Plug

Scott,

Are you just just offering this for Scooby/Evo interior parts or will you be branching out to other marques? I'm thinking that some of the trim inserts in the Merc could benefit from this kind of treatment....

Cheers,

Plug

Errm..

Do you leave your car parked with the engine running?

I thought not.

This begs the question.. why should parking charges relate to engine size, noise, or CO2 emissions. Charge large car owners by the footprint of their car by all means as they take up more space on congested roads, but anything else is pure discriminatory taxation. A parked car doesn't emit anything harmful.

Plug

Wow, it seems the swear filter is really working overtime tonight!

No fckuing cahnce of helping out with a simple request them. So, in phonetics..

whisky whisky whisky dot golf india mike papa dot oscar romeo golf  ..

Cheers,

Plug

I have always used Paintshop Pro and also find it so much easier than any other.

Alsi if you go on Limewire you can download version 9.0 for free!![]

Until the boys from FAST come knocking..

You could try try this, which is fully functional and gratis.. the GIMP (not as dodgy as it sounds, stands for GNU Image Manipulation Program). It isn't really a novice program though.

Point your browser at www.gimp.org. If you can't get on with it, then just delete it. It won't have cost you anything..

Cheers,

Plug

The Scoob is sold for a ridiculously low amount.

Know how you feel.. I sold mine for buttons. But I don't think that will be anything compared to the depreciation on the Merc...

Another one leaves the fold.. enjoy the Krautmobile []

Cheers,

Plug

Ooooh... that ain't pretty.

Hope you don't find any leftover bolts/circlips after the box goes back in  []

Cheers,

Plug

Like Monkeyboy says, grit yer teeth and buy a slowmobile. My second car is a 1993 Fiat Panda []. Not quick, but it gets you where you need to be and it costs buttons to run....

Cheers,

Plug

I don't think this site is a good idea at all.

Consider this. Don't like your boss? Dob him in for speeding. Neighbour's cat shat in your garden again.. oooh. Reckless driving for that one, I think. The site could become a magnet for the jealous and/or busybodies in general.

The trouble is, mud sticks. The site originators might be well intentioned, but have you considered what happens when they have compiled their "database of shame". Suppose the insurance companies decide to buy into it, as they (the site owners) say that is one of their aspirations, and indeed state that they intend to charge the insurance companies for the information. How do you feel about paying extra on your premium because someone decides to wage a campaign against you personally, or because they dislike the car you drive and decide to tar everyone with the same brush? The fact that the site owners appear to be building the database with the intention of distributing it once it contains enough information to be saleable should also ring a few alarm bells... this is a commercial project that we are looking at, not altruism.

I reckon that anyone who thinks this is purely an effort to make the roads a safer place is being very naive.

Plug

Have you got the CD? Be easier to just rip it and convert to MP3..

Cheers,

Plug

Just a wee bit of piston slap. No biggie.... []

Cheers,

Plug

Wouldn't know, I bought these for a MY98 UK classic. Can anyone shed any light on this?

Cheers,

Plug

Right then...

I was clearing out down the back of the wardrobe (like you do on a bank holiday weekend), and found a brand new set of platinum tipped plugs that I bought for the Scooby and never got around to fitting. Obviously they are no use to me now (see sig []) - I doubt the Merc ones are the same and anyway it takes 16 plugs!!!! These are Champion RC8PYP's.

I am loathe to throw them away as it seems such a waste. They weren't cheap! If anyone on here would like them, I propose the following:-

Whoever wants them makes a donation of £5 to Cancer Research (you can even do that on-line, I've just checked).

I'll pack them up and post them off to whoever makes the donation (I'll pay the postage, basically the donation is to cover that).

This way, everyone wins - someone gets a cheap set of plugs, I get the satisfaction of not throwing a perfectly good set of plugs in the bin and Cancer Research gets a fiver. Every little helps.

If anyone wants to take me up on this, reply to this thread first! First come, first served. Naturally, you can PM your address so it won't be going on the open forum.

Cheers,

Plug

Jesus there was some awful cars there [+o(] and of course 1 or 2 very nice cars []

Seconded.. a couple of right munters there [&]. Them crazy Welsh...

Cheers,

Plug

Oops, missed that one.

I'll get me coat [:$]

Cheers,

Plug

Think again..

Found on another forum.

Gulp!

Cheers,

Plug

Come on everybody, get a grip. 

The world's best-trained pursuit drivers have to practise their skills in realistic surroundings, and here we are bleating about a highly trained and skilled driver doing exactly that.  Give up on the krap about doing it on airfields or race tracks.  If you want to catch the criminals who have no cares about other road users (and probably no thought for the rights of the owner of the nicked car they are probably driving) then our boys in blue must be given the support of the public to do the job we want them to do.  And familiarisation has to take place on the public roads in realistic surroundings - to assert that it needn't is ignorant ranting rather than observational comment.

So back off boys, and stop this pathetic bleating about how he got away with it. 

Bejaysus...

No, I'm sorry. That isn't a valid argument. The sad thing is, with the current sue and blame culture in this country, there is no way that even in a chase situation would a trained police driver be allowed to exceed the speed limit by that amount in the course of their duties. They would have to back off and let the offender run, or risk the force being sued should they themselves be involved in an accident.

Bearing that in mind, the driver involved was clearly off the leash. So why should he be treated differently from the rest of us? Had his speed been 120 or even 130mph it could be possibly be justified as high speed acclimitisation, but no. He was simply on a mission to see how fast the car would go. If any one of us had been caught in similar circumstances, we could rightly expect the book to be thrown at us. He appears to have got away with a slap on the wrist.

Unfortunately, it looks like another example of why the police no longer have the respect of the motorist [].

Plug

It's a Mercedes.. [:$]

Cheers,

Plug

Yum.

Cheers,

Plug

Nice photos.

Congratulations to you both!!

Cheers,

Plug

LOL.. that's good trolling.

Kept it going right through to the end.. I wonder how many people went looking for crexen.

Cheers,

Plug

Looks like a normal day on the 25...

Cheers,

Plug

Looks good..

Needs some spots/driving lamps in the front though IMHO. Those blanking plugs make it look like a hamster with little stuffed cheeks.....[]

Cheers,

Plug

That Animusic stuff is good!

Cheers,

Plug

One door closes but another one opens...

Enjoy the new car!

Cheers,

Plug

I've heard the Pulsar/Sunny GTI-R has an appetite for head gaskets, particularly if they are modified (which a lot are).

Having said that, they aren't slow even in standard trim. Don't think the chassis is as well sorted as a Scooby though, I had a run in with one (when I had the Scoob), nothing between them in a straight line but he couldn't keep up when the going got twisty.

Cheers,

Plug