Soop Dogg

Bought mine today too. Watch out if you don't play online first off. As soon as you go online it downloads another update. (In addition to the system update that I got when I installed the game) I've heard that this can result in any game data you had saved up until that point being lost. Having a break now for a coffee....

Fair point.

Wow - nice attitude for a fellow Supra owner and club member! Who said anything about the thread TITLE not interesting me? Looks like you DIDN'T BOTHER READING WHAT I SAID. From the thread title, this thread could have been about something interesting like a truck crashing into you or cutting you up on a roundabout for all I knew. Some truck drivers can be pretty thoughtless at times. But yeah - everyone seemed enthralled by your little truck-whinge. As for calling me stupid - well, I'm impressed with your insight as we've never met, but yeah - I won't pretend to be anything else. Sorry mate - I won't do it again. I was insensitive and obviously hurt your feelings.

'Gone into work'? If only!!

Where are the taillights? Boring, pointless thread of the month?

WHich is why I think they should do away with road tax and put it on the price of fuel. Then if you only do 4k miles a year, you pay less, but if you choose to do it in a Hummer, you pay more per mile as the vehicle itself regulates your cost per mile by its' fuel economy. Those who do 40k miles per year in their Mondeos will pay more for the extra miles. Simple.

Edited to clarify that it's the date of registration that's the important bit. In the past, they've made these type of changes for new vehicles. This time they've applied it to vehicles that people may have had for 7 years already and who now will be wondering whether or not it's worth keeping their cars.

I find this situation different from most of the 'poor refund' threads on here because it's not the policyholder who's cancelling the policy. In this case he only wanted to make a mid-term adjustment to the vehilce covered on the policy, but the insurer (NOT the broker) won't cover the new vehicle. So the insurer is offering a pro-rata refund as they are not in a position to continue cover. However, the Broker (Sky) are now saying that they won't pass this refund on to the insured unless the customer uses them to get a new policy. It looks very much as though there WILL be a refund from the insurer, but Sky are going to keep it for themselves. I'd speak to someone senior at Sky to clarify this, but I'd have thought this is bad practice to say the least.

In the budget earlier this month, the government made changes retrospectively to the groupings for vehicle excise duty for some cars. This might not really affect Supras unless you have one 'first registered' after 1 March 2001. How that will affect a 1993 car that's just arrived here, I'm not sure. However, as the Supra is not getting any younger, many of us will be looking for something to replace it with (some of us already have done) - and that's not going to be a Yaris! Anyway, many cars that were in the same group as the Supra, Group F have been moved into the new group M. At the moment, a group F car (registered after 01/03/2001) will cost you £210 for 12 months road tax. Next year the same car will be in group M and cost £440 for 12 months road tax! The year after, it will go up to £455. So once again, our government is ripping us off under the guise of being 'green'. If they really wanted to do something about the environment, they'd start with corporations who spew more into the atmosphere than we ever could. Anyway, there's a petition to try and get them to reverse the retrospective element to all of this. Not that they'll ever listen, but if we don't say anything, then we have no place complaining. Who's to say they won't introduce more retrospective changes for any car on the road regardless of how old it is that has higher emissions than a blade of grass? LINK

Yeah - I was hopeful when I saw the start too. Then it never showed up - what was all that about?

Do you work in Poole, by any chance?

Me too. Trouble is, I didn't volunteer for it. Worked my last day in the office last Thursday. Just as well I took out redundancy insurance!

What are you doing in 'Off Topic' anyway, Mr. C? Can I help you find your way back to technical?

Whenever you decide to cancel an insurance policy, they are within their rights to charge you for any "time on risk". i.e. If you take out a policy to start 10 days from now, you can cancel without any cost to you before it starts. Once the policy starts and the insurer has taken on your risk, you can be charged for the days that the policy was in force. Some insurers (like NU) will try to apply an admin fee. (NU's is about £50, I think) If you fight hard enough and threaten to go to the insurance ombudsman (on the grounds that you are entitled to cancel within the cooling off period 'without penalty') then you should be able to avoid the admin fee.

Sorry to see this mate. There'll likely be more damage to the van than just his trim (if that's what the thing sticking out of your wheel arch is) missing. Get it reported as a hit and run just to cover yourself anyway. (The insurer may want the accident report number anyway) You never know, it might be involved in something else for which it comes to the attention of the Police.

Yes they do, but not if it's an import, AFAIK.

Have you put your Do-Luck bumper on a Land-Rover?

I spotted a yellow one with well over the top body kit and chrome wheels in NY a couple of years back if that counts?

The speed of the fly (stuck to the tyre tread) will depend on when you measure it. At the bottom of the tyre, when it is in contact with the road, it will instantaneously be stationary, while at the top of the tyre, it will be travelling forwards at it's maximum speed of 200mph. I doubt the bee on the cambelt (travelling a helical path) would ever reach the same maximum speed. If you were to ask which would have the highest average apeed, this might result in a different answer....

"communicate in another form", eh? Communication is a two way process - you transmit AND receive. To ignore the receiving part of the process is clearly going to disadvantage the child. I'd like to see how they receive communication from a truck blaring it's horn at them as they cross the street having failed to see (or hear) it coming towards them!

Treat it reasonably gently and you might see 25mpg. Drive it hard and it'll probably cost you more than in the Civic.

Yep - absolutely top piece of kit. Used one on Supra engines about 3 times now so I could do valve stem seals without removing the head - brilliant.

I think I'd prefer the headlights in the original publicity shots. (One regular size headlight each side) I seem to remember the taillights being different to those too.