TheRealNips

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Here's mine: Pretty proud of the lack of advisories and after having a look underneath, there isn't a spot of rust anywhere.... its such a shame Im going to have to keep her for ages...! :lol:

Welcome, nice looking car!

Should we start a poll on whether Hammond and May will leave with him and start a new car show on Sky/Netflix/etc or Chris evans will agree to replace Clarkson on Top gear? I know that Top gear will not be the same without Clarkson. I know that the BBC have shot themselves in the foot here by getting rid of him, but as you said, they didnt really have a choice. Its a shame really, that one of the best tv shows maybe have been ruined/cancelled (mostly through Clarksons doing if im honest!) Wasn't Jonathon Ross fired from the BBC? Something to do with the waiter from Fawlty Towers? He came back to the BBC pretty quickly. Maybe Clarkson will be back in 18 months time... "This week on top gear, James drives a Ferrari slowly, Hammond crashes a go-kart and I sign a contract with the BBC"

1- here are some of the links i found from different sources, you are more than welcome to make your own mind up, but I feel there's no smoke without fire: http://www.theguardian.com/politics/2014/apr/03/ed-balls-average-family-worse-off-2010 http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/families-are-still-worse-off-than-when-tories-came-to-power-study-claims-10083321.htmlhttp://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-26883208 http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-26883208 http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/2014/01/22/uk-1600-cost-living_n_4644143.html http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/cost-living-crisis-40-week-3273757 http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/personalfinance/household-bills/8791127/Asda-Index-shows-families-60-a-month-worse-off-than-in-2010.html http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/budget/11482856/Budget-2015-Household-incomes-return-to-pre-recession-levels-IFS-says.html http://www.birminghammail.co.uk/news/local-news/west-midlands-people-30-a-week-worse-5612350 2- I only know a handful of people and they are similar to me, I didnt claim to know all the people in my area and i think i did say that where I live is a big tory area with lots of rich londoners living in country home and wealthy landowners/farmers. 3- im glad you agree that voting is important, I watched "the idiots guide to polictics" on BBC iPlayer. He makes the point that people are willing to pay £££/min to vote on X-factor/american idol/strickly, but they cant be bother to vote for thier freedom. Its well worth a watch and seeing "Ol' Nigel" dressed up as a builder to escape the cameras was quite funny! :lol: Can I make the point that Im not trying to make you all feel and vote the way I feel/will vote? You all still own 300's, so no matter what you vote, we are all here to enjoy each others 300 love first and foremost! :thumbup::thumbup:

This is the day after my birthday and I have friends in Stoke we can stay with. As long as im not working that weekend, count us in!

Not having lived in this country during the economic crisis, I cant really agree or disagree. However a quick google seems to show that Uk'ers are worse off now than in 2010 (figures seem to depend on who collated them; Labour, lib dems, BoE, etc) Everyone I know down here (in this rich, tory, landowner part of the country) seems to want the torys gone. Worryingly (and this means a lot to me as im married to a non-EU national) UKIP seems to have pulled the heart strings of a lot of people, especially young people. A few people (myself included) want to vote labour, just to stop UKIP or a UKIP/tory coalition happening. I have been left with a problem though. I refuse to vote UKIP on the grounds that I think they are racist and biggoted and I think leaving europe would be a huge mistake. I refuse to vote tory because of what they put my wife and I through to move back here. I cant vote Lib dem because of broken promises and it would be a waste of paper and I dont really want to vote labour as they dont seem to have a proper plan. I wont vote green as I love cars too much and some of their policies are damaging to my hobby. Suddenly I can see why people cant be bothered to vote any more. Unfortunately politics in the UK seems to have turned voting from "voting for who you like/agree with" to "voting to keep the worse party out". Whoever you vote for (and I refuse to start an argument here!) please do one thing: GO AND VOTE! Remember: 1) If you dont vote, you cant spend the next 5 years moaning about politicians/policies/etc 2) Politicians want people to not vote. Having lived in a totalitarian dictatorship (China) for 10 years, trust me we need to keep our democracy.

Im like that, we will be watching a movie with breasts and what not and ill be car spotting in the background :whistling:

Just for a bit of balance: Up the reds!!!

Thank you for all this info. I have a day off tomorrow and will look into it and let you know what I find

The switch for the passenger window on the drivers side wasnt working, so I thought "no problem, ill get another". I replaced it and it still doesnt work. The passenger side switch works fine. Any ideas on how to fix this?

All the buses i drive have push start (actually theres a start up procedure of 4-5 switches and buttons) and its pain in the arse, give me a key any day!

My favourite author has died. RIP

I signed this if anyone is interested: https://www.change.org/p/bbc-reinstate-jeremy-clarkson

That cool! Keeps us updated with a thread, pics and a price! Im looking in to putting a TT lump in mine. I will be watching your updates with interest while looking for a TT engine :thumbup:

Is part of it people wishing they were worth that much? They put their price up on websites because thats what they feel they should be worth? There was a ZX last month on a website that the guy was trying to sell for £15k or something and people on here were laughing... We all get attached to our cars and if/when that dreaded day comes to get rid of them, do we not price the car at what our broken heart tells us too? Do we not try to squeeze as much out of the buyer as possible? would we not advertise it a couple K over what we would accept anyway? im sure the values of ZXs are going up, its simple supply and demand, but if a dealer advertises one on autotrader for £9,995, are we not going to think: "Mine is almost as good as that one, ill advertise mine at £7,995" and before we know it, everyone has started doing the same?

I drove a Gallardo at brands hatch as a Christmas present last year and that was awesome. I've always wanted a lambo and now I want one even more. I also have way more respect for the baby lambo now. inside it felt very Audi, but when you floored the 500BHP V10 it felt all lambo and was everything I was hoping it would be! 159mph was my top speed along the straight

*orgasm*

Both my cars recently bought never had the V5 sent off by the previous owner. I now ring the DVLA the day I buy a car to alert them that ive bought it and for them to expect the V5 in the post. If I dont get anything in 3 weeks, I ring them and then fill out the other form (cant remember what its called). I also found out that its free to send your V5 to the DVLA, just give it to the post office and they deal with it all.

No it wasn't unfortunately

Friday Lunchtime: Bright red, modified ZX with body kit going round the pizza express roundabout heading towards Upperton road. It was two up and sounded nice. Was it you? P.S Next time please use your indicators on the roundabout, so I know which way you are going and I can pull out in my slow-arsed bus :P

That sounds awesome, I would love to go. Will we have a 300zx stand? Its a shame that the gardens rally was dropped, that was really good when I last saw it, it was 2004 though!

Sounds good. i went to this one year while i was at bournemouth uni. they had a short rally course through the gardens

No internet on my buses, so no idea! Phones 4G has been fine all day though

My wife asked me this question the other day (shes learning to drive at the moment and wanted to know about engines, clutches and gearboxes). We found this video that explains it well https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IKywZ730JFs