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I suddenly felt very old this morning, when I found out that 2001, A Space Odessy is to be re-released in cinemas, to mark its - wait for it - 50th year since release! #-o

Simple thread, not hard to join in...

Have a look at this gallery and pick out your favourite colour

and yes there are Brown Xantias!

Regards Neil

Yes scroll down past the blurb and the pics start with the Greys

I've just had one of these telling me that my Broadband has a problem, I let him take me through the usual patter to go to event viewer, then he asked what I saw on the screen, I told him that it was telling me that he wasn't calling from BT, he insisted that he was, I told him it was now telling me he was a telephone scammer and rang off. :(

I...

Some ambulances here and a single deck bus.:

Heard this on Vanessa Feltz, the driver not shy of a bit of publicity appeared on the show.

Record-breaking driver who drove length of Britain in nine hours 'should be prosecuted for speeding'

Room 101 material I think.

Regards Neil

The title of the winning letter in December 2017 Practical Classics Magazine...and it struck a chord with me.

Has car design really lost sight of its objective or am I just getting old? was the first line.

Whats your view? What are your design requirements for a car?

Mine concurs with the spirit of the letter.....and the Favorit bit.....after...

Dare someone to shove up a new topic to entertain us today.

I'm off to dump the phrase Trade Deal into Room 101

Regards Neil

I'm cycling all the way from Milton Keynes to Amsterdam in June to raise money for Willen Hospice ...

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This is our local Hospice that supports all end of life care in MK and receives only a quarter of its funding from the NHS :(

It gets all the rest from charitable donations and various fundraising events throughout the...

They say it's state of the art and has no less than 29 bays with 19 ramps, including what they regard as two future-proof bays especially for electric vehicles.

How easy/costly do you think it would be to put a Canadian Military Police Snr Staff Srg'nt and his British wife (still has records/active insurance on a VW Polo in the Uk) onto my 2ltrTD C5 Excslv Tourer insurance for 2 weeks ?

My roadside assistance/recovery cover is bundled with car insurance, but I'm changing insurer so need to choose who to go with. I want full on assistance, recovery and Europe cover so I can 'file and forget' until next year. Can do a 2 car deal if its worth it, wife's car cover expires in 4 weeks. Need to cover car, not driver, as the offspring...

Have a wander through my home town history.

Bye Bye Virgin/Stagecoach, hello London and North Eastern Railway.

Yes Virgin have been relieved of their duties on the East Coast mainline like GNER before them.
Transport Secretary Chris Grayling

“I will terminate Virgin Trains East Coast's contract on June 24 2018. I plan to use a period of Operator of Last Resort control to shape the new...

Time to reconnect that EGR and that other stuff you chopped off the car :)

who hasn't checked their poxy PPI?

I was just about to search for my favourite discount oils supplier when I found their website not working... ( )

Google seems to reckon that they are 'Permanently Closed' and their eBay shop is unreachable too.

If so it's a shame; as they were a good, cheap source of Total oils (Engine and LDS) :?

I used to walk past the area quite regularly - obviously belongs to someone who likes Citroens. I remember seeing 2 DS Safaris on that road, this was joint by an SM about 3-4 years ago and now a BX (looks like a 16v from a distance) when I walked past again...

Does it belong to anyone here? I remember speaking to someone who was taking lots of...

We often hear complaints that fuel prices rise quickly on oil price but fall slowly - and then much muttering about no data.... So, thought I would start tracking a fuel price index to see. I've taken the price of std UL and diesel at the local station I use (which is amongst the cheapest), stripped out the tax, then worked out an 'index' based on...

..anyone get the Morse Code connection right tonight?

The PickledEggJukebox provided the answer :-D :-D :-D

Pickled Egg Jukebox-Morse Code Tracks

The Connection

The Clash-Londons Calling
Rush-YYZ
Theme from Some Mothers Do 'ave them
Theme from Morse

Yes and both teams in the final didn't get it!

Viva the Pickled Egg !

Regards Neil

Although obviously not French the Prius shares something in bucket loads with Citroen; innovation. It is quite simply amazing and over time I'll put some details into this thread so you can see what it's like. :)

Looking to buy one of these used, but not sure as to which one the LG is 700w and Yamaha I think is 300w can't find exact info.
Anyone have either of the two and pass on some advice.

Thanks

Downloaded the Diagbox software 'again' this morning from easydiagnostics via their recommended Mega NZ download tool, just left it to do its thing while I got on with something else, got this message twice from Windows Defender.

a whole 148 of them in varying degrees of CX'ness

and the thread as linked in above article

I will start off with this

from:

Little winter project making railway line anvil. 9 grinder 4 grinder and some noisy discs and flap wheels.

Hi all,
Thinking of visiting the place next year, any pointers?
Also, I have heard from somewhere (but now I can't find/remember where) that it is scheduled to be closed (temporarily) and moved from its current location. If true, can anyone elaborate on this please?
Thanks in advance.

