Patrick_Devlin

The ABD do have an Anti Tax section... there is a pledge you can print off an send to them. I guess the more people send it in the higher it will come on their priority list! I calculated that I spend £1700 a year on tax through petrol... thats just taking the p*ss.

good effort!

I usually get about 21-22mpg on my daily drive. Its a mix of town driving and fairly clear A roads. Not too bad. On a motor way run I can push that upto 27ish!!! Thats driving at 70-75mph... Before I had the decat I used to do a fair amount of motorway miles, and whilst it was bloody boring, I used to do alot at 60-65mph. Then I could push the economy upto 32-33mpg. Those were the days

My new 'Invisible Car' polish! It'll be on sale at the next major meet

All the excuses are coming out now eh Matt :p

It was Thames Valley fuzz... I'm not going to get arsey with them, juts be a bit of a pest. The letter is designed to make you fill in the form an send it off. Its quite clever, only putting one side of the story across. Lets see what happens...

Good info on that site. I think I'll send for the photos, check them out thoroughly and then proceed to send the form back, completed by someone else, unsigned. If that fails, then its Legal Aid time!!!

Gonna make a pest of myself. Should I phone them to ask for the photos? What about filling in the form saying you werent the driver but NOT signing it?

Really? What procedures... please tell more. PM if necessary!

Got a Notice of intended Prosecution from the friendly folks at the Fixed Penalty Support Unit the other day. Cant recall where and when though, even though it states time place etc... Whats the best way to tackle this? I want to get the photos, but it doesnt say how you go about requesting them... Also, what would you say the most likely penalty is for this, 3 points and £60? Bloody Nazis!

Great car CJ, looks fantastic. Hurry up and get those wheels on... good job again Dude

Correct, but they can by your phone

Yes, SA was turned off by the US government a few years ago allowing GPS civvy GPS to be horizontally accurate to within a few meters. In car navigation, as Matt says, relies heavily on the stored road network to improve the relative accuracy of your position. I havent tried yet, but I'm not sure how well an incar nav system would perform if you took it off road (significantly off road, not just through a park!!!). Incar nav systems also dont really have to worry about the vertical measurements (altitude). The z measurement has historically been harder to get as accurate on standard GPS. Differential GPS (used in surveying) is extremely accurate on all three axes.

13th sounds interesting... although I'd have to be back for the football in the evening!

Looking good CJ.

Over engineering even in the design stage usually means huge costs. In my experience, the cost driver is usually a big enough one to remove alot of over engineering. Of course, the components and the system would have been designed to a specification, and that spec would have had performance tolerances. Unless they deliberately designed the engine for something like 500 bhp, I dont believe that they would have then spent the time and the effort testing everything to a lower performance metric. It doesnt make too much financial sense let alone engineering sense! Durability for me means that my supe gets me through the 12000 miles it gets driven per year without breaking. I have tolerances for things dying on me as its a 10 year old car. I am surprised by the reliability of the car, and have been impressed by the tuning I have carried out. As we have all seen, once you start tuning you move away from the engineered equilibrium that Toyota envisaged and designed. You remove the cats and have to alter the fuel cut, manage the boost creep, put up with increase fuel consumption etc... Its the same with any system... it has been designed for a specific purpose but invariably with built in tolerances. Exceeding these will not mean an instanteaneous failure, more that the chance of failure is raised to an unacceptable level (one which would not pass a quantative testing process)

The cost included CW fitting them and also replacing some bolts that sheared off... and maybe one other small thing. I guess it would have cost £350 for just the pipes and fitting!

My decat cost £400... money well spent. Got an HKS Hiper cat back and its nice and loud. The power gain is significant. Removing the first cat is more tricky but it is this one that is more restrictive, so you'll get better returns on it.

One thing has always bugged me about the heater controls. When I have the temp control set to 'min' and turn the ignition on the circulation setting automatically sets itself to the recirculate mode. It also automatically changes from the 'outside vent' mode if you turn the temp control down past ~22C. Is there anyway to change this annoying trait?

Thats exactly what I thought. I've been through that loop with insurance companies over what is and isnt insured. It was quite funny as he was getting really worked up. What a plonker!

I was in the Post Office this lunchtime and this bloke was at the counter trying to get road tax... no problem he thought!!!! It sounded like he owned 2 cars, but only had one insurance policy. This main policy allowed him to drive another car 3rd party. He was trying to say to the P.O staff that this was valid insurance to get his road tax. They said he'd have to get a note from his insurance company saying that they would insure that (his second) car. Was this guy trying to pull a fast one? Technically he is insured on his main car and any other cars, but I didnt think that a normal policy would cover you if you owned more than one car... He got pretty p*ssed off when they wouldnt give him tax. I think they were right and he knew he was talking b*ll*x...

LOL

All wrong

Good to meet you CJ... which way did your navigation system take you on the way home!!!

So you ate well that evening then...