Recent content by TheFoX

Not all MOT testers are the same. Some fail for the slightest discrepancy while others are more forgiving. The art is to find the second type of tester, which is the real challenge.

Try Cayenne pepper. Rodents hate the smell of this and it can burn their little noses if they sniff too close. Garlic is another plant that drives them away. Anyone who has ever handled a hot pepper knows that we wear gloves when handling them, or suffer the burning sensation when we...

It becomes even worse if you blank out a registration plate that has a custom registration. After all, why go to the expense of spelling your name out on the registration plate only to blank it out when posting photos of your cherished registration to an online forum.

If the dealer had taken the car for a proper run before handing the car back to the OP, they would have probably spotted this message themselves. I had to top up my expansion tank after a service once because there was still an air bubble somewhere in the cooling system that hadn't been purged...

I guy I used to work with, called Karl Suter, bought the plate K90 TER, then modifed it to read K SUTER. Then one evening, he pulled up with cardboard reading K90 TER where his plates should be. These days it is even harder to have an incorrect plate due to ANPR being just about everywhere...

How long ago was it that diesel peaked at just under £1.50 a litre? And if I remember, there was an inquiry because every time the price of crude went up, so did the pump prices, but when crude went down, the pump prices stayed up, making the margin between the price of crude and the pump price...

It doesn't matter whether it is a Merc of yesteryear or a modern Merc, they have a unique look and feel about them that no other car manufacturer can emulate, and when you take that car and give it the TLC it deserves, it shines. And nothing shines better than a proper Mercedes silver when the...

The Travellers up the road from us specialise in these car covers. Something to do with the rightful owner reclaiming their property, or something.

My old C class pulled to the left quite dramatically, more than usual. I took it into the Main Dealer, and the service manager politely explained about the camber in the road, as if I was a nine year old child. I politely explained that even when I drive on the 'other' side of the road, it...

'Government wants to outlaw personal transport by 2753'. Fanciful thinking making demands that are decades away. 'Free milk for all by 3185'. In reality, no government can possible plan beyond their term in office. How can you plan to implement a change that starts in a later term? The...

I think there is one, near Spalding.

I think of EN590, and any other standard, as a minimum requirement, otherwise manufacturers could foist anything on us. Standard supermarket diesel meets this standard, whereas branded fuel tends to exceed the standard to some extent, depending on the product, so Shell FuelSaver is designed to...

No, my sensory detail is locked on Peugeots. Mine is a mix of 2 and 3. My neighbour has to cross my property to get to theirs, and starting parking their cars on my property, including my front lawn. We had words. I think it was about a week ago, but might have been longer.

I was listening to a guest on the Chris Evans show on Radio 2 who has written a book on psychology, and he was saying that the brain has a natural ability to ignore some sensory detail, unless you specifically look for the detail, so you might decide to buy a vivacious red car, then all of a...

In the old days, when cash was harder to get your hands on, and the marque was more prestigious, then the clientele of the marque were the more mature person, some buying their E Class when they were able to draw on their pension pots. In this day and age, when money is so much easier to get...