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9 minutes ago, billytheghillie said:
Suzuki Vitara, 40+MPG and you have 4 wheel drive if needed.
One of the new ones? Which model are we talking and petrol or diesel? Thanks for the reply
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Ok guys this may take a while to write so bear with me please. I commute around 40-50 miles each way to work and my place of work is just inside this new ULEZ expansion zone. I used to have a diesel Vectra that I ran up to 234k miles before I got a new beast last year an A3 1.9 TDI. Fantastic on fuel and suits my needs for the motorway slog. The problem is it's not ulez compliant and I don't know whether to get finance on a newer, expensive diesel that meets the new regs or just get an old petrol barge that is average on fuel like a V70 2.4 petrol ( supposed to be bullet proof and do 40 mpg on a run) anybody else in the same boat as me? I'm reluctant to spend too much on the car as my mileage renders it worthless after 4 or 5 years. Just want a comfortable reliable car.
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Thanks all
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13 minutes ago, steve_b_wales said:
I had to make the decision to have my 17 year old Jack Russell put to sleep, 9 years ago. It was a hard, but right decision to make. Tell your friend to read the poem 'The Last Battle'.
Bloody hell just read that and it had me in tears.
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A good friend of mine and godfafther to one of my girls has had to have his spaniel of 13 or 14+ years put to sleep today. He was a lovely old boy and we used to beat on a local shoot together. I really liked his dog he was a pain in the backside sometimes. I can't imagine how he is feeling I've had to have one of my staffies put down but my wife had to take her I couldn't do it. My question for you guys is is there anything I can do. A bottle of something or just some kind words. Thanks all
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On 05/01/2021 at 15:11, strimmer_13 said:
While I agree to a point, it should me made mandatory to have a off road allocation for parking with every new build. It will never happen though, far too much money in land lost. In my mind this is essential if the goverment want electric cars dominating the road in a decade but that's off topic.
I dont know about insurance, but both mine are registered off road outside my garage even tho i have 1 space. Nobody checked to date
I agree with you but there is too much corruption in the local planning departments for that to happen. I tried to extend my 3bed house to a 4 bed but wasn't allowed due to not having one space per bedroom. So I moved across the road in my village into a new 4 bed house with two car parking spaces. You can't make it up and they wouldn't have that as my argument when I fought against the planners. Ludicrous
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4 hours ago, Vince Green said:
Good post
A good friend of ours was a ward assistant on a maternity ward at a South London hospital . She was moved to help on the death ward. (Thats what they call it). Yesterday she was washing and bantering with two women in their 40s both very ill but alert enough for a conversation.
Today both are dead, Our friend is giving in her notice tomorrow at her husband's insistence. This is not what she signed up for
I understand why he wants her to do that it's not good for your mental health to be around that much death and suffering. My wife is a paramedic and she struggles sometimes
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Guys I am a senior M+E engineer at a North London hospital that was designated to be a dirty (covid) hospital at the start of last year. It is one of the hospitals in the Royal free trust that was filmed for that tv series on the hospitals. I had covid early last year and still have a cough from it now. Whilst I realise that it is a big inconvenience for people to not be able to carry out their normal activities / lives. The first time around the virus was mainly putting people in the hospital in the 45-50 plus range that were unhealthy. This time around it is people my age in the 20 to 39 category. And it is spreading quickly my hospital is struggling badly and the lock down are to stop the spread so that the hospitals can cope with the influx of people. And the reason the hospitals are struggling is because people are visiting friends and family and passing it on without knowing it and also because around 50% of the nursing staff are off sick with it or are self isolating. Honestly unless you see what it is like for someone that has it you would never understand so I appreciate why people don't believe in it or don't take it seriously. The problem is you may catch it and be fine or even have no symptoms, or you could catch it and end up very very ill or even die. Its the viral load that dictates this and you cannot tell how much exposure you have because of the nature of it. So please everyone all of the NHS are exhausted. The holidays were cancelled and the nursing staff in ITU are still having nightmares at night. Stay at home and look after yourselves you can go shooting next year if we all live through this
