BHM

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  1. BHM

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    Either that or anal sex. Either way I’m not his man.
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    I had one of these idiots via email yesterday. Just ping ponging email questions that are answered on the advert & ignoring my instructions to phone. Doubtlessly a middle aged man filling his spare time emailing countless vendors. Apparently “we’ll keep in touch”. Wtf would I want to do that???
  3. If that’s the place at Reading no, but they’ve been going years, haven’t they?
  4. God knows about Chevy’s finest but I very rarely get sensor issues so when I do I just accept the main dealer parts prices. At least you know the sensor’s parameters are correct. I’ve never had an ECU issue on any car but my mechanic, the local Vx specialist & a Vx trader all tell me Vx ECUs are common failings.
  5. Everyday’s a school day. Not that it’d be any use to someone like me.
  6. Am I missing something, what’s special about it? It’s just another generic OBD reader isn’t it?
  7. Thanks, I could do with a new bed, chest of drawers & 2 wardrobes.
  8. Never mind the tinworm, 28 years and not a single rubber item underneath (bush, flexi, ball joint, track rod end, cv or steering gaitor) merited even the slightest mention. I wish the f***er was MOTing my cars!
  9. .....and all the tester could find to comment on was 4 knackered tyres. The rest of the car must be mint .
  10. I don’t ‘do’ finance for these exact reasons. I’m 100% sure you’ll get additional interest as barely a week passes without a finance enquiry but the thought of a customer backing a car to the finance company (then back to me) or them whinging two months later about a drop link or similar fills me with dread. About 50% of cheaper-end punters make no bones about running their cars into the ground with zero or the absolute minimum of maintenance - I don’t want some ignorant scruffy bastard bouncing them back with bald tyres, shagged brakes, trashed interior & no oil in the engine. Perhaps I’m old fashioned but a deals a deal & when the cars go I don’t expect to see them back until p/x time. I’m told by a peer that there are plenty of companies that finance up to 150K miles/12 yrs old at the end of the loan term! Rather you than me.
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    Incontinent shite.
  12. Just how greedy are these penny-pinching, pound-wasting punters? They are sooooo desperate to save a few quid on tax and insurance (allegedly) they don their blinkers and only want to see the tiny-engined dross. ......and for the many they don’t stand on there are plenty of breakers on eBay.
  13. I used to like a Rover. What immediately sprang to mind about the ‘video’ is this is just another middle aged man looking at cars in his spare time. Remind you all of anything? To me, the inane emails from eBay’s night shift punters
  14. On one hand you’re absolutely correct BUT on the other life’s too short to base your whole younger working life around a pension that kicks in at the end of your life.......assuming you reach retirement age. For decades I was the proverbial wage slave, company cars, pension etc., and like so many, blindly bought into the whole corporate machine. The best thing I did was sack the whole lot off & do things my way, although admittedly it helps to have some financial security. Many people aren’t cut out for self-employment, but I wish I’d done it decades before rather than piss away 2 to 3 hours of my life most Mondays to Fridays just on commuting.
  15. After about 5 years in this job I think about 95% of us have little personal interest remaining in cars. If it’s an old swapper clinging on to the last few weeks of its MOT it’s good enough for me.
  16. Just a few more questions FOR MY PEACE OF MIND Did you keep the old belt & tensioner? Do you still have the box the new kit came in? Could you confirm the part no.s of the items used? - these part no.s will be on the VW invoice. Can you confirm the engine code?
  17. Who are these twats that come out with this drivel? How do they draw a wage every month? Apparently just one asthmatic person can generate UP TO 63 STONES OF CO2 PER YEAR! How fucking big are their inhalers? Also 4% of the NHS’s greenhouse gas emissions are from.......inhalers! Cripes!! I’m glad I’m not asthmatic because after scanning through that news piece I reckon there needs to be a cull of asthmatics in order to save little Tarquin & Matilda of Bristol. Going back to the original question about Bristol’s filthy air, how’s this for irony? Bristol’s postcodes start with BS.
  18. VAG curious Never mind the ‘box; Will it include a cambelt? Will it be an original part? What about the water pump? And a receipt to prove? Perhaps you could scan and email the receipt to me? - it’s not that I don’t trust you or anything like that it’s just I’d like to make sure myself.
  19. Yes, on the back of the big dirty diesel truck - the one the posh parents of Bristol will be stoning as it drives past asphyxiating poor little Tarquin & Matilda.