July 2007
In Gatwick Tesco (at Hookwood), yesterday I saw they had the above. Any comments? Wonder who makes it? Can't yet give you the API/ACEA numbers, needed a pencil. Read more
I saw this on one of the e-Bay discussion boards; words fail me! For obvious reasons I haven't linked directly to the thread in question but if anyone wishes to read it and the subsequent posts, it is on the "Family Home and Garden" board.
If any of the police officers who use HJ would like to post advice to help the OP on e-Bay get this idiot sorted out legally before anything happens to the child, but are not registered on e-Bay, I am happy to copy and paste if asked to do so. Certainly the behavious described is the most unbelievable I have seen described for a long time.
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Morning all,
For the past few weeks I have seen a mother driving her daughter to school with the daughter aged about 5 totally leaning out of the car window with no seat belt on, she never has had one on and i have been trying to stop her for weeks, even my 7yr old covers her eyes when she sees her.
Well this morning her daughter was sitting yes sitting on the window plastic with one hand on the roof rail!! I was gobsmacked. She was driving so close over the line in the middle of the road, the little girl then leaned backwards with one hand and a car coming the other way swerved and ended up going up the curb scared she was going to hit the little girl.
I thought enough is enough so I followed her to the end of the road and when we got to the junction I quickly got out the car and tapped on her window.. I said what had just happened and that it almost caused an accident and she opened the door onto me hitting me with it and told me basically it was none of my business and that I should ( expletive deleted ) and that the other car should watch where they were going. she then slammed her door and sped off with the daughter still hanging out the window.
I went to the other car and it was a heavily pregnant lady who was crying her eyes out. It took a while to console her. I have phoned the school the little girl goes to and have left a message for the headmaster to phone me back. I will try and get her registration when she next zooms up the road, do you think the police would do anything about it? I have to do something, if anything were to happen to the little girl I would not be able to forgive myself for doing nothing.
What can I do?
I am very angry with the mum and upset and totally shocked to be honest.
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does anyone out there know where i can find the cable i need to plug a creative zen into the cigarette lighter in my car - it needs to be quite small or something with a long cable because there is only a really small amount of space between the cigarette lighter and the bottom of the centre console - somewhere preferably on the net would be good Read more
blondiebombshell, you might want to check your email inbox at some point. It will explain where your other questions on this subject have been moved to.
And while we're on that subject, the replies to this question have been moved there as well (click on the link in Pug's post). I would be grateful if instead of asking the same question yet again for the 4th time, you take a couple of moments to use the forum search (just under where you log in / out) to find out whether your question has been deleted or moved somewhere else.
Thankyou, DD.
I've read that the Government choose to continue the toll for the Dartford crossing (even though the crossing was paid for in 2003, so the toll should be lifted).
Their reason is on the grounds of safety, in that removing the toll will increase traffic locally above the route's capacity.
Do you believe that would happen? I mean, where are all the people who are currently not using the crossing because of the toll going?
Whether the toll's there or not I'd still use the crossing but it does seem like another way of raising revenue.
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Wotspur, I doubt the French would revolt - they are well versed in paying tolls, but at least they get decent roads in return for their 'investment'.
Loss of control is the greatest contributory factor in fatal road accidents. I'm trying to find out why people put themselves in a situation where loss of control might occur.
Loss of control occurs when driving task demands exceed capability. It is experienced as a fragmented degradation of control, and felt as fear. At one end of the scale it could simply result in you momentarily having to drop secondary tasks like looking in the mirrors - at the other end of the scale it could result in you skidding off the road.
I lost control when I reversed round a corner into a parked car. I wasn't really paying attention, and I was trying to conduct the manouvre too quickly; I was probably showing off to a girl I had in the car; it was dark; and the other car was parked illegally. I know - pretty stupid.
I'd love to hear of the circumstances around which other people have 'lost control' or felt 'fear' whilst driving.
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After I first passed my test , many decades ago, I used to frighten myself with quite alarming regularity: Like, quite severe fright, of the "O my God, I'm going to die" type.
I noticed that I used to get a metallic / coppery taste in the mouth: Why was that?
