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Hi all. Got my test drive car delivered today and I've got it for 3days. It's a L&K 140ps estate and whilst I was impressed with the spec and ride, the mpg was quite poor (48mpg on steady run from Sheffield to Lincoln) and I wasn't blown away by it. If I do get one as a company car then it'll be the 170ps that I go for. My questions are 1) will the 170ps be better 2) how would it compare the a Octavia VRS ( got one on test in 2 weeks time) My ideal I'd imagine would be the VRS looks and performance but with the Superb toys. As this isn't an option, I'm not sure which way to go

I've ordered my test drives and see how it goes. I've ordered the 3 cars below and got them for 3 days each 1) Octavia VRS hatch manual diesel 2) Superb L&K hatch manual 3) BMW 320d touring manual diesel (boring!!!)

If it's going to be my only car then I do what it to put a grin on my face on a Friday night drive home. Thought about ralle green but the wife would disown me!!

I definitely want the VRS but the elegance does look better on paper with the sat nav as standard. I'm allowed 3 test drives and at the moment I'm looking at 1) octavia VRS (not sure yet on manual or dsg) 2) Superb L&K 140ps 3) BMW 520d SE

I want the VRS for the looks and did think about a Superb for the comfort side. I have a Range Rover for a personal car and my thought was to get the estate and then no need for the range rover. I need it to take my baby's pram and that'll be a big decider if I go for estate or hatch. I'm allowed a 3 day test drive so I think I'll go for the manual and see what happens Thanks for all the feedback

Cheers guys. I like the idea of paddles but I'm sure it'll wear off after a few days

Hi All it's been a long time since I posted last. I'm changing my company car and looking at the VRS (diesel) but not sure whether to go for estate or hatch and manual or DSG. Mpg needs to be taken into account and I'm wondering what I'd expect. I do 180 miles each day and 150 of it is 70-80mph on motorway. I currently have an auto Toyota and my current preference is to lean towards the DSG estate but if my mpg is less than 50 then it becomes a concern Thoughts appreciated

Unfortunately cat5 isn't an position as the extension is being built the other side of the house. Hopefully I can get it installed in the future but it sounds like power lines are the way forward

I'm after some thoughts on the best way to wirelessly connect once my extension is built. I live in an 1800's cottage and the wifi in poor to say the least. My current setup is the Netgear 'N' router in the louge (connected to my Sky, Wii, Media Player) with a wired connection in the wall, going upstairs to the study. The wired connection was put in when the house was renovated 5yrs ago and has worked very well with my 8mbps broadband. When my extension is completed, i will have a study downstairs (current study will become the nursery) but no wired connection. The study isn't too far from my router but no wifi signal is availble. i already have a Netgear WN3000RP repeater and Homeplug, my options are; 1) Use a Homeplug (I already have a set) 2) Put the wireless repeater half way betweeen router and PC and buy a wifi dongle for the PC 3) Option 3?? I do alot of downloading to the PC and stream alot of media from the PC to the TV in my lounge via the router. I'd need to make sure that I could play a 4gb media file without any stutter. Any help or thoughts would be appreciated

Bit of an update. Came home from work and for sale sign out front of neighbours house. Looked on Internet and says "on street parking"

If the guy gets right of way then so be it. My contract with the HA requires me to maintain a permenant boundary and restrict access to my house only. If I didn't do this and let him use the drive then I'd be prosecuted by the HA. The solicitor has told me that the biggest obstacle for my neighbour was that 7 years ago the house and drive were owned by the same person. Apparently this can't be counted in the 20yr clause mentioned. My neighbour bought the house but not the drive, or right to use the drive

Solicitor did a search for me and neighbours deeds show no right of way. Just looked at contract and it says I'm responsible for the boundary on both sides of the drive. Mdon, you seem like you've been on the wrong end of a boundary dispute.

