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I was fond of those 12" vinyls. Bought a few at the time. Great if you liked a particular song and wanted a long version of it. e.g U got the look - Prince Careless Whisper :oops: George Michael with instrumental only version on the flip side.

Autoglym engine cleaner followed by Autoglym vinyl/rubber protector. (Read labels to see what I mean).

It would be great if selling a car was always like the following. When selling our Polo in 1987 we decided to try a notice in the car's window. Had always thought this was a bit naff, though. Stuck notice on rear side window. Drove to swimming pool/sports centre right away. Came out after swim with the kids. Drove home. Got phone call same afternoon. Young couple came and looked at car. Brought bankers order next day. No haggling, they even paid the asking price without question.

Bally said They dont like e-mails either! FurkiG60 said ffsFurki - you must be winding us up! Good manners dont cost anything and I believe good karma can help all of us.

Having seen "Watchdog" covering TT instrument pods last night not sure I would want to handicap any car of mine with one - cool-looking or not. Are we talking about the same thing?

PhatVR6 said Well done PhatVR6. Its a buyer's market out there. Those numpties who ignore potential customers deserve to be losers, and they may well be.

andy said No, but the fines may make them be a bit more speed conscious from now on.

scarlett said Too true, scarlett. Good karma and bad karma. Believe in the good stuff, folks, you know it makes sense. Dont let your temper get the better of you. I'm no angel - I'm Mr Grumpy hereabouts but I realise the good sense of good, courteous actions and try hard to remember that, but still too often fail.

chrishill said Like that old carp or cunning trout, the response to baiting diminishes with, what I will call maturity and you will call Old Age! I would be lying if I said I had never responded that way years ago. Must be something to do with testosterone levels, acquired wisdom and the overwhelming desire for self-preservation that comes with old age. WE still want to prove things at 60 but, as I said, the obvious in a car is not one of them.

mch said I have always believed that the, mostly daily, 13 years of cycling and motor scooter experience I had before driving a car every day stood me in good stead on the roads. Not only do you take that knowledge of cycling into your car, but you also have got a sound and practical understanding of things like the physics of tyre to road surface adhesion. To me, driving a car is a very sophisticated scientific procedure and I can't stop thinking of the millions of people with licences who do not have a clue about anything technical whatsoever. Clearly, if you have a good understanding of the difficulties a cyclist faces in, say, windy or slippery conditions you will give them more clearance. (I will never fully understand how that woman in a car managed to clip my offside wing mirror when she overtook me on Honda 50 on a modern dual carriageway many years ago, but I have a couple of ideas!) Not suggesting this particular tragedy in Wales was due to the Corolla driver not having an understanding of cycling or being aware of the possibility of black ice on a gently curving road on a cold morning, but one is tempted to use one's imagination. I accept I may be adding two and two and getting five, though. Anyway, my main point is that many drivers do not give cyclists enough consideration because (like overgrown schoolboy pr@t J Clarkson appears to) they hate cyclists and/or they have not ridden a bike other than in mummy and daddy's driveway since they were six years old, if at all.

kevhaywire said Why demonstrate the obvious to immature nobheads, eh, kev? :evil:

andy said Sorry, but that is just paranoid IMO. Possibly today, many motorists are becoming prone to that. A considerable number of people have been mown down and killed at roadworks - they are a known blackspot for accidents. As well as from news stories, I know this from personal contact with guys who work on roads. You would not believe (or perhaps you would) how stupid drivers can be where there are roadworks. I know of a person who ploughed into the back of a small family car killing the four innocent occupants at road works near here. I cannot grasp how anyone can fail to see that roadworks might be a hazard to drivers and people working there or how anyone can sincerely hold the belief that speed control measures are purely just for making revenue.

Many of you seem to have really bad road surfaces - I can't relate to the lorry ruts thing at all, but I drive a lot less now, relatively speaking. Another thing - and this is rare praise - is that our West Lothian Council came top in Scotland recently for upkeep of roads! They are not perfect, so you guys with bad roads must really have an axe to grind (as well as your suspension/wheel rims/sumps, etc. :roll: ).

