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I have a 50 plasma by LG. Had it about ten years. Superb picture but no audio-out unfortunately-ish.
It hasn't been on for a couple of years now and when it was I only watched DVDs and piped the sound through the stereo.
At this rate it should last forever, Weighs a ton so not looking forward to having to take it down off the wall.

Quashqai . - Original meaning.

Actually, on topic, as you mentioned it in the original post. V6 hdi pug 407 road tax. I do not pay over £500!

It appears that one of the girls in the gang that has been threatening my godson has caused a bit of mayhem in Reading today;

There has been footage seen on social media, and he recognised the attacker from the initial incident.

I work as a delivery driver for a chippy/kebeb/pizza house. Not tried filtering the used stuff yet. Dont really think I will. I can go to the wholesalers where 20 litres is about £17, and if I take in 20 litres of used then I get £4 back. Thats not where he buys his oil from but they dont need to know that. It also depends on him giving me his...

This is a nice little film about testing the fuel consumption..on the road of an Austin A35 off the production line by the RAC. Leslie Webb officiating for the RAC and Joseph Lowrey Joint Technical Edtor of The Motor doing the driving.
and the result...surely no faking under the watchful eye of the RAC, and the high security boot-lock!
Result -...

BTW I only sent them the clip of him acutely hitting me. The bit of video with me driving along the road beforehand has no bearing on the crash. Some insurance company might want more but his paid out as soon as they seen it.

Gary.

Just to update ... went with GEM in the end. Advertising 10mths for 12, £83 - £18 topcashback so £65 all inc for roadside, recovery and home assistance, any car. And ... they explicitly state that age of car doesnt matter. So that swung it for me 😃. Now to get them to fix my air leak problems on the drive... I think not somehow!

I'd be doing it with a filter every 5K (miles) personally. I don't hold with these long service intervals... call me old-fashioned if you like...

Go to Costco or similar and buy diesel fleet oil in bulk and eBay for cheap (but decent) filters as I do and then do it often...

The old saw that a regular and frequent oil change is the cheapest and...

Can't say I've ever made a pair of home speakers, but various electronics in our home which have been achieved with a bit of 'lateral thinking'
Lounge TV is a 10yr old Plasma: Video is fed from a Sky Box by an S Video cable
Audio is via RCA's to a 1990's Sony Midi

Car (405 Est) has a pair of 80's style shelf speakers on the rear shelf which took...

Thanks for all the ideas. No one is saying nibblers=magnificent and that of itself it useful to know.

Think I will try again with jigsaw and clamp between thin mdf or ply sheets, few offcuts in garage. Maybe with spray mount. Immediate thought was I'm going to need lots of ply, but thinking it through you only need to sandwich the area you are...

There's no hope for you Richard, no hope.... :-D

You have Stockholm syndrome and your captor is your internal combustion engine cars! :rofl2:

Bring back carbs, points and wind-up windows I say ;)

Hey! You slagged me for adjusting points, carbs and rear brakes on my ser 11 Landy, saying you could not go back to that :shock: It was about 7 yrs ago though.
Ach well...........we are all allowed to change our mind....as we get on a bit! :lol:

:lol: Lexi, your memory is almost that of...

This Matra Rancho sold for £6,090 at the Anglia Car Auctions June Classic Car Sale we went to in Kings Lynn.

Regards

Looks lovely in white :) Sadly, a long, long way out of my price range :(

That does look like a good price for how good the Rancho appears to be...

On it for the first time last week, single thing that staggered me the most - the almost Tesla-like rate at which the thing took off from the platform...

Electric acceleration can be frankly quite staggering...

Those new Class 350 EMUs that run between Milton Keynes and Euston have a pretty impressive turn of acceleration when they take off...

The 'Mercedes Me' system looks as though it would be possible to move a car which was not in the line of sight of the user. Potentially very dangerous, and quite possibly illegal - or have they somehow taken that into account?

Got Porsche 911 as well.

Fine...but the proviso is that it's old enough to be air cooled. I lost all interest in them after that.

I'd take a first gen Boxster mind you, because image and styling aside they are honestly a cracking car to drive, and feel every bit as quick as the 911 of the time and a lot more nimble.

Oh Wow! Excellent :)

Good to see a good news story on the BBC for once. They're rare - sadly!

Now THAT (in a strange way) is good news.

Like I said to Mrs. Michel when she said Is that good or bad news?
......

Both ...

I'd buy a Volvo Amazon. Granted it's not French but you can still buy parts for it. Wouldn't go near a 40 year old French car as I can only get about 60% of the parts I need for a 20yr old one.
I would have a petit limon though as I've a soft spot for them since I started one. It's not a car I'd drive on the roads.

That was quite a successful race car in the 90s, but of course drew no attention. Iirc they had to pump up the suspension prior to each race as the lhm pump wasn't allowed in the class rules, this may have been a later rally car though.

Excellent 😊 It's just demonstrates the wonderful ethos of this forum perfectly 😊

Long may it last!

Oh, and it's best to be REALLY sure that the wire you about to cut, is, in fact, as dead as you think it is :shock: Fortunately the RCD did its job and it was no more than a small fizz. No idea why the wire is live - it was not connected to anything in the light switch (and I thought I had confirmed it dead with a circuit tester). Now terminates...

