rabbitstew

Wheels look ace! I did white wheels on one of my cars once and they look great but are a mission to keep clean! Plenty of poor boys wheel sealant on them!!!

Just seen this, I use a local garage which the local supercar indi used to use. My porsche has been MOT`d there since 2014. There shouldnt be any issues with emissions unless its modified. On mine, it does struggle with the emissions as since the remap & race clutch the car is impossible to idle at 3000rpm. So they tend to use a rpm which they can keep it at for long enough to do the emissions and thats fine.

Bought back memories for me when skimming of brake discs & drums were the norm! Now its rarely done any more. Glad you got the problem resolved!

In the past when ive needed temp insurance on a car - whilst i was selling it - i managed to get a short term insurance for a few days ffrom adrian flux. However, it cost a stupid amount as I couldnt use my main 28 years NCB on it. Id get someone to trailer it to the shop as I think that would be the easiest way.

Looking ace. I had to do a similar amount of cutting/welding on my Renault 5 GT Turbo the other year when I started on that. Was one of those situations where the you cut out, the more rust you found.

And so it begins again..... Picked this little baby up last week. I didn't really need it and am not looking forward to the inevitable "hairdresser" jokes, but it popped up on an alert I had setup and was too much of a bargain to turn down! Unlike the black one, this one doesn't really need much doing as it came with FSH, new MOT, brand new exhaust, new suspension bushes, 4 previous owners, bodywork pretty much mint with perfect panel gaps all around. New Uniroyal tyres, new DAB radio, new brake discs/pads and it looks like the wheels were refurbed not so long ago. It drives really well! Its also a mid 2006 model so its the facelifted R53. There's a few bits different to the earlier models, they came with a teflon coated super charger and a pop & bang map as standard which gave it a bit more power. Certainly a bargain for £1500! So what needs doing? Well it was sat under a tree so its covered in tree sap so I need to give it a good detailing. The reversing sensors dont work, it hasnt had its supercharger service yet and the hood has a couple of small patches so I need to see if there's a better way of repairing that. Like the black one it has the horrible 2 spoke steering wheel so I will upgrade that to the newer 3 spoke one. I did consider taking all the mods off the black one and putting on it, but its in such good condition I think I will keep it stock and just have fun throughout the summer in it. (when im not cutting hair!)

Lovely car. I've always wanted one of these but don't think I could get away with it having bought another Mini Cooper S last week.

I havent got one for sale, but I have replaced the screen on one and its pretty straight forward and you can get screens cheap off ebay, so what I did was to buy one with a cracked screen for next to nothing and just replace it. So always an option if you get stuck.

Oo-er front end looks lambo, side looks lambo/ferrari and back looks lotus. Be nice to see one in the flesh.

"with a heavy heart"........ hang on, your not Boris Johnson are you?!!!!! only kidding, good luck with sale. Im a biker myself and fortunate that I have managed to hang on to my collection of bikes, even though I seldom get to ride them these days. Better than money in the bank at the moment.

I have a couple of CTEK MXS 5.0`s on the cars which I dont use on a daily basis just to keep them topped up. Its quite a clever battery charger and monitors the battery condition. It can even revive some completely dead batteries. You can hardwire a connector to the battery so you just plug it in. Or, if the cigar socket allows, you can get a cigar adapter and just charge it through there. I do it both ways on my cars. I think i paid about £60 or so for mine. Previously I have also used £15 LIDL / ALDI chargers to do the same with good results.

Could have been worse, I was reading about the bloke who bought 2 pizza`s with 10,000 bitcoins back when that amount was only worth £30. Now they would have been worth £300 million.

I remember having a conversation with some lads at work a good number of years back, and the consensus was that we had missed the boat with bit coin.... little did we know. Musk seems to be having a good laugh with it all atm. Months of hyping up bit coins then now claims they are bad for the environment. Surely tesla`s arent much better. Who knows where bitcoins & the like will go. Some say bitcoin will be $250,000 end of next year. They are about £34,000 now so thats big increase. There is a lot of talk about a global currency crash happening before long with all the crazy amount of money printing the central banks have been doing, and governments around the world borrowing trillions to give to pharmaceutical companies & others over the covid stuff so it could all explode at some point. Therefore a lot of people are looking to other ways to store their cash etc. gold, bitcoins, property etc. anything other than keeping money in the bank!

It used to be the case that police didnt check with other forces as to whether you have previously done the speed awareness course within the 4 years - so if you got caught by a different force to which you previously did the course you could just keep quiet and do the course again in the other area if it was offered to you. Not sure if thats still the case. Doesnt help if your caught by the same force you got caught by before though. Id always take whatever they offer you with regards to points/fine and avoid court if possible. In my younger days I thought points meant prizes and collected quite a few of them. I also went to court a few times too and from my court experience, its totally pot luck what you will end up getting. I found it was because the magistrates are usually 100 year old pensioners who have no legal qualifications at all, and tend to just pick a number off the top of their heads depending up on how they feel. Once I got flashed by a camera doing 72 in a 60 in the middle of nowhere. The magistrate wanted to bring back hanging especially for me until the Clerk told him that was a bit excessive. In the end he "settled" on 5 points and a fine when really it should have only been 3 points. Then again, a few years later I was back in court with a Traffic Officer saying he had chased me for several miles and despite him being highly trained and doing nearly 100mph he couldnt keep up with me. Magistrate gave me 3 points. Go figure...

Wow, looks and sounds awesome! Good idea on the cat. I need to do similar with my mini and that might be an easier approach than I was thinking. Keep up the good work, looking forward to on-road videos once its MOT`d.