Stay up-to-date via RSS!

I have been chasing a bargain for a while now, and I finally found it.

I was very keen on the 42PD6600 because of how it looked, I know for some people it’s Ugly, for me, it’s perfect, it’s color matches my fireplace style, and on my house, a silver TV would just look alien.

But allot of people at the AVForums.com recommended against it, it was a hit or miss, if you got one that worked, they are great, otherwise, they start giving problems and it’s back and forth to the repair shop.

It was nice, but once again, the silver on it was a bit much, but I knew the speakers could come off, so with Richer Sounds advertising it for 1299£ .. I was a few hours away from getting one, when somebody offered me a 42PD6600 ex currys demo for … 650£

I drove over and they had 2 of them, the seller had bought a lot of Curry’s ex demo TV’s .. mostly missing parts, the two 6600′s he had where both missing the floor-stand and the remotes .. but hey, 650£ .. but even a bargain ca be expensive if it’s crap, I turned them both on, and the image was perfect, even on composite, so I loaded it up, ordered the remote online for 14.99 (arrived today), got a tilting wall-mount for 38£ and for less than 700£ I now have a nice HD capable TV on my living-room

since this was a demo, and seems to have been on for a while, I am going to assume any problems would have shown by now ..

I dont understand why people knock it down, it’s a terrific TV and the quality is outstanding, I’ happy .. just wished he had not sold the other already, or it would have gone to my bedroom

some pics, still sorting the cabling, but it’s getting there, next step is to get a 360 with component output.

The pictures dont make it justice, especially with the flash :p

Technorati Tags: 42PD6600, Hitachi, Plasma, TV

What a crappy day, the wife went to B&Q with the kid son the Merc, on the way home she ran out of Petrol (how the heck you miss your fuel gauge on red is beyond me), so she called me to come and help, but had no clue were she was.

After I instructed her to check TomTom (GPS), I had an idea of where I could find them, so I went to a Petrol station, bought a container, 5 liters of Petrol and I was on my way.

By the time I arrived there, she had killed the battery as well, and better yet, as she opened the sunroof a fuse blew, so the sunroof was stuck open.

So now I have Petrol, but no battery, I told them to go home on my car and decided to call the AA (same as USA AAA) and wait for a Jump.

They told me 90 minutes, which by itself was already allot longer than the promised 1 hour or less you get when you buy into membership, I was wondering if I should just call the wife and have her buy a set of jump cables and come back, I decided to just wait.

After 30 minutes, it started to rain Hale .. just my luck, as the sunroof was stuck open, I quickly improvised by using a dry cleaning bag to prevent the Hale and rain to come in, but I had to sit there with my hands holding the bag so it did not flew away .. by this time i am cursing up a storm.

When the rain subsided for a while, I quickly went to the fuse box under the bonnet, replaced the blow fuse with one of the others, closed the sunroof and returned the fuse to it’s original place .. at lest now I could wait and be Dry ..

After 90 minutes, i got a call form the AA saying they were late, not happy, but still I was now comfortable (mercs are incredibly confy, even old ones) .. it was raining, so I just decided t take a nap

Eventually they arrived after 3 hours, the AA driver was asking me to put in a complaint, as this was too long of a wait, I just wanted ot get the hell out of there.

After a jump and some extra Petrol, the Merc was running like new once again, great car, but it managed to wreck my Sunday.

Then again, I did manage to get a nap and had some quiet time to myself

Technorati Tags: AA, Breakdown, Mercedes

Now that we moved to the new house, I needed a second car more than ever, my job is 25 miles away, so when I leave in the AM, the wife has no car to do the school run

I was all set to buy a SAAB 9-3 Convertible, but the tough of getting in debt hunted me (we worked hard to be debt free), so I decided to get a cheap banger instead.

And here he is, my 500 Quid (well, it was actually 550£) Mercedes-Benz

I always wanted a Mercedes …

Technorati Tags: Mercedes, Car