coldel

The meet starts at 11am. You will not be allowed to park in the car park at the Ace unless you put your name down on the list on this thread along with your number plate. There will be a steward on the gate with a clipboard, if you aren't on it you don't get in and you park on the road outside. I believe Martin is sending Ace the final list on Thursday so put your name down before EOD Weds if you want to come along. The steward will help with parking, they can usually get around 45-50 cars in if people follow their instructions on parking and park a certain way - they are well versed in making the most of the space, do follow their instructions rather than choosing your own spot.

Of course the usual caveat that what cars are listed for and what they sell for are on the whole different numbers especially if its a private sale...I knocked £1500 off the asking price of the VX220 I bought for example.

Welcome along, a good start is reading the pinned posts under the 350z sub forum

it was my first sports car purchase, I had gone up there with a big list of things to check, panicked as I looked over it because I really wanted it, then on the way home thinking oh my god just thrown a fair few quid at this, it was roasting hot so tried to get windows down and they wouldnt work and straight away thought everything else would go wrong. Stopped in next services and jumped out looked at the car and gave myself a right talking too Then saw on the open drivers door a switch, and all was good in the world once again...

Tell him to bin it off and report ad to ebay as having the account hijacked.

and there is the working offshore thing...

https://www.askthe.police.uk/content/Q743.htm

Depends if the receipt for the purchase of the car has her name on it, registered on V5C doesn't mean that person owns it as far as I understand it (happy to be told otherwise)

Turns out the husband stole it from his wife, sold it, hid funds in PP, wife then wants her stolen car back via the police But I am sure that wont be the case

Any time someone says they can only deal with paypal alarm bells go off...

only taking paypal eh - worth contacting the other ad to let them know? Maybe reply and tell them you are working abroad at the moment and you will send around a trailer owned by your work colleague to pick it up...

If you love detailing then stop going to Halfords and look at some of the proper stuff online (there is a detailing trader on here too). SRP is pretty useless full of fillers and generally always ends up at the bottom of the review pile for instance, although heard good things about the HD wax. I would advise trying Car Chem stuff for washing, although I am hooked on Gyeon Bathe+ shampoo which has outstanding results.

Where does it say he was going to drive anyway? To me it looks like this technology encourages drivers to drink and then be in charge of a vehicle whilst over the limit.

Similar here, drove up to Coventry bought it drove back to Surrey. Had a little panic on the way back when I noticed the windows wouldn't open, even pulled over and got out and shouted at myself for not checking something so simple, then saw the window lock button...

Police stopped a chap asleep at the wheel of a self driving Tesla the other day https://news.sky.com/story/police-stop-tesla-driver-who-fell-asleep-at-wheel-while-using-autopilot-11724748 the car then attempted to overtake police officers attempting to pull it over. Absolutely bonkers.

The obvious thing is that the EU will want to protect its interests in our leaving, hence the hardball they are playing, and winning, like anyone with any common sense predicted. Still waiting for this 'easiest thing in human history' to happen with us leaving, with all the things we would demand, in less than two years, to actually happen. Once we are out, we are out, if we want back in we are going to have to pay for that substantially - unless you are a blinkered leaver who doesn't understand business, economics, politics, negotiation etc. and that any hardball played by the EU is them being 'unfair' or some other blithering nonsense.

Yes what an amazing chap, RIP.

Just bear in mind we will have a huge stack of trade deals with the rest of the world at that point...i wonder what the cost would be to exit all those, undo the relationships and switch it all back to the EU would be?

Pretty sure there will be some concessions around it though, won’t be a case if “welcome back as you were”

I would agree with Dan that it is a job, it's not something where people martyr themselves on the fire for the good of everyone else, they still have families to support bills to pay etc. That said there is a public expectation they should be paid pittance, try watching 'The Thick of It' and a scene when new MP Nicola Murray arrives in her office and orders a new chair and has strips torn off her by Tucker the communications director who states that the chair has to go, when he finds out that she plans to send her daughter to a private school he makes he send her to a comp instead...because the public will it, even though she could afford it. In terms of qualifications, most MPs are qualified (over half) in social sciences unsurprisingly. Something like one eighth are qualified in law.

You are generalising on a large scale based on your own prejudices. All the information you need to help you answer the question 'are people like you an MP' is available - I don't know who you are so cannot answer that for you. But then again what do you mean by that? If we all had that view we would need hundreds of thousands if not millions of MPs to fully 'represent me' as there are thousands of types of people that are not you or even in your social/economic/political bracket. People feel unrepresented because they make sweeping assumptions about MPs, they have never bothered to go actually meet and speak to theirs, that they lump all MPs into some pot the second a negative media report pops up about one faking a speeding ticket etc. Clearly the party's attract a different person to their party, Labour for instance have 65% of their MPs from comprehensive schools, just 20% are from the privileged universities (which disproves above generalisations). If you so keenly want 'people like me' representing you then you should be voting Labour. What is clear though is that being an MP requires a number of skills many people do not have, and if you have those skills you will in all likelihood be paid a lot less as an MP than in the private sector.

Why do you mistrust politicians? What is it exactly that makes you not trust them? The fact they haven't come to a consensus on brexit is not because they are being mistrustful, its completely the opposite that they are so far apart in their ideals that they religiously follow they literally cannot come to a consensus. JRM, as much as I detest the ideals he has which belong in the 1960's, is committed to his beliefs on politics. Not being able to implement brexit is not through a lack of trust, its the political system which voters actively placed the process within i.e. parliament. I am sure there are politicians on the make, like people in any industry. But do bear in mind that with the education many of them have, they could step into much better paid roles than being an MP, £80k is not a big amount of money for someone who is a highly qualified business leader for example, a CEO/MD of a successful business would be paid hugely in excess of that.

To be honest Doc, I would think at least a third of the UK votes in any election without the blindest clue as to what they are voting for, but would happily invest hours of time researching the best microwave oven they can get for a budget of £50 using comparison sites and what not.

To be honest at £10k you are looking at alternatively getting a slightly higher mileage HR or potentially a 370z with circa 70k miles on it.

Feels overpriced for me (definitely was at circa £13k!), how many miles do you actually drive? If you do say 20k a year in it then in a couple of years it will be worth £5k as aside from the miles its just a normal Zed which can be had for £5k-£6k. Or you planning on locking it away and keeping it for the long run?