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    12v Battery 'Life'

    Honda Jazz Hybrid; 21months old. Car has been garaged for 17days. Went to it this morning and the car doors would not open on the key fob. Unlocked car with key - no interior lights, Start 'button' does not illuminate and worst of all cannot get the gar out of 'Park'! Can get to battery under...
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    Parking & Drive Access

    Our parking problem has tried our patience once to often... We have a shared drive access with neighbours. Neither drive is very long - just about a cars length for them, 2 cars for us. What we have is the neighbours visitors always park in front of or over the dropped kerb blocking the access...
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    AirBags

    Is it normal for AirBags to go off (deploy) with a rear impact? Especially if the impact is sufficient for the driver's head to hit the steering wheel.
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    Radio 2 looses listeners

    So the beeb lost listeners after kicking Ken Bruce out. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-66381610 Ami I / Are we surprised??? Have to admit I've followed him to GHR after Gary Davies as temporary replacement finished to be replaced by the permanent replacement of Vernon Kay Who I...
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    Range Anxiety

    https://www.theverge.com/23806690/eu...n-requirements So pleased we've broken free of the shackles of European tyranny. How would the UK work having to have a coherent strategy to replace IC engines.
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    Cashless Society

    I think today I've seen the end of cash in society... A Begger, beging for 'cash' in the main street of a town at the southern end of the A14, today. I usually buy said people a sandwich and or a hot drink rather than give cash (that comes from working Leicester where a 'begger' with dog was...
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    Braggard?

    So is this footballer honest or is telling the Truth? 'Made love' to 10000 women and he's just 28! So if he has managed one woman per day he's been at it since he was 8months old!
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    2 months to prepare conversion plans

    So we have commissioned an Architectural designer to prepare plans to convert 2 cottages into house. Is it unreasonable of us to expect plans, at least the starting drawings in a 2 month period? Especially when said chap said he would have initial drawings ready in 4 weeks.
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    What should I have done

    So I'm in the quietest isle in supermarket picking up ice cream and Brussels. There is a shopper family (mother/daughter?/friend?/kids). No sign of a trolly or basket but the mother has a large wheelie bag which she is repacking obviously having placed her shopping in before going to the...
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    Mobile 'Phone use in cars

    Looks like the rules have Changed / Tightened Up. Been told in the pub that passenger use is now likely to lead to prosecution... But reading deeper into it would seem that it only applies to passengers who are monitoring learner drivers. Would be good if HMG updated their website as well.
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    Who Are You?

    British citizens should be given a digital ID card that includes their passport, driving licence, tax records and qualifications Tony Blair and William Hague have said. Another idea - Good or bad?
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    BT/Openreach

    So agreed (blackmailed) into having a fibre install... Planned date for the external work to be completed on Monday 10th September with the internal work on the 3rd October. Last night received a text informing me that the external work had been completed - WTF? Checked the Order Tracking on...
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    Parking

    Having had my vehicle damaged for the second time this year when parked by another 'parked' car on a slope I'd love to know why people aren't taught to park their car in gear. It was one of the first parts of my driving tutelage* - every time I parked the car it had to be in either 1st or...
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    Shieldpay - Anyone had any experience of them?

    Had a eMail from them as I'm a recipient of the VW payout. The lawyers are using 'Shieldpay' to transfer the money to us. To get that we have hand over our 'Online' bank details to them. My bank hsn't heard of them and they are concerned with the amount of information this unknown company wants...
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    Calor Gas

    Or should say (expletive) Calor Gas. Received letter on Saturday informing me of price increase post 27th April. Rang this morning to order replacements to be quoted the new price - over £240 for 3! delivery on Thursday. Asking why when I was expecting to pay £212-50 they said the new price...
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    BT 'Digital' phone lines halted

    BT has announced it will put its digital landline rollout on hold following backlash from some customers. It says it will work on the underlying technology to be make it more resilient. BT, among other telecoms companies, had pledged to equip all homes with digital voice-over-internet phones...
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    Jamaican Bob Sleigh Team

    On BBC breakfast News program. Training in Bath, UK! Makes I proud for one of the benefits of the Commonwealth working together. Here's hoping they and the British teams are successful.
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    Tools - how they have changed

    Today, watching a neighbour loading their vehicle to go to site after reading the thread yesterday about Alarm installers tools, caused me to think about tools I started with. Started my first apprenticeship as a C&J in the 70's to take up my fathers trade, guess I was lucky in that respect as...
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    Football on TV

    A simple question with present amount of Football on TV - isn't it time TPTB (FA, BBC, ITV, etc) got together and consolidated their broadcasting of Football into one dedicated channel?
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    VW DSG

    Have VW made a change to the DSG gearbox? Seemingly the need for a transmission fluid @40K miles has been dropped - is this true? Is their any reports of failure in more recent VW's with the DSG transimission? Looking to change car to a recent VW auo.
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