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Many, many years ago I went into a small local parts supply centre for an exhaust for my Ford Cortina and was quoted £30. I then saw a sign behind the counter saying "exhausts fitted free" and thought why get my own hands dirty?
Me - "Can you fit it for me?"
Them - "Of course, that'll be £50"
Me - "What about the free fitting?"
Them - "If you fit it yourself, we give you a discount!"
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I'm an optoholic - my glass is always half full of vodka.
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I just bought a 2012 Ford Focus a few months ago and I really love it but my A/C condensate line leaks onto passenger floor and I've taken it back were I bought it and they blow the line out and it works for a while then clogs back up. The drain pan is behind the firewall and the whole dash has to taken out to get to it so the guys at the shop were I bought it don't want to do it the right way and I don't think it's covered under extended warrenty and I can't afford to shell out to have it done so am stuck. When it clogs I take it in and they blow it out, charged me first time 2nd time was free but they are not going to continue this for long.
Have you ever just looked at someone and knew the wheel was turning but the hamster was dead?
Trying to understand the behavior of some people is like trying to smell the color 9.
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They are cracking cars - the chassis is excellent and the gearbox is the best one I've used in a modern car.
The main problem are the design "quirks". Mine has windscreen washers that, when the rubber goes, starts to drain out onto the sparks (fixed in later models), causing pinking. The other problem (common to a lot of modern cars) is that you pretty much have to take the whole light assembly out in order to change a simple bulb - meaning that it needs re-aligning, meaning a mechanic.
Alberto Brandolini: The amount of energy necessary to refute bullshit is an order of magnitude bigger than to produce it.
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Yeah it is an awesome car! The reason I bought that model is I rented/drove one for a month when I took my trip out west and loved it. But as you say there are plenty of design quirks, and to get them worked on is expensive and a lot of the work required a mechanic.
Have you ever just looked at someone and knew the wheel was turning but the hamster was dead?
Trying to understand the behavior of some people is like trying to smell the color 9.
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Mike Hankey wrote: I just bought a 2012 Ford Focus a few months ago and I really love it but my A/C condensate line leaks onto passenger floor and I've taken it back were I bought it and they blow the line out and it works for a while then clogs back up.
Try setting the vent control so the AC brings in outside air and cools it down rather than recirculate the air from the cabin over and over. My dad was a mechanic for 40+ years (not at a Ford dealer, mind you) and one of his observations is that if you let an AC recirculate the air from the cabin, it gets too cold then freezes the lines. Then they either have to blow it out, as you're seeing, or wait until it thaws out on its own.
By letting it draw outside air instead, it should never get cold to the point where the line freezes.
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Awesome advice will check it out thanks!
[update]
It was set on outside circulation and it's still leaking. Boooooo
So the dealership is getting a call today.
[/update]
Have you ever just looked at someone and knew the wheel was turning but the hamster was dead?
Trying to understand the behavior of some people is like trying to smell the color 9.
modified 11-Aug-14 11:49am.
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Well, that's all the car advice I had for today.  It's a hardware problem, and I'm a software guy...
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Is that really out or not?
A quick search on the web suggests it didnt happen yet.
But I saw one of my friends carrying Nokia Lumia 630 & its Phone info clearly says it's Windows Phone 8.1.
If it's a developer preview, it might better carry a suffix saying WP8.1 GDR or something but nothing was written. It was a clear "Windows Phone 8.1" 
Starting to think people post kid pics in their profiles because that was the last time they were cute - Jeremy.
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I have it on a Lumia 1520. It just updated last night.
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Wow, but was there an announcement from Microsoft about the release?
Starting to think people post kid pics in their profiles because that was the last time they were cute - Jeremy.
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Did it break yours like it broke mine?
One email account went into endless sync...took me a day to catch it in between attempts so I could delete it. Incredible battery drain and overheating.
SMSs can no longer be replied to via voice-to-text when Bluetoothily connected to my car.
And I still haven't figured out what update this actually is. It's NOT the latest one, since that's not available yet. I think it's the one just before.
I'm hoping the real one fixes what it broke.
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Well, according to my phone, I'm at 8.1 on Lumia Cyan. The OS Revision is 8.10.12393.890. I'm waiting for Update 1 to finally get what I'm really after; Cortana support.
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8.10.12397.895 here. And that's *still* not the latest update. :p
But it came with Cortana.
No folders, though.
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Yeah, I was trying the folder thing this morning and cursing the fact they haven't featured it yet - Cortana support isn't available here in the UK on the version I have.
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I saw where some people changed their locale to US and it made Cortana work...but I guess that only counts if it's installed. :p Well, that, and not minding everything becoming AmericaniZed.
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My quick search braught up this:
8.1 Phone [^]
if(this.signature != "")
{
MessageBox.Show("This is my signature: " + Environment.NewLine + signature);
}
else
{
MessageBox.Show("404-Signature not found");
}
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Yeah I saw a lot of phone with similar spec. But none of them let me proceed to check out. It asked me wait for few weeks till the product is available.
Starting to think people post kid pics in their profiles because that was the last time they were cute - Jeremy.
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Kornfeld Eliyahu Peter wrote: I'm not questioning your powers of observation
lol, I'm really questioning it now 
Read what that link exactly says at the bottom.. in bold!
Starting to think people post kid pics in their profiles because that was the last time they were cute - Jeremy.
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"Hello from Seattle"?
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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He's on about the fact you linked to Windows 8.1, not Windows Phone 8.1.
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Aren't we in the age of One Windows?!
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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Starting to think people post kid pics in their profiles because that was the last time they were cute - Jeremy.
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The release schedules are all documented under this[^] site.
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