Quavey

50! :o

30th?40th ;)

+1 At least us young guys have good reaction times.... ;) Besides, age has so little to do with it. I do think that insurance should take into account driving experience. I.e vehicles previously had (I know some do) and also the milage that people drive. Ironically, people who drive less (and so you could easily argue have less experience) pay less than people who drive more miles. I do 40-45k a year these days, and have driven something like 220k in the 6 years since I passed. I have friends who have been driving for longer yet havnt driven even 50k . Its reasonable to assume that I have encounetered more situations and ergo have more expeience than someone who has driven a fraction of the distance.

Yeah thats the one, had to leave the old girl at the hotel. No way she was going to come home with me! So i got a lift back to glasgow to my bosses house and contemplated what to do. Ended up getting a lift home (lancaster) via a friend of my bosses so that was good. Although ive just got home and its started snowing here, I wish I had taken the other option and borrowed one of the shoguns. I have my astra van which is fairly poor in the snow but we'll see! So I have to get the train back to glasgow later in the week or sometime to collect my car lol

They were meaning the rear strip on the rear lights not the side pin stripe I think dude.

They were meaning the rear strip on the rear lights not the side pin stripe I think dude.

very nice, I like the effect round the lip. Is that a burnt effect or something?

You could get a sports cat... A couple of models below ;)

Good plan, sadly though have to get home in the old girl tomorrow. But we'll see, might have to borrow a work shogun and leave the zed up here depends how bad it is! Almost wish I had some standard wheels, would give me a fighting chance but 275 wide rear rubber really doesnt help things!

It was dire took me an hour and a half to get from cambuslang to stirling. Amazingly the old girl was fine if we kept moving. Not something I have ever had to think about is the small but very important rising gradient on some motorways. Quite concerning as the Stoppage was in the roadworks on whatno think is the a80 so barriers on both sides no way I can get out of the way of The 'normal' cars with half sensible tyres lol

I've just driven from Glasgow to Stirling in my zed in the pelting down white shit I made it, Just but good god was it the hardest drive of my life! Had a hold up in the roadworks for about 20 minutes on the slightest of hills and I really thought the old girl wasnt going to make it. Ended up slithering up the entire slope at a 20" angle at tickover in second. Never before have I been so caught out in the snow in the wrong car! Been here about 20 minutes now and my heart is still going... For anyone who knows stirling, the most astonishing part is that I made it into the highland hotels carpark!

Hell fire insurance has got dear it seems, when I was 20 i paid £1100 for mine!, now im so old (23/24) its dropped to 700 fully comp!

I had this question when I was doing a manual conversion. The guy doing the conversion told me I needed a manual starter motor so i started to do some digging as I didnt believe him. Turns out, alot of Auto to manual conversion on TT's use kits from an NA. Because the bellhousing is different on an NA box, (and you use a larger flywheel on a TT) and the starter bolts to the bell housing you would need to effectivly space the starter motor away from the flywheel otherwise it wouldnt bolt up. There isnt really a solution to this other than use spacers/washers to gain the extra clearance. That was my understanding of it anyway. In order to answer your actual question, there is no difference between them in terms of fitment or sizes etc. Only difference seems to be that bracket for the oil lines as Jaikai mentioned.

Its more often than not neglect and age thats getting to these cars now which makes them unreliable. Quite often they are bought because they are cheap, but people dont always quite realise that they do need looking after. I have to say, I have had two of them now over a period of the last 4 years and neither broke down once, ive done 16k or so in them and no dramas. If you get a good one and look after it you'll be laughing. Since no one answered your question, typical figures for economy are around 15mpg for runnning about and 20-22 on a run. You can do better (28 some people have seen but i think thats more with careful driving) I dont believe there is a huge amount in the fuel consumption between the NA and TT's. However it will drop to single figures if your having fun! Autos will drink alot more juice, my first one was an auto I had converted to manual and the difference per tank was startling! Vpower/ultimate etc only!

I don't think someone spending 3 years studying wheel clamping is going to discover green energy? No one is saying people shouldn't go to uni, if they become high earners what does it Matter that they have to pay a paltry 5k extra back? I made the decision not to go to uni as it seemed a waste of time and money mainly because I didn't know what I wanted to do with life so rather than going an doing any old course to have a drink and drug fueled 3 years I thought I'll get a job and start contributing rather than wasting everyone s times with a pointless course. I don't think it would be so bad if students actually did any work. I remember a mate of mine complainin he had 3 3 hour lectures a week. This was at a time I was working 12 hour days terminating fibre cables across the country....

Student wasters pah! The biggest issue is that the courses are so long and drawn out, considering most courses are a day at week at most, and only last for about 8 months of the year. So thats roughly 35 days a year actually at uni. So if we say that over a 3 year course thats actually a 100 day course. You think, why cant it be condensed into a 6 month time scale (Still only 4 days a week!). Would certainly get the debt down as the average cost of uni would be cut by 6 times. What really bugs me though is the amount of pointless courses (weather they were 6 months or 3 years!). There was a huge drive from the previous government that everyone must go to uni, well "proper" uni isnt for everyone so they had to invent endless courses for people. I remember being sat in the common room with a group of my mates who were looking through uni prospectus' trying to find courses that they "could" do (i.e would have enough points to do ) rather than what they wanted to do.

Mine must be one of the 6 then! LOL

I agree that the poor thing has gone up and got stuck. You need to take the exhaust of, if you cant do it for whatever reason then get someone down who can. DO NOT start the car as the shock and gasses well most likely kill it. Poor thing, should teach people to have such stupidly large and pointless exhausts!

My van gets a wash every 10k or so, its absolutly rank and filthy normally. (Infact with my line of work, having it dirty means it often blends in and doesnt stand out so I have my reasons) I have taken it to a local place a couple of times now and they do it each time, often takes two of them but they do it for £5! lol

is there any oil in it?

Wahoo! Good man. Im looking to buy a place in the new year. Although on my own, it will be my first time of living away from home. Since I didnt go to uni, so its a big step!

;)

Thats a very intereting car, UK front and rear bumpers, also seat belts on the B pillars rather than the doors, showing that its a series 2 car (same with the rear belts not being lap belts) Which would make it later than 1990. I'm not sure about the colour though although its listed as yellow via is reg plate it looks an odd shade to me. Although might just be the camera, yellow UK cars are very rare i believe!

Maybe! depends where it is!

Yeah I can see the R plate, its not uncommon for a car to be registered incorrectly, i think somewhere there is an 03 reg zed running around as its year of import was accidently put down as its year of first registration. Only real way to tell is to check the seats belts and or boot trims as they each have manufacture date stamps. Also with seats being so easy to change its easily possible that cars will get different seats. Mine is on its 3rd set since I have known it! Original manual S4 cloth, earlier twin electric S2 blue cloth and installed soem S1/S2 leather single electric (cant tell series) lol