My 406 continues to fall to bits...

[chrisfinlay]

Here's the picture (linked because of HUUUUUUUUUUUUGE)
http://regular-expressions.co.uk/IMAG0502.jpg

[Doggy]

Go for the coat hanger look, its slightly out of fashon but someone needs to bring it back.

You can't beat a pre-"We know the meaning of cleaning" Sketchleys for crystal clear FM reception

[FarmerPug]

ebay aeriels are cheap, an uncle who has a new dispatch van got it with no aeriel cost less than a tenner.

[Welly]

ebay aeriels are cheap, an uncle who has a new dispatch van got it with no aeriel cost less than a tenner.

Is it just me who read that to mean "my Uncle bought a new dispatch van for a tenner because it had no aerial"

[steve_earwig]

Pffft, punctuation, shmunctuation

[chrisfinlay]

ok, so if I get a spare aerial (would I even need one?) how do I go about reattaching it?

[FarmerPug]

Remove the courtesy light, theres a nut or something under that undo that and all the awnsers will be revealed, as for the punctuation, sometimes i say stuff it just comes out i dont bother correcting it and when i look back on it i just dont know what its about.
1500th post

[gumby6371]

I bought my 406 with a snapped aeriel and can confirn it's a doddle to fix, lever out courtesy light (very carefully as the plastic is likely to crack) you'll see a net with a cover over it, pull off cover, undo nut, remove old aeriel base, position new base, tighten up nut, replace cover (I still have that bit in the glovebox as I forgot and haven't been bothered to take it apart again) click light back into place and it's job done.
New aeriel with base - £5 from local motor factors
New courtesy light (after over entusiastic removal) - £12ish from local pug stealer.
Moral - be careful with the screwdriver when you lever the light out, but they do get very brittle over time and you may have no choice, have a go on a scrapper first, if it comes out in 1 piece give them £2 for it and then you have a spare

[FarmerPug]

it would be possible to smooth off that aeriel and put in a big electrical aeriel in the boot if anyone wants to bring back the 80s look, the only car still with one i know off is a lexus gs

[DiscoPol]

Go for the coat hanger look, its slightly out of fashon but someone needs to bring it back.

You can't beat a pre-"We know the meaning of cleaning" Sketchleys for crystal clear FM reception

My aerial on the disc is snapped, looks like a really easy fix but i just shoved it back in so its only a 3 inch stub and have since simply not used the radio, after all its all in Polish anyway, ipod FTW

[Doggy]

My aerial on the disc is snapped, looks like a really easy fix but i just shoved it back in so its only a 3 inch stub and have since simply not used the radio, after all its all in Polish anyway, ipod FTW

...thought it was a periscope.

[steve_earwig]

What's the music like in Poland? Anything culturally interesting, or is it like Croatia - The Land Music Forgot - churning out endless versions of 200 year old crap or Karaoke Abba?

[FarmerPug]

I know lithuanian music is terrible, its either rave, or the classic rock music we have but with out of sync lyrics and it just doesnt sound as pure as the originals. Thats from the lithuanian workers on my uncles farm i was picking mushrooms one day and that was what came through the cd player, but actually FM radio here is absolute crap you have Radio 1 which is just shouting at you, Radio 2 is reasonable but filled with flaws like the jeremy vine show; he does a seious show but puts music in sometimes. And the rest depends on where you are but all independant stations have too much advertisments or talking. 'LESS TALK MORE F***ING MUSIC' is a thing i shout constantly at my cars radio, i miss the pirate stations especially magic 105.

[406BE]

type5

[DiscoPol]

What's the music like in Poland? Anything culturally interesting, or is it like Croatia - The Land Music Forgot - churning out endless versions of 200 year old crap or Karaoke Abba?

its about 25-30 years behind the uk in musical taste i would say, but with a healthy dose of home grown pop crap, most of the stuff is english or american bands that we forgot about in the uk in the 80s, in a word "dire"

for the recent funeral of the Smolensk victims (95 polish M.Ps and a President dead in a plane crash in Russia) they played "Wind beneath my wings" by Streisand or who ever it was, not inappropriate at all *snigger snigger*

total garbage all in all.

I just listen to podcasts on my Ipod and a few select tunes, but mostly news and current affairs stuff as i need to keep up with all things British, its my biggest selling point as an English teacher.