OT Car insurance rise?

[Jim GM4DHJ ...]

stuff rotating tyres

[Commander Kinsey]

Never underestimate the stupidity of the UK's DVLA, headquartered in Wales, an even stupider subset of Britain.

I think those are the same thing. Here, the registration number belongs to the car. In the USA, and I think in australia too, it belongs to the owner?

Anything controlled by the government is f***ed. People who can't get a job in the private sector work for the government.

Which is easily filed off, altered etc. I've seen them on a little plastic tag at the bottom of the windscreen, easy to change.

We didn't used to be either, but our commie government are getting very control freaky.

Not here, they still send it by post, when they get round to it.

Only our insurance stops you doing that here. But I think if you pay more you can drive other's cars.

But the problem above was the pound not knowing it belonged to him.

Yeah we've started that now, although it's very slow. I was pulled over by the cops as a goodwill gesture to remind me my MOT was expiring tomorrow. It wasn't. I'd renewed it 5 days ago. But the cop admitted it takes a week for their system to copy the data from the DVLA, and that I should carry the paperwork for the first week. I told him I wasn't going to do his job for him. He got very upset and only left when he saw 4 brand new tyres and said "I'll give you the benefit of the doubt as it looks like you'd had it done".

Have you ever been here? If so why the hell would you want to?

[Commander Kinsey]

So the land of the free still exists somewhere?

[angelica...]

Not all of us. I'd never buy in an HOA.

Cindy Hamilton

[Commander Kinsey]

You assume that's something anyone can do. I'd prefer not to get oil all over me and the driveway. I have no idea how to change those things. I can fix electrics, wiper blades, tyres, etc. But not brakes or oil. Everyone has different skills.

[Commander Kinsey]

Good way to spot a cowboy garage. When they give you a quote, ask them if they'd mind fitting your own parts. If they refuse, they were after some severe markup.

[Commander Kinsey]

Seems he's cleverer than you. I assume he didn't crash? If it's really heavy rain you're actually better switching them off, as you can see clearly through a thin film of water better than if half the window is covered.

I switched on the wipers of my Ford Sierra once and one of them detached and flew across the road. My girlfriend at the time found this hilarious.

[Commander Kinsey]

That's an absolutely pointless thing to do. You're going to give x amount of wear to the tyres by driving, who cares which one it wears? In fact rotating them ensures you have to change them all at once, providing you with a bigger bill.

[Commander Kinsey]

Cheaper not to service it until something breaks. You're replacing a part that was still functioning.

[Commander Kinsey]

Same here. I bought two smart phones a couple of years ago. £20 for the first attempt, brand new. Ripped off fake s**te, I complained and got it for free, then removed all their malware, rooted it, put a firewall on, and have a free phone. £40 for the second attempt, one minor fault they couldn't fix, which I later did, they gave me a tenner back, so £30 for a phone with the same specs as a £300 Crapple Iphone.

[Commander Kinsey]

I've run a car for 100,000 miles without an oil change. Once they get old enough to need new oil, they tend to burn some off or leak it out anyway. And if the oil isn't pumping round properly, you get a warning light.

It was you that posted in here a few years ago that you never service cars.

[Commander Kinsey]

They have that shit here too. M'colleague has a house where he wasn't permitted to install a satellite dish. He installed a transparent one and was allowed.

[Commander Kinsey]

I used this excuse to put myself as a second driver on my neighbour's car. Quite funny as he's T-total and I'm nowhere near.

[Commander Kinsey]

A neighbour of mine allows his wife to drive. She's bloody slow and always holds me up. He was not amused when I overtook her and hooted, and came round to my house to complain. I asked him why when there was a man in the car that the woman was allowed to drive. He stormed off in a temper saying he had a dashcam. I reminded him that dashcams aren't calibrated for speed.

[rbowman]

I had an old truck I seldom drove so it sat in the parking lot at work. I went out one rainy day, started it up, and turned on the wipers to find they were missing. Now that's some sort of low life thief.

They also tried to steal the cassette player and didn't realize you pushed down a tab and it slid out. They got the bracket half off and gave up. Probably time to make it to final call.

[rbowman]

I run studded tires in the winter. I mark them and rotate them when I change. over in November, same with the road tires in the spring. Close enough.

[rbowman]

More or less. The Feds pressured us into a speed limit a while back but outside of town it's mostly ignore.

State law prohibits RealID, vaccine mandates, and other crap. Firearms up to 1.5" for smokeless powder are legal although there is a clause that it must be man portable. No crew served weapons. If you want to use black powder and build a cannon it's strictly how big are your balls?

I think the Feds studiously ignore the state. They really don't want to come here.

[rbowman]

Fun they were. I liked the Sprite. I was over 6' in my youth so getting out of it amused bystanders. Actually it was roomier than a friend's Healey 3000. I lusted after a TR3 but it never happened.

I sat in a Toyota 86 but sanity prevailed...

[alan_m]

It may be counter productive in terms of safety. All tyres wearing at the same rate possibly means that all 4 are down to minimum tread depth at the time of renewal. On my front wheel drive car the fronts wear down at a faster rate than the rears so at the time for the fronts to be changed there is still plenty of tread left on the rears, which happens to be the safest configuration for front wheel drive cars. If rotation is to be performed it is possibly at this time it should happen - the new tyres on the rear and the other tyres swapped to the front.

I very much doubt that rotating tyres during a yearly service us a normal dealer or garage procedure in the UK.

Sods law - in the past 6 years all my tyre changes have been as a result of punctures in or close to the side wall.

[alan_m]

As I'm getting older I no longer do my own oil changes but I will avoid a main dealer for the task.