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al_leeds

Don't think I have been this way in years, but I'm back in Rover ownership so thought I would swing by and say hello. My normal daily driver these days is this: http://thumbsnap.com/s/DjMX0OEb.jpg http://thumbsnap.com/s/dBJYryRO.jpg 2011 XFR - 5.0 V8, 510 horses, just back from a new engine under wa...

al_leeds

If petrol was that expensive I think a lot of other people would have a similar idea and Birmingham would look Saigon :D However a 4.2 litre V8 is not the most appropriate way to tackle a 10 mile a day commute. I contest that such a car is an ideal way to tackle a 10 mile commute! If you had to com...

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The Jag is without doubt the best car I have ever owned. Round town the air suspension and burbly engine make for a very nice experience. You can really hustle along as well if the mood takes you. However a 4.2 litre V8 is not the most appropriate way to tackle a 10 mile a day commute. If I had the ...

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Heated front windscreen+ Heated seats makes life a lot easier

al_leeds

And the Tories don't give a logger about anything other than their own ideological goals :thumbup: Go on then, I'll bite. What are these goals? I can't say I've noticed any kind of overt ideology going on. Tories= Small Govt, Free Market Provision as the default for everything, Low taxes for the su...

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I bought the wife a swift 1.5 VVT GLX auto - its nice and nippy, really roomy on the inside despite the small wheelbase, rides and handles great at lower speeds, a bit noisy on the motorway- its gutless below 2.5k revs (mind you that's in comparison to my 4.2 v8 beast) but better as the revs rise. I...

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Sergio Marchionne was interviewed recently and he seemed to be saying all options are on the table, and one was going back to the traditional 90% stake, which is what they have done now by buying back Mubadala's share. Seems to me they may float Ferrari on the stock exchange to be able to raise some...

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http://i216.photobucket.com/albums/cc179/gib786/VR4%20Detail%20Nov%2009/DSCF1235.jpg :whistle: Granted the suspension on that particular car was not comfortable in the slightest but i'm sure the standard ride would be ok. £3-3.5k would get a decent example I reckon. Would prob be 4/5 years older th...

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2 different things often get confused, sometimes intentionally by Daily Mail reporters, other times due to lack of knowledge. They are religion and culture. Imo, and I appreciate I may be wrong, But being firstly a Muslim (gasp!) and secondly from south east Asian stock, use of the burkha is rooted ...

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My first 216gsi was that colour. I loved that car. Looks like it's on a French Plate?

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Subaru forester - quite a lot of kit for the money and in the right colours they can look quite good, as well as decent reliability and some off road ability: http://www.pistonheads.com/sales/1988141.htm - over budget a tad but it gives you an idea Volvo s60 - not a 4x4 but quite a nice comfy cruise...

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Three features in the Jag that one year on from buying it, I still think are awesome Total open/closure of the windows if you hold the lock/unlock button down for a few seconds- awesome in the summer when the car has been sat in a sun drenched spot Another button on the key fob switches the headligh...

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I've used it on the iphone4, did it a couple of days after it was released and its working fine so far. I'm not sure but I think this jailbreak is designed for ios4

al_leeds

How about a ZT cdti estate? I know you said premium marque(!), but you'd be getting a BMW designed chassis, engine with decent enough fuel economy AND buttons on the steering wheel- TV/sat nav cruise etc, they do look the business. Few plug and play bits and a bit of modification can see them up to ...

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£680 Fully comp with 2 years NCB on a Jag XJ8 4.2 V8 Sport
Aged 29, 3 points, with Bell Insurance (I think they are the Budget company owned by Admiral)

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Lint Roller to start off with. If it is severely bobbled run a hair trimmer over it, will get rid of the worst of the bobbling. Then hoover with the appropriate small attachment. If you really want to go for it and can get hold of a vax or any other machine than can do wet vacs, use Astonish carpet ...

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I don't think I could get it down to just 2 but off the top of my head: http://www.rexkaile.com/motorshow/ferrari/ferrari_330_0001.jpg This brings out the little kid in me - it just looks immense, I can only imagine how it was recieved back when it first hit the track... http://www.arabalarmax.com/d...