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I grew up in St. Albans in Hertfordshire and my dad worked at Rothamstead research in Harpenden. In between my parents house and his work are a golf course and farmland. My brother came home late one night and as he pulled up at the garage In a garage block behind our parents house there was a large black German Shepherd sized thing he saw out of the corner of his eye as he went to unlock the garage. It made a wired noise when he whistled at it thinking it was a dog. When he heard that noise it made he jumped back into his car and sat there and watched it slink of to the end of the garages and jump up and climb over a 6ft fence. He woke my dad up and they went and had a look in the morning but couldn't see any prints or sign of it. Then my dad told us of rothamstead research, there are people living on the site and there was a bar there when he worked there. Anyway one of the residents was woken up one night by two guys banging on her door begging to be let in and call the police as they had been stalked by something as they were walking down this road through the site to get home. Another of the residents was sat in her living room one night when the security light came on in the black garden and she got up to have a look as it was very unusual for this to happen and she heard a loud bang as she just saw the back end of something big and black with a very long tail just going over the top of her fence. One of the farm hands swore blind he had seen one too and would not be out alone at night in the fields. There was a bloke in Welwyn Garden City or Welwyn village that used to own lots of exotic animals back in the 70s and lots of reports happened after the ban came in. Its not that hard to believe that they have bred and lived here since then. There is loads of habitat around and food for them to eat. A game keeper once told me that he saw one around Hertford way about 5 years ago. And I read a story of a farmer in Scotland found a dead one or **** one and buried it so as not to draw attention
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The problem with these new vehicles coming out is they are not really made for the people/use that they are advertised for. They are for the city folk in London who like or want the dream lifestyle of a country estate or to work the land. The people who actually do that can not afford 50k plus on a car that will be abused during it daily activities. My daughters godfather is a farmer and he drives a 54 reg suzuki vitara some of the other lads on the shoot all have pickups because they are cheap and are made for chucking stuff in the back. Its a shame because they would sell so many more if they made them at a decent price
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17 hours ago, Westward said:
My B-I-L is a bit eccentric, especially when it comes to spending money. He has very deep pockets and very, very short arms. He stayed for a week over Christmas and went home to his £1.5 million pound home near Hampton Court with exactly the same amount of money he arrived with.
The Prairie recently picked up an unrepairable windscreen chip. It took a week for Autoglass to find a replacement as there were only 4 left in the country. They even suggested it might not be economically sensible to fork out for a new windscreen on a 31 year old car but he insisted. It needs a new exhaust but there's no one still making them so his garage keep patching it up. The rubber door seals have gone hard and rain gets in so the footwells are always soaking wet. There's probably more but I haven't looked very closely at the thing. He's a low mileage driver who spends hundreds of pound every year getting it bodged up and of course £240 ish on road tax when it only worth scrap value, yet he won't entertain a more modern car until it either dies or fails MOT.
The thing is though the tax is supposed to be on emissions to protect the environment so really he's doing the best for the environment by running an old car if you look at the wider picture. If he were to buy a new vehicle that was free road tax most people think they're heroes and saving the environment but look at how much pollution is caused by the manufacturing of such a "clean" vehicle and then the real truth is revealed. There is the factory running, the staff driving to the factory to produce the cars, the countless lorries and massive ships transporting all the various components and all of those factories to consider. I think all of this taxation is more about getting people to buy newer vehicles and thus boosting the economy rather than actually trying to protect the environment.
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Welcome I'm just outside bedford not far from the black cat
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I thought that you had to shear sheep for their welfare so surely they should be pro wool
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16 hours ago, Rupert said:
How often do you go on a shoot day vs racking up commute miles? How much are you looking to spend?
