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sasha@lazytrips

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  1. Do-Luck has a rear floor spoiler which looks the nuts too
  2. Wolfie: Excuse my writing. I don't have a Russian keyboard. *** U menya bili ochen' pohozhiye simptomi. Pri lyuboy skorosti stuk iz pod mashini i stuk stanovitsya bolee gromkim pri bolee bol'shih skorostyah. Kogda povorachivaesh rul', to stuk mozhet bit' pogromche. U menya problema bila v odnom is perednih poshibnikov. Takiye zhe simptomi na moyey proshloy mashine - i tozhe podshibnik. Udachi.
  3. If only I knew what a spigot ring was.
  4. 1. I had very very similar symptoms recently and one of my front bearings is shot. 2. I speak Russian.
  5. Yup. Car's busy migrating between garages at the moment though, so I'm in a rental TTS.
  6. My guess is that the driver was returning from the cinema after watching Inception...
  7. It's even had its cambelt done 2000 miles ago... Let me go get 7 grand in cash and drive over to Warrington!
  8. My car is going in to Rik's tomorrow. We'll see how the rep holds up.
  9. Managed to reach $100 before the end of the first month! That's a whole gramme!
  10. This guy is a good friend of mine from school.
  11. There are plenty of things in the pipeline. My plan only keeps expanding. The issue at the moment is that I have absolutely nothing at the start. In order to do ebay, I'd have to buy something in the first place (as this project assumes a completely null start). Once some money hits my current account (I'm anticipating this to happen in 3-4 weeks' time), a whole new world of possibilities will open up .
  12. I'm not in the US, but am aiming to attract a global audience and a briefcase full of $100 bills is an international concept as opposed as a binbag full of £20 notes.
  13. I've set up a blog to entertain myself and anyone else who wants to read it. Ten Kilos is the weight of $1,000,000 in $100 bills. The URL is http://www.tenkilos.com The brief explanation on the website reads: "The mission: Start with nothing. End with $1,000,000 in $100 bills. How do you get Ten Kilos of Benjamin Franklins? Read on to find out!" Today is Day 9 of the project and I am currently doing alright on around $24. Make sure to bookmark the blog and come back to read the updates! As the site is new, I am trying to build as much readership is possible to attract advertising & other revenue streams. Think I'm crazy? Too right I am. Save Ten Kilos into your Favourites and follow the journey! P.S. As the website is brand new, there is a lot residing on the "To do list" to make the site more accessible, easier to follow and more entertaining.
  14. Test drove an Alfa GT (was some sort of a Cloverleaf Black edition or whatever) before getting the zed. Really disliked almost everything in it. From the internal look to the seats to the driving/handling. But I guess that's just my personal opinion.
  15. Yup. Good points on motorways, night-time, etc +why do you do the test in a car of your choice. The minute you walk out, you are theoretically equipped to drive any car of your choosing, so you should be made to do the test in any reasonable car provided to you by the instructor, etc, etc, etc. What ticked me off was the fact that all driving tests got canceled when the snow & ice hit the roads. So if the person passed the day before, went and bought themselves a £200 banger, they'd be safe to drive that in the conditions, but not a certified, regularly serviced quite new instructor car with dual controls.
  16. The problem is that the most up-to-date speed limits were introduced on the basis of calculations done in 1960, some 50 years ago. Back then they had to account for cars from the 40s in calculating sensible speed limits. Sure there are a lot of plonkers on the roads, but let's bring things into perspective. When talking about "old" bangers from the '90s, you are still talking about cars which are 50 years more technologically advanced than when the current speed limits were introduced. Most of the accidents I see day-to-day on the road are nothing to do with the speed limit of a road, but are to do with junctions, not paying attention and not keeping a safe distance. All these will continue to cause accidents whatever the speed limit. I don't want to be bringing up numbers, but there are plenty of examples (eg. Poland with huge speed limits or Germany without them at all) which prove that in the modern era, it is all about the driving standards as opposed to the legal speed limit. *** One important thing that really gets to me is the argument that "bad" drivers are the reason speed limits should not be increased. Surely, the implication should be the eradication of "bad" drivers and the subsequent re-in-station as "good" drivers. Harder driving tests, more scrupulous driving education standards & programmes, re-testing, you name it. If you have a leaking pipe somewhere in your house and you wish to install a power shower, is the answer to not install one as the leak will get bigger and the pipe might burst?
  17. I had something that sounded like a constant knocking and still do albeit not as much. One thing it could be is a lack of pins in your arch lining. Check how much it moves. Sometimes they free up and bang about when you drive.
  18. I bought a very late '04 with less miles on it privately around 9 months ago for a lot less money. Go figure. Mine was Kuro and admittedly did have the odd stone chip on the front as they all do and did also have kerbed Rays, but fixing all that would have been a whole lot less than the price difference.
  19. We wants to know the nitty gritty details!
  20. Saw it last night, but not on Hollioaks. I love my wii, but the advert is great!
  21. Hi guys, My plans for the summer have changed and having searched the breadth and depth of the intrawebs, I still am none the wiser. I am planning to go down to Seville, go here there and everywhere and come back from Malaga. I've looked on forums of pensioners plodding along this route and used viaMichelin to try and predict how long it'd take me. viaMichelin gives quite a long time estimate, but when I look at UK road breakdown, it assumes I'd be going at <60mph on motorways which just ain't gonna happen. I appreciate strict speed enforcement in this country and France/Spain, but if we're talking realistic brisk driving, what should I be thinking in terms of travelling time from Chester all the way down? I'm thinking of doing it with an overnight stop. Leaving in mid-afternoon and aiming to get there at a reasonably early time the next day. Sleep-wise, I am cool with a motel for 6-7 hours. Anybody done this before? I've driven through spain in a hired car before and am pretty sure I could get more than 60 miles per hour on average.
  22. send a pm to CS (member on here) He'll sort you out.
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