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Diesel cars here were already as rare as rocking horse poop. Be even rarer now but got to admire the guile of VAG.
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May have got the beeping sorted out, at last!
Dodgy connection somewhere under the chair, apparently. They told me they'd already bypassed one connection so I'm not sure why they didn't check the other one while they were at it!
Anyway, drove to work this morning and not a dicky bird. Lovely!
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Always used to 'Buy British' until it became more or less impossible.
Since then I've had Peugeots or Vauxhalls with varying degrees of performance!
You're probably right about buying Japanese but I only changed cars in May and was hoping I wouldn't have to do it again for a while. I don't enjoy dealing with car salesmen!
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Car dealers are about on a level with estate agents. they speak their own inflated language:
Full service history - four stamps when there should be eight.
Quality tyres all round - One bald Goodyear, one Vredestein on the legal limit, one cracked Bridgestone and second-hand Michelin winter on the other corner.
One lady owner - dad and two teenage son's ragged it up and down the bypass.
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A short excerpt from my book about my first car. A fuller excerpt will appear in the Star Retro section.
"...I had no inkling that all this was in store when, at the start of my second year at university, I decided to buy a car. It was a black, two-door 1947 Ford Anglia, license plate KWB 972—an old banger... it was a carry over from the pre-war cars commonly referred to as the “sit up and beg” variety. Mum dubbed them “boxy doo-dahs.” I called it “Tin Lizzie” after the original model T, though it wasn’t even in the same ballpark where class was concerned. Advertised for twenty-five pounds, I got it for twenty.
Tin Lizzie came with a crank handle that I sometimes used because the ignition starter rarely worked. Most times, I jump-started it by letting it roll in neutral down the steep hill that led down the street from our house then slamming it into second gear when it had picked up speed. Sometimes it didn’t start and I was stuck with a broken down car at the bottom of the street. The car had a vacuum-powered windshield wiper that tended to slow down or stop altogether when I drove over forty miles an hour. But I knew Lizzie’s limits and hardly ever asked her to go that fast. ..But, damn I loved that car..."
"God Save the King."
Not US EPA proof though
it's not hard to pull the wool over the eyes of a government or council official. Most of them are as thick as shit and work for the state because they can't get a real job 
I'm shocked that VW actually got caught by the thick twats that normally inhabit these institutions. After all, the computer said yes 
Bring back British Leyland .................. on second thoughts 
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