So shoot days are every other Saturday in the season and I shoot with my brother also. And fish and camp. So mostly it will be up and down the motorway if I go down to one car if not I will keep my car for work and spend 3-4k on a 4x4 or truck or something like that to do all the outdoorsy stuff and was looking at shotguns because I really want a range rover but I can't be dealing with all the breakdowns that I have been told they suffer with
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Those xc70s do look lovely and the Audi allroads what would they be like during a shoot day I wonder and I'd be upset about getting in all wet and with filthy wellies going between drives. I really do like the look of them though and if I decide to go down to one car they will be what I look at I think I'm still not sure whether I want to keep my car for work and buy an additional one or go down to one car. 🤔🤔
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23 minutes ago, KronKron said:
Bit harsh, were you thinking for the wife, the kids or god forbid, the dogs 😁😁
I am in a similar boat myself and my thoughts keep coming back to a Subaru Forester, although I am not sure if it would fit 3 seats across the back, they are plenty large enough, have fairly good ground clearance for an estate/SUV and a more than capable 4wd system and not too bad on the MPG (for the diesel)
Oh yeah sorry I'll change that ha ha
25 minutes ago, KronKron said:Bit harsh, were you thinking for the wife, the kids or god forbid, the dogs 😁😁
I am in a similar boat myself and my thoughts keep coming back to a Subaru Forester, although I am not sure if it would fit 3 seats across the back, they are plenty large enough, have fairly good ground clearance for an estate/SUV and a more than capable 4wd system and not too bad on the MPG (for the diesel)
Thank you i will check them out. Heard bad things about he boxer diesel unit though
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27 minutes ago, Rupert said:
Volvo xc70 d5?
Full size estate that will take a 32 inch gun across the load area, D5 will do monster miles, and 4wd if you need it. Lower tax from 2012 for the 215 bhp version.
We have the 2wd version, its comfy, and roomy.not the best at anything,but very good never the less, we stumbled across an early low miler (hard to find sensible miles in these) and have not regretted it.
Thank you I will have a look
23 minutes ago, snow white said:Volvo Xc 90
Cheers👍
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So I do around 25-30k a year to work for which I use an 07 plate diesel vectra, which I am happy with. It has been faultless so far although is now fast approaching 200k miles. But i also have two dogs and three children and we go camping. I am looking to get a car which I can get three car seats across the back and two dogs plus camping gear in the back and I can take shooting/beating/picking up . I have looked at pickups but I don't think I could get there car seats across the back so have also looked at shoguns. My thoughts have been keep the vectra for work and buy a 3k ish shogun or similar for the other duties. Can anyone give me any advise on a vehicle to look at or should I get rid of the vectra and try to get one that will fit all purposes.
Sorry for the long winded post
Cheers all and happy New year
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I know that what im about to write is not abkut a range rover but im afraid all of these large luxury suvs are the same my neighbour has a 2011 bmw x5 with absolutely everything on it. Now she has had this car from brand new and has only done 40,000 miles. This year so far the brake light in the rear window failed costing over 600 just for the part!!!! and then it developed a fault with either the gearbox or the rear diff i cant remember which, this resulted in the car being at bmw for nearly two weeks and a bill of 4.5k and she didnt even get a bloody curtesy car. Now this car has never been off road and barely leaves the driveway. The only reason its got 40k on it is she has a holiday home in norfolk otherwise it would have maybe 10k miles on it. Now ive no idea how much this was new but that to me is disgusting from an expensive car that is serviced every year by bmw and somethinv to be weary of if you buy one second hand as they maybe affordable second hand but im afraid the running costs are not at all.
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Anybody got any experience of these a family memeber is looking into one and i thought id ask on here
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33 minutes ago, johnnytheboy said:
You’d be as well with the pick up, fuel economy isn’t much different
So fuel economy on these is not good either?
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Hi all I'm looking to change my car this year and need some help. I want a 4x4 or a pickup as I love them and need space for dogs and shooting and fishing but I do 30k a year up and down the motorway to work and back so do I
A. Forget about a 4x4 and get an estate car.
B. Get a small car to use for work like a diesel fiesta that will do a million mpg and get a truck. Or
C. Just get the most fuel efficient 4x4 I can afford.
TIA
Matt
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I will delete him and I have Facebook for keeping in contact with friends that I don't get much time to see now due to my work and family. I will try to upload some later.
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The file size is too big from my phone unfortunately and I don't know how to make them smaller as I am a carrot cruncher and don't do computers
Advice needed please
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So I work at a north London hospital very near to you if you are in Enfield right by the A1M and I live in Bedfordshire. I start at 6 am and finish at 3 pm so I won't be able to catch a bus and don't fancy the added time it would take and expense anyway.