al4x
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Personally I don’t have an issue with putting down animals by shooting. It does need to be done properly and most old keepers would have taken their old dogs for a last walk.
min this instance they aren’t possible to re home and so once they can’t cope with a full day they have effectively finished their useful life.
Though I couldn’t do it I wish I could when the time is right shoot mine as doing it in a wood when the dog knows nothing strikes me as much nicer than going to the vets they hate visiting -
We had a new one this year and fitted a Charnwood island 1 and I’m really impressed with build quality and controls. The one thing I had forgotten is don’t wait for a cold night to run it for the first time….. we did and the paint cures filling the place with smoke. Had I remembered I would have run it up in summer
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Does that cover Lepto as that is the one that seems to not last but be nasty if they get it
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It’s a **** time to buy, with that budget you are close to new pickup money but delivery times is the problem. My l200 lease is up in December and the first Navara they can get me is probably February, it’s driven the second hand market mad and the prices are ridiculous.
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Been there and had similar with one at work, in the end refunded £300 but that is only as the buyer started off on his own looking legitimate and when he turned up to collect it the rest of the family turned up in their transits children everywhere. The last thing we wanted was the lot of them back causing grief.
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Almost on this note but I’ve a fairly basic and fairly old pulsar HD19. We recently had an underfloor heating pipe water leak and it was close to finding the problem. It was easy to trace all pipes and in the end I had 3 areas I thought it might be. At that point I called in the experts and they did find it in one of the spots. In future had I got a damp meter as well and had I listened to the radiators I would have found it.
ours was worse as it’s an old house and no proper Dpm so it was going straight to ground
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Have a word with Dreweatts auctioneers they have a regular transport sale. We move a fair few from sales that they have and as you say the values can be high with recent ones being high 5 figures though they tend to be the larger ones.
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9 hours ago, Mungler said:
I’m not going to do the fixed rate.As for the stock market, with all that’s gone on, it’s a total mystery to me how it’s sitting at over 7000.
It’s a tricky one - I’ve no idea how or where anyone in retirement is supposed to get a worthwhile income from, and with real world inflation running way over interest rates, cash in the bank is costing you money as it devalues itself.
We’ve gone fixed rate on our last purchase but the 5 year rates were so good it was pointless not doing so. Personally I can’t see rates climbing much and would have stuck with a tracker had it been much cheaper
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We had to use a router on 4g for the last year…. We were in a relatives barn while we sold one house and looked for another. We would have had BT but the only line in meant a cable 10ft up across the main house front so got vetoed.
I tried 3 but couldn’t get it to work so went on giff gaff unlimited not as cheap but worked. Netflix and two children on iPads worked fine.
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Waze is definitely the way forward. Free and it usually has the mobile ones a few minutes after they set up, as well as all sorts of hazards and accidents as you can report on the app straight away
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Wd40 makes the plastic look good so it may not be untoward. Be interested what it’s like on fuel as I might have to get one when my l200 is up for renewal as you can’t get them any more
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11 hours ago, snow white said:
Hi lads thinking of buying a Nissan np300 auto it’s a 2017 model it’s got a tow bar on it i am a bit worried about tow bar do you think it would hurt the gearbox.
Thanks for looking Tony
They are built to tow so buy on condition. If it looks like an ex farm vehicle be a little scared but if it’s had usual use then I would take it as a £500 plus point as that seems to be the rate to fit a pickup tow bar. I’ve had a fair few now and touch wood never had gearbox problems
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14 hours ago, henry d said:
Ouch!
I was under the floor and in the loft of this one this morning, a re jig of the kitchen diner, remove old sliding wardrobe doors and inner, remodel the garden and build a new garden wall and we should have a very nice home we have the guarantee and safety certificate of the boiler which was replaced last year along with the guarantee for the windows that were done three years ago!
Sounds like you are going for it. To be fair it sounds different to the trash you get at auction down south. If you are local to it and know the area that is half the battle. A lot of the rest is common sense when house buying and depends whether you are stretching yourself or not and can cover any unforeseen issues.
We have recently bought a house as a long term project, I’ve done a few and I reckon had we let a surveyor near it most would have had a field day……But it’s the area we wanted and idyllic so we know we are prepared for what it has to throw at us. The worst so far has been leaky underfloor heating pipes….. but a few days with a sds drill and a plumber for 2 days has relaid the problem room and future proofed half the house.
Put the effort in and it will be worth it
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On the upside it wasn’t a red light and a double whammy
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16 hours ago, countryman said:
I still can’t get my head around the new Defender, if it proves to be reliable and not suffer from electrical gremlins I may get one later. I think considering what they cost you would be a brave boy to buy one at the moment.
You’d be brave to buy one out of warranty!
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They have just billed our lorry for a few days at the non compliant rate and that would make you sweat..... they have repaid it once they realised their error
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Think it’s about 10p on my l200 if you take maintenance then that is usually a similar or higher charge on top
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One thing I find makes the difference is heated seats..... seems to work wonders
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We used to have trouble with our stihl of certain cable almost getting hot and then breaking. Since using stihls better quality the problem seems to have gone away
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6 hours ago, foxbasher said:
Hadn't thought of that, do they keep records of the pieces they frame? I know their not worth mega money but I would hate to sell them at the bootsale for a few quid an then find out their worth a hundred or two. Their not old, i think one is dated 2008
Probably not records in that way, a few of the biggies have stopped trading in the last few years but that might be down to how expensive it got. I’ve seen bills for thousands to frame some not very big works. It’s just possible if they spent money on the framing then you could have ones worth some money. Some of the modern prints are going for silly money...... if you want to open your eyes have a look at Phillips auctioneers in London. Some proper varied modern “art”
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16 hours ago, ditchman said:
whatever you want to do............it is the worst time to do it.......it is definatly a buyers market and good stuff is going for a pittance..........so unless you have a few faberge eggs to off load...hang on to the stuff you have............
That’s not what we are seeing, we ship art and antiques from most of the major and minor auctioneers in the country and everyone I have spoken to can’t believe how well things are selling. We’ve never been busier, with these if you let me know where you are and what they are then I can probably suggest the best auctioneer option.
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Looking at that crud build up I’d think it was more related to the egr system as that looks like a build up of sooty deposits not burnt oil. If the turbo intake looks like that I dread to think what the egr setup looks like.
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Many thanks, that’s confirmed what I was thinking was the best way forward
Probably the best all round 4x4 pickup out there
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Nope but you can at least by a new one……. That’s the only thing that’s wrecked the L200