Be Excellent To Each Other

That's probably a fairly decent investment.

Yep.

Oooh. Tempting

Do it.

Nice enough car but they're not massively fast, they are very thirsty, and it's a couple of generations behind on the tech front to say the least.

What's the intended usage? Day to day transportation or a fun track day car or something else?

In many regards it's a 'lot of car' for £3500 (and those Duratec engines are really good), but it depends what you're planning to do with it.

Whilst crossing a completely empty road last night a P-reg BMW sped out of nowhere (ie from round a corner a good 200 yards or so from the junction I was at), stopped, and started tooting his horn at me. I flicked him the bird as I carried on my way. I suppose the mature reaction would have been to switch to a far slower walking pace than my usual one, but it felt like the correct response in the circumstances.

See kermit the frog was one day daydreaming
Thinking about himself at a red light
With that it-ain't-easy-being-greenin'
And the cars behind him kept honking and honking
And kermit's last words as he flipped the bird
Was, damn you muppets just keep on taking!
See I've got my own things now so stop tooting
I do my lily pad jumping
Miss piggy bumping
Lotta miss piggys and that's all good
And I'm gonna turn this red light
Into a block party
So we can get down in basics of what?

Seriously, though, be careful.

You're so hopped up on adrenaline that you forget to do anything though, even as simple as taking out your phone to snap a photo.

I'm street, boy-o.

New dipped headlight bulbs get! I think my new batteries made my previous Osram Night Breakers go pop.

Gone for Phillips X-tremeVision!!!!!!! bulbs, on offer on Amazon atm. Really bright.

I saw a Chrysler 300C that had an overlay on the front grille - it was a giant set of chrome pointy fangs. I hadn't seen anything like that before, I thought it was pretty funny and kinda cool and I even did an actual, real life, little laugh.... as a one off, not sure I'd want to do that myself (if I had one of those cars).

Kinda like this:


(edit - I noticed the Bentley emblem and have now found froma a quick search that it's a 'thing' to make 300C s look like Bentleys. I remember when that was possible with MR2s [the curvy mk2 model] and a Ferrari [the 355 perhaps]...)

Designed to go with the new shoes.

Hmm might be a spendy week this week. Car's in for it's MOT (which it should pass, hopefully) but it's losing coolant like mad (happened before with a badly fitted temp gauge) so the leak needs finding and it's started going into limp mode again (had the MAF sensor replaced about 18 months ago which fixed that the first time). Fingers crossed.

And all that on top of the Mini Talon you need to buy.

Actually my car had advisories for brakes and tyres too. I think the rear tyres I bought about 9000 miles ago must have been defective.

Got my Mini Sky Hunter almost ready to crash again now. Rudder servos and cables out, holes covered in fins, wing glued (and taped). Booms are loose where they connect to the wing so still that to fix (and maybe move the VTX from out on the wing back to the fuselage). I'll give it another chance before I kick fuck out of it and buy a Mini Talon.

Wrong thread but you weren't holding in lots of back elevator in were you? It's hard not to instinctively but you need to let it lose height initially because that usually means that it's gaining speed.

Wrong thread reply: I did have a touch of elevator on, not loads though. I really think that the extra weight on the left side of the wing is a big factor, after the overall weight. Not sure wether to move it in, like I said before or add a little weight to the right wing where the small GPS module is.

It might although the tendency to roll probably comes more from the torque reaction from the prop. I've put cameras right out on wingtips before now and noticed virtually nothing. Basically though it stalled and the design means that unlike the Bixler it doesn't have a benign stall but will tend to drop a wing.

Anyhoo, back to cars.

Today will cost me £190.18.

MOT
Wheel bearing
Temp sensor and clip (cause of the leak)
New Labour

Yay!

Picked car up this morning and had a nice surprise. They managed to sort out the existing bearing that they were going to replace (popped it open and regressed) so it's cost me £90 for everything.

I just drove back from Hull along the M62. I think what you saw was this: As you passed under the ganty, the light illuminating the signs on the other side of the carriageway shines down the middle. As a result, due to parralax, you see the light from Light One before it gets blocked, then Light Two shines down, so it looks like a flash. And is very bright. I was going about 80mph, and saw the same at 70mph.

It is explained poorly, but I know what I mean.

I hope you're right. No ticket yet though, and it's been 3 weeks

Is the car registered to the right address?

Yep

That explanation reminds me of This Life where the guy proved that how it's possible for a speed camera to malfunction.

I think it was if you were in reverse at just below the speed of sound. Were you doing that?

Now I want to watch This Life again. I think Curio has my box set.

You'll be fine, then. They have 14 days from the date of the infraction to post the ticket to you, so unless you have horrifically bad postmen it would have arrived by now.

Is that true?

I'm with Grim... Isn't that an urban myth?

It's not a solid date, it seems, but this website seems to think it exists.



http://www.nopenaltypoints.co.uk/does-n ... -days.html

Basically so you can't use a loophole that you don't live at that address anymore or the postman was on strike.

But... if I genuinely haven't received anything and my registration is correct... I'm all clear!

Phew! That's a load off.

unless it got lost in the post

Court summons Monday.

Unless the court summons also gets lost.

That would be a shame

Won't happen. You're in the clear now.

I was just riffing with Zardoz.

Hope she manages to get the cash together.

Any reason why the two sponsors dropped out? Seems like a brilliant opportunity for another company to step in and scoop up masses of cheap PR!

She won 5 years ago, and is returning from injuries.

As far as I know, the "urban myth" is that you need to have received the ticket within 14 days, when actually they only have to prove that they posted it out to you within 14 days of the offence.

Could be wrong, though.

That's what I thought (and am hoping for)

Which is, of course, what happens if the car is registered to the wrong address.

That's how both Craster and I lost our driving licences - speeding fines that we didn't know about.

Uuuuh, whut? When did that happen? When and how did you both get them back?

And how did you findout?

I found out when we bought the Mondeo, and Ford tried to get me free insurance.

I got it back by filling in a single form and posting it off. I didn't even have to pay the speeding fine

Craster is too lazy to fill out a form

Craster doesn't have a driving license?