[PlaneMan]

John, I use one of these along with some tough shopping/gardening bags to put stuff in. Works just fine.

[PlaneMan]

That’s the exception right there. The tags are mostly non-working. The ones that do work will trigger everything.

I had a stash of about 5 known working tags that I had on my person when waving random garments through the scanners, that’s how we ‘checked’ the system.

[PlaneMan]

Security tags left on happens all the time Bob, the detectors are about 30% reliable.  They are more for show than anything else.

When I worked at C&A we had to test the detectors every morning. They never worked properly. In the end we never bothered actually checking them, just pretended so the customers would think they were working.

[PlaneMan]

I haven’t seen any for a while (maybe 3 years) but the last lot I looked at were rubbish quality. Granted these are very cheap and might be worth a punt if you just want some stuff for gardening or something like that.

[PlaneMan]

Bob, I used to work primarily on an industrial swager, used to reduce the size of tubes to the required diameter.

All the tubes were covered in oil, the machine was slathered in oil and there was lots of coolant flowing. In short I was always stinking filthy. I had covers on my Renault 5 GTS seats, one set for work and another for pleasure.

I found a major flaw with my Swift today. It handles too well. My blue badge and timeclock live in a wallet type holder on the passenger seat most of the time, problem is the badge flies out of the wallet and disappears down the side of the passenger seat or whacks me in the thigh when I corner.

Had the new key programmed today, sales picked up the tab as they lost the spare, invoice was for £300!!! ?

[PlaneMan]

Did the vast majority of mum’s 500 today, only the bonnet and front bumper to do. Claying took a long time, it’s white.

Over 5 hours in so far, I’m ruined. Even on a car with under 50 miles on it you can see and feel the difference.

[PlaneMan]

Probably shill accounts, not looked into them but I reckon they’ve bought low value items to build up feedback, making the bids look genuine.

[PlaneMan]

The first link, the seller has 0 feedback. Scam of some kind, almost certainly. You’d have to be mad, drunk and minted to bid that kind of money on a coin with a zero feedback seller.

It’s hard to tell because of the different lighting in the two listings but the paper under the coins is very similar. I smell a big, well planned scam.

[PlaneMan]

Just had my first under bonnet look, there’s loads of room under there, nothing is cramped at all, every thing is very easy to get to which helps a lot when you’re ruined. Oddly the washer fluid neck is very narrow, even though there’s loads of space for it. No big deal just very odd.

[PlaneMan]

My Swift is a beast when you get into 2nd, 3rd or 4th. It’s very easy to go very fast without realising it. In 1st is sounds a bit harsh when you nail it, like you’re really thrashing it even if you’re not. The sheer acceleration drops of a bit in 5th, but not much.

As for mpg I’m getting 46.58 ATM with an indicated 52 odd. That’s between 4-10 MPG better than the old Swift and I’m definitely enjoying the acceleration. ?

Unless I’m doing a very local trip I plug my phone in and run Waze via Android Auto, it keeps me on the right side of the law with speed limit and camera warnings. It also does roadworks and Police warnings, like last Monday when I was about to get on Rover Way which goes past an official Gypsy/Traveller/Whatever the pc name is today camp, Waze warned me of Police there so I went another route.  Turned it was a full on raid and blocked the road for about 30 minutes causing delays of about an hour.

[PlaneMan]

Lawbreaker

[PlaneMan]

I have to ask, why bother? Loads of low priced streaming units available unless there’s a specific reason I can’t see the point.

Get a Fire Stick or 2 and load the on demand apps onto it.

[PlaneMan]

Ziggurat over at GOG

[PlaneMan]

Until you get to Lounge spec on the 500 (3rd trim level iirc) you don’t get the memory function on both seats.

I believe the bog standard trim level doesn’t have it at all.

I wouldn’t be surprised to find that other manufacturers do the same.

[PlaneMan]

Steve, no video clips are on the infotainment. It’s a genuine, baked in function. I watched an episode of Monty Python on it.

Not surprisingly it’s running Linux.

I had a message from the dealership yesterday, they still can’t find the spare key so I’m taking the car in on Thursday to have a new one programmed, at their expense of course. They could have just hoped I’d forget so I’m quite impressed with them.

Looks like my old Swift has been sold as it has a brand new MOT and has VED showing, also looks like mum’s Captur has been sold, not surprising as it very few miles on it and was in great condition apart from the bumper (probably a couple of hundred to fix for a dealer).

The 500 had an unexpected test yesterday, 2 large almost 80 year old men in the back, neither could get out of a 3 door Mii without assistance, both managed fine with minimal grunting once the seats had been slid forward properly (not using the adjustment, just the handle to fold them forward).   The memory function on the seats is a must have.

[PlaneMan]

Quake Champions, until the 18th.

[PlaneMan]

That’s it Bob . Like I said ,confused why that option exists.

[PlaneMan]

Bob, the DVD would play on the built in touch screen. That’s what confused me. The playback would be audio only once the handbrake is released.

[PlaneMan]

Mum got the 500 yesterday and is chuffed with it. I had to drive it to her place as she didn’t want to drive it with all the sales people watching. ?. I’m sure it’ll be ideal for her. I get the fun of cleaning it, clay barring it and waxing it next week sometime. When I drove it to mum’s place someone had put the steering into ‘city’ mode, in other words loads of power assistance. Way too light for my liking but it can be switched when driving so it was. Might be handy for some disabled people.

On my car I transfered my music to a SD card as it’s not being used for the Here maps SD (didn’t buy one in the end) and when I was working through the file explorer I found a Video section that I hadn’t seen before. Chucked a few small .mp4 files on it and they work a treat, of course the video doesn’t play when you release the handbrake but it supports quite a few file formats, which is nice. I doubt I’ll use it much as I have Netflix on my phone and don’t pay for the data it uses.  Apparently it also supports external DVD drives through the aux port, why I have no idea.

[PlaneMan]

It was a powered caddy, had a wall wart similar to a phone charger but proprietary. It was down to the TV being particular about certain devices, I suspect they really wanted you to use Samsung ones. It also had to be FAT32 formatted.

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