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Forum: Road Safety, Speed Camera and Policy News Topic: Drive an EMPTY Car.. SAVE the PLANET |
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Posted: Tue Mar 13, 2007 11:03
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Ernest Marsh wrote: On a similar note to this thinking from HMG, it would be prudent when boiling the kettle NOT TO WATCH IT as a watched kettle takes longer to boil!  
Classic!  |
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Forum: Road Safety, Speed Camera and Policy News Topic: Drive an EMPTY Car.. SAVE the PLANET |
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Posted: Mon Mar 12, 2007 01:11
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a car with 5 people in and lots of rubbish and junk is going to be heavier than a car with 5 people in and no rubbish or junk.
Is it just me or is that pretty obvious?  |
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Forum: General Chat Topic: Mobile phone / 3G advice please... |
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Posted: Mon Mar 12, 2007 01:04
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Replies: 24
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3 do a laptop internet card for your laptop to connect your laptop to the internet... anyway.. lol.. £40 per month gives you the card and 1GB of download
linky
hope this helps
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Forum: Speed, Safety, Driving and The Law Topic: overtaking at traffic islands |
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Posted: Wed Mar 07, 2007 12:01
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Replies: 34
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| A few years ago, my friend was overtaking another car on a stretch of road he drives down regulary. As he was overtaking a car, he slammed into a traffic island that had just been put in, and damaged his alloy wheels. The island didn't have any white bollards on it. So he contacted the council and t... |
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Forum: Speed, Safety, Driving and The Law Topic: Accelerator on CAN-bus. Who thought this was sensible? |
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Posted: Sun Mar 04, 2007 03:16
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| No it was petrol. And given that my GF drives a 200SX with an uprated turbo, FMIC, boost controller, custom ECU map and other upgrades, I think she would know if it were turbo lag. :) ha ha, fair enough :oops: S13 or S14? I really want an S13, but I don't have the money or time to maintain it :( |
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Forum: Speed, Safety, Driving and The Law Topic: Accelerator on CAN-bus. Who thought this was sensible? |
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Posted: Sun Mar 04, 2007 03:03
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| My GF has just returned a hire car, a brand new Vauxhall Vectra, now OK the Vectra is not exactly renound as a drivers car and she was going to hate it because it's wrong wheel drive, but her major complaint was the half a second lag between doing something with the accelerator and the throttle act... |
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Forum: Speed, Safety, Driving and The Law Topic: 'Britain's New Road Menace' - driving games |
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Posted: Fri Mar 02, 2007 15:41
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Replies: 40
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Johnnytheboy wrote: Quote: FWIW I actually found that playing driving games whilst drunk gave me a very powerful insight.  I know that feeling. "Why can't I steer properly?"
and you also find that the more beer you have, the less and less you actually use the breaks |
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Forum: General Chat Topic: Caption Competition III |
| Edd |
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Posted: Thu Mar 01, 2007 13:09
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Replies: 46
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| New head-wear craze gets worryingly bizzare |
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Forum: General Chat Topic: Web chat whitewash |
| Edd |
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Posted: Fri Feb 23, 2007 13:23
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Replies: 27
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| Mr G Brook: I would have thought one of the more practical answers to road conjestion is to quadruple the price of fuel. This would remove the need to have all the technology solutions and civil servents to manage it. It would promote fuel efficient engines and biofuel engines, and would effect by ... |
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Forum: General Chat Topic: Web chat whitewash |
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Posted: Fri Feb 23, 2007 03:24
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Replies: 27
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| I am starting to get so angry about all this congestion and tax crap. The govenment won't listen to us, they will do what they want. Its as if we don't even exsist! 99% of the questions asked on that web chat where disproving the idea of "pay as you go", backed up by a petition with, what ... |
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Forum: Speed, Safety, Driving and The Law Topic: Tail-gating |
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Posted: Thu Feb 22, 2007 16:58
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Replies: 23
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put a switch on your ignition coil and next time you get someone on the motorway tailgating you, just flick the switch a couple of times to get a big flame out the exhaust, that will make them drop back.
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Forum: Trucking Topic: Introducing folk with a special interest in trucking |
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Posted: Wed Feb 21, 2007 03:03
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Replies: 66
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| hello, im Edd 21 and I've recently passed my Class 2 licence! im going to do my class 1 soon |
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