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andy1979uk
Posted on: Sep 4 2012, 09:51 AM


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QUOTE (JeffG @ Sep 4 2012, 10:40 AM) *
I particularly like this quote:

... when their mortgages are being subsidised by savers with the current ridiculously low interest rates. angry.gif


I take it you dont have a mortgage then Jeff
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Posted on: Sep 4 2012, 08:02 AM


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QUOTE (Exhausted @ Sep 4 2012, 08:54 AM) *
One of the most dangerous manoeuvres that anyone can make on a motorway. I would hope that an unmarked up behind you will let you know the error of your ways one day hopefully before you cause a major.


Depends how slow they are going, sometimes its not really undertaking as in you just drivr past them because they are donig 55 in the middle lane.
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Posted on: Sep 4 2012, 07:48 AM


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QUOTE (Timbo @ Sep 3 2012, 07:35 PM) *
If you want your car machine polished do not go to a bodyshop, contact a good detailing company... They will do a much better job than most bodyshops who don't even understand the Zenith point.

Just a few..

Name: DetailMyCar
Tel Contact:07920 867771
Website: www.detailmycar.co.uk
Area: West Berkshire & surrounding areas.

Name: JMDetailing (Morty)
Contact Tel: 07825 160285
Website: www.jmdetailing.co.uk
Email: james@jmdetailing.co.uk
Area: Berkshire and surrounding areas

Name: Kelly @ KDS
Tel Contact: 07815049575 /01634581560
Website: www.kdsdetailing.co.uk
Area:Kent/South East

Name: Refined Detail
Tel Contact: 07930 732 839
Website: www.refineddetail.co.uk
Area: Sussex /Surrey / Hampshire / Kent / Buckinghamshire / Berkshire





Oh shut up.
I have mates who work at garages. All of them can stay late as they all have keys for their various buildings and are allowed to stay late. The fiver would be a little thankyou, enough for my mate to get a beer or a MaccyDs for the 20-30 mins of his time. If you want I can make them charge the £50-£90 p/hour they would regularly charge a regular customer but the point of having mates is you give them money and they give you cheaper prices.

If you think it's bull**** then tell it to someone who cares.


Nice one Timbo, I'll take a look and give one of them a call.
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Posted on: Sep 3 2012, 04:46 PM


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QUOTE (NORTHENDER @ Sep 3 2012, 05:40 PM) *
You certainly excelled yourself today 79, on here all day from 9 this morning, very productive for the company. I think the knocking you refer to must be your knees when you get paid or thinking when is your line manager going to tap you on the shoulder. You are a real asset to any firm. Well done, and so you should be.


Its non of your business what I do or who I do it for, so go and pick on someone else you stalker.
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Posted on: Sep 3 2012, 04:20 PM


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QUOTE (Penelope @ Sep 3 2012, 04:30 PM) *
Why? Someone scratched your car?


Nope, I just want it to look extra shiny. I don't park where it is likely to get scratched.
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Posted on: Sep 3 2012, 04:07 PM


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QUOTE (stewiegriffin @ Sep 3 2012, 04:50 PM) *
Some of them certainly do. As do people who have no friggin' idea how to do something as basic as use an apostrophe.


It is unlikely.
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Posted on: Sep 3 2012, 03:43 PM


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QUOTE (andy1979uk @ Sep 3 2012, 04:43 PM) *
It's a fact, an my opinion is that while I appeciate low income and unemployed poeple need to be housed somewhere I would rather it is'nt near me.


Drug addicts, work shy and serial baby makers do not have mortgages/
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QUOTE (Penelope @ Sep 3 2012, 04:28 PM) *
Yet the opposite is also true. What a simplistic yet twisted view you have of society.


It's a fact, an my opinion is that while I appeciate low income and unemployed poeple need to be housed somewhere I would rather it is'nt near me.
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QUOTE (stewiegriffin @ Sep 3 2012, 03:56 PM) *
Goodness what a charming attitude.

So you are 'better' than people who live in social housing are you?

That would make people who own a larger & more expensive home than yours better than you are wouldn't it?

Seems to me there are plenty of chavs who have a mortgage. Just as there are plenty of decent people living in social housing. Equally, plenty of them work for a living too.

Bank balance is absolutely no guide to how 'decent' a person is.


