marzman

Thats Mint...! Well done Mart, and congrats Al...!!

Windows Movie Maker is pretty good, although it is tempremental on my pc...

Absolutely shocked, and am very sad to hear this. Only met ian once... he was late for the Krispy Kreme meet as he'd been playing footy...

Andy - what a post mate!!!!!! You've just sold it to me. You're totally right - the zed will be my sanctuary from the stress of the new job. Cheers.

30k a clutch... ouch?! I hadnt thought of that... my previous zed was an auto...! I know what you're saying, and it is a fairly large chunk of money to be throwing away... 2 years of cheap driving and i'll be able to by a zed outright with the change... Maybe i do need to think this through further...

You are absolutely right here Pete - i do drive very quick but employing all of the principles you describe here... i can get home from work without using my brakes. I couldnt bare spending £3-5k on a repmobile, and then another £10k on a zed for the weekend. I dont believe the zed is a weekend car, if i was doing that, i'd get an elise probably, or a caterham. The zed is an accomplished GT car when it needs to be, and a weekend special when you want to get your foot down.

Thanks for that Mark... so this multi maps issue... how would i go about changing between the 2...? For example if i wanted to drive economically in the week, and have fun at weekend? And roughly, are we talking about saving 1-2mpg, 7-8mpg?? Why do i want a zed...? Because its an awesome car. I just wish i could flick a switch in it and only use half of the engine to save fuel when i dont need the performance What i dont want is a boring rep-mobile just for the good economy.

Well... i sold my zed earlier this year for several reasons, but im looking to get another one early next year once a few things are sorted. However, i've got a new job at work meaning i'll be on the road a lot - probably doing 25k a year. My company will be paying me 25p per mile though. So, ignoring depreciation 25k miles @ 25p = £6250 25k miles in a zed @ 25mpg = £5221 (£1k in my pocket) 25k miles in a diesel @ 50mpg = £2724 (£3500 in my pocket) As you can see, by not getting a diesel, i'll be throwing away around £2500 every year...! So - what are my options to get the best fuel economy in a zed...? Im thinking one of those throttle controllers and possibly a remap...? But if i got the remap, is my zed going to be @*!# to drive etc...? I dont want to get a 2nd car alongside the zed. Any thoughts?

Maybe he had a crate of beer in there...?

dont bother with the discs mate +1

Yep, every winter my fuel consumption dropped from 28mpg to 16mpg for the winter months. Very annoying. I believe it's because the air is denser and heavier, so the car burns more fuel to match the air ration...

As a guide, i spent around £700 on non-brembo brake upgrades last year, and it wasnt worth it. The non-brembos are just too small for the car. I uprated to grooved and vented DBA discs @ £300+, Endless VN pads @ £110+ and braided lines... + standard rear discs. This was considered a fast road setup, but they took far far too long to warm up, meaning that standard performance was very poor.

You can move them if you want... its just a rocket switch. If you choose where you want to mount them, just take the cable off the back and extend the wire, and attach to 2 new rocker switches which can be bought in halfords for about a fiver. ...picking the place to mount them is the hard part though.

+1 i can relate to 90% of this and was born in 83, although i did have an older brother and sister who were born in the 70's, so my upbringing was probably influenced by them. Good post.

Vaseline sounds a bit risky. If it can deteriorate the rubber in JIMMY HATS not sure how it reacts to door seels

Excellent mate. Like it a lot.

Who sells the same things repeatedly and isnt a trader? I signed up to be a trader as i'd designed some LED reflectors and was making and selling them. Im not a trader in real life, i have a job, this was just a hobby. But for me to pay £25 to the club to continue selling them is totally fair. And its fair enough if you've done the work you want some compensation for that, but to think you are entitled to sell just the info is crap - how many how-to's are there on here?? At least if you provided a kit like anders said, then it would be alright, but even then you'd have to be a trader.

Dude, you're making money off the forum... just pay the 25quid!!!!

I dont know if its japanese or french, but it is the same engine as in the Renault Vel Satis.

Using a credit card to pay for goods via paypal incurrs a 3% transaction fee through Paypal i think, but will be treated as 0% on your card.

Think thats called "meta tagging" Or "metatags" Really easy to self promote to the web crawlers too. Dont let anyone tell you they can get your web site at pole position on Google. Its a lot of bollos.... Its the metatags that the web crawler looks at, not your web site.. thats not sticktly true... googles spider is alot more complicated then looking at meta data only, it checks to see how many sites are linking to yours etc.. and alot lot more... Website design also depends on what you require cost wise, for a simple page when for work we employ designers etc.. depending on assets etc you could be looking at £1k for 1 page if it has to fit into a cms backend and do something fancy or if they are creating new assets etc.. But then again if you want a simple html page or site you could be looking at as cheap as £100 or do it yourself. But unless you know html or css then dont expect your site to work on all browsers if you use a tool like dreamweaver/ frontpage.. just my opinion as always.. +1... i thought metadata was finished now...

My work colleague and i made a website a couple of months ago for my former employer: http://fairhursts.uk.com/ This is 6 pages, with 1 main flash image, and the large flash map on the 'Our Clients' page. We charged £550 for the site which was £400 for my mate for building the site, and £150 for me for consultancy. This includes 1yr hosting. My mate is a web developer with lots of flash experience etc, and he can integrate to paypal etc etc...

My mate has just done a 2yr distance learning degree course in photography, and after the first year or so, he started his own little wedding photography business, and now he's charging about £1200 for a saturday wedding.

Fair enough... but you can never say someone has no intention of buying something. If the price is right, it can always tempt you. I personally hate to potentially waste the trader's time by sending a PM, if the price is more than im willing to pay. All done now anyway. I havent even got a zed anymore ffs, so i'll shut up.