What car've you got though.
What car've you got though.
I'm a twit
nissan skyline
Car is fixed. It was the input shaft bearing, whatever the fuck that is. Also got a service. Pick it up Tuesday, thank fuck. Can't wait to have my bae back.
Your cars seem to always break, you must drive like a troglodyte.
If in doubt, flat out.
I bet it's all harsh acceleration, aggressive gear changes, and braking in a seethe.
Yeah for my company car, I treat it like a hire car, basically. When I got lost in the fog and ended up in Cowdenbeath by mistake I did a handbrake turn at a dead end and absolutely reamed the clutch.
When it's my own car I treat it like a high-class whore.
I have a set of winter tyres on my old Punto that my girlfriend's brother says should be fine for the Fabia I'm driving now.
I trust his judgement on this sort of thing but I don't really understand how you'd work out a suitable match. Those are 185/55/14 and the Fabia's current tyres are 165/75/14.
Passed the MOT this morning without even a single advisory, which has never happened before. If it wasn't for the fact I had to take it in at 6.30 and the inevitability of my car being totalled by a lorry later today, this would be the best car-related day IN THE WORLD.
Finally getting those winter tyres on today, which is very handy, as it's just started snowing.
Forgot to answer that one but yes, they should work just fine.
Shit I've just had an e-mail through asking if I've informed HMRC about my company car...LOL.
What do I do? Say yes and just not tell them or will I get crucified for that?
I've not paid tax on it ever so I'm probably due thousands of pounds.
How come your company don't deduct that when doing your pay anyway? Madness if you have to notify them yourself.Originally Posted by Magic
It wasn't from a Nigerian Prince looking for your bank details to register it was it?
Because they are fucking idiots. I could plead ignorance here and just say I thought it was taken care of but they'll probably backdate it.
I've read the onus isn't on the company but on you so I'm fucked either way.
Ah right. I can only go on here where it's taken at source but it probably works differently in the UK.
That said, my current payslip was showing I owe nearly €9000 income tax so I think the car BIK is the only correct thing in there.
In the most stereotypical islander thing to happen to me in a while, I obliterated a couple sheep on the way home tonight. Roads had been gritted for possible snow tonight and about seven of the stupid fuckers were across the whole road eating the salt. Would have struggled to avoid it in daylight as they were at the peak of a blind summit, so had no chance in darkness. Car seems to be fine thankfully but Jesus it stinks.
I've never hit anything living. Was it scary?
Didn't get time for much thought beyond, "oh fuck". The impact was surprisingly soft. Feared there would be more damage to the car but there's just a bit of the grill gone and a very slight dent in one side. I then discovered I was out of screen wash though so had to drive another couple miles in darkness with a screen covered in fat and blood.
What a chilling image that would have been had anyone seen you driving after the incident.
Fucking hell.
How fast were you going when you hit them or do animals tend to explode on impact?
Fantastic post that, @Toby. Did you not think it was worth checking whether they were dead, or was it obvious?
Lamb for dinner then?
I went back and hauled them off the road, they were very definitely very dead.Fantastic post that, @Toby. Did you not think it was worth checking whether they were dead, or was it obvious?
Probably still going about 40-50 on impact Niko but I think exploding organs is normal.
I jokingly asked a guy I know who drives an arctic truck if he'd been on that road today. Turns out he killed two as well...
Sheep are rubbish. Cows are, unsurprisingly, solid though.
Should you not tell someone that you've ram-raided half their flock?
It's land known as a "scattald" managed by multiple crofters, so there's no real way to know who actually owns them. It's a nightmare stretch of road because they're basically free to graze without a fence in sight.
So much for no damage... The brake warning light came on yesterday but I couldn't see anything wrong with them. Fluid level was fine and it went off after driving (very slowly) for a bit. I assumed it was just an electrical fault or a problem with the gauge, until this morning when I got to the end of my road and my foot went right to the floor when I tried to stop... Luckily I was going slow enough I could just slow it using the gears, and there was no other traffic around so I didn't need to stop completely anyway.
In the garage now getting checked over. I'm really hoping it's a quick fix as I've got plans tonight I'll have to cancel if I don't have a car.
The brake warning light came on and you didn't immediately stop and call breakdown? You risked your own life and the lives of others by driving on.
Nicely done.
I did immediately stop, and checked under the bonnet. There was no sign of anything actually wrong, so - as suggested in the car's handbook - I continued to drive slowly and carefully. It then went off again, so I drove normally and didn't put it to a garage. It's since come back on and I've put it to a garage to be looked at. Take your melodrama elsewhere.
Also lol at the idea of there being a breakdown service here.
Would you even know what to look for? Can you show me any car handbook that says continue to drive on carefully if the brake light comes on? The fact is you aren't facing up to your potentially huge, ignorant mistake as is shown by your flagrant dismissal of my previous post. Maybe when you murder a young family you will realise.
Well, if you have a handbook for a 2000-2007 Skoda Fabia handy you can look it up. It specifically says if the brake light flashes and it beeps three times, stop and check the fluid level, and that if fluid level is okay you should continue driving and "adjust your driving style accordingly". I did that, and then the warning went away again. It's come back on, so the car has gone to a mechanic to get properly looked at.
Piss off with your talk of murder you fucking housewife.
I'm literally on an island where people drive - legally - without MOTs, btw.
I bet there are over a million cars out there without an MOT or tax or anything, look at the gyppos too.
Half of them break down on the Forth Road Bridge.
Yep.
http://www.thedugout.tv/community/sh...postcount=9424
You utter swell.
I once drove just over 8 miles with no brakes in my Peugeot 106.
I'm not sure why my brakes stopped working though because they were fine the next day.
I love how magic can go from a sewer dwelling rat who takes the utmost pleasure in people getting manfled, yet can still get his scanties in a bunch about this. Melodrama doesn't even touch it, if there was an accident he'd be the one lolling at the injured and photographing the corpses.
If I had a brake warning light come on I'd be too paranoid to do anything, I had the general diagnostic light come on which made me shit myself until someone confirmed it was a bad connection with the still-working rear indicator.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england...yside-34986092
Holy fuck. Looks like the first car realised and tried to move out the way but not fast enough.
The guy I sometimes work with drives while I eat my dinner, and he's absolutely reckless. I hate it.
He has 12 points - 9 for speeding and 3 for being on his phone, and yet he still does both.
I just stare into my lunchbox and hope we don't die in the fifteen minutes a day that he's driving.
I'm a twit
It's hard to take heed of motorway warnings signs when the majority of the time it's information that would have been handy 6 hours prior.
Well useless gantry sings like 'BELT UP' and 'WATCH YOUR SPEED' are utterly useless but 'DELAYS AHEAD' or 'OUTSIDE LANE CLOSED' or the smart motorways are actually pretty fucking handy, even if said incident has expired.
In light of my recent wallet raping, I feel I should post this to make everyone feel better when they get a surprise £100 bill for the car-
But still, every one of those miles is
What a sad cunt you are. You should be driving a Dacia Logan MCV or whatever it is if you're the type of wet weekend that has a spreadsheet like that.
I like to remind myself how much I've thrown into a pit.
Why? That's the whole point of owning something you can't afford.
Where did he say he couldn't afford it?
Yes, being able to afford bills doesn't make them any more pleasant when they come round.
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