Bluemarlin

How long did it take for your paperwork to come through Phil. After a bit of faffing around I got mine renewed over the phone with Lexus Guildford a couple of weeks or so ago, but haven't received any paperwork yet.

It apears that your car is 2007, so perhaps they meant it wasn't eligible, as it's up to 15yrs and 150k miles.

With the price of electricity these days, I think they should be like mobile phones. Take out a contract with an electricity provider and get a free car 🙂

If it's a small leak, and you want to have a go at fixing it without the faff off taking things apart, then you might want to try something called Captain Tolleys Creeping Crack Cure. It's a thin, milky coloured liquid, often used to seal hard to find leaks in hatches etc on boats. I've used it with some success on leaks in a windscreen and trim surrounds. Basically you pour it along any joins and it seeps into any gaps and seals the leaks. It may or may not be sufficient for your leak, but is cheap and easy to try. If not then it's a case of taking thinks apart and silicone sealant.

Perhaps, but I don't believe it's appropriate for a university to make such a course mandatory (good or bad), especially if/when students are paying for their course. I do however believe that it should be mandatory for schools to teach kids how to be a decent human being and member of society. That might include such things as our impact on the planet, and how we can address that, but should also include our individual impact and how we treat and interact with others, and how we can become a positive part of society, and not a negative one. After all, it's no use being able to spell and add up, if you're just going to go through life being a *****.

I don't believe that electric cars will necessarily be cheaper to own and run in the long term. However, nor do I think they'll be more expensive. I imagine that costwise it will probably balance out, but perhaps they might be a bit less of a faff to maintain. I'm undecided on the environmental impact, although I recently saw a study comparing an ICE Golf vs EV which, taking into account all of the manufacturing, the overall environmental impact of the EV became lower at around 2 years into ownership. So yes, there is an impact in production, which is then mitigated during its lifecyle. How true that is of other cars, I don't know. However, neither cost nor the environmental arguments are the reason for my preference, I just think the technology is better, with greater opportunities for innovation and improvement. All of this is just my opinion, which I'm happy to accept you don't agree with. Contrary to your statement though, I have been having further dialogue with you Eric, but the fact that my opinion differs from yours seems to make you conclude that I must be paid off. We just have different views on the technology, that's all. That doesnt mean that I'm spaced out on what governments say, or am paid off by anyone, and only that we happen to disagree. Is that such a hard concept to grasp, or is disagreeing with you a government conspiracy too?

I'm not sure I understand your point Eric. Of course older cars won't won't be made anymore, they never were, they're just the leftovers of new cars that are still on the road. And yes, some will be junk, but then that's no different than today. The fact is that in 2030 there'll be as many, in similar condition, used cars available to buy for those on lower incomes. In fact that will always be the case only, further in the future, those older cars will be electric. I can't comment on VED rates in 2030, as that would just be speculating. I will say that your claim about the only electric options in 2030 will be £40-100K is false. EV prices are bound to fall over time, and already there are sub £30k cars. That said, people will still be able to buy cheap, used petrol cars for some time to come. Nor will they need to be charged up every day, any more than a petrol car with a 300-400 mile range needs to be filled up every day. As I said before, enjoy your petrol car, I enjoy my hybrid, and by all means have your preferences. You may feel that ICE cars are superior, fair enough, but that doesn't mean others are being sheep to think differently, or that the switch to electric will result in no cheap used cars come 2030.

You seem to specialize in misrepresenting facts in order to try and prop up a weak case. For the record, Angela Rayner borrowed £5,600 for a boob job at the age of 30, five years before she became an MP. Prior to that she was a care worker and a union rep, who was brought up on a council estate. I have no idea what point you're trying to make, and how it relates to the affordability of electric vehicles, unless new boobs will be a requirement before you're allowed to own one. Perhaps the illuminati intend to cut the cost of EVs by removing air bags 🙂

In 2030 the people who can afford new EVs will be the same people who can afford new ICE cars today, ie the higher and middle earners. Low income workers will buy older, used vehicles, like they do today. I am curious though as to what conspiracy you have regarding your assumption that ICE cars will mysteriously vanish from the planet in 2030, and that low income workers will have no choice but to buy new EVs or go without. Low income workers traditionally buy older cars, mostly ICE, and they will still be around in 2030, and for quite some time after. My guess is that in 2030 most people will want an EV and so, with the declining popularity of ICE vehicles, the market will be awash with used ones at cheap prices, and low income workers will be spoilt for choice for a cheap runabout. So, contrary to your strange claims, rather than car ownership being forcibly reduced, it will likely remain the same, or might even increase.

Hard to say, as you don't really know until you need to make a claim. I know Direct Line have various options where if someone hits you in a car park, or you get pothole damage, it doesn't affect your no claims bonus. Then again, when I used Admiral for a previous car they were very good when I needed to claim. I suppose your biggest problem is that you curently have no no claims bonus. Personally I'd probably go with the cheapest big name provider I could find for the first year, and then see if I could improve it once I had a years no claims bonus.

Try checking Direct Line too. They were the cheapest I found and they don't appear on comparison sites.

