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I have a for four Smart car so it has to go to Mercedes to be serviced and it’s costs nearly £300 to be serviced although I have a special thing going where I pay £20 a month for 12 months and get it cheaper but when my father in law serviced my past cars it cost between £50 and £100 for parts depending on what needs doing. It’s a right rip off!
 
No just been told it’s a Hyundai! Prefer boats to cars really, as long as they get from a to b I’m happy x
 
Claire W said:
I have a for four Smart car so it has to go to Mercedes to be serviced and it’s costs nearly £300 to be serviced although I have a special thing going where I pay £20 a month for 12 months and get it cheaper but when my father in law serviced my past cars it cost between £50 and £100 for parts depending on what needs doing. It’s a right rip off!
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I service mine with my dad. My car is lowered so i have to lift it onto the jack and need help obviously. I dont do full service. Just oil and filters. I love smarts, would love to have a go in one
 
Claire W said:
I have a for four Smart car so it has to go to Mercedes to be serviced and it’s costs nearly £300 to be serviced although I have a special thing going where I pay £20 a month for 12 months and get it cheaper but when my father in law serviced my past cars it cost between £50 and £100 for parts depending on what needs doing. It’s a right rip off!
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I didn’t know Smart was part of the Mercedes group, would like one of them, but £300 is a bit steep x
 
Bill & Ted said:
I didn’t know Smart was part of the Mercedes group, would like one of them, but £300 is a bit steep x
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Bill & Ted said:
No just been told it’s a Hyundai! Prefer boats to cars really, as long as they get from a to b I’m happy x
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Yea but they need to get back from b to a again. Youll like where I'm staying then if you like boats. This is my hotel view, theres a harbour just down in the townView attachment 103023
 
When i called up the vets about my blood covered gerbil and they say £90 just to have a look! I had a look myself! I got spoken to as if i didnt know what i was talking about when i refused to split both gerbils up because they de clan if its for too long
 
Emergency vets are a joke! I had to take my Ena back in 2013 as she had chewed all her stitches out from a huge lump removal so she had a big gaping hole. She actually had lymphoma so the wound wasn’t healing due to the cancer so we sadly had her pts rather than have her restitched just to live another few weeks :( It cost us £80 just to see her an then £40 to send her over the bridge but this happened late one Saturday night and we couldn’t have left her like that :(
 
Claire W said:
Emergency vets are a joke! I had to take my Ena back in 2013 as she had chewed all her stitches out from a huge lump removal so she had a big gaping hole. She actually had lymphoma so the wound wasn’t healing due to the cancer so we sadly had her pts rather than have her restitched just to live another few weeks :( It cost us £80 just to see her an then £40 to send her over the bridge but this happened late one Saturday night and we couldn’t have left her like that :(
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Such a shame i also had a lymphona pig, i just posted a vid of him and dot trying to bond in my bond thread. Its also crap how the cat and rabbit care clinic are so good but they link you to a rubbish emergency vets. I dont get it. Suppose its just a better than nothing thing. Probably ok for cats
 
Skypipdot said:
Such a shame i also had a lymphona pig, i just posted a vid of him and dot trying to bond in my bond thread. Its also crap how the cat and rabbit care clinic are so good but they link you to a rubbish emergency vets. I dont get it. Suppose its just a better than nothing thing. Probably ok for cats
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Lymphoma is awful :( and I agree. My vets are great but the local emergency vets are crap and it’s them they refer you too. Thankfully I’ve only had to use them that one time and we now have 3 local PAH vets who are thankfully open on a Sunday and bank holidays etc
 
Claire W said:
Lymphoma is awful :( and I agree. My vets are great but the local emergency vets are crap and it’s them they refer you too. Thankfully I’ve only had to use them that one time and we now have 3 local PAH vets who are thankfully open on a Sunday and bank holidays etc
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Where do you live again? Thats pretty good having 3 p.a.h
 
I have 3 PAH vets local to me too. Although I do just use the one. I like them too for the reasons @Claire W has stated they are open weekends and Bank Holidays too without having to pay the exhorbitant out of hours fees.
 
Skypipdot said:
Where do you live again? Thats pretty good having 3 p.a.h
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I live in a little village 5 miles outside of Rochdale but we have a PAH in Rochdale which has recently opened, one in Oldham which is about 12 miles away and another one in Burnley which is about 10 miles away and they all have a vet :)
 
Claire W said:
I live in a little village 5 miles outside of Rochdale but we have a PAH in Rochdale which has recently opened, one in Oldham which is about 12 miles away and another one in Burnley which is about 10 miles away and they all have a vet :)
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I did the new wickes signs in oldham, its a bad place isnt it
 
Claire W said:
He does full services and part services but it just goes to show how much garages rip people off. Thanks, I love my car :) not that I use it much these days :( Hubby has a Fiat 500 xl
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I’ve been driving since I was 19 back in 1978 and the first car I got was a very sporty Fiat 128 3P, it was a lovely car to drive, a real hot hatch! The only problem was it cost more on insurance a month than the mortgage! In fact I was turned down by some insurance companies, it didn’t have a huge engine but it was very sporty in the day, I absolutely loved it! I’ve had about 4 Fiats and always found them a joy to drive and they were all really reliable, despite their then bad press. I’d love a Fiat 500 but not practical with 2 doors and grandkids. I once hired a car at Newquay airport and was hugely suprised and delighted, it was a Fiat 500 Abarth'! You should have seen the faces of the car rental guys! They were wetting themselves, and obviously done it for a bit of a laugh. One 80 year old (mother) and one 50 odd year old driving off in that car with its fancy black and white checked roof and all the trimmings, it was hilarious! Everywhere we park3d people came up to have a look, my son who had moved down to Cornwall was dead impressed with it.
 
