It wasn't a difference of opinion so much as a Tester in the pocket of the salesman.
What's made you not grumpy but not smile either today?
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What's made you not grumpy but not smile either today?
It wasn't a difference of opinion so much as a Tester in the pocket of the salesman.
If it didn't re-appear immediately the following year I'd go with difference of opinion.
Although perhaps it got brushed down and coated and the coating has since exited.
Put it this way, it looked worse than your photo earlier.
Hadn't washed the Toyota since the run across Kielder forest road...
Thought I should as it was up and down a farm track and parked in a field yesterday.
Of course it's pissing rain now but it's going to a funeral tomorrow so probably for the best it doesn't look fresh off a rally stage.
Thought I should as it was up and down a farm track and parked in a field yesterday.
Of course it's pissing rain now but it's going to a funeral tomorrow so probably for the best it doesn't look fresh off a rally stage.
Winter has hit last few days with a vengeance, 2 degrees this morning with a real feel of minus 1..
Still out and about but wrapped up warm, have relented and turned the flow temperature up on the boiler...65 so still in the condensing window. Was so cold last night with the wind from the north that it came on in the middle of the night. It's targeting 16 degrees overnight usually between 8pm and 6am it doesn't drop low enough to trigger it except when it's chilly.
Although not up to defcon one yet...when it's at -5 and below outside goes as far 75 degrees.
Still out and about but wrapped up warm, have relented and turned the flow temperature up on the boiler...65 so still in the condensing window. Was so cold last night with the wind from the north that it came on in the middle of the night. It's targeting 16 degrees overnight usually between 8pm and 6am it doesn't drop low enough to trigger it except when it's chilly.
Although not up to defcon one yet...when it's at -5 and below outside goes as far 75 degrees.
On Friday last week we got the message you never want first thing in the morning, from the childminder telling us she was ill and unable to take my boy that day, so seeing as my wife wasn’t home as she was still working a night shift, daycare duties fell to me.
We spent most of the day at home, but by the afternoon he was starting to get a little bored and restless, so I opted to sling him in the car and take him off to see my brother at his body shop. My boy loves going round there as he loves his uncle but also loves the workshop which is in two parts with one side being used for building campers and the other side the body shop with the car sized oven and preparation areas.
When we arrived he was so excited to get out and see uncle that before I was even ready he was already climbing between the front seats to get out of the car, having already unclipped himself from the car seat.
This distracted me and as he was handing me a bottle toy to hold for him. This lead to a mistake on my part and I had unknowingly not put the handbrake on however as is a habit of mine I was still sat with my foot on the brake.
I lifted the boy out of the car to stand beside it, I handed him his toy and as I then got out of the car, my foot came off the brake and the car rolled only about 6-12 inches backwards and a sign for another of the businesses made contact with the back of the car with a properly sickening crunch.
As I peaked round the back of the car not wanting to know what I was about to find, I was relieved to see that the sign had punctured the rear tail light not seeming to have caused any damage to the body work. But I was still nervous as these are all LED tail lights and specific to the golf cabrio which is not a super common car compared to the hatch backs.
The obvious solution was to head to eBay and my heart sank a bit when all I found was driver side tail lights and not the passenger side. A little bit more specific searching and I started to get some results but my car has 4 parts to the rear lights with half on the car body and half on the boot lid, I needed the boot lid part on the passenger side. Results were coming up as quite expensive.
I put eBay down and thought I would leave it, have a think about it, there was no urgency to getting it fixed. But then about 2 days later I got a notification on the eBay app then that one of the sellers had made me an offer of a much lower price, just £35 for the part I wanted.
Now this is obviously a used part so I was worried it might have scratches on the lens etc but this morning it turned up and it was like a football of bubble wrap. When i did eventually find the light in the middle of all the bubble wrap it was in very good condition, however it did have some sort of residue on the lens which I was able to easily clean off with some tar and glue remover.
One of the best things about the golf is it’s ease of access to things like bulbs and fuses, non of this need to take half the car about, and I was happy to find that despite the cabrio having no replaceable bulbs they still had a little access panel I could pop off to then remove 2 nuts and remove the light unit, pop the new on in and a quick test showed all the lights working perfectly.
