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  1. Fat Controller

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    Heated windscreens was a Ford thing initially, but when they bought the likes of Jag, Volvo & Aston Martin, Land Rover etc, that tech was then shared... thing is, they forgot to "unshare" it when they later sold all these marques and eventually gave up and made it free to use by anyoen and everyone.
     
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      I love my heated windscreen :)

      Mrs L has decided on the Skoda Scala. Tried a Kamiq as well but can't find one cheap enough. Almost zero bells and whistles though
       
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        Good motors the Scala
         
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          Jiffy The Match is on Fire

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          I'll keep you in mind, the 405 is worse codition than the 306, Miss Jiff was going to give it to her sister + her daughter but it was the ULEZ that put a stop on them having it

          At leesed my 405 is now green!!! but not environmentally friendly but colour green from being in the shade for to long :biggrin:
           
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            I used to have a Peugeot 306. It was fine until the electrics started to go - something to do with where the wires go into the doors. On mine the locking started to play up (wouldn't lock because it thought a door wasn't shut properly). Local garage (not dealer) wanted more than the car was worth to fix it - mostly labour cost I think. I tracked down the fuse for that circuit (in a second fuse box behind the back seat :scratch:), pulled it out and locked/unlocked each door with the key until I changed cars. For someone else I know who had one, it was the electric windows that played up.
             
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              Ach, that will wash off.

              I had a 405 as a company car back in the day - fabulous thing, despite it being relatively low specification... did a lot of happy miles in it. The 306 was for entirely different reasons - a girlfriend had one when they were fairly new and again, I just loved driving it. I've had a notion for a bit of a project for a while, but everything is either a complete basket case or folks are wanting thousands for something that needs about two grand to get it to move.
               
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              I try my worst to get 0 on the BBC news site Friday quiz, but I always manage to get 1 or 2. It was 2 today. Disappointing:frown:
               
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                I've only managed to get zero once - and that's when I'm trying! 5 today.
                 
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                  Peugeot.....an absolute luxury after an ancient Renault Clio.....I get to go topless at least three days a year :biggrin: DSCF0015.JPG
                   
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                  • BB3

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                    Great if you've bought a tree, too.
                     
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                    • BB3

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                      Celebrity I've never heard of has won a programme I didn't know was still running.
                       
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                      • Ladybird4

                        Ladybird4 I'm a gardener. What's your super-power?

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                        I agree with you completely about 'celebrities' @BB3. I feel as if I've been locked in a time warp as when I view any quiz or similar show where they talk of a celebrity special, I'm hard pushed to recognise one!
                         
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                          I always found real people much more interesting if I ever watched that kind of thing. The exception being The Chase.
                           
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                          "Pointless Celebrities" - indeed! :biggrin:
                           
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                          pete Growing a bit of this and a bit of that....

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                          It seems to be very easy to become a celebrity these days, they are, I think, part of a manufacturing process which generates money.
                          Half of them haven't done anything other than being a celebrity.
                           
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