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I think Polos must be cheap to insure or something as nearly every chav kid in my town has an old VW Polo now, usually dropped so low its scrapeing the floor. I did wonder why, as normally they used to all go for Saxo`s or Peugeot 106`s.

The pie maker is a bit like those old sandwich toasters you used to have in the 80s. Stick some pastry in, any filling, put a lid on it and is ready in 10minutes. Personally I just use a big oven dish when I make my own and do it the old fashioned way. Nothing at all wrong with iceland, lidl, asda etc. I get a lot of my stuff from there these days and you can get some great bargains.

The Diesels are good but noisey. I had a Peugeot 106 (same as a saxo) 1.5D which was widely regarded as being a better engine than the older 1.4D. It was a 1996 M plater, cost me £850 to buy. I did about 80,000 miles in it and it always gave me 55mpg->58mpg regardless of how i thrashed it. I had to fit new wishbones/ball joints when it got to 120,000 miles and the bearings in the back axle went at about 160,000miles. That wasnt a problem, i just fitted an entire back axle of a saxo which cost me £50 off ebay. I replaced the worn out seats with the full interior out of a mk2 106 Gti which cost me £30 off ebay. Ended up selling the car for £900 (£50 more than what i paid for it) after about 3 years of motoring. All in all a cheap car! All in all £1500 isnt bad. A guy at work has just passed his test and he paid more than that to insure a grandad type Renault Laguna. The only alternative is for her to wait a couple of years. You normally find insurance drops drastically after the first year of having a license as its assumed if you are going to crash you will do in the first year.

Maybe he was trying to get you a free exhaust?!

really makes you wonder tho doesnt it what some people are thinking of.

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Job titles are worth tweaking a bit too. If you are a technician and want to be a assistant service manager, maybe put your current job title as "service technician".... focus on the service area. Also use the word manage a lot, make it seem you are managing areas or projects, or responsible for this that and the other. Maybe when your manager went on holiday you were "in charge", maybe in fact you are already seen as an assistant service manager in your current role with some of your responsibilities etc...

Some good advice on here, especially from coldel As someone who recruits people for my companies, id have to ask why should an employee pick you if you have no experience in the service manager role. These days competition is very tough. My mate went for an IT engineer job last week and they had 120 applicants. So, employees will look at a CV and normally will shortlist people who have already done the job before or have experience in that role. The only time they tend to go for someone who has less experience is if they are offering a very low salary for the role that they know experienced people will not accept. They then may go for someone who they can train up, pay them less and hope the person stays with them. The first thing you need to do is to read the job spec very carefully, then go through your CV and reword everything to suit that job spec. Changing words or descriptions as to what your previous responsibilties were can make all the difference. Im not saying lie, but its all about how you word things. Employees WILL question you on what you have put, so make sure you have already prepared what you are going to say in relation to what you have put on your CV. As coldel says, i may get a pile of 30 CV`s for a job. I look through them and obviously dont want to spend hours reading pages of stuff, so I skip through. I look at recent experience. Does it match the job spec. Look through the persons previous roles. Try to picture what that person is like. Why do they want this job? Are they likely to be a long termer, or someone who just is desperate for any job and will leave once a better one comes up. I look at education, but only briefly. To me I dont care less if someone has been to uni or not, its all about their experience. Hobbies are always interesting and can tell you a lot about someone and if they will fit in with the rest of the team. I tend to shortlist 5 people max for interviews, then drop that down to 1 or 2 for a second interview before making an offer. Once you get that interview, interviews are 80% about whether the interviewer actually likes you as a person, rather than your technical ability. You can normally tell straight away when you start talking to someone whether or not they are the one for the job. Thats not to say I agree with that, but in my experience its so true. Ive seen guys who were super experienced rejected in favour of non experienced girls with big chests, or someone who had the same hobbies as the manager who was recruiting. I am known in my company as someone who likes to take a chance on someone, and often employee people who others may look by. In my last company i recruited a guy who looked like swampy and had dreadlocks. Everyone was shocked, but my judge of character paid off as he was one of the best programmers we ever had.

Thats very kind of you! I was made to save up for my insurance myself! Ive had a couple of nissan micras which girlfriends have had. We had the older shape 1990 one for a while, 1litre. Very cheap motoring, then bought a bubble shape one like in the photo. On a L plate if I remember rightly. Cost about 1100 at the time, we had it 2 years and sold it for about 800. Only thing which went wrong was the window wiper motor packed up one of the brake calipers was a bit sticky and the front cross member under the radiator got very rotten. Strange as the rest of the car was in very good nick. We drove all over the shop in it - incl 3hour drive to wales, then touring around south wales in it. Nice little runner. As someone else said, the insurance on a micra should be cheap. Whilst cars like 106`s, saxo`s and corsa`s are cheaper now, they are classed more as "boy racer" cars and therefore the insurance is high.

I know loads of people who have had this problem. The plumber I used said that what he does is normally puts a bigger bore pipe than is needed on the condenser pipe when its outside to stop this.

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I bought the same kit from halfords the other weekend, they had a 3 items for 2 offer on the car cleaning products. Havent tried it out yet, so cant comment on how good it is. Will give it a go at the w/end.

well i do love my pies! I even got bought a pie maker for my birthday a few months back! I used to always shop at Tesco, but having moved house recently I now have an Asda, Iceland, Netto and a Lidl all within walking distance of my house, so I thought id give them a go. Its amazing how much money you can save through changing your supermarket. Obviously some things are cheaper in one place than another and vice versa. Running a zed isnt cheap tho, and the OP will find he`ll save himself a lot of cash if he swaps for a more economical car, but cars like the zed arent always quick sellers as they arent everyones cup of tea.

