Ba-daa: http://www.mattbuildsatomcat.co.uk/a-quick-update/174

Note the TVR in question back on the ramps in the background of the final photo.

Especially exciting is that as a result, the ambient temperature sensor is now hanging in the wheelarch. I look forward to explaining to my insurance company how all the car's electrics came to be wrapped around the axle.

Work faster, goddamit!

When's the cocktail cabinet being fitted? Shaker unnecessary, fo sho.

I thought BMWs were rear wheel drive?

Ha ha, oh dear:

http://forums.overclockers.co.uk/showth ... t=18019506

Ha ha, oh dear:

http://forums.overclockers.co.uk/showth ... t=18019506

Spend £3k on a second hand car, or buy something for less than £1k and run it for a year until I'm employed again?

It isn't anything to do with Bradford - I just checked on the Carcraft website and the prices there are so inflated (and that's before you get into finance deals, that's just their "exclusive web only price") that it's amazing they get any customers at all.

It isn't anything to do with Bradford - I just checked on the Carcraft website and the prices there are so inflated (and that's before you get into finance deals, that's just their "exclusive web only price") that it's amazing they get any customers at all.

Obviously the latter, if money is tight.

A was mentioned in that thread, though, they target idiots and people with poor credit ratings, screwing them further into the ground with debts they can't manage. Their adverts are like double glazing ones, which speaks a great deal straight away.

Yeah. I just want to fix the 205, but that's off the cards....

A was mentioned in that thread, though, they target idiots

I was in town the other day and wandered past one of these places:

http://www.brighthouse.co.uk/

Some similarly cracking deals to be had there.

Indeed! 32" Bravia for £767.23, 29.9% APR over 156 weeks: £1104.48 total. Add in the optional service charges, which people no doubt plump for, and the total is £1698.84.

Do you still get red slips when that happens?
What was the unsafe warning about?

A former boss of mine apparently works for these jokers. "Typical APR: 49.9%". Lovely!

I wonder: is that a punitive interest rate, or does selling to scumbags just leave you with such an enormous default rate that it's actually a fair charge?

I MOT'd my gas Corsa yesterday (the one I got for free 2 years ago). It hadn't been MOT'd since then and has two full pages of failing items, including a "In my opinion, this vehicle is not safe to be driven" one.

However I fully expect to have it fixed up and back on the road by next week..

I'm blaming somebody for curbing it.

I've got to change the discs and pads, bolt the exhaust back on, and replace a CV boot cover. About a days work, but I currently have neither time, nor money to do it.

"Typical APR: 49.9%". Lovely!

If that's all it needs I'd say buying another car is a false economy.

That's probably only about 60 quids worth of parts though (and 54 quid for the MOT). If you're contemplating spending 3k on a new one...

While we're on the subject of stupid interest deals, MyFinger received this junk mail addressed to a former resident of his house:

They send an agent round to your house to give you the money, then round every week to collect it? And what, they break your legs if you don't pay?

Fuck. No doubt over several years, too. Why do people buy into these deals?

They clearly don't expect their customers to have bank accounts, is how I read that.

Bad credit ratings, so can't get credit else where, but want a new TV etc.

Why wouldn't they save up? Or get one on freecycle?

Why wouldn't they save up? Or get one on freecycle?

Ba-daa: http://www.mattbuildsatomcat.co.uk/a-quick-update/174

Note the TVR in question back on the ramps in the background of the final photo.

I've got to change the discs and pads, bolt the exhaust back on, and replace a CV boot cover. About a days work, but I currently have neither time, nor money to do it.