Recent content by giraffe82

Yeh I became a binman, I walk around in the rain all the time, it sucks.

I thought it was just so we can enjoy our summer evenings a little longer.

Check out this well kept beauty, I'd stick a type-R engine in it lol. http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=320175006423 I'm not affiliated with the sale :) (edit: forgot the link... duh!)

I know nothing about any of this stuff but it all seems very interesting, keep us posted.

Although helium might work!!!

I'd still rather have all the safety stuff, risk getting caught by a cam, and then recieve a speeding ticket over having no safety and becoming a dead man.

hmmm would the car last very long driving everywhere in 1st... haha I can imagine the look on peoples faces as you drive through a busy area flooring it all the time in 1st.

Hey picto, welcome to the site... just out of interest might your real name be shaun???

The way I see it is that the car went in needing a new clutch, it should have came out of the garage exactly as it went in but with a new clutch, the problem has developed while in the hands of the mechanic and so the liability is his.

Man who runs behind car gets exhausted!

I just read an interesting post about reducing the weight of your vehicle and it basically said that, "For every extra 100 pounds you carry in your vehicle, you reduce gas mileage and fuel economy by roughly 2%.". Then in one of the follow up posts someone quite cleverly pointed out that by...

Hmm like everything in life skill generally comes with experience so it's probably true to say that older drivers are generaly more skilled but on the flip-side of the argument I think that priorities change as you get older... savings come before alloys... that new kitchen the wife's going on...

The guys had a competition to create a drivable vehicle that could also travel on water (with the aim of travelling from dover to france!!!), clarkson had a pick-up with an outboard motor on the back, james may had a classic style car (sorry don't know the make or model) and hamilton had what...

haha, must admit I've had similar lapses of concentration myself, not unlucky enough to have been caught for it though.

I think that speed limits around schools should be 20, all limits currently at 30 should be upped to 40 and motorway upped to 100. I think a major problem with road safety is drilling the seriousness of the danger of roads into kids, I drive by a school regular and the kids seem to think they...