Very, very, very annoyed. 2 things.

[Graham Orm]

For free and off of - and overly when it should over.

Off of drives me nuts too. Ray Mears says it regularly.

 

[Graham Orm]

Just had to pay £240 for a key fob for my van, which makes it worth more than the van.

VW ?
I paid a similar amount when I was daft enough to lose my spare last year.

What should be a consoling thought is that these expensive keys tied to a single vin plate have helped keep your/our insurance costs down due to the greatly reduced rate of car theft compared to the old and easy to hot wire ignition systems of old.

Still a PITA if you have to shell out for a new one :-(

Peugeot. The main dealer wanted £300 and couldn't do it for a week!

 

[Graham Orm]

'Can I get a pint of lager?' No, you're the customer, I'm the barman, you can buy a pint of lager, I'll get it.

 

[woodpig]

Somethink and Nothink get on my wick. Expected of young chavs but even TV presenters are saying it these days.

So how do you like that, like?! :lol:

 

[Rhossydd]

The main dealer wanted £300 and couldn't do it for a week!

From what I've heard and read, with VW you can get cheaper keys coded to the car, but they often fail soon after, so a main dealer is the only reliable answer.
Yes, it takes a week to 10 days with VW as the keys have to be programmed in Germany to the VIN plate then the dealer has to actually sync them to the car.

Peugeot ?? never again.

 

[Wuffles]

The main dealer wanted £300 and couldn't do it for a week!

From what I've heard and read, with VW you can get cheaper keys coded to the car, but they often fail soon after, so a main dealer is the only reliable answer.
Yes, it takes a week to 10 days with VW as the keys have to be programmed in Germany to the VIN plate then the dealer has to actually sync them to the car.

Peugeot ?? never again.

Having a keyfob coded to a VW, for me, didn't involve Germany at all and did not take a week to 10 days. What you have written is untrue. Do you have experience of this?

I do not understand how one (a cheaper one) could work and then not work, what do you mean?

 

[Sheptonphil]

Grrr! The replacement all over live television of 'are' for 'our' as on strictly etc. They are introduced as 'are judges' not 'our judges'.

Phil

 

[Rhossydd]

Having a keyfob coded to a VW, for me, didn't involve Germany at all

Probably an old VW then.

Do you have experience of this?

Yes. Key for my B6 Passat estate bought from my local main dealer on 6th August 2015 total bill inc vat £240.73

I do not understand how one (a cheaper one) could work and then not work, what do you mean?

I can't explain the ohms and volts of it, but it had something to do with the non-OEM key losing it's data after a number of uses.
I heard the same information from two sources; one an independent VW specialist that wouldn't recommend any 'specialist' key firm and told me to go to a main dealer and the second from a firm specialising in supplying vehicles to the TV industry. Both people know their stuff and had no financial advantage to gain from their advice.

 

[Wuffles]

Having a keyfob coded to a VW, for me, didn't involve Germany at all

Probably an old VW then.

Do you have experience of this?

Yes. Key for my B6 Passat estate bought from my local main dealer on 6th August 2015 total bill inc vat £240.73

I do not understand how one (a cheaper one) could work and then not work, what do you mean?

I can't explain the ohms and volts of it, but it had something to do with the non-OEM key losing it's data after a number of uses.
I heard the same information from two sources; one an independent VW specialist that wouldn't recommend any 'specialist' key firm and told me to go to a main dealer and the second from a firm specialising in supplying vehicles to the TV industry. Both people know their stuff and had no financial advantage to gain from their advice.

2008 Transporter, about the same age as a B6 Passat?


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[AJB Temple]

Like is pretty bad. If someone does that in an interview with me, they do not get the job.

A lesson in things not to write on an unlocked forum on the Internet.

You have lost me. A lesson to whom? And about what? (Like).

 

[Frank S]

No, this is a general chat forum. If you want to talk wood work, go to another forum and leave us grumpy old gits to have our moan. It does us good !!
Frank.

