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Only the bit round the back of my arm.... but I was a brave boy Lexx, I take my Trilby off to you my good man Loads of flesh on your arms to dull the pain, although I can imagine the 'bee-sting' area on the back must hurt - try 13 hours on your bony back.........vibrates through your teeth that shizzle does!!!

Me likey

Wonder if he's related to Jeffrey cole who wanted to buy my car!

Eeeeek be careful texting them in case they are one of those dodgy mobile numbers that charge you a fortune then hook you in to a ruck more texts. Email would be best and yes.....deffo suspicious.

I just came across it too.........

Whats that mate? I've not seen that mentioned anywhere...... It just advises to take photocard and counterpart? You got a linky to owt on the net about it?

Its not Kayman this bears uncanny similarities to Da Whip. A quick test will check........... Wade - are you or have you ever been a 'Mentol'. Have you ever proclaimed to provide mental care to a fellow 'Mentol' possibly via an institution for 'Mentols'. A 'Mentol' is someone who looks like this

You can make that 74, as Caroline will be going in her Roadster Her user name is 350ZCaroline Pete Are we going in convoy Pete?

Booked! 6am outbound and 6pm inbound - I'm going to do some right name dropping on that ferry Lexx! Brugge is the first stop for maybe 2 nights then we need to decide which way to go - 1 other night to fill up before Black Forest - any recommendations? Strasbourg seems to be on the way but I'm not sure wheres the most interesting place to go really?

where is it for sale? It was on Autotrader until last Friday -I have pretty much abandoned AT as a viable way to sell a car - 5 cars I've advertised on there over the yerars and only ever sold 1. 5x £29 or whatever it is stesrg - how have you found Autotrader? You had any interest generated from it?

to the forum Simon. I alway love the posts that start by saying 'its totally standard at the moment......apart from.....'

Wow DFDS are pretty cheap by comparison too! At least 20 squid less than the others. Every 2 hours means I've got 2 hour contingency (assuming they will let us on the next ferry slot if we're late) plus whatever I add to the journey time to make sure we're there on time - I can't conceivably see how a 5 hour journey to Dover is going to turn into an 8 hour one - even with the M6 involved! Bloody British roads! I'll be glad of an Autobahn experience after Chester to Dover! Wasso the closest thing to illegal is a concealed Degu should one choose to stow away with us.

Not when I go round a bend - its more when driving over uneven ground (effectively when the car is shook from side to side). Its deffo not the zorst - it was making the noise when we had the stock one on. Its prob drop links - need to get round to changing them in honesty. New tyres on Saturday first though!

I wasn't really sure what I was looking at, at the time to be honest Al. I'll check out the DFDS and see what we can sort - it'll save us an hours fuel as well! I'm thinking an overnighter may be the best so we can miss all the traffic getting down there - its about a 5 hour journey from Chester and I reckon a lot could so wrong traffic wise - suppose the alternative is to get there well before the ferry and just poo about for a bit. I've never driven for more than 4 hours before..........hope my back can take it!

Same here with the MX5 - coming up to summer, mint car, low mileage, new hood/battery/zorst/brakes and not a sniff even at 2k!!! Made it the cheapest MX5 for age and mileage within a 60 mile radius - not a peep! Ebay is a calling methink.........shame to let it go for bugger all though.

Or get these viewtopic.php?f=32&t=42411 Hugh if these ever sell I want a cut! I've been pimping them out for you for months now!

I've had 2 Scorpions on our car - 1 fitted like a glove (done by a proper garage) and the new one was rattling like a swine (gash repair center fitted) - turned out that they had fitted it with about 1ml clearance from the big cross-member thingy. Didn't seem to be much room for maneuver so we just jubilee clamped up the hanging rubbers. We've got a right clonk coming from the rear which I think is the ARB link but everyone seems to describe ARB link problems as a creak and not a clonk - going to have a go at a temp fix with some grease at the weekend before we go away.

Cheers Lexx - I knew our resident pirates would come up trumps! I think once I've sorted the Ferry crossing I'd muddle through - I'm suspicious of anything I've not done before! I read something on the P&O website that they allow 2 hours leaway - I should imagine like mentioned above it depends on the terms on the website - I'll have a scratch around. Booking in advance is a little out of the window as we're offski on Monday - looks fairly reasonable though - about £80 there and back.

Cheers guys I've just spend the last 20 mins on the AA website looking for that page! We were thinking of saying up really late on Sunday 3/4am then sleeping in until about 4/5 in the afternoon then driving down about 9pm to Dover and catching an overnighter. Then it was either a toss up between a night in Bruges or cracking on to the Black Forest. Think we might cancel the first hotel in Germany and just spend a couple of days off in a few places on the way.

Better get to hellfrauds this weekend then! We go on Monday.

Ok so we've bit the bullet and cancelled the flights/car ETC - instead its 12 hours of driving/being shouted at by Carla for driving a like a mong. I could do with a bit of advice about sort of unimportant things that are making me a little anxious In no particular order; - If going from Chester is Dover definitely the best/easiest place to get the ferry from. - If we book tickets for a specific time and miss it can you just hop on the next ferry (people tell me you can but that sound nuts?) - How easy is it getting on the ferry and how do you know where your going when you get to the docks? - How easy is it doing the reverse on the way back......is some French type going to launch an onion at my head for being in the wrong lane. - Some have recommended the overnight ferry which is great but it'll mean being awake for about 2 straight days - 1 of which will be driving on the wrong side of the road! - Whats is like driving on the 'wrong' side of the road. - Is there any weird driving rules I should be made aware of (like in America your allowed to go through a red light if its safe......and shoot someone if no one sees) - Would you take the Zed (maybe 500 to a £90 tank if motorway driving and the 'driving' experience, Sat Nav I've never used) or the Lancer (600 miles to a £70 tank, more boot space and a Sat Nav I'm already familiar with). Money isn't really an issue but I'm still stinging (or more accurately Carla is!) from cancelling the flights and only getting £50 of £250 back (a special letter has already been submitted to complain!). - Do I need to modify the car in anyway to be legal on Euro roads? - Would you recommend a night in France on Bruges on the way to Deutschland? As always your sage counsel is appreciated

Don't worry Apparently they employ Polish people to do it with little portable washing stations.......if they run out of water they wash it with rocks as is the tradition in Poland........and they don't take no for an answer.

Be careful with polished rims Jim...the bloke who did ours said that they get ruined by the weather really quickly. Searchy on Google for 'alloy wheel white worm'.

Yep agree with your stance there mate.

+1 I could hear greenys clearly at least 1 mile away.