ioneabee

gun metal grey passing Grove school, Pembroke - 11:00am

red going round roundabout at Sageston, Near Tenby - 11:10am

I have never seen one around here before, let alone 2 within 10 minutes of each other

tsk.... common as muck these days

My neighbour cracked a wheel on his BMW - took it back to the dealer and they are replacing all 4.

so not unheard of............but he does spend a lot of money with them !!

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I also sent an email to my MP with the following additional line

"I am now finding petrol prices so crippling that I can barely afford to get to work – it’s getting to the point where I would be better off staying home and going on the dole."

Part of the problem one would think, is not allowing Learners on the motorway - now this thought could go both ways - I now open the floor to discussion for the "yes" or "no" vote

This thread sits rather incongruously with this one viewtopic.php?f=9&t=46782&p=689263#p689263 - in particular the last few comments (to date anyway)

I've had that comment - "don't buy a Z - its got a crappy renault engine in it"

Looks like I'm going to have to go and get some photos of it and see how I get on with it, does kind of suck!

Ahhh thanks rothers!

And the wheels are blitz technospeed type 03

I'll have to let you know how I get on for future reference if anyone else has the same problem

Hi Mate

thats really tough

unfortunately I work for a Local Auth (not yours I hasten to add) - but I'm afraid you've got a about a 1% chance of success......and thats being optimistic

Personally, if you're over 45 or a woman, you should be banned from a Z.

 

Get a 7 series and MX5 respectively

 

Er, you need at least 3,500 posts before you can upset the sprinkles if you don't mind!

+1 Agreed (or even not made at all would have been better) - clearly you're still of teenage years, or at least have that mental age

Actually thinking about it - the reverse should be true - you can only have a Z if you're over 45 and / or female - much safer drivers (on the whole)

There are advantages then to being only 5'4"

Now my cousin is a hairdresser and is making a fortune on tv at the moment. He has however written off tow cars.

"tow" cars - big hooks on the end ??

me and my TT are not hairdressers

my neighbour IS a hairdresser and drives a Porsche Carrera 4 (brand new every year)

wish i was a hairdresser

damn that looks nice - if I wasn't hunting for a 370 - that would definately do it for me

there are some basingstoke boys that could help out, fleet is a tad to far for me sorry.

 

come along basingstoke owners, offer up

This is where the "Member Map" button might be useful

Yes but as the old saying goes

 

Once you go black ....You never go back

 

 

Went black once, never again ! was an absolute son of a gun to keep clean...

yep - me too...................then I went white......oh dear !! ............didn't learn

HItting an artic lorry in a honda civic, caused £100k worth of damage, my ex girlfriend lost half her left leg, i had 197 stitches in my head as i scalped myself on the sunroof.

When We were cut out of the wreck, the copper that was at the scene, later told me that all he could see was a huge white patch on my head, that happened to be my skull

 

So all in all, that was a bad day.....

 

But true non the less, even made tv as the crash happened right outside Meridian Studio's in Southampton.

 

F**k that's awful, okay my day was better than yours

came home to find my battered old toyota corolla (shed for work) was 2 feet shorter and slightly flatter - A 6 wheel tipper truck (20 ton i think) reversed over the top of it. The driver later commented that my brakes must have been good, because he felt the resistance

Nope - Zugara wins it

Do you always find though - that after spending hours polishing cleaning etc making it look good like this example above

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Buying a second hand Morris Marina !!!!!!!!

it drove like a sofa

I've had aeroflats on my CRV for 18 months - look good and perform well

get a set !!

I notice alot of people seem to be concerned about running costs of the Z due to petrol prices, and people are talking about getting 2nd cars, so I decided to work out some costs...

 

Z = 26mpg, daily miles 46, petrol 1.33 = £10.66 per day or £2550 per year (5 day week, 30day leave)

 

2.2 diesel = 44mpg, same miles and diesel price = £6.18 per day or £1550 per year

 

So driving the Z costs me about £1k a year extra in petrol, which when u consider all the hassell of running a extra car, extra insurance, tax and servicing costs, would i actually save any money?? More importantly the smile driving the Z gives me is 'pricelss'

 

On the otherhand if petrol prices hits £2.00 per liter (probably in a couple of years), my petrol costs would hit £4k per year, and even with a 45mpg car that works out as £2100 per year, hopefully by than the electric cars will be able to do more than 100miles per charge

on my calculations assuming :-

10,000 miles per year

diesel @ £1.39/ltr and I presently average 42mpg

petrol @£1.29/ltr

a zed averaging 32mpg

would give

diesel £1502 / year

zed £1832 / year

obviously not allowing for insurance, wear and tear etc etc

Never had to hold my iPhone upside down to use the forum on it

 

Me neither

iHand

Freshly carved from a European tree near you is the iHand, a wooden prosthesis on a metal rod, which is yet to appear in my local Apple Store, funnily enough.

Those rapscallions over in Scoopertino, California, clearly felt the Bumper cases Apple is now giving away don’t offer sufficient flexibility, beauty, or freedom, so upped the ante.

The prosthetic iHand fits snugly around your iPhone 4, yet won’t interfere with that ever-so-problematic external antenna due to its nonconductive surface.

using the forum on my HTC makes me die inside

works perfectly well on my HTC

at least i don't have to hold the handset upside down (snipe at iphone )

Its going to be Wynyard services @ 2pm. We will meet in the KCF car park. Clean cars are not a must, but if you turn up in a filthy car be prepared to take some jib, mine will be cleaned tomorrow, by errrrrrr a hand wash garage . Girlfriends are welcome, I have brought mine before and so have others. They tend to get together and moan about how much we taking about cars .

This is where we are meeting up....

http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?hl=en&xhr ... a=N&tab=wl

out of interest - just clicked your link to see where this is - it comes up as Sydney, Australia - bit of a long drive methinks

and to make a really interesting and funny vid - watch man run after car as it falls off stands !!

Hi all,

 

If in thoery i wanted to strip the interior remove the seats and replace them with light weight ones, take the system out, the

 

sound proofing, air con.etc...how much weight would that reduce the overall weight of the car......

heaviest item to get rid of, i read somewhere is

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>emotional baggage - it apparently weighs a ton