Designated parking spaces at superstore

Pimp or drug baron or cop?

Typical anti-BMW prejudice. I'm just someone who loves good engineering, and enjoys driving. I like working on my own cars, and for this BMWs are great.

Surely if the engineering is good then there shouldn't be any need to work on them, apart from routine maintenance?

Routine maintenance, and repairs when they get older. Mechanical components wear out, regardless of how well engineered something is.

Actually I had a 4 yr old car with 20000 miles on the clock and I was due to start a new job after being made redundant at 49 yrs old.

Guess what make of car it was that did a hit and run on mine while it was stood outside my front door.

Couldn't get to the new job so lost it and the car was a write off and I was only TPFT cos I'd cut the insurance until I found out what my new financial situation was. Never had a full time job again and every car I've owned since then has been over 10 yrs old.

Yes. You could say I'm prejudiced against BMW drivers just a teeny bit. I know its irrational but...

You need a rear window sticker proclaiming "I'm not like all the *other* BMW drivers!".

Sadly round here (NW London), cars are purchased (more like hire-purchased) for the bling factor.

They look great but not properly serviced or even driven. Some of the elderly female asian drivers can barely see over the steering wheel of their son's Mercedes supercharged 'kompressor' when driving it to the supermarket to look down at the other shoppers.

But I reckon dogs are the reason for the most damage of the environment. Two adults and two children are fine in a normal family sized car. The family buys a dog - and suddenly a gas guzzeling 4x4 or MPV is required.

Why? :-(

-- Adrian C

Now all they have to do is stock the products I want, which they never seem to have when I go in looking for things I would expect to find, like the right size of wood screw last week.

Colin Bignell

In other words, enjoys speeding and abusing other road users.

Beep beep! Out of my way!

The one I went to was a new "extra" store and its more for the basics of building/DIY rather than the pretty little shelf fillers for the numpty weekend wonders. Massive, well stocked and well thought out. But I agree that the range is relatively limited - but not to worry, there is a Screwfix counter not far away.

Generally everything was as cheap or cheaper than many trade on merchants I use.

But my best find, is that if you have a Paslode nail gun (first fix) this store sells Hitachi nails for this, and they are HALF the price of equivalent Paslode nails - not including the gas though, but still dead cheap.

dg

Grunff ( snipped-for-privacy@ixxa.com) gurgled happily, sounding much like they were saying :

But it gets a bite every time... "We laugh because it's true"

Ummm... So *why* drive a BMW? Massively underwhelming, imho. But that's for another place.

Probably all 3!

The e36 is an awful, awful car - possibly the worst bmw ever, certainly the worst I've driven. Reliable enough, but neither fun to drive nor a good cruiser.

If you want fun to drive, you want an e30 325i. If you're after a cruiser, an e39, 528i or 540i.

What about that nodding dog with the eyes that light up when the brake lights come on? ;-)

Well, how else are you going to deal with a slobberador who feels duty bound to wash the car windows on the inside?

A meek Reliant Robin driver would not know the difference between flaunt and flout :-)

Tony

That might go better in our other car, a 4.0 litre Jeep Wrangler.

(bring on the anti 4x4 comments)

I would love a suburban - there are loads now being imported and I really did enjoy having one, overseas. Unfortunately my granite gate posts would love one too. The clearance would be less than 2 inches.. There is a joke or two there. But, enjoy your Wrangler whilst you can...

The great thing about the Wrangler is that it's tiny - it's 2 foot shorter than a Ford Focus, and nearly a foot narrower.

The family buys a dog - and suddenly a gas guzzeling 4x4 or

Training, Restraint - or lash a kennal to the roof rack. Dunno, some folks have coped with normal size family estate cars for this sort of thing.

Great thing with a 'slobberador' if you can get it used to a diet including washing up liquid, you could spray the outside of the car with a 'dognip' compound - and get it licked really clean.

Hmmm.... Opps... Reality slipping...

Now, where did I put my tablets?

:-)

-- Adrian C