Exxos's B-roll blog of nothing in particular

[mrbombermillzy]

Many fond memories and sad to see it all go, but at least it's going to a good home now...

Im curious where it is going. Is it anyone on the forum?

[exxos]

Im curious where it is going. Is it anyone on the forum?

Yep going to @rubber_jonnie

[exxos]

Well that's another 45mins gone on the phone to lloyds fraud department... I go tough all the "this may be a scam" warnings.. Then phone verification.. But nope.. Now I need to talk to Lloyds fraud department for the like 6th time now..

Wouldn't let me send payment to my uk parts broker I've been using for years.. I had all the lecture about the emails may be fake... No they ain't... They may be spoofed or hacked.. No they ain't.... Told them I knew how to check email headers. I get loads of them, they mostly out of the blue.. Not a expected invoice for parts which arrived last week!!

Then they had me log in and out of my account.. They then flagging up there's been a new app install.. Yeah it was me trying to view my pin number in the app as the letter hadn't come yet and they don't let you view pin numbers online

Then it's flagged as highly suspicious that they changed bank accounts recently.. I told them.. Yeah they changed banks because they got sick of having their accounts suspended!!

I mean FFS! You have to argue with them to let them spend your own money these days! I'd transfer my money to some other bank but I know how that would go!

Something is blocking all my cards from buying stuff from CPC. Evilbay won't let me pay on my debit cards.. Credit cards something is capped to not letting me spend about £200 in one go.. No idea WTF that's all about.

I say it all the time.. Everything these days has to be 100x more effort than it needs to be. I get it that it likely helps a lot of people.. But for people like me, I was there when the internet was invented! Gimmie a break!!

So yeah, let's go back to cash. Things were simpler and payment processors and governments can't dip their fingers into it all then. That reminds me if a video I saw the other day.. Will try and find it..

[exxos]

Found some cool stuff in the loft today

IMG_3801.JPG (306.57 KiB) Viewed 361 times

IMG_3802.JPG (271.93 KiB) Viewed 361 times

IMG_3803.JPG (308.15 KiB) Viewed 361 times

In other news I am pretty convinced that BP diesel has gone bad. I always put the good stuff in because my van run a lot better. But since the whole pandemic thing, I've noticed a performance drop on my van which only seemed to be getting worse over time. I suspect BP have either made the cheap and expensive fuel even worse, or they are pulling a fast one and putting the cheap fuel in the expensive pumps..

I ran a full tank (maybe even 2 now) with BP fuel with redex and it wasn't making any odds.

I have gone through half a tank of expensive shell diesel and my van is now running a lot smoother and starting a lot better!

With BP fuel I was pretty much driving with my foot to the floor even trying to do 60MPH, things were that bad! But now some shell has gone though, things have dramatically improved where I am hardly even touching the accelerator and doing 60MPH now!

So it looks like I will have to go to the Shell petrol station in the future which is annoying because it's the other side of town and the opposite direction to what I normally go in.. I go right past BP, so it was to easy to call in and fill up.. Shell is a few miles extra round-trip.. Annoying but going to be necessary evil now I think

[JezC]

Are you thinking of bringing any of those items to CL4 @exxos ?

[exxos]

Are you thinking of bringing any of those items to CL4 @exxos ?

Nope

I'm not even sure all the stuff I'm bringing to sell will even fit in my van at this point.

[exxos]

Finally found out the problem with the toilet after all these weeks.

I thought something had cracked because it was progressively leaking into the pan. Basically acting like it was overflowing all the time.

Now I have figured out that the water level in the tank is in actually not level with the level of the "overflow pipe". By overflow, I mean the cistern, which the water is pulled down when you flush.

Long story short, I calibrated the water level in the tank about an inch from the top of the cistern so that it should mean there would be at least half an inch clearance before the water overflowed.

What I only just realised was the cistern itself or even the entire toilet is leaning to one side, meaning the water level on the right hand side of the cistern was a lot higher than what was on the left side of the cistern, which is where I calibrated the water level.

So basically there was like a inch clearance on the left hand side but was actually overflowing on the right hand side which was more difficult to see.

Now that I lowered the water level even more, the problem is now resolved. So never assume anything is level I guess

[Badwolf]

Found some cool stuff in the loft today

You selling that Jag pad?

BW

[exxos]

You selling that Jag pad?

Probably not as it's my only spare..

[exxos]

I think Molly might have missed me while I was at CL4

559405224_10230707990299066_1539444238715299886_n.jpg (257.46 KiB) Viewed 203 times