General Discussions - Non 300ZX

Heard something quiet scary today. My ex girlfriend (on good terms) went to a tax seminar - without going into details tax is changing in April. Its a possibility that eventually HMRC will be in charge of paying everyone, then billing companies for the wages!!!! So your company will tell HMRC how much to pay you then THEY HMRC will be in charge of paying you. Taxing at source. Scary shit. Next it will be Brussels deciding on how much we will be getting paid seen as they dictate everything else!

Due to recent goverment changes & sudden cuts to the funding of cavity wall & loft insulation schemes i've just been laid off along with 100 other staff :thumbdown::cursing: Wouldnt mind soo much if it wasnt for the fact i got told yesterday that due to the current cuts they would be laying off 64 of us. However they would be keeping the best of us to tied us over till the new Goverment 'Green Deal' kicks in & have enough funding & work to carry us over & "my job was safe" (should think so after 5 years of service & dedication + training god knows how many others for them FOC) Get a phone call halfway through the day "drop tools & go …

Im looking at a tariff on tesco mobile. I get 500MB a month. How long does that last? Ive had tinternet before on my phone and i must say i hardly ever used it, quick check on facebook and ebay which is what i'll probably use it for this time but id just like to know what i could do with it. Also, what are your views on the Samsung Galaxy Ace, good camera at 5mp thats all im interested in tbh. Thanks

6000k Post Count i must talk some crap on here to have that much all ready .. only been year half

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/2004-MAZDA-RX-8-192-PS-GREY-/321050892893?pt=Automobiles_UK&hash=item4ac01fda5d Drool No bids!!! Doubt v much it'll stay that way, but I'm so tempted to bid a grand at the last minute!

Ok this may take a bit of time to explain as it's very complex but I'll try my best to keep it simple. (I won't name names/companies just to keep it ok for open discussion) there's a bit of waffle at the beginning (which a lot of you will have heard before) and there are a few legal agent/seller questions at the end.... A lot of people are aware of my RX7 issue that has been ongoing for several years (so my appologies for the repetition). To date this has not been resolved and it's very unlikely that I will be taking this to court as the individuals in question have exploited several legal loopholes. However I feel now that I may have to t…

Need another runabout. The Lancer is fab, cannot fault it but its our only car and its difficult when we're both on placement and need to get to places when we're sharing. Am thinking of going to have a look at this later: http://www.tradecarsnortheast.co.uk/used-cars/volkswagen-golf-1-6-se-2dr-thornaby-201301497338090 I test drove a Golf last year and liked it, it felt pretty solid and safe, but I've never owned German before. Anything I ought to know? I said to Marc before Christmas that I wanted a cabby for my 40th lol

A few nights ago i made a passing comment about an 89 rear spoiler on a thread not connected and declared that i was intrested.Another member then stated that he had one but was unable to find the time to post due to work comitments but i could pick the item up for free. Now this basicly wrote that idea off as ime near chester (north west) and the member was in London so i put it to bed. Out of the blue tonight ive just had a pm from him stating he had taken the spoiler to his wifes work and she was going to post it tomorrow..iff that was,nt good enough he also told me and his words "free postage,free spoiler". This is such a massive gesture of generosity as we are not ta…

Ok it's a bit of a random thread title and to be fair it's not a particularly interesting thread, but here go's I thought I'd share it with you anyway... Last year I leant a mate of mine my Nomex kit and spare helmet for the 2012 season and his dog evidently took a fancy to the old Sparco suit bag that the coveralls were in. He was very appologetic (my mate that is not the dog!) and duly sourced a replacement. The courier delivered all of my kit and the replacement bag the other day and as I was going through it all to give it a bit of an airing, I noticed the team name and former owner of the bag: AT&T WILLIAMS ROSBERG Like I said, not particula…

New top gear starts on bbc2 @ 8:00pm on 27th Jan! Woo!!

