17 minutes ago, tomski said:

 

I switched to Automatic for first time last year. Love it. Make life a little bit easier.

I’ve had one for over 10 years and they’re great. 

On 12/05/2022 at 06:51, Not in Crawley said:

My postcode falls under LEZ (which covers all of gtr London) but not under ULEZ (which has been extended to everything within the South Circular now) so if I drive five miles southwards it'd cost me that £12.50 day rate to get to say my local Homebase.

You do need a car within most of those zones in South London, no underground after Brixton, it's not all piccadilly circus and routemasters. You do know most of London is pretty suburban and fairly big 😁

Why do you go to Homebase every day?

11 hours ago, Not in Crawley said:

Would fucking love a 2CV. French countryside chundering past, tree lined avenues, gitanes, Serge on the wireless, a good book with good wine and a beautiful lady by your side; all waiting for a lazy afternoon spent in dappled sunshine in glorious fugue of food and romance....

Others might want to faren faren faren auf der autobahn at 150...not moi

 

I prefer Charlotte to Serge.

But having driven round much of Bergerac and Bordeaux, that description is bang on

17 minutes ago, Escobarp said:

I’ve had one for over 10 years and they’re great. 

Can’t beat automatics, cruise control is also a must have…. And leather seats. 

6 minutes ago, Mounts Kipper said:

Can’t beat automatics, cruise control is also a must have…. And leather seats. 

I had some work done on my wing mirror this week and now My heated seat comes on for hours at a time and can’t be switched off! Sweating like fuck all day yesterday 

going in tomorrow to get it fixed. 
 

For me cruise control is the biggest game changer. 

Do like cruise control, but rarely get the chance to use if.

Had Cruise Control on my old car, only got to use it on Sunday evenings driving the kids back, at other times even the motorways are too busy to put it on for any length of time.

Driving up to Durham this summer and if I don't get it this time that Great North Rd is going to be one boring arse on.

So my choices are a 5 years newer Cmax for 2k more which looks loads nicer but is manual and no CC

Or the older one.

Both roughly the same milage.

Think I prefer the newer one.

45 minutes ago, Spider said:

Why do you go to Homebase every day?

You've not met my Mrs have you? In summer it's every other day to get stuff for the garden and I'm not going to Sidccup for the B&Q

Still can't believe how easy it is to scrap the car and getting 500 squid for it for them to do all the hard work.

Lovely.

24 minutes ago, Escobarp said:

I had some work done on my wing mirror this week and now My heated seat comes on for hours at a time and can’t be switched off! Sweating like fuck all day yesterday 

going in tomorrow to get it fixed. 
 

For me cruise control is the biggest game changer. 

Has to be the adaptive type.

I use it all the time - yesterday drove to Brum and back and barely touch the pedals. 

45 minutes ago, Spider said:

I prefer Charlotte to Serge.

But having driven round much of Bergerac and Bordeaux, that description is bang on

I do love France, had some of my happiest holidays there.

I do like a beach holiday but something about the French countryside just does it for me.

12 minutes ago, Not in Crawley said:

I do love France, had some of my happiest holidays there.

I do like a beach holiday but something about the French countryside just does it for me.

When on holiday there, I would drive every morning from Levignac-de-Guyenne to Duras just to get bread and croissants. A drive of about 5/6 miles each way.

Id pass sunflower fields, vineyards, olive groves and small gladed lanes before pulling up on a small town square outside Duras castle. The Boulangerie next door is so typically French you found yourself shrugging your shoulders and humming the ‘Allo ‘Allo theme tune without realising it.

The woman on the counter was fit

 as fuck and so stand-offish it felt like the tourist board had planted her there.

1 hour ago, Not in Crawley said:

Still can't believe how easy it is to scrap the car and getting 500 squid for it for them to do all the hard work.

Lovely.

I was visiting family in Formby last month and they happened to mention they had a guy coming to collect their old washing machine and were paying him to do so.

They had no idea that if you simply leave anything metal outside your house it's generally gone within the hour

 

4 minutes ago, gonzo said:

I was visiting family in Formby last month and they happened to mention they had a guy coming to collect their old washing machine and were paying him to do so.

They had no idea that if you simply leave anything metal outside your house it's generally gone within the hour

 

LOL, usually, unless of course you want it gone! 

Then it will sit there for  weeks an SD you'll look like a scutter.

1 hour ago, Spider said:

When on holiday there, I would drive every morning from Levignac-de-Guyenne to Duras just to get bread and croissants. A drive of about 5/6 miles each way.

Id pass sunflower fields, vineyards, olive groves and small gladed lanes before pulling up on a small town square outside Duras castle. The Boulangerie next door is so typically French you found yourself shrugging your shoulders and humming the ‘Allo ‘Allo theme tune without realising it.