Possibly, but it is a fact that people who are placed in social houseing include people at the bottom of the social scale.
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QUOTE (Strafin @ Sep 3 2012, 03:17 PM) *
It's worked for hundreds of years, what are you talking about? What you mean is you don't like having social tenants near you because you think you are better. That's fine but you need to be better than that and get yourself a house that's not on an estate then you wouldn't have that problem.


Don't really have that problem, just don't agree with people living in decent area who don't work.
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Posted on: Sep 3 2012, 12:31 PM


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QUOTE (Andy Capp @ Sep 3 2012, 12:35 PM) *
With my GF's drop links I had to take the weight off the front end because they were otherwise under tension. As soon as I jacked both wheels off the ground it was obvious what the problem was.


On a second note, anyone ever used anyone who can machine polish ?
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Posted on: Sep 3 2012, 11:35 AM


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QUOTE (Andy Capp @ Sep 3 2012, 12:27 PM) *
Willow Close is as quiet as you can get, but then they will be over 50 so are less likely to be a nuisance! wink.gif


Willow close use to be social housing and had a terrible reputation.
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Posted on: Sep 3 2012, 10:57 AM


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QUOTE (Timbo @ Sep 3 2012, 11:47 AM) *
I guess renting for life for me. sad.gif

The banks have massivly relaxed lending criteria now, not being funny about my post but where I live there is a section of social housing and if you walk through it you can tell straight away.
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QUOTE (Timbo @ Sep 3 2012, 11:39 AM) *
Although I applaud your attempts I think they would tell you to jog on, especially (presumably) weeks after.
As for the knocking it depends on how/when it's going but if it's over slower speed bumps and when turning slower speed corners (eg around car parks) then check CV joints, track rod ends, drop links and front ARB bushes.

If you wanted to check it out I could get a friend to let you put it on his ramp for a 5er. He could even check it over and diagnose the fault for you if it's visually obvious.


Drop links are ok he said, would hope they would have noticed knackered CV joints as well, no noise at all when turning slowy just when going over bumps. Is this your mate at millers that would look at it ?
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Posted on: Sep 3 2012, 10:26 AM


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QUOTE (Andy Capp @ Sep 3 2012, 11:24 AM) *
This initiative is more about getting the economy moving than anything else.


I do welcome the move as a home owner, the idea of mixing social housing class people with private class people has never really worked.
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Posted on: Sep 3 2012, 10:11 AM


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Good news for some, bad news for people needing cheap housing.
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QUOTE (Biker1 @ Sep 3 2012, 10:36 AM) *
If they haven't fixed the fault then you should be going back to them anyway as you seem to have paid out £100 for nothing.


Yep I wll be, I've no doubt the ball joint needed replacing, but thy could have at least drven the car afterwards to make sure it had cured the problem. I think it is anti roll bar bushes which I told them and is a common fault with those cars. If I had a ramp I could check it myself.
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Posted on: Sep 3 2012, 09:32 AM


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QUOTE (Biker1 @ Sep 3 2012, 10:31 AM) *
OK thanks.
I would only go there for service / MOT type stuff. Any work on the car I would take it to Newbury Motors.


I won't be using them again, as they refused to give me the price of the ball joint on its own. I am now going to get the part price from pegeot, the book time for the repair and check they add up. If they don'nt I shall be asking for a refund.
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Posted on: Sep 3 2012, 09:22 AM


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QUOTE (Biker1 @ Sep 3 2012, 10:16 AM) *
Oh I see. Are you happy with any work they have done though?
I had mine serviced and MOT'd there last year and all seems OK at a reasonable price.



Well I asked them to fix a knocking noise on my partners 307 and they replaced a ball joint, charged me £100 and its still not fixed. The service seems to have been done, having checked the oil filter, oil and air filter all new.
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QUOTE (Biker1 @ Sep 3 2012, 10:04 AM) *
Why not?


They don't itemise the bill, so you get charged for part plus fitting in one. So you have no idea if it is correct or if they are ripping you off.
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I would'nt use One Stop, if anyone was thinking of taking their car there.
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Posted on: Sep 1 2012, 12:28 PM


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QUOTE (Andy Capp @ Sep 1 2012, 12:37 PM) *
Where did he say it was petrol?

These two comments hint at it being a diesel:

"as I'd only get about £4500 for it and when the next car I want is a high performance petrol I might as well keep my car until it dies, for the longer journeys or for carrying things."

"diagnosing and fixing a fuel temperature sensor issue"


Yep missed that bit, diesel then
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Posted on: Sep 1 2012, 10:52 AM


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QUOTE (JeffG @ Sep 1 2012, 11:24 AM) *
My wild guess would be a VW Golf with orange wheels.


