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RE: The car - Pete Grey - 29 January 2022
The old girl is doing well, but every mot time with the cost of the test and any bits and pieces needed it costs around the £200 mark, 4 quid a week ?, cheap motoring, I can live with that.
RE: The car - Pete Grey - 19 March 2022
One thing i’ve neglected in our car preps is the ability to charge phones (and ipads etc) direct from the vehicle or any other 12volt battery, or from the cigarette lighter socket. It sounds trivial but communications are essential especially after an event, so leads and usb adapter are on order.
RE: The car - bigpaul - 20 March 2022
I have a wind up thingy that can charge a mobile phone in an emergency, of course if we cant charge our phones normally then you know the balloon has gone up and probably the mobile towers are down anyway.
RE: The car - Straight Shooter - 20 March 2022
I have all that covered ....as previous posts have indicated including being on the move in my BOV .....as Pete said ...you must have communication abilities , be it mobiles,radio , ham radio, or CB radio .....all useless without batteries or power .....bugging in or bugging out .
RE: The car - bigpaul - 20 March 2022
I never could understand who we were supposed to be communicating with, especially post TEOTWAWKI.
listening maybe yes, but communicating no.
RE: The car - Straight Shooter - 20 March 2022
You are quite correct BP you are not understanding comunications that well .....just imaigine not coming on here for a week .....you would be hanging from a branch in the woods lol .
RE: The car - bigpaul - 20 March 2022
not me mate, I'm at home in the woods, not so in town among people though!
RE: The car - Pete Grey - 20 March 2022
(20 March 2022, 11:03)bigpaul Wrote: I never could understand who we were supposed to be communicating with, especially post TEOTWAWKI.
listening maybe yes, but communicating no.
Who said anything about TEOTWAWKI ?. Events are large and small.
What if the car breaks down with the OH in it and her phone is dead ?.
What if i’m out and i want to tell her “back in twenty minutes you can start cooking dinner” ?.
What if a storm has caused a mains blackout and you need to order a takeaway ?.
There are many simple reasons you may need to charge your phone.
RE: The car - bigpaul - 21 March 2022
our cars are regularly serviced and checked they dont let us down, we do not leave the house with a dead phone.
if I want to ring the wife when I'm out I phone the land line. meal times are a set time in our house 7am/12noon/4pm.
if the mains our down we have other ways of cooking . its called being prepared and yes I was a Boy Scout.
RE: The car - Pete Grey - 21 March 2022
(21 March 2022, 10:05)bigpaul Wrote: our cars are regularly serviced and checked they dont let us down, we do not leave the house with a dead phone.
if I want to ring the wife when I'm out I phone the land line. meal times are a set time in our house 7am/12noon/4pm.
if the mains our down we have other ways of cooking . its called being prepared and yes I was a Boy Scout.
Life is short and shit happens, we try to prepare for every eventuality, phones do go dead unexpectedly, technology is fallible.