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=============NOW £4650=============== New job forces sale so regrettably on the market. Advertising it here first so the forum has first dibs. The car has spared for nothing and always had 99 RON fuel and the finest oils etc. I heavily modified it so the wheels, brakes, discs, cats and exhaust are nearer the age of a 50,000 mile car than it's current 85,261 as they have only just been put back on. Cared for with hours of polishing and waxing etc. so "swirl free". Taxed to end of year. MOT expires December 14th Tax is as a PLG so currently £215 per annum. Currently returning 24 mpg but that is town driving. High 20s is normal for mixed driving. Serviced at 54,000, 63,000, 74,000 and 81,000 miles. Also been laser aligned in April 2010. The car is stock except for: Abbey Up-Rev (current cost £402) Motordyne Plenum Spacer (current cost £190) Bumper tuck Revised grille Rear wiper delete (wiper and motor included in sale) £4650 Bad bits: Dink to driver's door Nose has usual chips Passenger window sensor needs adjusting.

Get well soon Ginga. Went through similar last week so I know how you feel..... PS -I paid £230 for a private MRI scan of the stomach so if the NHS are messing - pay yourself.

GKP. The giant awakes. Looks like something big brewing. Queue PIMM with some

My girlfriend is staying in the country until she finds a job and I am currently a named driver on her MX-5 policy. I'll try that route.

I'm leaving the country on 7th August and just realised my old policy ran out on 1st July. Anybody got any bright ideas for insurance? If I go the route of getting the cheapest 3rd party insurance paying monthly it works out at £30 deposit, £30 on 1st August and then some ridiculous cancellation fee taking my costs for 5 weeks driving to £100 plus. I just had a quote from Aviva for £464 for a 28-day cover note...... so that's not really an option either. Thanks.

Terrible. Jag grille, 458 lights and Maserati haunches. Dogs dinner.

Has Ricey only got one leg?

You should have seen what he did 10 seconds later........

Buy better brakes. I had Brembos, Ferrodo DS2500 pads and DBA 4000 series discs and it transformed the experience. Lots of BMW, Porsche, 370Z and TVR drivers in cars much more expensive than yours will wave you by enviously on the straight after getting sick of you sniffing their arse for lap after lap. PS - If you haven't got Brembos, I'm selling mine today. For sale post to follow..............complete with DS2500 pads and a spare part-worn set. And HEL lines.

Where are the Tay "Animal Farm" snaps then? "What goes on Dartmoor, stays on Dartmoor"....

I feel for you Chesterfield. It would kill me to run a business in the UK. I'm not leaving this country in August for no reason you know. I am sure there are many public sector workers who work their butts off and deserve their current employment rights. However, there is a huge part of it that doesn't. I shall demonstrate: When I worked for the Post Office (TV Licensing, Bristol. 1989-2003), most people had about 10 days a year "sick" on top of their generous leave. Quite a few regularly swung 6 months (on full pay) with "stress". Of course when they returned to work they would be on reduced hours (but full pay) to make the transition easier to the pressure of answering letters and telephone calls. Many people claimed holiday back if they were sick on holiday. One legend had the same "sick" week every year for the time I worked there. He was a pigeon fancier and always went to Liverpool in August for a big race. I was once "sick" screwing my girlfiend in Paris for a week and a mate of mine was "sick" in Australia for a month! On top of that, flexi-time was self-administered "what time did I get in this morning Dave" "Oooh - 7:50 I think Captain" "Yes, you're right, I'll pop that in my time sheet". Lunch was subsidised and because the office was next to St Pauls, many an afternoon was spent stoned/pi**ed and even tripping whilst looking out the window. Shall I go on about the overtime? I think Chesterfield would explode if I told him it was up to 2.5 times, started at 16:00 and yes, was self-administered. What "some people" used to do was get "their" work in batches of 40 letters a day from the managers in the morning (taxing I know) either throw them in the bin or write back something that had no relation to what was being requested (so they'd write again to keep them in work) and then go straight on overtime at 4. Twenty years ago, a clerk could easily be pulling in over £20,000 a team leader £30,000 and a middle manager £40,000. No wonder the BBC sacked the Post Office from running the TV Licence scheme in 2003 and replaced them with Capita. Obviously my redundancy package reflected the years of hard toil I had put in. So much so that it paid for the deposit on the house I am currently sitting in. Now, where's this year's pension statement.................

Deposit taken.

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I thought so. Tyres were £600 in the last 6 months and therefore Rotas £50 for £800 worth. I'm sure somebody will be along soon.

Similar/better/cheaper............ viewtopic.php?f=32&t=63024

Forgot to say. Comes with 20 lockable black wheel nuts as well.

Rims 18 x 9.5 all round. ET30 Tyres Falken 452 Fronts are 245/40 fitted 3 weeks ago and done 1,000 miles and rears are 275/35 fitted in December and done 4,000 miles Guessing 6.5mm on front and 4.5mm on rear The rims are good condition but 3 of them have got nicks from my parking. I think all three can be touched up so nobody would ever notice. The 4th has ben kerbed and could maybe do with a refurb. I have 3 Rota centre caps (one fell off) I prefer the look without them but a spare can be bought from Rare Rims. Rims cost £800 new and the tyres £600. Looking for £650. The bad one The second worse scrape Front Rear How they look

Thanks Beavis. I can see that Spiderbox is a receiver than can be "hacked" to get Sky without paying for it but is usually described as a "hobby". I'm technophobic so don't think this'll be for me. More specifically, I will be moving to Dubai semi-permanently with Mel coming out in 3-6 months. I am sure once settled I will buy a satellite receiver and a big rotating dish and watch everything. The solution I'm looking for in the meantime will be temporary and hopefully utilises my Sky HD subscription at home. Any other suggestions. Thanks.

