exxos's Atari, Amiga & retro forum

So anyone know how you're supposed to renew your driving licence these days ?!

Being on the stupid website ended up signing up for something else again.. Then want to me to type in all my information which it then rejected.. So then tried again I downloaded a stupid app and taking pictures of stuff etc.. Then put me back on the website where then it says exactly the same...


Everything is just so ridiculous these days. Why can't we just put our driving licence ID into the payment page and just pay the bloody thing ?! So far two hours of my time have been wasted :roll: :mad:

Indeed, renewing without changing details and just updating the photo shouldn't require affirmation of ID as it will be sent to the address held on file, which is effectively as secure as any other authentication. Still, they'll want you to create a Government ID to rule them all now, even if Andy has canned the digital ID card bit.

Finally got logged in. What a faff. I did nothing but log back in again, confirmed all the details I put in already...


Not sure how I feel about this question though !


Are the pre-empting a smash up and death or what ! If i'm going to have a fatal smash up, i'm going to be doing it in style, nothing left and no witnesses !

Only went outside to get a bottle out of my Van.. Decided to drain the bottom of the fuel filter off as it can build up water in there.. Then noticed the air filter hanging off ! This was just a few days after having its MOT as well. I guess they didn't care ! :roll: One thing lead to another :roll:

Looked like the plastic C-shaped on the filter box had snapped and it just "dropped off" the bracket :roll:


Went hunting in our garage and found a new filter box ! As who doesn't just happen to have the right part sitting in the garage for decades unused ?


The bracket seemed to have the bolt welded on :( Notice the flat head on the thing.. this turned out to be important later.. :lol: :roll:


Some metal editing later...


A bit of gentle persuasion with a hacksaw and a hammer works wonders !


Trying to get a waster and nut on the thing while its all wobbling about was though. Had to get mother to hold the top of the bolt as I couldn't be under the van and under the bonnet at the same time !


Turns out the bracket doesn't line up how you think. It was sticking outwards, but when putting it all back together, the top mount (near the battery) was miles out! So I turned the bracket around to shift the whole assembly to the right, only to fit out, that new bolt I put on , now makes the bracket impossible to bolt back up as its right up to the van chassis . So physically impossible to screw the top bolt in the brack to the chassis :roll:

After some head scratching, I decided through force and ignorance was the answer !


So now the top bracket aligns where it should be !


Slightly puzzled where the two bolts are supposed to go on the new filter. The old one had them but it looked like they were either cut off or fell off.. Where I think they should go in the chassis seem to be flat metal and is physically impossible to see there is not holding that on or not so I just ignored it. The other two bolts sticking out the chassis I have no idea what they are for either !


So all back together now.. Because there was nothing physically holding the bottom end of the filter it was just banging about. So I just cable tied it up and call the job done is I've been out there three hours now !


It may not be fitted correctly. But as I had no reference to how it was supposed to fited in the first place. Its secure. Its not going to fall off. Went for a drive around the block and seems fine. So I will take that as a win!

:dizzy:

Well this got confusing fast ! :lol: Problem is, couldn't get to the tap on the back one, so had to do some hacking about.


Well its connected up at least now !


So the back water butt now has a bottom feed pipe linking it to the one next to it. That tank had to be anagled to get at the tap. Then daisy changed the tops of the tanks like they was before.

So tank 1 fills first. The overflow for tank 1 goes into tank 2. The overflow from tank 2 fills up tank 3 and 4 in parallel... I think.. :lol: Well it makes sense in my head anyway !:hide:

The bottom pipe, as it's going to be under pressure, had silicon and hose clamps on it. So *hopefully* it won't leak or blow apart anytime soon !


The waterbutt connections on B&Q site looks a bit suspicious, like the fence !


So asked Grok to fix those 2 things !

Surely you don't believe B&Q's AI generated garden photos?

rubber_jonnie wrote: 07 Aug 2026 14:05 Surely you don't believe B&Q's AI generated garden photos?

There's videos as well !

exxos wrote: 07 Aug 2026 14:11

rubber_jonnie wrote: 07 Aug 2026 14:05 Surely you don't believe B&Q's AI generated garden photos?

There's videos as well !

I guess you fell for that too 🤣