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just wondering as I've fitted another lock to the tailgate of my new daily drive car(megane) but button is binding. Will it pass an mot like this?

yeah I know it's something like £22 a day storage plus the £150 recovery. The car is worth about £60 scrap that means.....someone stole my car full of fuel I now have to pay about £120 to get it scrapped tommorrow and have had to buy another car today :no: I'll have to phone work and go in late tommorrow to get it sorted.

oh balls

My escort was recovered today and is being held at a compound by the recovery people. I only have Third Party Only insurance but I have green flag rescue with my insurance. They won't release the car until it's paid for (even though I didn't ask that particular company to recover it the police must have) who has to pay for the car to be released? My insurance/recovery or I was also told the police are liable through their recovery or do I have to pay for it myself. Any help apreciated

A white turbo diesel escort. Probably burnt out by now after being used for a taxi for someones journey home or joyride W@n#ers....... plates L884 EFX

TPO insurance too, as not worth the no claims loss etc. Got to find myself a cheap workmobile now just missed out on a rover diesel the other day for £300 will have to see if the guy still has it or not tommorrow in work.

...and just went outside to get in my car and it's now been stolen ffs and it was locked

as dave says shop around 1st. I was after Crysis. So looked on steam it was £18.99 then I bought it off ebay for £9 new delivered....but the day after it arrived steam were doing a weekend deal for crysis and warhead for £10:no::censored:

cool glad you got them :cool3: episode one is not all that long but HL2 is mahoooosive. Hope you enjoy

think they've gone over now dave :online2long:

I've sent you a befriend thingy through steam as it either does friends or email. Think you just have to accept then i can send it lol

no probs just pm me your steam name and i'll try to send them to you :ninja:

Had these 2 Pc games doubled up with other games I have bought. They are in my account as "1 Extra copy" of each and I think I can gift them to another steam memeber. Excellent games both of them if you haven't played them they're well worth the effort. So if anyone wants them and will use them I can hopefully gift them to your steam account. They are: Halflife 2 Halflife 2 Episode1 Free to a good home with a Steam account that will make use of them

I know it's a bit late but just had this deal emailed to me by ebuyer http://www.ebuyer.com/product/180538# Just had a read of a few reviews on the x4 athlon 620 in the bundle (which can be bought for about £60 on their own) and they are quicker than the phenom quads in most games but only about a third of the price. :shock:

mmmmmmmmmmmm that looks rapid

Might be a good bit of fun if this weather continues. Not too expensive either http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/Snow-Scooter-50cc-Ski-moped-ATV-G-SCOOTER-Snowmobile_W0QQitemZ320471100657QQcmdZViewItemQQptZUK_Motorcycles?hash=item4a9d90ecf1

feckin hell craig that'd be classed as an outdoor orgy down here:punk:

I have one of these http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/XIGMATEK-SCORPION-HDT-S1283-COOLER-CAC-SXHH3-U02_W0QQitemZ390120257289QQcmdZViewItemQQptZComputing_ComputerComponents_Fans_Heatsinks_SR?hash=item5ad4fab709 mines the straight edged one like they have pictured I think the proper scorpion has jagged style edges and here's how good they are http://www.frostytech.com/articleview.cfm?articleid=2233&page=5 and http://www.frostytech.com/top5heatsinks.cfm sooooper for the cash better that many that are 3 times the price paid £18 for mine not sure if they are available in i7 fittment though and they are massive ....120mm fan

and another http://www.techspot.com/review/206-his-radeon-hd-5850/ I'm gonna get me one of these I think over the next few weeks after checking my bank bal. Not a lot in it at all between the HD5870 & HD5850 except the huge price difference. Everywhere cheap seems to be sold out of them though at moment except for the lower 512mb ones. Not checked here though http://www.lambda-tek.com/componentshop/index.pl?origin=gbase2.3&prodID=B252253 for availability

just to throw into the equation HD5850 is proving a very good card for the money @£200 http://www.reghardware.co.uk/2009/10/12/review_graphics_amd_ati_radeon_hd_5870/

back in tommorrow after 3 weeks off :sad:

I've used a lot of both vendors over the past few years nvidia tnt2m64, geforce2gts, ati9800se(with Ati softmod this card rocked and was v. cheap), nvidia 7600gt,nvidia7900gs,nvidia8800gt,nvidia9800gtx,atiHD4870 that I can think of lol. I have no preference only on which card is gonna perform best for my hundread or so quid. i put the new crysis patch on when i got the game as bugger all worked with 1.0 ver I couldn't even set the options in the menu:nuke: I'll give it another run later on with a few settings changed around

That card went for £190 delivered after so looks like I'll have a wait for th 5870's to drop a little. I was looking to run crysis(just got it the other day after watching a steam HD vid of it..I thought it was just like far cry before that but found out it has aliens and I like aliens lol) at 1920x1080 on high but frames drop a little low at times and I get motion sickness then:hurl: I read turning motion blur off helps that a bit. So for the time being will wait unless a x2 bargain comes along.

As a guide my ocz 750w psu was £120 to run a hungry card is as said a must think mine has 60A on the 12v rail which is the more important factor as i remember. Some of the quads are power hungry too, I had an nvidia low power to gpu warning pop up as soon as I installed my 1st quad(just a simple cpu change from a core 2 duo ) from which shut the game down that I started playing as a safety thing and that was on a 650w or 600w cheapo psu . I've built a dozen or so units over the past 14 years most fired straight up but occasionally the odd one or two have be a pain in the arse. I have had a faulty board bought from new before now that nearly had me pulling my hair out.

Guest passes are trials aren't they? just found(which seems to appear and disappear) I have an extra copy of Halflife 2 and Halflife 2 ep 1 if anyone is interested and I can get the up again