Pashley26

He's got a point.

Potentially, but I'm not f**king about with oil coolers on my drive. Personally, I don't think other than a bit of clutch slip there's anything wrong with it. 1L per 1000 mile of oil usage isn't bad, but only time will tell. That and he's done over 4 hours worth of driving in it today trouble free, so we'll have to wait and see what happens first and if there's any repeat symptoms. The engine itself is absolutely lovely, it's really quiet. A little it of a ticking from the head, but a lot nicer than the majority of 1.8t's. It just needs a few of the 'tasteful' modifications removing haha.

Did he send you some pictures? It's a really nice car, can't believe what a bargain it was. I've never seen an engine so clogged up with shit, it literally looked like somebody had dropped all the water and replaced it with actual shit. When we picked it up there was absolutely no return flow or water flow from or to the expansion tank and in my mind I was considering that the impeller had fallen off the water pump, but with it running I squiggled the hoses up and squeezed them and for about half a second there was flow, so I know the pump was going to be fine. I changed the expansion tank for him, flushed the system and refilled with G13, logged the temp sensor VS the gauge and all seemed good. He's just got to Exeter and it's been bang on 90 the whole way. I think I might have upset the previous owner when I told him there was nothing wrong with it and he'd sold it FAR too cheap because his garage were shit...Seriously though, Luke took some pictures and video's. Until Luke posts the video, this is literally what it was like -

SHAME ON YOU! It's Luke Rainbird, we have been on a very impromptu mission today.

It's only gay if you push back.

That is all. If you don't know who that is, shame on you.

Sucks for you, hopefully you purchased it through the correct channels. Otherwise, more fool you and you deserve to be stuck with it as a paperweight.

Or jailbreak it for free with Pangu then update it through iTunes. That will trick it into wiping everything and making it a factory phone hen you turn it on after the update.

Rainbird is such a douche. I also found other pieces of comedy gold from many years ago, circa 2009 and the rise of the Crotch-Pasta revolution.

Kevin didn't choose the thug life. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T5gN4nH_2IQ

The S3 is staying if it doesn't make £4000 on eBay. Basically. If it gives me the money it needs then it's going. But if not, it's staying.

I had some fanny offer me a a Vauxhall Insignia?! I sent him a reply saying, 'no thanks, I'm not interested in swapping for a Vauxhall Insignia.' He replied with 'why' I replied with 'because I haven't given up on life just yet.' He didn't reply.

Mwapharpharpharpharp. She's really keen for me to have the track car and not to sell it, she know's how much I love it. But I've told her I'm selling it to fund a mortgage...But if we live here, I'll save more than the S3 is worth in the year whilst we are finding a house for me to buy and renting something somewhere else. It's totally because it isn't guaranteed. My salary is £6000 a year, so the bank found it very odd why I was claiming I earn £60,000 a year when every other car salesman with a salary below 10K earn £30,000. But everyone who works for my company has had the same problems and questions asked, I asked about 20 of the other managers at a management meeting last week and they were all in agreement with what JD says below. Because it is so common in our work that employees are struggling to get mortgages our HR director doubles as a company accountant for all employees as a company benefit. Work have also been kind enough to change my contract from an OTE of £30,000 to £60,000. So hopefully when I go to see the mortgage advisors on Thursday to present all of this information hopefully I'll have a statement of projected earnings from our HR director, my last 12 months commission and pay statements, a full 12 months worth of bank statements and an itemised and individually assessed assets lists. Finger crossed.

I always get what I want though. Because I didn't tell her this place has a huge double garage where I can keep the track car.

I ran it by her, she's into it.

Sorry, can't talk...The asphalt calls.

It is, but I pay my mum £400 a month to live with her, and £100 to cover bills. So it's only costing me my bills, and a bit of extra fuel to get to work which is waaaay offset by driving the Panda. So when are you coming over for beers?

Absolutely, I'll give him a ring tomorrow. By all means if you give me the cash I'll go and buy it for you, it's really not far away from me. If you are coming down make sure you pick me up on the way.

Yep, I think in the end they ended up giving her back about £13,000 because she'd borrowed a fair bit off my grandparents and missed quite a lot of months rent... I'm not running it by her, I'm moving in ASAP. If I don't, she'll have to come to my parents every time she wants to see me like she had to for the months before she left. It was agonising. She'll have to come to see me anyway, if she wants to come and see me and me be in my own house then amazing. If she wants to live with me in it for a bit then even better. But I'm not hanging around for her to come back, have WW4 with her parents and then us have to rush into finding somewhere to live when I'm being given somewhere on a plate.

