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| JWL Member Since: 26 Oct 2011 Location: Hereford Posts: 3443   
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Really peed off with DVLA's "Let's make it easy for you to tax your motor(at exhorbitant rates) from the comfort of your armchair" This time I've left it to the last minute, other years I've tried up to a fortnight before and it will never let me tax the thing online, why? Because my insurance runs from midnight July 1st to close of day on the 30th June and it will not register. I'm having to go for 6mths this time as pennies can't quite stretch to the £280 in one go this time and I hear you all say "Well there you go you'll be able to do it after Christmas!" No, because my MoT is renewed then and even if I get my MoT done well beforehand the bloody DVLA computer doesn't register that there is a new MoT certificate in place for when that one runs out! So no matter when I time my tax renewal I have to use the Post Office
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30th Jun 2013 8:33pm |
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| bm52 Member Since: 04 Apr 2010 Location: Kent Posts: 2189  
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with some insurance companies you can insure for either 11 or 13 months if you ask for a special term. that would help with dates or next time if the price is right check out Elephant who do 10 month deals. BM52
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30th Jun 2013 8:37pm |
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| JWL Member Since: 26 Oct 2011 Location: Hereford Posts: 3443
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Now there's a thought, I might pop into my local NFU office one of the days and have a chat with them, they've had quite a few years of my custom and they're pretty amenable to all the alterations I've done over the years. One of those avenues you keep meaning to explore but never get round to it
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30th Jun 2013 8:44pm |
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| custom90 Member Since: 21 Jan 2010 Location: South West, England. Posts: 20619
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People that win an auction on E-bay at the last minute and then just not pay without saying anything at all...
Thank goodness for 2nd chance offers. Damned foreigners. Chillin In The Backwoodsπ¬π§πΊπΈ
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7th Jul 2013 10:16am |
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| bm52 Member Since: 04 Apr 2010 Location: Kent Posts: 2189
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first time in years.........left my lights on
 for the last 3 hours, just hope it starts in the morning. It was just the LED side and tail lights so lets hope the battery is OK. BM52 |
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11th Jul 2013 9:12pm |
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| Lou Sparts Member Since: 15 Apr 2012 Location: Kent Posts: 1501 
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LED,s only draw a very low wattage should be fine.Have left my side lights on for 4-5 hrs (incadescent bulbs) and its started straight away. 2005 Td5 90 XS
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11th Jul 2013 9:19pm |
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| bm52 Member Since: 04 Apr 2010 Location: Kent Posts: 2189
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it did start - phew
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12th Jul 2013 9:04pm |
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| tookaphotoof Member Since: 18 Mar 2013 Location: dordrecht Posts: 1279  
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Bloody truck in front of me decided to run its tyre off a rim on the highway at 1 am. Ran over it with the Defender when I tried to avoid the truck. Had to bend the bracket of the rear mudflap back in place. I'll have a look underneath the car tomorrow morning. Anyways, maybe I shouldn't be grumpy at all.
Things could have been worse. Especially if I'd hit the truck...  |
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12th Jul 2013 11:57pm |
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| custom90 Member Since: 21 Jan 2010 Location: South West, England. Posts: 20619
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Check your fuel cooler and pipes whilst your at it. (Unless you've got protection on there already?) Chillin In The Backwoodsπ¬π§πΊπΈ
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13th Jul 2013 9:10am |
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| custom90 Member Since: 21 Jan 2010 Location: South West, England. Posts: 20619
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Having one of those days where your hacked off and had enough off all the idiots out there....
Another Defender driver (a farmhand and not his) nearly plowed into me head on yet again this afternoon on the exact same spot he's nearly done the same on before!
That along with being harassed by problem neighbours all the time.. Chillin In The Backwoodsπ¬π§πΊπΈ
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29th Jul 2013 1:25pm |
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| bm52 Member Since: 04 Apr 2010 Location: Kent Posts: 2189
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Motorway, very very heavy rain and the rear wipe stops. I swore and cursed a few times I'm afraid to admit
All the way home I was thinking I might need a new switch, relay, motor, has a cable rubbed through. Every possible combination of woe went through my mind..... Got home, walked round the back of the 90 " oh b@ll@cks..." 
Ahem; I had pushed the rear wheel cover over too much and it had trapped the wiper arm. Phew, do I need to apologise to my 90  BM52 |
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5th Aug 2013 6:04pm |
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| ARC99 Member Since: 19 Feb 2013 Location: North Yorkshire Posts: 1831 
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Why is that some bod who never drives a Land Rover never mind having to check fluid levels gets to put things were he thinks they should go.
Has he tried to get the cap off to check the cluth fluid level? No, if he had he would know that you cannot get your hand in to undo the top because of all the c..p he has put on top.
Has he had to check the water level? No, you cannot get your head over the top to look inside and he had it made out C..p coloured plastic that you cannot see through.
I'm having a bad day and the two fluid checks have made me feel worse. Don't make old people mad. We don't like being old in the first place, so it doesn't take much to  us off.
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7th Aug 2013 4:30pm |
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| GUM97 Member Since: 05 Feb 2012 Location: Cheshire Posts: 3555 
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Has WD40 always been highly flammable?
Doing some shredding this morning and the shredder started to become very dry and slow. Ah, a squirt of WD always fixes that (as it has done previously!). Off I go to get a can out of the workshop, come back and then squirt it in. I nearly lost my eyebrows, as the WD40 combusted instantaneously, presumably from the heat of the shredder! Of course, all the dry paper inside was perfect conditions for a fire 
One fire extinguisher later and all is well, now I have the job of cleaning the fire extinguisher remnants from the office
So a warning, don't play with WD40, it's flammable! An engine to TDi for!
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28th Aug 2013 2:28pm |
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| custom90 Member Since: 21 Jan 2010 Location: South West, England. Posts: 20619
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The clue is on the back of the can.
Then again so is Dinitrol too.  Chillin In The Backwoodsπ¬π§πΊπΈ
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28th Aug 2013 3:23pm |
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