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I've voted in this poll, but it's not the fairest poll that I've ever seen. I guess that you are allowed a fixed maximum number of categories (bins) and the setter of the poll has divided up the age range according to this.

Usually, you would look at the length of the bars and see the most popular category as the longest bar. These categories do not all cover the same number of years of age, the most unfair being the open ended 60+. Still, it's better than nothing and with a bit of adding up, some sense can be made of it.

I've voted in this poll, but it's not the fairest poll that I've ever seen. I guess that you are allowed a fixed maximum number of categories (bins) and the setter of the poll has divided up the age range according to this.

Usually, you would look at the length of the bars and see the most popular category as the longest bar. These categories do not all cover the same number of years of age, the most unfair being the open ended 60+. Still, it's better than nothing and with a bit of adding up, some sense can be made of it.

Quite simple really. Decide if you want to do business with someone who trusts you so little. If no, seek another buyer. If yes, and the buyer still has doubts, send him the goods and let him pay you for them when he has received them.

I have often wondered why, on Ebay, the payment is always made before the goods are despatched.

Quite simple really. Decide if you want to do business with someone who trusts you so little. If no, seek another buyer. If yes, and the buyer still has doubts, send him the goods and let him pay you for them when he has received them.

I have often wondered why, on Ebay, the payment is always made before the goods are despatched.

Because a car was built to comply with a foreign market's requirements (JDM) does certainly NOT mean that it will be accepted "as is" for use on UK roads. A simple example is the Pajero. It has to be fitted with a high intensity rear light before it can be used over here.

Just picked up my z from having a free health check before its MOT next month results pricey.

I wont lie I am not a very technical minded person gradually learning though, but can some one explain the

likely hood of these bit causeing it to fail MOT and best place to order parts if I need to?

 

Front pads 50% £195 incl Labour

Already spoke to Zmanalex about new pads but can wait for a while

 

Front discs Pitted slightly £495 incl Labour

Don’t really know what that means?

 

o/s/ lower arm rear bush separating Part Number N54468CD00C £481 incl Labour

This is one thing they said will very likely need changing but not a clue about what or wear this is, I will PM Zmanalex about this one

 

Total About £1170 incl Labour

Things may have changed, but a couple of years ago I discussed the MOT braking requirements with our local tester who I have great faith in.

He told me that the rolling road testing machine is the judge and jury on the matter regarding brake loads, efficiency and balance. If the discs (rotors?) and pads are knackered but the car passes the rolling road, all he can do is issue an advisory. He is scared to put my 4 x 4 shed on the brake tester and goes out for a drive using the very old fashioned Tapley deceleration meter!

Make life easier for yourself, Daryl, and just write out the cheques as needed, you know that you are going to have to in the end so why make life hard?

My son had all the downstairs floors laid in the real stuff and at the same time all the door architraves, jambs and skirting boards changed as well. She had still not finished with him! They are now about a half way through having all the doors changed over to solid oak ones. It look s lovely but I hate to think what it's costing.

My younger son has the pukka solid oak flooring and it looks beautiful. However, it echos like crazy and nobody walks on it in shoes 'cos it scratches very easily. You certainly can't lift it to lay cables.

If you can actually get rid of the centre ferrule and rubber, a hacksaw blade can be used to saw a split in the outer metal sleeve. This can then be collapsed in on itself. Clean and lubricate the hole prior to pressing in the new bush and ensure that it enters squarely.

This is wrong, WRONG, WRONG!!!!

The problem that I think you will face is nothing to do with the press load needed to get the bushes out and in, it will be in finding bits of bar of the correct diameter/length to use as dollies to apply the load to the bush. I don't know what the bush looks like but I'll take a decent stab that it is a metal/rubber/metal moulding. You must press the old one out and the new one in using the outer metal of the bush only. Good luck.

We manufacture suspension components and press these types of bushes in by the 1000s.

I think that the modern way to nick fuel is to hammer a nail straight through the thin walled fuel tank, catch what you can and let the rest run down the road. These thieves don't care how much inconvenience they cause for a few quids worth of fuel! The Zed, being so low, would not be the easiest car to do this on.

A couple of Christmases back, I bought my good lady a new battery for her Fiesta! All wrapped up and everything. Her car had been a bugger to start and her face lit up when she saw the battery. She knew her reliable motoring was restored.

 

She must have got really excited looking at the weight of the thing when wrapped up!!

 

I would be quite disappointed unwrapping it and realising it's a car battery

It's okay being done up to the nines and reeking of Channel No. 5, then getting to your car and finding that the battery is flat AGAIN. She really loved the prezzie and it's still doing it's job to this day!

A couple of Christmases back, I bought my good lady a new battery for her Fiesta! All wrapped up and everything. Her car had been a bugger to start and her face lit up when she saw the battery. She knew her reliable motoring was restored.

This technique is partially used on many cars, including my shed Pajero. They call it an exhaust gas recirculating valve!!

Sounds cheap to me, I have just paid £210 for two motor bike tyres!!

I can't help feeling that the £60 was just to change the two tyres, not supply and fit 2 new tyres.

