ReReformed

Had a look on Autotrader for old Boxster S. Could I be tempted away from getting another Scoob next year?

I don't think this is an identity theft scam, looks more like a pyramid scheme.

Perhaps the majority lurk like me. Which will all change next year when the lease runs out and I need to buy

So are all these people on the forum?

So from starting off to right through to passing the bike test how much does it roughly cost? What with the spiralling cost of driving anything but a boring A3 diesel thing I could be drawn over to the dark side.

The company car IS the scooby so I don't have any other insurance. Turns out the insurance company made a mistake and had to give my employer a new policy number that was supposed to show up on police checks, but evidently it does not. There was no "original document" for the insurance so just got a print off from work and took it down the station. Unfortunately as the name on the policy is my employers name the officer behind the desk wouldn't accept it, said he needed proof that I worked for them. "Some bloke in the pub could have given this to you". So off back home I went to see what I can find. My payslips have the name of the company that I work for but the insurance is in the name of the company that owns that company so that would do no good. Eventually at the bottom of a drawer I found some document to do with the pension scheme that had my name and the correct company name on it and it was this that I took back to the police. This did it which is pretty ridiculous considering I could have easily knocked it up on the computer, never mind the bloke in the pub. I guess the system isn't perfect but if it catches a few uninsured pikeys then its better than nothing. Was starting to think that I wish I'd just got the speeding ticket but its all sorted now and I still don't have any points!

So I came out of the Shell garage last night after filling up on V-Power, onto a 40mph road going a little too fast and I get pulled by the police. "Do you know the speed limit on this road sir?" "40" "And fast were you going?" "Over 40" "Is this your car?" "No, its a company car registered to *********** fleet solutions" "Any points or convictions?" "Nope" "Well give us your licence, we'll do a standard details check and what to do" ......... Didn't get a fine (wasn't going that fast and they may have felt they had a problem proving the offence) but it turns out they couldn't confirm that the car was insured. They said they checked the database at Swansea (presumably the DVLA) but it didn't come up. Now I work for a pretty big company with many many cars leased from the supplier so I very much doubt they haven't insured the car properly. So the question is what sort of corporate group insurance type facility or whatever they have would not show up on the database? I have the producer to show up at the copshop with an insurance certificate (which I obviously don't have) otherwise I get a court summons. If there is not an individual certificate for me on the policy then who knows whats gonna be needed? Anyway, I'll be on the phone to the person in HR that sorts out the company cars (will leave out the speeding bit) and see what she can send down to me. The fact that head office is down south and I'm up north doesn't help, nor does the fact that I'm working away on site all week! Let this be a lesson to you to keep it easy on the loud peddle!

In my 07 WRX I switched from Tesco 99 to V-Power and noticed a difference in performance and fuel efficency. I was probbaly all my head though.

Also have a look a this link on the BBC. Just cos they say its out of warranty doesn't mean they don't have to replace it. A PS3 that fails after 18 months is not fit for purpose. BBC - Five Consumer Laws You Should Know

Well I never. The TOM TOM is getting slower and slower these days so maybe worth a look. Have an old v1.50 so there is gonna have to be a good dash mount as it is a little bulky. May be able to download some good homebrew too. (using alternative OS)

Satnav!? How on earth does it do that without any GPS harware in it? Can you get a GPS attachment? If so where does it go? Connect using wifi as if it was bluetooth perhaps? Can you get a windscreen PSP holder too? Sat Nav eh? Never thought of that before.

When all the freaks, idiots and pikeys are on it is when its any good! When they get to the studio and start patting each othe on the back it all gets rather false and boring. And when Louis Walsh stood up and applauded Britney Spears for jumping around on stage and miming it was a perfect example of how full of crap this programme is. And more more importantly what the chuff am I doing watching it!!!

There are times driving up the M1 looking at all these people in the wrong lane that I wish a virus/meteorite/global warming/recession would wipe out the human race and get these tools out of my way.

M.S.M'd ???

Considering the amount of dings and scrataches that I've got from other people who have disapeared I would quite like to track them down. Not sure I would want them to be killed in a head on crash though I wonder what will happen to the chap in the chasing focus?