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WHAT THE FUCK???!!!!

Is it just me, but the 'opps' messages are occurring frequently when i try to post
 
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I only get it when trying to post pictures. Which I think is being worked on.
 
BMWs back and fixed (new turbo....ouch).
Took it out today in the rain to run some errands a d had forgotten how much smaller the steering wheel is, how small and nimble it feels and how quiet it is compared to even more modern diesels I've driven recently.
But, I'm still selling up. Putting it back in the insurance, it's actually financial sense for it to be nicked and written off (valuation from insurer £3070, which I can believe given the prices of E60s with another 60k on the clock are daftly high).
EBay add, with idiot premium.
 
lpgc salivates: A latest gen, MK4 MX-5 which someone has converted

lol who is going to covert a car like that to lpg!

mind you, 5+ owners!


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Elgraman said:
lpgc salivates: A latest gen, MK4 MX-5 which someone has converted

lol who is going to covert a car like that to lpg!

mind you, 5+ owners!


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You might be surprised who has what converted to LPG, I've converted plenty Mazda MX5's and Mazda Eunos to LPG.

The SkyActive engine complicates things a bit on that (latest) generation MX5 though, I wouldn't offer to convert a SkyActive myself. I certainly could convert one but I'd turn the work down because I know the results couldn't be perfect on a SkyActive engine... The issue is that under certain conditions the SkyActiv engine switches to compression ignition, that's not going to work with LPG due to LPG's higher octane. It would still work because the compression ignition is closely managed and it'll switch back to spark ignition if it sense compression ignition isn't working but that's not perfect or what the engine management was supposed to do, I like vehicles I convert to run perfect.
 
Ordered a car fridge. Delivery notification for today. Great stuff.
Now get another email..."we will delivered on the updated date"
WTF?
Check tracking....was at the courier local depot on Monday, so shouldn't have been an issue, but someone has changed delivery date for tomorrow.....a day I didn't want as I'm in the office.
Courier "customer service" is typically unresponsive.
At least Evri had the decency simply lie.
 
Gwilo365 said:
Ordered a car fridge. Delivery notification for today. Great stuff.
Now get another email..."we will delivered on the updated date"
WTF?
Check tracking....was at the courier local depot on Monday, so shouldn't have been an issue, but someone has changed delivery date for tomorrow.....a day I didn't want as I'm in the office.
Courier "customer service" is typically unresponsive.
At least Evri had the decency simply lie.
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Black Friday “week” lol and it’s the run up to Christmas again.
Things will only get worse
 
Highway Dave said:
Black Friday “week” lol and it’s the run up to Christmas again.
Things will only get worse
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Undoubtedly.
Ordered a specific subset of a nutrition brand product specifically for high protein and soy free.
Delivered two days later, was a different subset with 25% less protein, 5 times more salt and Soy.
Not even the same colour packets, so not like it was an mistaken identity.
Pay peanuts, get monkeys.
 
And more WTFery from ArrowXL...
We have t got your parcel. It's not in location....besides there's no delivery date on the order.....would you like to book it for delivery?
How the Sam hill would I have known that?? Course I would.....
We can offer you the 5th December onwards.....
But that's over a week....tracking shows it at your warehouse less than an hour away.....can I come and get it myself...
We can see if I can book you a collection slot......no sorry, it's not there....so I can't book any delivery for you either....
But you just said I could have from next Thursday.....
Ah, well the vans are full......
FFS.
Amazon have reconfirmed it IS being delivered tomorrow.....but if you happen to see a Samoan looking chap going on a rampage on an industrial estate is Wigan tomorrow nights News at Ten.....visit me in HMP Kirkham.....
 
I don’t want to rub salt into Gwilos wounds, but…

I ordered 50 AA batteries yesterday from Amazon Prime, the order was placed at 1320hrs and delivered to my door at 1930hrs.

How do they do that?

Credit where credit is due, well done Amazon.
 
WhatsThisFor said:
I don’t want to rub salt into Gwilos wounds, but…

I ordered 50 AA batteries yesterday from Amazon Prime, the order was placed at 1320hrs and delivered to my door at 1930hrs.

How do they do that?

Credit where credit is due, well done Amazon.
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Usually they are fine. I've had stuff same day as well, and not "routine" like baterries. Once had a guy turn up in a car just before 10pm with an electric drill ordered just a few hours earlier.

