There is currently 1 person viewing this thread.
These 72 comments are related to the topic:
92 year old pensioner - check this
92 year old pensioner - check this
sort by:
Show
per page
Replies: 72
|
By:
All about whay you think you should pay and if you are being ripped off
Latter imv |
|
By:
Derv?
|
|
By:
Yes
|
|
By:
Anyone over 65 should have to re-take their test every 2 years, as well as an eye test. They are a danger to everyone, letting them drive EV's is utter madness.
|
|
By:
Never owned a car in my life and drove for a living too.
|
|
By:
CHAUFFEUR!!!
 |
|
By:
Getaway driver?
|
|
By:
Me thinks not enough miles getting done, VAG the wurstest if not going through regen every 200 or so miles choking up the egr, dpf issues, diesel in engine oil ect ect.
Take it for a decent run every 2 weeks, maybe you know all that but they a nightmare, he needs to get rid and get a petrol. Is it for sale? Pm me. |
|
By:
75 my car will be binned……tankers the length and breadth of the Uk for 33 years most of the carnage witnessed was young generation…..blind summit,hair pin too fast and mad overtaking resulting in thumping head on….
|
|
By:
ImSoLuckyLucky! 01 Jul 24 16:35
CHAUFFEUR!!! acey deucy 01 Jul 24 16:36 Getaway driver? Bus Driver. |
|
By:
Same bloke selling racing tips with lifetime subscription only a fiver
|
|
By:
I do not do garages. I take it to a working mechanic doing it in his own time or a retired one working for beer money. The work is excellent, and I pay more than the asking price eg a full service is £30 - I buy the parts; £20 fee to change one rear wheel bearing.
Some years ago I took my car into 2 garages for MOT; one kept me waiting for ages, the other refused to pass my car if I did not pay (£10) for the number plate bulb he replaced. But, he refused to show me the blown bulb. I paid as it was not local. |
|
By:
A lot of them grumble impossible when you ask for the old part…..tells you everything tbf
|
|
By:
^^ The bloke said he threw it away. And, I told him (I was at the garage) how ironic I only checked it yesterday; I just wanted him to know I knew his game.
|
|
By:
Lot of medical experts on here. if they're not, how do they know how old is too old to drive?
It depends on the individual anyway. Many drivers are never safe to drive at any age. The Queen was seen driving at the age of 95. The Duke was 97 when he packed up driving. Everybody is different. |
|
By:
Aye The Duke.
 |
|
By:
He did shout ''get out the bloody way''
|
|
By:
Well he might if he'd seen them.
|
|
By:
Probably drunk.
|
|
By:
|
|
By:
I'm not sure about garages unable to produce old, broken parts. I've heard surgeons express frustration at patients who demand their appendixes or whatever has been lopped off. Broken stuff gets thrown away. It might be a con but that would not be my first thought.
|
|
By:
I mean charging £10 for a small bulb without producing the faulty part was definitely iffy esp when the car owner was in the waiting room. On reflection the place was definitely dodgy. I saw latecomers - I was told I was 2nd in line - having the cars MOTd before mine (I'd see the cars entering the garage where I was waiting).
But, nevermind it was only MOT for a car; businesses operated by dodgy characters are everywhere. |
|
By:
Whe I was around 70 , my peripheral vision defect was picked up by my Optician , they forwarded the tests to the DVLA , who decided no license . It took a year of further tests of various kinds from medical facilities to get them to agree to a Driver Test at a DVLA facility . That was a two morning affair , various seated intelligence/advanced child puzzle types of test often with distractions , plus brake reaction speed in simulator to lights in different places on morning 1 . Morning two was unfamiliar car , two instructors , one in front one in back making notes for 50minutes in an unfamiliar area with odd comments like ' name of road coming up on left (there was a sign ) . We finished with usual eyesight test and a bit of reversing . Result ...' Your tests were great and you drove flawlessly ' my reply was ' I should (kin) think so after a million miles of practice ' . License returned , eye prob was either Rugby or horse fall concussion causing small bleed .
|
|
By:
Does this Garage have a very large Window ?
|
|
By:
For a bit of context, I've just had one of mine fully serviced, with new brake pads and discs and a new suspension spring (thanks to all the potholes) - £640.00
They've seen the OP coming, without a doubt.. |
|
By:
'casemoney', no. It was one next to a convenient car wash operated by Bulgarians I was using. I'd driven past this nondescript garage many times in the past. The garage was run by a bloke with a strong Irish accent; he confirmed I was 2nd in line.
I knew there would be a sting in the tail when I saw several cars coming in and leaving before mine; I was there for nearly 40 mins. This was when a MOT tester could issue Pass certificates without needing to enter the details of the vehicle electronically to DVSA. I've never been back; the garage is still there. |
|
By:
Independent mechanics & tradesmen love dealing with the public who are not familiar with cars…..or DIY
License to print……lots of rodents out there…… |
|
By:
put the reg into the dvla mot checker, click history, and see what it failed it's MOT on
Impossible still not over his number plate bulb on his Morris Minor |
|
By:
I cannot afford a Morris Minor. My dad had a Ford Anglia Estate in the early 60's with the iconic trafficators to ferry all six of us around. I was a mere preschooler then.
|
|
By:
Having a wee look on tinternet a new Moggy was around £325 in 1948 and about £525 in mid sixties,(inc purchase tax @ £80) an ave weekly wage then (1965) was prob under a tenner.
Think you could buy one now for 15k but a good one prob more. Of course second hand would be supply and demand, can't say I every fancied one but they were fairly reliable,they were quite good on fuel too, a small 918 cc although earlier there was a 837 cc, think they got 40 mph. Makes you wonder why it all went crazy and in no time we were producing the rover v8s d going about 12 mph. Suppose the early minis were OK on fuel too, the 848cc being very frugal but the 1275 liked a drink. Must admit I owned a few minis and rather liked driving them. |
|
By:
*Doing 12 mpg
|
|
By:
My 1st vehicle was a R-reg Mini 1000 in 1977. I bought it off a 'busty' teacher in Southgate, London. It cost me £1100 and insurance was £157. I pimped it with a sporty steering wheel, bull-bars and stripes. I borrowed £200 from Barclays - I was a student then; the bloke at the bank asked why would I need a car being a student? I said to get to part-time jobs quicker after lectures.
I liked the Mini a lot. It was my most treasured car. My then teacher liked it too; she was a bit envy - she'd a beat-up older one. |
|
By:
1967 111PMA , lovely Mini , wrapped it round a tree after an argument with bird from Libraby College ....such is life , alcohol had been taken .
|