It's me

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  1. seasons greetings from me too to one and all,hope we have all have a great Christmas and 23 brings success and happiness
  2. as mentioned above they need a tom thumb on them for second lambda
  3. yes mine went down this year with covea thing is im very old though just been looking in 1987 there were only 2 companies doing motor trade and one wouldnt accept me so i had to go with norwich union at the grand sum of £40 per week every week,i see at your last price you are only paying £32.69 a week or if you prefer £4.67 a day or 19 new pence an hour,just think how much damage you can do in an hour for only 19p realistically though now you have proof of no accidents ????try another broker but not the fly by nights who offer cheap policies but dont cover your own vehicles,covea are only available via trusted brokers by the way hope that helps a bit
  4. not while they still have funds I see they still do the 90 warranty how fan doodi doozi or £379 a year to extend it,who wouldn't eh
  5. I once took a saxo push button start box with the ecu to a company advertising they could find the key code and everything would work (1111 didnt) so I pulled up at this ramshackle building and they wanted half up front before they would touch it, no refunds told them straight you could go round the back pick your nose and scratch your burrberries come out and say no guv we can't do this obe as elvis said I left the building never to return only to drive up to Durham to the name on the log book and get cursed and the door slammed in my face, think it was the same car but it must be what 15 years ago cars eh
  6. needed a vauxhall part the other week, not bought nowt from them in a long time as every corsa I buy comes back with the warm orange glowing light on, I got out the old trade card no we don't use them anymore, OK fair enough, the part I wanted needed to be ordered and it was £120, trade discount? no we don't do that anymore, what?? so went back to work went online found a company breaking the car I needed a bit off and got it for £2 as it was basically a gromit cum bushing so needed them again and this time rather than trailing into the town that has the dealer I contacted them online and got someone in a generic Call centre with a made up name, she was hopeless but wanted my feedback on that site for building rogues types where it is 100% positive feedback and not one negative so I turned the chat off and went to the dealer site for their phone number there's one to book a test drive there's one to book a service there's one to tell them you love them but no parts line I gave up and again got the part via ebay this time and told customer they would have to manage there all done and breath pathetic service
  7. your original module the eprom will have been corrupted and thus useless, your replacement would need the keys but a good mobile key man possibly could read your replacement eprom and provide keys, I bought a machine via a Ali express for Toyota but have to admit I failed to get it to work, this was via eibd rather than a chip reader
  8. went to buy an aygo last wed,lovely old dear done 150 miles in it this year,looked nice but it wouldn't start,she said last started 3 weeks ago m~mmmm anyway went back to work got a battery it still wouldn't start,after mucho head scratching we realised the alternator was seized,back to work again and a long socket Wrench and twenty minutes later one ratchet tooth at a time (its tight in there)it appeared to free off I had squirted lots of oil in it,anyway started it and there was a bit of smoke,ok there was a lot of smoke and I covered the street to the point I thought mm that's a lot of oil smoke so I turned it off,looked under bonnet and fanbelt on fire,mmmmm best put that out so knocked on door asking for a cup of water,would you like hot or cold she asked,just wet I said fire out pushed it back in its hole and promised to return next day with my car transporter got it to work but it baulked going into gear with engine running, it baulked a bit engine off too so guess the selected forks were bent by the ramming into gear effect took box off and the plate on diaphragm had dissattached on one side changed box too ho hum oldies eh,she should have bought a hundy 10 horto merry xmas
  9. wait till you buy a car with maggots in,now they are or were difficult to kill,you would think you had killed them all but next morning it was full of the things again,these days the ozone machine would do it in one good zapperoonie bladdy fishermen
  10. I really don't know either
  11. you should have told him to stick his 22 up his noddy holder
  12. everyone bar the king is tightening their belts and a big old lumpy diesel is not cutting it plus there are congestion zones now starting round the country too and the greens dont like smelly weisels do they
  13. interesting,i use a chinese one i bought in covid times for £100 and i sit this in the car for no more than 20 minutes doors shut on the timer,i then leave for 10 minutes then open all the doors wide and it rakes a while for that beautiful smell of lightning to go reason i mention it is when doing my homework it was suggested that too much ozone can break down wiring coverings in things like cars so dont over do it yes proper deep valet first
  14. ha ha, took the day off and went to chats worth Xmas Market and had a splendiferous day with not a tyre kicking folded armed miserable person to be seen, just happy shoppers
  15. having been to the small claims and won( I may add) it still leaves a very nasty taste and was nearly a year in the process, if this customer came back to me offering gifts of gold frankenstein and myrrh and begging me to sell him a horseless carriage of utmost splendour with all the extras like carvings I would still tell them to do one, maybe g3 feel the sane
  16. and don't forget if you Diss the tyre fitters when having that tyre that loses 2psi each month attended to and getting in the way sticking your finger in the bead as it's just about to seal they tend to forget to give you the locking wheel nut socket back
  17. most modern stuff doesn't have a spare wheel but a compressor and a tin of goo, 9/10 the goo is as much use as a haircut was on telly savalas, often the tyre is a mess before you realise its flat I reckon 80% are now too lazy and too busy busy to want to swap their own tyres out anyway ping pinga new massage has just arrived for them as they pose with flat tyre
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  19. I would email a copy of the invoice over and tell them to dissist from harrasing you for future make sure invoice states day time and a signed for signature confirming handover time to the minute why because 15 years ago a customer took a car and got a speeding ticket 19 miles up the road, try sorting that one finally always always electronically advise dvla of change of ownership and print everything off and attach to invoice pdi checklist etc and file it for 7 years
  20. but if you had made a claim they would have still held it against you for a non commercial insurance policy we can no doubt be assured i have had a saying in life that Michael Caine taught me many years ago and it still holds true "if they haven't got you one way they've got you another way" Alfie...
  21. never thought of that seriously