rabbitstew

Hey, im in Cambridge every day so will look out for you. Congratulations!

Welcome!

I regularly see 2 black 350`s in Cambridge, so not far from Ely.

As an update to this, ive now noticed my old roadster is for sale at a Honda dealer in Soham (near Ely). Looks like the garage in Oxford must have shipped it on after not selling it over the last 4 weeks. The price has also now dropped by a grand, so looking on the net its very cheap compared to some lower spec older cars ive seen. Im guessing the crappy weather and fuel prices isnt helping sales. Its sad seeing the car being past onto another dealer. Makes me wonder how its been treated since it left my hands. Probably had car sales people thrashing it, probably filling it up with normal unleaded rather than super.

brilliant Yep it was fun! I actually think the reason why garages are now struggling to sell my roadster is that the exhaust is so loud! That and the crappy weather maybe!

Just been looking at what deals there are atm for the s3, and it looks like if i want to renew and keep on my £26 a month contract, then the s3 will be £200 at Orange. Thats mental. When I got my s2 18 months back it was nowhere near that. 02 seem to be charging the same, so im guessing most of the providers are coming in at similar prices?

I wish I could help but ive never experienced this before in my life and ive changed dozens of brakes before on different cars, incl my zed. The fact the wheels move freely when you back off the pressure indicates to me that its not the discs / pads. Im wondering if by not taking the reservoir cap off whether you have damaged something with the servo / master cylinder. I have heard in the past of someone who forced the pistons back and it damaged the seals in the master cylinder. I`ll be interested to hear what the garages feedback is. Really hope it isnt expensive.

Ginger then!

I go to my front drive too for all my servicing, and so do all my friends and family!

I have 2 mates who live in Australia and they cant believe how cheap cars are in the UK. Over there they pay a small fortune for a pile of scrap.

Ive just ordered one. If you ordered online they were all shipped out on the 12th, so a lot of people already have them. The lack of a microsd card is the biggest complaint. I can see why they did it, as they are trying to encourage people to stream content instead of store it locally. These days you can get skydrive, google drive, drop box and all the others. Fine, if you have an internet connection, but personally i prefer to keep my content locally, hense my galaxy s2 has nearly 50gb of storage space on it. Im planning to use mine to give me a bigger gps screen over the one on my galaxy s2 which I currently use every day for satnav. I can tether the nexus 7 to my phone`s internet connection, and get online that way - saves forking out x amount a month for a 3g tablet. Outside of that im looking forward to it. Many of the reviews I read by people who have ipads are raving about how good the nexus 7 is and saying that whilst Apple have always said they wouldnt do a 7" tablet, they have got to now as the 7" market seems to be the one people want.

Spotted driving through Rushden High Street, about 10:30am Sat morning. **04 JDV Its amazing now ive sold mine, dozens of 350z`s seem to be popping up in the area! No 313 Roadsters like my old one though!

Thats an interesting point though, i wonder if the insurance would want proof that the bodywork had been done properly and not just some chav in a shed with £100 welder and lots of filler.

Spotted this morning at about 9am, cherry red 03 plate import coupe driving through Rushden town centre. Guy driving with a bird in the passenger seat. Ive seen it before a few times, so must be local.

Spotted parking in one of the carparks in Rushden this morning at about 9am. Black 58 plate roadster with alezan orange interior. Lady driver. **58 DEB

Well i guess it might blow off if theres a gale force wind in the right place, or if we borrowed that gardeners leaf blower to blow it out of the panel gaps. As it is, it rained over night, so the car is now covered in streaks of sawdust, where its mixed with the rain as some of its ran off the car. Looks a right mess now!

Still unless they are fake bidders, thats a lot of cash for a 1993 scooby.

, that guys a nut case, ive read some of his other stuff before. Well thats what i thought i did, but it looks like his mate twisted what i said so it sounds like I was saying I wanted my neighbour to wash my car. Just hope he hasnt washed my car when I get home as im the only one who i`ll let clean it. He`ll probably have used some 100 year old sponge full of grit or something.

oh....my......god.. WTF!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! That is one of the weirdest things ive ever seen.