If you are going to buy another one in 6 months time, surely it makes more sense just to keep yours? Id expect you`ll probably struggle to sell atm, and have to accept a low price, then in 6 months time you`ll end up paying the same or more for the same car! You can get cheap food if you shop around. Im well into pies atm. You can get 4 single pies for a quid from iceland or 2quid from tescos. Iceland do 40 fish fingers (60% fish i think so not rubbish ones) for 2quid, bag of freshly frozen peas is 1quid, etc. etc. Big bag of potatoes or pasta lasts me for ages. Lunchtimes, I make my own sarnies rather than buy any in, so you end up living for hardly anything.

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lol, I meant 28kw. Its a remeha avanta plus. Got very good reviews and a 5 year warrenty on them as standard.

I swapped my 50 year old boiler for a combi earlier in the year. The combi free`d up so much more space in the kitchen and loft as you dont need all those tanks etc. My place is a 3 bed with 1 bathroom and I dont have any problems. The water is hot instantly, and because ive got quite a high pressure cold mains feed, the shower pressure is good. The thing with combi`s is the pressure the boiler creates for the hot water depends on the cold water pressure going into it. If you have the shower on, then someone starts running a hot tap elsewhere, obviously the pressure on the shower gets reduced. Same as if you turn the cold tap on... less pressure going into the boiler, so the output pressure is reduced. But in reality this isnt a problem for me. You also have to have a thermostatic mixer shower. They are cheap as chips from toolstation / screwfix. I went for a 28kw? boiler, cost around the 800quid mark I think incl wireless thermostat and inline filter. One thing to watch out for is that some plumbers seriously rip you off. I had 3 quotes to fit mine, the most expensive came in at £2500 labour and they reckoned it was a 5 day job. In the end I got a friend of my dad whose a qualified corgi gas & plumber to fit it, he charged me £700 and did it in a weekend.

Hang on... a porsche 996 is about £10->£11k? I didnt realise they were so cheap. I could have bought one and had 4 or 5grand change rather than buying my 350z!

If your PD engine is noisey then maybe something wrong with it. Ive had quite a few diesels and my PD golf was so quiet i used to forget it was a diesel. Dont understand why garages dont do the air filter. For the sake of £4 or whatever they cost and 2 minutes work. Theres a place near where I used to live called jabbasports and they are highly regarded for doing remaps on the PD engine. They do a drive in, drive out bog standard flashing, or rolling road tune it to maximise the power. Well worth doing.

Good idea in principle, but the costs will be too high. You can get a real de-activated ak47 for 125quid->600quid, or an uzi for £400. Or, you can get replica`s for a fraction of that - probably for the same price or less than a lego one would cost. I think someone would have to be a serious lego geek to buy one. Im sure there are adults out there who are into it and would buy one, but it would be a very limited market. Personally I think those lego guns look really cool, but not my cup of tea!

All of those tho id expect to be causing power problems all the time, not on / off. Split hoses / intercooler issue would mean air leak and reduced power. Temp sensor would mean fueling normally runs rich, but the car does run fine, but has starting problems and poor fuel consumption, MAF usually means reduced power but driving okay. Glad the OP seems to have found the problem with the "chip". Hopefully that will resolve things. You certainly should give the car a service. I used to service my PD Golf myself and fuel filter, oil filter, air filter, pollen filter and the proper PD rated oil used to come in at £50. Used to take me exactly 15minutes to do. If you do it regularly the car will last you a long time. I got 165,000 miles out of mine before I decided to sell it, and it still drove like it was brand new.

Phew, sounds like you have a lucky escape there! In my experience the mobile speed vans or cops with radar guns dont tend to be very lenient. I remember years ago I was cruising along at 45mph in a 60mph zone. I was in no rush, just pottering along, listening to my music on a nice summers day. As I started entering a village I eased off the accelerator to slow to do the 30mph speed limit, and got caught straight away by a police man with a radar gun. I was doing 36 in a 30. No consideration was given to the fact I clearly was not deliberately speeding, having just driven 15miles at well under the speed limit and was de-accelerating. It was just a case that i hadnt de-accelerated quickly enough and should have really reduced my speed prior to the 30mph sign. There was no schools, kids or anything else about so in my humble opinion the copper would have been better placed sitting outside a school or public area, where motorists driving dangerously would be a hazard, rather than trying to catch motorists just entering a 30mph zone and slowing down.

Alex is right. Ive had the same problem on other cars and it tends to be the shield which goes behind the brake disc. Sometimes it can get bent a bit and catch on the brake disc. Usually only happens if your turning in one direction. I just bent it back from the disc slightly and it fixed it.

Looks like it. Well spotted!!!!! Id be gutted if that was mine.

Around my way the thieves who normally drive transit pickups and nick scrap metal seem to be focus`ing on cats, especially those from 4x4s. Good luck if they can get them off quickly and quietly, i wouldnt fancy getting those off my zed, they would be rusted on solid id expect. Scrap prices vary considerably, so shop about. A few months back I took about 1/2 tonne of scrap in and didnt get as much as I thought for it.