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Birmingham. It'll be a good 'un!!!! Personally I wouldn't buy a f***ing bag of sweets from Birmingham.

I must confess I thought they were joke shop stickers! Anyhow I would of thought the fact they’re within the curtlidge of a property and therefore not on the public highway would render this prosecution a non-starter. The fact it’s a ‘public’ house is irrelevant, the land is privately owned and is in control of the person who manages the pub.

Yes, but you get what you pay for. If they can only afford something like a £300 car then obviously they should expect to buy a heap of shit. Quite frankly half of the buyers can’t afford tax or insurance anyway & should take public transport. Running around fannying about with scrapyards, locksmiths etc. on a banger to get the locks working isn’t worthwhile. I guess it’s different opinions on the best use of your time but I’d just bomb it out as it is. It’s just a knackered old Clio & will always be just a knackered old Clio. You can’t polish a turd.

That’s nowt compared to what some of the swappers on Dealer Auction must be making them at the moment

I like a few cheapies to sell but even I wouldn't be putting much effort into a 13 year old Clio - the car's are shite & the greedy buyer won't be much different. It's only worth buttons and rather than faff for ages, if it looks like you'll be getting too involved just sell the heap of shit as it is. All them old Clios are fit for is the bottom dollar market.

Pure scum & you are correct - half of the Eastern Europeans now conduct business in a similar vein. Unfortunately people must entertain these bottom/last/best price twats otherwise they wouldn’t waste their time. I reckon that’s why we now have this horrible way of doing business - if everyone was stronger & sacked off the scum then they’d either have nowhere to go or have to improve their manners. Why on earth we are expected to accept this third world way of doing business is beyond me. I don’t & won’t entertain them.

Hahaha, don’t worry, you’re paying their wages indirectly.

The arse must be falling out of the 500 market cos now they are beginning to look cheap enough even for me

Yep, and pitches are slowly disappearing.

Two advisories I hate on MOTs as they kill a car stone dead - Oil leak & corrosion.

+1. Silver assured counts for virtually f*** all.

I used to think the union was great but I’ve had a belly full of the whinging over the last decade that now I’d be happy to give Sturgeon & Salmond their wish. I’d insist on a physical border, they can start their own monetary system & any jock taking our shilling south of the border would be given a one-way ticket to find work in their own bonnie land and the country would not get a penny in subsidies - it would have to survive on its own. Within 5 years there’d be tumbleweed blowing along Edinburgh’s Royal Mile.

I’m with Ocsltd on this - it sounds a load of old cobblers to me and anyone naive enough to think the public would not lie about such a matter are deluding themselves. He was there in person therefore he is not entitled to a refund of his deposit irrespective on the amount. Firm but fair, they get what they’re entitled to, nothing more, nothing less. He wouldn’t be getting a brass farthing in credit from me.

All that that great long list from VAG says to me is cut the f**ker out & reprogramme the ECU. Before any “right” thinking folk think of boring me with eco-babble or MOT compliance please do NOT bother. I know it’s not only VW at fault but these DPFs are a frigging nightmare. Why on Earth it only dawned on Honda with its 1.6 to stick it by the exhaust manifold so it’s always red hot seems strange to me. Every manufacturer acknowledges DPFs need to be red hot to be kept clean & execute the occasional regen but they choose the install them a few feet away right under the car. DPF, DMF & cambelts - if you’re lucky enough to get the treble then many 8-10 year old family hatchbacks are beyond economical repair. Depressing.

Ahhh, those were the days!

I think you’ve answered it yourself - it sounds simply like it needs a replacement DPF if your initial diagnosis is correct. Assuming it’s got a few miles on it’s back then you can forget all the regen guff that’s spouted - at 99% full you ain’t going to clean out anything that’s full of compacted soot. Unfortunately DPFs should be viewed along the lines of cambelt kits & DMFs - they need money chucking at them every so often.

Refer to DVLA website. It’s all on there & no there’s no dodge around it.

It’s not the fact he’s a Saab man, it’s the fact he’s a Jock so he’ll have an axe to grind with anyone south of the border. From what I can gather all you Jocks now hate us English thanks to the delightful Nicola Sturgeon’s efforts.

ANSWERS; Sat at a desk & sweet f.a.

Slow!?!!! I’ve had one phone call all week and that was from a cheeky c*** more interested in a £500 discount that the actual car. Apparently I was welcome to phone him the next day if I changed my mind “cos I know it’s quiet for you lads”!! Cheeky twat, I hope he’s holding his breath.

Hahaha, so they ARE the sweepings left over. AND they expect their money back despite the passage of time. AND they want a profit as well! F*** me, God loves a tryer, and those boys are certainly tryers. I assume you’ve laughed in their faces & told them to keep them.

How the hell can they come to that conclusion? I think I’d of requested a retrial and cited the court’s serious misunderstanding of automotive electro-mechanical systems, or some such shit.

You probably want something a little more constructive but if it’s got a few miles on it offload it at your local auction house. I’m sure when they’re new they’re fine but any older Volvo diesel with either the shit 1.6 or the shit 2.0 are to be avoided. Strictly D5 2.4 only if you want a good night’s sleep.

Haven’t we been here before