Reece_1

Have you tried to get a price of a new rear bumper? I had some scrape marks on my Fabia MK1 bumper (Again some unknown persons) and the body shop quoted something like £150, just out of interest, I costed up a replacement colour matched bumper and actually was a lot cheaper. In the the end, found that the damage wasn't that serious so sorted it out myself

Same here, had a quote from the AA a few years back for a Fiat Punto 1.2 - and that was some silly figure like £700.

Yep usually on some tatty Vauxhall Nova or Renault Clio

Noticed that before, maybe the car they used didn't have a badge on it, or it was removed due to some BBC ruling over advertising :confused:

No, you don't want to see one, you'll never recover:rofl: Someone at BMW has lost the plot big time over this one - it makes the Octavia look like a small car :eek:

It would be totally vapourised :eek: Just seen the caption at the end as well

Did you find some leftover christmas crackers then

No never What happend to the Octavia vRS 2006 in red Tom, or wasn't that yours :confused:

Nice to hear someone actually getting the claimed MPG, only seen a handful of new Fabia's, if anything I've seen more Roomsters over the past month. With economy now in downturn , don't expect to see that many new cars around.

Had another fatality at Gainsboro' Lincs - a 16 year old tried to remove the copper wiring from a live 11 kV transformer in a sub station, good candidates for the Darwin award :eek:

A 125 bike or scooter is ideal for short commutes - I used to have a Honda CB125 twin and did 10 miles round trip commute every day. A scooter will give you a bit more protection around the legs when it rains. For something longer distance and dual carriage roads etc then a 250 is ideal.

Not even that, £5,000 at the most if its fully working,and then the buyer got to be into early Japanese '90s 4x4s in a big way. Not a really sought after model.

Belated happy birthday

Well you didn't look too bad on the latest Top Gear DVD cover

I know a couple of people who have given up things like their classic cars because of increasing costs - Classic Car Weekly has no end of cars like Jaguars for sale. Whats been very noticable over the past year or so is the amount of small cars on the road like Citroen C1's, and a garage near to me is chock full of 4x4s and sports cars.