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It's what I was thinking when I saw it as well (and it's only a couple of miles from my house!) For those that want to see it in the flesh, come to the next meet - the Ffynon Wen is just along the road!

Tyres :: Tyre Pressure Search May help...

INdustry recommendations from vehicle manufacturers, tyre manufacturers and motoring organisations is to fit new tyres to the rear axel

It can't do any harm to click on the link in my sig, and ask what the best price the site discounter over there can do for you Personally, for MP3, I run a Kenwood HU with the 10GB Keg... probably all a bit old fashioned now, but it's great having 10GB of MP3 on the Keg, and a further 4.7GB on the DVD in the player... or rather, it would be if I had that many CD's!!

Don't worry about seemingly high pressures - my mother's Rover 200Vi runs 38psi all around!!

Many of the Octy's have the 225/45/17 as the oe tyre, and it is a closer match than the 215/45

Even with the Simpsons hints... I still don't get it :(

And how would that have been any different if you had been doing 25mph? Did you slow down to reduce the hazard when you saw the van was going to overtake you? There is nothing more infuriating on the roads than people driving unreasonably slow. A normal week sees me driving 500 - 600 miles, and it's not uncommon for me to cover 1000 miles in a week in my own car, and even more if I have to do any driving for work. Obviously I do this on a variety of roads. Dawdlers at 45mph bug me as much as middle lane hogs when it comes to holding up the traffic, although the worst bug has to be the car that slowed to 22mph (measured on gps) for a series of bends in a 60mph zone, where 50mph is a reasonable speed for the bends (40mph causing traffic to bunch). Just because I travel a lot of miles doesn't automatically make me the world's best driver, however, I do like to get to where I'm going. The comment previously regarding HGV's assisting overtakes or pulling over is something I regularly see on single carriageway roads, and am often thankful for, but also dangerous overtaking manoevers by fed up motorists stuck behind a dawdler who is not paying due care, or not giving due attention to the bunched vehicles behind them wanting to get by is too common a sight. Even worse are those that speed up as you overtake them, only to slow down again when you pull back in behind them! Many single carriageways are passageable at the 60mph limit in modern cars with competant drivers. Skilled drivers will say that speeds can safely be higher. Unskilled and unobservant drivers will say that 60mph is too fast, as they are the ones who will not see the signs (both on posts, and in changes to white lines) informing them of a corner and the severity of that corner, or the junction coming up that a vehicle may pull out of, leading them to enter the situation at a speed a competant and skilled driver would deem excessive. If the IAM instructor is saying that you could drive closer to the speed limits on any particular stretch, then in his observation you are possibly either a) lacking the competance to drive any faster, or lacking the observational skills to determine the changing risks and dangers on the road, thereby not recognising a lower risk area which could be passed at a higher speed. At the same time, there is the coin flip - a) You are aware of the capabilities of the car that you are driving, and believe that combined with your driving skills that this is the top safe speed for the vehicle in optimum driving conditions, or the instructor has failed to spot the "hairpin bend" sign, or the "roadworks ahead" sign, or the change in road markings indicating a sharp bend... ... ... which is where the running commentary would assist.

Well, I managed to carch the late night repeat... Spent most of the episodes saying "that's Callaghan Square" or "that's the Oval Basin".... you get the idea... Thing is tho, I live in Cardiff, and the only time I hear accents like those is when I head to the tops of the valleys...!!! Even so, I enjoed it, but I might be biased seeing as I frequently have to divert my lunchtime walk around their sets!! As for the Range Rover - first time (and second, and third... ...) time I saw that on the roads I was thinking to myself "look at that plonker with too much money and no taste!!" Kinda makes sense in the series!

Wanted to watch this but ended up missing it... ... ... Anyone know if it's repeated anytime soon??

The police won't bother doing anything... When they tried to do me for a crime I didn't commit (truth came out in court!!), when I complained, I was told that they didn't investigate the allegation as, in their book, it wasn't serious enough. Instead, I had to prove my innocence, or face a life changing charge that potentially could have seen me locked up for 6 months! So, I was automatically guilty, until I could prove beyond doubt I was innocent, because the police couldn't be @r$ed to to investigate! So, for an uninsured, unlicensed, untaxed motorist who was driving within the speedlimit (as far as there isn't a speed camera image or "witness" to prove otherwise) at the time of the accident he failed to report, when the police can't be bothered to investigate, what hope do we have?