Trouble starts when they farm it out to a "national" third party like Arrow or Evri/Yodel/DPD. I can see from the tracking it went from the supplier, to Amazon, who then shipped it across to "local carrier hub" which I know.
Cue much finger painting at each other.
I'll stick to stuff that Amazon end to end in future.
Or just go into hibernation from November till after easter....
 
WTF
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Tired of price-gouging companies trying it on a renewal
Virgin Media - "we can renew your existing package for an extra £6 a month"...called them to enquire about downgrading or leaving, they ummed and ahhhed for five minutes, then quoted me even more.... Virgin aren't even the only full fibre provider now offering high speeds....got the "I'll just speak to my manager" nonsense....more waiting...... Got it for the same price I pay now, with all the guff I don't use stripped out ( it's not a value add if you don't use it). Then I see buried in the small print, their guaranteed minimum speed is half of their next competition. Think it might be worth cancelling and having an Openreach operative drill through external walls....Mrs G might not be happy, but will see
British Gas..." Ooh your boiler cover needs to renew and add you've had us out, it's gone up by £70".... Had you out once, for a sewage blocked drain which was found to be the main sewer and not my problem so United had to come and sort.... But I digress....
14 year old boiler, always maintained by them since new... I left them a few years back upon which the new cover provider attended to do the annual service and condemned the boiler as the gas supply pipe was undersized....yet BG installed it, stated on papers it was correct size and had been happily taking money and signed it off for years as ok and compliant. Cue big complaint and lots of work to resupply with correct pipes.
Called them up, more wrangling, back to the same price as paying now.
Not going to help them as I think I'm going with someone else whose cheaper and won't charge an excess.
But.... IF you can do it for the same price, just give me that price. I recognise the company's are relying on people being lazy and not shopping around, but does anyone really just blindly accept it anymore?!!? Madness.
 
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Trekster said:
Engine designers who have no clue how stuff should go together, I think a written law should be that these guys designing engines have experience working on engines so they understand!
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Engineers who put cam belts or chains deep inside an engine so it destroys the whole thing if it breaks?
Engineers that design wet belt engines, knowing full well that rubber deteriorates in oil?

By the same token, Politicians shouldn't be responsible for setting legislation for emissions with arbitrary deadlines for compliance that result in "badly executed" ideas like EGRs, DPFs.
Big corporate interests shouldn't be allowed to dictate what is the norm by pushing their easy profit-generating cash cows over better products or solutions because "it's hard/costs more" - which is invariably barely disguised code for " we don't want to take a dip in profits".

Let's face it, the whole shebang is knackered and the wrong way up, and nothing short of a radical, unthinkable shake-up is going to do anything more than simply tinker at the edges, or make thing worse.
 
Gwilo365 said:
Engineers who put cam belts or chains deep inside an engine so it destroys the whole thing if it breaks?
Engineers that design wet belt engines, knowing full well that rubber deteriorates in oil?
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A million years ago when i worked for JLR Halewood ( or Fords, as it was ), just as the last Escort van rolled off the production line, we moved over to the manufacture of the Jaguar X-Type or X400 as it was known.

To ensure prototype production went smoothly they sent teams of design engineers to Halewood from Gaydon to assise with any 'issues'.

To cut a very long story short, i asked that question that Gwilo has posed to an Engineer assigned to my section...

The Engineer replied, " We have no interest in the complexity and or expense of changing timing chains and tensioners because the components have been 'safely' designed to well out live the warranty period of the vehicle.
After this period it makes good business sense for our customers to purchase a new car from our Brand, obviously, if we designed a car that lasted forever, we would be out of business."

I wasn't sure whether he was taking the pi55, but he wasnt.🫤

We went on to make over 370,000 X400s at Halewood, I wonder how many of them have since died from timing chain failure.


PS. Just off topic - we, as in all Ford PAG employees were taken in batches to a huge hall to be brainwashed by the top brass as to how important the X400 launch was for Halewoods future, it went on and on and on.....and on.🥱

At the end of the torture the main man from Ford PAG ( he was a bit like the King, with a gaggle of ar5e lickers throwing rose petals everywhere he walked ) anyway he said, "Any questions?"

There were a few questions, one being, "Have we missed our break, if so I want to see my steward ".....that wasn't received well.

But, one guy asked the King, " Why have we not got a 2WD or a Diesel variant in the X400 range ? " ( as we didn't at the time of launch )

The King replied, " We don't want a 2WD or Diesel option in the X400 range as is would ' cheapen and dirty ' the brand."




In 2009 the diesel front wheel drive X type was introduced. 😆
 
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