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Paul1965
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Great reply to a comment on a YouTube Van Halen video.  
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cloaked_wolf
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That's hilarious!
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cloaked_wolf
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_________________He fights for the users.
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pcernie
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Some of that is pure win. Would the Bat-brake light be legal over here?   _________________Plain English advice on everything money, purchase and service related:
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| Sat Oct 06, 2012 6:08 pm |
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ProfessorF
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Yeah, but it'd still be as tragic. 
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tombolt
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My Alfa, that's right an Alfa has just gone straight through its second MOT with nothing other than a service in the last year.
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| Sat Oct 06, 2012 7:13 pm |
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Amnesia10
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No rust holding the paint together?  _________________Do concentrate, 007... "You are gifted. Mine is bordering on seven seconds." https://www.dropbox.com/referrals/NTg5MzczNTkhttp://astore.amazon.co.uk/wwwx404couk-21
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ProfessorF
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 Win. I was certainly not so lucky.
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| Sat Oct 06, 2012 8:20 pm |
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tombolt
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Paint holding the rust together! I ought to add that it cost me 3 grand in repairs the year before.
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| Sat Oct 06, 2012 9:32 pm |
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timark_uk
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Just ordered this. Cheers peeps. Mark
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Amnesia10
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I was not criticising your car. Years ago Alfas were great looking cars but were rust buckets after on a few years. Then Fiat really when to town on improving the rust protection giving their cars seven year rust guarantees if I am right. It bit like the old Skoda jokes and now they are so good that they make up the majority of tax cabs outside the capital. _________________Do concentrate, 007... "You are gifted. Mine is bordering on seven seconds." https://www.dropbox.com/referrals/NTg5MzczNTkhttp://astore.amazon.co.uk/wwwx404couk-21
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| Sat Oct 06, 2012 10:09 pm |
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tombolt
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No worries, I didn't think you were.
To fill you in on alfa's rust history. It was cheap Chinese steel in the 70s and 80s that caused them to rust to bits. They sorted it in the late 80s and early 90s with full on galvanisation and ten year bodywork warranties. At some point in the late nineties, they abandoned the rust prevention plans, but kept the warranties. The cunning plan (of which my car is a victim) was to give the warranty, but then not honour it.
There is a well documented wing issue where the front wings rust where the front bumper is attached, my car will attest to this problem. What Alfa do, when you attempt to claim on their ten year anti perforation warranty which I think is really clever on their part is to say, "do you have the two year bodywork inspection certificate which is not listed to be done anywhere other than the small print of your warranty document and will not be undertaken by your dealer without request by yourself?". When you inevitably say no, they will refuse cover.
I'm just waiting until they're completely fubar and then will replace both front wings.
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JJW009
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_________________jonbwfc's law: "In any forum thread someone will, no matter what the subject, mention Firefly." When you're feeling too silly for x404, youRwired.net
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Amnesia10
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That is a dodgy practice. Another reason why all terms and conditions should be printable on 1 side of A4 in 12 point text. So that people can actually read it.  _________________Do concentrate, 007... "You are gifted. Mine is bordering on seven seconds." https://www.dropbox.com/referrals/NTg5MzczNTkhttp://astore.amazon.co.uk/wwwx404couk-21
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pcernie
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+1, use the best/worst things thread if applicable _________________Plain English advice on everything money, purchase and service related:
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