot-of-my-note.2245/

I guess the slice of people I’m most interested in isn’t the level of those who can afford to do this (or have the company pay) but those who have all these 4 bed family houses, Volvo (or X Brand). Probably bought their houses in the 90s for £400k or something, but now its sky rocketed to the 700-800k or so.

They’re probably not millionaire-rich, but have enough to pay for the 70k vehicle. One assumes they’d need a job/family income to facilitate that.

What sort of income are you imagining is required to support the lifestyle you describe?

Do you have V6 box? If so, just connect it via WiFi.

I don’t profess to understand most of what you’re talking about in this thread, but I have Virgin 100mb fibre via their superhub and use BT Whole Home Wifi (the regular ones, not mini or premium).

As I have a couple of devices wired to the superhub, I’m still running it in WiFi mode to keep all the ports active.

It’s fine, I get good coverage and the reliability of Virgin is the limiting factor, the BT nodes seem pretty stable.

https://shop.bt.com/products/bt-whole-home-wi-fi-088269-CDXH.html

Breakfast is 3 eggs whisked well, nothing else added. If I’m feeling reckless, I’ll melt a knob of butter in the pan first.

If it’s a special occasion, I’ll serve them on a well buttered, lightly toasted bagel with smoked salmon on top.

Look closely at voluntary termination (VT) and how the 50% figure is calculated. It does not mean 50% of the monthly payments, it means 50% of the financed amount. With a PCP, you have financed the monthly payments and the balloon payment. Therefore, the 50% point is likely to be quite close to the end of the finance term.

What is the car worth? If VT isn’t possible in the near-term, can it be sold to clear the outstanding finance?

We have the 50” version of that LG telly. No complaints about the picture. Disney+ in HDR is exquisite. Sound is a bit pants but no worse than our old Samsung.

The magic remote is decent but not great if you use Virgin Media.

Only problems we’ve had were that it wasn’t compatible with our Samsung DVD player and it very occasionally crashes require a hard reboot.

We’d happily buy again at the price we paid.

Hang on, isn’t this part of the plot to ‘Mr. Robot? Are we about to see the debt record erased??

Our Samsung smart telly was always flakey on WiFi, even though parked right next to the Virgin router. Connecting via an ethernet cable solved it so never investigated further.

I can’t really understand why you need to go in to the classroom at all.

Are you meant to be presenting? Bare in mind that the proper fit and efficacy of these masks goes out of the window when you’re trying to talk loudly enough for a class of 33 to hear you through them!

I know that Homebuyers Reports get a hammering on here. But, we just completed our purchase and the Surveyor picked up a few useful things that needed doing. Some needed immediate remediation and I’m sure the cost to the seller was more than the Survey cost us, other bits are worth doing before they cause a more expensive problem and we’re rolling them in to improvements we’d planned to undertake anyway.

It’s so easy to do yourself, including the electrics.

I’m ‘warming’ to the self-install idea. It’s 40% of the quote i’ve had so far!

I did it myself in the upper floor of a new oak framed building. Laid on a foam underlay proved by the electric mat suppliers under a free floating laminate floor. Absolute doddle and works brilliantly. I got an electrician to test it and make the final connections to the mains.

Have looked at this. Which system did you go with? The Rayotec kit looks quite good.

Apologies if this has recently been covered, but what are the current estimates for % population to have been infected? We were @ ~6% in June; where are we thought to be now?

If the Pfizer vaccine makes in to an Advisory Committee it could make interesting viewing – it should be livecast from their website/youtube. These public hearings are one aspect of the US drug approval process I rather admire.

That dock won’t power the laptop.

What make/model of Laptop do you have?

The VAG aversion is a bit daft. A VW Tiguan an obvious answer as it’ll be easy to find a cloth interior/manual combo and they’re very good.

Took my lad to our local clip n climb on Monday (we’re still Tier 1). It’s 100% exercise and very good exercise at that, because he enjoyed the challenge so much.

Included in original proposed scope, decision not due to be made until 2022

https://www.ema.europa.eu/en/human-regulatory/research-development/compliance/good-manufacturing-practice/mutual-recognition-agreements-mra#united-states-section

So it still helps speed things up a little.

Well no, vaccine manufacture is not due to be added until 2022.

The EMA/FDA MRA currently only relates to GMP (manufacturing) inspections. It doesn’t cover vaccines (yet) either.

MRA are generally born out of trade agreements. So don’t expect the MHRA/FDA to have mutual recognition of anything anytime soon.

Your agent wants you to take the offer precisely because you are in no rush to sell, it’s costing them money to advertise and chase up viewings etc.