It wasn't until I took motorcycle lessons some fifteen years later that I realised what a really poor driver I was: I had passed my car test at 17 having been taught only by my father, never having had a "proper" driving lesson.
Another Gem from the portals of AOL.
Will it soon be law in this country to cover your females in a blanket during transport! ;-)
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Well, this does surprise me, Germany of all places. It's virtually compulsory on any German beach or park to be naked & their 'family' or general interest magazines have always been keen promoters free body culture (well, being starkers to you or me..) - I've fond memories of feverish schoolboy interest in copies of 'Stern' magazine (general interst, topical weekly) in the 60's & 70's - it was the equivalent of a saucy girly mag. here. Mind you, as this happened in southern Germany perhaps the the more buttoned-up southern european Italian/Swiss ethos still prevails.
I am in the process of changing my car and again have experienced total apathy from dealers about a full service history. The vehicle has a complete main dealer history and every receipt from new (3.5 years) but both main dealers who I have approached for p/ex were not the slightest bit interested. Both told me it has no real effect on the p/ex value nor were the slightest bit bothered about seeing the history documentation. This exact same scenario happened when I purchased this car and part ex'd the old one in 2004! It makes me wonder about the necessity of maintaining that nice neat row of dealer stamps to keep up the value of the car when it has no bearing on what I am offered for it. Having said that, when I called their bluff and said that I may as well bin the history there were a few stutterings of "no need to do that sir" but neither did they say it would reduce their p/ex valuation on my car. Can someone explain this?
I will always maintain a vehicle to manufacturer guidelines but with the light usage it gets I sometimes wonder why I make the effort. It all seems to be geared around future owners and to show them how well the car has been cared for, but if dealers don't care then why should I? Read more
>>> From experience, it tends to be the less knowledgable drivers who take their out-of-warranty cars to a main dealer for routine servicing. This makes me wonder how many times the bonnet's been lifted between services for level-checks etc.
I've used independents and main dealers for routine servicings over the years. Perhaps I'm in the minority here, but I've had far less to complain about with the latter.
The bonnet gets lifted from time to time, as well.
Clk Sec
What should a service for a vehicle of this age/mileage entail?
I have no idea when the last service was and the timing belt has no date sticker on.
I think I could probably manage to change all the filters, replace sparks and change the oil myself but if the car needs a service anyway, would I be better off leaving it for when it gets serviced? Read more
do what you can yourself and save some brass
the belt does want doing if no records as if it goes your engine will go pop.
Got parking ticket in loading bay in high street today signs placed on shop wall not on post by parking bay. No signs on road in parking bay or on kerb. Can anyone point me in th direction in which i can find out the leagl placeing of parking signs, ie should they be on shop wall how high the should be from the ground that sort of information .I looked for signs when i first parked but did not think they woud be on wall of shop. Thanks
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www.parking-appeals.gov.uk/about/adju_process.asp
A high proportion of parking appeals are successful. Give the jobsworths a run for their money - make them work; fight them and they will back off, like all bullies. Go for it!
The other thread about the position of the tax disc has reminded me to air my particular windscreen gripe. My Audi windscreen was cracked and so I needed a new one. In one way this pleased me because I had always been slightly irritated about the glass maker's name bonded into the screen about 3 inches from the bottom on the right of the screen together with some symbol or other bonded in about 4 inches from the top and 2 inches in from the right. So I hoped I'd get something better.
That small higher one had me forever wondering where that low-flying aircraft had gone just after I'd seen it out of the corner of my eye.
Grrrrr....
The new windscreen has the same two obstructions and maybe even a little bigger this time. It must be the UK's way of getting the wrong end of manufacturer's cost cutting. We don't get RHD screens.
On LHD cars the symbols would be a long way away from the driver's usual line of sight and one of them at least covered by a tax disc or similar.
Another reason to buy Japanese?
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Thanks for the tip Garethj. Trouble is there's no room with all those little dolls and the football scarf I've spread across the dashboard. At least the hanging fluffy dice and air freshener hanging from the mirror stop all those nasty reflections of the gold tissue box on the back parcel shelf.
PS Q. When was the last time you put parcels on that shelf?
A. Same time I put my gloves in the glove compartment.
Browse
2litres? They're robbing dogs!