marzman

Good post, thanks Vern.

Plenty on 24 months at that sort of price. Get on www.contracthireandleasing.co.uk and have a look

I was quoted £0.06 pence per mile over the agreed allowance. Yep this is what i've heard too... 6p a mile is nothing really so if you go 5k miles over your allowance they'll charge you £300. Bothered... Good point about the deposites though... some deals you can get with 1 or 2 months payment as a deposit, but the Mercs im looking at require a £2k deposit and i hadnt factored that into the monthly equivalent..

My zed is the longest i've ever kept a car (last one was almost 3 years) but other than that, i change them frequently. In principle i think i'd always be handing the car back after a 2-3 year period and possibly knocking any outstanding value off the next car...

Wow...

So... every car i've ever bought has been either bought outright or i've got a personal loan to cover the cost (my zed, for example). I've never considered PCP before, but a colleague at work has a brand new VRS Octavia and it costs him less than £250 a month... and my zed's costing me more than that and is 10 years old I'm in the market for either a Mercedes C-Class or a Range Rover Sport to keep alongside my zed at the moment, and via http://www.contracthireandleasing.com you can get into a Merc for around the £250 a month mark on a 24 month contract... thats awesome! Just as another example i just looked at the Ford Focus and you can get them for under £170 a month http://www.contracthireandleasing.com/c ... s/6020462/ ...am i missing something here or is it really that easy??

Sorry to hear that mate. What kind of quotes have you had to repair the damage?

I like that. I would have kept the reflector spaces personally, but it does look good.

Anthony Davidson crash was bad. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7ToKBFK2ing&feature=related

Ahh right. I'd never been up there until last year, and then i found it there was a Subway there.... all this time and it's been 2 mins from my house

I rented it on xbox and got about 2/3rds of the way through. Some bits were really difficult, such as the bit on the docks/jeti's in brazil, and also the bit in the lobby of your employer's office when it was under siege. Im planning on renting it again at some point and finishing it off as it was entertaining. SMD... i was finding it hard as i was always conserving my bullet time so much... use this and it gets a bit easier

Where's that, i live in tytherington and cant work out where that is, even with the premier inn in the background

I propper LOL'd at Ed Scissor hands

Who'd been driving your car, edward scissor hands?? I know a lot of people complain about this part getting scratched easily, but i dont understand how it can happen... surely only your hands touch it??

Thanks for the advice all. I called the SLC today and they said there's nothing at all they can do, as it's my company that pays HMRC monthly, and then HMRC pay the SLC annually. They advised me to check with my employer whether they can do anything about it, as in reality they control what is paid to HMRC.

Yeh im looking forward to seeing them too... ...although i wish i'd have cleaned my car before my shoot...

Ha ha... good plan. Im sure they'll end up giving me money back if i get Ricey on the case. The student loan is paid automatically just like my tax, so i dont want to change anything with my company, i need to set the limit at the student loans end if possible.

I really like it - love the graphite colour of the plenum, and how it contrasts with the silver.

So... does anyone know if it's possible to set a max limit on the amount of money you can pay towards your student loan in a given month? Im paying roughly £200 a month automatically out of my salary, however i've got a bonus due at the end of July and having used an online calculator im going to be hit with a £1000 payment towards my loan (not including all the tax i'll be paying!) Im going to call the student loans company tomorrow and ask them - however im a bit nervous about telling them why i want to set the limit "Why would you like to set a limit Mr Marshall" "Um... because i'm due a load of money and dont want to give you any... " Any advice would be appreciated.

Do you live in a flat or anything like that Jez? i.e. do you have a shared internet connection and/or a proxy that you need to go through such as Webroot?

Heh heh... i remember that feeling! I was lucky when i had my surgery... the day i got out of hospital Grand Theft Auto 4 was released so i played that for 2 weeks solid

+1... you dont want to be paying any more than £60 max if you can help it. If you regularly leave your car for long periods at a time then replace it, else just jump start it and it'll keep you sweet for another year or so.

Friend of mine had an M6... he said you'd need a good warranty with them as the slightest problem will leave you with a bill for ££££. If you've got £20 - 30k to burn on a 'family' car, and go down the route of a Range Rover Sport personally, or if you've got a bit more still then it would be this for me: http://www.autotrader.co.uk/classified/ ... ?logcode=p

Possibly the cheapest way into competitive motorsport is to look into sprinting. A colleague at work sprints in his spec-c impreza and has been quite successful. He competes in a 6-date series.