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[Pillock]

I've read in the past that if you pass gantry a in lane 1 & then move over to lane 4 to pass gantry b it doesn't recognise you.

 

This may of course all be bollocks.

& folk did get tickets when the limit was down to 50 for several months.

 

This was down to the cameras not being fully tested, i.e. when they were certified for use nobody thought about lane changes!

Old info though now, they redid the software and tested it again so now it doesn't matter what lane you're in.

[trigger]

Whats the best way to present a powerpoint to a group of 50 to 60 people ?

Asking thy silly question, as i have to do ^ that ^ next week , and to be honest i'm bricking it

 

 

"Here is a powerpoint, you flick the switch down for power and flick it up to turn it off and you plug stuff into it".

 

Easy.

[willswitchengage]

Oops, sorry, I was responding to barefoot's comment on lane changing - thought that was more relevant to the average cameras.

 

Those ones you mention are spot checks - yes - but are rarely actually there as mentioned - look across to the right and you'll see there aren't any. In all fairness they could well be switched on and you never noticed - if 77 is the catch speed and most speedos are optimistic by about 5%, you'd have to be doing an indicated 81 to trigger one - which let's be fair - the sections that use them such as the M25 and M42 are so congested you can only dream of getting that quick.

 

Lol though @ reading yahoo questions at this "speed cameras are dangerous I have to brake heavily from 90 every time I see one"

 

[dollywobbler]

Powerpoint rules. Don't use silly animation effects. Don't use Comic Sans font. You want bullet points on your slides, that you then extend on when speaking. Don't imagine that everyone is naked. It can make you laugh.

 

I hate public speaking.

[willswitchengage]

Don't use Comic Sans font.

 

[The Moog]

Re Powerpoint - it depends on actually what you are presenting.

 

One I saw last week from a guy who does it for a living delivered a 30 slide presentation with no words just pictures. He had thought about the images and it really worked well. You had to listen to the guy and he used very thought provoking images to illustrate boring points.

 

I mark loads of presentations and the biggest thing is to practice. Everyone can spot a blagger.

[cort16]

Stupid (non car related) Question:

 

Does anyone on here do public speaking ? , if so :

 

Whats the best way to present a powerpoint to a group of 50 to 60 people ?

Asking thy silly question, as i have to do ^ that ^ next week , and to be honest i'm bricking it

 

Present it in the style of Jazz dance that'll get them going.

[KruJoe]

New one:

Why, when they go away on holiday, do some people leave all the curtains in their house half closed?

[Cavcraft]

Stupid (non car related) Question:

 

Does anyone on here do public speaking ? , if so :

 

Whats the best way to present a powerpoint to a group of 50 to 60 people ?

Asking thy silly question, as i have to do ^ that ^ next week , and to be honest i'm bricking it

 

Present it using stills from your favourite Jazz mags

that'll get them going.

 

EFA

[morris_ital_lover]

Apologies for another stupid question but does anyone know of any insurers that would offer temp cover for a 21 year old driving a 1991 built car? I'm thinking about buying a motor which I'll only use a couple of times a year so I don't want to fork out £3-5k for insurance but I can't find anyone willing to temp insure the combination of an under 25 yo driver with a car that is neither "classic" nor "under 15 years old".

[Ross_K]

Apologies for another stupid question but does anyone know of any insurers that would offer temp cover for a 21 year old driving a 1991 built car? I'm thinking about buying a motor which I'll only use a couple of times a year so I don't want to fork out £3-5k for insurance but I can't find anyone willing to temp insure the combination of an under 25 yo driver with a car that is neither "classic" nor "under 15 years old".

 

dayinsure.com ??

 

http://www.dayinsure.com/car-insurance-criteria.aspx

 

You have to be 21 and the car worth less than 50k, but I can't see anything about the car having to be a certain age.

[willswitchengage]

Apologies for another stupid question but does anyone know of any insurers that would offer temp cover for a 21 year old driving a 1991 built car? I'm thinking about buying a motor which I'll only use a couple of times a year so I don't want to fork out £3-5k for insurance but I can't find anyone willing to temp insure the combination of an under 25 yo driver with a car that is neither "classic" nor "under 15 years old".

 

Also remember that car strictly has to be SORN for the rest of the year if it's only going to be insured for a couple of days

 

Try general annual classic insurance it's very cheap even for yoofs, they'll insure surprisingly "modern" cars like a 1991 too

[Richard]

Are you remembering that a car now has to be insured unless it's on SORN?

 

Edit- beaten to it.

[dollywobbler]

I really wouldn't go for day insurance. I know someone who had a bump and THEN discovered that he'd got his dates mixed up and wasn't actually covered. Having a car that only gets used twice a year seems odd though. GR8 4 BREAKS SEEZIN.

[messerschmitt owner]

Frankly, I'd hire a car for use once or twice a year!

[morris_ital_lover]

Probably was a crap idea in the first place, TBTH I should just rent something as it'll work out less and I won't have to deal with them who must not be named on a regualr basis with all this SORN malarkey.

 

The plan was to buy something old and shite here in Norn Iron, blezz it for a shortwhile then plonk it on the drive and tinker until the summer when I need to move back to England I'd short term it and drive on home and shunt it on my 'rents drive until I have a job squared away. The plan turns to poo when the cost implications rise their ugly heads and the fact that it could end up in storage for 12 months as my degree gone a bit messy and I might have to stay on an extra semester.

 

Afterall it is the stupid question amnesty...

 

Thanks for the hint WWG, I'll have a look at something more permanent if I can get some sensible quotes, which hopefully the classic people can.