So long story short I I was not happy that I had damaged the rear light but relieved that it had not caused more damage, then pleased that replacement was easy and straightforward. The thing I was most pleased about was the total repair only came to £35 all in including postage.
Anyway still not impressed about the accident or the need to repair it, but could have been a lot worse
We spent most of the day at home, but by the afternoon he was starting to get a little bored and restless, so I opted to sling him in the car and take him off to see my brother at his body shop. My boy loves going round there as he loves his uncle but also loves the workshop which is in two parts with one side being used for building campers and the other side the body shop with the car sized oven and preparation areas.
When we arrived he was so excited to get out and see uncle that before I was even ready he was already climbing between the front seats to get out of the car, having already unclipped himself from the car seat.
This distracted me and as he was handing me a bottle toy to hold for him. This lead to a mistake on my part and I had unknowingly not put the handbrake on however as is a habit of mine I was still sat with my foot on the brake.
I lifted the boy out of the car to stand beside it, I handed him his toy and as I then got out of the car, my foot came off the brake and the car rolled only about 6-12 inches backwards and a sign for another of the businesses made contact with the back of the car with a properly sickening crunch.
As I peaked round the back of the car not wanting to know what I was about to find, I was relieved to see that the sign had punctured the rear tail light not seeming to have caused any damage to the body work. But I was still nervous as these are all LED tail lights and specific to the golf cabrio which is not a super common car compared to the hatch backs.
The obvious solution was to head to eBay and my heart sank a bit when all I found was driver side tail lights and not the passenger side. A little bit more specific searching and I started to get some results but my car has 4 parts to the rear lights with half on the car body and half on the boot lid, I needed the boot lid part on the passenger side. Results were coming up as quite expensive.
I put eBay down and thought I would leave it, have a think about it, there was no urgency to getting it fixed. But then about 2 days later I got a notification on the eBay app then that one of the sellers had made me an offer of a much lower price, just £35 for the part I wanted.
Now this is obviously a used part so I was worried it might have scratches on the lens etc but this morning it turned up and it was like a football of bubble wrap. When i did eventually find the light in the middle of all the bubble wrap it was in very good condition, however it did have some sort of residue on the lens which I was able to easily clean off with some tar and glue remover.
One of the best things about the golf is it’s ease of access to things like bulbs and fuses, non of this need to take half the car about, and I was happy to find that despite the cabrio having no replaceable bulbs they still had a little access panel I could pop off to then remove 2 nuts and remove the light unit, pop the new on in and a quick test showed all the lights working perfectly.
So long story short I I was not happy that I had damaged the rear light but relieved that it had not caused more damage, then pleased that replacement was easy and straightforward. The thing I was most pleased about was the total repair only came to £35 all in including postage.
Anyway still not impressed about the accident or the need to repair it, but could have been a lot worse
We have all been there when stressed, when children were young my ex wife pulled up outside the house, ran in to answer the phone (pre mobile days) leaving two of my children still strapped in their child seats in the Peugeot 504 Family Estate Automatic, son undid his belt, climbed forward and pulled the gear lever into neutral, car rolled back and took neighbours garden wall down after mounting the pavement, more recently neighbour parked his 4x4 van up the road a bit, later on I heard a bang went outside and it was mating with my gate post, slight bend to very solid metal gate post, but wrote his van off, although due to it's value he had it repaired, well into the thousands.
At least it missed the body and the car is old enough that there are breakers about...also that the light doesn't have any of the scrolling business that needs coding back in.
No thankfully no tacky scrolling or waves of light, I did have wonder if there was a computer in the light itself which would need coding as the back of the unit looks suspiciously like a computer module.
However the the light fitted, it all worked when tested and no warnings on the dash so I don’t really car what manner of s**t fit is going on being the scenes, as long as it works
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Think the older ones only need coding if you had incandescent lights and changed to LEDs. I assume it's due to the draw being different so the canbus system will read an LED as a blown bulb.
You'd imagine there will be a control module somewhere, if it's in the unit itself then you don't need to change the loom or BCM if the customer specifies the LED option at point of build so it's the easiest option.
Doblo wheelchair van returned to the dealer. Sadly, no longer needed. Prices for used vehicels have fallen a little in 3 years, but price was never the issue. Seems strange looking out the window and seeing just the Panda and Fabia again after nearly 3 years.
