Quote: sootyj @ 11th December 2013, 12:26 PM GMTYou rich bastard, you buy your daughter a panda, and then you buy it a onesie.
That or it's a onesie made from a panda, in which case your a monster.
Clever soots - all of the above is true...apart from the rich part.
Not a soul online...is everyone stuck in the fog?? I felt like I was in The Others on the way home this evening.
No fog down here in Brighton, in fact it reached an unseasonal 12c in the sunshine today; not sure if that's what I want at this time of year, really.
Ben took his car to the garage today as the exhaust has been noisy for a few weeks. He was relieved to find that the fault was simply a clamp which had rusted away. Part supplied and fitted for £5.00. Result.
Could have easily stayed in bed.
Great Ben, my chap put special 'heat resistant' binding tape around his exhaust.. bingo! passed MOT..result!
Better than the bungling buffoons I took my last car to for a new exhaust.
They are a National company too.
The mechanic (I say mechanic - no qualifications I was told later) had to use the acetylene torch to remove some nuts and bolts (that's quite normal)
While he was holding the burning torch to inspect whether he had got the bolts off, I saw him accidentally run the torch across the back tyre. There was a huge cloud of smoke from the burning rubber.
He replaced the exhaust and did or said nothing about the burned tyre.
even though he knew he had done it.
He then gave me the keys and said 'there ya go mate'
I said what about the burnt tyre - he of course pretended to look puzzled.
When I got down to look I was really shocked. It was a wonder the tyre hadn't exploded. There was a foot long score mark right down to the last layer. He thought I wouldn't see it as it was on the inside.
He was going to let me drive away with it like that!
The manager was very nice and also very afraid that this would go further. As compensation they put four new top of the range tyres on my car and that was the end of it.
But I did shudder occasionally as I do a lot of motorway driving. 'If I hadn't seen him do it.
Ben is having a few ales tonight.
That is frightening. It seems a lot of people are more concerned about looking out for themselves and staying out of trouble than doing a decent job, even if that means potentially causing a car accident 
Quote: Stephen Goodlad @ 12th December 2013, 9:23 AM GMTBetter than the bungling buffoons I took my last car to for a new exhaust.
They are a National company too.
I had problems with Kwikfit, who might as well be renamed Shitfit.
In M & S today the queue was full of people lending their 20% off coupons to those of us who didn't have any. Saved me £8 and the woman who lent me it was then keeping it for her daughter. I was quite surprised the staff couldn't do anything about it as just about everybody in the queue was ending up with (the loan) of a voucher.
Aww
Aw, that's nice!
Did they forget to make it a one-use voucher? D'oh.
No. They seem to be sending them out regularly - presumably to card holders. A few weeks ago somebody I know gave me one, and you could use it as often as you liked up till the expiry date.
