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  1. Slackjaw190

    What is the best car you've ever owned and a brief reason why?

    Easily my Civic Type R (EP3), fun to drive, quick enough for the local roads, nothing major/expensive broke in 110k miles and 14 years of ownership, and it hardly depreciated. Cars these days are too expensive, complicated, and tame. Why did I sell it…?
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    Premium Bonds - If you post to say how much you've won, please also say how much you have invested.

    £575 for me this month, which was needed as I'd only won £1325 beforehand this year on £50k, so that puts me near the 'expected' median. 3.8% return this year for me
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    Luton airport...

    As someone who's lit many fires using diesel, I can confirm it's great at doing it, and a match will ignite it fairly easily. When in liquid form, it is very stable, but as soon as it turns into vapour (heated), it will go off like a bomb when that vapour is ignited.
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    *** Car Wash / Valet / Detailing Thread ***

    Cheers, I'll take look
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    *** Car Wash / Valet / Detailing Thread ***

    Can anyone recommend a dual action polisher, looking at the Halfords one but happy to buy a Chinese cheapy if it will do the same job?
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    BMW and M Power Owners

    Shadow Editions came in mid to late 2017 (67 plate), only standard Shadow specs are 18" Orbit Grey wheels (although could be spec'd with with the black double-spoke wheels) Cruise control with braking function Darkened rear lights Gloss black kidney grilles LED Headlights with darkened...
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    Solar panels and battery - any real world reccomendations?

    Hi again, My parents have someone coming over tomorrow for another quote for a 6kWh system with battery, is there any specific questions they should be asking? Thanks, Slack
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    Solar panels and battery - any real world reccomendations?

    Thanks for your help all, I showed my mum these replies and she's going to get another quote or two and do some investigation in to how they use so much electricity.
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    Solar panels and battery - any real world reccomendations?

    Hi all, are these things really worth it? My parents had some guy round trying to sell them a system and I don’t want them getting ripped off. I tried Google expected costs/returns but all I get is companies trying to sell me systems so I thought I’d ask here… They’re looking at getting 13...
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    BMW and M Power Owners

    I thought Carly allowed you to do it, although I think you need the premium version. Batteries that accommodate start stop are expensive but £370 seems a lot for what should be a simple job.
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    Are 'old' second hand cards too risky?

    6700xt might be a bit overkill for my 11 year old system with 1080p monitors :p Good idea, I'm not in a particular rush as I don't game much these days
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    Are 'old' second hand cards too risky?

    Cheers, I'll take a look at the MM, do people selling on the MM not mine :confused::p
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    Are 'old' second hand cards too risky?

    My r9 280x has decided to die and I’m looking for a replacement. Modern low-end graphics cards aren’t cheap these days so I starting looking at similar or slightly newer second hand cards like a RX470 or RX580 but am wary that they’ve probably been used for mining 24/7. Does anyone have any...
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    Blackout Help

    Get a Honda generator and transfer switch
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    BMW and M Power Owners

    Comfortable..? the ride quality is shocking. The engine is the stand out component and the reason I got one, everything else about the car is quite average in my opinion. Top tip if you do get one, don’t go off-roading as you’ll get stuck on the first bit of damp grass!
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    Premium Bonds - If you post to say how much you've won, please also say how much you have invested.

    Isn't this quite dumb, it's been proven that new bonds don't have a higher chance of winning and you're losing a months chance of winning each time you do this? Each bond has roughly a 1:24k chance of winning a prize regardless of when you bought it. It only appears that new bonds are more...
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    PC won't boot - dead PSU or MB?

    The old girl lives again :) Looks like the old psu died and she's running like new now I've replaced it. Thanks for your help and suggestion all, looks like I'll have to wait a bit longer for a new PC...
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    PC won't boot - dead PSU or MB?

    Will do, I have a spare PSU at my parents somewhere that I'll pick up tomorrow Good point, I've had them die on me before after ~10yrs so worth replacing.
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    PC won't boot - dead PSU or MB?

    Cheers, took everything out the case, rewired everything and tried to boot with the minimum attached but it's still the same I'll order a new PSU and see if that fixes it.
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