You can check on the dvla website to see if its still taxed!

Well I get on really well with him and have had drinks with him before, but there clearly seems to be a different level of respect when it comes to considering your neighbours and their property. I suspect he just doesnt even think about it. Sure its only sawdust, but they know what im like about my cars. He very often comments after ive spent 4 hours on a Sunday morning detailing my car in my drive, so he knows how much I look after them. So to cover it in sawdust, I think is extremely cheeky. If that was me, and I had no choice but to cut the wood up in my drive, i would have popped over the night before and told him in case he wanted to move his car out of the way. I have to respray some bodywork for a mate in a weeks time, and I could quite easily spray it in my drive and not care less about where the wind took any overspray, but no, id check which way the wind was blowing and make sure I parked somewhere where it wouldnt end up getting on my neighbours car. I guess its all about how you were bought up. Its certainly not worth causing some mad dispute over, but its frustrating. What I want to do and ive already checked with the council on this is to put up a fence between the drives. But my gf also says if i put up a fence (albiet a 1m high one) then that will be rude etc. and could upset the neighbour.

Okay, so a couple of days ago my neighbour had a whole load of bits of scrap wood delivered and dumped in his driveway. I get home from work last night to find that his mate had been cutting this wood up with a chainsaw. Now, where do you think he was doing this? Was he doing it on his big front garden? Had he taken the wood around the back of his house and cut it up down his garden out of the way? No. He was doing it on his front drive 2 foot from my car which parked was in my drive. So, my nice previously clean car was totally covered in sawdust. It was in every single crack and panel gap on the car, as well as covering the whole car. My question is would you say anything to him? I wouldnt dream of sawing wood up and getting saw dust all over his brand new car. Personally id have done it around the back of the house especially as that is where he stores the sawn up bits of wood anyway. But no, he decides that 2 ft from my car is the ideal place to do it. So anyway, as I pop out to go to the shop his mates still out there with his chainsaw and I happen to say to his mate that "it looks like i`ll have to wash my car now". He immediately says not to worry and he`ll get my neighbour to wash it for me as they made the mess. I didnt think any more of it until I was in my back garden later and over heard my neighbours mate telling him "oh, your neighbour wants you to wash his car" and my neighbour couldnt believe it. Thats not what I said at all and it was the mate who volunteered him to wash my car. My gf says I shouldnt have said anything and im just being an old moaning git by saying anything. But, the way ive always been bought up is to respect over peoples property and I wouldnt dream of sawing wood up near someones new car. Firstly because of the mess it would make and secondly id be paranoid about accidentally hitting it with a bit of wood or something. But it seems my neighbour has been bought up to treat other peoples property as their own. He`s actually let his mates park their car in my driveway before blocking my car in and thought nothing of it, and the other week he was cleaning his garage out and ended up emptying the contents of the garage all over my driveway whilst he was sorting stuff out. Ive also seen him driving over my drive rather than just ask his friends to move their car out of the way. On all these occasions ive not mentioned anything to him about it, but I am now considering putting up a big fence or something to clearly point out that this is my drive and not his property.

I noticed that in some show my missus was watching the other night. Think it was called "Whitney". Everyone had iphones. I said to the missus that they surely must be sponsered by apple, and sure enough at the end a disclaimer came up saying "product placement by apple".

I always laugh at the overdubbing they do on cars. One of the funniest ever was on "The Italian Job" film, where they overdub a ducati 916 (v twin) with the sound of a high reving 4 stroke motorbike instead....

Need to lighten the car as much as possible. Id start by taking the engine out. Joking aside, you`ll be amazed at how much stuff in the car weighs. My mate has a stripped out scooby he uses for the drag strip and im sure he said he saved about 15kg just by removing all the sound deadening - he spent ages scraping the rubber stick on stuff they stick on all the bodypanels under the carpets. That, carbon fibre bonet, bumpers, doors, perspex glass, light weight seats and you start to save some serious weight. Obviously the car is then not quite as practical for daily use....