Horses for courses, but I really didn't get on with the Ultracs when I tried them on my Leon... changed them for GSD3's and didn't look back until I tried some Nero's!!

Brilliant!!

GSD3 over the PZero Rosso any day!! However... PZero Nero - deffo worthy of thought!

I hate changing cars - yeah I love the new motor, but I hate seeing the previous one leave... ...wish I had loads of money and a nice warehouse to store then in!!! Anyway, if the shell of the Fav is still good, then give it back some youth by converting it into a race car - that is, if you feel the car would like that! (and yes, cars do have feelings!! I had one that cried when it realised I was selling it!! :-o)

I came out of school feeling as though I'd missed out on a huge part of my life... in fact, the school stories that my g/f tells me (parties etc) confirm that. Also, my schooling led me not to go to uni, which I regret now, but, if I'd gone to uni I wouldn't have met my g/f... swings and roundabouts. Stronger person? I don't think so. One who lost his teenage years and everything that comes with being a teenager? Yup.

It's taken me a while to be able to hit the "reply" button for this thread... and over an hour to write this reply!! I hated School so much, that decisions made to get out will be staying with me for the rest of my life... As a kid we moved house a lot with my father's job. This meant I had a mixed accent. This wasn't really an issue until, when I was 8 we moved to Cardiff. I was the skinny kid with the funny accent then! The remainder of Primary School from what I can remember was ok-ish - nothing more than the usual primary school playground torments, especially those given when I became the fat kid with the funny accent (very quick weight gain!). Overall though, I do remember not really feeling fully accepted - something a classmate said at the time to another kid in the school one lunch still sticks in my mind - when I was being teased my classmate said to the teaser "why don't you just be his friend?" Secondary school was where things really started to go wrong. Perhaps already feeling slightly isolated, I didn't make that many friends, and really did feel left out. With a bit of a temper that had built up from the primary school bullying, in secondary school this turned very much into a game for others to play where they would wind me up until the point I snapped. This would then get me into trouble with those doing the winding getting away with it!! I do recall my (older) sister spotting this happen at least once, and it's amazing how quickly the teasers back off when faced with an older kid!! Sports day was always a horror for me - wondering what event the appointed people in the class are going to put my name down for, knowing full well I'd fail at it - I was accused of letting the team down when I didn't turn up to do the hurdles one year!! I was fat. I couldn't do the hurdles. They knew this, but still wished to subject me to this! However, my memories of school are those of isolation and being set-up, and the only time I was in a crowd was when I was being teased... I still avoid crowded places today, and on the odd occasion I go to a night club, I'll avoid the crowded ones! It's even to the point where if I'm in a supermarket and an aisle is getting crowded I'll be considering ditching the trolley and getting out of there!! Sitting my GCSE's at 16 I vowed never to return to school. Years 10 and 11 had seen a reduction in the teasing to the point where, at the end of year 11 I even had people starting to talk to me normally. I still wasn't part of any group - to be honest, I didn't know how to interact with people!! Also, I trusted no-one... I left school with 10 GCSE's, graded 2 A*'s, 4 A's and 4 B's. My teachers were shocked when they saw I had not even considered A-levels - something which part of me regrets now! But there was no way I could have stayed at school! I left school with 1 friend - the kid across the street from me, who I'd not really had much to do with in school... Still don't have masses to do with him now to be honest! I got an apprenticeship when I left school, which included a year full time in college. This was better to live with than school, but, a very fast learning curve for me!! I mean, who wants to be friends with the quiet one who doesn't know how to interact? Where everyone had stories of girlfriends, things they'd got up to with their mates etc, I had nothing to offer... ...saying that though, I did eventually feel a part of the group after it was accepted that I was the quiet one!! Still found it difficult to trust tho... Internet chat rooms were a salvation... still in touch regularly with one girl I got in contact through them! It's probably the chat rooms that got me my eccentric streak tho... It was during the apprenticeship I started wishing I had done the university route - I had a day release to uni and to be honest I started to enjoy it! The mix of people meant everyone got along... I guess I got on well with others because i would knuckle down and do the work and not mess about... and when group work needed homework it could be guaranteed I'd get it done - hey, I was more than used to getting on with my work! In the workplace tho, I wouldn't say I was bullied, but just not really accepted other than by a very few people. I tried tho... It was through one of these few people that I met the girl that's now my g/f... but more on that in a bit... At the end of my apprenticeship, I left that workplace and eventually moved to the employer I have now. Surprisingly, another apprentice from my old workplace (started a year before me, but ended the same year!) now sits on the desk next to mine! However, I was still relatively quiet, and I feel that's why my line manager behaves the way he does towards me - yes, there is a long running issue there!! However, being the young blood of the section, I seem to have fitted in quite well with most of the staff, even those in other sections. OK, I don't go drinking with them, but I never really got in to that scene (crowds, remember?). But what is it that got me out of my shell? When people started taking an interest!! I met my g/f when I was invited on a weekend away - actually, it was when I was invited back for the 2nd weekend! I was 18 at the time, she 17. Now, we didn't get into a relationship then - she already had a b/f (and then had another one after!), and we didn't spend that much time together at first, but gradually drifted closer together. She's probably the best thing that's happened to me - she always said she would be, and would get me out of my shell!! Anyway, at 21yrs old and with people taking an interest, I was starting to open up. I bought the LCR which put me in touch with nutters like yourselves , experienced some uni-weekend life with the not-then-but-is-now g/f, and, well, am now nothing like the shy person who, at 18, could barely cope with a girl wanting to give me a kiss!! :-o Some people do say that I am a bit eccentric now, but so what? I long ago learnt that people can either take me as I come, or miss out! So, I may not be your normal 24yr old - weight up and down like a yo-yo, spent Christmas 2004 signed off work with stress caused by the situation there, barely drink, no interest in sport, wild stories that only go a few years back at the oldest, and very few friends... but think how I got here... And yes, I do still have a bit of an accent!!