[pompei]

Beloved and I went to see a car yesterday. Anyhoo, i was wandering round the others for sale which included a diesel Jag advertised on the screen at £4,500. "You've got to add the VAT to that" the salesman said. WTF?

[Richard]

GTF!

 

FTFY.

[Ross_K]

Beloved and I went to see a car yesterday. Anyhoo, i was wandering round the others for sale which included a diesel Jag advertised on the screen at £4,500. "You've got to add the VAT to that" the salesman said. WTF?

 

Unless the Jag is a van he's probably taking the mick. Ask him for his VAT number and run it through this checker:

http://ec.europa.eu/taxation_customs/vies/ <- Put any old vat number you've got on a receipt in the "requester" box

 

From the "Exporting Chod" thread:

viewtopic.php?f=1&t=13642&hilit=vat&start=45#p362808

 

This may belong in the Stupid Question Amnesty thread but...

 

a) Is VAT payable on used cars bought from a dealer?

 

If so, can this be claimed back if the car is exported outside the EU?

 

3) And if so, do I have to be resident outside the EU in order to claim the VAT back?

 

Ta.

 

As a dealer you can't charge VAT on a used car unless you paid VAT when buying it (which you generally wouldn't)

 

Give yourself a headache here: http://www.hmrc.gov.uk/vat/sectors/moto ... cars.htm#2

 

My answer to any VAT questions would be: "Ask your accountant".

[cort16]

Aye the only vehicles they can separate the vat out on are commercial vehicles. The only VAT the dealer pays on a used car is on any profit they make.

[cort16]

Here's one. One of the guys down at my lock ups mates has an e36 BMW 323i. He turned up the other night saying he couldn't turn it off as it looks like the barrel was fucked and the key was just spinning in it. They couldn't get it to stop and stalling it wasn't an option as it's an auto so he took positive and negative cables off the battery and it kept running! I though that the circuit had to be complete for the car to run? Is this normal?

[Pete-M]

Here's one. One of the guys down at my lock ups mates has an e36 BMW 323i. He turned up the other night saying he couldn't turn it off as it looks like the barrel was fucked and the key was just spinning in it. They couldn't get it to stop and stalling it wasn't an option as it's an auto so he took positive and negative cables off the battery and it kept running! I though that the circuit had to be complete for the car to run? Is this normal?

 

Yup, it knackers the alternator in no time at all.

 

Much easier to pull the fuel pump fuse.

[cort16]

Good call Pete. They managed to get the bit off the back of the ignition so they can now start and stop it with a screwdriver. I'd be a bit worried about the steering lock coming on though.

[e287yba]

Having a car that only gets used twice a year seems odd though. GR8 4 BREAKS SEEZIN.

 

My MG1600 thrives on this type of ignorant abuse... My 309's o/s/f brake seizes at the mere hint of a visit to the MIL's drive (for that is where "the car not in use" resides); then once pressed back into service and once the surface rust has been redistributed onto the front wheeltrims that brake bonks more than a Tour de France competitor who's not been eating well enough at low speed.

 

You make a good valid point ; but I suspect that morris_ital_lover OP hopes to make the proposed arrangement a short-medium term one only?

[morris_ital_lover]

Indeed the plan was a medium term one for an absolute maximum of one year before the car would be turned into TEH DAYLI when I am back in England.... TBH, the whole idea makes little sense though... It's just I am rather taken by R9UKE's Rover that I stumbled upon whilst broswing UTVDrive: it's on the right side of the water, shite, in decent nick and I can easily arrange cheap storage for when I don't need it in Belfast. I then ressurect the beast a couple of months later, load it with my rubbish and "C YA LATERZ NI" I've got a roadtrip when I finish up here. (Saving me a shedload of hard decisions/part load moneys seeing as I want a car for that summeranyway).

[John F]

Good call Pete. They managed to get the bit off the back of the ignition so they can now start and stop it with a screwdriver. I'd be a bit worried about the steering lock coming on though.

 

Yes, this is normal, it's an anti-theft feature that is supposed to prevent the car being started with the wrong key but it's a fairly common failure point.

 

The same thing happened to a mate's 318... we were also worried about the ignition lock coming on so we trailered it back to the unit. You can remove the ignition barrel using a piece of stiff wire or similar, there are some "How To" videos on youtube that are some help. It still took bloody ages to get the barrel out though, it isn't easy.

[SambaS]

Is there anything I can do when putting my exhaust manifold back on to make my life a bit easyer should I need it off in the future? I'm fitting 8 new studs and nuts.. Normally I would use copper grease when putting something back together but the temperature would just burn it off I think.

[Station]

Just use good quality bolts/nuts with lithium or high temperature grease.

 

If I went to a dealer with a request for reg plates with the dealer 'mark' on them, would I get horrible new font style with an EU starry picture with cheap backing that has peeled off before I've left the front door?

[DSdriver]

Is there anything I can do when putting my exhaust manifold back on to make my life a bit easyer should I need it off in the future? I'm fitting 8 new studs and nuts.. Normally I would use copper grease when putting something back together but the temperature would just burn it off I think.

 

Not being a nexpert I am always torn between using loctite to stop them coming out whilst driving along and making them so I can get them out when I want to. Is there something that deals with both scenarios?

[Vin]

It looks like my sisters Peugeot 306 estate is in need of a power steering pump.

 

It's a 1999 V Reg, 1.9 litre normally aspirated diesel. Is this the XUD?? - I don't know that much about which engines are whichin french stuff.

 

Are the PS pumps specific on these, or would one off a 306 petrol or turbodiesel fit OK????

 

Would anything fit from a Citroen either?? ZX is the same as the 306 isn't it??