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I can see this costing Mazda a fortune.. It will probably be some time before we see the return of the rotary basedon this. Surely this has to be running into the multi millions.

Thats the spirit! Anyway, I do appreciate that when arguments start, its always hard not to respond. I have most certainly been guilty of that. And I should have known better too, but as you say its very difficult not to respond when personal arguments start. We are all only human after all. Perhaps if another moderator had been around at the time it wouldnt have got that far, as one of us could have stoped the thread before either side said things they probably now regret? Maybe its a sign that we are understaffed? "moderator of highly active forum required, no perks available, no money paid, long hours required" Do you think the jobcentre would be interested?

Guys..... (long post again - sorry ) I have to say from where I stand it was six of one and half a dozen of the other. Knowing next nothing about your mods to the car Baptist, I can't really see where the thread went from general banter to verging on mickey taking out of each other. I can however see where personal insults started flying though, and from my point of view the thread should have been locked at that point, or at least both parties should have taken a step back to sort it out - we do have PM functions if people feel the need to have personal arguments via the board. If a discussion or debate is locked simply because a moderator is losing ground, then yes that would constitute censorship, and it should not happen. Though I doubt many could class that particular topic as a "discussion or debate". It turned very quickly into nothing but a slanging match. We do pride ourselves here on allowing free speech and letting posts stand. There have been a small number of posts deleted here, the majority from the testing area, and a minority from one or two threads that went so far off topic, the original question or theme was lost entirely, causing members to have to repost or start their thread all over again. We have taken measures to try and prevent this, and so far it seems to be working. Therefor the need for any other post deletion should only be for legal reasons or if we receive specific complaints from members regarding certain postings. On a slightly different note, I thought the site did note when mods/admins edited their own posts - Ill look into that, as you are correct Liam, it should act in the same way for everyone. Is it possible that this particular argument can be concluded via PM if necessary? No problem in discussing censorship or ways in which people think we can deal with personal arguments on the site in future, not necesarily involving mods, but in general. The moderators and admins for the site dont carry any "rank" on the site - they simply have the job of trying to keep things in order. I think its fair to say that none of the current crew have ever done it before either - so we are all bound to make mistakes from time to time, if people want to suggest different methods of approaching various issues, then please speak up. I for one would be interested in learning others views, as I seem to make a hash of it every now and then.

What a complete and utter joke. As predicted - one rule for one, one rule for another. So we humble jo public can be done for doing 36 in a 30, but 159 on the motorway and 90 in a 30 is OK! Another nail in the coffin for public confidence in the police.

Or running from the massive bee that had flown into the garage behind him.

Im not surprised... I wouldn't have wanted to purchse a car that colur in a public area either. So we cant even contact a dealer to back up your story that this car exists.

In my experience it is a bit of a lottery, and it is the same with all marques. We used to own a mazda MX-5, and that was notorious for the door locks freezing up in winter. One day when we were experiencing this issue we called up the Mazda dealer that used to be in Sheffield, and they agreed to take a look. Anyway - the drivers lock was still frozen when we got there. They gave us a call a few hours later to say the car was ready. When we asked what was the problem they said they didnt know - it just defrosted in their workshop. We got back to the car and the drivers door card was hanging off by about half an inch, you could see into the door! When I pointed this out to the service manager, he questioned one of the spanner monkeys in the back, who said "it was like that when it came in". To say I chewed the guy a new arse would be an understatement. You get the same from all sorts of dealerships for all sorts of marques. It would appear that manufacturers are not so much bothered about quality service anymore - they just want to shift cars, they dont seem to care after that point. Some dealerships certainly do seem to value customer service, and it shows. My advice would be to find a dealer with a better attitude, even if it is a little out of your way, it will be worth it in terms of service and stress.

Yes but your yellow is much nicer than Sarnies yellow. His is just a photoshop picture, nobody has ever seen his car in real life. I reckon its a toy - I can even make out a McDonalds logo in his signature pic.....

Yup. No finance here! lol But at least getting out in the countryside and experiencing the views to behold in our own country shows some imagination. People asking for ideas on what to do for an aniversary? Now wheres their imagination? Probably went out the window at the same time as their taste in colour.....

I do wonder who the first person was that ever wanted a car in yellow... Baby sick, baby poo, birds eye custard, and girly buttercups. All yellow. Everyone knows that the ONLY car that is allowed to look right in yellow is a Lamborghini. PS - the reason we were all off last night was that the last few weeks work of having to clear up mess after mess created by the handbag brandishers who like nothing more than to hijack anyones perfectly fine topic on here has finally caught up with us and we were all knackered. I know you must have some bottled up anger having finally realised that the salesman did a right number on you pursuading you to go for yellow, but Im sure in time you'll learn to live with it....

I bet you cant wipe the smile off your face! I know I couldn't the day we picked ours up. Crappy weather, but Im sure you will still be having fun!

I can still see it? Looks good!

Only if unshine and beer are involved. However - pictures like this do not inspire me....

Yay! Camping cancelled! Beers and a movie instead. Sounds much better.

Whats everyone up to? The missus has me roped into a camping weekend with our friends. Luckily Ian (the other bloke roped in) has an injury, so we have escaped the hill walking. Just a trek to the local town for a pub lunch and some beers.

Ive tested it on IE at home and its working fine. Must be the security settings at work. Pesky domain policy. Now I wonder who put that in place at work...

The only thing I dont like is the shopping list down the side. Never been a fan of that style of stickering. Other than that it looks a nice car.

He smells like rump steak?

Im sure this is a possibility, will have to look into it if/when we create the area.

Yes - info on latest tricks etc being used would be useful - but obviously we have to be aware of not making these awareness notices resemble a "how to nick a car" type guide. General info rather than specific details is the key. Or indeed if the police have advice on how to prevent a certain type of theft, then that would be good.

No, I understand what you mean - it just doesnt work on my version of i.e (which is also version 6). It works on firefox, which is what I use, but I do try to check things on i.e also just to make sure that any changes dont act differently on various systems. Not that I wouldnt be grateful of you whispering sweet nothings down the phone at me mike.

Not wanting to appear a kill joy or some sort of draconian moderator, but Im not personaly a fan of these avatars. Do try to remember people will read these forums at work. Avatars like these may prevent them from doing so.

doesnt on my i.e

None of the above. This is still a forum that can be viewed by a family audience.