coldel

Absolutely. But so far industry has vastly won over sustainability, no one wants to give anything up. Shock tactics like this are necessary.

Around 2:45ish today

I would disagree Nick, even when sitting at 60 i would rather do it in a zed than a diesel golf. There is still more fun in that and you will have to do minor roads at either end of the journey as well as various bits of overtaking in the main roads.

I think Spursmaddave used to commute on main roads in his and clocked up 100k+ worth dropping him a PM

Karma rules!

There is more carbon on the planet at this exact time than since humans began inhabiting it. Yes there was more CO2 in the atmosphere in the past, but that was dictated by nature not by another intervention i.e. us. The levels basically go up and down around a natural mean, what we have done is whack them up falsely and subsequently the temperature way past that natural high that the planet would produce and can naturally cool down from. What you are basically looking at is heating the planet up to the point that so much ice melts, ocean levels rise and ground based life as we know it wiped out on a huge scale to the point it wont ever recover naturally in the cycle its meant to because the land mass does not exist to produce the life required to reduce the CO2 and subsequent heat. As an analogy, its bit like driving your Zed into a garage on a set of rollers, closing the doors, having no fans on facing the car and firing the engine up. There is no natural flow of air into the front, the engine will heat up more than it should, the fans in the Zed will kick in but they will only last so long before they burn out and the engine heats up even more and goes bang.

I think you answered your own question there? More carbon dioxide means more heat in atmosphere, this means ice caps melt and oceans rise. What happened previously is as you say, we had a natural ice age, more ice, less trees, but less CO to deal with and vice versa, but the planet needs tens of thousands of years to adjust. We have by increasing the CO artificially over a relatively short amount of time (and the decrease of forrest fires is minute compared to the levels of natural resource burn increase and in no way offsets it) gives the planet no time to adjust naturally. The ice caps melt and freeze periodically as far as I have read, the problem is that we have artificially whacked up the temperature so that they melt back too far and be unable to grow back in the natural course of things.

I am not a greenie either But as far as I read into it (and as I say it wasn't very far) is that they were not trying to prove the hypothesis that humans are creating all the climate change, the hypothesis being tested was that we are not causing climate change, which has been proven false. From what I have read over the years there are cynics who simply put it down to natural causes and that we should't put in place any counter measures as its out of our hands, the point of this was that we can do something, even if it is not a total solution. And that we can only do something about it if we are causing some of it in the first place. As far as I can see there were lots of individual papers that told slightly varying stories, but this is the first truly global report pulling it all together and making a single storyline from it. Of course we are not the sole cause of all temperature changes on this planet, thats daft, but to think that we don't need some serious global polices put in place to stem carbon emissions and the like is probably more daft.

Didn't Will have one for a few days? My Dad bought one when Alfie was born (he even relaid his driveway to stop Rebecca accidentally stumbling when she gets out the car with Alfie!), just wanted a reliable car which is super practical and safe with him in the back. He's a car mechanic and he loves it, he went for the petrol version as purchase price is substantially cheaper but he loves it and is not easily impressed with cars.

Hmmm, I have a few views on this although I openly admit to not actually reading extensively either side of the argument: 1. Yes the media will blow it all up and make a story out of it, it's their job to 2. It is very possible to write models that predict future behaviour based on previous experience even if that data is partial or incomplete, it was my job for ten years and still is part of my job now 3. Humans must be altering the climate of this planet if any sort of common sense is applied, you can't create the levels of non naturally produced gasses etc without having an impact on the environment in which it exists 4. Yes the government will tax us on it, but there are hundreds of stealth taxes out there that contribute much more in the way of income than some random tax on cars and if anything this sort of report is aimed at big business and not individuals who happen to own larger than average engined cars Problem is its more than just carbon emissions, we were at a zoo with little Alfie at the weekend listening to some guy talking about Lemers, apparently 85% of rain forest in northern madagascar in which they live has been cut down and burnt. I am sure there are a thousand similar stories just like it. Without some sort of shock story or massive kick up the backside this planet with be shot to pieces in 50 years time. If it takes this report to do it whether its nonsense or not, then fair play because I haven't seen anything else work so far.

As RT says, by definition the wheels/axle width is now wider than before which the car was not set up for. Running a geo is absolutely important. Funny that since getting the VX where the handling is so 'frisky' the geo is the one thing every member gets done regularly, although very rarely see it done on here?

I know! Gits! They didn't want to get embarrassed by a little Vauxhall

SOLD, close please (sorry Boss Hercules got there first)

Just buy a VX if you want handling and 'raw'

I would defo enjoy the journey into work in this http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/LIFE-SIZE-16FT-TALL-SCOUT-WALKER-AT-ST-STAR-WARS-ONCE-IN-A-LIFETIME-CHANCE-/251338949545

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V2HpcXxG-HI&feature=player_embedded#t=43

Saw a silver nismo 370z earlier, maybe you were cruising in Richmond!

...£20 per light, not £20.

Just clearing out some of the house, this has been sat in the loft since we moved, bought it 2009 for about £300 DVD player is non functioning, tried it out and it takes the disc etc just refuses to play. Speakers in great condition though and very loud with good clarity and base. It has LG HT554PH as a code on the back if you want to google it. Collection only from TW10 Richmond Surrey. Cheers Col

Love it!

Usually about 4-6 weeks wait before the wrap goes on...so you need to avoid stone chips in the meantime!

Cheers mate. This is my 2nd Zed, been a member for a while now Just adding to the collection í ½í¸ I so nearly bought another Zed, just given that I spent so much on the previous one, felt I had to start anew on a different car! Love Zeds and still go along to meets. Whereabouts are you located?

Just take your time, soak, use stuff people recommended above and let it drop off. I made a mistake of forcing same thing off before and was horrified by the result - as I say well done for waiting and patience!

Thank you, yes he did spend over an hour doing them, prepping them, etcetc, was no rush cowboy job i can tell ya. New owner is from this forum, and i wanted the lights done for a long time regardless if it was sold or not, ive sent him pics of them also Im more than happy with the outcome, considering how they did look like before. Seriously, it doesn't take an hour and it doesn't need lots of prep and effort. Ian and I stood there and said 'hey I wonder if Megs Compound would work on those lights' and 5 mins later they looked like yours. Just to confirm, we were not wearing cowboy hats.

Welcome Whazza, yep defo keep the karma going good bunch on here and they all love their Zeds!