£170….That’s not too bad, can you get a refund on your smoc membership :-) Hate to loose a comrade, but I can understand if you have lost confidence in the car.

I compared Lowe speaker2go with £160 Bose equivalent, and thought the Lowe were a lot better. Been very happy with them.

How much do Ford want?

It would be fine to get from Horwich / Adlington if you leave at 6:00am, any later and it won’t be fun. I lived in Horwich and commuted to Runcorn every day, and it’s OK if you start work at 7:00am and leave before 4:45pm or work until 6:30pm.

I use a plunger, but it’s all about the sucking, not the blowing.

http://www.screwfix.com/p/monument-tools-master-plunger-12-305mm/34513?kpid=34513&cm_mmc=Google-_-Product%20Listing%20Ads-_-Sales%20Tracking-_-sales%20tracking%20url&gclid=CKmolPumq74CFdShtAodtl4Ang

http://www.screwfix.com/p/sink-bath-unblocker/13894

Cheers Wobbliscott…I might see what happens when I change my rear tyres back to something good. Changing the fronts has improved things by 7-10%, so maybe there is some more improvement to be made.

My SMax has the 2.2 ltd diesel engine and i’m getting 40mpg for normal day to day driving and around 50mpg on a long uninterrupted run

Really? My 2.2 Smax won’t get above 48mpg driving at 56 and following trucks. I have never seen 50 on the OBC, which is pretty optimistic. The economy on mine has improved since changing tyres, but I can’t see any way it would get to 50mpg. Is yours 175 or 200bhp? Normal driving I get high 30’s (not thrashing it). I wonder if there is something which needs tweaking on mine.

+1 for Rode, I have the Stereo Videomic, I which I’d bought the smaller Mono mic, but it’s very good. Massive upgrade on the built in mic’s.

The first mk4 I bought was the 2.5t titanium x estate, with all the toys, nav, radar cruise blah blah blah and cost me £14000

I bought very similar, twas a great car and much nicer to drive than the TDCI’s. When I bought mine, the 2.2 TDCI w/10K on the clock was about 19K, and the 2.5T was 13K. Lovely car. I didn’t find tyre wear bad on 18’s, didn’t think the ride was harsh either. Great cars, I found the seats very comfortable. I had a few electrical issues, which were sorted by rebooting the car (kept a ring spanner in the glove box to disconnect the battery). Only sold it as I got a caravan :cry:

I know it’s neither of the ones you are looking at, but I demo’d the Bose against the Lowe Speaker2go and the Lowe was miles better IMHO…well worth the extra £30.

I bought my last set from http://www.tyreleader.co.uk/. They ship to the UK from somewhere in Europe. Service was great, they were a *lot* cheaper then any of the UK places. Cost me £10 per tyre to get them fitted locally. Also seem good for posh stuff like BMW * marked tyres.

They also seem good for winter tyres and wheels, I priced up a set of quality aftermarket wheels and tyres for my wife’s BMW, and they come in at £700, instead of £2K from the BMW dealer.

I thought Drac answered it perfectly?

Don’t tell him. When he starts pestering on the phone, politely explain you liked the car, but have decided to take it on lease. Nothing wrong with that. By the time you have had a test drive, there is a good chance you think he’s a scum sucking bellend anyway, so even less of an issue.

Been to the modern art gallery, which I think is on the border of East Boston…it was OK. Preferred Harvard area TBH.

and I have been known to make people redo the document they have written so that is correct.

I’ve worked with people who have done exactly that, and they were, without exception, absolute worthless strokers.

PS, gonefishin, you need to proofread your post, you don’t meet your own high standards :-)

Pitchfork is free and good for US based stuff. It’s a lil bit pretentious but it’s turned up some good finds for new music ideas.

I thought the difference between Auto and Manual was bigger than 1-2mpg (based on responses to me asking a similar question to the OP a few years ago). I thought manual’s did mid 30’s?

I test drove one (it was manual), I thought it was really nice inside, (interior reminded me of an old merc, which I like) and clever design (it wasn’t like a Toureg which is massive on the outside, but very little useful space on the inside). During my test drive we had to stop for petrol….the car felt massive in the petrol station, and that put me off. I ended up with an SMax, which only averages high 30’s.The stereo in the XV90 was effing brilliant…best I’ve heard. Seat were lovely too.

