Shoulda bought Suzuki, the dealership, BCC. was absolutely mental on Friday31st as everyone prospectively looking was made fully aware of new tax regs. Signed on the dotted at 11am, took the salesman, finally,to fuel up on the BCC card and get him a quick bite to eat from the petrol station at 2pm. Top service throughout

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This.
To my mind, the salesman has seriously underestimated the cost, and has tried to shuffle the costs so as not to impact his commission.

Steve Cartmel in Atherton, blokes a genius

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White spirit in a milk bottle. Shake well.

They are a licence to make an easy buck for a garage

How much do you think dealer level Vagcom software and hardware costs, and the week training the technician?
They don’t use £300 eBay knock off clone.

Go on Bba reman and spout that shite and see how long before an industry standard trained tech rips you a new one!

For the record, the council got the £300000 back, and Asons went in to recievership, to be bought by another of the Akram brothers.

What can we do as humble citizens? Pay the £400 council tax rise or else, that’s what!

Or, you can get active, and make sure they know that every move, and every brass bawbee they miss appropriate will be accountable, this fat bastard knows his days are numbered, and some of us won’t rest until he’s one of Essels guests

Are you sure it can be replaced? My old peugeot 307 used a proprietary comms system so you needed more than just a loom adapter (well it was an adapter but an expensive one)

Got a double din android Pioneer all singing all dancing doofer, working off the steering wheel controls, in her indoors 307, fitted myself… easy!

Just make sure you properly put the BSI to sleep in any PSA group car before you disconnect the battery and remove the old stereo, and do a full BSI reset on wakeup after fitting the new un, or you’ll get all kinds of weirdness

Argghhh, that dawg!

binners – Member
Also we have a place for everything, then he’s not constantly rummaging around for hours in piles of stuff
…. known in our house as a ‘man-look’

a “kids look” in our house…
While looking for hours for something that’s in direct plain view – have you been looking with Jamie or Abbie’s eyes?

I’ve never had a Manchester tart.

I’ve had a few, but this one’s from Dumbarton

In Dune, can we keep the Toto soundtrack?

The new point break is freakin’ awesome.

Edit: mainly for dropping this beast during the boat party scene

parkesie – Member
What part of a tow bar can you forget that is £250 that isn’t the whole towbar?

I’m guessing the dragging a now defunct car down to the main dealer to connect diagnostics and wake the ecu to the fact it now has towing electrics?

Nope, sellers can’t neg. Just open the ebay case from your side first

Did you win it way under the pinkbike asking price?
Could be the guys trying to back out of the ebay deal?

Are you thinking you’ll get rolled? I was more thinking “doesn’t exist” or “nicked”

If you aint paid yet, I’d knock it on the head, those inner voices are there for a reason and they are seldom wrong

Watty – Member
I’m with nickc, wear what you’re comfortable with. Out of interest, I’d like to hear from anyone who’s crashed wearing a full face lid and thought ‘thank **** I was wearing that’ and those that suffered nasty injuries despite wearing a FF. For balance you understand.

Was riding the last bit of singletrack at Lee Quarry a few year back, a couple of kids on jump rigs sessioning the tabletops, one had a spectacular off, gravel rash right in the hole between his ff chin bar, a million to one chance.
Anyhoo, we stopped him wobbling once it was clear the bleeding wasn’t bad, fixed his bike and my mate in front and me behind got him and his mates behind me, to ride down to his ‘Rents waiting in the car park.
Coulda been worse, thank God it wasn’t

Think that was the day I landed hard on the Patriot on the skills section, and snapped the saddle

Mines changed from a slender sex goddess, in to something that cackles at Dorothy on wizard of Oz

Avoid pattern parts like the plague, unless it’s old and worthless or old and no alternative.
Just nailed a front end on my cousins 2015 berlingo, all genuine s/H citroen panels went straight on, perfect fit, panel gaps as per factory. Apart from the huge easily broken plastic bumper/grill platform which was only available from citroen or pattern. After 5 hours of cutting and filing, I wish he’d have paid treble and insisted on genuine

Ordered, it’s for charideee, mate!

Second hand panels on T5s are eye-wateringly expensive…
£500 for a S/H sliding door with fire damage to some rubber components and window sliding mech… God knows what price on a mintball example

Jimdoubleyou, I’d much prefer your example than rote learning times tables, as you say it teaches how to problem solve

Mol, you didn’t. Someone else may have, hence my caveat in that first rant “if”

And as far as out of order, don’t suggest, or make allusion to suggest that I should arrange an abortion just because an uncalculable percentage of your tax may be used in the rearing of that child.

Mol that discussion was on the table at the time, we were middle aged with 2 kids coming to school leaving age, true and welly in the Precariat demographic – we got as far as an almost hospital visit. Got in the car park and turned right around. We decided we’d rather be in shite Street and whatever the future threw our way we’d face that as and when.
Someone who got through 2 levels of tube snipping really fought to be here in our humble opinions, and every single day I’m glad she is…

Hammer thru the Mac, in that instance

Binners, granted I can see the annoyance factor, but surely a simpler and less life changing/ devastating solution is to turn of the set and remove the cord/ battery?

Did they suggest you kill your unborn child?

I’ve encountered that attitude from childless couples before they’re doing the world a favour by their sacrifice, in that case don’t expect in future, the children of others to become care workers in adulthood to deal with their senile infirmity. Don’t expect them kids to pay tax in to a pension pot.

Dunno but when splitting the chain to get rid of the damaged bit, it was evident the side plate had deformed on a sprocket tooth, twisting that link. The damage was nowhere near an existing join

Mashed shifts while climbing have been the cause of most my snapped chains
Edit, just beaten to it ;)

I dunno if Mark 90’s remembers me smacking my mush on the handrail of a bridge crossing the Nene, and then losing a tooth in a saveloy on that evenings drinking sesh..
£300 of your English earth pounds to have that badboy nailed back in, so I can well understand why that dentist and his lad ride FF

Yeah, I can reliably report back that an SLX 11 speed rear mech works well with a 10sp SLX shifter and sunrace 11-42 10spd cassette

Offs don’t always happen when you’d expect and sometimes the ‘silly’ ones can be the worst

Cedric Gracia springs to mind, that has to be one of the worst things if seen, for such an innocuous Pootle with your mates ride

Warning, graphic femoral arterial injury content

https://m.pinkbike.com/news/Video-CGs-Bloody-Crash.html

From 26 to 29er

what’s Mr Jolley got that we haven’t?

Our Fairy Liquid

I’ve met plenty of very smart people who have been or are currently serving Her Majesty

Not smart enough to have any morality over being trained to kill on demand without question?