Nope as he said it was a petrol, where as the orange wheels thing was a TDI
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Posted on: Sep 1 2012, 08:48 AM


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QUOTE (Timbo @ Aug 31 2012, 10:50 PM) *
Yes, surprisingly some things are cheaper from a main dealer... Unfortunately cars are one of my interests (I assume not yours) so you wouldn't know this. smile.gif - Almost every garage will let you supply your own parts but do often provide the provisio that if the part is wrong, or faulty then they are not responsible. Which is fair enough. After all they still make money from the labour..

Not everything is cheaper from a dealer, but, often things like service parts and bulbs are. EG halfords wanted several quid for a brake light bulb for my car. The franchised dealer had one for under £2 and fitted it free, on the spot. Not that I couldn't fit it myself but if it's free then why not smile.gif
As for things like suspension bushes, and other parts, you can normally get things cheaper from motorist discount centres but I have heard many reports from owners on various owners clubs about the cost-effectiveness of these parts - which often are far lower quality, things like electronic sensors, MAFs (basically air flow meters), suspension components such as bushes and top mounts, driveshafts etc... Sometimes it's better value to pay more, once, than less, 2 or 3 times!



In this particular case I got the oil for my service from Motor Parts Direct, they give me a pretty good discount. It wasn't so much the price but they had it in stock and I needed it that day.

Andy if you don't believe me, will happily meet up with you, whenever suits you best, with my car and service book, and the vast wad of paperwork for servicing, parts and reciepts. You can then judge the mechanical condition for yourself. I am not planning on selling my car (as I'd only get about £4500 for it and when the next car I want is a high performance petrol I might as well keep my car until it dies, for the longer journeys or for carrying things) but if I did sell it, and the person had an "issue" with the "service history" then they can jog on. As I know it's been well looked after by qualified professionals, it's done over 130k and has had no mechanical issues. Infact a work colleague has the same model of car, just it's a 2007/2008 model and has done about 48,000. My engine sounds EXACTLY the same as his And his has a full service history from a main dealer

I also have photographs of my car having all of the private work done (in detail for my own future reference) so there is plenty proof of legitamate, quality work done.
As for being an ****, well - Seems that being an **** is a pre-requisite to posting these days so I'm simply fitting into the demographic.....




You lot are awful, seriously. So cynical. The downfall of society, sometimes... Assumptive, basically - And someone who I actually respect quite a lot would tell me, "if one assumes, one often makes an *** of ones-self."

If there was an accident at the workshop why the fudge would I claim compensation? (is that what you're trying to insinuate Exhausted?) - Because I genuinely have no idea. Plus it's not in my nature. If I was say, shunted on the road and broke my foot as a result, yes I would claim. But only for that and nothing else. I am not one of those "ohh, let's try and claim money left, right and centre...
And not only that, if I was to try to claim, which I wouldn't, I would not get anywhere because I am an unqualified mechanic in a private area, if anything I would be liable.

Also the garage, Millers, and not my mate, have had the following done (off the top of my head). I do have invoices for these somewhere in my vast wad of paperwork, so I can photograph and upload these if you want.....

Fitting of high performance springs, brakes, and replacing/bleeding brake fluid - Came to about £185 (all parts supplied myself!!!!)
diagnosing and fixing a fuel temperature sensor issue - £45 (inc part)
Issue with ABS wire, corrosion in wiring loom - £85
A few months later, another issue related to the previous ABS wire issue - £60
Alternator - £450 inc parts and labour.
2 mots - £40 each
One service - £113
Tyres fitted and tracking done - £85 (yup I joke not, even I was like wtf but oh well)
Replacement of a blown boost pipe - £96
Air con recharge (£35 but they didn't recharge my air con just told me that I had a broken switch within the system..bit miffed but oh well fair enough)

Not only that but upon my recommendation (and my recommendation alone, because I sing their praises to my friends/family) they have had about £1500+of work for my Mothers car. So I'd say I have generated them enough business to not be "taking the proverbial" when my friend who works there does some private jobs for me. They do not mind, they laugh and joke with me when I go in there, let me drive my own car into the workshop etc...


Out of interest Timbo what car do you have ?
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Posted on: Aug 31 2012, 02:32 PM


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QUOTE (Andy Capp @ Aug 31 2012, 02:51 PM) *
We all merrily insulted and nit-picked back then as well! tongue.gif



yeagh it could be fun
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