Faye Brother

No.10 is a Subaru Legacy?

The ignition was turned on whilst the dash was disconnected/removed at a guess.

But the container gets refilled for free. I daresay if you were polishing/waxing high end vehicles on a regular basis you'd make the money back fairly quickly.

wot i mean iz dat yud ave to chek the size of the ingine to c weather it woz a MK3 or a MK4, innit!!!???

That's what I was referring to, albeit rather obliquely, Si!

Admiral have Twin Turbo, Twin Turbo Auto and Twin Turbo IMP (import) categories on their online quoting system.

The spelling mistakes and use/over use of exclamation marks puts me off immediately. The latter particularly so as it gives the impression to me that you're trying to over emphasise the good points of the car and that always rings alarm bells with me.

Very nice, Peter. Out of interest, did your insurance company charge any extra for having that brace in the back?

If it's on their land and it's not adjacent to a highway then you can normally erect a fence or other means of enclosure up to 2m in height without requiring planning permission. Assuming all the land in question is privately owned, the fence is not more than 2m high and there's no relevant restrictive planning conditions attached to the original property, I doubt your local council will be able to assist you. However, if you do contact them about the fence, bear in mind that house sellers are legally obliged to notify potential purchasers if they've had cause to complain about their neighbours. Worth thinking about if your likely to sell in the future.

And: http://www.autosupplyuk.com/forums/index.php

Did a 60 mile round trip last Saturday and saw 6 of the blighters!

They look similar to a set of wheels that Paul E (I believe) was selling on here a little while ago. Unfortunately, the thread in question has been pruned as I'd posted on it but it doesn't appear in my subscribed list anymore.

In which case don't even consider buying it. Their reputation precedes them, but not in a good way.

This one? http://www.mkivsupra.net/vbb/showthread.php?t=44088

Agreed. Walk away now.

Money sent for my sister's lights, Nic.

http://www.playusa.com/playusa.asp?searchtype=r1title&searchstring=+Langoliers&page=search&Go.x=10&Go.y=10

Yep. Very briefly (and I'm typing from memory), The Lotteries and Amusements Act 1976 (as amended by the National Lottery etc. Act 1993) effectively made it illegal for commercial lotteries, i.e. buy a ticket(s) in a game of chance, to operate unless they were for charitable purposes, in support of sporting endeavours, and a few other exceptions as well. The way to 'sidestep' the legislation would be to change participation in the auction from a game of chance as it is presently, to entry on the basis of a game of skill. For example, the seller could ask an entry question of, 'What year was my car manufactured?', the participants would know it was 1994 from the advert and that would then constitute a game of skill, not a lottery. Of course, it's rather unlikely that the 'authorities' would even be bothered with him even if they were aware of it. A more pressing concern for him, though, should be how he's going to handle the administration of his auction. What if he doesn't sell all the tickets on this current auction? Does he run another after that? What if they don't sell then? How long does it try to keep it running? He's also got to keep copious amounts of records to ensure that he can prove that everyone who purchased a ticket was actually entered in the draw, etc. It's not so much selling a car but buying a major headache instead!

I hope he realises he's breaking the law!

I haven't looked at the links and I'm not normally one for conspiracy theories, but the phrase, "There's no such no thing as bad publicity", springs to mind. It wouldn't surprise me if Rockstar 'created' the whole thing to boost sales, after all SA has been out (Xbox aside) for quite a while now.

I have an LSD on my GZ auto as well.

OK folks, get posting those pictures here.

I'm not quite sure what the entry of a word in the dictionary has to do with whether it's acceptable to use it on here or not. Could you possibly expand on that point for me? See my post above for the answer to the first question and in response to the second question - hell, yes. But you don't have to hold a provisional licence to view and read the public areas of the site. I take on board the entirely valid comments people have made about kids hearing and saying far worse in the school playground, but does that mean it's acceptable for them to view it on here as well? I think not, but others will disagree.

My apologies, Cliff. My definition of what I consider to constitute communicating properly in the context of this topic wasn't clear. It isn't to do with clarity or the preciseness of the message itself, but rather the language that is employed in communicating that message in the first place. I would certainly agree with you that the use of swearing to direct personal abuse is far more serious than general 'adult' conversation, but to just throw expletives around for the sake of it seems lazy and unecessary to me, unless there is a justifiable context for it as I mention above. One has only to visit some other car forums to witness the standard of posting and the gratuitous swearing that occurs in everyday 'conversation', although I'd stress that MKIV.net doesn't even come close to falling within that category. From a personal perspective I am in no way offended by swearing on the board, but I do find it disrespectful if a person posts in such a manner regularly and I also believe that it reflects on the club to a certain extent as well. Whilst it doesn't bother me, I wonder whether most people would be quite so forgiving of a user posting in capital letters all the time as perhaps they may be with someone who likes to eff and blind a bit? It's certainly an interesting discussion and I also would be intruiged to see the results of a poll on the subject, especially as I fully expected to be in a singular minority when I posted the thread.

That's where my point of a valid communication context applies. If everyone participating in the thread is aware that it is banter and the topic matter is conducive to it, then it is perhaps not necessarily being disrespectful to other members simply by the use of swear words per se. Of course, it would still be appropriate for a poster to self censor any swear words.