Ricey

Never been near one but used to read up on them and salivate a lot - apart from the good points you probably already know about the roof was supposed to be a holy 'mare to put up and didn't seal properly. Not massively reliable and required a swallow dive or commando roll to get into (if you or a passenger has a skirt on apparently you literally will NOT be able to enter or exit the car). So if you don't mind sitting in the rain waiting for a RAC van with no skirt on you should be sound If its a trackday car though I don't believe you can actually get much better bang for your buck.

To be honest I've had to take a bit of stock with what I do with my time because I was getting to the stage where I was setting an alarm on Saturday and Sundays just so I could pack everything into a weekend. So now instead of 3 hour job on the cars, go gym, try and get some fresh air with a run or a walk I do a 5/6 hour detail on a car. Its really physical, out in the fresh air, working with a car, feeds the human desire to create or repair (getting a bit deep there!) and also feels good because I'm helping someone else out. Just need to get this bogging MX5 off the driveway to make some room......still not heard a squeak from the Autotrader ad! I think its going to end up on fleabay at this rate.

It's work-related mate..not a personal visit Last destination retrieved from Bounty's satnav - CSI style https://www.drthom.com/sexual_health_cl ... s/Grantham

Its for sale in the 'pool though.......what the advert doesn't tell you is its got 100kgs of premium cocaine in the back

I tell you what mate even the 'grit and go' boys would of struggled to get it as scratched as bad! My eyes nearly fell out of my head when I'd finished washing it and was greeted by that. Kind of an offer as that is I'm not sure I could face it after driving all the way to East Anglia!

Very nice mate - did ours yesterday..........bloody filthy again now!

He was made up with it mate. Most disturbingly he said after having the keys handed back 'so instead of the automated car washes would you recommend taking it these blokes who cleans cars in a supermarkets' God alive! Snow foams not landed yet mate - I reckon it'll be tomorrow - anything from down South take a couple of days to get up here.

Would an airlock in the new lines cause this? Maybe they didn't bleed the system properly when putting the new fluid in.........only a guess though.

Cheers mate. Probably worth noting that the close up of the previously scratched wing as a lot of little while marks........thats not polish - its stone chips!

Christ I literally just typed all this out over about 30 mins then hit the wrong damn button and lost it all!! Ok...........again then I've been really enjoying getting some fresh air and doing a good 4/5 hour detail on my cars of a saturday. Anyway I ran out of my own cars to clean last weekend so I offered to do my mates dads suitably knackered Passat. This badboy is a Y plate with 107k on the clock. It has only ever been washed via automated car washes and has what I would describe as 100% scratch/swirl coverage. I think this really shows what a feeb like me and some decent products can do. It was pre Tims 're-education' regarding snowfoam so I didn't do any kind of pre-wash.........whilst we're on the subject of Tim I believe its worth a shout out for the guy in all his awesomeness. He's always happy to give his advice and has provided my with the right tools for the job! Process was; Some cheapo but ultimately effective alloy wheel cleaner and an alloy wheel brush from Hellfrauds. Dodo Sour Power shampoo Lambs wool washmit Meg gritguard bucket Clayed with Espuma Lubricated with Dodo Born Slippy Machine polished with the G220 using Megs ultimate compound Poorboys Blackhole Glaze applied by hand (as I somehow managed to throw away the still wrapped Megs polishing pad Tim sent to me! ) Dodo Orange Crush (for warm cars but works fine on Black) Wheels rimwaxed Tyres dressed with Megs tyre dressing (can't remember the name) its a gel and I'm not sure about it yet. Seems very thick and greasy. Interior cleaned with Poorboys Natural Look Dressing RainX cleaner and protector used on the glass (paper towel to clean/apply - microfibre to really polish off). Some crappy upholstery cleaner I had to battle a spider for! Chrome given a quick one over with Autosol Before Artistic poo shot Scratch and grime tastic Half a tree lodged in the rain water gutters Meanwhile a Degu sleeps Ay caramba! After

I'm so bored of complaining to bloody useless people........ah well here we go. Dear Sirs/Madam, I am writing to express my formal dissatisfaction with the level of administration fees that you apply to cancelled flights. We are unfortunately unable to utilize the flights under booking reference E6QEJ2 - after enquiring with your Customer Call Center I was advised that you would charge an administration fee of £25 per person, per flight, inbound and outbound - therefore totaling £100. I live in the real world - I totally appreciate fares aren't refundable. After all its not your fault we can't attend. Similarly I appreciate administration fees are a fact of the modern world - and correct that they should be - you have to employ someone to cancel our flights. What I completely take offence to and quite honestly am astounded by is profiteering of this nature. You simply cannot justify charging £25 per flight for cancelling 4 flights in the same transaction. I am offering you this opportunity to be reasonable and refund our taxes in respect of this booking minus a (single) administration fee of £25 (which is adequate for the work involved). This will be the difference between sending a customer away satisfied with a genuinely positive experience from your company or to totally alienate a customer who would make a point of never using you again and ensuring that this issue is highlighted publicly. The seats can (and probably will) be resold and your already receiving a profit of £94.64. The only possible reason for charging fees of this amount is to impose a post sale barrier for any customer who needs to cancel. I appreciate that sometimes in companies we try and have a 'one size fits all' approach. In this instance I hope you will agree you cannot reasonable apply this approach. Kind Regards Paul Rice

Recently added to my list of 'Things to abolish when I become world dictator'........low cost airlines. Apparently they charge an administration fee of £25...............per person............per flight............inbound...........and outbound. So allegedly they believe their administration costs are £100 to press the cancel button on 4 flights. Much as it probably still reasonably lose on the financials I just can't seem to justify in my head throwing £200 down the drain. I think one of my special complaint letters might be in order.

