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General Car Chat / Re: An Hour to Kill so took a test drive in a chinky MG
« on: Yesterday at 23:04:33 »Just keep some marshmallows handy!
A bit of cheap white sliced bread on a long fork that becomes charcoal. Fond memories.
- 03 October 2025, 13:50:55
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General Car Chat / Re: Milk Float Ordered
« on: Yesterday at 14:18:13 »
That's a nice looking car Tunnie! 
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General Car Chat / Re: An Hour to Kill so took a test drive in a chinky MG
« on: Yesterday at 14:10:54 »
Just keep some marshmallows handy! 
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General Discussion Area / Re: Importing some parts from Spain. Question.
« on: Yesterday at 10:03:37 »Using UPS, and have had to answer various questions and provide information that's required for the paperwork. Calculated duty is €27, which is pretty much as expected.
Had to provide my NI number as my formal ID as well as providing the registration number for the company selling the parts.
Ah if only you had a Digital Starmer Card everything would be so much easier!
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General Car Chat / Re: Spotted
« on: 01 October 2025, 21:44:09 »
A 51 plate saloon in rare star silver with a noisy exhaust in Lidl Chard, Somerset at about 12.00 yesterday. 
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General Discussion Area / Re: Importing some parts from Spain. Question.
« on: 01 October 2025, 17:45:34 »I can imagine... Nearly got a migraine just thinking about itIf only we were part of...........
Careful you'll set TB off on one!
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General Discussion Area / Re: Blair,
« on: 30 September 2025, 17:49:23 »There’s no end to this knob
There might be if he sets foot in Gaza.
I expect he'll find comfortable quarters in either Egypt or Israel though. I believe he based himself at the King David Hotel in Jerusalem when he was Peace Envoy for the region.
Great job he did of that as well.
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General Discussion Area / Re: Blair,
« on: 30 September 2025, 13:58:23 »
King Tone I of the Blair Mandate for Gaza?
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General Car Chat / Re: So what have you done to your car today?
« on: 29 September 2025, 16:18:32 »
Even TPC has, ok, had
I did ponder another Volvo, 3ltr AWD V90 specifically, but I'd have had to have forked out another ten grand or so.....
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General Discussion Area / Re: BritCard
« on: 29 September 2025, 14:12:11 »
The Swiss have just very narrowly voted for Digital ID Cards, 50.4% for and 49.6% against.
Apparently the American tech company Palantir who are heavily involved in digital ID card systems worldwide, including the UK's proposed scheme, sponsored the Yes campaign.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cdr624j16jpo
Apparently the American tech company Palantir who are heavily involved in digital ID card systems worldwide, including the UK's proposed scheme, sponsored the Yes campaign.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cdr624j16jpo
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General Discussion Area / Re: BritCard
« on: 28 September 2025, 22:19:00 »I suspect that if you started a petition to hang Tone E B Liar for treason it would take off just as quickly.
Oh definitely.
I’m sure that Starmer has some mental issues.
He told an interviewer that he has 2 sons, one son of 15 and one son of age 13. He actually has a son and a daughter so that’s weird.
He then wanted his sausages returned, and now he thinks he’s Tony Blair and needs a digital ID to remind himself that he’s not.
His family must be so ashamed of him. Just imagine the shit you’d get at school if that was your dad.
That's probably why he has an injunction preventing the media from identifying or reporting on his family I expect.
One of 5 injunctions so I believe. One of the others probably relates to Ukrainian rent boys!
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General Car Chat / Re: So what have you done to your car today?
« on: 28 September 2025, 22:08:06 »Stuffed a few 6x3 fence panels in the back.Does the seat base lift out easily enough?
A couple of observations though, and how the design has changed from my old 1999 E39 530d Touring.
Firstly, the back seats don't fold so you get a flat load bed. On my old E39 the back seat pulled up and the seat backs then folded down into the hole giving a flat bed, as is the case with most estate cars. With the F11 the back seat is fixed and the seat backs fold over the seat and so the load bed angles up where the back seats are.
Secondly, the E39 had a really clever storage solution for the boot cover/dog guard cartridge*. There were two brackets in the back seat footwell and the cartridge easily slotted in and it was secure and out of the way when the back seats were down.
Progress!
* Don't know what it's called, but it's the housing for the boot cover and dog guard which are like roller blinds.
You might find that you can hook it out and rest it on its front edge with the backrests folded more flatly
It's possible that fold flat was part of an option pack, or if it has built in child seats that it deleted the ability to fold the base up...
I should probably RTM as there might be a catch somewhere that I haven't spotted.
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General Car Chat / Re: So what have you done to your car today?
« on: 28 September 2025, 17:57:17 »
Stuffed a few 6x3 fence panels in the back.
A couple of observations though, and how the design has changed from my old 1999 E39 530d Touring.
Firstly, the back seats don't fold so you get a flat load bed. On my old E39 the back seat pulled up and the seat backs then folded down into the hole giving a flat bed, as is the case with most estate cars. With the F11 the back seat is fixed and the seat backs fold over the seat and so the load bed angles up where the back seats are.
Secondly, the E39 had a really clever storage solution for the boot cover/dog guard cartridge*. There were two brackets in the back seat footwell and the cartridge easily slotted in and it was secure and out of the way when the back seats were down. On the F11, the brackets for the boot cover/dog guard cartridge are on the back of the rear seat backs. So if you need to use the whole of the space in the back when the seats are down, not only do the back seats not fold flat but the cartridge is in the way.
Progress! I'm sure TB would be saying that the designer should be taken out and shot in front of his family or something!
* Don't know what it's called, but it's the housing for the boot cover and dog guard which are like roller blinds.
A couple of observations though, and how the design has changed from my old 1999 E39 530d Touring.
Firstly, the back seats don't fold so you get a flat load bed. On my old E39 the back seat pulled up and the seat backs then folded down into the hole giving a flat bed, as is the case with most estate cars. With the F11 the back seat is fixed and the seat backs fold over the seat and so the load bed angles up where the back seats are.
Secondly, the E39 had a really clever storage solution for the boot cover/dog guard cartridge*. There were two brackets in the back seat footwell and the cartridge easily slotted in and it was secure and out of the way when the back seats were down.
On the F11, the brackets for the boot cover/dog guard cartridge are on the back of the rear seat backs. So if you need to use the whole of the space in the back when the seats are down, not only do the back seats not fold flat but the cartridge is in the way. Progress!
I'm sure TB would be saying that the designer should be taken out and shot in front of his family or something! * Don't know what it's called, but it's the housing for the boot cover and dog guard which are like roller blinds.