CitroJim's AX, C3 Picasso, Cycling and Running Tales

[CitroJim]

Is a C1 the modern equivalent of Nurse Gladys' white Morris Minor?

Now you've got me fantasising about stockings and cleavages, that's just not right!!

Sorry Mick!

I've warned her that if she does get another car the chances that I'll be able to effectively service and repair it for her will be slim... I fear the C1 is at the very edge of my ability to fix moderns...

Rubbish Jim, they are all cars, you may just have to learn some new stuff but nothing beyond your capability I'm sure!!

You have more confidence in my abilities than I do But yes, you are absolutely right Mick... 30 years ago I might have said the same about being able to fix an Activa...

[NewcastleFalcon]

Robyn is thinking of changing it in the not too distant... If she does I'll be very tempted to have it back... Looks like I may have to pay her for a car I originally bought brand new and then gave to her... That's kids for you

If she works for the NHS Jim, and wants a new car she should maybe look into their fleet management services salary sacrifice scheme. The NHS is a major market for car manufacturers to "sell" their vehicles, and the NHS has a Wing which deals with the scheme. Jaguar made a deal with the NHS to supply I Paces, but virtually any car will be available.

If she happens to want to go electric, and why not, there are plenty incentives including negligible benefit in kind assessment for tax (0%, 1% and 2% over the next years), and the salary sacrifice element of the scheme means that effectively the payments for the car are taken off and you pay tax based on a lower income figure. I also imagine the NHS are switched on to workplace charging, which gets further incentives for employers.

Certainly worth looking into, and undoubtedly significantly the cheapest way of acquiring a new car for those workers.

This might suit her


Regards Neil

[CitroJim]

Thanks Neil, that's appreciated It will be well worth her looking into...

She'd like an electric but until they sell their current home and move they have no way to chare an EV at home...

[NewcastleFalcon]

Here's a video on the scheme, seems like its getting bigger...
I have talked to a number of NHS workers who get their cars through the scheme at the EV charging points.
All have been very enthusiastic both about their electric vehicles and the savings they enjoy both on the monthly payments for their cars, and the saving compared to petrol on running costs.



Regards Neil

[NewcastleFalcon]

Thanks Neil, that's appreciated It will be well worth her looking into...

She'd like an electric but until they sell their current home and move they have no way to chare an EV at home...

She may know about the scheme already Jim. But the video posted above explains it all very simply.

Charging difficulties are easily overcome. I have never once charged my BB leaf at home .and Milton Keynes is dripping in chargers. Pointless installing a charging point at home though if you are about to move, although "granny" chargers via a normal 3 pin plug can always be used although they need a 10 hours ish run to fully recharge.

Regards Neil

[Zelandeth]

Exactly the same as happened to my 107 - at almost exactly the same age.

I tied it back to the rubber hanger with a bit of bike brake cable...and promptly forgot about it for the next two years!

[CitroJim]

I tied it back to the rubber hanger with a bit of bike brake cable...and promptly forgot about it for the next two years!

[CitroJim]

Fitted the new (working) DAB adaptor to Daffodil today...

Then I just had to take her out for a joyride Couldn't resist the temptation

Anyway, the DAB adaptor needed a good test!

And what a joy it was

[mickthemaverick]

Corruption

You've really been and gone and done it now Jim. This constitutes flagrant disregard for the 1852 Act for the protection of all Daffodils and Tulips. Under the act you are not allowed to make any holes in any part of the Daffodil or Tulip concerned and, if found doing so, you are awarded the automatic penalty of having to wash and wax said victim on a weekly basis for as long as ye both be aquainted.

Sorry Jim but it falls upon me to ensure that you take the punishment without recourse to whingeing and moaning and remember that in future her dignity must be preserved.

All other readers please take note, you cannot go poking holes in your lady without suffering the consequences!!!

[CitroJim]

Sorry Jim but it falls upon me to ensure that you take the punishment without recourse to whingeing and moaning and remember that in future her dignity must be preserved.

And it will be done Mick Daffodil is a sheer pleasure to wash and polish so that's one punishment I'm happy to take

In my defence M'Lud I made that hole to facilitate a neat route for the aerial cable I nearly made one for the power cable but given it has a captive USB plug on it the hole would have been just too big...

[Peter.N.]

I see your car was registered in Hampshire Jim. All the best things come from down this way.

Peter

[CitroJim]

I see your car was registered in Hampshire Jim. All the best things come from down this way.

Peter

Absolutely Peter, Salisbury in fact

And indeed all the best cars do indeed come from the south west My Saxo came from Glastonbury originally and proudly carries a Somerset registration

[Stickyfinger]

Daffodils life, delivered to Salisbury....to Bath, to Norton St Phillips, to Cranmore, to Amesbury, to Newport Pagnell.

[Hell Razor5543]

Daffodils life, delivered to Salisbury....to Bath, to Norton St Phillips, to Cranmore, to Amesbury, to Newport Pagnell.

Hi Alasdair. Are you back for good? I hope so, as you did liven the forum up a bit when you were normally contributing.

[CitroJim]

Daffodils life, delivered to Salisbury....to Bath, to Norton St Phillips, to Cranmore, to Amesbury, to Newport Pagnell.

Hi Alasdair. Are you back for good? I hope so, as you did liven the forum up a bit when you were normally contributing.

Agreed Good to see you back Alasdair