Dez
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Oct 20, 2023 14:38:59 GMT
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I don’t see why everybody seems to care so much about watching car based television shows. The technology you grew up with already being redundant by the time you come of age and all that. YouTube fulfils that role these days. It’s actually works much better for it, in that niche market stuff can still manage to get an audience, cos it’s largely made by weirdos for weirdos. Enjoy good content where it can be found and don’t worry too much about where that is. The problem I have with Youtube is why would I watch somebody faffing with cars when it's much more fun watching Post 10 unclog beaver dams and there are dozens of very professional history documentary creators etc. True. I watch almost no car content. Ive watched odd episodes of specific channels people bang on about, and failed to see the hype every time. I rarely stand to learn anything from it as I have spent years doing it all myself, I will occasionally search for hot to do a specific thing (usually on a modern) to save me time and hassle- channels like that are useful. I’m really not into voyeurism which is quite a part of it I think. I prefer to do the thing. My dad watches every car, bike, old sh1t in sheds and antiques programme going on TV, yet does almost nothing with his own bikes or antiques. That’s all ass about face to me, I’d rather be in the garage.
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Dez
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Oct 19, 2023 20:07:33 GMT
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I don’t see why everybody seems to care so much about watching car based television shows. The technology you grew up with already being redundant by the time you come of age and all that.
YouTube fulfils that role these days. It’s actually works much better for it, in that niche market stuff can still manage to get an audience, cos it’s largely made by weirdos for weirdos. Enjoy good content where it can be found and don’t worry too much about where that is.
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Dez
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Oct 16, 2023 22:23:48 GMT
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You aren’t paying an increased premium because of electric cars, that is a daily mail headline to enrage the masses. It is a tiny, tiny proportion of risk based cost calculation, based on how likely you are to drive into one. That amount would be maybe a few pounds of the overall cost of your policy. But it cannot be singled out against all the other things you are covered against and by that merit, you should also be raging at anyone who has the audacity to own a car worth more than yours in case you drive into them too. Yes, someone else driving round in a £200k super car makes your insurance go up an incalculably small amount… even property values going up affects the premium you pay, in case you accidentally drive into your own or someone else’s house. And ultimately, it would still be your fault for doing the driving into, so it’s an entirely reasonable approach to take from a company who job is calculating risk.
Electric car owners are paying increased premiums for driving electric cars, or being refused cover altogether as they are perceived as too high risk- that is quite real because that’s how insurance works. Risk is calculated based on the driver (and how likely they are to drive into things they shouldn’t), the vehicle, the cost to repair a vehicle if damaged, where it’s kept and the miles it covers. All perfectly sensible and logical.
Ultimately you are paying around 66p a day to have your vehicle covered against damage caused by a whole plethora of eventualities, including if you make a mistake yourself whilst driving, not to mention the far, far greater risk of liability against yourself in you damage anyone else’s property whilst behind the wheel. And you say that’s a rip-off? Seems like a bit of a bargain to me, that’s about what you’ll be paying to have your house connected to an electricity and gas supply even if you don’t use any.
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Dez
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Oct 16, 2023 21:29:43 GMT
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Car insurance is cheaper in real terms than it was 20 years ago, when considered against inflation, minimum wage, and as a proportion of income. This is mainly because cars just don’t get stolen like they used to, and so many people have dash cams to clear up any fault arguments for the companies.
Getting worked up over a sub-£350 policy is ridiculous. ‘Our’ sector of the market has prices a fraction of what normal people pay, based on the risks it presents. The average car insurance price is somewhere around 800-900 p/a.
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Dez
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That bodywork is a can of worms. It’s been ‘resprayed’ and still needs a full respray. At least one in primer would be honest… If it’s more than a coupe of grand (and you want to get into all that work for what at the end of it is a fairly common and not that high value car) I’d walk away.
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Dez
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akku your list is a lot more generous than mine would be 😉 Unless you mean memorable for all the wrong reasons. Also quite a few of those are actually 80s cars carried over.
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Dez
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Maybe because I'm a 90s kid but Nissan skyline gtr, Mazda rx7, Toyota Supra, Impreza, Evo's and delta integrales, dodge viper, tvr cerbera, Clio Williams, McLaren f1, lambo diablo just off the top of my head, plenty of iconic stuff from the 90s Fair enough there are some decent cars there I'll admit to forgetting, especially the Skyline. I do tend to separate supercars from the real cars that ordinary mortals might drive though. I’m the same. The clio Williams or the Impreza were attainable for ‘normal people’ but the rest were what celebrities and millionaires drove.
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Dez
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akku, first I thought it was a mistake, but meanwhile You wrote it three times. What does AN CAR mean? A boring, mundane, mediocre spec everyday vehicle. The sort normal people buy, the sort that performs perfectly well at all the requirements of being a car, but is no real fun to use. Thus, one that no one really lusts after or even really remembers.
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Dez
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Carlton’s and senators were the last properly rusty Vauxhalls in my experience, it’s why they’ve all gone. . Omegas we’re a lot better in that respect, it was everything else that let them down.