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I had plans to shoehorn the engine out of this into an old mini... ah well I will just have to make do with my 300bhp V8... Hope you have as much fun in the old girl as we did!

al_leeds

I have unexpectedly returned to rover ownership thanks to the boys in blue finding my cdt that was stolen about 6 months back. As I bought another car the 75 has to go but since I have no idea what they are worth these days and my example isnt exactly standard,I thought I would ask the collective wi...

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southside wrote:What model 75 is it? What age and milage? My moms after a 75 diesel

Its a CDT connoisseur. 2001, with 65k on the clock.. BUT has ZT front bumper, rear spoiler, hairpins, Synergy 2 with upgraded MAF, BMC air filter so its been ever so slightly personalised...

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She's alive!! mwahahahaha :twisted: I managed to engage my brain, pinch the battery out of little brothers 416 GTI that is languishing at the bottom of his drive, hook that up to the 75 and boost it using jump leads hooked up to the Jag - started first time I turned the key! Since then a friend of a...

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richard moss wrote:Assuming that you claimed on your insurance, doesn't this car now belong to the insurance company?

I didnt make a claim, as the amount they would have paid me minus the excess was more a less the same as the amount they would have increased my premium by so the big old bus is all mine...

al_leeds

Over 6 months ago some nasty scrotes decided to break into my house, load my posessions into my 75 CDT and drive off with it. After much cursing and not much help from the local constabulary I moved on and bought myself a nice Jag XJ 4.2 V8 to waft about in. Imagine my surprise when last week a memb...

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It would apper from the reports on a Fezza forum I frequent that he has suffered trauma to his optic nerve but the doctors can't assess the extent of the injury because he can't open his eye yet. Felipe Massa's condition is continuing to improve as doctors at the AEK Hospital in Hungary, where the B...

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I paid a whisker short of 11k. Which is in the middle of the range of Valuations that Parker's give for a private sale. From what I can work out the place I got it from had it up for sale for about 4 weeks, and I got 1k off the asking price with a 3 month warranty.

al_leeds

you get 5 gears or 6 in that? Cats suspension is electrically adjustable if im not mistaken? Yup as far as I am aware its electrically adjustable, it has a 6 gear zf autobox with J gate which I strangely like... http://img269.imageshack.us/img269/5379/08072009031.jpg The seats are amazingly comfort...

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After months and months and months of deliberations, rumination and procastination I have finally bought me a new car: http://i730.photobucket.com/albums/ww303/aaslam/car1.jpg?t=1246988294 Jag XJ8 sport. 4.2 litre V8 300 bhp 308 lb ft torque 0-60 in 6.3 seconds. I had my heart set on an XJR but to b...

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they have a bank of different stigs, depending on the car or vehicle- e.g. Renault F1 was Renault's tester at the time, Hekki Kovialainen. The winter olympics special had a specialist skidoo person etc, so in that sense he's a valid Stig. I picked as soon as I saw the car he was driving- only one in...

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lifted directly from .org

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thanks to the thieving scum that nicked my car (which still hasnt been found- but that is a whole other saga) I'm currently driving my brothers old 416 gti auto wedge- and I have to say, aside from the overly loud exhaust (which I bought back in my boy racer days :lol: ) its not that bad! The only t...

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Crome wrote:how much you looking for?

Crome

I have no idea what they are worth these days, so make us an offer. I'll sort out some pics this weekend

al_leeds

sorry to thread hijack- I have one of these knocking about at home- in silver, Comes with the mesh bit behind and I think Hockey sticks as well- any use to anyone? If so give me a shout!

al_leeds

Home insurance have sorted the home locks, but they refused to pay out for the locks on my wife's car (they took both sets of keys but left the car- its a nissan micra so I guess even the scum around here have standards :P ). I'm looking at the V8, X350 shape. Had already been doing my homework and ...

al_leeds

So last week some arse hole broke in to my house via a tiny window, cleared out the downstairs and took off with my keys and my car, which as I write this is, is still in the wind. No problem, thought I, as I can claim on my insurance. Spoke to the insurance company, £750 excess - my fault - was try...

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can't see Leeds on there...am sure my area will be F though LS Leeds 1-13, 15-16, 19, 26-27 . . .. . . . . . . . . . F * 14, 18, 28 . . . . . . . . .. . . . . . . . . . E * 17, 21-23 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . C 20, 25 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . . D * 24 . . . . . . . . . . ....

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