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Ricey

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  1. Ricey

    Chuck the soot

    sticks to the road better - thats the quattro for you Yep......it just has unholy amounts of grip. It would eat the zed alive in the corners but obviously being 100 bhp less loses out in outright speed. A remap gets it up to 200bhp and about 450mn of torque which will be pretty bloody quick. 550 miles to a tank (approx) and even belting it all week I struggled to see less than 40mpg. Turbo lag is a problem though but ones it's spinning the torque shove it awesome. Real world driving it feels just as quick as the zed.....fast and furious driving it would get left behind (until the twisties)
  2. As much as that's the buyers advantage of a bad situation......that is a near ludicrous price
  3. My new whip..........dervtastic but goes like shiiiiite of a shovel. After the hateful merc experience I was fully hacked off so I just got a tonne of finance instead and bagged this on pcp........half a tank has just lasted me a fortnight and Ive be thrashing the little bugger! This is a fire I made out of the merc and some white spirit
  4. A grand cheap isn't too bad......may just need a quick sale and it's a hard market. Looks nice
  5. Long way for 1 week Hmm good point. My old director has his lash chopped off and he was gone for weeks.......must just be a consultation then
  6. Has he gone to thailand to finally do the deed and have it spliced and diced?
  7. I didn't, as much as I would've liked to I think that would've been a bit sad. Just meeting the man is good enough for me, I'll always have the memory Absolutely.....I've never understood pictures or autographs. Just because someone is good at something does not make them a superhuman or anything. They don't know you, don't like you and basically don't want to know you just because they have their picture taken with you or sign a scrap of paper. However someone taking the time to have a chat with you or maybe even liking you and having a laugh.....now that's worth something. Like when I met SMD.....the man, the myth.......the legend
  8. Import or uk? These cheap machines off eBay don't always work with imports. I've got one and it works perfectly with uk thought. It's the elm one off eBay.
  9. Mercenary **** and always has been.
  10. Ricey

    No sky for me

    I moved from Bedford to rural Norfolk and my insurance went up! how can the backwaters of yokel-land be more of a risk than living next to Bedford and Luton?? Fast rural roads perhaps equal more expensive crashes resulting in more expensive insurance payouts.
  11. There was a time when I quite proudly considered myself to be the forum mentol........that time has passed.
  12. I actually respect the reventon replica!
  13. CF pillars as well? Don't look shiny enough to be the stock plastic ones. Good price
  14. They are honestly some of the best sunset pictures I've ever seen. That car looks like its just come of the production line.
  15. Me too Boo hiss!!! Looks like a stealth bomber to me!
  16. Of course they wouldn't pay out if your circumstances have changed and you've not informed them, why would they? But then you think it's ok the claim back £4.5k of premiums that you paid even though you admit that you wasn't mis-sold and it wasn't their fault. No wonder the country is on it's arse. In theory I kind of agree but when put into practice are you going to be the one person to take a stand.........its a bit like claiming for whiplash and getting a couple of grand when ultimately you had a teeny bit of a sore neck - you wouldn't turn round the insurer and say 'actually I reckon it was only a couple of hundred quid of pain I suffered'. Again I work for a bank and as much as I disagree with 'its all the banks fault' bollocks Ive got to say they don't make anything better by slatting cash all over the place to remediate people for pain they haven't actually suffered! Who's going to turn free cash down!
  17. Takes a pair of balls to attack something like that on your own........good effort that man!
  18. But why did they send you the cheque? If you took the PPI out on the basis that you were employed and then you changed to Self employed, why would they refund your £4.5k? To be fair mate this is what I'm on about.........sold in good faith, probably didnt inform them of change in circumstances but ultimately its cheaper to write a cheque and kill the issue than it is to argue back and forth or risk FSA bumming for not completing the redress properly. In a redress situation the FSA will obviously never punish you for over egging your redress......they will however stamp all over your knackers really, really hard if your seen to be misling the customer. I reckon if the FSA had been around in the endowment mis-selling heyday the bill for banks would have been monsterous.
  19. Bearing in mind the banks are also employing contractors at a day rate of about £200 to assess these claims........most are one IQ point away from being classified as 'mentally impaired' so the actual 'investigation' of your claim ends up being spurious at best and always falling on the side of the customer rather than caution. Basically if you had PPI........your pretty much getting some money back.
  20. Ah think we were at cross purposes.......thought dan meant that getting the info from the dvla or police had no dpa implication.
  21. And how do you work that out? You can't just obtain personal data from a company because you fancy buying someone's plate......it's not public information is it? What if you drove like a ***** and I wanted to come round and stove your face in?!??
  22. Both. I've had some via bank, some via independent. All times I read the small print and knew exactly what I was covered for and what I wasn't. Sometimes I took it, sometimes I didn't. I'm really not trying to sound all holier than thou or anything, I promise, but I cannot have any sympathy with people who sign things without reading it first. Sorry Never look a gift horse in the mouth but I totally agree....I have no sympathy with anyone who did take it.
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