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Dez
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Dez - I think the Omega was more of a successor to the Carlton than the Senator. I've owned both and I'd rate the Omega as a better car. According to the court of puplic opinion and so on it had more electonic issues, but oddly mine was a case that the Omega was bullet proof and the Carlton had a ton of electronic problems... A fair proportion of all 3 was the same underneath. It’s why the omega engine was halfway under the scuttle, that bay was meant for a straight 6 not a V. The earlier tough as boots straight 6 being a far better engine than the overcomplicated and poorly designed v6.
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Dez
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I’ve had nearly every car you’ve mentioned, and tbh I thought all were rubbish for one reason or another. Especially framed against their predecessor or successor.
The omega wasn’t as good as a senator, the e36 wasn’t as good as the e30, the 190e is an incredibly cramped car for something of its size, weight and fuel consumption. The legnum/galant looked good from the front and I think many sold on that alone asthe rest wasn’t all that and the interior was awful. Scorpios were a flop from day one.
The best two out do of those options are the corsa and the cordoba. Corals were a cad you had out of necessity and them moved on to literally anything else as you could afford. Seat didn’t have the market share they do now back then, people bought polos of golfs instead.
I just don’t think cars from that period were very good, or shall we say iconic or memorable. They weren’t hugely better than the previous generation, and were left behind massively when a whole new raft of designs hit the market in the late 90s which made them all look very dated very quickly, in both appearance and performance.
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Dez
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The 220 will feel fairly underpowered tbh. Reliable but slow. I had one as a daily years back and it was comfy but slow. Did I mention it was slow?
The 300-24 is fairly rare in a wagon. W124 rust is not like normal rust though. If it’s showing on the outside it’ll be rotten all up behind the front wings and won’t have any sills left either. and they’re a huge job to do properly. I wouldn’t go anywhere near one that is showing rust. The 300-24 is also the one with the troublesome wiring loom. The insulation degrades and they start doing odd things. It *might* just be a facelift thing, but it’s definitely a 6cyl cars thing.
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Dez
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In non-dragging-cars-out-of-fields news, I’m trying to get as much use out of this as possible before winter really sets in. Using it for stuff like popping to the shops is GR9 fun, even if the general public can’t quite cope with seeing such things 😂
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Dez
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Luckily Matt knows someone locally with a ramp bed truck that you can drag on a car with no suspension without damaging the car (further) or the recovery bed 😉 So I went to some random field to laugh at him then drag his sorry back to his work yard so it could be forklifted off. I’ll just say if you’re gunna fall off country roads at speed when doing the south Yorks ‘special stages’ make sure you’re going fast enough to clear the embankment and ditch and land on the flat bit the other side. a bit slower and it would have flipped a lot of times and got a bit messy…
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Dez
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Air ride JaaaagDez
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Sept 29, 2023 17:53:19 GMT
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Dez
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Gazebo / Pop up garageDez
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Sept 26, 2023 21:12:34 GMT
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Manomano ones are equally as good as Clarke but white not green. They’re also around half the price. I’ve had one up for a couple years now and it’s still looking ok. Ratchet strapping it down to get it nice and taught is important though.
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Dez
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Grippy tiresDez
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Sept 25, 2023 21:50:00 GMT
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I find a lot of people big up rainsports but all my experiences of them have been terrible. Poor grip and fast wearing. 3 different sets across quite different cars.
I’ve currently got toyo proxies tr1 on the panda. They’re not really sold as a super high performance tyres but grip as well as the conti ecocontact it came on, but don’t wear anywhere near as quick. Plus they’re half the price. 3rd car I’ve had them on and they consistently impressed me for what is essentially a midrange tyre.
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Dez
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Sept 25, 2023 20:48:20 GMT
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Tbh I’m still struggling with the forum changes a bit. Making posts isn’t too bad but browsing build threads is definitely problematic. More work to be done still, this isn't the destination, hang tight I've got to turn attention to other things for a week or so, then I'll be back on it. Might drop you a message to get some feedback/test some potential changes for me Yeah I don’t mind helping. Two things whilst they’re fresh in my mind- SnapBacks don’t work on build threads. So I click the next page number and it takes me to the bottom of it and not the top. Especially bad on pic heavy ones as it’s a lot fo scrolling to get back up. The other thing is the page numbers themselves- I’ve ended up in my profile and bookmarks untold times as the numbers are so close to the buttons for those. I do t really know if they can be move or something, but they’re too close for it to work well in mobile.
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Dez
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Sept 25, 2023 14:47:34 GMT
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Tbh I’m still struggling with the forum changes a bit. Making posts isn’t too bad but browsing build threads is definitely problematic.
after achieving what I wanted to with the model A I’m planing on going back to being a builder for a while. I’ve got so many things to do around the yard to make winter much more pleasant and productive, and it would be good to get them done before the weather gets much worse.
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Dez
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Sept 24, 2023 15:26:49 GMT
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Even building cars professionally, about 3/4 of it is doing sh1t you don’t want to have to do to get to the bit you do want to do.
Personally I hate prep and paint. I’m getting better at it and am doing more, but there was a reason that for years my involvement with a car stopped as soon as it was made out of metal again, and it was someone else’s job to paint it.
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