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  1. Tony Lockhart

    PFM's Picture a Week 2024

    That’s quite special :)
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    Sick of touchscreens in cars? Maybe good news is coming.

    I think you’re wildly overestimating the weight of wheels and tyres.
  3. Tony Lockhart

    Sick of touchscreens in cars? Maybe good news is coming.

    2011 (E82) so still first generation.
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    Sick of touchscreens in cars? Maybe good news is coming.

    Yeah, I usually talk to myself a lot while I’m driving ;)
  5. Tony Lockhart

    Phonography

    Spring-ish in Bury St Ed’s
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    Diet ideas - what actually works?

    Leave the fad diets well alone Don’t give anyone money for advice Move a bit more, preferably increasing your heart rate, and making you sweat a bit Cut down on carby stuff: beer, pasta, bread, potatoes, cakes. A lot. Find a hobby that involves walking. You’re gonna drop dead anyway, so...
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    Sick of touchscreens in cars? Maybe good news is coming.

    I had no issues getting comfortable in a 1-Series coupe, and I’m 6ft 4, 100kg. Yes, it was cosy in there, but I liked driving that thing except for the awful runflat tyres.
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    Road Tax question - help needed please

    Perfectly feasible. Just don’t forget :)
  9. Tony Lockhart

    Road Tax question - help needed please

    Well, I think I’d do it that way.
  10. Tony Lockhart

    Road Tax question - help needed please

    And a couple more replies: “Had the same situation with a car I bought, because the luxury tax ran out in 5 months I could not tax it via monthly direct debit, had to pay for 6 months or 12 months in full but the price took in to account the change in price after the 5 months.” And “ Nope, if...
  11. Tony Lockhart

    Road Tax question - help needed please

    From another forum “Don't know about DD but if you buy the tax for a year the rate is calculated at x mnths of the high rate and y mnths at the low rate, add them together and there's you tax bill. So I assume (but not certain) that paying by DD, the above calculation will be done and then...
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    Sick of touchscreens in cars? Maybe good news is coming.

    Even the little Vauxhall Corsa EV is over 1,500.
  13. Tony Lockhart

    A light-hearted what would you change if you could thread

    Take car interiors back to 1999. They were ace. Buttons, switches, well dead good dials and gauges, and I love knobs. Miss out the period of promoting diesel engines in cars, just keep pushing petrol engine tech while improving ‘alternatives’. Go back to 1999 and get Ukraine into NATO.
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    Sick of touchscreens in cars? Maybe good news is coming.

    And as much as I’d love all cars to come in at less than 1,500kg, it would be an expensive rule to implement. A Golf can come in at 1,600kg, and a Pug 308 SW can hit over 1,800kg. It’s not as if you can sit in any of these cars, look around, and say “Yeah, I can remove 500kg by taking out that...
  15. Tony Lockhart

    PFM's Picture a Week 2024

    It’s a little complicated, but: The E model contract is run by a different company. The MoD is extremely short of money. Without the cash, the MoD can’t give anything more to the new contract company, and so the new contract company can’t recruit. Everyone involved, especially the army, wanted...


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