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Resurrecting an old thready, but I've been away for the weekend.

I use TomTom Mobile 4 on my SPV C500 and it's fantastic.

Pick up the Points of Interest for speed cameras from www.pocketgpsworld.com.

Do they come in 6 foot 4 addicted to takeaways and irn bru size?

I'm waiting on 6 I think, the lotus and the VX220 included.

Anyone else finding that they're getting LOADS of the MX5?

I know someone who might be interested in a non-turbo, I will pass this on to him.

The new car looks CLEAN. Especially those lovely wheels.

Maybe get rid of the pink badge at the front though.

I've been faffing with TomTom Mobile 4 on my phone. You can download a list of cameras (red light, specs, gatso and popular mobile sites) and set it to warn you when you get near them. It does work really well, but not quite as good as my road angel.

Apparently the A70 is getting closely watched for speeders jus now. That's south lanarkshire into south ayrshire through Douglas, Muirkirk, Cumnock and so forth.

You really do have quite the wheel fetish Fiona. Did you get your Boyd Coddington ones on yet?

Got an import that's due its 9000 mile service very soon and I'd like a SIDC discount at Halleys very muchly too.

Considering prodrive springs at the same time too.

Mine's an FD54 plate, so it's a Motorpoint purchase too.

He was driving a 3.2 litre Vectra, unmarked.

Now I've had the pleasure of driving an old shape vectra, 1.8 Club SE, at 134 on the Autobahn, and it was SCARY. The car suffered SERIOUS front end lift at 80 onwards. Maybe they've fixed it on the new one, but I wouldn't fancy giving it a bash.

What you really need is some new phones with PTT - Push To Talk - on them. That's like 2-way radio over the mobile network.

Not many out yet though.

Is there a "police speed limit" that they should stay under, even when in hot pursuit?

Anyone know what he was driving too?

The big beemers and mercs might well be 155 limited, and I don't see the police uncapping them.

Right, so I turn left at the roundabout and then take the first or the second right? And does that bring me out at the BP station or well before?

I'll have to give it a wee bash someday. Luckily I'm going north across the bridge in the morning and south at night, so it's usually against the nasty traffic.

Parcel Farce lost a £400 hifi I'd sent to a guy who'd bough it off ebay from me. 2 day anxious wait for them to finally remember where they'd put it wasn't fun.

I've not used them since, and ask people not to use them where I can.

I notice the Sunday Times link is still fewked. You'd think they'd have thought about putting the site up before the promo started.

Twice a day for me!

I got myself 30 notes worth and another 6 cards, only one of which was a doubler. None of the good ones though.

I got some cards on Saturday at the shell at glasgow village airstrip. From memory I have the XK8, the RX8, the XC90, that lexus 4wd Luxury Barge thing and I can't actually remember what else.

There's a web address on the cards but it doesn't work. I thought maybe the promo hadn't started and the guy gave me the cards by mistake.

No Subarus and no Porsches, but middle of the road 4x4s? Odd.

I think I'll stop into shell Kincardine for a top up on my way home and see what I get.

Get a car bra.

Really going after people like Motorpoint etc.

When you consider that a new WRX from an importer is 16-16.5K with an Alarm, and is basically now only 18.4K from a main dealer then that saving really isn't as pretty now. Although you really need to want that PPP.

When I bought mine in December there was no offers on, like the recently expired free servicing, so my saving was over 3K. Now you're lucky to save 2 in the grand scheme of things.

Oh well. Still wont remove that big smile off my mug.

I work in IT, but not for an IT company, and luckily the other 2 guys in the department are both car nuts too.

A year or so down the line and I'd think about a serious mod like that, but I bought a new car to enjoy the warranty for a little while.

All bran will do that for you.

Ahem.

Where I've stuck mine left it really easy to hide the wire in the gaps of the trim. There's also a great shelf behind the steering column where you can bundle up the wire and stick it down to keep it out of the way.

Mine worked fine off the ECU port. Just make sure you connect up the two white connectors.

You really do have a crazy collection of Alloys Fiona.

I like those wheels on yours oobster. Those in black would look great on my black car.

Nice pictures. That suspension is really a work of art, and used to create downforce too if I'm not mistaken.

I've been to a CART race down at rockingham, and that was a pretty feersome noise.

But I don't think you can beat the noise I heard when I went to see the Nascar at Daytona. 40 Big block V8 ultra-low tech Nascar engines being floored at the same time and all thundering past about 30 yards from your face. The earth was literally moving.