Bill & Ted said:
I’ve been driving since I was 19 back in 1978 and the first car I got was a very sporty Fiat 128 3P, it was a lovely car to drive, a real hot hatch! The only problem was it cost more on insurance a month than the mortgage! In fact I was turned down by some insurance companies, it didn’t have a huge engine but it was very sporty in the day, I absolutely loved it! I’ve had about 4 Fiats and always found them a joy to drive and they were all really reliable, despite their then bad press. I’d love a Fiat 500 but not practical with 2 doors and grandkids. I once hired a car at Newquay airport and was hugely suprised and delighted, it was a Fiat 500 Abarth'! You should have seen the faces of the car rental guys! They were wetting themselves, and obviously done it for a bit of a laugh. One 80 year old (mother) and one 50 odd year old driving off in that car with its fancy black and white checked roof and all the trimmings, it was hilarious! Everywhere we park3d people came up to have a look, my son who had moved down to Cornwall was dead impressed with it.
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Amazing :) My last car was a white Fiat 500 with red seats and I loved it but sadly it got old and needed a lot of work doing to it and I couldn’t afford a new one :(
 
Claire W said:
Amazing :) My last car was a white Fiat 500 with red seats and I loved it but sadly it got old and needed a lot of work doing to it and I couldn’t afford a new one :(
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We have a Fiat 500, red with white trim- it looks like a mushroom :) very good teacher car and very easy to park in a big city!
 
My sons first car was a black Fiat 500, although it wasn’t as stylish as they are now x
 
My first car was a 1976 Morris Marina in a yukky pukey shade of orange. It was so rusty the paint was holding it together. It was very reliable though and I had it for 6 years. It was welded up several times to get it through its MOT, burnt loads of oil and was generally like a boat to stear but it was mine and my Dad bought it for me (bonus). My work colleague Syd dubbed it the "Rolls canardly" as in "it rolls down the hill and can 'ardly get up the other side!"
 
Bill & Ted said:
Sorry just catching up on threads, yes I love to be near or on the sea. Where are you, it strangely looks familiar?
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I was in banff springs, between whitehills and macduff in scotland. I have just reachef cumbria on the way home now. It took me 5 hours. Another 5 to go, I'm 1 of 2 drivers in same van
 
Bill & Ted said:
I’ve been driving since I was 19 back in 1978 and the first car I got was a very sporty Fiat 128 3P, it was a lovely car to drive, a real hot hatch! The only problem was it cost more on insurance a month than the mortgage! In fact I was turned down by some insurance companies, it didn’t have a huge engine but it was very sporty in the day, I absolutely loved it! I’ve had about 4 Fiats and always found them a joy to drive and they were all really reliable, despite their then bad press. I’d love a Fiat 500 but not practical with 2 doors and grandkids. I once hired a car at Newquay airport and was hugely suprised and delighted, it was a Fiat 500 Abarth'! You should have seen the faces of the car rental guys! They were wetting themselves, and obviously done it for a bit of a laugh. One 80 year old (mother) and one 50 odd year old driving off in that car with its fancy black and white checked roof and all the trimmings, it was hilarious! Everywhere we park3d people came up to have a look, my son who had moved down to Cornwall was dead impressed with it.
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The Abarth are nice looking cars, its not always about engine size, weight makes alot of difference, i have a 1.3 yaris sr and its nippier than some 1.6's . I think a bit of power is safer for pulling out at busy slip roads and roundabouts..i hate boy racers though so dont want to sound like a numnut
 
Claire W said:
Lol I bet that’s thrilling to watch 🙄 Many of times the place I was working at was broken in to during the night. It was pretty scary and not safe at all
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It is about how much crime goes on there. A bit like benefits street programme style of editing , Not saying that benefit claimers all do crime before i get a virtual hammer up my bottom😉
 
Skypipdot said:
I was in banff springs, between whitehills and macduff in scotland. I have just reachef cumbria on the way home now. It took me 5 hours. Another 5 to go, I'm 1 of 2 drivers in same van
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No never been there, but it did look familiar 🤔
 
When I have sent a label to print on my printer but my laptop refuses to acknowledge that it is switched on and doesn't print it for 15 mins and I need to get the item in the Christmas post as quickly as possible as it is a Christmas present for somebody and if the person doesn't get it in time for Christmas my Ebay feedback is going to be:cen:!
 
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