TangoVictor32

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    1 minute ago, Rory RSC said:

    Got any good criminal stories from back in your police days? What area of the police were you in?  

    I give you 2....

    1) one man was being checked into custody for drugs... Had lots of notes on him so we was counting it at the custody desk. Another prisoner was being moved from the nurses room to a cell and he leaped at the desk trying to take the cash and was pounded upon by few heavyweights.... Yes in a secure police station custody block - how on earth did he think he would get away with the cash? Like I said they are thick and in this weird mindset.

    2) Post office was being robbed by 2 men armed with a gun in a bag. The owner had his own gun and pulled it out. The 2 tried running out but was locked in. 

    We turned up and found they only had a banana in a carrier bag....  We asked them why you ran - one said "my banana wouldn't even fire blanks" :lol: and matey pulled out the real thing.

    All 3 got done - including the owner for possessing a fire arms. 

    Hate the domestic jobs. Gosh they are annoying as F. She said this. He said that. She shagged him. He did that. <_<

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    3 hours ago, trade vet said:

    Tango Victor could probably explain about criminal mentality.A few years back a dealer I know had a Astra Diesel estate stolen when being valeted.It went from there to Halfords where they bought black aerosol for the windows.It was then  used in a robbery on a mini supermarket or similar as a getaway car.They got caught and from stealing it to committing the robbery was all on CCTV and I think they had previous for the same offence.

    In short they are thick and narrow minded. Hence they get caught.

    It's like with cars - buyers are chancers. Not all but some...a majority. 

    In the criminal world most are daft.

    2 hours ago, Jason GTI said:

    Most of our test drives are unaccompanied unless it's a sportier/ more expensive car.  but we always take a copy of the drivers licence first regardless and if they don't have one on them we do the driving, customers generally seem to be more positive knowing they're not being watched by the sales staff and feel less pressured.

    The car they leave behind could be stolen !

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    23 minutes ago, Grantlfc81 said:

    Went to blackbushe today to collect.... that is a big big site.... had to get a mini bus on a 5 minute drive to get my car lmao

    How long was the wait from getting the paperwork to getting out of the car at the border checkpoint?

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    3 hours ago, Grantlfc81 said:

    Blackbushe to Essex been quotes £160 plus vat transporter. £88 driven, I’m not sure I want it driven that far if it’s not mechanically sound?

    Think they only drive cars under x years old and transport cars over that age. I cannot remember the exact age.

  10. Posted

    13 hours ago, metcars said:

    Running on chip fat?

    Has anyone else noticed these guys always seem to be middle class white kids on a gap year living in brighton? Ironically when they get their degree they'll end up working for BP/shell anyway.

    Read something about this in the papers (or websites nowadays).

    There's very minimal people of other ethnicities. Some have said there might be racism within this group. 

    All this nonsense about "peaceful" is just another way for them to be little spoilt brats and have their chaotic events through nuisance and disturbance rather than violence. 

    If they did really care they could rummage through bins and get empty cardboard boxes and stand outside supermarkets letting people use them for their shopping rather than cause traffic to standstill and released more fumes... Like the modern traffic lights aren't enough 

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    5 hours ago, XFS said:

    I am involved in a business which is diametrically opposite of the car trade. The only similarity is the downturn over the last few months...since Boris became PM. In fact. It’s been quite dramatic.

    I think most businesses have suffered.

    The only thing Boris is good at is standup comedy.

    Watched the Tory conference speech for 30mins other night and haven't laughed so much in ages :lol:

  14. Posted · Edited by TangoVictor32

    On 9/25/2019 at 3:19 PM, TangoVictor32 said:

    Finally got the letter sent 2nd class...

    Asking for sellers / registered keeper details

    Or my buyers details

    Vin num 

    All this was on v62 - sent em an email explaining that i already provided this and told them they should have emailed me as i provided email add... Rather than 2nd class post it and then enclose a 2nd class self stamped envelope too...

    5 weeks later and still on square one and faffing about with 2nd class post to make things even quicker...slower

     

    Following my email sent on 25th

    Received log book today.

    They printed it on 27th

    I did give them 14 days and told them they shouldn't be faffing about with 2nd class post and enclosing 2nd class return envelopes. 

    I also said that they have asked me for same info again and are taking the Mickey. 

    They used first class post this time. 

    So emails do work folks. I did ring them up ten minutes later and asked them If They received it. So i am guessing the dead beat that confirmed the email opened it and actioned it straight away.

    In future i will always enclose a copy of the BCA invoice to speed things up. 

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    Another one of my boring topics...

    I know some of you trade part time. Was wondering if anyone has other jobs or job like hobby?

    Am in to house renovations and spend about 60% of the week on that.

