Sonicriot13

Not again! :lol: This thread is like a dictionary of names now! :lol: Lucy won't let me take the Rado on holiday so when I come to see you next month I'll be in the Celica rice box. :shock:

Cheers mate, yeah sorry I haven't been around much. Been really busy with one thing or another. I'll give you a look soon. :D There is a bit of rain forecast I think. All the more reason to wash the cr@p off and get a layer of wax on it. I really really really want to dismantle this car and rebuild it. Like, mega rebuild it. Thinking next year maybe. I just don't know if I'll be able to go that long without driving it though. Maybe I can get another Rado as a daily or something. But then I like the Golf too.... Hmmmm....

Well, ahead of the Oxford meet on Saturday and after no small effort with the polish my car is red again. Just wish it stayed this red. Oh well, I'll just have to keep at it until I can afford the respray....

Maybe he just wanted to join the ever growing population of Andys on the Forum. :lol: Thinking of changing my user name to Andyriot13.

Oh, and as for compo try the Financial Ombudsmen Service after you've been through the insurer's own complaints procedure.

Mate, if only that was true. I used to work in motor insurance and we used to get calls from the police all the time. Checking up on all sorts of things. Porsches, Mercs, everything. A lot of them turned out to be uninsured. I wouldn't be hard on the police. I can understand you and your brother being p!ssed off with them but they were acting on false information supplied by yet another incompetent insurance company. :censored: :censored: :censored:

^ This :( Hang in there mate. I'd buy your car if I was in the market. I'd probably buy it now to be honest but I doubt I'd get away with 3 VWs.

Some people are struggling to get £1500 for a VR at the moment mate. :(

Yep, even though it's just gonna get crushed. I guess the "thought" behind that is that one of their aims is to get the cars off the road and if it doens't have an MOT then it's not on the road in the first place. I mean of course nobody would be driving a ten year old car around on the road with no MOT would they? :cuckoo: ahh well then I might just get me ar$e in gear and restore the 23yo 924 I have sitting in the driveway Have you owned it for more than 12 months now? :nono: :lol:

Yep, even though it's just gonna get crushed. I guess the "thought" behind that is that one of their aims is to get the cars off the road and if it doens't have an MOT then it's not on the road in the first place. I mean of course nobody would be driving a ten year old car around on the road with no MOT would they? :cuckoo:

So the stealers are throwing in the £1k discount they would have offered anyway! Ergo good ol' UK is taking on more debt to fund greedy manufacturers/dealers and dear Darling takes a pat on the back from an oversized motor industry! And how many people, who are about to splash a good few £k on a new car, currently run a sub £2k model? I wonder if pre-registered cars will qualify? Ne'r mind - it'll be good for sub-£2k motor business. Here is a good example of this based on a car we sell here. It's available as a 1.6 diesel which is by far the best seller in the range. The recommended retail price for the car OTR is £13,380.00. The manufacturer had an offer that ran from 1st Jan to 31st March where you could buy this car for £10,995.00. That's a saving of £2385.00! But then they decided to drop this offer as of 1st April so now you will come in with your 10 year old car and get £2000.00 for it. The car will cost you £11380.00. That's LESS of a discount than you would have got last month and you wouldn't have had to trade in anything at all.

Yeah, the motor industry is being asked to part subsidise itself. To be honest the manufacturer I work for had really good offers on most of its cars from the 1st January to 31st March (offers are changed every quarter). Most had at least a grand off or £1500 towards your finance deposit and stuff like that. Then mysteriously as of the 1st April they stopped all the offers. I wasn't sure why to start with but now I know. So you're basically gonna come in here and get the same offer you would have got anyway.

Yep. :(

Excellent, that will really encourage people to get off benefits. :roll: Basically you have to have owned the car for a year, it must have a valid MOT for some reason (not sure why when it's just gonna get scrapped) and the scheme will run from May this year up until March 2010. I've not seen anything to suggest that you have to buy an "eco" car. And yeah, by the sounds of it it's 1k from from the government and 1k from the manufacturer.

I'm still trying to get my head round it if I'm honest. Struggling to find any concise information about the porposals put forward and nothing at all has stood out as being anything that is either a) particularly surprising or b) something that I think for a minute is going to help the economy in the long run. Which is kinda what we need right? We're trying to save British jobs so here's 2 grand to put towards a foreign car. :cuckoo:

The queue is already forming outside our door. Got loads of customers waiting for this. Can't say I blame them really. We can give you £50 now or you can come back in a couple of weeks and you'll get £2000.... Bit of a no brainer for the genral public. I still think this is very short sighted initiative though.

So are we gonna be seeing this at any Northgate meets this year mate? :D :wink:

Toad will be along soon. :lol: There's got to be a ferret gag in there somewhere....

NO! .. / -.. --- -. .----. - / .-.. --- ...- . / -... .. --. / -.. .. .-.. -.. --- ... / .- - / .- .-.. .-.. --..-- / -. --- - / -- . / -. --- :lol: Anyway Yan, yes a double depth socket is the way forward!

Sounds like a dildo! :luvlove: That's the wrong smiley! :eek: That's better. Sorry I'm going now. Was there something you wanted to tell us? :lol:

The tortoise will look quite good I think. :lol:

Mate, that's rough. Sounds like the only option is to relist and block him from bidding on it. What a complete to55er! :censored:

Hmmmm... the thing is even if I do change is it gonna make much difference? It's a bit late for me to catch up I think. :lol: Plus it'll be boring if everyone just has Vettel or Button.

Wait till after spain! I am keeping my fingers well and truly crossed for Spain mate! :D They've got it all to do though.

I know. But no doubt I'll get rid of Massa and he'll start winning! All things considered I'm surprised I've got as many points as I have.... :lol: