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10-01-16, 08:35 AM | #2871 | |
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There's a whole rash of them. A cheap and quick way to use someone elses material, to flog us something we don't want or need, but lureing us in with this seductive tune. The Barclays Bank one with the horses comes to mind.
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10-01-16, 09:49 AM | #2872 |
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Banging on about Right to Bye.
Its all about your public schoolboy pals private landlords ripping off the workers. Over borrowing so banks have control of the country again. Look how well that worked out last time
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10-01-16, 10:23 AM | #2873 |
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Car designers yet again.
Simple battery change. Terminals accessible, cables marked and room to work in. Great. 12mm bolt to secure the battery to the car? Needs special tool to reach it. Once again. Cold morning, middle of nowhere useful and chances of getting the "special tool?" |
10-01-16, 11:00 AM | #2874 |
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What's this car! Some kind of Chinese puzzle... But
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10-01-16, 11:20 AM | #2875 |
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It's just a Zafira and all I want to do is replace blown lamps and flat batteries. I'm not trying to gas flow the flux capacitor or shizzle my shims so why can't these jobs be designed to use fairly standard diy tools?
Don't even start me on the costs to do these things. Halfwits charge £80 - £100 for a battery, the RAC, with discount, charge £122 for supply and fit. The battery at the local parts store was £34.79. I could buy the tool and still 'save' against the overinflated pretend cost of fitting, but I end up with a tool I only ever use once. I'm waiting for the day some motor manufacturer evil sadistic dictator designer pr*ck decides the tyre valve needs to be hidden behind a load of body panels, or inside the engine head behind a heptagonal headed bolt. |
10-01-16, 11:23 AM | #2876 |
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NTECUK please do not suggest this at work, especially as the wife is talking of getting a Nissan instead.
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10-01-16, 11:43 AM | #2877 | |
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Advertised by none other than the BBC Also charities. The sob stories may be real but when charities sell donors' details to their mates 'in the trade' it's nothing but a scam. How much of your donation actually benefits those the charity is supposedly working for?
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10-01-16, 11:44 AM | #2878 |
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Um probably need to fit anti tamper torque valve caps on micras.
I'll put it on the next Tec call.
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10-01-16, 11:49 AM | #2879 |
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British Fords (edit: not a slur btw) and oil pumps... I've never had one that hasn't packed it in (the last was 30 years ago though) and it is usually expensive.
The Transit's packed it in out in the middle of nowhere yesterday... It was towed, the guys driving it were flown home and the van should be on a truck tomorrow. Last edited by MattCollins; 10-01-16 at 12:59 PM. |
10-01-16, 11:53 AM | #2880 | |
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I'll continue to fund my in-laws overseas with what could go to local charities, atleast I know the only bugger getting some of it is western union for the transfer
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