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  • wild edgeswild edges Posts: 10,497
    My AA cover doesn't stretch to homestart sadly but the car's manual advises against jump starting as it can fry the electrics. I think the local parts place has a mobile diagnostic setup so I'll see if they can pop over and program the battery. One of the trainees will no doubt be happy to do it in his lunchbreak for a bit of cash. If it wasn't a few days before Xmas with a pandemic in full swing it would be a lot more simple but here we are. 
    If you can keep your head, while those around you are losing theirs, you may not have grasped the seriousness of the situation.
  • Nanny BeachNanny Beach Posts: 8,719
    I have had tinitus in my left ear following a virus over 2 years ago, every now and then the right ear starts up, it did about an hour ago, it's soooo loud I expect you can all hear it, it makes hearing incredibly difficult, and feels very uncomfortable pressure, like in an aircraft, maybe it was my quick flight in the Harrier this morning that did it!!
  • HorlicksHorlicks Posts: 50
    I have Ménière’s disease and have had tinnitus in my right ear for more than thirty years. I always have the radio on so listen to something else and not my ringing, I don’t allow my brain to listen! Have tablets to take if my balance is suspect!  
  • wild edgeswild edges Posts: 10,497
    Horlicks said:
    I have Ménière’s disease 
    Sounds a bit saucey.

    If you can keep your head, while those around you are losing theirs, you may not have grasped the seriousness of the situation.
  • ObelixxObelixx Posts: 30,090
    @wild edges we bought a new car last January after the old one was murdered by a lorry driver noodling on his mobile instead of paying attention.   The other week its computer froze the dashboard info so I couldn't see what speed I was doing or other handy things like fuel, oil and so on.  Had to be towed away for diagnostics and a re-load which took a week.  Imagine that if I'd been half way to Namur to fetch Possum or on any other long journey and not just poodling about to the local vet.
    Vendée - 20kms from Atlantic coast.
    "The price good men (and women) pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men (and women)."
    Plato
  • Allotment BoyAllotment Boy Posts: 6,774
    Another reason to keep our 13 year old Toyota then! It seems mfcrs will put electronic chips in everything just because they can. 
    AB Still learning

  • ObelixxObelixx Posts: 30,090
    Yep, we're hanging on to the older car - 14 yr old Zafira - as long as possible.
    Vendée - 20kms from Atlantic coast.
    "The price good men (and women) pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men (and women)."
    Plato
  • B3B3 Posts: 27,505
    We're going to have to do something pretty soon because of the low emissions thing that's coming in next year.
    In London. Keen but lazy.
  • Allotment BoyAllotment Boy Posts: 6,774
    Surprisingly ours is still ok even in the London ULEZ  zone.  Mind you it's petrol would never have diesel. 30 years of scrubbing the filth off my motorcycle oversuit from commuting into &across London I always knew how bad diesel was. 
    AB Still learning

  • floraliesfloralies Posts: 2,718
    One of our car keys broke, we had to pay nearly 100 euros for a new one and then about 60 euros to have it programmed to the car. Outrageous!
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