    Love doing DIY and its easier working on a house with lots of space than fixing something under the bonnet and cutting your hands :lol:

     

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  16. Posted · Edited by TangoVictor32

    35 minutes ago, Boycie said:

    That's not really correct as we have already established that you can be disqualified following conviction of any offence.

    You have said 'if you can be banned', you can be banned as these people were.

    Perhaps it is taken for granted now, otherwise everytime a potential sentence was given it would have to include, 'possible driving disqualification' as well.

    However, as we all know, following the ban on drink driving, there is no drink driving anymore. And I haven't seen anyone using their phone whilst driving since that was made illegal.....

    Sounds to me that you were an Inspector or a Chief Inspector.

    On a lighter note, next time you are on Youtube have a look at the Crimebodge site, he has some interesting videos about the extremely profession Police Forces of this country....

     

     

    From the wording of the article it is in fact misleading to establish you can be bAnned for misuse of a badge. 

    If you google "penalty for blue badge misuse" you dont see anything in relation to a ban. Except this one article. And like i have said its not clear cut from their wording.

    From another topic on this forum it has been established that a lot of folk on here weren't academic. Neither am i but its not really difficult to critique a piece of text...

    Its not about "not seeing" - the point i clearly made there was publicity about phones / drugs / drink. Even the DVLA made a massive publicity over the last 6 months for road tax and they in fact went out and clamped a lot of cars in these specific cities that they publicised in. 

    There's a lot of folk on youtube who make easy money by picking "flaws" in the professionalism in other areas of work yet they don't know how stretched these areas may be.

    A prime example is a lot of fools that turn up to A&E but its not an "emergency" or "accident" - yes they may have accidentally cut their finger but it's not an "emergency" (this has huge demand and waste of resources and then there is backlash against NHS to not meeting A&E targets - well how can they when every willy nilly turns up?) or the recent fools who stab each other for peanuts? Then the rest of us are at risk from NHS' poor services or fear of privatisation. 

    :lol:

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    1 hour ago, Casper said:

    It was to do with when you became 16 technically I left at 15

    about 3 weeks from my 16 th birthday 

    also you could leave if you could find a college course to go to some scheme they did some of the lads from my year went for the last 6 months 

    How old are you again?

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    3 hours ago, MarkTVS said:

    I hated school although when I applied myself I did always do well, I left at 15, did an access college course for car mechanics. Done 2 years of course in one year as I was good at it, I then took an apprenticeship with Honda and hated it, lasted 6 months as it wasn’t challenging me.

    I then worked in a bank for a while like the money hated the office, moved from that to valeting, worked in a car wash then did mobile valeting later on for myself. It was then I started buying and selling the odd car when I was about 18, 

    I then started helping out in a friends garage with mechanical work whenever mobile valeting was rained off or quiet. He then offered me good money to be full time which I done for several years whilst still selling cars as a hobby, the workshop was ideal as I could do the prep on my sales cars for free on my own time. 

    Two sales cars became 4, 4 became 8 etc and it finally became too much to manage, After a short 3 month holiday at her majesty’s pleasure for things I won’t get I had a lot of free time to reflect and decided to go full time with car sales and it’s been the best decision I’ve made. I’m now 28 with a decent pitch and I’ve recently bought over the my friends workshop business etc. 

    Sometimes I hate the job and the stress but I don’t think I’d do anything else.

    You're 28 but left school at 15? How is that possible in the 2000s?

    Pre 1960s yes but in today's climate how so?

  21. Posted

    12 hours ago, beenaroundtheblock said:

    Nice to know the ex copper has such a grasp of the law, not to mention car insurance. :lol:

    Once again... If you could be disqualified for abusing a blue badge in the article provided at the bottom of it the penalty is mentioned - "max £1k fine" - if you could be banned it would have mentioned "max fine £1k fine and possible disqual"

    Also if it was something new then there would be heavy publicity about it - just how there was about drug driving etc

    However the article has done its job - to confuse and scare people :rolleyes:

    Also i retired at a senior role - more managerial / procedural. Beat bobbies know more about little blue badge laws :lol:

     

  22. Posted

    7 hours ago, NOACROSS said:

    And yet a Kia is still covered (like your balls I hope) ;o)

    Yes that begs me to ask... These cars with 5 and 7 year warrantys do they have any major issues within warranty period?

    A brand name is just hype. Mercedes charges £60+ vat for a tow eye cover....on an old cls....

    Con !

  24. Posted

    2 hours ago, Stalker said:

    The newer Mercedes engines are made from the same chocolate as the BMW engines are.

    Ive had bother with a few, the garage over the road has done several. I had a friend of a friend phone us this week asking if we could supply and fit a engine to a 14 plate merc.

    Just out of 3 year warranty

    Need extended manufacturers warranty

    Perhaps a push for recall