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    2019 Ghibli Gransport Diesel ULEZ?

    Do you have to go through HR Owen? When I obtained a CoC for my Alfa (which I bought new in Belgium and had to import) I contacted Alfa Spa in Italy. Back then they supplied it for no charge. I think it is outrageous that anyone, manufacturer or importer, would charge for it. It is essentially...
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    QPV FAQ (probably)

    Thanks Richard. For those new to the forum, Richard supplied mine in 2012, after a long search, and in common with all his carefully curated stock, it has been a good 'un. Nothing has gone wrong with it apart from one coil pack giving up the ghost.
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    QPV FAQ (probably)

    Haha, I can beat that. I bought mine fully intending to keep it a year or so, just to scratch the itch. It's eleven years and counting now. I just can't think of another car to replace it with which would do what it does.
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    QPV FAQ (probably)

    It takes plenty of wine and tins of duck (and that's a picnic table at the bottom).
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    QPV FAQ (probably)

    11 years ownership and counting. I could be tempting fate here: but if you count wheel bearings as consumables (I've replaced two over the years), the only failure I've experienced on mine is one coil pack. Every service I ask them to check the sub-frame carefully and it is rock solid. They...
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    Help please ! - QPV Dead battery and alarm going off

    Are you sure? That is how I always locked my Alfas on ferries - for that same reason - but I distinctly remember returning to the QP on the ferry deck, having locked it at the door only, and the alarm told me their had been an intrusion attempt. It caused me to dig out the owner's manual...
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    Brexit Deal

    Luckily the Scottish government sought clarification for you, and following last week's ECJ ruling we now know that the UK has the power to unilaterally withdraw Art 50 notification any time before midnight 29th March and it gets to keep the status quo.
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    Looking for a very clean Y10 Turbo?

    In Ireland.... https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=1136885426470663&id=444741115685101
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    Brexit Deal

    1169 the Anglo-Normans arrived.
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    Brexit Deal

    No, Leave were ahead in June, and the night before the vote it was 52:48 (in Remains favour). https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2016/06/24/eu-referendum-how-right-or-wrong-were-the-polls/
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    Brexit Deal

    This is what's misunderstood about FoM. It's not just the right to move to France and become resident there, but also to drive to Spain to do a short contract there. There are many Brits living in small countries like Luxembourg and Belgium - who currently travel all over Europe with their work...
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    Brexit Deal

    To further complicate things there are actually more British living in Ireland, than Irish living in Britain - when you look at it in percentage terms. So anything which hurts the CTA will hurt a greater number of Irish living in Britain but will also hurt a higher percentage of British living...
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    Brexit Deal

    That is no longer the case. YouGov (one of the respected pollsters) poll this morning is 62% Remain, 38% Leave. If it was still hovering around the 50:50, I might agree with you (I would still argue the lies, illegal activity and foreign interference should void the 23rd June result, and a...
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    Brexit Deal

    She got 63% of the vote, which my maths tells me is more than 52%. And, it must be remember, ALL tory MPs voted, a much higher turnout than the referendum.
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    Brexit Deal

    Holy moly, that's as strong as some red wines. A couple of pints of that would remove the Brexit blues.