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My brother his Wrote his off
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I have to be honest here - I've had it 5 years. It never sees a specialist, just gets an oil change every year, lives on my drive, and gets thrashed on track days a few times a year.
In 5 years, outside of tyres, brakes and oil, all it has cost me is 2 keys (although this was £300) and an alternator (under £200 incl. fitting).
I may have to splurge £2-£2.5k on getting it back to how it should be. But it's at least holding value, if not appreciating, as it's a non-turbo flat-6.
I sometimes think I should have bought a Barchetta, Alfa GTV or Honda S2000 - but none of those allow you to tell people you have a Porsche. And none have a flat 6 wailing away behind your shoulders.
I'm guessing that as it is filmed in Belfast, they are sourcing locally, but fitting English plates as it is 'based' in London. If the OCD really bites, put the reg into DVLA site and check tax and MOT, or even insurance. Probably comes up as a reg that does not exist.
My Panda was originally from Bristol with a WM55 reg but brought to NI in 2007. It was re plated to PUI the 2007 Londonderry prefix at the time.
Strange why they’d bother? As I see lots of people who get the car with the spec they want from the mainland still drive around with English format plates
It's not that I don't realise they are fake, it's more a feeling similar to watching a second world war drama and they call for air support on an iPhone. It just breaks the immersion/believability.
His was a very low mileage and very good condition 2003 model (about 50k on the clock when he got it last year) claims that someone drove into it when it was parked on the street, but he doesn’t usually park on the street and I’m not convinced
This was only a couple of weeks ago, he’s replaced it with an Audi A5, I think his missus wouldn’t let him get another one as it’s not very handy for moving a family of 4 about
Not filmed in Ireland as far as I know but like has already been said, it’s such a glaring thing it doesn’t look right, they are supposed to be secret high end criminal gangs so stands to reason they would have flashy black 4x4s but not a 10 year old car with a new plate. Would be a bit like tony stark in iron man driving a 10 year old Hyundai coupe with a new number plate and portraying he’s a billionaire.
I think I’ve said before one of my brothers has a camper van company and he’s bought a lot of NI VW vans (because they are cheaper in NI) brings them over and reregisters them with a U.K. plate, also very handy as they don’t have an MOT History when anyone checks the U.K. plate and no hpi history :devil:
Definitely filmed in Belfast. Have read it a few times over the years in Radio Times articles.
https://www.radiotimes.com/news/tv/...irl-in-a-lift-and-it-was-wonderfully-awkward/
you are quite right, I stand corrected. I don't think however this has anything to do with all the cars being 66 plates, If you reregister a NI car to a UK plate you still have to keep an age specific plate, so a 2010 built car would get a 2010 reg.
I'm thinking the cars are not registered as UK cars. DVLA allocates reg numbers to the TV and film industry using possibly prefixes that are not normally used, so cars on TV will never show up on the street. Similarly, no-one will watch and say, "that's my reg".
So tomorrow night, while watching the final episode, we'll have to have a notepad handy to write down the reg numbers and check tax/MOT status later. Or perhaps not?
So tomorrow night, while watching the final episode, we'll have to have a notepad handy to write down the reg numbers and check tax/MOT status later. Or perhaps not?
It's also quite possible for number plates to be changed in post production. It's fiction for goodness sake, don't worry about it!
That's easy for you to say. Some of us may not be able to let go that easily.
Only one car tonight, last three letters CIE. Don't think we use I, so that confirms fictitious plates for the film industry.
I'll start this rant with a little bit of background...yesterday did not go well it started with getting up at 6am and finished after 11pm with a trip back from A and E in torrential rain so I was not in the best of moods.
But my chariot for this particular **** show was the citroen...and it did it's level best to annoy me. So auto wipers that aren't.. is always a good opener...followed by a demist that has 2 settings, hearing damage or blindness and even on hearing damage can only demist the front windows..coupled with a heated rear window that after ten minutes reached stripey.
Just what you need when your tired and want to get home really...peering out the window with a vague clue as to what's going on.
I imagine it would be because it's an efficient heating and electrical system but it just has no additional capacity. So add 3 people in wet clothes on a wet day..and its hopeless.
Perhaps I'm just spoiled by the AGA under the bonnet of my car and the apparently 3 bar fire it has for back window and auto wipers that work. Theres nowt worse than needing to concentrate on the driving because the weather is terrible, you're on a road you don't really know looking for deep water and bits of tree and instead of doing that you're pissing about with ancillary controls that should just work.
But my chariot for this particular **** show was the citroen...and it did it's level best to annoy me. So auto wipers that aren't.. is always a good opener...followed by a demist that has 2 settings, hearing damage or blindness and even on hearing damage can only demist the front windows..coupled with a heated rear window that after ten minutes reached stripey.
Just what you need when your tired and want to get home really...peering out the window with a vague clue as to what's going on.
I imagine it would be because it's an efficient heating and electrical system but it just has no additional capacity. So add 3 people in wet clothes on a wet day..and its hopeless.
Perhaps I'm just spoiled by the AGA under the bonnet of my car and the apparently 3 bar fire it has for back window and auto wipers that work. Theres nowt worse than needing to concentrate on the driving because the weather is terrible, you're on a road you don't really know looking for deep water and bits of tree and instead of doing that you're pissing about with ancillary controls that should just work.
Is this on a DS3?
C3...Tbf on any other day it may not have wound me up so much. But after full day at work and 5 hours waiting time I was not in a forgiving mood. One of those times you just want a car to work for you without a fuss and get it done. Character is fine..but somedays absolute efficiency and competence is better.
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Tata say they are not selling so that's it then.
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/2019/05/09/french-car-giant-eyes-jaguar-land-rover-takeover/
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/2019/05/09/french-car-giant-eyes-jaguar-land-rover-takeover/
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So what made me grumpy and a weeee bit ticked off was that I was in an underground carpark and about to enter an intersection where I had right of way, and a van came speeding through from the left of me almost took me out, but this is where I got more annoyed because I wanted to use my epic GP horn and blow the mofo away, but it isn't working at the moment, ffs,
I've been watching Aussie dashcam footage on YouTube recently so I suspect, despite the lack of horn, there was some colourful language
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Indeed there was, also I had the missus and the kids in the car too,
So a bonus there ay,
So a bonus there ay,
