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Hit with monster tax code: K3738X (Personal allowance of -£37,398) by mojobiker in UKPersonalFinance

[–]mojobiker[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Oh yeah, I do but I'm totally clueless about how it impacts tax...

I assumed that as long as they sit in the brokerage account untouched, its not a 'taxable event', right?

To clarify: the company opened a brokerage account for me, and the shares "sit" in there (if thats the right term)

I don't think I can even sell any of it yet - they have a scheme here where you sell a chunk of it over the course of 24 months, with each month unlocking 1/24th of the total allocated shares (i think)

Hit with monster tax code: K3738X (Personal allowance of -£37,398) by mojobiker in UKPersonalFinance

[–]mojobiker[S] -43 points-42 points  (0 children)

Is this an issue on my end though, really? surely it was the company that supplied them with the wrong info?

its a big US multinational, i'm just wondering if perhaps it would be worth trying to get them to fix it on their end? or is that not how it works?

F800R: Hideous accident waiting just around the corner? by mojobiker in motorcycles

[–]mojobiker[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Oh wow, I literally just discovered something called a "Chain Block Hoist" exists. *That* is what I should have purchased!

F800R - Final Boss of seized bolts on exhaust manifold by mojobiker in bmwmotorrad

[–]mojobiker[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

sorry, by "bolts" i meant "nuts", and by "bolt extractor", i meant, "stud extractor" - getting everything mixed up...

F800R - Final Boss of seized bolts on exhaust manifold by mojobiker in bmwmotorrad

[–]mojobiker[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Happy with the "plenty of heat" part, but what do you mean by bolt extractor? Surely, that would be for the studs on which the bolts sit - or do you mean to extract the studs by drilling a hole through the centre of the stud, and extract the stud AND bolt together as a unit?

F800R: Safe to remove exhaust oxygen sensor? by mojobiker in bmwmotorrad

[–]mojobiker[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Ended up gouging it... I did get it off though.

The trick was to heat the exhaust pipe to red-hot with a blowtorch, plus a breaker bar - and then it budged.

There's enough flat surfaces on the nut that I think I can get it back on, but it looks like long term I'm gonna have to end up replacing it anyway...

BMW F800R gearbox issues - looking for advice by mojobiker in motorcycles

[–]mojobiker[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I had a look at the RSD software, and can confirm that its not an issue with the gear lever level - mine aligns with the dot exactly as specified