Too young to remember group B (born 1982) - but watching vids like that - I say BRING 'EM BACK!!

Cost me £5 at my local station Told them I felt the headlights were too low and they agreed they were illegally low... this after I'd asked the dealer to check them!!

Fair enough then!!

Watching the vids I'm trying to see if he did manage to eject or not... Either he ejected literally just before the plane crashed (would his chute have had a chance to open?!), or, erm, he was in there for the ride...

The "adjusters" you've indicated look to me more like the bolts that hold the headlamp in place!! The adjuster on the top of the headlight (usually white) is the one you want, but double check it is the up / down adjuster and not the left / right adjuster first (if there's only the one, it'll be up / down). I'd recommend having this done at an MOT testing station though so you don't end up with the headlights too high - unless you have access to another car with headlights at a similar hight off the ground set to a level you like, at which point marking out the beam patterns on a wall is suffcient. Personally, I don't know why VAG set the headlights illegally low as standard - my Leon required 4 full turns of the adjustment screw to get the lights legal when I bought it, an adjustment I mirrorred on several other SEAT's (although I've yet to have a Skoda driver ask me to check and adjust!). One question - do you have xenons? Believe there's some vag-com re-setting required if you do...

Didn't think these could be used with xenons or optical type (goldfish bowl) headlights?? :confused:

The LPG vs Petrol octane rating makes me chickle every time I read it... Can't remember which site it was on, but it was regarding LPG on speedboat conversions - on the same page they said the Octane rating of LPG was higher, they then went on to say how it had a lower calorific value. The lower calorific value meaning that you used more of it compared to petrol, and power would be reduced... ...sounds to me like it's a LOWER octane rating, bearing in mind I always understood the octane rating to be the calorific value of the fuel... Still struggling to see how adding more fuel to J's car when it's struggling to burn what it already has is going to reduce the amount of soot tho... would have thought NOS would have been a better option... but the results will reveal all!!

Absolutely brilliant feature!!! All we've been talking about in work today!!