IMO - this is still one of the best countries for freedom of the individual. 60-70 years ago millions of people here and across the world sacrificed more than most of us will ever have to to keep it that way. How many of you mumping about speed limits and cameras are willing to move out to some other country that is not like the UK, to enjoy the rest of your life? About 5% or less, I expect. If you are a law abiding citizen who obeys the rules most of the time, there are hardly any tough injustices. If you are caught and penalised for breaking the rules implemented by a democratically elected UK government, don't whinge about it, please unless you are on the point of emigrating. Try and look at life with a much broader perspective. That is IMO only, but I have a relatively long overview.

Yes. We end up concluding that this is, indeed, a fine forum with plenty of decent people on it. I am always telling friends and family how much this forum is frequented by reasonable, well-informed, hard-working people, mostly a generation apart from myself. I would not come onto it if it were mainly populated with abusive knobends. It seems to me that no matter what subject or car people ask questions or comments on they get, mostly, well informed answers from someone. Plenty of members have owned other types of car and/or know about them anyway and there are plenty of sections in which to place your question or comment. IMO a formal widening of the knowledge base is not required.

The C is one of the worst cars I've owned for rearward visibility. After touching a wooden post in a garden centre with the rear bumper (I am an old git after all!), without hesitation I had Valeo sensors fitted by my local garage and have not regretted it. Mine sound same as chrishill's but cant relate to his problem of still backing into things. Geordies are a bit coarse and very aggressive, of course. :wink: (Kidding! - Alan Shearer, what a man.)

H8RRA said My son's bro in law got done for 85mph on motorway up here. I was surprised by that but took it on board. Mostly, if wanting to drive as briskly as possible, I allow 10% over limit on speedo (where safe, obviously). Difficult with VR6, this. Never booked in 34 years, by the way. Not even a parking ticket. Mostly its because I am a coward when it comes to trying to park in tight spaces in town and would prefer to walk a few hundred metres than bend something. :oops:

catch-twotwo said Can he spell words like "brakes", though. Or is that just an Essex thang? (Sorry, catch two two - I'm seriously prejudiced - my brother-in-law comes from Grays after all. :wink: )

Good, logical site. White on black is eyecatching for titles but for larger amounts of text is a bit fatiguing IMO. Keep it simple there - not everyone is impressed by flash colour/contrast effects. What do I know, though, I am a mere user. :roll:

G60Jet - I agree with you entirely, but can't help thinking you might put up another post which tells us you be taking the pi$$. :wink:

Just anounced on Scottish news. Driver who does 60k miles per year has been banned for a year and fined £3000 at Kirkcaldy Court. Crime? - Doing 156mph on Fife dual carriageway and on mobile 'phone at same time. Caught on speed camera. He is to appeal. However, whatever you think of speed cameras, I reckon most will not find his conduct appealing.

mrbeige said I once saw some for various cars in a VAG showroom. Strangely, they were not more than about £25. Perhaps they can be ordered by the parts people for a reasonable price. I seem to recall Carnoisseur had them, too.

Roger said Sorry, Roger. I was thinking of another nice man I know in England called Richard!

H8RRA said Absolutely right, I believe. My generation and that of my parents takes the blame, but how did we know how it would turn out. We only wanted better things for our children as did they. Mostly they succeeded. Myself and my friends grew up in tenements and on Scottish council "schemes" where you were ashamed to say you came from. Now I am proud of that. Our parents did not own their own houses or a car. Indeed, my mother often tells me that as a child she only got the top of a boiled egg rather than a whole egg. In the 1940s and 1950s when we in Britain mostly had nowt, much of the American way of life was lusted after, and now, to our cost, in many ways we have got it. Material wealth/spiritual poverty. Let us hope things can be turned around. We British were once, possibly, the most resourceful nation in the world. First, though, we have to educate the chavs/parasites/religious fanatics, etc that there is a better way. Any offers, anybody?

Good point, Roger. Last week, a section of the M9 here was closed during the rush hour whilst resalting took place after a series of relatively minor crashes. Hundreds, if not thousands of commuters were late for work - far better that, though, than an appalling tragedy like the one in Wales. PS As it turns out, the M9 was probably not very icy after all. Motorists were probably just driving too close to each other with fog visibilities of 100-150 metres. Again, lack of experience of these conditions was probably the key. In recent years we do not seem to have had thick fog very often in this part of Scotland. I am of the opinion that it is more common in rural England where flatlands and broad valley floors containing meandering rivers are a feature of the topography.