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UsernameNotDefined wrote: Thanks everyone for providing the cure
:Ali shakes head: You're just kidding yourself! 
"State acheived after eating too many chocolate-covered coconut bars - bountiful"
Chris C-B
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I'm just trying to digest the fact.
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I guees you had to swallow your pride to tell us that? 
Anything that is unrelated to elephants is irrelephant
Anonymous
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The problem with quotes on the internet is that you can never tell if they're genuine
Winston Churchill, 1944
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I'd just like a chance to prove that money can't make me happy.
Me, all the time
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This doesn't go down my throat.
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That's what Paris said. 
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By all reports, that's one of the few things she wouldn't say... 
Those who fail to learn history are doomed to repeat it. --- George Santayana (December 16, 1863 – September 26, 1952)
Those who fail to clear history are doomed to explain it. --- OriginalGriff (February 24, 1959 – ∞)
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He must have confused her with Monica Lewinsky... 
Anything that is unrelated to elephants is irrelephant
Anonymous
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The problem with quotes on the internet is that you can never tell if they're genuine
Winston Churchill, 1944
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I'd just like a chance to prove that money can't make me happy.
Me, all the time
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You must be on the seafood diet. If you see food, you eat it.
There are only 10 types of people in the world, those who understand binary and those who don't.
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Quote: I'm addicted to eating
Otherwise you'd die. Congrats. 
There are only 10 types of people in the world, those who understand binary and those who don't.
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...but I can't help myself trying.
~RaGE();
I think words like 'destiny' are a way of trying to find order where none exists. - Christian Graus
Do not feed the troll ! - Common proverb
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...so I went to get rehab. Couldn't get in. There was a long line at the door...
Anything that is unrelated to elephants is irrelephant
Anonymous
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The problem with quotes on the internet is that you can never tell if they're genuine
Winston Churchill, 1944
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I'd just like a chance to prove that money can't make me happy.
Me, all the time
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Thanks! That was what I aimed for!  
Anything that is unrelated to elephants is irrelephant
Anonymous
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The problem with quotes on the internet is that you can never tell if they're genuine
Winston Churchill, 1944
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I'd just like a chance to prove that money can't make me happy.
Me, all the time
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I'm not addicted, I just do it for the craic
speramus in juniperus
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Anything that is unrelated to elephants is irrelephant
Anonymous
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The problem with quotes on the internet is that you can never tell if they're genuine
Winston Churchill, 1944
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I'd just like a chance to prove that money can't make me happy.
Me, all the time
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an addiction not to be sniffed at
You cant outrun the world, but there is no harm in getting a head start
Real stupidity beats artificial intelligence every time.
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Bergholt Stuttley Johnson wrote: an addiction not to be sniffed at
Nae it's nort!
Anything that is unrelated to elephants is irrelephant
Anonymous
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The problem with quotes on the internet is that you can never tell if they're genuine
Winston Churchill, 1944
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I'd just like a chance to prove that money can't make me happy.
Me, all the time
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A couple of weeks ago, I tried to swap over my wheels to put on a set of Winters in prep for going up skiing.
After swapping over 3 wheels and moving to number 4, the locking wheel nut and the one to its right were seized solid. So tight that I even started to twist the head of the wrench. Also, with all the effort, the locking nut key now just pops off as it is slightly mangled. Had to take the other three wheels back off (and needless to say, didn't put the locking ones on them just in case).
Took the car up to the dealer today, and asked if they good get their guys to rattle the two seized ones with an impact wrench, seeing as they had the wheel off last for the service back in September. This was an unannounced visit, with no booking and he was a bit hesitant but said ok. (The place was pretty busy).
A couple of minutes later, the guy comes back through and says they are just trying to find their set of master keys as mine isn't working due to its condition. After about another 20 minutes, they came back and said they have given up, the master isn't even shifting things and this is going to take a lot longer and will need to book it in. They will probably have to try heating things etc. and small risk of damaging the wheel blah blah blah. They what to use the loosen off the others and get the wheel hub hot using the cars brakes. I guess using a flame on the alloys will wreck the matt black paintwork.
Nothing is ever simple.......I get a distinct feeling that this is going to turn into a drill the seized ones out affair.
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Isn't will be more simple to buy a new car?
I'm not questioning your powers of observation; I'm merely remarking upon the paradox of asking a masked man who he is. (V)
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DaveAuld wrote: I get a distinct feeling that this is going to turn into a drill the seized ones out affair.
And that is going to be a PITA...they are generally designed to make it difficult!
That sounds expensive...especially at Merc prices! 
Those who fail to learn history are doomed to repeat it. --- George Santayana (December 16, 1863 – September 26, 1952)
Those who fail to clear history are doomed to explain it. --- OriginalGriff (February 24, 1959 – ∞)
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Locking wheel nuts, good idea in theory, who ever on M32 in the dark, peaing rain, no key not so great.
Locking wheel nuts mean it's harder to steal the alloy but with the grief they can cause I have rejected them (at this point I should note I drive the cheapest Kia available, mostly due to fact anything nicer gets nicked, the part of Bristol I live in you think twice about stopping at traffic lights for fear your wheels will walk!)
modified 28-Jan-14 7:30am.
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Copper paste or MoS2 is great for anti seizing. But it's a bit late now.
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DaveAuld wrote: I get a distinct feeling that this is going to turn into a drill the seized ones out affair.
Going to get one of your co-workers to do it?
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go park it in Liverpool mossside overnight the wheels will be off by the morning
seriously the usual trick of the scroates is to hammer a cheap socket over the locking nut and use a long bar, but then again they dont care about damaging the nut or worse snapping the stud
You cant outrun the world, but there is no harm in getting a head start
Real stupidity beats artificial intelligence every time.
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Bergholt Stuttley Johnson wrote: the usual trick of the scroates is to hammer a cheap socket
Not that type of locking nut. This is a flat faced with a recessed groove/shape cut into it. Otherwise I would have tried that 1st. 
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