Motoring Issues

Tyred of paying high prices...

Advantages: Quick efficient service and a good price too
Disadvantages: None spring to mind

I had to finally accept the truth - all four tyres on my car needed replacing, despite the protests from my credit card. I went to my local branch of ATS and asked for a price. They quoted £528 and could have the tyres in and on my car the next day. I went home slightly grief stricken by this amount so got busy on the internet to see what other prices I could find (whilst my credit card hid under the bed, quietly sobbing.) I wasn't particularly ...
...fairly remote part of Wales so outlets of any retailer are few and far between. However, I did have a look at Kwik Fit's website www.kwik-fit.com to see if there was a branch nearby, and if so, what price they could offer. I thought that it would be quite complicated and I would need to search through lists of tyres, with weird specifications and numbers on them that wouldn't mean a lot to me but I was pleasantly surprised! On the Kwik Fit site, ...

Pip2002 28.10.2009 · Read full review
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Review of Kwik-Fit Tyre & Exhaust Centres

PASS YOUR TEST IN 20hrs ISH?

Advantages: Freedom, Independance and the buzz of passing!
Disadvantages: Potentially very expensive, consuming, the unknown

Well I'll start by indroducing myself as a 27yr old guy from good old Derby! I left it late to learn how to drive but got there in the end and I'll tell you how. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ PART 1....... THE PLAN When I decided I wanted to learn to how drive I realised that I didn't want to spend months or years learning to drive, I wanted to do it in a matter ...
...Well that was the plan anyway! As soon as I passed my theory test I booked my practical test which was for the 7th Sept 2009, 7 weeks away. I then searched around for a Driving Instructor and found a school which was well priced and covered my area, I called them and had a chat about one of their packages which was 30hrs of tuition for £530. He said he would send an instructor round for an assesment lesson. The next week I had my assesment lesson ...

Defcon1 30.09.2009 · Read full review
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Review of Member advice on Passing your Practical Driving Test

Its running out and running out fast!

Advantages: Drive less
Disadvantages: Tax has to be collected somehow

Bet you didn't know that the biggest oilfield on dry land in Western Europe is in England, not only that but it's near a camp site in Devon! Ok, Wych Farm in Purbeck isn't South Fork, but the nodding donkeys do suck up an impressive 85,000 barrels a day, and at $120 each at current prices that's lot of money. In fact about 70 miles of the southern coast of England is a bit of a hot sport for crude and with oil rising 400% in just four years its well ...
...broadsheets it reminded me of that episode of Rising Damp when Rigsby buys oil shares from his conman tenant Seymour, who convinces the seedy landlord there's oil in the Penninies, then alights with Rigsby's life savings. Oil has been drawn in Singleton, in West Sussex, since 1991, pulling out 30,000 barrels last year alone. Markwell Wood, near Chichester, is reported to be containing up to 200 million barrels at around 12 billion bucks at current ...

thedevilinme 20.05.2008 · Read full review
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Review of Petrol Price Debate

CAMERAS the signs of Tyranny

Advantages: Surveillance on our society good for the elite
Disadvantages: We the people are in a control grid WAKE UP

...miles an hour over a speed limit with me I think it was 36 in a 30 zone. Did you know there is more cameras in proportion to space in the UK than anywhere else in the world? A group has decided enough is enough and have spent a lot of time burning GATSOs and destroying them in a range of different ways also. This camera system being implemented is part of a larger plan to monitor our society movements patterns and keep everyone within the grid ...
...liberties are totally gone - this is happening fast, a lot faster than you think, there is riots all over with very little coverage. Benazir Bhutto? chips being put into immigrants arms, the list goes on and on and on. These cameras are forced oppression the police are not to blame its the authorities that are putting these in place. I hope to god people wake up in time. Next time you are comfortably sat their thinking you are secure with these ...

floater 31.12.2007 · Read full review
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Review of Speed Cameras

56p -61p a litre!!!!

Advantages: Cheap fuel, reliable, good for the enviroment
Disadvantages: Takes up some space, only 1200 filling stations

...LPG. What is LPG? LPG is short for Liquid Petroleum Gas, commonly known as Auto Gas, most petrol driven cars or vans (not diesels) can be converted to run on LPG which almost cuts your fuel costs in half. Currently, there are around 140.000 cars running around the UK able to run on LPG & 11 million worldwide. With around 1200 filling stations with LPG facilities in the UK you are never far away from being able to fill up. LPG is a by product ...
...it is very environmentally friendly. LPG vehicles emit less Co2 gases, little sulphur & no soot particles. In the UK we export about 45% of our LPG supply. When LPG is stored under pressure at certain temperatures it becomes a dense liquid allowing a large quantity to be stored in a small space. How does it work in a car? LPG cars run on both fuel & gas separately, in most cases the spare wheel is removed & a round tank that stores the gas about ...

ScottishWestie 19.09.2008 · Read full review
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Review of LPG Conversions