backwoodsman
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It's not London-wide. Its only roads managed by TfL, and then only those in the central congestion zone. Which in reality is a tiny minority of roads. Doesn't stop it being a pain in the a*** though.
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Bunkermagnet
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It goes out to the South Circular so includes Lambeth, Lewisham as well as Wandsworth, Chelsea and Kensington, Camden, Westminster...basically everywhere inside the North and South Circulars...or will be very soon. I would say thats more or less London wide.
It's a blooming maddening thing to deal with.
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Considering tfl maintain the majority of major roads (a and b roads) within the m25 it isn't the the entire of London
Doesn't affect a lot of greater London .. yet anyways
YandaB
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Makes me feel better when 4 people at Halfords all failed too! Apparently the chap with the "magic fingers" isn't in today (despite 3 of the 4 boasting that they were unbeaten at it) so I will have to go back another day. Maybe that's a post for Gladdens the heart?
Bunkermagnet
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Its starting to...
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When I turn off north circular and have a 20 mph zone rest of way to work most of time I'm lucky to get to 15 mph anyways with the amount of traffic
The last place you only want to be doing 20 mph is lewisham
ColchesterFC
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Halfords refused to do ours when I took it to them. Got the bulb and paid for fitting. The guy came out to the car, looked at it and just said "Nope, we don't change those". Had to go back in to the shop to get a refund for the fitting.
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Kwik fit refused to regas the air con on my hybrid few years back ...
Prepaid had to get a refund
Went local garage and they did it. Couldn't understand why they refused .. "we don't touch hybrids" good luck with that .. and tbh like the garage said .. litterally connect to the tubes and press go on a machine
Anyone could do it apparently
PhilTheFragger
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Fixed that for ya ??
ColchesterFC
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Sports commentators exaggerating how good a shot was. "She's hit the perfect 6 iron into that green". No she hasn't, the perfect 6 iron would go in the hole not end up 10 feet away. She's hit a very good, or even excellent, shot not a perfect shot.
Bunkermagnet
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Wait until sections of the North Circular have that limit just as the South Circular does.
Bunkermagnet
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Oh I don't know, Lambeth is worst. But then the days of the old North Peckham Estate, Angel Town and the like are gone and new demons in their place.
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To be fair parts of it are 30 and I average 10mph through these parts
Bunkermagnet
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If the limit was time specific, I could understand. But when you're on these roads at 5am, they are empty and youre doing 20 mph with nothing around except a speed camera....
Anyways, they're my irritation.
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Oh I agree. Did a bagel run for the lads before covid on a night shift .. archway road 26mph camera flashed .. forgot it was a 20
Luckily nothing ever came of it
Orikoru
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So what did you do instead, just buy a new car??
drdel
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Many hybrids use a different refrigerant because of electric pumps etc. It is unsafe to use the wrong one so in this case Halfords were right.
ColchesterFC
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Crashed it into a metal fence and got the insurance to pay out as a write off.
GreiginFife
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Is that for the cool white light bulbs?
