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Forum: General Chat Topic: Insurance write off vs modifications |
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Posted: Fri Apr 29, 2011 18:45
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| Well this is a bit of an old thread, but I figure since it's been bumped I may as well update. As the other driver was eventually found, no thanks to Gwent Police, she got to keep her NCB, however we got screwed over on the valuation as that was paid out by my GF's insurance company initially and wa... |
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Forum: Speed, Safety, Driving and The Law Topic: Auto Taser steering wheel lock. Is it legal? |
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Posted: Thu Sep 30, 2010 18:23
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This is a 4 year old thread. I have since moved to a much nicer part of the country and had no further problems with the Subaru, though I did eventually get rid of it for an AWD performance car from Nissan instead.
So in conclusion, don't buy that taser, and don't live in Aylesbury, it is a shithole. |
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Forum: General Chat Topic: Help! I can't unlock my holiday hire car |
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Posted: Wed Sep 01, 2010 08:10
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| At least with Windows 7 the changes are a logical improvement over the old OS, and there are ways to bring back the behaviour of earlier OSes if you really want to. Plus the effect of the changes are it may take you a bit longer to start up Word or whatever, it's certainly not putting any lives in d... |
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Forum: General Chat Topic: Help! I can't unlock my holiday hire car |
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Posted: Wed Sep 01, 2010 07:51
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| Yes, my BMW has these indicators and I don't like them very much for the reason that Lum says about manually cancelling them. However, I can offer one word of advice. Us long term drivers will try to turn off the indicators by pushing the stalk in the opposite direction to that being indicated (as ... |
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Forum: General Chat Topic: Help! I can't unlock my holiday hire car |
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Posted: Wed Sep 01, 2010 04:30
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| You can eventually get used to the smart indicators, but I still don't like them and don't see what benefit they offer. For those who haven't seen them, they have two switches for each direction, a half push and a full push and they don't latch. A half push gives you 3 flashes and a full push turns ... |
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Forum: General Chat Topic: Caption Competition 4 |
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Posted: Wed Aug 11, 2010 18:26
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Replies: 64
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Sorry for hijacking this, but this forum lacks a funny pictures thread, and I just saw this and had to share.
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Forum: General Chat Topic: Caption Competition 4 |
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Posted: Sat Jul 17, 2010 17:14
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Replies: 64
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| Exclusive! First photos of Richard Hammond's secret love child. |
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Forum: Speed, Safety, Driving and The Law Topic: Causing death by driving with undue care while parked.... |
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Posted: Sat Jul 17, 2010 01:47
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She pled guilty 
Probably could have avoided prosecution altogether if prepared to fight it, but with having already lost your job and the risk of a death by dangerous driving charge on the horizon it was the cheaper and lower risk option.
A bit like fighting a speeding ticket, in a way. |
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Forum: General Chat Topic: Caption Competition 4 |
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Posted: Sat Jul 17, 2010 01:15
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Replies: 64
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| Shouldn't design cones in metric if you're going to outsource manufacturing to NASA. |
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Forum: Speed, Safety, Driving and The Law Topic: Illegal right turn sign |
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Posted: Sun Apr 11, 2010 18:24
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Replies: 15
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| Wait, so leaving aside the barriers and venetian sign relating to them (after all it's reasonable to assume that if they are open and the sign is blanked, it's ok to go through). You are saying that that little tiny plate creates a valid no right turn restriction and there is no need for the more we... |
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Forum: Speed, Safety, Driving and The Law Topic: Illegal right turn sign |
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Posted: Sat Apr 10, 2010 17:08
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Well apparently there are also barriers across the road that are supposed to close it at certain times. He is assuming that the sign should operate with the barriers, which wern't in operation.
Street view image of barriers |
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Forum: Speed, Safety, Driving and The Law Topic: Illegal right turn sign |
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Posted: Sat Apr 10, 2010 14:49
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| Well he claims not to have seen the sign, as he was turning right onto Renwick Road, then immediately turning right again, part of an awesome new "rat run" he'd found to avoid a busy part of the A13, and thus not noticed it because it was so small. I was under the impression that that litt... |
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Forum: Speed, Safety, Driving and The Law Topic: Is this the worst parking ever |
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Posted: Fri Apr 09, 2010 20:00
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Replies: 20
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| My submission. The guy with the bald spot is the owner of that car who used to complain if I parked my manky old Passat too close to his house as he said it devauled it. http://www.lum.co.uk/DiscoPaul.jpg Note the car parked on the other side of the road opposite and the fact that the road is barely... |
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Forum: Speed, Safety, Driving and The Law Topic: Illegal right turn sign |
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Posted: Fri Apr 09, 2010 19:49
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| Some guy on another forum I frequent has just gotten 6 CCTV issued tickets through the post for violating this part-time no right turn sign every day in one week. http://www.lum.co.uk/OcUK/right%20turn.jpg Google Street View Pretty sure this is an illegal sign unless accompanied by the more well kno... |
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Forum: General Chat Topic: How's this for ridiculous packaging... |
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Posted: Sun Mar 07, 2010 15:28
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Replies: 14
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| Oh what a surprise. :o And speaking of tips, soryr Refuge Amenity Sites, why is that I can freely take my own rubbish to them but if I hire someone else to do it he has to pay to dump the same rubbish. You also have to pay if you're using the wrong kind of vehicle. VW Caddy van advertising a comput... |
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Forum: General Chat Topic: Fine for leaving your engine running |
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Posted: Fri Mar 05, 2010 18:25
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| Also for those with turbocharged cars, there are circumstances where you need to leave the engine running for a bit to keep oil flowing to the turbo to cool it down to a sufficient temperature otherwise you'll do damage Turbo timer :twisted: Legally dubious Would be amusing when the jobsworth tells... |
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Forum: General Chat Topic: Fine for leaving your engine running |
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Posted: Fri Mar 05, 2010 01:14
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Replies: 43
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| Also for those with turbocharged cars, there are circumstances where you need to leave the engine running for a bit to keep oil flowing to the turbo to cool it down to a sufficient temperature otherwise you'll do damage |
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Forum: General Chat Topic: Laptop backups |
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Posted: Wed Mar 03, 2010 20:58
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Replies: 16
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If you're on Vista or Win7 the provided backup utility is actually pretty good. Mine automatically backs up to my NAS every sunday at 7pm, only copies over the changes to save space/time. It works just fine.
For XP I'd just use the free Robocopy utility and set it to zero retries upon failure. |
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Forum: General Chat Topic: How's this for ridiculous packaging... |
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Posted: Wed Mar 03, 2010 20:55
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Replies: 14
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| I'm sorry Lum, I don't know if I'm doing something wrong but the links within your two links don't take me to an actual story. They should be just links directly to the story. The second one has a computer mouse that was delivered in a cardboard box shrink wrapped to a pallet. The first one is more... |
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Forum: General Chat Topic: How's this for ridiculous packaging... |
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Posted: Wed Mar 03, 2010 19:51
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Replies: 14
Views: 4485
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