@ibRAD
Quick look and they go from £200 to about £1,000 (looks like some are up to £1,600, but most have discounts down to £1,000).
But the upper price is for a full system, that's from birth to four years old.
Package includes:
Maxi-Cosi Adorra Luxe stroller
Maxi-Cosi Oria Luxe Carrycot
Maxi-Cosi Pebble 360 Luxe infant car seat
Footmuff Luxe
Maxi-Cosi FamilyFix 360 Base
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@pip-bip
Ye', the garage is giving them a new grille as there is some defects in it and four new tyres.
By all accounts when my colleague went to see it, it was filthy, probably having just taken it in and the previous owner was being cheap with the car.

@svend said in Just want to say a big thank you to Tripper:

@RallyDarkstrike
That's the way our house market is, though the prices aren't as exaggerated as much as North American house prices.
There is a large building frenzy right now to build more homes as people are moving out the city but at the same time people moving to the U.K. are taking those properties in the city.
A local building company has 12 developments going on in the county and about 17 in neighbouring counties.

I think it's the same story everywhere 😞

@StreetsofPerth
Lol. I get quite a few like that.
Though the picture tell it all, it was only when standing over the top of it that I could see how bad it was, but didn't take long of much effect to clean.
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@facw
It's a great colour. When dirty you get the jist of the colour, but when clean and glossy it really comes alive.

@CarsOfFortLangley Warning: Excessive consumption is harmful to pregnant and breastfeeding women and may impair your ability to realize you're not a UFC fighter. That's right, pregnant women, no MMA for you. Can't have.

@StreetsofPerth
In the most part, while the owners liked a clean car, most made little to no effort to keeping their black cars clean.
I'd give them a good clean prior to winter setting in, then do a post winter clean, getting rid of any accumulated grime, etc...
The Peugeot though is a navy blue and the owner would try to keep it looking nice with products I gave her. I did her cars a few times over the years to get it looking nice for her to maintain.

@svend sweet dreams mate

@svend Never knew they did them. Rarely venture away from the German discounters.

@facw
I've had a few issues in the past when people have asked me to fit off brand stuff to their cars. A couple of times it's just wrong, while others need fettling.
That's why I prefer to order the part myself.

@Someoneatacura
No, it makes quite a difference.
It's a waterborne migratory and contact corrosion inhibitor ideal for ferrous metals.
While it doesn't eliminate surface rust on brake discs, it greatly reduces it and bonds with the substraight and not simply sit on top and worn away after the first use of the brakes.

@svend
G’nite mate.

@svend 'nite, svend!

@BJ
It's rare, but has happened here.

@Shoop Every time I see "battery acid restoration cleaner", part of my brain wants to assume that it's made from battery acid.

@svend I need to get a pro to work on the Mercedes, it was resprayed at some point and it needs to be buffed out.

@e90m3
That car is originally from the Lancashire area and likely one of the bigger cities. The car's are about 13 years old and cheap with some liking the added look of an ornament rather than a badge and make slight changes without making the car look ridiculous (some go all out and butcher the poor things).

@ttyymmnn
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@e90m3
It seems to be a common consensus for A3 owners to love their cars.
2015 ?TDi
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2014 1.6TDi
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2008 1.9TDi
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2007 1.9TDi
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@svend excellent, thank you! I have filtered shop air availiable and a large assortment of Adams cleaning supplies (brushes and interior scrubbing mit). I'll try out your techniques on my recently acquired cadillac. The leather is filthy.

@svend ye, the new DS4 is attractive despite the C-pillar being a truly horrid piece of design

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the DS7 is a past tense Audi Q5 copy; the DS9 looks good, but too Chinese in proportion and not Citroen enough. I guess it isn't one anymore.

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@Cé-hé-sin didn't they make a big fuss about how i-DTEC was supposed to be VTEC-for-diesels just before all of Europe forgot about Honda and stopped buying them?

@Armith-Vala
It was a thing on Mk1 and 1.5 and I think I recall.
And early Ford Transit Connects and Mk6-8 Ford Transitsand Ford Transit Customs.
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@flatisflat
If you want to try anything else, PM me and I'll see what I can send across.

@svend said in HAVE CREME EGG CAKE:

@nerd_racing
I've been watching videos, 'what is the stupidest thing someone has said.....'.
One was a U.S. lass who asked a Brit something, he said £14, her brain thought 14 pounds and wondered why he said how much it weighed rather than the prime and why that thing weighed so much more here than in the U.S.. Lol.

Stuff like that makes me feel so much better about myself. Not all heroes wear capes.

