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The system might support a whitelist of registrations that are permitted to exceed the limit but a lot of these systems are subbed out and there's nothing onsite except the cameras, wireless recievers and the uplink to the camera operator's HQ. I'd bet that anyone who overstays gets a letter, reggardless of their staff status. I know of a big local shopping centre where staff are simply told that the car park is for the benefit of customers only. Staff spotted leaving parked cars, when identified by their uniform, are reported to the store they work in. So, car park pics anyone?
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I have a good reason for thread resurrection...
bortaf said the noise was awesome and he is thus proven to be an expert judge of awesome.
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Last Edit: Oct 3, 2012 21:30:48 GMT by Battles
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I have had this a few times on some of my cars and it bugs the hell out of me! I think what it is (I could be totally wrong) is where the light unit itself is not sealed properly. The light I have had which have fogged up I dry out and then run some sillicone around where the glass meets the backing and again in the back where the bulb unit plugs in. I am yet to have a light re-fog on me! This was all the rage on the Focus owner's forum when I had one, people were cutting them open to paint the inside of the headlights body coloured like the ST and finding that their DIY seal job was better than the factory job. I did it with one headlight that always steamed up to fix the steaming but didn't bother painting, it never steamed up again. If I can do it, how hard can it be?
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Wasn't that Turtle Wax?, A side view of a turtle with a crash helmet and glasses doing a burn out?. I had a couple of little plastic Turtle Wax turtles with (non functioning) wheels and racing goggles. I'm sure there were stickers in my Dad's garage too.
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Sept 28, 2012 23:19:57 GMT
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That was my guess last night but I was too chicken to say because it's such a rare machine and I thought I'd laughed out of town. Less than two hundred were produced in the 30s and most were raced so survivors might be thin on the ground. They've got a massive exhaust all the way along the left/passenger side which might account for why the spare is on the right/drivers side in what looks like an RHD car. I was hoping Bortaf would pipe up and say that the only thing he can remember about it was the massive exhaust all the way along the side or something. Fantastic thing to see knocking around though.
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Sept 27, 2012 21:25:49 GMT
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Can you remember if it was a single seater? I'm not an expert in thirties machines but it looks race-bred (no roof, no luggage or rear seat hatch) and the spare seems to be on the wrong side for an RHD car. Or, maybe more likely, it's a rebodied special...
Great spot, whatever it is. I'd love a shot of something like that.
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Sept 27, 2012 15:30:45 GMT
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Who is to say the "black box" might in fact be a dashmounted transmitter the size of a road tax disc that you display in the corner of your screen and the data downloaded every time you pass a ANPR camera ? It'll almost certainly be exactly that but I understand that the tests have shown that the data isn't always passed over because the speed varies from car to car or there's external interference from somewhere. The cameras themselves aren't enough to create a decent vehicle movement database or for real time road charging so there will need to be an NFC/RFID component to it. There's a big update programme to the PNC on hold at the moment because we're so skint but I gather that it sticks with the guts of the database from the 2007 update and that included tables for adding the unique IDs from car mounted transponders, they've been in the grand plans for ages. Obviously, there's the financial impact of us paying more to drive with this but I worry about the bad track record the government have with personal data. It's quite easy, for example, to get access to the DVLA data so insurance companies and the like having near real time access to your vehicle movement data doesn't sound like a great idea.
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Sept 27, 2012 15:02:33 GMT
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Liked on FB. Nice stuff. Loads of the pics on here are blocked by our office network but the Facebook content delivery servers are all allowed so I usually get my 9-5 daily dose of cars from there.
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Sept 27, 2012 14:45:00 GMT
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Have you got any sort of visible theft protection on it? The hidden switch is a great last line of defence, and has been worth it's weight in gold here, but maybe it would've been left alone with even a metal steering wheel lock?
One of my bikes was nicked recently and the other one was manhandled onto the road a couple of times before being abandoned. Since then, I've been using a couple of highly visible chains and disclocks and haven't had any hassles.