Yes my dad has workshop Luke, whayouwaaan'? That guy is such a f**king helm. I met him once, can't even remember his name. I think I called him Douchey McDouchington and he got offended, moleskin wearing willy.

Yes just renting off my grandpa, and yes he gave my sister 7 years worth of £200 a month back. Because spending months on end trawling through finding the perfect place, finding the right school for her to work at and juggling our work life balance whilst looking to get a mortgage and having to live in separate houses with our parents sounds like incredibly un-fun. It's very difficult for me to get a mortgage because my commission based employment, banks will only accept £30,000PA as my income, even though it's closer to 60, I've not ever had continuous employment for more than two years at one employer, I've had a shocking credit history in the past from when I was in Plymouth, and lenders just don't seem to want me around. So I can't buy for a while yet anyway. Pretty gash and all my own fault. But it's not until you get told you can't have something that you really want it. Hence selling the track car and all the work I'm doing at the moment. Key point I've missed here is that her mum is bi-polar and hates me. As in, she tried to pay my girlfriend to stay in Australia for a full year to split us up. I'm not welcome on their drive-way, literally. She can't live with her parents when she gets back. Her mum believes that we can't ever be together because if we had children they would have 'mental deficiencies' because I'm autistic. This is coming from a very well respected ex head teacher of 30+ years. She's a horrible bitch, I hope she dies a slow and painful death for the way she has treated me. Ironically, I got on with her parents absolutely beautifully for many years both both and after we got together. Then one day I parked my car on their drive whilst her mother was at the shops, and I parked it opposite her mums space because her dad was moving big oil bowsers that he used to heat the pool around, and the tire had gone flat on the trailer he was pulling them with so he'd had to abandon it across the drive. I was helping her dad change the tire when her mum pulled up, couldn't park in her space and went absolutely f**king psycho at me. I've never seen somebody react in the way she did, it was quite unholy. And she's been an absolute c-u-n-t to me every since, I've not spoken to her but the things I've been told, and having my girlfriend turn up on my doorstep at floods of tears because of the barrage of of abuse she's got from her mum about me.

Previous effort. Previous effort to that. Another previous effort. And previous efforts. Need I continue?

I've just had the best news ever. My sister lives in a house which is above my mums shop. My grandpa owns the property, and my sister has been living in there with her husband and daughter for the past 7 years. She pays my grandpa £800 a month as rent for the property, but Grandpa has been secretly putting £200 a month of this by as savings for her. Because she's shit with money. Hugely cheap for what would easily rent for £1400+. My sister works part time and struggles, her husband works full time but for a low wage and isn't what you'd call 'employment gold' because he's just a bit simple basically. And with a young one they struggle financially. They've been waiting for a council house for 5 years now, and they've finally been awarded one. Which is a huge weight lifted. They've viewed a flat which will be much more manageable for them, easier to heat, easier to clean, less wasted space. And the council house benefits that go with it. They've accepted it and will be moving in before the new year. This is what has sparked my desire to own my own home early, and to get my feet on the ladder firmly before I start to add other things to my life. Mum told me today that they had accepted the flat. Then she told me that Grandpa has said that if I repaint the house and sort the garden out I can move in as soon as I like, and leave as early as I like with no deposit for £400 a month. He won't skim some off the top to put into saving like he did with my sister, and he knows I'm really struggling living with my parents after living away for so long. I'm so excited about this, it's perfect. It's far away from our respective parents that my girlfriend won't feel like she's living at home, it's close enough to work that I can get to work within half an hour but far enough away to not have work on my doorstep, it's 1/4 of a mile walk to the train station so perfect for my girlfriend to go into London or down to the coast to see her friends. And it'll be ready before my girlfriend gets back so I can have a home setup for her straight away. My concerns are... Girlfriend has never seen it. Girlfriend will have to find work local to Fleet; I'm not sure how she'll feel about that. Girlfriend specifically told me she didn't want me making decision before she came back and that we would do it together. However this will give us the perfect stepping stone and will remove all the pressure from us finding the perfect house. She'd be mad not to go with it. So happy!

Take a minute out of your day to sign this important petition. https://submissions.epetitions.direct.gov.uk/petitions/72458 It basically says, "you've moved near to a Motorsport venue, of cause it's going to be noisy you idiot. The circuit was here first, and you chose to live here. So no you can't conplain."

I know. And this really is 'my' car. But it's got to go. I want a 1.8t Mk2 next anyway.