I had something similar, where the power button wouldn't work, can't remember what caused it. However, what fixed it, apart from the door opening/closing thing, was to hold the fob next to the power button when pressing it.

Success isn't leaving a country where half of it actively hate the other half, believe in conspiracy theories, and that the election system is rigged suffiently to warrant armed protest and the invasion of government offices. And a list of achievements posted by the Trump White House is hardly an unbiased source. I'm pretty sure the Biden White House would claim equal success, depite a pretty mediocre performance. One can easily find other sources that paint a very diffferent picture, such as 23% of promises kept and 53% broken: https://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/promises/trumpometer/ At best he had a mixed record of successes and failures, once you remove the spin and rhetoric. https://www.businessinsider.com/trump-biggest-accomplishments-and-failures-heading-into-2020-2019-12?r=US&IR=T So there's no point in batting back and forth various opinions on his success or failure record, as there's plenty of ammunition for either side of the argument. Bottom line is that he succeeed in some areas, and failed in others, like most presidents do, and so was nothing special. The point I was making though is that he is now a known quantity, who is as much a liability to the Repulican party as an asset. With all the claimed success, he still managed to lose the presidency as an incumbent, as well as the house and the senate, to a candidate as poor as Biden. The senate should have been a shoe in, but was lost entirely due to his actions and involvement. Sure, he has a solid base, but that loyalty is matched entirely by his ability to drive voters to the polls to elect anyone but Trump, which isn't helped by his continued election denial, conspiracy theories, snowflakey whining, and mounting crimiinal investigations. If my life depended on a Republican president at the next election, then I'd be writing my will if the nominee was Trump. He's a gamble at best, which the Republican party could have avoided had they ditched him after the last election, faced the consequences from his base for a year or two, and moved on to build a stronger, more credible opposition. Sure, Biden may well stumble his way to losing the presidency, but the Republicans, and the country, deserve a replacement who can make real changes and improvements, and not someone who will spend the next four years acting out his perceived grievances and resentments.

No one is saying it's ok to tag along with the elites, let alone doing it. People are simply acting according to their own personal preferences. To say otherwise would be akin to suggesting that you're just a sheep too, who is following the elites invested in the fossil fuel industry. The bottom line is that you prefer ICE vehicles, which is fine, and others prefer EVs, which is fine too. There's no need to try and prop up your own preferences by denigrating the different choices made by others, and calling them sheep who are blindly following some kind of nefarious hidden agenda. You're also free to believe in whatever vaccine, WEF, Ukraine conspiracy theories that various grifters post on Youtube, but that doesn't mean that those who don't believe unsubstantiated claims are brainwashed either. Make your choices, be happy wiith them, and accept that others are just as happy with theirs too. They're no more or less of a sheep than you are, and perhaps just choose a different shepherd.

But he was an unknown quantity then Maurice, with a lot of promises. Now he's known, has an even worse record, and largely failed to deliver. The Republicans know that all he'll do is drive up Democrat voter attendance, which is why their main policy seems to be doing all in their power to restrict voting.

Putting aside the climate argument, as it's not a claim I'm trying to make, let's focus on which is bettter. Your arguments are based solely on the situation today, and the false assumption that it will stay that way, which of course it won't. Already EV's are faster, have fewer moving parts, and are more energy efficient. Once they have lower prices (which they will), 500m+ range (which they will), faster charging (which they will), and widespread charging stations (which they will), then those arguments evaporate faster than your exhaust emissions. Simply put, EVs have far greater potential for innovation and improvement, with a variety of fueling options, which can lead not only to better cars, but also less reliance on the multinational oil cartel you seem to favour. I also take it you're aware that both ICE vehicles and oil are subject to inflation too.

Apparrently so Ian, but that's not to say it's sufficient for everyone to go electric today. I would imagine that there would be even more, and faster chargers 10 years from now. Realistically some will continue to buy ICE cars right up until 2030, and others will buy used ones after that, so there's bound to be a longer overlap rather than a hard transition.

Depending on how many from this forum are left in 2030 🙂

I don't recall saying they're saving the planet, in fact I said I was uncertain about such claims. I just said they were better, and in 10-15 years they'll be as affordable as any other new car.

It's more of a demographic than population problem, with there being too many old people and not enough new ones being born. Hence the financial incentives that are offered to families to have more children. If only there was some of kind of pandemic that affected mainly older people... 😉

Used ones will still be able to be bought for as long as they last. Beyond that I can't see many people wanting them once prices and range even out. Pointing out realities over scare mongering is hardly being like a Jehovah's Witness, but what's your address, I'd drop one off for you 🙂

I believe it was financial penalties, rather than execution. The outcome is China is facing a population/demographic issue, and is now paying families to have more kids. Japan is facing a similar problem.

We largely fixed it by banning the chemicals causing it.

World Economic Forum. The bogeymen:)

Dinosaur cars will still be available for most of our lifetimes, for those that still want/need them. Any government ban is now academic as manufacturers are wedded to EVs, and consumer demand has shifted irreversibly in that direction. Prices of cars will be comparable in 10-15 years time, and there are already more charging staations than petrol stations.