Bought a little tub of paste from Tesco's today but there's no recipe guide on it. I know I need to add more stuff like coconut milk etc but has anyone got a recipe that uses paste? I've looked on t'web but they're all making their own pastes up as well.

About 6 years ago I put together an album of pure drum and bass and never did much with it till now. It's available on iTunes. If your interested have a search for Jimmyt bass wedge. Need your support :)

Do any of you guys use one of the parts washing tank things, I'm thinking of buying one as be helpful when cleaning degreasing parts? Any of you find them worth the money?

Just put some pictures of my latest American road trip on my iPad so thought you might like to see some of the cars I saw along the way. Some of the cars are in the Indianapolis Motor Speedway Museum, the others are in the many car museums along Route 66. The pictures are on photobucket but well worth a look. http://s1134.beta.photobucket.com/user/tmogsy/library/American%20cars%202012

Sorry it's not a Zed, but i took up hairdressing when i realised i couldn't handle twin turbo's :innocent: One of the only things letting the look of my car down (IMO :laughing ) is the faded rear light plastics. So I bought some AutoBrite scratch out during a Christmas promotion on Detailing World. This is the result. This was applied using a micro fibre towel, worked in for literally a couple of minutes, then buffed off. Here is a 50/50 for comparison. Hope you agree they look so much better now, thought this might be of interest/use to some of you as I'm sure others have a similar problem. Thanks for looking. Daffy.

Has anyone got any i can borrow in Mansfield / Nottingham area? Thanks.

I have a negative output on my alarm which is used to switch on things like the tilt switch, microwave sensor etc. When the alarm is turned off, it switches to 11 odd volts and I wanted to use this to switch a mini relay but when connected, the voltage goes down to 7v and you can hear a tiny click from the relay. I assume there isn't enough current to actually switch the relay? So is there any way of using this low current 11v to switch a relay? Cheers Vijay

On Channel 4+1 now looks good:devil2:

Hi does anyone know anything about compressors I've got a problem with mine, Now if I've not used it for a day or so it starts up fine fills up ok but once pressure drops and motor tries to start up again it cuts out (sounds like its blowing a fuse or something)and won't work again for a day or so Don't know why but the motor will only work once a day lol don't know if its on strike or something

Just sat here watching the above and was wondering what you guys thought was the worst car in history and most of all why? Mine is a 1988 ford Orion always broke down on me no matter how much I spent on it getting it fixed, its best feature was it knew when I had to be somewhere quickly and decided it did not want to start. Then after a night out I woke up to find it gone from my drive and on someone elses round the corner. This was over 15 years ago and not yesterday.

Well a few months ago I sold the zed to buy something more practical unfortunately ( for the bank balance) I stumbled across the rs6 which seemed to tick all the boxes, fast, reliable, awd, practical and comfortable so I took the plunge a few weeks ago and having only owned jap cars since the tender age of 16 I'm quite impressed by the big german brute. It's no zed it doesn't have the ability to turn heads like the zed, it doesn't have the sexy curb appeal of the zed did and the bills for repairs on the big 6 are frightening (£1000 just for a set of brake disc's, you could buy a tatty zed for that!!!) but hey you only live once. Anyway I hope I don't get to much…

We are potentially looking for a company to redo/re host our current websites, anyone do this or can recommend?

Hiya guys finally back on here after ages of not having a computer , hows everyone been keeping ? Had a good christmas? Glad to be back on

Any ideas what I can do? TV working fine, good reception on all freeview channels (and freeview HD channels on TV directly). Hook up my new surround sound system (LG BH9520TW) and have a play with the settings listening to music and with a dvd, all fine. Stick it on the TV and first few channels I try say no signal, others have jumpy pictures and a few are fine. Switch off the surround dound system and I gett all my channels back! No point having a semi decent setup like this if I can't use it for every day TV watching. I've got a booster plugged in already.

What have I missed??? Oh and happy new year.