And after the first week, I like it.

This is a loan where we are going to make interest, not pay it, then we pay it off.

It will be staying arround for 3 years, by then it should at arround

130k miles and nearly 12 year old so it will be worth bugger all anyway.

They can try, but when you start quoting sale of goods act, they tend to back off a bit, and if that doesn't work there is always the small claims court.

Yes it was noticed on the test drive, and I got a call a couple of hours later, "it is ready for you, we will make an appointment for the chips as we didn't get chance to do them today, balance and tracking was pretty out, but I've test driven it and it is fine now. Took it up to 60 and it is great." I didn't know at that point that it goes off after a while until the car is totally cold again.

Oh I can be much more annoying to any dealer than they could be to me. Have you ever seen Mark Thomas in action on TV.

And I also work for an internet company and they seem do a lot of business through the web, there is nothing to stop me getting the total brains of the internet marketing team behind to set up a campaign that would make their site appear below a protest site in a google seach. Nothing false, just the truth.

Oh, right... you've completely missed the point I was making then - a £4k car needs a bigger loan to buy than one for say £2.5k... or even £1650.

Mmkay. :-P

Does the money you guys received from Alison's mum in the form of a loan not need to go to the car dealer in exchange for the car you bought, then?

Don't get me started raving about Mark Thomas - I'm a huge fan. Going to see him Monday week on the South Bank (amongst others in the same show), which should be quite cool.

You'd be surprised - they were quite a few % under which will equate to quite a few % more drag!

I've been to see him twice down here.

The second time was a bit of a disappointment actually, as whilst the show supposedly had a different theme, he almost repeated verbatim some of the material he used in the first show a year or two before.

It just felt like he wasn't as 'dynamic', if that's the right word, as I'd previously thought.

The Mark Thomas Product is still a bloody good watch if you ever get a chance, mind.

And he's very good at provoking thought in people, and not necessarily along the lines of 'I wish that loud mouthed tossbag oik would give it a rest', either. ;-)

If you want to see someone who is very quick witted, Alexei Sayle is well worth seeing. I went to a 'book reading' of his at a local theatre, and it was more Alexei answering questions about his career etc, and was both very witty and very entertaining.

'Who is that fat bastard!'

6 cylinders, 2 cams, 24 valves, wide tyres, rear drive.

...pause...

hahahahhahhahahahah

Anyone getting over 30 drives like the Dervman. Economy does not come in 6 cylinder petrol packages (some minor exceptions, but not many).

22 sounds a bit bad, I'd expect 24-28 with some reasonable use.

You.

HTH.

:-p

Is it doing it in every gear under load? Could be injection system, or coked up, or misfiring. My Volvo used to be like that when it needed new plugs (which was way more often than the service schedule suggested)

It does, but the interest that will compound, as the money is paid into the isa over the next year-year and a half, then stay there until they retire, or until alison's mum and dad don't use up their own ISA allowance each year, doesn't.

That is why we can have the money so easily and until we have it all to give back in one, because it is sitting in their normal deposit account and making piss all and costing income tax. So we spend it, and put it back into our ISA, then when they need it they can have it, and there is better interest made on the return.

Saw him once at the filming for one of the MTP shows (the one where he did the "Temps for Tories" stunt, and tried to get Michael Meacher on the phone at the end - dunno if they ended up on the same show but I'm fairly sure they were both done that night).

D'oh. Guess that can be the case with a lot of stand-ups, but with someone like MT you wouldn't expect it. Bill Bailey's pretty good in that respect - when he tours a new show, he does genuinely leave a lot of his older material behind.

Couldn't agree more - I've got about 7GB worth of DivX videos on my trusty Porsche drive - virtually everything he's ever done for telly. It's actually quite interesting to see how he went from just arseing about e.g. outside the Wandsworth Bridge McDonalds, to passionately getting behind some serious campaigns (the one that was most touching was his closing words on the one about the Simon Jones memorial campaign (youtube search for Mark Thomas Corporate Killing - the bit I'm on about is from about 4:15 until the end of part 3).

I'll bear that in mind - I've found him funny on the times I've seen him on the box etc - hasn't been very often though. One comedian I think is superb, though, is Armando Iannucci - the stuff he's done over the years has been nothing short of brilliant - loads of great sketches from "The Armando Iannucci shows" on youtube worth looking at, and the Friday/Saturday night Armistice, Time Trumpet (more recently), plus all the other writing work he's done (Partridge amongst loads of others).

I've got ya - I wasn't all that clear on what you meant - basically anything that might have gone to loan repayments can basically go straight into something earning interest. Fair enough. And I hope you get it sorted and get a few more mpg out of it.

Bad form and all that, but this sketch is genius. 164mph - it's the speed to travel at.

And proud of it!

Normally in 4th/5th/6th, arround the 3k mark. Haven't tried taking 3rd upto 50 for long periods yet. Worse in higher gears. Until revs drop below. Thing is, it doesn't clear when you hit a certain speed like a normal balance problem. It might be gone at 60, it might take until 80.

Remember, driving how I always drive, I got 23-25, and a best of 28 from

4 litres, 8 cylinders and 32 valves and 4 cams, with a whole herd of cow inside a metric shitload of body shell.

Arthur Smith is a bit like that. Sharp, and funny without being offensive. But doesn't mind swearing either.

I propose a race... You and dervy in rented Priuses, one tank each, see who runs out first.