Car theft is already one of the most common crimes going because its piss easy to nab a set of keys. Whatever the security is with this, it can't really make car theft much worse.
Car theft is already one of the most common crimes going because its piss easy to nab a set of keys. Whatever the security is with this, it can't really make car theft much worse.
Car theft was actually falling significantly until the clowns came up with keyless entry, aka an easy way for thieves to steal your car without entering your house to retrieve the keys. Glad mine hasn't got it.
Part of the fun with new tech, innit? They'll sort it and it will be far more secure than traditional entry eventually.
Looking forward to it taking 10 minutes of 2-factor Authentication to get the handbrake off.
Can see the headline now 'Ford employee opens phishing email, all 2021 onwards models locked out of use by ransomware attack'.
"It was like 9/11 but with self-driving cars."
I took my car for its MOT first thing this morning, and it failed as I knew it would; but because they never bothered looking at it until two o'clock, and are 'short staffed' tomorrow, and fully booked on Saturday, they couldn't guarantee me it could be fixed within the next few days. Why take the MOT booking then? At what point does the pandemic stop covering dogshit service?
I don't know if it does, this sort of feels like life now.
Heads have gone and about 40% of people have turned into totally useless pussies, to add to the 30% who already were. We troopers are in short supply.
I always thought the MOT booking was for just the test, they can't be expected to factor in required fixing resources too, can they?
They are meant to take it in the morning, let you know what's what, and then - if possible - fix it during the rest of the day. At least that was their policy last week when they said that they don't book slots, I just needed to bring it in first thing in the morning so they could fix it by close of play. Throw in the bins being collected randomly and seemingly everybody I know getting brushed/mistreated by Our NHS and you might be right about it being permanent.
It’s being blamed for some amount of price hikes. Well, that and brexit. I near shat when I went to buy some timber the other day.
Timber has been up for ages.
At what level of blokeness do you start calling it timber rather than wood?
I'm a twit
I'd say a reasonably high level.
It's up because they can.
It's up because the supply chain was disrupted and hasn't recovered, combined with half the population building their own wooden home improvements in their gardens when the pubs were shut/as a result of covid/because their neighbours have.
It's a few things. Shipping costs are 5 times higher than pre pandemic, everyone is spending money on their houses and driving up demand and production is taking longer because of covid protocols.
My local supplier hasn't got any sheets of MDF at the moment and a 3m length of studwork timber which used to be a couple of quid is £9.50 ex vat currently. That's the biggest supplier in the country.
It's a complete joke.
It's not just timber either, they've had long periods with cement, plaster, plasterboard, aggregates, plastic sheet products etc.
I ordered a composite door which would pre pandemic have taken 3 weeks from order to delivery, currently taking 12.
The yanks have also gone massively into house building since Biden came in, which is also driving up demand.
I was meant to be rebuilding a shed this summer. I priced it up last autumn, and the materials were about £400. About a month ago I went to order the stuff, and it was now close to £900 for the exact same materials. I've fucked it off until next year.
My little car needs a new ABS unit, which is a thousand quid, plus the rest of the (comparatively minor) MOT stuff. No thanks.
How much is the car worth?
It's worth about as much as new rear tyres I put on it in January and the remaining road tax. It had a good run. I got it for free, and it kept me off the bus for two years, so I'm not all that bothered.
I'm going to be leasing an electric car in about March. Does anyone have one, or have any recommendations?
I'd love a Tesla, but I doubt I could get insured on it with my lack of driving history.
Teslas are going way above odds at the moment because of their waiting lists, so, seeing as they're basically all the same at a mechanical level, why not just filter for price and pick the least gay looking one?
Aren't Tesla's a heap of shit? Saw something on twitter the other week about a guy being pleased with his new one because it only arrived with "minor manufacturing defects".
What's the budget? If all bets are off go for the Taycan.
The only requirement really is to be big enough to travel 2 kids and all the shit that comes with it (pram, change bag, etc). So the Taycan is out.
I don't want to take the piss with budget, perhaps £400 per month?
Tesla's are absolute dogshit, avoid. Not only is the build quality reportedly terrible (if it rains a lot where you live the model 3 bumper can just fall off lol) and the added extras being turned off when you sell it so the resale value is tanked (they sell them back to the next owner) but Elon thinks health and safety is for losers.
I read somewhere that if the battery catches fire the only way to release the doors and escape is to find the release lever - in the back seat. Never mind the self driving model 3 that killed it's occupant by detecting a wall and speeding up. Wouldn't even ride passenger in one of the fuckers.
£400 per month on a car
Lend us your magic carpet bossman.
I definitely won't be buying, so resale value isn't really a problem.
It's funny that I have no idea whether Taz is mocking £400 for being too high or too low.
It don't have motorised seatbelts so the white man would be at a loss with it.
Surely electric has to go via the company? Great tax dodge.
Merc EQC/S? Audi e-tron?
That Merc looks brilliant, but then again, I know fuck all about cars, having only been driving for 4 months.
The Ioniq 5 is reportedly fantastic. You do have to drive a Hyundai though.
Get the Chevy Bolt.
Stick with fossil fuels, you swine
Please.
I have a land rover discovery sport. We are a family of 4 and it suits us fine. Had an X5 before that which was nice, but once the kids are of an age and the buggy is not required, you don't need quite as much boot space.
I do prefer real Minis by a wide, wide margin, but the first of the new ones are also nice little cars. The more recent they are, the shitter they've become.