Dude your posts are so beautifully random!

Not too sure on them rear lights mate but each to their own! Remainder of her looks I'm pretty sure decats are not road legal (although I could be wrong) so you ain't got a chance in hell of going through an MOT.

Depends how much dollar you've got mate - discussed to death so well worth a search for my money if you've not got a lot (300-500) you can't go wrong with a Scorpion (which my esteemed college above is flogging) viewtopic.php?f=166&t=47408&hilit=scorpion Nice note when you want it, shiny as you like and fits the lines of the car well. Wheels - personally I think the Rays look ace (but then I would) however if you've got some fairly serious coin hanging around Hugh (Attak Z) is flogging these which to me are about the nicest wheels I think I've ever seen - viewtopic.php?f=32&t=42411

dropped to £2250...........not even a squeak so far. Even the Nigerian fraudsters are steering clear

Get a group buy with Unabashed! viewtopic.php?f=13&t=47777

From Chester mate. I'll look into it - would prob be a little bit quicker than Dover I reckon.

It asks about convictions or endorsements so they've got nothing on you. Otherwise the question would have to be 'have you ever broken the speed limit and not been given an endorsement'

Mad as a bag of spiders

hahahahahahahahahahahaha Mate that is a truly oobernoob, mega hilarious kind of thing that I'd do. Well done for admitting it! I reckon you need to do the reset procedure mate - it can make the window reset to being fully closed.

Micro thread revival..........just found out that when Carla made the booking e-bookers didn't add baggage or seats together - which apparently is going to cost another 70 squid Looking at it in more detail it would appear we can't get a refund on the flights but we could get a refund on the taxes - £154 quid of a £267 fare. So I need to work out the financials; - £154 refund on flights minus an admin fee (Christ knows how much that will be). - £220 refund on car hire (full refund with no fee) - Save additional £70 by not having to shell on the baggage/seats together. - cost to get to airport or parking at airport - £40 quid if we're lucky (forgot all about this until today!) - Fuel for hire car back and to from airport/driving while we're there. £100 maybe? (1.4 petrol Polo) By my reckoning (lets assume 35 quid admin fee) thats about £500ish back or avoided - roughly 5 tanks of fuel in the Zed (motorway cruising - maybe 300 a tank - giving 1200 miles driving) - total distance there and back with no driving accounted for while we're there is about 1500 miles. Guessing we'll need around 6 tanks in total. Plus £60-80 for the ferry. Admiral very kindly cover us for free in Europe so no hidden costs there. Couple of toll roads no doubt in France but nothing major. So its; 1. Cattle class flight at 7 in the morning meaning we need to be up around 4am.........arriving in Germany at 10.15am. 2. Spend several hours negotiating with an Avis representative Steve Martin style until she agrees to give us an inspiring 1.4 Polo. 3. Drive 2 hours to Black Forest. 4. Be inspired by the awesomeness of the 83bhp Polo 5. Drive 2 hours on a deadline to airport again to catch a 19.50pm flight back to UK 6. Drive home/sit in vomit infested taxi for 30 mins. Or; 1. Leisurely rise at around 10am whatever day we fancy .........have a bit of a scratch. 2. Drive to Dover (4/5 hours - pretty grueling for my back ) 3. Hope ferry avoids Lexx learning to drive 4. Stay over in France or somewhere for a night. 5. Drive on to Germany 6. Be thrilled by the pure awesomeness of the Zed 7. Eat some Gateaux 8. Leisurely drive back to UK. 9. Catch ferry - watch Martinmac beating Lexx with a fish for scuppering their ship. 10. Either stay somewhere daaaaaan saaaaff for a night or drive home (doubt my back will deal with that). 11. Get home relaxed, satisfied and vomit smell free. Hmmmm.......seems like it makes too much sense. What am I missing? (aside from the obvious 'Severance' style crazed ex soviet soldiers who were subjected to experiments and now live in the backwaters of Germany just waiting for an unsuspecting Zed driver to come along to be bummed in the gob).

Fair do's as the Goodison Park chant goes - Wayne Rooney truly is 'just a fat ugly knobhead........fat ugly knooooooobhead.......just a fat ugly knobhead'. Poor old Hammers

Good stuff matey I think there are a few guides for having a crack at fixing yourself - not sure on prices. :pmr35lee: for bits. Things like that are a bugger but remember - it can happen anytime - it could of been 2 days after you bought it. Is it just down a little bit or stuck down quite a way? Reset procedure on the window might fix it?