Be Excellent To Each Other

I spend far too much money in Tesco, did spend a lot on booze and other Xmas Crap, I also get fuel there and we spend at least £50 a week on shopping.

30th anniversary 208 GTi!

http://www.peugeot.co.uk/showroom/208/gti-30th/

Unleaded is 109.9 here now. That makes vpower 117.9 and tesco about 114.9. Dunno, never buy either any more.

With 14p on the lubcard that means we'll be filling the focus at 95.9 tonight. Cor!

Unleaded is 109.9 here now. That makes vpower 117.9 and tesco super about 114.9. Dunno, never buy either any more.

With 14p on the clubcard that means we'll be filling the focus at 95.9 tonight. Cor!

Holy crap, it was 106.9 - so we paid 92.9 for each of 50ish litres!

http://www.pistonheads.com/news/default ... ryId=31431

Here you go Grim...

It looks brilliant, but without four wheel drive it's going to be a proper joke in the mud - even if the rear diff is fully locked. No mention about axle articulation either, which is more important for non-4x4s. I'd love a go though, obviously.

Also 'virtually unbreakable' bahahahaahahhahahhahaaahhahahahahahaha

There's a video here: http://www.arielmotor.co.uk/nomad/introduction/

Is it road legal too?

The blurb reads like it's going to be.

Car in for its MOT... which ran out last August.

Oops.

I do love the way there was a 3p difference between diesel and unleaded when prices were abouve £1.40, but now it's down to a quid for unleaded this has grown to up to 12p.
Cheeky fuckers subsidising cheap unleaded with more margin on diesel

Failed on the rear fog light! Not the bulb or fuse, so left it with them (had to as the MOT had expired) to find the break in the wire. Luckily I can use my dads car while it gets sorted.

It was nice filling my tank up for £57 the last time I refueled though. Gets me 550 miles that.

270...

Is that in your Pug Estate?

No that went ages back. In the Forester.it has a short range.

You're allowed to drive between your house / garage and your MOT test without a valid MOT (unless they've found a serious problem).

It's all done now anyway. £40 for MOT and £28 to find and fix the broken wire.

Oh yeah, I'd have left it there too. Just sayin'.

I'll remember for the next time the MOT is overdue by 5 months.

Hmm. New car has a flat. Fairly sure I wasn't handed locking wheel nut keys when it was delivered (whole event was a bit of a blur) and none in glove box as I'd hoped (first time I've opened glove box). Odds on them being in with the jack and spare?

Pretty good I reckon, it's where my last two have been.

Once you've found it replace the locking wheel nuts with normal ones. Pain the arse those things.

Quite. Hadn't crossed my mind until tonight when wife booked the wheel man in. Still, he's here tomorrow so she can deal with the issue while I'm at work. Have to have them back on when the lease is up though.

In the boot! No-one wins anything.

Petrol at the station in my town: $1.21 (not too bad)

Petrol in the city suburbs, let's say 70 miles away: $1.01

I guess now's not the time to be mentioning this Troops, but if you want this MX-5 off me you can have it for £1200?

Poor timing indeed! If you still have it when i'm in a new house with a garage space, I'll take it

If only I had room to store an MX5 until I'm ready to use one.

Don't forget you're buying a Ford Puma, too

There is a nice little spot at Toad manor just waiting for it. He is down south anyway, so it makes sense for it to be closer to the channel tunnel...

When are you buying yours anyway? We are probably going to make a serious effort at looking around the end of March.

We're going to start looking next month, I think. Found a nice one last week, but a) it was green, and b) it's January, so we've got fuck-all money.

Aye, plus the wasted insurance, tax, sorn hassle, etc...
If a perfect one that is close by turns up we'll jump on it, but not making a proper look yet.

Yeah, if we were being sensible we'd get one in March, but I fear the call of the workshop for some serious "rude boy modz" will be too much to resist

We're toying with getting it painted Lambo orange, too!

Bugger.

http://www.driving.co.uk/news/drivers-w ... y-stealth/

Bugger.

The M25 Clacket Lane section is by my house and accordingly the stretch of motorway that I use most frequently. It is also the clearest stretch of M25 on a typical journey in my experience (apart from when they were installing the cameras). Suffice to say I'm thankful for having a speed limiter on my car as round there it is easy to hit 90 on a regular basis without it feeling fast.

That article is a little bit disingenuous (I know, major surprise that). It doesn't actually state that the 500 people in that article got their tickets from speeding when there was no variable or reduced restriction in place, it just says they got tickets, and then jumps to supposition about the future, without linking the two.

edit: Oh wait, yes it does further down. Ignore me.

Looking around, there doesn't appear to be any details on what the threshold for those cameras actually is? The suspicion is that is it above 90mph at the moment, as otherwise there would be tens of thousands of tickets, and not just 500.

Also, these new cameras are multidirectional radar based, looks like it's time to get into the radar detector market! We haven't seen much of them for ages, but sales will certainly increase now.

Or, and I realise that this is particularly amusing coming from me, people could just not break the speed limit

It's a form of go-slow protest.

Is a law that 99% of the populace break on a daily basis with no consequence, really a required law?

<sits back>

Yes, because although most people break the limit their speeds are still guided by the number on a stick - lots of people will do up to 80 on a motorway for example as it's "safe" from prosecution and crashing.

Remove the limits entirely and you have much more of a free for all.

Citation needed

Yet the unrestricted sections of the Autobahn have the same fatality levels as the restricted areas, and those levels are less than the majority of countries who do have limits and release their figures.

It was mentioned in a Jack Reacher book, when he went to England, and ended up in Norfolk. "80 mph seemed to be the minimum speed the cars were doing" or something like that.

It was indeed.

And it's fairly true - if you drive at 70mph you're going to get overtaken a lot. Make sure you do it in the slow lane, too. Idiots.

That's unrestricted speeds on roads designed with that in mind.
Now replace that with your average high street or country road and see what happens