Hello peoples
Well I did take my wife to Oradour sur Glane this was my second visit ,last one 15 years ago when I did France on the motorbike with 10 other guy's. I also went thought the Gourge de Tarn which on a motorbike was great but in my C5 not so much of a rush.

remembering some of them, antibiotics I would think :)

Or worse!

1) Currently None (formerly CCC)
2) FCF - (obviously), Planete Citroen, Hydractives, plus some...
3) Absolutely none; I don't do social networking, period.
4) A Forum provides the best all-round experience and for helping others.

Hate those candles with a passion :evil: In common with fags, e-fags (those vaping devices), perfumes, so-called air-fresheners and virtually all other artificial smelly things they make me feel ill and nauseous...

So, I'd not be at all surprised if they are harmful to health...

and now most of the southern population is free of rabies you should be safe :-D

It's OK Dean, I've been vaccinated against Rabies :)

The wires should be coded with the wiring code number - but sometimes there isn't enough room to see it before removing the sheathing or running out or room! I would guess therefore that colours are pretty true to form - I've found that mine match up so far.

On some models, the actual fuse boxes are found to be in a different location too! The...

Saw that in Dagens Nyheter then forgot to look for it in English :(

A few days ago they had a report about Volvos failing miserably to attain the emissions levels they had claimed to.

Re: the TY clip - it is no wonder that valves cost as much as they do - a hell of a lot of work goes in to them.

long term i suspect PB will be able to stop these fixes working, on RetroRides the 'fix' there depends on what device/browser/connection you have.
if you have alot of pics on there and not saved ( why anyone would do that i have no idea but....) i suggest you start reclaiming them back soon unless you're prepared to pay?

;) I had a look on ebay at second hand prices and will keep the engine crane for the moment :p

very good though ! warp speed like the motorbike and comfort of a jaguar .. and seeing a range of 220 miles made me think that it's a real world mileage ..500 would be better but I guess that will happen one day..

but the acceleration, jeez

At the Great Dorset Steam Fair this year was a traction engine that had been in (under?) a river for 50 years, after it had been pushed there to reduce the erosion of the bank.

Considering that flooded cars are generally considered write-offs, that Pug looks like an interesting prospect - though I doubt the interior's as good as it looks.

I hope that's not rye bread Jim...........................ergotism :)

No, just my own secret recipe for good old wholemeal seeded wheat bread as developed over many years now Gibbo!

I tried rye once - it was not good... OK for making bricks but not so good for making nice, light edible bread :lol:

I can't help thinking that the Xsara Picasso is the Morris Minor of the future. Sitting by the side of the road with the front wheel at a crazy angle after the bottom trunnion has sheared due to lack of grease?

I actually passed one of those on Thursday last week :) it's been a long time since I last saw one, I was tempted to go back with the...

My understanding is that the immobiliser in the fuel pump is more or less the same design as used on earlier cars that had an immobiliser keypad, and requires a 4 digit code to unlock it. The immobiliser chip in the key has a different (longer) code, and (depending on model) the engine ECU or BSI converts the key code to the pump code, using some...

Yes, it's a generic Bluetooth OBD scanner. They work OK, ut are available for less money. Nothing special.

I've just text'd you Davie ;)

We were!!! Think of us hefting all those hybrid first-generation colour sets around Peter ;) Think of the old, original dual-standard G6. That was a two person lift - especially if it was a console model!

ITT CVC-1.

I only ever saw one CVC1 Zel :)

Lovely set and very desirable! Vanishingly rare too...

One I saw was repairable in the...

Yeah, always best to buy the top quality stuff. That is why Keith Richards is still going strong :lol:
Shell V power BP Ultimate is what I look for and The Donk has good test emissions.........cough cough choke choke!

:offtopic: Yes but spell checkers can help only if the language is easy to follow, however, English is far from easy :!:
English as she is spoke

I take it you already know of tough and bough and cough and dough
others may stumble but not you
on hiccough, thorough, laugh and through
Well done! And now you wish perhaps
to know of less familiar...

A dreadful tragedy on a Bank Holiday weekend :cry:

I drove over an M1 overbridge on my way back from parkrun in Milton Keynes this morning and it was so odd to see the M1 empty of all traffic... Never seen it before...

I saw that, fascinating cars, scarily empty factory

I had a purple mini 850 the one with the butterfly gear handle I thought it was the mutt's nuts

What links these three iconic albums?

Lou Reed. Transformer

Santana. Abraxas

Pink Floyd. Wish you were here

......Harlequin's magic numbers of course.....

Rolling Stone's greatest 500 Albums 2012

Regards Neil

The red Cherokee's insured with LV (transferred from the green one) for something around 1/2 what a specialist was charging me & I only asked them out of curiosity 'cos the Cadillac was with them after they wiped the floor on some price comparison site - &, yeah, nice people to deal with. They'll be getting my house insurance in a couple of weeks,...

So I believe BUT (a) then I'd have to buy a licence (b) got rid of the TV 'cos I never watched it - still don't have the time, need, inclination.

I can't answer your question but in Ireland we have several motorways and up until recently the different operators had different systems on different motorways. There might be a one tag fits all system now I don't use motorways much I object to double taxation