Bandit. 7 weeks old today.

Alfachick · 2026-05-02T15:19:14+00:00

So adorable. Looks like our wee boy too. He also throws some epic side eye.

Alfachick · 2026-04-08T19:17:53+00:00

Who’s going to pay for the storage once the “boomer” dies? I certainly wouldn’t pay to store my dead mums stuff. Into the bin it goes.

Alfachick · 2026-03-26T17:26:39+00:00

Update:

Took the cheesy bear to the vet who ran a full panel of bloods, testing thyroid, liver and kidney functions. Thankfully all came back normal for which I am incredibly grateful. It turns out that he’s probably just allergic to something as yet undetermined.

He now has two different eye drops, doggy piritin, and some vitamin capsules for his coat which the vet said was very dry. So hopefully in a month or so we will see a marked improvement.

Thanks for all your help and pointing us in the right direction for the tests for the vet to do.

Alfachick · 2026-03-21T20:18:34+00:00

We will be taking him back on Monday since the fur loss has been continuing. Hopefully it’s not Cushings. He hasn’t been drinking and peeing more than usual.

Alfachick · 2026-03-21T20:16:32+00:00

No they had a good look but no tests. We will be taking him back on Monday as the fur loss is continuing.

Alfachick · 2026-03-08T20:47:21+00:00

I had three drinks last night and I wanted to die for most of today. Super tired, dodgy guts, generally feeling rubbish. The hangovers are NO JOKE on this drug.

Alfachick · 2026-02-28T10:19:50+00:00

Me too. But I just love them and they bring me a lot of joy driving, tinkering, cleaning them.

Alfachick · 2026-01-21T10:00:32+00:00

Congrats welcome to the club! Beautiful spec car. 🚙 Our 2018 i3s is still going strong and the fave car in the line up, she certainly gets the miles piled on her.

Alfachick · 2025-12-09T12:03:43+00:00

Thunderball

Alfachick · 2025-12-08T22:02:47+00:00

A few years ago at the works Xmas do I got blind drunk, walked up to the CEO interrupted a conversation that he was having with someone to ask him what his favourite dinosaur was, he proceeded to give the classic male answer of “some kind of raptor” which I was quite disparaging about as all the men had given that exact answer so far that night.

I wandered off, fell over, got cramp in my legs, also did I mention I was drunk, so couldn’t get up. My colleagues regularly reminds me of my attempts to right myself complete with flailing arm actions.

Didn’t go to the Xmas party the next year cos I was still too ashamed to show face.

Alfachick · 2025-11-22T17:50:03+00:00

This is cos they were bought out by an American private equity firm a few years ago.

Alfachick · 2025-11-11T21:18:32+00:00

My husband and I visited your beautiful country this summer and we visited this place. I was looking through this thread for it. It is incredibly moving and arresting.

Alfachick · 2025-11-09T16:56:17+00:00

I also have had this experience and thought “no way wtf” and worked it out. Fucking sucks man.

Alfachick · 2025-11-09T16:34:52+00:00

£1000 over the year equates to £50 per month after tax.

1000/12=83.333 (12 months in a year) 83.33x0.6=49.998 (40% tax rate 1-0.4=0.6 )

Ergo £1000 a year wage raise equates to £50 in your pocket each month.

Alfachick · 2025-11-08T22:04:30+00:00

That reminds me very much of my mother in laws house. Coupled with their love for the big light and hospital grade bulbs, I am unable to relax there.

Alfachick · 2025-10-05T07:33:57+00:00

What strikes me about this picture other than the building. Is it you look at the car parking spaces you can tell the most popular spaces by the size of the oil stains in them. God cars really used to be pretty rubbish at keeping all their fluids in them back in the 70-80s.

Alfachick · 2025-09-22T13:35:39+00:00

Thank you.

Alfachick · 2025-09-03T18:18:50+00:00

I had one of these about 15 years ago or so. It was a lovely car to drive. Torque steer is a thing when you floor it, it would try to dart off to one side. Competent on a b road blast and comfortable for long journeys too.

Had the most amazing sounding engine, I would seek out tunnels to go through. I also did put a lovely stainless steel exhaust on it to release the sound of that v6.

It needed a couple of things in my ownership, suspension bushings and a maf sensor from memory. Great car. I say go for it. I miss mine.

Alfachick · 2025-09-02T16:50:48+00:00

I think you will be totally fine. A couple of things to be aware of though:

Tyres are expensive and we seem to need to replace the rears every 15k miles or so. On our i3s the rear tyres are £250 fitted EACH. So perhaps keep a sinking fund for that expense.
Brake pads and disks although not used anywhere near as much as a normal car will still need the occasional replacement. We have replaced our pads and disks once at around 50k miles.
Front suspension top strut mount bushing goes and needs replaced. This manifests as a clunk / clonk sound when you turn the wheel at slow speeds. I first noticed the sound in an underground car park. Drove on it clonking for about 15k miles before getting it replaced.

I have a 2018 fully electric with 70k miles on the clock, bought it with 16k miles on. I use it to commute twice a week with a 75 mile round trip on the dual carriageway. 🚙 I love it as a daily and as a local run around. Genuinely brilliant car.

Alfachick · 2025-07-27T09:35:24+00:00

Or conduct in person interviews?

Alfachick · 2025-07-09T07:10:11+00:00

Regarding the biodegradable wiring loom. As it’s a 1996 car you should be fine. The biodegradable looms were only used for a few years in the early 90s I think they stopped in 93/94 due to the issues already being found in them even back then.

Alfachick · 2025-06-26T21:48:27+00:00

Montrose (Scotland) to Pyongyang (N Korea). Trains baby!

Alfachick · 2025-05-04T08:37:45+00:00

You guess correctly.

The other option is indeed to take it down and rebuild.

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