@Chariotoflove said in Speaking of cake ((will have to wait till tomorrow)):

@svend
What do you drink with that? I’m thinking cold milk. Maybe coffee.

Or maybe some alka-seltzer

@svend Well shit, now I'm hungry.

Ugh! This is exactly why I ended up buying a used car, we only had the hoopty (02 Golf TDI) after our other car was stolen and waiting 6-12 months for a new car was a total non-starter in my house.

@Chariotoflove
I'm doing okay. Lol. The stupid thing is, it's been beautiful weather, sunny, clear skies, etc... these last three days and no cars to do, the last few weeks, cold, wet, windy, cold/wet, cold/windy, etc... everyone has wanted their car done.
Doh.

@svend sleep well

@foghat1981 desi pasties!

@svend Fair enough if it's a first car.

@jminer
Mate, seriously, without you, none of us would be here.
So again, a massive thank you for everything you did and continue to do, okay.

@вулиці-Перта
Sadly while we're getting a manual, it'll just be a 1.5TSi SE L spec.
I love metallic blues. Colour really pops in the sun.

@ttyymmnn we'd never make it out of Germany alive...
Cola alternatives from behind the Iron curtain are a fairly fascinating subject though. I picked up some Kofola from my local Euro import market a while back. Less sugar and -the Czechs don't muck about- twice the caffeine of CocaCola.

@svend said in I suppose I should have an early night. My February in car cleaning.:

just takes patience.

That key ingredient is in short supply all too often.

@distraxi It was a B6 Passat with the six-speed (I assume) wet clutch and the 147kW 2.0TFSI. I don't think the car had been very well cared for by the PO and had probably been driven like a regular torque converter auto, so I wouldn't be surprised if it wasn't in its best health.

I have since driven a Caddy with the seven-speed and it was much better. I also test drove an A4 with an S-Tronic and it was smooth as silk.

@svend I love it when little traces of things remain when areas are redeveloped. A wall or an arch or the visible footprint of a building (or in this case a window). Little historical fingerprints, still visible if you know where to look.

@drvantraveler
Unfortunately the three pedals are dying out, not because people are favouring autos, but because most hybrids and virtually all electric cars available here in the U.K. are autos.

@chariotoflove
I know of a guy on a detailing forum. His girlfriend asked him if he could do her friend's car as it was messy.
According to the write up, he spent all day doing the rear seats and front passenger seat and footwell.
It was filthy and mould underneath.
The car's owner had a very young daughter who for months had a chesty cough but the doctors couldn't understand why. None the less. Shortly after the guy cleaned the mould up, the daughter's cough stopped.
That was a few years ago, so I always try to leave the car in the safest fashion for the lil'one.
Now every car gets an anti bacterial wipe down.

@nauraushaun
Ahhhhhh, that's so sweet.
She missed her daddy.

@urambo-tauro
I wasn't too happy with this car.
It wasn't bad, but had been abused with shoes and heels scratching all the sills, plastics inside of the sill area and lower edge of the door cards.

@svend I see what you did there.
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@pip-bip
What feature does it posees?

@vondon302
I don't do change.
Though I did just apply to work for a store of a different company near me, which didn't come lightly as I'd worked at my current store and shitty company, (walmart U.K.) for the last 18 years.
Take care and enjoy your ale mate.

@just-jeepin
Just had a cursory look and can't find anything.
Will keep looking though.
If you check out a YouTube account called, The Detailing Space, it hosted by a Detailing World member and he's posted a number of How To's, interviews, etc... videos covering all elements from basic stuff to watch out for, stuff.

@flatisflat
I bet the other driver wasn't giving a shit either way.

@chan
Oh, okay. Gotcha.

@svend Carrot was considered.

@annoying_salman
Lol. It has been suggested a couple of times in the past.

@streetsofperth
Thanks, ye', it was alright. Sounds like you had fun. The Collie sounds sweet, I'd be over the moon with that.
Well we moved the cockatiel upstairs, but Harry still wouldn't settle down so my step-brother after arriving late, ate his dinner, had half a drink, left the presents, got his and left after an hour.
Families, who'd have em.
Were having a lazy day of buffet food and desserts.

@tripper
There was a pretentious building company owner, had a LHD U.S. pickup, I can't remember the make and model, which was taller, wider and longer than a Ford Ranger. Within months he got rid and now has a Jaguar XJ, Jaguar F-Pace and a Range Rover he alternates between.

@svend it's fine, I could convert the front room into a garage 🤣

I approve of this message.

@someoneatacura
Ye', it's two years for the Superb. It was done last service in January.

@cé-hé-sin
Tasty though.