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FarmerPug wrote:i cant understand all these units of measurment i was looking for polytunnels some are measured in meters which i can grasp others are in feet which is tricky to understand.
6m i think is enough for the length of the 406 saloon but how long is the estate?
Length 4736 mm

18 cm longer than the saloon (4555 mm).
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FarmerPug wrote:some are measured in meters which i can grasp others are in feet which is tricky to understand.
Kids today... :D 3 feet is just under a meter. or google will convert for you happily http://www.google.co.uk/search?hl=&q=3+feet+in+meters
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Apart from miles / MPH, I am not a fan of imperial measurements.

At least with metric you know that there are 10 or 100 or 1000.

Not 8 of something that makes something of which 21 of them make something then 2043 of those make a guinea or something.
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imperial measurements make using spanners confusing metric ones are easy to organise
but imperial ones are all fractions 3/16 7/32 1/4 9/32 i dont want to do maths when its time to use a spanner
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I did a bit of rough measuring out for the garage, which involved parking the car in the garden and putting a chair on the sides of the open doors:
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really precise marking out i know but i took a tape measure and see that the car would suit a width of 5m to allow the doors to open and get round the sides, and a length of 6m seems to give room round the front and back.
And here is a typical gumtree NI picture for a second hand peugeot:
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Why you still on English plates?

Or do you work with USB sticks all day? :)

That gumtree picture will have you getting texts soon from the balloons that seem to frequent the listings "WUD U TK 250 FR CAR ALL ITS WURTH"

This is an actual gumtree picture I saw earlier. He wasn't highlighting a dent or anything, all of his pics were like this:

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Im still on the english reg i like it, the way the year of manufacture is in it, and USB does get it called the USB stick.

I did my gumtree picture with the steel wheel on the back (i broke the valve on the alloy) but ive seen quite a few gumtree cars with this wheel option.
That hyundai, it makes me laugh how people take pictures, i wouldnt be suprised to get an ad of someones finger covering the lens.
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