I think average time from offer to completion is ~4 months. Add in Christmas and a buyer should be looking at having their offer accepted by the end of October if they want to ensure they avoid the stamp duty.

The stamp duty on a £400k house will be £10k when the rates revert but I don’t think that directly equates to the amount it will affect sale prices. Buyers will either need the extra £10k as cash or they take it out of the equity in their current property (assuming they have one) – if that’s the case, it could affect the mortgage LTV and disproportionately impact their ability to afford a house.

No idea what area you live in or the desirability of that type of property in that area, but here (Cambridgeshire) homes have been selling fast. The really desirable stuff goes in days and even the ropey stuff has gone in 4 weeks tops.

An offer of £365k sounds like a genuine one. Did you counter offer?

They can’t be dragged in to the trash.

There’s no option to delete them. I’m suprised OSX doesn’t clean them up with the subsequent install, but I’ve accumulated packages from the last 3 updates.

Surely idiocy is rate limiting to the totality of wave 2?

Do we get to a point where all the idiots are infected and sensible people are avoiding them sufficiently well to reduce the rate?

Or is there sufficient homogeneity of idiots, thus we’re all done for no matter what? Especially if the idiots day job is as a HCP or care worker…

If you live in an area you can’t afford to buy in move. If saving for a deposit sell everything and cancel your social life till you have enough money. Rubbish things to have to do but that’s life

:lol:

Porsche 911 (996) with enough of a war chest to fix all the stuff that breaks.

At that end of the market, you’ve got to buy on condition/service history rather than a specific make/model per se.

That said, I’d look for Volvo or SAAB purely on the basis that owners tend to cherish these a bit more than some other marques. As this is STW, Skoda Octavia estate is probably also worth a look.

I’d steer clear of high mileage diesel personally, unless you’re doing long journeys and/or can find something pre-DPF.

Are we talking Mk 8 Golf v new Octavia or are these stock offers on the previous models?

ACC has been updated to ‘predictive’ ACC, so it not only maintains distance in traffic but slows for corners too. DSG & ACC is fab, will bring the car to a complete halt in stop/start traffic. Not sure where in the range it’s offered by Skoda/VW.

Regarding the 150bhp 1.5 TSI kangaroo issue, my Wife has a MY20 Skoda with that engine (built in Q1 this year). No issues like that at all. I honestly don’t know if it’s down to driving style and inherent characteristics of the lean burn engine on a cold-cycle or an actual fault. The definitive thread on that subject is here:

https://www.trocforums.co.uk/viewtopic.php?f=8&t=266&start=2460

I read a lot about it before ordering the Skoda, and test drove a manual and DSG, it didn’t put me off buying.

How much public money is being spent up front?

Is it really that big? Your thumb looks kinda stubby

I expect it would be a problem if the tank leaked oil across the boundary.

I doubt it will be an issue if an internal pipe springs a leak.

The dividing doors may well have been there originally but have certainly been totally removed since. I’d already queried this aspect with the vendor to be told all the appropriate permissions are in place. I suspect that if it were built today from scratch to its current spec it would fall foul of planning permission, but like many Conservatories that are modified over time, it’s stayed off the radar. One for the solicitor to dig in to if it gets that far.

I’m not so concerned about the thermal efficiency side of things. It’s south facing, i live down south and the roof system is properly insulated.

Cheers. They’ve removed the door to the open plan dining room/kitchen.

BBC ran one called Jumbo: The Plane that Changed the World. It was very good but doesn’t appear to be on iPlayer at the moment. I expect BA’s announcement may precipitate a rerun though.

Sound Barrier – https://www.airliners.net/photo/British-Airways/Boeing-747-436/979746/L
Burgers – https://www.airliners.net/photo/British-Airways/Boeing-747-436/1148891/L
Double Happiness Retro Classic – https://www.airliners.net/photo/British-Asia-Airways/Boeing-747-436/1005859/L

Great photos. Kai Tak approach in a 747 was something my Father got to experience. Very jealous.

I’m not sure anyone operates 747 passenger flights from UK now. Maybe Air China have one route? Not an impossibility to fly on one, but the chances are vanishingly small. I doubt any will be operating for passengers by the time either of my kids are adults.

Boarding across a windowless skybridge and heading straight up the stairs made it feel like you’d boarded a biz-jet. Wonderful. Vastly preferable to the cavernous business cabin of an A380 or the awful cattle pen of business on a BA777. Truly beautiful bird, too. Genuinely sad that my Children will never get to fly on one.

What about fitting 2 calipers? Could a clamp on mount be attached to the seat-stay to provide a second caliper position?