The biggest downside to these cars it that it’s horrible getting bikes on the roof (because of the height), at least the XC90 has roof rails.

We have one, it’s OK….stinks out the kitchen (windows open and avoid going in the kitchen while cleaning) It tends to leave a residue on the glass, which is hard to remove. Our’s doesn’t get the oven ‘clean’, but it does burn off the stuff that smells when you cook.

Think it might have needed the mains uprating to install it(?).

I find it useful, but wouldn’t be fussed if we didn’t have it. A lot of it depends what you cook, if you only heat up pizza’s or do cassoroles, it’s probably not worth it, but if you do a lot of roast dinners / Yorkshire pud’s it’s good for burning off the fat which tends to splatter onto the oven walls.

Danny Champion of the World. Read it again last year, it’s still brilliant.

Nice!

Pay the £600. By thing time you have messed around with flying to Dublin you will save next to nothing and wasted valuable time you could have spent fixing your car.

Nels Cline…Just magical from 2:42

If it’s Venture, the voucher is pretty much given away free to everyone. They make the money on the prints, and a print value of £350 will be about the size of a postage stamp. Of course, if you’d like a bigger picture, it’s possible, but it’s another £xxxxxxxx.

It’s a lure into a hard sell, with the images they take used for emotional blackmail into spending a load of cash, so no, you can’t sell it, it’s not worth anything.

IME Biampimg without using active crossovers makes no significant difference. If you have the amps lying about, then no harm in trying it, but I would expect any revelations.

I’ve only eaten one once, it was very hot going down. I made the mistake of drinking to much afterwards and ended up puking it back up. Having a phal being pressurised back through the nasal membranes is not an experience I ever want to repeat.

Debussy has done some wonderful stuff, which is not difficult to get into. There are some good playlists of his work on Spotify (although I struggled to find them last time I was looking).

Cheers guys…complaint going in tomorrow.

I swapped out the system drive on my desktop last night with a Samsung 840 Evo. It’s made a huge difference to the speed windows loads…no more waiting when you can see the desktop, but nothing happens when you click on anything. The Samsung cloning s/w was super easy to use. £100 well spent.

I had a mate who’s one, and his experience ties in with what’s been written above. Good money, your fired if you don’t get results, fistfights with both colleagues and candidates, widespread cocaine use and the mental instability which accompanies it.

With younger players,the setup is very important as they don’t have the strength to overcome a high action. Personally, I’d go for something secondhand, that’s been properly setup. Secondhand guitars are generally good buys and can be moved on without loosing much money if he doesn’t take to it. The Fretboard, Gumtree and Guitar Mart are good places to look.

Done. Good luck Blind Melon!

People who work in supermarket filling stations should not be allowed to talk to each other. They should sit isolated in cubicles so I don’t have to wait for them to press the button to start filling while they chat to their colleagues.

I have just bought exactly that size from tyreleader.co.uk. I got Goodyear Eagle’s for 130quid each. Fitting is a tenner from local garage. Service was really good (3 day delivery). There are loads of other options on that site at close to 100 quid.

I just got back from Switzerland, just outside Zurich. I was working with a mix of German and Italian Swiss…they were all really nice. No issues whatsoever with language.

A whole lot easier than dealing with Americans, and they speak pretty good English ;-)

Sunn Model T

Now that is an amp I’d love to try.

Nice work psychobiker!

I’d really like a nice Sunburst Les Paul ’58 or ’59 RI, but that’s a bit predictable. A ES330 in red w/Bigsby or a Huber Krutster II would be nice.

A bit like you, I’m really happy with what I’ve got, so I’ve kind of stopped looking. I tried a Bogner Duende a few years ago, which was interesting. I had a Goldfinger for a short period, and that was good, although not quite what I was looking for.

Mk1 Boogie would be cool. A Kemper might be fun. I’m a bit ashamed, I’m not really gassing on any amps at the moment :-(

That’s pretty cool Pinkster!