The woman on the counter was fit

 as fuck and so stand-offish it felt like the tourist board had planted her there.

The last time I went was taking the kids to Disneyland.

Anyway, was a lovely campsite, first day went for a run in the morning. I wasn't expecting much, we'd booked it for the park and the train the paris was outside. Discovered this lovely village, Pommuse and was jogging along the banks of this amazing river which I doiscoverd was called the Grand Morin.

Later that afternoon went to reception and asked if they had information about the area and things we could see. She laughed and said they had loads but they never put it in the welcome packs for the English or Dutch as they just went to Disneyland, Pool, Bar, Paris day trip and the huge shopping centre. The Grand Morin it turned out is also know as the Valley of the Painters inspiring Van Gogh, Lautrec etc It was stunning. The best days were just wandering around these stunning villages along the river.

Returned back one day to see a red faced bloke from Newcastle demanding that he could pay for his beers (he was leathered) in pounds as he had run out of Euros and was going back in the morning. His kids looked a bit embarassed. We went back to our pitch, had tasty inexpensive wine and watched the lights turn on across the valley. Lovely.

15 minutes ago, gonzo said:

I was visiting family in Formby last month and they happened to mention they had a guy coming to collect their old washing machine and were paying him to do so.

They had no idea that if you simply leave anything metal outside your house it's generally gone within the hour

 

When my mrs first moved to London, she lived in Tottenham. She left her furniture just outside the house for an hour whilst she unpacked, came down - the lot was gone.

3 hours ago, Spider said:

Has to be the adaptive type.

I use it all the time - yesterday drove to Brum and back and barely touch the pedals. 

Yep mine steers for me the lot on motorway which is handy when I want to have a key on the move 

7 minutes ago, Escobarp said:

Yep mine steers for me the lot on motorway which is handy when I want to have a key on the move 

I try and knock one out between junctions.

best I’ve managed was between the Westhoughton and Walkden junctions on the M61. It’s barely a mile so I was chuffed with that.

7 minutes ago, Spider said:

I try and knock one out between junctions.

best I’ve managed was between the Westhoughton and Walkden junctions on the M61. It’s barely a mile so I was chuffed with that.

Won’t be long before the car does it for you.  Interesting thing will be if the hand is masculine or feminine. And of course mine struggles to understand my voice sometimes. 
 

 

could be embarrassing sat there with a colleague and I ask the car to take me to the nearest bank and out it pops and next thing I’m in full flow 

31 minutes ago, Escobarp said:

Won’t be long before the car does it for you.  Interesting thing will be if the hand is masculine or feminine. And of course mine struggles to understand my voice sometimes. 
 

 

could be embarrassing sat there with a colleague and I ask the car to take me to the nearest bank and out it pops and next thing I’m in full flow 

You could be onto something

Instead of a massager, maybe Fistmaster and AMG could collaborate on a drivers seat that includes a ball tickler and RealFeel Hand that can cover all bases.

The footwell could do with a self-clean option. Mine is already a sickening mass of bogeys, nasal hairs, semen, food crumbs, McDonalds fries and whatever shit comes off my shoes.

It's not all about horsepowers.

46 minutes ago, Spider said:

You could be onto something

Instead of a massager, maybe Fistmaster and AMG could collaborate on a drivers seat that includes a ball tickler and RealFeel Hand that can cover all bases.

The footwell could do with a self-clean option. Mine is already a sickening mass of bogeys, nasal hairs, semen, food crumbs, McDonalds fries and whatever shit comes off my shoes.

It's not all about horsepowers.

I’m going to suggest TVR take me on a design consultant. Self cleaning footwells, fistmasters, automated key for the bing and Union Jack seats. 

16 minutes ago, Escobarp said:

I’m going to suggest TVR take me on a design consultant. Self cleaning footwells, fistmasters, automated key for the bing and Union Jack seats. 

And indicators 

14 minutes ago, bolton_blondie said:

And indicators 

The fuck do you want indicators for? You will be in the throws of pleasure with a key of bing firing up your hooter and singing rule Britannia off yer tits. Who cares if you tell the guy behind what lane youre moving into. 
 

you've a lot to learn you. 

3 minutes ago, Escobarp said:

The fuck do you want indicators for? You will be in the throws of pleasure with a key of bing firing up your hooter and singing rule Britannia off yer tits. Who cares if you tell the guy behind what lane youre moving into. 
 

you've a lot to learn you. 

Obviously. 

11 hours ago, tomski said:

 

I switched to Automatic for first time last year. Love it. Make life a little bit easier.

It’s a hard job moving that gear stick😀