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 Post subject: job?
PostPosted: Mon Aug 23, 2010 8:18 pm 
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vehicle: Minibus
Number of adult passengers: 5
Number of child passengers: 3
Number of suitcases: 4
From (inc postcode please): bd18 2nl
To (inc postcode please: ca12 4te
Pickup date (outbound): 28/08.10
Pickup time : 9.00
Return?: Yes
Return date: 30/08/10
Return time: 13.00


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 Post subject: Re: job?
PostPosted: Mon Aug 23, 2010 11:22 pm 
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wannabeeahack wrote:
vehicle: Minibus
Number of adult passengers: 5
Number of child passengers: 3
Number of suitcases: 4
From (inc postcode please): bd18 2nl
To (inc postcode please: ca12 4te
Pickup date (outbound): 28/08.10
Pickup time : 9.00
Return?: Yes
Return date: 30/08/10
Return time: 13.00

Bradford to Carlisle from where I am?

Must be about £350 - £400 one way!!

The Captain might do it for a tenner through, but will his gearbox last the journey?

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 Post subject: Re: job?
PostPosted: Mon Aug 23, 2010 11:33 pm 
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Brummie Cabbie wrote:
wannabeeahack wrote:
vehicle: Minibus
Number of adult passengers: 5
Number of child passengers: 3
Number of suitcases: 4
From (inc postcode please): bd18 2nl
To (inc postcode please: ca12 4te
Pickup date (outbound): 28/08.10
Pickup time : 9.00
Return?: Yes
Return date: 30/08/10
Return time: 13.00

Bradford to Carlisle from where I am?

Must be about £350 - £400 one way!!

The Captain might do it for a tenner through, but will his gearbox last the journey?


And will his Clients can endure the Whine!!!...Gearbox whine that is!!


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 Post subject: Re: job?
PostPosted: Mon Aug 23, 2010 11:52 pm 
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bloodnock wrote:
Brummie Cabbie wrote:
wannabeeahack wrote:
vehicle: Minibus
Number of adult passengers: 5
Number of child passengers: 3
Number of suitcases: 4
From (inc postcode please): bd18 2nl
To (inc postcode please: ca12 4te
Pickup date (outbound): 28/08.10
Pickup time : 9.00
Return?: Yes
Return date: 30/08/10
Return time: 13.00

Bradford to Carlisle from where I am?

Must be about £350 - £400 one way!!

The Captain might do it for a tenner through, but will his gearbox last the journey?

And will his Clients can endure the Whine!!!...Gearbox whine that is!!

I've heard through the grapewhine that his gearbox whine has now progressed to a grind.

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PostPosted: Mon Aug 23, 2010 11:59 pm 
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CC,

I do hope it does not go on to Luke 13-28.

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Chris the Fish wrote:
CC,

I do hope it does not go on to Luke 13-28.

I don't think he will be seeing Abraham, Isaac, Jacob on that journey, but if the grinding continues he might not see all the prophets from the hiring!!

:lol: :lol: :lol: :lol:

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Chris the Fish wrote:
CC,

I do hope it does not go on to Luke 13-28.


"There will be weeping there, and gnashing of teeth"....His or the gearboxes?


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bloodnock wrote:

"There will be weeping there, and gnashing of teeth"....His or the gearboxes?


Either, both.

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Skoda superbs are still VAT free at the moment, I wonder why he has not bothered to get it sorted, I posted a link to a place who will do it
It could be a bearing in the Alternator that's gone that would make a similar sound
If it is the gearbox it should not cost no more than £200 to sort


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skippy41 wrote:
Skoda superbs are still VAT free at the moment, I wonder why he has not bothered to get it sorted, I posted a link to a place who will do it
It could be a bearing in the Alternator that's gone that would make a similar sound
If it is the gearbox it should not cost no more than £200 to sort



£200 Gearbox repairs!!!!!....do the still practice slave Labour in your Parish Skip???

Garages near me Would have £400 quid even before parts were added... :cry:


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I wonder why he has not bothered to get it sorted, I posted a link to a place who will do it


If he gets it fixed he'll have nothing to whine about, well, maybe his poor form on the golf course or NUFC :lol: :lol: :wink:

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I wonder if he has had the gearbox oil level checked by all accounts its a pig of a thing to do, and they do loose there oil over time


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CC, are you there - we are all talking about you!

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Chris the Fish wrote:
CC, are you there - we are all talking about you!


I noticed.....I also notice that you noticed me rising above it.

I haven't mentioned today that skoda is sh*te and the gearboxes are awful either :wink:

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captain cab wrote:
Chris the Fish wrote:
CC, are you there - we are all talking about you!


I noticed.....I also notice that you noticed me rising above it.

I haven't mentioned today that skoda is sh*te and the gearboxes are awful either :wink:

CC


It's the way you drive the bloody thing, I haven't heard of anybody else having problems :wink:

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