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Does Waze or any other app have the ability to avoid or at least warn you of these areas? Unfortunately not. Google has recently started trying to send me down cycle lanes in the city that haven't been roads for over five years. and I've had two residents fines in Islington; one from following Waze...

Mito Man wrote: ↑Thu Jan 25, 2024 5:01 pm

IanF wrote: ↑Thu Jan 25, 2024 4:56 pm Interesting, thanks gents. So I’m house hunting there.. how am I supposed to get around looking without a permit??

Just wait till you actually live in this fucking borough and try to organise a permit for a relative to visit

Lime bike…

Yes, you’ve probably missed one of the discretely placed residents or restricted hours signs - it’s fun driving around London these days!

Perhaps something safer if he's started driving into things?
A Volvo XC40 would come in budget and are a much nicer place to be than the Japanese equivalent while being sufficiently dull that he shouldn't talk about it too much.

Were you in one of your BMWs, Rich? They always used to have quite low air intakes so following someone wouldn't necessarily be a good idea. More recent models tend to have them fairly high up, just above the top of the radiator, but they are right at the front so fail to create a bow wave and they...

2024 will be a year of fleet trimming, partially to help the bank balance now that I've dropped all consultancy sub-contracting (and the regular income that goes with it) as my own business grows, but also because most of them are not getting used: 2011 Defender - Hope to have the Defender gone by t...

They don’t, they’re just for handover. Obvs. I'm not expecting to drive through the entrance doors and down the mall into the unit :lol: You were unsure ;) All the big dealers in Bluewater/Westfield have large dedicated areas in the underground carparks, and special bays for prepping new cars and r...

The tyres on my Mini must be fifteen years old, but it's parked in the dark and has only done about 3,000 miles since putting them on, so aside from them no longer being round after not moving it for two years in Covid, they look new. They don't grip much for the first ten miles then come back to li...

We've just become an approved installer for GivEnergy, mainly because my business partner was really impressed with their switchover speed compared with others on the market. Easily replaced battery packs and smart integration with suppliers like Octopus are things to look out for. Our first instal...

I'm ultimately looking for power outage redundancy and a more resilient power supply (cost too) for an eventual ASHP install. The former is something I would be keen on - the latter is not something I'd thought of but is quite important. I had a 2-3 day power cut in winter 2009/10 and the house got...

Sundayjumper wrote: ↑Fri Dec 01, 2023 4:30 pm On the M6 today. Looked like a total basket case but I guess given its value once restored it’s worth doing. RHD too. £150k+ ?


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The problem is that it costs £100k+ to restore them properly, and they’ll still drive like a solid Triumph Spitfire with slow steering.

https://i.imgur.com/gcszHF7.jpg Spotted this in central London at the weekend - any ideas what it is? The owner lives in the building it’s parked outside. Young guy (late teens/early twenties). Gets a parking ticket every day (has a glove box full of them). Doesn’t pay them as the car isn’t uk regi...

Classic/collector car values still amaze me, even though it was my day job for a few years and I still do a bit of consultancy for old clients - Back in 2012 when I started, only exceptional F40s were worth more than £300k, and unless you were DK engineering it would take months to sell one. They we...

As others have said, don’t bother with the M3 and get a nice 328i.
The engine is a much better fit for the car and on 15 or 16” wheels with less sporty suspension they feel far more ‘together’.
Finding one without rusty arches will be the biggest challenge these days.

Yes that's a massive result - to be honest though it is probably just a stronger way of saying "sold as seen". They wouldn't want to be bothered with any recourse if it was actually a basket case. are traders allowed to sell "sold as seen" these days? I don't think they can say ...

On a more productive note I fixed one of the other cars. The Compact began to overheat and lost all coolant while driving round Trafalgar Square last Monday. I nursed it to a car park in Covent Garden and carried on my day riding a Lime bike. Went back at 11pm, saw it was leaking out of the rad, put...

Ask about for any cctv or dashcam footage, someone might have something which could at least pin down the vehicle reg which would give you an insurance policy to claim against... If you’re the sort of person that drives like a loon at night while taking nitrous oxide and drinking beer, hit a car, t...

Absolute cnt. I would confront, tell them to have a hard look in the mirror and take ownership of his wrong dong. If they refuse, hammer frozen sausages into their front lawn and exhaust. I drove around looking for it last night, but got caught up in the crowds around the Bermondsey beer mile, so g...

Someone decided to bounce off the Land Rover last night without leaving a note - IMG_6751.jpeg Annoyingly it’ll need a new back door also as I parked right up against a bike locker and the spare wheel has pushed the door in. Passer by said it was a dark car and the guy was taking ‘balloons’. Found s...

LG have the best UI and tend not to kill functionality with updates. I hardly ever use the Apple TV or Firestick connected to our LG (but always use them on the Samsung). Sony is fine until you need to find a setting that is hidden in an illogical location. Samsung is pretty painful. Panasonic is so...