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Without a doubt my new grill from slovakia. Its really given a classy (almost aston martin) look to my car and the build quality for under £50 is superb. I'll take a pic over weekend. Looks so good just bought one for my bro.

See now I would agree completely with this, but then why would the manual state it as its produced by the people most familiar with the cars capabilities. I wouldn't normally dream of dropping into 6th that low but perhaps I'll try it. I'm sure my dad used to say it could damage the engine dropping into 5th below 40.

I'm the same! I try to buy models of the cars I've owned in the right colour. I've got an orange 1/18 one by Maisto from ebay, cost about £30 IIRC. Its very good quality, rubber tires, full exhaust, working steering, engine is spot on, only thing is its LDH. I'm also trying to a find a bonnet bulge model to represent my new zed.

I just had a quote for £22 from a decent garage to change just the rear pads on my zed, at that price its not worth my time/effort doing it. If I wanted the discs done too it was 40-50. Obviously I supply the parts.

Are you using normal unleaded petrol? I noticed mine didn't run very smooth on normal, only use super now. Could be a simple as that.

Why do you keep talking down the prices of zeds? What do you stand to gain by doing it if you already have one? I don't intentionally, but I'm on my second and spent a lot of time looking at them. I am more than happy to be proved wrong, the more money we get for our cars the better. But..i'm also a realist. He asked for opinion on price, i gave it - doesn't mean I'm right. I just took a look on Parkers - 2008 58 plate GT spec £14800 but with 30k mileage.

I'd say your car is worth 15k max possibly a little less. With the price of petrol and tax the market is shrinking (IMO) for performance cars.

13years old? IMO you're abusing the honour system. These spaces are close to store to help parents with very young kids, pushchairs etc.

cracking job - and those alloys are the best looking ones I've seen for the sunset, stunning.

Fo sho, give me that sh1zzle. Oh - wrong rapping! Looks

Interesting to see if this works for them, Autoquake (supposedly biggest online car dealer in UK) just went out of business...

I think the early (pre 70s) and the latest 2005+ tangs are the nicest looking cars ever made. Unfortunatly inbetween that they made some butt ugly models and thats one of them!

I always check the bonnet/engine to see if she's been started recently. I check the obvious areas for signs of repair/damage (around radiator, lift boot carpet etc). Check with VoSA for last MOT and see if any advisories, DO A HPI check! - also worth noting with some you get 7 days free insurance, I've used it a few times). Check the interior, see if condition matches mileage, check all electrics and of course test drive. I say I do all that, it takes discipline and I'm terrible for buying cars off ebay/internet and not checking properly but I've been lucky so far. I got my current zed from autoquake, nearly 14k delivered and taxed from Leeds (I'm in wales) and I bought it over the phone!!! She's stunning though.

You said you've looked on ebay, have you done a completed items search? Adverts for sale can be very misleading, PH in particular is often high priced as its free and people just speculate. Not having a clue about classic cars I'd probably take the money, seems like a fair offer. I'm sure 5th gear did a feature on them and said they were worth around 2k in good condition - on the road. Or, list on capri websites as stated.

can't fault you for wanting to be your own boss. With your background I'd have through you'd easily gets facilities management type roles. I know someone that runs their own valeting business, and I know someone else who lost everything running a carwash and is still in debt. The person running their own business I believe did struggle through the economic downturn as clean cars is usually one of the first things to go along with gym membership. Getting in with the fleets I think can be a good earner but if doing mobile you're really restricted to needing good weather. I believe there can be big insurance costs as well. You've also got to look at your location, who else is doing it etc. Good luck - you only live once!

If you're serious about one, spend some time on http://forums.seloc.org/forumdisplay.php?fid=1&page=2 Great bunch of guys, I spent time on there research which S2 to go for, in the end I went for a zed instead as I'm 6foot4, 17 stone and it was gonna be tight and uncomfortable. Interestingly the k series engine seemed to be popular, but I ran a poll about running costs/reliability and the toyota won hands down.

Wow thats cheap, good luck with sale - stunning car and possibly my favourite colour.

I take it these won't fit an 57 facelift?

Returning it to standard and swapping you parts over must be the best option. Standard 54plate cat d car...even with the mileage you're looking at 25% less than a non-cat D so maybe 7k?

I thought from the thread title you were going to kill yourself, very hardcore thread! I've left loads of jobs, I like to move around, I found it difficult but nearly always a relief. I hate a fuss tho and usually try to sneak away. Never done anything cool on my last day tho :-( But hey, you're not dying!

Now that might be tidy indeed! I'm sure some of the brighter chaps could photoshop it for you.

Sorry dude, looks like you drove over something and its stuck to you bumper! But hey, if you like it Might look nice in silver tho.

Once my mate and I were on an A road at night, a road that goes from one to two lanes and back to one at various points. Some silly boys were tailgating and as soon as we hit a two lane section they drove by and flicked the V's and then proceeded to lean out the window and SPIT onto my mates car. He remained surprisingly calm, then as they sped up to drive off he reached down to the door pocket and produced a little blue LED torch which had a wrist cord attached. He switched it on, grabbed it by the cord, wound the window down, held it out the window above the car and started spinning it round and round by the cord. I guess from their point of view all they could see were headlights and a flashing blue light on an unmarked car The car ahead then immediately hammered on the brakes, and pulled to a stop by the side of the road. We just drove by and blanked them. They didn't try tailgating us again. Illegal, but genuis. Did he make siren noises as well? That would be awesome driving past then swing a torch screaming WAH WAH WAH WAH. I had an ex-police MV6 omega once with all the wiring intact in grill, was very tempted to connect it back up! Incidently, one of the cheapest (£300) and nicest car to drive I've ever owned.

I've tried to be a bit softer with the car this week and got 23mpg on the super, so 1mpg better. My journey is half steep hill country lanes and half motorway with lots of traffic. If I drove like miss daisy I could get more, but thats not the point, the point was comparing the two fuels. She does feel livelier tho, as I said so I'll prob stick with super.

I believe that could be classed as dangerous driving and you could actually be arrested for it! If someone is on your tail and you slow down is one thing, speeding up could cause a serious accident. For me, the worst thing is people in the middle lane of an empty motorway as I rarely get people on my tail.