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alta-pete

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  1. Well played @101 - a disappointing lack of action on this thread (me included) of late. It’ll be my summer mission to contribute meaningfully over the next 6 months or so. You can all thank me later for my selfless sacrifice.
  2. I think that's the nub of the issue. To want Scotland to be a Tory MP free zone (which Yousaf didn't say) is a perfectly fair political statement; but to want Scotland to be free of Tories (which Yousaf did say), to my sensitive sensibilities, crosses a line.
  3. He (sorry, his family) are bigger Tories than the rest of us. https://www.heraldscotland.com/news/24189264.humza-yousaf-facing-questions-undeclared-family-rental-properties/
  4. Genuine question - if the game is cancelled at noon, Sky have lost the match anyway, they won’t broadcast the replay (or will they?) so why not just delay ko until 3/4pm? Everybody else is there and ready to go, even if a few hours late.
  5. I put it down to the importation of a fashion to try and look like Aussie rules players. And me being less than fashionable myself I just shrugged it off, it’ll pass. That’s the trouble with fashions - they quickly go out of fashion.
  6. 1 and 2 blasts mean I want to pass you on the port/starboard side and 3 means I'm going into reverse. By the time you get to 7 blasts everyone should be thinking ‘oh shit, summats up!!’
  7. Met a bird in the boozer last night, she was wearing wellingtons and a boiler suit and she fucking reeked of elephant shite. I think she’s a keeper…
  8. Listen ya coupla fannies - @Florentine_Pogen and @Leith Green, if you were lucky enough to even be in the same room as Mrs a-p MkII, you too would be up and over like a pan of milk...
  9. The early bird may indeed get the worm but it’s always the second mouse that gets the cheese.
  10. Until the neighbour’s dug starts complaining about the smell.
  11. Acht well. No obvious goalscorer on the park, no real grounds for complaint. Although the high defence line did seem a bit wild.
  12. I think this all rather backs up my 'if buying at distance buy Approved Used' mantra. Yes, you are paying top dollar but - the hypothesis, so far proven in my experience - you are buying a well looked after car with no (ok, negligible) chance of any nasty surprises.
  13. If you’re needing to test drive then I think a distance purchase is maybe something of a leap. However if there’s a shortlist that you want to narrow down, go read some reviews from car journalists. If you’re focusing on one particular segment (eg hot hatches) then chances are somewhere there will be a head to head group test that will help immeasurably. These guys do it for a living and are an immeasurably bigger bore on the subject than even me. They know what they’re talking about The final piece of advice is, if you are buying from distance, don’t get the puny engine. It’ll inevitably be a disappointment.
  14. Should’ve called @Shandon Par He’d likely get a Royal Warrant for it too. Eh, Haud oan….
  15. I think the last half dozen cars we've had have been bought on the same basis for exactly the same reasons as you quote. Only last week Mrs a-p mkII's 3 year old A1 was delivered from Derby. I'm not however a total cavalier, all have been bought under the manufacturer's Approved Used banner that, I think (and have so far been proven correct), guarantees a certain standard of car and preparation. Buying from an independent garage, or worse still Cazoo or similar - i think @RH33 has a story there somewhere - is just too much of a stretch and potential lottery for me. YMMV of course. And there is a further argument that if you do decide to go look at it, if you are prepared to burn a day to go look at a car somewhere down the M6, I think it kinda torpedoes your negotiating position before you get there. The dealer knows you've seen the price on his car, you can't then low ball an offer having put in all that time and effort to get there and then blow a deal for £500/£1000. Dealing at a distance makes it - for me - much easier to be polite but firm about the best offer for the car. You're not sitting in a showroom with them waiting for you to walk before they start negotiating. Talk through the car, properly understand what you are buying, make him an offer and leave it. If you're being halfway sensible, they'll phone you back. And we kinda knew what we were buying as well. If you are needing a test drive to see if you 'like' the car then an online purchase may not be for you...
  16. I rang the bell of I think the same B&B, whereupon the landlady appeared at an outside window. “What do you want?”, she asked. “I want to stay here”, I replied. “Well, stay there then”, she said and closed the window.
  17. I think Lord Blackford of the Isles may have had a decent lunch today. (Again)
  18. I don’t mean to be rude but everything has its price for a reason. If you’re into £2/3k shitboxes, you are - self evidently- buying a £2/3k shitbox that’ll need £2/3k spent on it each year to keep it on the road. If you are, or know, a friendly mechanic then I can see the merit in that approach. As a Joe punter though, I reckon the industry sets you up to be fleeced. A £10k shitbox still has the potential to drop a big bill but the odds are better in your favour. £20k, better odds still. tl:dr - cars cost money. Thanks for reading.
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