 

[Graham Orm]

The main dealer wanted £300 and couldn't do it for a week!

From what I've heard and read, with VW you can get cheaper keys coded to the car, but they often fail soon after, so a main dealer is the only reliable answer.
Yes, it takes a week to 10 days with VW as the keys have to be programmed in Germany to the VIN plate then the dealer has to actually sync them to the car.

Peugeot ?? never again.

The guy gave me a 12 month guarantee. I'll be selling the van not long after that I should think.

Peugeot....wouldn't have another one given to me. I bought it new 10 years ago. Nothing but trouble and abysmal after sales. It was recalled for a new spare wheel carrier. I took it in and lost a day's work while they did it. Came to tow with the van and found that the Neanderthal had cut through the tow wiring and folded it out of his way.

One of the key guys I contacted told me it was a Fiat with Peugeot badges on it. Whilst looking through my paperwork for the key code when the guy came to do it, the key code actually had Fiat stamped on it!!!

 

[woodfarmer]

Shtudents, shtrong, Chewsday, juty (instead of duty), jewel carriageway, ejucation (I've heard that come out of the mouth of a, supposedly educated, teacher), Yeah, I'm good (when asked the question "How are you?") and last but not least for now, sort of like (a favourite expression of James Martin).

And whilst I'm at it, why do television chefs have to "fry it off"?. Off what, the cooker?

What really annoys me with chefs is the fact they have no idea of the differences between chop, slice and shear. Leastwise that is the impression they give when narrating their programs.

 

[Phil Pascoe]

I don't mind their frying stuff off so much as their reducing stuff down.

 

[Paul200]

The addition of 'er' in the middle of words such as muddling, juggling etc, making them mudderling and juggerling. I presume it's a form of laziness but it makes the word longer and winds me up a treat!

 

[graduate_owner]

I have to agree that such a small word as 'so?' really is one of the most annoying, especially as a response from a child (I'm a retired schoolteacher). Typically :-
Teacher: "you just threw that rubbish on the floor".
Child - " so?".

One of my other pet hates is "I would of thought".

When it comes to television cookery programmes, have you noticed how the camera always seems to be preoccupied with focussing on the face of the chef? Between that and the inevitable intrusive 'background' music you have to wonder about the capabilities of the programme director / producer /editor

K

 

[Jacob]

So - can't any of you find anything interesting to be (very, very, very :shock: )annoyed about? (yawn).
I guess you are lucky to live such untroubled lives!

 

[Graham Orm]

The context that it has frustrated me is when in a radio interview, quite often a scientist or some other educated bod.
Q. Has the discovery of Gravity waves been important?
A. So, we found that etc. etc.

It's used as if they're continuing a statement: The ladder wasn't long enough so we went for a longer one.

But they start the statement with 'so' as if it's a continuance of something they'd already begun.
Listen to Radio 4 you'll hear it regularly.

 

[dickm]

I try (but usually fail) to excuse interviewees who start replies with "so" on the ground that this is probably the third or later take of that reply. Which means that the reply is really of the question form "So (what you want me to try to say is).......

But as noted, usually fail to excuse them and start growling at the radio/TV.

 

[Cheshirechappie]

So - can't any of you find anything interesting to be (very, very, very :shock: )annoyed about? (yawn).
I guess you are lucky to live such untroubled lives!

Amazing what gets some people going, isn't it? There's a bloke on this forum who goes ape if someone calls the flat side of a chisel or plane iron the 'back'. He reckons that only 'face' is right, and it really winds him up to the point of his making 'Disgusted, Tunbridge Wells' type posts about it.

The 'So....' at the beginning of statements an answers grates on me, too. I think it's a sort of affectation adopted by a certain type of person to show that they're in with the intellectual in-crowd (even if they're clearly not). It's a fashion, and will probably wear off in time.

The other language change that winds me up is 'train station' instead of 'railway station'. Never heard it until about ten years ago - where on earth did it come from?