I've had a really good idea!

I've had a really good idea!

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aclivity

4,072 posts

189 months

Tuesday 3rd April 2012
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OlberJ

14,101 posts

234 months

Tuesday 3rd April 2012
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You're thinking too detached here.

Get a magnetic front and rear bumper, plus hoover mechanism on your own car.

Take the scrap metal to be weighed in at the end of each week, you'll be laughing.

Well, as long as the extra fuel you burn from carrying around all that extra weight doesn't negate the process but that's semantics.

HON2A

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446 posts

172 months

Tuesday 3rd April 2012
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aclivity said:
Who's stolen my coat?!

grayze

790 posts

169 months

Tuesday 3rd April 2012
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I can see the attraction!

getmecoat

martin84

5,366 posts

154 months

Tuesday 3rd April 2012
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I've wanted magnets on the front of cars for a long time - then I think of what happens at traffic lights....

steveo3002

10,534 posts

175 months

Tuesday 3rd April 2012
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good idea , i propose its 25p added to a litre of fuel

OlberJ

14,101 posts

234 months

Tuesday 3rd April 2012
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martin84 said:
I've wanted magnets on the front of cars for a long time - then I think of what happens at traffic lights....
They repel each other?

Bingo, that's a great idea.

Even if it's not what you meant biggrin

martin84

5,366 posts

154 months

Tuesday 3rd April 2012
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OlberJ said:
They repel each other?

Bingo, that's a great idea.

Even if it's not what you meant biggrin
Yes you'll pull up behind a car and shunt it over the lights without touching it laugh

Although if you put opposite magnets on each end then they'll stick together and make a massive....car train!

OlberJ

14,101 posts

234 months

Tuesday 3rd April 2012
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Hmmm, electrified magnets so you can hook on as you join the motorway and unhook at your exit? scratchchin

aclivity

4,072 posts

189 months

Tuesday 3rd April 2012
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25p tyre tax is a bit leftist and "big government" for this forum, get with the times OP and think up a "Big society" approach. Under that approach you can pay someone to clean up a bit of the road that you use - you will pay a reasonable amount, lets say £2000 per road mile per year for the magnet truck to roll out twice a day (once at weekends). Everyone else pays for the miles that they want clearing, and the service becomes a profit making venture for magnet-trucks-r-us.

What's that? £2000 is too much? Well, it will probably cost that much to do the miles that you want clearing, what with the cost of fuel, drivers, vehicle maintenance, that sort of thing.

I know everyone else gets the benefit of the miles that you have paid to have cleared, but you can't have it both ways, either you want commercial capitalism or you have to hand in your PH card as you are ritually stoned for being suspected of being a little bit socialist. Just pray that they don't find out if you have ever visited a place of religious worship, or know anyone with a motability car.

note, none of the above is meant seriously, I'm just a bit bored

sebhaque

6,404 posts

182 months

Tuesday 3rd April 2012
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After driving in the States I'm not going to complain about the state of the UK roads again. Potholes seem to be the unofficial speed calming method over there, and the disconcerting noise from the concrete roads is even more sphincter-exercising when it all goes deathly quiet when you start aquaplaning.

MarkRSi

5,782 posts

219 months

Tuesday 3rd April 2012
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Eighteeteewhy said:
Monty Python said:
Surely by now you'd have thought someone would have been able to come up with a filler for a tyre that would make filling with air a thing of the past. if the wheel was split at the hub you'd just take the wheel apart when a new tyre was needed.


I mean, how hard can it be?
It's been done


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fqRJ9GfIJtI&fea...
I did wonder what happened to that

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tweel

Shaw Tarse

31,543 posts

204 months

Tuesday 3rd April 2012
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Perd Hapley said:
Hell, I remember Carol Vorderman riding a bike over a bed of nails on How2 to demonstrate a foam filled tyre and that must have been 15 years ago.
I preferred Gail McKenna in How2.

Rowan138

230 posts

152 months

Tuesday 3rd April 2012
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what about all the drain covers and manhole covers?? wobble