El Dingo

Yes, and less tax for Gordon. So he'll have to find another way to fleece us.

Offside = driver's side. Don't bother doing what I said - it won't prove anything - except *possibly* why the car looked normal after you had jacked it up, then dropped again after you had driven it. I think I'll go away and have a *think*. :D

Sorry to be a dufus... you lost me? What dyu mean? Go out and try this... chock the front wheels, handbrake off, jack up the offside rear. Now put the handbrake on (hard) and lower the car again. The car sits a little higher on that side, yes? This is because the suspension can only 'settle' fully if the wheel can rotate. :D Edit: This doesn't explain why the car sits so low in the first place. It only explains why you seem to have cured it until you moved the car.

My guess is that you had the handbrake on, so when you put the wheel back on and lowered the jack, the locked wheels held the offside rear of the car up. When you released the handbrake and moved the car, the suspension was able to settle...

There's now been 99 - according to the Daily Telegraph yesterday. B)

Honestly, I'd look for a 2.3 Ghia - all the most important toys are already on board. Good luck and good hunting. B)

Reminds me of a limerick about a young lady from Ealing... B)

STOP PRESS TAX AND SNIFF??? The Chancellor of the Exchequer, Gordon Brown, released further details on his 'Budget for Business' this afternoon, including the new 'Stealth' tax for raising revenue from anyone wearing a hoodie to hide their identity from CCTV, and a new initiative for taxing the air that we breath. Having been to Japan recently, the chancellor was very taken with the Oxygen/Pure Air canisters and face masks freely on sale all over Japan, and popular with the locals as a way of getting around the cities in the smog. These canisters, perceived as a luxury item, attract the top sales tax in Japan, and gave Gordon the idea for this new tax. "We'll be fitting the population with tracking devices, based on GPS, to track movements and breathing habits", said the Chancellor, "so, basically, every step you take, every move you make, I'll be watching you." "Oh can't you see," he continued, "you belong to me. How my poor heart aches, every step you take. Every breath you take, every claim (or tax credit) you stake, I'll be watching you".

Why not get under the car and take a look and see if the spring is broken?

you are so GHEY! that it worries me! spiders huh! that is why we invented flame throwers :o a few years back I worked on a cable gang in east anglia, at the time there was an infestation of a spiders that could give you a nast nip! and they liked dark damp places to build their nests! so from then on it was a two man job to lift the man hole covers, one man to lift and another to operate the flame thrower! funnily enough we never had a problem with spiders after that :o I could definitely use one of those! Attached to the front of my car. "If you insist on doing 40 in the 60 limit, then carry on at 40 in the 30 limit, when I catch up with you again in the 60 limit..." :huh:

Charlottes Web at piccys last weekend, HIGHLY RECOMMENDED, I didn't squirm once, but I did have a tear in my eye near the end, it was one of my favourite books when I was her age. Superb book, havn't seen the film yet. :o

Worms.... Hmmm... Scoleciphobia - Fear of worms http://www.willisworms.com/?gclid=COyx586G_ooCFREXEAodUEKkFw A useful web site, offering fast delivery! I never knew that there are so many species of worm. :lol:

Talking about spiders, we now have a (nearly) spider-free house, thanks to Vapona Ant Killer. And a fly swat. B) Of course it's impossible to keep them out permanenty, and indeed not desirable, as they do a good job of sweeping up insects and so on. I like to keep out the Cardinals (common house spider) which move far too quickly for our family's liking. I quite like the 'fairy' spiders (don't know the proper name, but depending on where you live they can be called 'daddy long legs', however, most people around here call a crane fly a daddy long legs... (I'd post a picture, however, they've all been killed by the Vapona.) I quite like the multi-coloured garden spiders! Sorry MadBaz, but I think that's a nice looking spider. :lol:

I wish I'd read this page first, and not page 1, 2, 3, etc... wondering where all the pictures were. :lol:

It is the same as mine. It's called mid-charcoal-metallic or something like that. The body kit on mine is a little more restrained - it's a standard Ford/VW kit.

In our family, my daughter has a fear of clowns (coulrophobia) and I have a fear of chewing gum - either accidently touching it stuck underneath a table, or the smell of it on peoples breath (yeeucchhhh!!!). Just thinking about it makes me recoil in horror. There are some really good phobias; fantastic names and wierd definitions. For example: Motorphobia - Fear of automobiles Allodoxaphobia - Fear of opinions Arachibutyrophobia - Fear of peanut butter sticking to the roof of the mouth Consecotaleophobia - Fear of chopsticks Genuphobia - Fear of knees(!) Hexakosioihexekontahexaphobia - Fear of the number 666 Pogonophobia - Fear of beards Spermatophobia or Spermophobia - Fear of germs (yes, really) Come on, tell us your phobias!

Just do it!!! Further replies to include a Red Nose, please. :lol:

A colleague of mine has just had a ground source heat-exchanger fitted in his house in Switzerland, where they seem to think it's very environmentally friendly! :) Now I can give him a hard time about how bad the Germans think he is. :) This Channel 4 program supports a view that I have held for some time - that it's not carbon we should be worried about but pollution in general. Just like you said, Gteuk, 'fumes and toxins' are not a good thing... Volcanos, as MattJr once said, add much more carbon dioxide to the atmosphere than we do. I could even point out how nasty and polluting diesels are compared to petrol engines... :) But the point I wanted to make is that we shouldn't sit here being taxed until the pips squeak on the basis of 'reducing carbon emmissions'. The debate is by no means over. In the meantime, let's be aware of the arguments, and let's make our voices heard.

http://www.channel4.com/science/microsites.../programme.html Worth a look - it seems that the basis for much of our present Government's taxation policy for transport may be seriously flawed.

Golly. A thread that I can totally, utterly agree on. So far. :lol:

Yes, I'd use it. (Does that put other people off????) :lol:

Yes, especially the Prime Ministers personal one on the M4 between Heathrow and Chiswick.

Sorry, I knew I was forgetting something... :lol: http://petitions.pm.gov.uk/bikesinbuslanes/ http://petitions.pm.gov.uk/Nohumps/

... that I think are worthy, and respectfully ask for your consideration: 1. Allow motorcycles and scooters to use bus lanes. Eminently sensible in my opinion and would make motorcycling, particularly in our cities, somewhat safer. 2. Remove all speed bumps. These things cause much pain and suffering, added noise and pollution and can damage your vehicle. The 'speed cushion' design is especially dangerous for: a. all two wheeled vehicles and b. to pedestrians, as drivers' attention is focussed on carefully straddling the things to minimise the bump. Some of the widely spaced speed cushions are avoidable by driving down the middle of the road, which is never going to encourage safe driving! And lets face it, the *real* boy racers don't slow down for these things...