u/purrcthrowa

Just to let you know that there is at least one scam site pretending to be Meaco.

It's at meacouk <dot> shop.

Beware! They are advertising on Facebook (and probably other places).

I have a 2004 UK spec LS430 (UL without active cruise) which I bought 10 months ago. It had a full oil service before I bought it, and since then I've had the cambelt, water pump, front discs and pads and transmission oil changed, and it's about to go in for a/c maintenance (there's a slow leak in the rear a/c - the usual corroded pipes thing). I'm planning to get an annual service done in a couple of months. The car's on about 72,000 miles.

However, looking at the service schedules, it seems that there is a 6 month service regime. This seems like overkill to me. I won't have done 3,000 miles in 12 months, and I checked the oil level yesterday, and the oil was dead on the upper limit, and looked brand new. I'm in the UK, so the environment here is fairly benign.

Is anyone here doing a regular 6 month service, even if they've only done 1-2,000 miles in that period?

Another mystery from the BA app. I just checked into a flight, and the app said it couldn't check me in and I'd have to check in at the desk because they needed to check my docs.

Then it gave me the option to download my boarding pass anyway, which I did. It looks perfectly normal.

I'm flying business, so it won't take too long to get the docs checked anyway, but it's a bit rum. I did think it might not let me through the automated gates to the security area until I had a manual doc check.

Help! The one the left has stopped working. The one on the right is fine. Any idea how easy it is to fix these things?

I detest MS with a vengeance (and have done since 1978), but sometimes you need Excel or Word just to prove that a doc looks the way you're expecting before you send it to a client.

What's the best option for getting a legit copy of MS Office for Mac without forking out the an annual subscription for the whole 365 shebang?

(FYI, I mainly use Google Workspace and sometimes Libre Office and Open Office)