Darren-B

Ive got some black duck tape incase of any cosmetic damage, probably a bad idea thinking ahead like this. Remember: long sleeves and trousers are required + helmet (can be hired on the day.)

I think theres places left, my mates coming along in his gay x-5 (mx-5) he only signed up the other day. Just taken my nismo`s off and gone back to rays to save some rubber, I hate it now

Im lost in this thread now, was there a names list for this forum? im still def coming on this providing i dont bend the car at oulton park this weekend:scare:

Good good, will be good to see some more Z`s there

Unwitting motorists face £1,000 fines as thousands of photocard driving licences expire Thousands of motorists are at risk of being fined up to £1,000 because they are unwittingly driving without a valid licence. They risk prosecution after failing to spot the extremely small print on their photocard licence which says it automatically expires after 10 years and has to be renewed - even though drivers are licensed to drive until the age of 70. The fiasco has come to light a decade after the first batch of photo licences was issued in July 1998, just as the they start to expire. Motoring organisations blamed the Government for the fiasco and said 'most' drivers believed their licences were for life. http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2008/09/ ... _popup.jpg ) A mock-up driving licence from 1998 when the photocards were launched shows the imminent expiry date as item '4b' They said officials had failed to publicise sufficiently the fact that new-style licences - unlike the old paper ones - expire after a set period and have to be renewed. To rub salt into wounds, drivers will have to a pay £17.50 to renew their card - a charge which critics have condemned as a 'stealth tax' and which will earn the Treasury an estimated £437million over 25 years. Official DVLA figures reveal that while 16,136 expired this summer, so far only 11,566 drivers have renewed, leaving 4,570 outstanding. With another 300,000 photocard licences due to expire over the coming year, experts fear the number of invalid licences will soar, putting thousands more drivers in breach of the law and at risk of a fine. At the heart of the confusion is the small print on the tiny credit-card-size photo licence, which is used in conjunction with the paper version. Just below the driver name on the front of the photocard licence is a series of dates and details - each one numbered. Number 4b features a date in tiny writing, but no explicit explanation as to what it means. The date's significance is only explained if the driver turns over the card and reads the key on the back which states that '4b' means 'licence valid to'. Even more confusingly, an adjacent table on the rear of the card sets out how long the driver is registered to hold a licence - that is until his or her 70th birthday. A total of 25million new-style licences have been issued but - motoring experts say - drivers were never sufficiently warned they would expire after 10 years. Motorists who fail to renew their licences in time are allowed to continue driving. But the DVLA says they could be charged with 'failing to surrender their licence', an offence carrying a £1,000 fine. AA president, Edmund King said: 'It is not generally known that photocard licences expire: there appears to be a lack of information that people will have to renew these licences. People think they have already paid them for once over and that is it. It will come as a surprise to motorists and a shock that they have to pay an extra £17.50.' Today the DVLA said the date of expiry was carried on the new-style licences, even though the AA says this is 'not clear'. The Agency was unable to say whether motorists were told the licences would expire when they were first issued. It said it was issuing postal reminders to drivers whose photograph was due to expire, to get the renewal message across. But a spokesman admitted this was the limit of the DVLA's publicity. Experts say many drivers will slip through the net because DVLA ecords are inaccurate and many motorists have changed address, making it impossible to trace them. A DVLA spokesman said: 'Previous experience has shown that wide-scale publicity is less effective and can generate enquiries and concerns from those not affected. Instead, DVLA focussed on targeted publicity to ensure that we got the message to the right person at the right time.' The Driving Standards Agency is allowing L-test candidates with out-of-date photocard licences to sit their driving tests as long as they provide a valid passport. This concession will end in January next year, raising the prospect that some L-test candidates will be turned away. The DVLA said no one had so far been charged with failing to surrender a licence.

Just booked my hotel for friday, driving up in the afternoon with my mate in his gay mx-5, have a few beers then some drifting in the morning:teeth:

haha seems like it, dont think ive seen him since oct when we used 2meet at thurrock:lol: Where have you been hiding mark?

Look forward to seeing you at the miss banzai run bud, me and roast, gonna meet and convo up to thurrock , and so halfway house is the 29th then ? ? ?, defo looking forward to the MissBanzai run, there is quite alot of pppl going now, should be a good one Theres only 28days in feb mate

haha, well mines always changing one way or another, yeah ill be there mate, you going to the halfway house meet the next day aswell?

nice one mark, i still havent seen your car. So what have you bought off of sunset then?

probably a load of tot, cant see it improving the performance even if it does anything at all with the restrictive ecu`s

Some ace drivingB)

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Ill offer him £800

1. Mark 2. S1 HNK 3. Ian 4. James (Randomfry) 5. Chris`I (TBC) 6. Darren-b

or what????????????????????????????????????????????? Or 1/not 2/in action 3/wont be one for a while 4/e.t.c 5/e.t.c Thanks for clarifying that! Just didn't think 'or' finished off a sentence wll! Thick people like me end up thinking 'or the world will explode!' 1/not 2/in action 3/wont be one for a while 4/e.t.c 5/e.t.c 6/or the world will explode

Yes i do like my toys, its a 2007 seadoo rxp 215 bhp supercharged

Ace

Have to disagree with that, one of the guys I work with has a DB7 GTS and that definitely doesn't do snow either! Anyway guys floods are definitely worse, another guy i work with had a Kuro 350, sucked water into the engine and now it's a write-off so beware the big melt... Sureley thats a good excuse 2go FI and forge all internals

well after every thing being revised in the 1st link im all a bit confused

Not zed weather, the zed is the only vehicle that is near impossible 2drive in the snow. (although i do have -2degrees camber over stock on the rear) I have a movano that is ace once i let the tyres down, gets through anything,

lucky man, now lets see how you can drift a zed

If im not in the car im in the pub, i am now actually :blush:jim bean anyone?

I still would have gone I am the MAN of my house, my word is the law, I expect to bew prepared a gourmet meal each and every night, then be ran a bath, then she has to lie back and take whats coming to her! Guess what # Im single Only a week to go now