The bald tyre might not have affected her stopping distance too much in the dry - until it went BANG!!

I think pinning up the info about the penalties might be a good attention getter too. :p

i didn't know that about the cleveland police - but they're always on the look out for more cash so i suppose i shouldn't have been surprised :(

regards to the variable servicing - would a car that has a hard life really be still out on the road after 20,000+ miles - i don't think so

my vRS blinked up "you need a service in 1,000 miles, nutter" after just 8,500 miles

i presume that cars that take a bit of stick that are on var serv would be telling the owners to go and get things sorted well before the big numbers appear on the odometer

just my 2 penneth

then i would sugest that your vrs is set up for fixed intervals then.

Mine is , but what are your feelings on variable sevicing then Karl .

doesn't the thread say it all.

OK sorry ! , didn't really look what thread I was replying to

Mines on variable , it gave me the service -1000 miles warning at just over 13000 miles , as i do mostly town journeys/stop start stuff. (but car is 22 months old)