I just spotted a late xantia in white! (Yes I get a bit excited at the presence of lhm)

It was at Battlefield turning in to Sinclair drive.

Looked in quite good condition - anyone on here?

Hello All,

Neil complained no-one is talking rubbish in here, so I thought I'd ask if anyone as an Amazon Echo or a Google home smart device thingy, and if so, what do they think of it? I've been sorely tempted by such a thing for a while. A couple of friends have them, and they do appear to be genuinely useful for some things. I'm aware of the...

I found this on the Internet. 50 different car dashboards, and Citroen make numerous entries;

I have....it was white, a Mazda and an SUV :-D

What does that tell us :?:

Regards Neil

Thought it could be interesting to see what some of you see as the best looking of the current (or recent) market...

We had this home as a demo a few days back.

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It's one of those designs which for me just works. Especially in such a vivid colour like that. It's big,...

Here are just some of the concept cars released this year, with some being plausible and will most likely make their way to the roads. With others being designers just flexing their muscles. Which one do you think is the best?

p.s I know there's more than these, but these are the main ones:D

BMW Concept M8 Gran Coupe
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Very apt :twisted:

I have a Windows 7 Internet PC on my desk at work. You can guarantee that every time you want to get off quickly on shutting down Windows 7 for the day it'll announce it has a load of updates to install before shutting down.

This afternoon was one such. I wanted to be off punctually...

Shut down the PC...

Installing update...

I stumbled on a list of statistical tables issued by DVLA, link here:

www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/699231/vehicles-and-drivers-tables-index.ods

(the .ods extension is open data spreadsheet so it will open in excel or almost anything else)

As you go down the list you think oooh, that looks interesting . The...

My latest

Stone protection mesh.
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Back in the early 70's, no deadlocks, no built in steering locks, door locks made of putty, quarter lights you could push open as long as you were stronger than a hamster and ignition a 5 year old could hot wire with a paperclip, steering wheel locks were essential in some places. I remember Krookloks, time consuming clumsy things hooked round...

Our French concept cars, the best looking concept cars?
Here's just a few of the concept cars produced

Renault Trezor
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Peugeot Onyx
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Renault Nepta:
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Peugeot Oxia
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Renault Alpine A110-50
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Renault De Zir
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if you can think of anymore, or think other...

Having another look to see if I could find my old Roller, came across this, some really strange stuff if you scroll down.

Hi Guy's
Just reading about the twin motor bmw i8 that has a three cylinder 1500cc engine in the back that has over 200bhp to offer , why has my 1600 cc e-hdi only give me 110 bhp ??? :rofl2:

Jaguar Land Rover bought a large collection from James Hull some time back, and are selling some of it on, with no reserve. Some of the vehicles are interesting;

Perhaps, according to The Independent .

Shares in Renault rose almost 5 per cent on Thursday following reports the French motor company is in talks with Nissan to explore a potential merger.

Well as I was buying an oil filter and some engine flush from Halfords I decided it was about time I bought myself a crawler to make it easier getting about under my car (getting older) so I purchased this set from Halfords plus an extra set of 3 tonne ratchet axles stands. Both for £69, thats with a trade discount of £46 so cant complain....

in the course of uploading a video to myglaren's 'Pickled Egg Jukebox' I got to thinking of one of my favourite places.... Scotland

....so a topic about Favourite places. What's yours?

Picture is Chanonry Point, near Inverness, that beach is quite something! The beach by the Lighthouse a few yards from here is also the best place in the UK to...

Our little unscientific thread Have you spottted an 18 Reg yet? has proved to be fairly prophetic.

SMMT have today released their new car sales for March 2018 and its 15% down on 12 months ago. Diesels down 40%.

The first media coverage I heard was on my radio alarm which Wakes me up to money on Radio 5 Live. Surprisingly I didn't get too...

Marshalls and Duxford Motors have both ceased to be Citroen sales dealers, but both said that they would continue as authorized Citroen service and repair agents. Duxford are, Marshalls are not as of today.

I went into Duxford to try and book an MOT/Service for 2 weeks hence and although they were as ever very helpful they simply can't fit it in...

Hi everyone, not a dig at all, as I’m a new member on here but having previously been a paid up member on RTOC for over 5 years which with the appearance of facefuck took a small dive but still kept it’s head above the water line.
It’s very easy these days to just Google or enquir on Facebook your issues or to gather info on a meet etc.
I’ve...

There have been numerous posts regarding modern headlights, principally that they dazzle oncoming drivers.

The RAC has investigated and the Beeb have reported on it.

Bedazzled .

I haven't experienced any dangerous incidents but do agree that they are very disturbing and uncomfortable.

RESPECT, a true son of France and a credit to his country, family and the human race.
RIP Lieutenant-Colonel Arnaud Beltrame

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Good day gentlemen.

I have decided on Mullion Garages latest offer to save petrol.

I believe they get the gas from all the cesspits : )

Happy Easter Holidays

God Bless Spiff and Alanna

I don't think I'll be working on the front drive today.