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Nice one, video evidence of criminal damage, should easily cover the costs in court

The covers are not sold individually as far as I have seen - you might have seen the Stillen ones (few for sale on here recently) or the Popcharger ones but they are both sold with the full kit - you could always fabricate something yourself?

Excel passwords are next to worthless, plenty of stuff on the internet that unlocks them under the guise 'forgotten your excel password and need to access it...' - google will help you find the way.

Great thread, good stories! Mine is particularly dull first three letters of my first and last names put together - think it first came about when trying to create an email address on yahoo yonks ago and my name was gone and it came up with suggestions and I just picked this one.

You cannot empty the car of oil driving it hard overnight, do you have any evidence of mileage since driving it from the sale? I would start collecting the evidence mate and get some consumer advice and the receipt of sale checked out.

Im not sure it applies to 'random guy' though - I dont know without looking but pretty sure this act covers a transaction between a registered retailer/trader and a consumer - which is why the responses were trying to find out if the guy sold it from his business or as a private sale dressed up in a non legally binding way as a trade sale.

I was using A Plan, they were pretty good, were you dealing with Dan? My ad! Ha! Make sure to tell them I sold the car at the asking price to the first viewer within 5 days of the ad going up on eBay!

Wow...seemed to roll over all too easily. Keep an eye on the classifieds though...

Well done mate - sounds like a neat little trick to try get you to just take the first cheque, and if you challenge it then plan B is to pay the right amount. What insurer was it out of interest? When I had my Skyline it was a bit of a minefield getting insurance...might be getting another old Jap car in the future too so will find the same issues!

Did you pay trade cash for this car? I would be doing whatever I could to get it back in his hands, you dont buy a car to have to then spend money with reports, fixes and an ongoing nagging worry that your engine could pop at any time.

Invest in one of these and make sure you have CCTV to catch the look on their faces if they try breaking in again! Scary though, your home is meant to have that feeling of security, not nice to know people can easily get in. Although good reason to spend the cash on extra security to make it a bit more difficult. Maybe add some proximity lights to the back as well?

Spend £75 on a used throttle controller, see if it works for you, if not sell it for about the same price and then get the up rev...

It's already been below that up here already! you get it too easy down there. Come up here and your skirt on, you might like it Soggy wet and a bit cold up norf! Still no reason to tuck a modern generally rust proof car away for 'winter' - maybe you should have bought a tractor!

Never understood winter storage, buy the car, use the car, drive the car - all those people who put it into storage last year and it never snowed, probably didn't get any colder than 5 degrees down south.

I think you have to pay an import duty on top of VAT

Britains shortest war was against Zanzibar in 1890 something, it lasted 38 minutes.

The road next to my office in London is called Carting Lane, often referred to as Farting Lane as it contains the only methane powered street lamp left in London (uses the gasses from the sewers to power it)

The turning circle of a Triumph Herald is 25 feet The turning circle of me on a football pitch is slightly more than a Triumph Herald

The turning circle of a hackney carriage is dictated by the circumference of the roundabout outside the Savoy hotel

But all the extra bits are performance enhancing, if you just want restrictors removed then you do not need all of that. The throttle controller I had before I went up-rev, certainly makes a difference in that you can adjust the sensitivity of the throttle - £60 and a 5 minute install if its the low gear issues you want sorting.

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/540-4-4-v8-Rat-Rod-Show-Cover-Art-Car-concours-mint-M5-M3-525I-530i-535i-/331336899450

I don't hate anybody And I am very good friends with a lot of 'youths' on here, some of them younger than my own kids I, on the other hand, hate everyone not just the youths. Just to balance things out you understand, it's nothing personal. Isn't it spelt 'yoofs' ?

Milltek=£900, Berks=£300, Plenum=£120, Intake=£125 plus uprev is very much approaching £2k...

Yep cats are restrictive, but looking at the other exhaust components you have which are OEM the Y pipe usually gets swapped out. Tarmac does the very nice Stillen one I believe!

I personally didn't think it was worth two grand for 18bhp or whatever it was, i also don't think 'drivability' is worth £2k either given this is meant to be a sports car, it should 'drive' out the factory in much better shape really. However I did feel it was worth the money on the exhaust and intake for the noise and theatre they bring.