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any tips for this afternoons races at York? I'll be investing about £40 while I'm there

three years older, with more miles, and an import.. .. I see what you're saying, but £10 - £11k is nice facelift RSP (perhaps even VVTi) money, or single-turbo.

Having said all that, the last couple of TT's to come up for sale on here seem to have sold relatively quickly. Perhaps the market is getting better now the weather is good. Paul W never seems to have difficulty selling his cars either.

okie dokie. Mine was £11k in the trader. That wasn't the price though - we paid £9,750 (that was over two years ago when it had 59k on it, and was really tidy for a UK car)

I hope I'm not sounding like Flat4

It's not rare per-se - you might be confusing it with Royal Sapphire Pearl, which was a facelift colour. This one has just been repainted a custom colour. I'm not saying there's anything wrong with the car, I just can't see anything unusually special about it to suggest an unusually high price. I say £7k, maybe £7.5k that wing might not be to all peoples tastes either

£10,500!! What planet are you on!!

Try it in the Cars for Sale section too..

That's Green Peace's old car then? That one doesn't seem to have much difficulty being sold at all.

I've got two stupid moments. Dropping my gas soldering iron *under* the passenger seat. That hollow carpet burns fast. Doing my oil change but draining the transmission fluid instead. d'oh.

I have to say I read it as a bit of a laugh at an embarassingly daft situation. For the £150 it's quite obvious that Martin thought they were electricaly-folding. Perhaps they are even, but just don't work without the brains.

it is extremely expensive to buy a n/a and convert it to turbo (NA-T). It is much cheaper to buy a TT in the first place. I don't know how expensive Supra's are in Italy though.

both work for me, but I am a bit late to the party

Most annoying thing is that there's no flexibility in the address book. You can't sort the viewing order by e.g. the Transport column. So if you have thousands of clients in your clients contact folder, and have this as an OAB, and these people have fax numbers listed, you get shown each person twice. One for SMTP and one for FAX. If you then try to select them all and BCC them, you get failures because it wants to send to them via FAX. Ideally you should be able to sort by transport, so you have all the SMTP at the top and FAX at the bottom, or vise versa, then you can just select the SMTP lot and do your mailing. Phone number formatting is also a ballache. Brackets, leading zeros.. etc.

I think you're going to find that Outlook is very inflexible when you need to do something fairly specific like this. You even need to buy add-ins to be able to use the addressbook properly..

They call it the reading pane now. It's good. I've been using Evolution for the last few months though and am managing ok with that. What I most dislike about Outlook 2003 is the default folder tree views.

oops. sorry. I was working at my accountants 'til midnight

Is that a facelift clock you've fitted, or some other aftermarket one?

post up the pic! this sounds well suspect.

I agree with turning the wheels. My long breaker bar only allows a small amount of movement in there, because as you say it's near the ground. I lift both front wheels in the air, and turn full-lock to get in there. You *will* be able to do it As for where to jack from, strangely I actually jack from the bit which is not a designated lifting point. Wierd, but the designated crossmember seems flimsy. I put the trolley jack in from behind one of the wheels (after driving onto a plank of wood) and up to the large cast crossmember. Once you've got the bar is a useful position, just give it a good hard thump down.

Torque Wrench is for tightening-up bolts BTW. You need a long breaker bar. I've had difficulty with my pins before, but managed to shift them. Then again recently, I had *major* difficulty. Ended up hacksawing through half, then grinding & drilling I put the new pins in with copper grease on them.

I've got loads of that! My roof must have about fifty flies on it!

..which reminds me of something I've been meaning to look into. The new-ish BMW 535d twin-turbo diesel. Customer of mine was telling me how great it is with one small turbo for low end and a big one for big power. I explained that it was probably two small turbos due to them needing to flow the same. But today I read the 'one small and one big' thing in Auto Express. Anybody know for sure?

They do 'round here but strangely we haven't seen him for a week

I've got to say actually, if I'm drinking a pint of milk to myself (which I haven't done for a long time) I do water it down a little, but that's just to make it less heavy.