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Category Archives: Random
Empty, vacuous lives
are presumably what the people who buy this sort of thing lead: Why luxury carmakers are now building glitzy skyscrapers What a bizarre, selfish, negative way to want to define oneself as a human being: because almost no-one else can … Continue reading
Skoda Octavia lock failure #4
It is done! Well, not quite, if I’m honest, and it turned into even more of a pain before the lock was usable again… I fitted my new lock and reassembled the door, which is considerably easier to do with … Continue reading
Skoda Octavia lock failure #3
Finally! It’s open! I cheated a bit though. I discovered that I could by a new lock mechanism for about £20 from ebay. So I did. Then I took a hammer and cold chisel to the old one. That soon … Continue reading
Skoda Octavia lock failure #2
Yay! I managed to get the steel door liner out! I actually found instructions for doing this online, but they obviously assume that you can open the door in the first place. It’s much the same for a VW Passat, … Continue reading
If you think what happened yesterday was in any way excusable
Then you have nothing left in common with a human being. That is all.
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Skoda Octavia lock failure #1
Joy of joys, the front passenger door would not unlock on our 2012 Skoda Octavia. I’m mostly the only person who uses it so that didn’t seem such a major deal, but it turns out to be an MOT fail … Continue reading
Another smelling pistake?
From the list of recall items for the Citroën C1…
Pathetic delivery excuses #15,281
(Most of the first 15,000 are from drivers for Evri. Possibly the same one. 🙁 My wife just had a message that a parcel she was expecting from the South American river place could not be delivered because our drive … Continue reading