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Discussion in 'General Chat' started by Thomas The Cat, Feb 27, 2014.

  1. Thomas The Cat

    Thomas The Cat Well-Known Member

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    The missus took the motor to Glenrothes some wee fanny tried to break in! My driver door lock is effed and now I have to climb in the passenger side scoot across (much harder than it sounds).

    Phoned the garage and they want £180 to sort it, does that sound steep I believe it does?
     
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  2. Gambol

    Gambol George Clooney's wee brother

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    Well, that's Glenrothes for ye.




























    Nearly forgot....



























    <laugh> <laugh>
     
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  3. A.L.D.O 4.1

    A.L.D.O 4.1 1 of the top defendants in Europe

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    My car has this new fankled invention called central locking . I press a wee button and the doors unlock automatically .

    Amazing so it is :D
     
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  4. EDGE.

    EDGE. Official POTY 2011, 2014, 2015, 2018 & 2023

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    My bike doesn't have a door so no probs here, thanks for asking tho.
     
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  5. Thomas The Cat

    Thomas The Cat Well-Known Member

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    Mine did that too, until yesterday!
     
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  6. A.L.D.O 4.1

    A.L.D.O 4.1 1 of the top defendants in Europe

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    What make of car is it ?
     
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  7. Thomas The Cat

    Thomas The Cat Well-Known Member

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    Its a ****ty old fiesta (1999) don't want to pay much as I don't imagine keeping the car for much longer and it has very little sell on value.

    I think I'll take it apart myself and see how much worse I can make it.
     
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  8. A.L.D.O 4.1

    A.L.D.O 4.1 1 of the top defendants in Europe

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    Why don't you ring round the scrappies and see if you can get a new door . Be a lot cheaper than 180 bucks .
     
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  9. Thomas The Cat

    Thomas The Cat Well-Known Member

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    A door with a key might be hard to come by, I've noticed you can get locked to fit my car on ebay for about 20 bucks, I'll just try that if I cannae fix it.

    Trust me to get the only thief makes your car more secure!
     
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  10. A.L.D.O 4.1

    A.L.D.O 4.1 1 of the top defendants in Europe

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    You don't need a key if your car has central locking . All you do is connect up the new door to the system and hey presto . They even supply wee connectors in each door for that very reason . Sup to yerself though .
     
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  11. DevAdvocate

    DevAdvocate Gigging bassist

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    Have you a Sun Roof Tam? Much easier to climb in that way <ok>
     
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  12. Ciaran

    Ciaran Going for 55

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    How the **** did they not manage to get away with a '99 Fiesta <confused>
     
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  13. ManDingo 20"/20"

    ManDingo 20"/20" MDMA Guru

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    You fail to understand the severe afflictions beset upon the largely mutant population of Glenrothes.
     
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  14. DevAdvocate

    DevAdvocate Gigging bassist

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    a clapped out Fiesta must look like a McLaren P1 to them.
     
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  15. ManDingo 20"/20"

    ManDingo 20"/20" MDMA Guru

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    <laugh>

    I used to speak to a few of those people back in 2006/07 and 2 of them were driving Novas, by choice <laugh> The other had an old mini with no backseats, just a 40" subwoofer that he had collected from a drug debt.

    Classy folk... <laugh>
     
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  16. DevAdvocate

    DevAdvocate Gigging bassist

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    Boy Racers in **** motors always make me laugh <laugh>
     
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  17. A.L.D.O 4.1

    A.L.D.O 4.1 1 of the top defendants in Europe

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    I had a wee apprentice years ago who said his girlfriend was getting his car lowered for him for his Christmas . I asked him what kind of car he had and he said an escort . So am like what kind of Escort thinking it's gonne be a XR3i or an RS2000 or sommit . Its an Escort fannybaws (canny mind the name of it) .

    It had an 1100 engine in it ffs .

    Wit the **** is the point of that ?
     
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  18. Gambol

    Gambol George Clooney's wee brother

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    It's a no brainer. A '99 Fiesta isny even worth £180.

    www.webuyanycar.com

    ...and have six or seven pints of beer on what you get for it.
     
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  19. Gambol

    Gambol George Clooney's wee brother

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    <laugh>

    Glenrothes is mental.

    I worked there for about a year in one of their business parks.

    One guy I worked with had his stag do while I was there. He went to Edinburgh for it and visited some lap/table/stripper establishments. One of the cows wrote "am a durty ****" on his back in lipstick.

    He came into work 2 days later with livid marks around his neck. His prospective missus had attempted to strangle him with a telephone cord <laugh>
     
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