Ricey

Actually I'm beginning to err on the side of agreeing with setting fire to the place..........possibly as an alternative to marching into the managers office dropping your strides and laying a cable on his desk. I never quite get the whole thing about running a company that literally has 1 speciality and being utterly, utterly gash at it! I mean why?!?! Crapping little independants seem to get by so why can't a multimillion pound company manage! Problem without not setting fire/pooing on the place is that you'll end up bogged down in the endless soul sapping paperchain of being fobbed off or at the very best 3 months just to get to the position that you SHOULD be in now.......this could make you give up on humanity. Bloody cretins!

+1.......my bloody arms were falling off and I had a groin strain the next day.........Megs G220 doesn't half get your hips moving

Its without a doubt a future classic.....the car has too much personality to vanish into the ether like the Audi TT will.

I'd give the branch manager a chance first then take it to someone senior at customer services (dont be conned into speaking to a drone). Bad news bears that is though mate

Nothing like the threat of an email nuke to the boss to get peoples arses into gear

Doh.....bloody airline won't refund. Still gives some food for thought for a little journey in the summer maybe.

Dude that looks awesome. I have to stop myself cleaning the zed because it turns into a 7 hour 2 car cleaning frenzy and a near dead ricey at the end!

Tinterweb information doesn't bode very well for cancelling flights.......bugger. Seems to be a big fat hairy get stuffed unless you've died or something.

Me and Carla have decided after our fortnight in the Cuban prisoner of war camp last year we'd jib off the Jeremy Kyle package holidays and go for a trip to the Black Forest in Germany.......if for no other reason it sounds like its should have all manner of hobbits fighting over bits of gateux. Carla booked the flights the other day for £250 for both of us (which we would have to cancel - cost unknown until tomorrow). Looking at car hire prices its going to be around £250 for something 'soil yourself exciting' like a diesel Passat! Maybe £100 fuel for the week and go knows whatever extra on the insurance. So I jokingly said - we could drive the Zed there for less (or at least 6 tanks of fuel worth)!!!...............to which we both kind of perked up and started to seriously consider it. Without stating the obvious this trip as a few perils attatched to it - I'll be driving on the wrong side of the road for the first time, I'll be driving onto a ferry for the first time ever, I'll be driving for 12 hours So I suppose the question is - is it just a load of hassle or it is a great opportunity to have an amazing drive accross europe maybe taking in a night in France or Belgium on the way (so the its not a full 12 hours). We've got 18 clear days off work so plenty of time to recover if it does become a stress fest and we wouldn't be working to any flight time or car drop off deadlines if we did get lost ETC. Downside is the likely event that I'll end up taking a catastrophic wrong turn, end up getting car jacked in Bratislava and having to live a feral existance in the hills. Discuss

very nice looking motor.

I know what you mean mate but Gibster still needs to get this resolved and one of the employees of the company is a member on here. I'm sure Gibster will be good enough to let us know if he gets any joy after a few days...........then we can get on with slagging them off publically!

"get of the f***ing internet and do some work you lazy little dreg"

Either that or we work for different parts of the same organisation........the company I'm employed by actually have very little to do with the company I work for (i.e they're an outsourcing company - provide the systems, payroll, HR, buildings but don't get involved in the day to day running).

To be honest its probably done me a favour - I finally bit the bullet and applied for a managers job. If you can't beat em then I suppose you might as well become a soul-less ape who starts using phrases from the Ladybird book of middle management like- - isolated incident (cocked up once) - systemic issue (cocked up all over the place) - can you liaise with (talk to) - we'll park that one (we don't know the answer and we're not likely to in the near future) - lets put that in the fridge (we don't know the answer and we never will - just forget about it) - put a backstop in place (we keep fooking up MAKE IT STOP NOW!) - the deliverable hasn't been implemented (you didn't do what we asked you....ooooooo I'm not happy) - cost benefit analysis proved to be excessive (its too frigging expensive - find something cheaper that won't work as well) - we're putting you an a personal improvement plan - PIP (your 1 fookup away from getting sacked meladdo - pull your socks up!!) - the RAG status is telling us (oooooooo look how much red we've got - we're definitely fooked) - the 'dashboard' is identifying systemic issues (fookedfookedfooked - regulators going to fine us to oblivion) - working lunch (working but with food - your not getting a lunch and no.....I don't give a blue **** if its illegal or not) ad infinitum...........