I know some steering wheel locks aren't brill and can be easy to defeat but this sounds like an opportunist rather than a targetted attempt to blag what is a desirable car. If they really wanted it, they'd have it on a truck.
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Sept 26, 2012 20:47:30 GMT
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Sept 22, 2012 13:12:16 GMT
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Have a bump because you took these pics around the corner from our house.
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Sept 21, 2012 23:19:49 GMT
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post-apocalyptic Stuttgart baha bug. You should trademark that. They're going to be huge in 2013.
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Sept 18, 2012 10:36:36 GMT
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I often see waste veg oil for sale on FleaBay, usually collection only and really cheap. For example: www.ebay.co.uk/itm/150900015772Obviously, it needs filtered and cleaned up before use. Not sure if it's just a local thing to me but I see it often enough that I've become used to seeing WVO when I do a bayCrazy search.
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Sept 16, 2012 20:29:34 GMT
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Hmm, now its a lexus, seems a dealer using ebay to sell cars outside it buy the description. Shame, I;ve not seen a Xedos 6 for years, used to look ace as touring cars "NO BIDDING REQUIRED, JUST CALL 07xxxxxxxxx, VIEW, DRIVE, BUY, SIMPLES. £700 BUYS IT" I've started to see that a lot while trawling for cars to post here. Things must be tough at this end of the market if the cost of an eBay ad is worth making a saving on. Jeez, that's a lot of Lexus for £700. Not the usual pearlescent beige with beige interior, too.
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Sept 13, 2012 12:53:48 GMT
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I'd be onto the bay too for the pump - even the laziest of helpdesk jockeys will know you can't send a pump 'loose' - it has to be packaged..... that and the time delay, fitting THEN complaining shows enough to swing it your way. I use eBay loads and have had this more times than I care to remember. It's not put me off but it's made me change how I do things. If you used a courier, try and get a note or email from them saying that they wouldn't have picked up a loose pump, it must've been packaged correctly to comply with their terms and conditions. That's worked for me a couple of times, it makes the complainant appear to be a liar and they'll usually side with you at that point. If you have the messages from the boy saying first that it's broken and later than he fitted it, I think you might be able to cast enough doubt on his story that they'll split the difference but it'll still cost you half the value of the transaction. Honestly, with this being the first time it's happened, you might just need to write it off and accept that you've been done over by someone who knows how to take advantage of the system.
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Sept 12, 2012 13:18:34 GMT
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I'm groaning at the space savers. My Dad did this once with an 80s Saab Turbo he sold (in the 80s) because he thought he'd be getting another one and they were neary new tyres. Of course, they sat in our garage for years...
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Sept 10, 2012 20:26:09 GMT
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I thought I'd had a few horrors but I've had nothing like that lot above. Thanks for beating me in all of those eBay auctions!
I went with a mate to get an eBay bargain from Newcastle, a taxed and tested Fiat Cinq for a few hundred quid. After getting the keys and docs off the bloke's Mum, we popped the bonnet and found the engine bay and everything in it covered in dried rusty dust. We thought CHG fail or some horrible thing so we had a cuppa at Sainsbury's and decided to limp it home. Took five hours at 40mph to get home (my modern TDCI got a staggering 72mpg trunudling behind the Fiat on the return leg) but after a detailed inspection there was no evidence of what actually happened. The Fiat was written off in a rear end accident years later and my mate got twice what he paid for it. He still bangs on about how brilliant it was.
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Sept 10, 2012 20:01:17 GMT
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Heroic fix, a great argument for not taking all of those bits'n'bobs out of the boot.
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Sept 10, 2012 19:51:39 GMT
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Didn't there used to be a specific category for vehicle ID without accompanying vehicle or similar? I've reported the new listing a couple of times using a couple of reasonable sounding options but none are specific to ID sales.
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Sept 10, 2012 19:48:07 GMT
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Looks brill. There's a daily driven one close to me. I spoke to the bloke who drives it, he says his wife took it from her former husband when she left him so she's technically the second owner. He said it gets "please sell this to me" notes under the wipers all the time but he seemed mystified about the attraction.
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