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Post by WDB on Jun 15, 2017 15:52:58 GMT
Bad luck,Vić. Doesn't your E have the push-pull speed limiter switch on the cruise control? Seldom use it on mine but it's perfect for gantry-controlled motorway limits.
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Post by Humph on Jun 15, 2017 17:09:01 GMT
That C class is beige Al. You don't want to look like a middle aged Mancunian Surveyor do you? Bad luck on the NIP thing. Easily done ( I'm told )
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Post by WDB on Jun 15, 2017 17:27:52 GMT
Nothing middle-aged about that C; it has belonged to a properly old man. Even the steering wheel is brown, for heaven's sake!
I've noticed something similar while poking around for a CLS. I like non-black interiors, but find one of those and the odds are that there'll also be (a) a sunroof, (b) antique-sideboard veneer, and - worst of all - (c) bits of shiny wood in the steering wheel rim. You can just about see where the valeters have scrubbed out the marks left by think-soled brown shoes, a beige Harrington jacket and a trilby on the rear shelf.
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Post by tyrednexited on Jun 15, 2017 17:38:34 GMT
That C class is beige Al. ...he could always start a taxi service to help pay for it......... |
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Post by Hofmeister on Jun 15, 2017 18:04:29 GMT
Huh? What's the electric seat stuff about? I'm surprised at the NIP, I don't remember failing to slow in time for any overhead gantries and don't recall any flashes. Although that's not good either as it implies I wasn't paying enough attention, seeing as I got the NIP. A wake up call, bang to rights, all that yes, but still grates to get done for doing 48 on a flowing motorway. Whats your phone? Android? play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.pocketgpsworld.cameralert Been using this for years, I consistently drive over the limit, (by a fair old margin) never been done. (well I have but as it was 1984, before cameras, it does not count) |
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Post by Deleted on Jun 15, 2017 18:21:42 GMT
That C class is beige Al. You don't want to look like a middle aged Mancunian Surveyor do you? 😉 He certainly wouldn't want to look like me. He would be having to chase off hordes of attractive women desperate for the chance of a ride in a quality six cylinder vehicle. |
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Post by Humph on Jun 15, 2017 18:25:20 GMT
Hen nights?
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Post by WDB on Jun 15, 2017 18:54:04 GMT
He certainly wouldn't want to look like me. He would be having to chase off hordes of attractive women desperate for the chance of a ride in a quality six cylinder vehicle. ...whose owner, they deduce from the colour, is already in his mid-eighties and may be a good target for the Nicole Whassername treatment. 😈 |
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Post by Humph on Jun 15, 2017 19:16:34 GMT
Do you ever notice German tourists in Manchester trying to flag you down Espada? Easy enough mistake for them make after all...
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Post by Deleted on Jun 15, 2017 21:47:25 GMT
Ho Ho Ho..... there is no lit up sign on my car.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 16, 2017 8:46:11 GMT
I like old geezer spec in cars. Browns and beiges, lovverly. Also added bonus that fashion and image obsessives won't touch them, bringing the values down a tad. Brill. That C has been priced down from 11k to 10k already. If it falls further, well, maybe......otherwise, no loss. This is the ultimate colour/interior combo for me:
www4.autotrader.co.uk/classified/advert/201703223566490
Wanty McWantface.
The reply is already back from Gwent filth: offer of an awareness course. Advice on here was correct, I can take the course locally. Thanks for the app link, Noggsterooney, I'll have a shufty.
Yes, WDB, my car has the cruise stalk. Wouldn't have helped me notice the 40 signs, though. Might even have meant I went past the first camera faster than 48 as I'd have lost time faffing. Not a great fan of cruise, usually only use it in France on empty autoroutes. Pain in the arse in the UK, south of Preston.
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Post by WDB on Jun 16, 2017 8:59:28 GMT
Hmm. Even I'd struggle with that much brown. I've pretty much got my ideal combination in the Chariot; might, I suppose, be a bit much in a bigger car.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 16, 2017 10:52:19 GMT
Gorgeous! I'll have it. only 110,000 miles. Great for Humphs new car.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 16, 2017 21:20:04 GMT
What's with all this 40 nonsense and calling it a motorway ? I had a similar mishap a couple of years ago, A1 Newcastle bypass was opened with a 70mph limit, after a series of badly designed junctions were added the main east coast road had it's limit reduce.
Also, where did the M25 go? I followed the SatNav which said I was on the M25 but was driving on a 40mph inner ring road by other country standards.
Keep going and professional drivers will be able to get jobs walking in front of automated cars as red flag wavers. How's that for progress?
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Post by Deleted on Jun 19, 2017 8:59:29 GMT
Yeah, BPG, couldn't agree more. Depressing. My speed awareness course is booked for next Wednesday. Sigh. Waste of time and money. I've done one before years ago, I'm well aware of the dangers of inappropriate speed, I'm all too aware though that inattentiveness is a bigger danger (my trips to the cemetery to visit my Dad are quite poignant reminders of this) and one which is ignored in favour of walloping people doing 48 on a motorway. FFS.
In other news, the windscreen was supposed to be replaced yesterday morning, but Autofarce called to say they had ordered the glass but it had failed to arrive in stock on time. So they're booking appointments and wasting people's time without knowing they'll have the material in hand to do the work. No doubt part of the "just in time" penny pinching approach to business these days, but never mind customer service we'll just fill our marketing blurb with bullshit rather than actually have a decent service in place. Shysters. No choice in who to use as these are the only glass company my insurers use. In knew they were wrong 'uns years ago when the did the shirt sponsorship of the football team from the dog track in Walham Green.
Yes, I'm feeling ranty this morning. I hate hot weather.
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