That women is scum scum scum. Makes me ashamed to be British actually. 99% of any encounters with people who have emigrated have been excellent and fair play to people for working hard for minimum wage. British society as a group are generally lazy. If people were so desperate for work they would take anything. Immigrants from 3rd world countries can find 3 jobs, how come a British citizen can't get 1. I undertsand that skilled workers don't want to work in lower jobs as they need cash to pay their lifestyle they had before leaving a job and in times of thatchers Britain this was hard, my old man was unemployed for 6months due to steelwork closures....

 

The people I'm talking about are the scumbag junky types.

 

I would drug test people while getting their dole money. If they fail then they get no cash only basic rations. Think of the savings the governent would make.

 

she's now been granted bail, so the meter is now runningi in costs us all in court time, legal aid, social reports and probably some prison time. Scum..., what chance do kids of parents like these ever stand

The woman is probably 2nd generation of people without standards breeding people without standards, the unfortunate kid will be 3rd generation. In a few years there will be, with a bit of luck, another big guy to throw him off of the train.

i thought the mk1's were 80's early 90's mk2 most of the 90's mk3 the 2000 plus

 

And I think you are correct. The one in the pic is a Mark 2 series 3, NA UK car. Bog standard with the exception of the radio and wheels.

 

i only pointed the dates out as you said 1976 vintage, which slightly confused me

And not unusually, I'm wrong again. It's a typo and should read 1996. Sorry about that.

i thought the mk1's were 80's early 90's mk2 most of the 90's mk3 the 2000 plus

And I think you are correct. The one in the pic is a Mark 2 series 3, NA UK car. Bog standard with the exception of the radio and wheels.

 

yeah same as the Mr2 roadster turbo conversion.

 

 

Is there some reason why you would want to convert an MR2 into a turbocharged one, as opposed to just buying a JDM version that left the factory as a turbocharged car?

 

your refering to the old mk2 version, i'm refering to the mk3 roadster non of which came with FI and the reason i'd go for the Mk3 over the Mk2 is the chassis is alot better the handling is better and its not such a knife edge car to drive as the mk2. still requires a bit of talent as the weight is all in the middle. but when you get it right it is so rewarding.

 

Thanks. I'd made a big and wrong assumption there thinking we were on about the Mark 2. The problem with the Mark 3, obviously in my opinion, is that it's nowhere near as damn pretty as the mark 2!

 

i think the mk3 was very pretty, its only downside was its headlights, made it look like a frog. but i love the Mk2 so much, never owned one but drove a few and love them, i might even still get one at some point as they are so cheap these days.

Superb condition inside and out, 1976 vintage, less than 70,000 miles on the clock and worth next to nothing. Well I still enjoy driving her!

I'm still using a long in the tooth Olympus C8080 and see no reason to change it atm. I have studied the manual and learned how to access and use the features, but I invariably get a better photo if I use auto and leave the camera to know what it's doing. Then again, a C8080 is not a DSLR.

Hi all

 

Can anyone recomend a good DSLR camera forum for my father to join, as he feels he is not getting the best from his camera?

 

Thanks in advance

T

I wonder how many people buy a comparatively expensive DSLR and then just use it in full auto mode and never realise the full potential?

 

yeah same as the Mr2 roadster turbo conversion.

 

 

Is there some reason why you would want to convert an MR2 into a turbocharged one, as opposed to just buying a JDM version that left the factory as a turbocharged car?

 

your refering to the old mk2 version, i'm refering to the mk3 roadster non of which came with FI and the reason i'd go for the Mk3 over the Mk2 is the chassis is alot better the handling is better and its not such a knife edge car to drive as the mk2. still requires a bit of talent as the weight is all in the middle. but when you get it right it is so rewarding.

Thanks. I'd made a big and wrong assumption there thinking we were on about the Mark 2. The problem with the Mark 3, obviously in my opinion, is that it's nowhere near as damn pretty as the mark 2!

 

yeah same as the Mr2 roadster turbo conversion.

 

Is there some reason why you would want to convert an MR2 into a turbocharged one, as opposed to just buying a JDM version that left the factory as a turbocharged car?

On the course I attended in the summer, the policeman who took the course categorically stated that they hid the camera vans. They were out to catch numbers! The 10% +2 "tolerance zone" is a guideline that comes from ACPO but is NOT a rule. The courses are not an automatic option to getting the points and a fine, they are for "mild" speeding offences only.

It was my 1st offence of any kind in 44 years of driving so it must be pretty obvious that I'm NOT a systematic exceeder of the limits or I'd certainly have been caught before. The rule is to be doing the speed limit (or less) when you get to the sign and keep at that speed until you clear the sign at the end of the limited stretch. This is what I'm now doing and I'm frustrating like hell the drivers behind me who are wondering what I'm playing at. Well it's tough for them 'cos I don't want any more of the points/courses.

As an aside, I'd guess that 30% or so of the course was aimed at making drivers look out for motorcycles.

EDIT - I was driving a long wheelbased Pajero with a caravan on the back, hahaha

Steve