I'm moving to Dubai soon and would like to watch decent TV. Thinking of buying the above to attach to Sky HD in this country. The Turbo replaces the need to plug the Sling Box in to my router as it's a long way from the box. Anybody used one of these or know of an alternative method of watching UK TV abroad. Thanks.

One of my shares is in profit!! Up £3.74 on PHTM. Overall picture not so good.... Portfolio cost £81,043.60 Portfolio value £46,962.48 Profit £-34,081.12

Wrong. The best football England ever played in recent memory, was the 4-3-2-1 Xmas tree of Venables in'96. No player in that team had ever played in a formation like it, but because Venables was a good coach, they were able to make it work.

How else to set it up? Easy. Terry should play left centre-back next to Cole like at Chelsea. Jags should play right centre-back and Lescott move to right back getting rid of the ridiculous Johnson. Parker and The Ox in front of the back four. Parker needs more energy next to him and The Ox can play this role. See game against Milan for proof. Attacking midfield 3 of Gerrard, Walcott and Young. Send Milner home to avoid any more embarrassment. Defoe up front. Simples. Do you actually watch football as that one of the most ridiculous posts I've ever read??? Lescott at right back?? (he's left footed) Ox as a defensive midfielder?? (he's a winger who had one decent game in the middle) Defoe as a lone striker?? (The shortest guy in the squad to win balls against 6' defenders on his own?) Nothing like playing people out of position 1 - Best left back of all time? Maldini. Right-footed. To get the best out of Terry he should be on the left. It's a means to accommodate that move. And get rid of idiot boy Johnson. 2 - Who said the Ox was defending? We need pace hence bringing in the Ox, Walcott and Defoe. Wenger doesn't see him as a winger. I see his long-term position as a central player. 3 - Gerd Muller was tall wasn't he? Tevez? Greaves? Pele? All under 5' 9" I'd say. Defoe is a better goal-scorer than Rooney and he doesn't make me feel sick when he talks which helps 1) You really need have a word with your optician if you think Maldini was right footed 2) You said he would be in front of the back four aka defending!! 3) But none of them excelled as lone front men as your suggesting Defoe would. Back to the drawing board or lay off the booze 1 - From Wikipedia: Paolo Cesare Maldini (born 26 June 1968) is an Italian former footballer who played as a left or central defender, being adept with either foot although naturally right footed. He spent all 25 seasons of his career at Serie A club Milan, before retiring at the age of 41 in 2009, becoming a symbol and a legend of the club. During that period, he won the Champions League five times, as well as seven Serie A titles, one Coppa Italia, five Supercoppa Italiana, five European Super Cups, two Intercontinental Cups. He played for 14 years for the Italian national team, making his debut in 1988 before retiring in 2002 with 126 caps and four World Cup participations. 2 - Again, playing "in front of the back four" doesn't mean the Ox would be defending. Currently Gerrard plays "in front of the back four" but is restricted going forward by playing 4-4-2. Parker would naturally hold more with The Ox pushed on. It would actually pan out on the pitch (when attacking) but never described as such 2-3-2-3 Hart Terry Jags Cole, Parker, Lescott The Ox, Gerrard Walcott, Defoe, Young Very easy then to defend by dropping back all the wider players to 4-1-4-1 Hart Cole, Terry, Jags, Lescott Parker Walcott, The Ox, Gerrard, Young Defoe Will accept that if England did change and line up like this (in my dreams) Johnson would be back in for Lescott and if Rooney lost 2 stone, he'd fill in for Defoe. 3 - True. What I was trying to get across is that England need more pace, vision and flexibility. I think my team gives you that. Where's the gin - I've got all day - don't start my new job until 12th August and currently on paid garden leave so bring it on...................

How else to set it up? Easy. Terry should play left centre-back next to Cole like at Chelsea. Jags should play right centre-back and Lescott move to right back getting rid of the ridiculous Johnson. Parker and The Ox in front of the back four. Parker needs more energy next to him and The Ox can play this role. See game against Milan for proof. Attacking midfield 3 of Gerrard, Walcott and Young. Send Milner home to avoid any more embarrassment. Defoe up front. Simples. Do you actually watch football as that one of the most ridiculous posts I've ever read??? Lescott at right back?? (he's left footed) Ox as a defensive midfielder?? (he's a winger who had one decent game in the middle) Defoe as a lone striker?? (The shortest guy in the squad to win balls against 6' defenders on his own?) Nothing like playing people out of position 1 - Best left back of all time? Maldini. Right-footed. To get the best out of Terry he should be on the left. It's a means to accommodate that move. And get rid of idiot boy Johnson. 2 - Who said the Ox was defending? We need pace hence bringing in the Ox, Walcott and Defoe. Wenger doesn't see him as a winger. I see his long-term position as a central player. 3 - Gerd Muller was tall wasn't he? Tevez? Greaves? Pele? All under 5' 9" I'd say. Defoe is a better goal-scorer than Rooney and he doesn't make me feel sick when he talks which helps

How else to set it up? Easy. Terry should play left centre-back next to Cole like at Chelsea. Jags should play right centre-back and Lescott move to right back getting rid of the ridiculous Johnson. Parker and The Ox in front of the back four. Parker needs more energy next to him and The Ox can play this role. See game against Milan for proof. Attacking midfield 3 of Gerrard, Walcott and Young. Send Milner home to avoid any more embarrassment. Defoe up front. Simples.

If you get a semi watching that, seek urgent medical help. Why is Rooney so fat?