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- Mon Feb 18, 2008 1:40 pm
- Forum: The Wastegate (Off Topic)
- Topic: what cars have you owned ?
- Replies: 40
- Views: 11613
Got my driver's license in 1999 because I was going to get company car. I did, until 2004 when I moved to the UK. Notice the sharp rise in car age :P 1997 Opel Corsa 2000 Opel Astra 2001 Opel Astra 2003 Opel Astra 1992 Vauxhall Cavalier 1990 480 ES 1997 Honda Accord 1989 Volkswagen Golf 1995 480 Cel...
- Fri Feb 15, 2008 11:09 am
- Forum: General Discussions
- Topic: R U addicted to Boost? - new poll
- Replies: 25
- Views: 5658
- Fri Feb 08, 2008 11:09 pm
- Forum: General Discussions
- Topic: Celebrations
- Replies: 253
- Views: 62114
- Fri Feb 08, 2008 10:59 pm
- Forum: General Discussions
- Topic: this guy hath no soul!
- Replies: 13
- Views: 2670
Err.... Did you guys read the same article I did? He seemed reasonably positive about the car. Didn't have all his facts straight, but if the worst you can say about a car is that its owners are Aston Martin owner-wannabes and it's not a real posers car, then I think either your heckling skills need...
- Thu Feb 07, 2008 10:43 pm
- Forum: Spotted!
- Topic: Light blue in Canterbury
- Replies: 0
- Views: 937
Light blue in Canterbury
Crossing the railway just outside Westgate tower. We had a wave
There was a C30 driving behind and an S40 in front. snicker. Anyone here?
There was a C30 driving behind and an S40 in front. snicker. Anyone here?
- Sun Feb 03, 2008 11:02 pm
- Forum: The Wastegate (Off Topic)
- Topic: Dear Ted
- Replies: 4
- Views: 1696
- Sun Feb 03, 2008 10:58 pm
- Forum: General Discussions
- Topic: Celebration more desirable than a GT???!!!!!
- Replies: 28
- Views: 5827
- Sun Feb 03, 2008 10:56 pm
- Forum: General Discussions
- Topic: Turbo Envy
- Replies: 8
- Views: 1950
- Fri Feb 01, 2008 10:55 pm
- Forum: The Wastegate (Off Topic)
- Topic: Dear Ted
- Replies: 4
- Views: 1696
Dear Ted
Dear Ted, I hope you can help me here. The other day I set off for work leaving my husband in the house watching the TV as usual. I hadn't gone more than a mile down the road when my engine conked out and the car shuddered to a halt. I walked back home to get my husband's help. When I got home I cou...
- Fri Feb 01, 2008 9:18 pm
- Forum: General Discussions
- Topic: Celebration more desirable than a GT???!!!!!
- Replies: 28
- Views: 5827
- Sat Jan 26, 2008 8:11 pm
- Forum: General Discussions
- Topic: Guess where my oil is leaking from
- Replies: 16
- Views: 3774
After I'd changed the oil on my previous 480, for some reason the sump plug didn't thread in correctly. "Luckily" the clutch cable decided to snap so I took it to a garage before it ran dry (I hadn't noticed it was leaking at all until they told me in the garage after they'd had a look at what neede...
- Sat Jan 26, 2008 8:06 pm
- Forum: The Wastegate (Off Topic)
- Topic: What anti-virus software do you use?
- Replies: 24
- Views: 5855
AVG free atm. Was going to switch to Nod32, as it is (at the moment) apparently the best overall. AVG I think can't be beat for a free program though. The only times I've seen AVG update slow down a machine, is when program version was one down from latest. Updates start to go up from a few kB to MB...
- Thu Jan 24, 2008 12:52 pm
- Forum: Spotted!
- Topic: Red ES Canterbury
- Replies: 0
- Views: 915
Red ES Canterbury
Older gentleman in what looked like an ES at a quick glance at Sainsbury's roundabout in Canerbury. Woohoo.
- Wed Jan 23, 2008 6:27 pm
- Forum: The Wastegate (Off Topic)
- Topic: Motivational humour
- Replies: 13
- Views: 4582
- Wed Jan 23, 2008 5:06 pm
- Forum: Cars For Sale / Wanted
- Topic: FOR SALE - 480 Celeb, only 81k miles - ANY OFFERS......?
- Replies: 7
- Views: 3197
Your Celebration
Hi, As JohnTurbo says, you could probably get pretty decent money from someone on eBay or some such and I certainly don't want to come off as a leecher, but I am very much looking for a good example of a 480 again. I can only just about stretch my funds to about 700, maybe 750 though. Let me know if...
- Tue Sep 25, 2007 8:42 am
- Forum: General Discussions
- Topic: Getting 480 Serviced at Volvo dealer, good idea or not??
- Replies: 20
- Views: 5788
I went in to a Volvo dealer to ask them about servicing when I got my 480 and they sorta said "yeah, we'll do it, but we do, we'll need to make sure your car is up to our standards and to look will be £750 plus whatever costs for labour on top of that to get it up to scratch. So no, I didn't go f...
- Fri Sep 14, 2007 4:59 pm
- Forum: Cars For Sale / Wanted
- Topic: FOR SALE - Spares/Electric whiz - Blue ES
- Replies: 2
- Views: 1447
FOR SALE - Spares/Electric whiz - Blue ES
I've decided to sell/get rid of the car, so here goes: It's a 1990 G-reg ES in blue. Re-registered though, so chassis/VIN number doesn't match the registration. It's nearing 120k miles and if it hadn't cost me an arm and a leg in the past few weeks I would have had the cam-belt done. Good (well, for...
- Wed Sep 12, 2007 7:36 am
- Forum: The Wastegate (Off Topic)
- Topic: Need some friendly forum advice about work :)
- Replies: 27
- Views: 6915
- Wed Sep 12, 2007 7:29 am
- Forum: General Discussions
- Topic: time to say goodbye
- Replies: 6
- Views: 2215
Thinking of packing in too. This morning I woke up to my gf saying I'd left the lights on. Went outside and it was the breaklights :shock: Started the car, no change, drove a metre forward and backward, lights out. Got out, closed the door, lights go back on. Rinse, repeat, lights out. Went back ins...
- Fri Sep 07, 2007 7:47 am
- Forum: The Wastegate (Off Topic)
- Topic: Need some friendly forum advice about work :)
- Replies: 27
- Views: 6915
Not to be a twat, but what can you do with your degree? Do you design graphics for websites, ads, movie sets? Is there such a thing as specialization at all? I just think it makes a huge difference whether you can tell a prospective employer specifically what you can do. Graphics design sounds... va...