156 Selespeed. The first month.

*whooooosh*
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SteveH
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Plenty of estate cars are bigger than plenty of vans.....

I once helped a mate of mine move a load of garden waste - he'd checked with his local tip (Sutton), and they've got quite sensible rules for commercials - if it's non-commercial waste (as can often be the case - getting rid of old furniture, your own garden waste, etc etc...), they weigh you before and after (Fat Fighters eat your heart out) and as long as you've got rid of no more than 500kg then you're fine.

Only problem is, we got there, with a big van full of garden waste, to find out that they don't let vans in after 12:30pm on Saturdays. After queuing for a while to get in. The guys were pretty decent, not your usual jobsworth wankers either - actually said "sorry guys - nothing we can do - we're monitored by too many cameras here" or words to that effect. Anyway, my mate had an Astra estate at his place (5-10 minutes down the road) so we popped back for that, parked the van near the entrance, left the tailgate open on the Astra, and just went in and out with that. They even lent us a decent yard broom to sweep up all the mess we'd sprinkled on the road. Sorted!

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AstraVanMann

Heh, ours has opening times, and commercials have to pay (no idea how much) and that's the extent of the rules. And they didn't check if we were commercial other than just a passing word (and my mate explained it was his garden crap, and our other mate was borrowing his works van for us), then just used common sense cos we obviously weren't.

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DanB

Yep, that's the one. The load bed in then split into 2 cages - one for the dogs and one for the stuff, with lots of other little gadgets he's put in like fans, lights sockets etc. He's got a little bull bar thing under the front splitter, nothing too OTT. And his is a really dark blue, with grey leather interior and lots of brushed aluminium. I have to say I really like it, especially when compared to some of the other similar cars - he had the cheek to suggest he may replace it with an X5 FFS!

And I think I'm right in saying that despite it's immense size (3 tonnes when we took it fully loaded on a weigh bridge) because it's classed as a commercial vehicle the tax is cheap. £185 rings a bell from when he first got it, but things may have changed now.

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Carl Gibbs

Some tosswit councillor was on the radio this avo talking about their latest brainwave. "Chip and Bin" which will involve in-bin sensors weighing your rubbish and making a charge per household based on the mass of rubbish disposed of.

Things they didn't seem to have thought of:

Fly tipping Putting rubbish in your neighbours bin and WTF should be pay again on top of the rates we already pay for a service we are supposed to have paid for?

Indeed.

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Steve Firth

Just stick in a road side bin, or bins at bus stops, or bins in town center.

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Peter Hill

Later proper minis have a woeful turning circle considering: I think that with the larger 13" wheels there's a limiter on the rack.

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Chris Bartram

I've had trouble even in a Golf Mk2 with a very small trailer, after the

3rd trip in one day.
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Chris Bartram

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