OT Car insurance rise?

[Jim GM4DHJ ...]

the bastards charge you per litre and give you it in bulk...bastards

[Jim GM4DHJ ...]

stuff rotating tyres

[Ed Pawlowski]

Considering you interact with Peeler you'd not know to rotate tyres and the reason for it.

[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?

[Steve Walker]

I prefer not to rotate the tyres. That way I hopefully only have to replace two at a time.

[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.

[whisky-dave]

That's rubbish, when my friend and his misses he drives to the pub, he has 5 pints she doesn't drink so drives home and I get a lift home, pre-covid that was of course. Not done it recently.

[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.

[Steve Walker]

In the vast majority of couples I know, the man drives almost all the time. It is why I have never trusted figures showing men to be more likely than women to have serious accidents, as women often drive much less. At peak, I did 57,000 miles in a year; I averaged 18,000 to 20,000 for many years, dropping to 15,000 in more recent years - my wife has never exceeded 2,500!

[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.

[The Natural Philosopher]

Flat spot Steve, eh?

[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.