Kia Picanto Brakes?

Hmm - I can see why not. But I can also see a CX Turbo as being a perfect weekend car.

Even after the change of work?

Just going through some calculations, I get paid 28p per mile. With an assumed price of say 87p per litre, I make it as I need to average 14 mpg to break even on just the fuel. Then add in servicing, insurance, road fund...

In some ways it would be. In other ways, definitely not.

Lets put it this way, I wouldn't want to wrestle a CX Turbo around my local track (LLandow), or over the black mountains.

Well, I only look at fuel consumption when considering my expenses.

I'm claiming 20p / mile for 25 miles of my 35 mile journey to work. At 30mpg, that roughly means I'm claiming petrol from door to door, IYSWIM. (It used to be 28p / mile, but I had to pay tax and NI on that - my understanding is that, because this is being paid as expenses rather than part of my salary, I don't have tax and NI to pay on it, but I could be wrong).

SteveH ( snipped-for-privacy@italiancar.co.uk) gurgled happily, sounding much like they were saying :

Why not?

There's certainly one good reason why I can see you not wanting to go anywhere near a CX Turbo - you've previously reckoned that you can eat a set of tyres in 4k miles - and the TRXs on CXs are FAR from cheap... (£150 ea...)

But five-stud 75/164/156 rims fit CXs fine - 16" and modern rubber... The telephone-dial ones look damn good on 'em, too.

Because they're a bit of an oversized barged when all said and done.

Aye, I'd definitely have to swap rims. To be fair, the tyres I've ripped through in 4k miles were Yokohama - can't remember the name, but they were the control tyre in one of the production hatch classes..... so

Retro Cars magazine have a CX Turbo 2 on the fleet, I shall be moitoring their progress with it - one of their plans is to fit normal sized rubber.

SteveH ( snipped-for-privacy@italiancar.co.uk) gurgled happily, sounding much like they were saying :

Get the hang of 'em, and they're actually very chuckable - don't forget they were rallied with great success.

The message from snipped-for-privacy@italiancar.co.uk (SteveH) contains these words:

There's times when I've felt a little squeezed in the Audi 100 Avant in some of the litte lanes, but not often. Worst is when you've been brushing both sides of the lush greenery then find that the lane you're pootling down leads to a padlocked gate with no turning space, leaving you to reverse half a mile to the next field entrance.

You should be paying tax on all miles to/from the office *unless* your contract states that your usual place of work is your home address.

Be careful :)

Cheers Dna.

Right.

Well, in this case, I'm on 'secondment' for a few months away from what is deemed my 'usual place of work'..... I'd assume that's a pretty good get-out for me, isn't it?

SteveH ( snipped-for-privacy@italiancar.co.uk) gurgled happily, sounding much like they were saying :

I think you can only claim the difference between your normal home-work mileage and your home-secondment mileage.

There's a tax-free expense mileage rate - IIRC it's something like 40p/mile for first 4,000 miles then 25p - but I may very well be wrong on that. That's what accountants are for...

That's fine, because that's what I'm being paid.

It's, roughly, 35 miles from here to the secondment, and 10 miles to my usual place of work. Company is allowing me to claim 25 miles each way.

I'm PAYE, so don't have an accountant.

I'd love to know the tax rulings - I know of people who've been claiming tax-free expenses through petty cash, but others, in similar roles, being paid expenses via the payroll system, therefore paying tax and NI on them.

SteveH ( snipped-for-privacy@italiancar.co.uk) gurgled happily, sounding much like they were saying :

It'll all be on the mess that HMR&C call a website. Somewhere.

If it's a valid expense then you shouldn't be charged tax or NI on it , whichever way it's paid.