Chesterfield

Is this dealer Lambs by any chance? They were fairly good last time I used them, but the car park is tiny, which means if you leave your car for a service, when you come back you are likely to find it wedged between two other customer cars in the tightest space known to man. Its only pot luck that I got to my car before the owners of the other two got to theirs, or I would have had a lovely pair of matching door dents along with the service Im sure of it.

Mine have arrived Martin - one on the office wall now! Thanks again!

I was hanging my nose over a Movado while on holiday in the states over new year. The new year sale prices on them in the states made them about half the UK price. I didnt bother in the end as although I'd like one, I cant really justify an expensive watch, as Im a bugger for scratching them or forgetting to take them off when doing any sort of DIY and damaging them - so I stick with Fossil, and as per usual when I go to Vegas, bought another one of those (which although only £35 in the US, are still half UK price) They ar waterproof so I can swim in them and dont cost the earth so dont cause great upset if I damage them.

Have to agree with your summary of that dealer in Birmingham Sarnie. They offered myself and Tracy test drives on the day, though Tracy had not got her license with her so we declined. Left our details for contact toward the end of January. They have made contact, offered test drives, sent over stock lists, and been thoroughly professional since our initial chat with them the day after our night out in Birmingham. Ill certainly be back there as soon as our wedding is out of the way in July, as they are incredibly pleasant to deal with.

http://www.london-eating.co.uk/review-c ... 123446.htm As per title, this is bound to be deleted soon.

I seem to have found myself addicted to this game too. Level 45 and counting now...

Im all for the ANPR system being used to catch folk, and I presume thats why this plate got stopped. Though in my experience the un taxed, uninsured motors stopped in the TV shows are almost invariably 1989 Vauhall Astras with bits dropping off, or 1992 ford mondeos with different coloured doors and a rattling exhaust.

You got away lightly. Derbyshire Constabulary, and particularly those in and around Chestrfield appear to have little else to do but hand out fixed penalty notices for slightly iffy number plates. Ive been done twice for differing plates on cars, and both were even more ligible than yours. As long as it is legible by the ANPR system then you should be fine - though I doubt even that will be good enough for the feds in our neck of the woods. Lets not worry about the level of antisocial behaviour taking place in Chesterfield, and the ludicrous level of vandalism of public property, as long as your number plate is corrected, I feel my tax pennies have not gone to waste. Just take it on the chin, get the plate changed to something that is closer to the law, and fingers crossed the boys in blue in Chesterfield come up with something a little more productive to do. The problem is the stats in Derbyshire - detecting your crime and issuing you with the notice to correct is now recorded as "crime detected - crime resolved". Whereas "trying" to find the culpits of the smashed car windows or vandalised bus shelters, doesnt acheive their targets.

Yes - the issue is bandwidth, however a modification to the media section allowing for people to have a gallery with the actual images hosted in photobucket or similar could work. There may be fair bit of coding involved, Ill have to take a look when I have some time.

+1 The car is in right hand drive in Japan, and it costs £36k apparently. The only reason the grey import market may be so hot on these is because of the delay of over a year and price hike of about £20,000 for us lucky Brits.

Ive never been impressed with my local BMW dealer. They even once said to me a little while ago when looking for two company motors, "we dont need to sell you the car, the car sells itself" They were correct in some respects..... they didnt sell me one. I havent even bothered visiting them asking for a test of the M6, as I know what the likely answer would be. Which is surprising, as garages selling other marques have been more than willing to arrange test drives, some even offering them there and then, but we declined that particular one as Tracy hadn't got her license with her (and I want her to test them as well) On the basis of what you have said I may have to pop along and see what they say now.

After getting this far honestly, I decided to to a bit of research on the net as to how many levels there are, and also how the high scores can be into the hundreds on millions! Turns out there is a cheat on the game where you can drag a ball quickly off the bottom of the screen wait five seconds and you get 48% instantly. Do it again and you complete the level. On the later levels this gets you 15,000+ points bonus, and I can asume the more you do it, the higher the bonus for finishing in time. Still its going to take a few hours to even cheat your way to 200+ million. So Ive declared at 150,000 ish. Cant be bothered any more.

Yup - there is certainly a tactic which appears to work, although I cut it fine one one level when I wasnt paying attention. Now a bit further, but have to sort some more work out now.

