sasha@lazytrips

I'm a late entrant, but catching up nice and quick. Got mine in September with 47k. Will have taken it 20k since then within the next week :o

Whoah! Have to admit, those do look

Met another Zed at a wedding yesterday in Peterborough. Had a mini-procession from cathedral to the reception venue. to another member (Neil). Put my dirty mog to shame with his shining LEDs.

I turned up some time ago to that very place. One of the people working there saw my car out of the window and told me they only serviced Renaults & Nissans. Do the right thing and go down to Mitz. Leicester is not far.

what he said ^^

At least my cheeky £90.00 offer gave you a free bump Dave Misread the earlier posts in this thread. Withdrawing my dibs for now.

Sent a pm a little while ago. Provisional dibs.

What exactly does the "latest revision" mean? Xbox site advertises Xbox 360 Elite (120GB) and Xbox 360 Arcade (256MB). I am a complete n00bin consoles, so trying to understand how new/decent this thing is. I wonder how difficult it would be to integrate into the Zed...

The companies are not the problem here. I don't and never have worked in the oil industry, so have no vested interest in this and my views are not skewed. The problem consists of a huge number of separate issues: 1. Taxes, levies, etc, etc. These make up the vast bulk of the petrol price in this country. It is absurt that the government should take such a huge chunk of money for people to allow themselves to do things like go to work. ~48-50% of the price 2. VAT. Again, taxing people for not sitting at home, claiming benefits. 17.5% of the price 3. Price of crude oil + refining costs. These are fixed to a degree. Roughly speaking ~30-32%. Some of the bigger firms can bring this down to 28-29% territory if they are very good. That totals around 97-98% of the price of petrol in this country. 4. This is a massive point that nobody seems to mention and one that the media very smartly always omit. Any massive oil company has to forecast a number of months & years in advance to ensure they explore, drill, pump, deliver, buy, etc so that you can have petrol at your doorstep every single day. Therefore, today's petrol price to the company will be a very complex mix of the prices over the last 5-6 years. If a company's balance sheet meant that they had to buy a lot during an expensive period, that will mean that when prices come down, they cannot drop theirs in turn. Moreover, these companies have to forecast what the price will do going forward. As the general view is that prices will continue steadily climbing, the forward curve on oil price is only getting steeper. Hence even though the oil price on the market today is X, the price of an advance trade/buying for 2 years from now/future/any other product an oil company wishes to get (eg derivative types) will be a lot higher than this. Basically, compared to the majority of businesses, oil companies have relatively tiny profits. The absolute numbers published by newspapers can look staggering, but given the turnover these companies have (unlike any other product, virtually ALL of us use their merchandise every single day), they are really not large at all. The really big problem in this country is the government which does not realise that charging 70% of the price of petrol as some form of tax is quite frankly a joke. That, together with road tax, all the taxes associated with buying and maintaining cars, etc, I find it rather surprising when my local council informs me that they don't have enough budget to go and fill in massive gaping potholes all over the place. *** As mentioned above, this initiative won't work. There has to be something much more drastic if anything is to change.

Check out Priceline and Hotwire. A lot of reading on betterbidding.com (too lazy to google & link), but the short story is that you can get nice hotels at very very reasonable prices. Google those sites and have a read around. FYI: When we were looking a year or two ago, Grand Hotel de la Minerve was one of the hotels you could get through those sites.

I'll keep buying them lottery tickets Still can't make my mind up as to what would go better with the stealth look anyway. Red calipers with black writing or black calipers with red writing.

I do want some red calipers at some point in the future, but the cost is just a little too far for me, so will have to settle with orange for now...

Sorry. Not sure what you're talking about.

You funding a pair of wings for your "vehicle"?

To be frank, I'll probably end up getting another 10 month accelerator or a 12 month policy with the same insurer or switch to my bank which promises to undercut a renewal quote by 10%. Will just have to be patient since you guys don't do under 25s. So what did you decide?

I'm not a potential buyer and so don't have any vested interest in saying this, but imho that is a great price. I'd bite their hand off + it makes it a fair bit easier for you to conclude one deal as opposed to two + you're selling to a dealer which is safer, etc.

fixed I tells thee!

VW needs lowering & spacers.

No rly? I beleaf I missed that one. Will take more notice of themed posts in the fuschia.

Buy Anti-Surge 4-way splitter, get Leaf free! This "novelty" is currently ranking somewhere between the pogo stick and those trainers with built-in wheels in my personal list of great transportation methods.

Anybody know what batteries the remote control for this Leaf takes?

You missed out the word "Yet" Its on standard ride height… Are you sure??? It sure looks lowered to me?? Or maybe cos of the offsets i suppose?... Yes indeed, we removed the old wheels and fitted these, no other mods present on the car…

I've seen an unmarked grey Honda Accord with blacked out windows. Wasn't particularly new either. Would never ever think anything of it had I not seen that around Junctions 24-25 of the M1 about half a dozen times with its lights all flashing, stopping people.