Sarnie

Edinburgh, my first and last trip to Scotland!!

2012 Cayman R Absolutely love it already!! Flew up to Scotland on Thursday to pick it up and then blasted the 5 hours back to Birmingham in record time

Love those wheels!

SAMSUNG OR GTFO

You will start the Mk1 owners off again saying things like that I'm not on here enough any more to know what you are referring to, but this car is really nice in comparison to the previous one!! A guy posted some pics of his new car, which he's rightly proud of. There was a debate about the two different versions of the Nismo and we were sensibly reminded by the Mods to keep on topic and not get into arguments about which version is 'better' because it's been done in other threads. As I said, I'm not on here a lot anymore so thanks for updating me on the current "politics". I clicked on the thread, liked the pics, scrolled to the bottom of the page and commented, don't have the time to read five pages of comments these days. This car looks pretty awesome, previous one wasn't, thats pretty much me up to date!

You will start the Mk1 owners off again saying things like that I'm not on here enough any more to know what you are referring to, but this car is really nice in comparison to the previous one!!

Awesome car, miles better than the previous abortion!! Great seats too, proper sports seats!!

Google "E46 Subframe Cracks/Problems/Issues"...............

I know this all too well!! Me and the Mrs were planning the big white wedding. Found an amazing stately home with a chapel on site........invoices started racking up, venue costs alone were creeping over £25k even before flowers, dresses, wedding cars, honey moons, wedding cakes, etc etc etc. We were easily looking at circa £40k or so. Then I had a big falling out with my Mother. Caused a massive amount of stress, her saying she wasn't going on my Wifes hen doo, wouldn't sit next to certain people at the wedding, telling other family members that I'd slagged them off so they wouldn't come, then she wasn't coming, then she was coming but was going to cause a fuss with family members who'd had a go at her for what she was doing etc etc. You would not believe the stress. I'd booked a surprise trip to Vegas for five days, to see George Michael. A few days after revealing the surprise trip, the Mrs said "Shall we get married there!?!!?" So I thought, **** it!!, I'm not spending £40k on a single day for any single person to ruin it for me, even my mother. So we cancelled the whole thing, much to my Wife's parents dismay and went from a wedding of 220 guests to just two; me and my Wife. No friends, no family, just us getting married in the little white chapel in Vegas. After making the decision, three days before we left, we also found out that Laura was pregnant with our first child!!! Best thing I ever did!

Noob

I didn't get it............mustn't have impressed the headhunters

Only just seen this!!!!! :scare: :scare:

This is naturally an evocative topic, of which we can all relate. In an ideal world, each partner would earn the same, all money goes into one account, bills paid and then each spends the same amount on additional recreational spending. However, life sticks a massive spanner in the works. Seven years ago I lived in a house with my girlfriend (my now Wife) with no kids, and mentioned buying a Gallardo. Three weeks later it was on the drive. No further conversation needed. However I think as you mature and get older your perspective changes. We now have a 5 year old son and a 2 year old daughter. My Wife has had three out of the last five years off work unpaid, which I have paid for. I would never see it as money owed, as far as I was concerned I was paying for the best thing that any child could have which is to have their Mother around them full time. My job is to provide, my wife's is to nurture. My Wife works one less shift a week than she should as we needed her round the kids, I cover that loss of income for her. It actually benefits me, and us all, to pay my Wife to not work so that I can, as I have a larger capacity to earn money than she does, even though she earns £35k a year which isn't a pittance!! A female poster posted previously that she felt almost humiliated to ask her husband for money and hated feeling 'dependent', which is indicative of current society. Years ago women were brought up to expect to be an obedient housewife, now they are groomed to be fiercely independent, which is perfectly fine but is it the best thing for a family for a Mother to go back to work barely months after a kid has been born just to be able to pay 50% of the bills??? Whats the point in sending a kid off the full time childcare for a random woman to witness your kids first steps, words or any other poignant moments? Anyway, enough of that @*!#. My five year car sabbatical is done, I'm buying a fast, loud TWO seater sports car!!! haha

One that might be even more 'grateful'

A single joint account?? Are you crackers!?!?!? We have joint account that ALL direct debits come out of, that we both put money in to. However, I earn more than wife so I put in more than twice the amount she does. I don't mind this as I earn more. However, she does ALL of the housework around the house. I don't think I've used a vacuum in a decade or ever ironed any item of clothes. Conversely, my wife has never paid for a takeaway, never pays when we go out and never pays for the hotels or weekends away. I pay for nearly all of holiday costs. She contributes to spending money and stuff as and when. We went to Dubai at the start of the year which cost £5k which I paid for, the Mrs put £300 to the spending money. I don't begrudge her smaller contribution one little bit, just as she appreciates me providing the vast majority of the money for our luxury stuff and doesn't gripe at me for not vacuuming. She don't have it bad anyway, she works five days on and then gets five days off so she has plenty of time to be a lady of leisure, way more than I certainly do!! We both have our own accounts that we buy things from. I don't see it as a trust issue at all, it's not that I don't trust her, I just don't want to feel like I have to ask permission to spend whatever I want on whatever I want. My Wife has no problem what I spend my money on as long as it doesn't impair our quality of life or ability to pay the bills. I'm currently saving for a car, if I was saving that money in our joint account I'm sure she'd suddenly decide that actually we need a kitchen more than I need a car!!

Will these phones work in England?

I can confirm that the member Colin referred me to has come up trumps and is a true legend, many thanks Adrian. One happy boy!

But have you mastered the electronic hand brake ? Haha! No! Every time I drive it, when I stop I go to grab the keys in the non-existent ignition, pull the non-existent handbrake and get out without pressing the stop button to turn the engine off

I sooooo want to love the GTR but I just can't!!! I have a MY14 Qashqai that has a much better interior!!

Pm sent!

Alfa Romeo 159

http://www.350z-uk.c...he/page__st__20 Yup, no secret!! Although it's no longer going to be yellow. I've dropped the Ceramic brakes in favour of Exclusive paint (hence the PS request) and Sports Bucket seats.....