Im considering declaring - as in between phone calls and work Ive got this far.....

OK somebody owes me part of my afternoon back. Im not done yet - just got it on pause while I have some lunch.

No wonder he's fuming, Its certainly got his pending £50M lawsuit against Andrew morton and the publisher St Martins Press holed perilously close to the waterline.

Guys, The kind people at Total Nissan have asked us to provide articles for consideration in their publication. This includes the "readers cars" style articles, which would need to include 6-8 hi-res and varied images of their cars(minimum 0.5 meg) 600-800 words on the history of their car; why they chose this particular model, where they bought the car, what work they’ve had done and by who, what work they intend to carry out in the future and who will be doing this work as well as some comments on the general ownership. If you have already written something along these lines and sent it off to magazines for consideration in publications, please can you send these to us also. We can forward on to the people at Total Nissan. In order for consideration in the first publication, we would need any articles by latest tomorrow evening. (yes I know thats a rush but thats partly my fault). Not to suggest that any articles sent after this date would not be considered, just not for the first publication thats all. So, if you have any articles, or can come up with one ASAP, send them to accounts@350z-uk.com as soon as possible. Please use this thread to discuss this, and advise if you send an article - so we can check that it has arrived in our inbox. Please accept my appologies for the short timescales for consideration in the first issue, and we look forward to receiving any contributions that our members would wish to put forward. Regards, Chris, 350z-uk.com team.

Sounds good to me

We normaly have Two Wales Drives per year, one in or around April time, and another September time. I dont think there is a specific reason for it being in April, othe than its always been that way. If the majority thought May was better then May it would be I suppose. Beavis?

The website for the Donnington show is: www.donnyshow.co.uk (its the ISTS show) Tickets are (as far as I can work out, as they seem to have changed since last time): £15 per adult if you pre book (gives access on both days) - Park your car outside the show ground on hard standing apparently. £35 per driver and £30 per passenger for weekend access onto a club stand, including camping, but you may not necessarily be camping near your car. Last time we attended, we had a stand for the cars, but took them out and either home or to a hotel each evening. At Donny, its more of a wander around and look at the other stands etc, look at retailers stands, and watch whatever is going round the track - they had some mad fool on a Jet powered quad bike, and there were supercars going round the track. The Wales drive is our club only, and is more of a social gathering of members for a nice pub lunch/carvery, a bask in the sunshine near the lake (fingers crossed) ample photo taking opportunities and some great driving time in the Z's around Wales. The convoy(s) of Z's get waves and almost paparazzi style attention from the locals. To this day the Wales Drive(s) remain the best days driving Ive ever had in the Z. My honest opinion - if I had to pick only one, it would be the Wales Drive. Each to their own though, the Donny Show is still fun, just different.

Has to be both for me! Wales 08 April 1. beavis 2. lomoto 3. M13KYF 4. Digsy 5. Gixxer 6. Martinmac 7. stuey (lead car ) 8. AndySpak 9. Chesterfield Donny April 08 1. beavis 2. lomoto 3. M13KYF 4. Louis 5. H5 6. Gixxer 7. Martinmac 8. AndySpak 9. Chesterfield

If the tools that your breakdown people want to use are not the same as the AA one (the dynomec one) then they are likely to either try hammering on a smaller socket, or using the reverse threaded sockets. DONT let them near your wheels with these - They WILL make a mess of your alloy. You could try calling these guys: http://www.dynomec.co.uk/ and asking whether they know of a garage in your area that they may have sold one too. I know they had a deal with the AA, but the RAC went down the reverse threaded socket option instead. The easiest option is obviously a replacement key, and I would pursue that as much as possible first - but if you reach a stage where you are absolutley certain that you cant get hold of one, and you must resort to using some sort of hardware to get the nuts off - I wouldnt touch anything else other than this tool above. It cost me an 80 mile round trip and £20 to have mine done in about 2 minutes by one of the chaps that invented this tool.

Hi, and Glad you like our community here - good luck on your test drive, hope it goes to your liking, though Im sure it will. Remember to post up pics if/when you get it - were biassed, so expect positive reviews

Ive already thought as much - I dont know if the code exists, but with a whole bunch of other stuff to get sorted for the club ready for the upcoming season of shows etc, I think all of us on the team will have enough on our plate for now. If we get some spare time it may be something to look at as in principal it sounds quite positive.

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