I think the conversation should end here. A friend of the family states that when the drive and house were owned by the housing association, right of way can't be claimed. Now the house and drive are owned by seperately people, right of way can be claimed but this only goes back 7yrs and not the 20 required As for the comment about being big mouthed, my point was the driveway is worth alot to me and I would pay a solicitor to secure it for me. I asked the question for thoughts and not s**tty comments

I also forgot to add that when I bought the driveway, the contract from the previous owners (the housing association) stated the drive could only be used for cars to access my house number. At the back of my house is a 3 acre field and the housing association imposed this clause to prevent me using the drive for development access In summary; He doesn't have any right of way legally and never has He doesn't live there and the house is empty My contract legally states only I can use it

Should have mentioned that this is a second home and he doesn't live there. He used to rent it but it got trashed. Now its empty and he's selling it. Access isn't really the issue here, he sees it that I've lowered the value of the house but any prospective buyers solicitor would have picked this up during a land search. I told him that you can sell a house with access when you don't legally have access. If he'd lived there and not have been selling then of course I'd not have bought it........I'm not that mean

His is one of 6 semi-detached houses, none of which have access to the rear of their properties. His only has access due to illegally using the driveway which I now use. There is parking in front of the houses and they all have a smalll garden at the front, although this wouldn't be big enough for a car

If itwasn't for the housing association part, I'd be quite nervous. I think the combination of owning the house for only 7yrs and the fact that it was the previous owner, now dead that had the use of the drive. The current owner inherited the house around 5years ago making it even harder for them. as I said, the friend of the family who owns a law firm is supremely confident that they have no case.

Chainsaw??

Thanks for the quick reply. A friend of the family is the owner of a prestigeous law firm where I live and he says the Housing association peice is the thing that will give them no hope. I'm the kind of guy that doesn't want to fall out with anyone. He's inheritted the house from his dead mother-in-law and she only paid £40k under the right to buy scheme. He wants £115k for it but I'd be suprised if it's worth £80k. Not sure on his financial situation but when I said he'd have to talk to a solicitor, he got quiet arsey and said he'd speak to the council. I took it from that comment that he can afford to goto a solicitor, where as I can afford 10 solicitors if I had too!!!

Bear with me as this is a long one!!! i've recently bought a driveway running between my house and my neighbour. My deeds have given my right of way since i bought the house 3 years ago (and going back 40yrs). I wanted to buy the drive so that I could fence it and tarmac it. The sale went through ok and during the sale, it was identified that my neighbour didn't have any legal right of way, although he's been using it. Now that I own the driveway, I've told him that he can't use it. He's not happy and is claiming that he's used the drive for 30 years, although 23 years as a tennat of a housing association. I've told him that he will need to see a solicitior to claim the right of way legally, but according to my solicitor, the 23years as a tennat don't count as part of the 20yr required to claim right of way. I'm not sure what he'll do but in the meantime, I'm putting up a fence along his boundary (on my side). Ive told him that I would take some panels out if he were to get right of way granted. He's looking to sell tha house and sees off street parking as increasing the value of the house. I've explained that he can't sell with off street parking and any solicitor would pick this up as part of a land search Do you think he'll get right of way? Am I right to fence along his boundary? Uploaded with ImageShack.us

Probably get a netbook today from currys. Got a package bell n450 for £199 with 250gb hdd. Should do the trick I hope??

£300 is too much to stretch. A £200 netbook seems to be top of the list

I'm not an administrator and can't do anything with the laptop. Got some sensitive material on it and work would not be happy if I was trying to bypass security.

I've started to spend alot of nights away from work on business and need some form of media player to keep me sane. Most of the hotels only have channels 1-5 and a real bonus if they have freeview. At home I have 1TB of movies/tv shows that I would like to watch. Below are my thoughts on the choices and I'd welcome your opinion on the best. My budget is £200, although I could stretch a little 1) Portable DVD player (don't really want to cart a load of DVD'd around, plus the time to convert) 2) Portable DVD/Divx player (Could put a few films on DVD and would take alot less time to put on disc) 3) Netbook, but would this be powerful enough to play movies? (could use internet in hotel, asuming they have wireless. I can network the netbook to my home network and transfer media) 4) Small standalone DVD/Divx player that I could connect to the hotel's tv via Scart (Again, I could put a few movies on a single DVD) I have a work laptop but this is locked to prevent using the internet and I cant download any codecs to play film on it. Thanks in advance