Lets see if they sort it first.......then the Gibster can unleash his demon upon them!

The winner of best forum nickname EVER! Quite a few nice wheels for sale on here at the mo too!

Nope - looks like a good old British Delboy. To paraphrase Lock Stock and 2 Smoking Barrels..........Nick, however, has made it his business to have all 20 fat fingers and toes in every dirty, bent and stolen pie in London.' Which is quite apt given that the owners name is Nick. Shedloads of bad blood going round various forums re their service

I think this goes a long way to evidencing just how demotivated I am in work at the mo.............I've managed to get the 350z-uk site added to the companies banned list!!!!!!!!!!! Bearing in mind the group has about 30000 employees globally thats a proper achievement. Christ knows how many hours I've racked up but it must of been pretty substantial to get a global ban

you have a PM with lots of fun info............fooking sharks by the looks of it

PM me the details and I'll find you his email address

Mate jib the insurance to the high buggery. I see god knows how many cretins every day who don't pay anything to unsecured credit.........they threaten the earth but in reality half the time they can't be bothered doing anything to you (bailiffes, legal action, bankruptcies). In fact lets have a look at the timeline of an unsecured debt with a large company - - You run up a £5000 balance on a credit card with MBNA. - MBNA chase you for 6-12 months for payment which you don't make. Balance has increased to £6k with interest and charges. - MBNA will sell the debt to perform a 'loss mitigation' exercise to CL Finance (for example) for 50p in the pound (£3000). - CL Finance now only need to collect anything over 3k to make a profit. - You get a whole host of nasty letters asking for payment. You do nothing. - CL Finance offer you a 1 off settlement figure for a limited period only of £3500 which will fully settle your debt. So MBNA avoid making a total loss and recoup 3k........CL finance make a £500 profit by settling the debt and you get out of £2500 of debt by NOT paying the frigging loan! You'll probably think I'm talking bull and granted it doesn't always work that smoothly (you especially have to be careful when its a large balance and you own a property - they can stick charging orders on, or if the loan secured against something) but generally that is how the vast majority of unsecured debt is managed in the modern world. Its totally unfair on the 'good payers' but bottom line is - debt collectors cost money and may not recover anything so why would a company exacerbate their loss when they can just sell it on to a distressed debt company and 'mitigate a larger loss'. Provided you can handle a trashed credit profile (which lets face it if you lose you job - your getting a trashed credit profile unless you get re-employed sharpish or have money behind you) I would think very carefully about paying out money for products that don't actually offer a lot of protection (eg no redundancy cover). Now before I infuriate Sarnie to the point of exploding - MPPI policies are a different kettle of sparrows..........mortgages are far more worth having protection on PROVIDED you get someone like Sarnie to make sure its an appropriate policy (i.e one you can actually claim on!)

Brummie???? Which Red Dwarf were you watching? Last I looked Craig Charles was a scouser........a messed up smackrat whoremaster but a scouser non-the less. It'll be an utter turdfest if you ask me. The whole thing has looked really forced since about series 6/7. Originals were the funniest. Mr Flibble agrees

The bottom line is if you lose a car on the roads your very lucky even if your a skilled driver (Which I'm not!) to correct it and get away with it. Problem being that roads are much narrower and littered with nasties like other cars, pedestrians, curbs and evil bollards all of which mean you have about 3 nano-seconds to realise, correct, recorrect, avoid *insertabove*, pull over, wipe poo from seat and drive on. Usually you'll learn the hard way and have to extract yourself from some nasty wreckage only to be given the smug lectures about how you 'should of turned into the skid' or 'I bet you came off the power didn't you (lots of pitying head shaking)......should of accelerated through it'.........usually by some git in the pub who drives an Astra.

Its all a crock of bull mate - a lad at work as a 2 litre 7 year old mondeo - £400 last year - £1200 this year and literally nothing has changed. Same situation - automatic renewal.

I take it your dealing with a fairly large company and therefore phone minions when calling? Depends how big the company are but find out who the CEO or if they're a bit smaller the owner is.........if they won't give you his email address or you can't find it on the net then simply look at how their emails are structured and kaboom - you have his email address too. Then send a giant donging complaint to him detailing the timeline of your crap success. Say your a member of a very active car forum and unless its sorted not only will you be withdrawing your custom but also creating a shitstorm of bad press for them throughout the community. 2 days max before problem solved. Email is always best because said minions can intercept letters.