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Good on you jac, and its only £12,500 now. Whether you go for mine or not you wont be disappointed in the GS - especially the sport as it looks so cool B)

Make sure you go for the Quanans (and ask for a discount) I dont know why you bother with teh display, I think it would spoil th elook of the interior and I personally always look in the side mirrors when reversing so wouldnt be looking at the dash. - The sound is good enough on its own

Congrats Colin - guess well be seeing you on here at odd hours from now on

I had similar situation with my old MD and he treated everyone like a piece of *hit. I didnt stand for it and stood up to him from day one and he never tried again - typical of bullies, there just cowards and pick on people who are weaker (or in the workplace, pick on people who they know cant answer back) If you leave, I think you can claim constructive dismissal as he has made your working environment in such a way that you have no option than to leave. This would only work if you went to the MD and he didnt change the situation.

I am not sure about the breed you are looking for, but with mine (Hungarian Vizsla) there is an owners club (and a forum like LOC) where they have a lsit of breeders You should also try the kennel club web site where all reputable breeders have to register themselves to become a 'breeder' good luck in your search

depends what yuo want out of a car, but we looked at the crv for my wife as we wanted the internal space and liked the looks but the boot space wasnt all that. we ended up with a Colorado and are absolutely delighted with it. People are always put off by its size but it isnt really that big especially if you have the parking sensors. They have excellent residual value compared with teh CRV as well if the mileage is right

My father in law (who has a GS300) hired a Saab in France - arriveed at hotel and tried to remove keys but they wouldnt come out and this was in a MANUAL. With Saabs, you have to put them in reverse before you can remove the key - Imagine a 65 year old Irishman asking a Frenchman how to get the keys out of a Swedish car - took them over an hour to work it out

Battersea?

Just completed this. There is no need to remove the bumper at all. All you have to remove is the trim to the rear of the boot loading bay and the cover that goes over the rear light cluster (to one side only) If you have a look at this picture you can see the position of the sensors. Just run the cable over the bumper irons otherwise the cables will get a bit close to the rear silencer at could melt. Its quite fiddly but can be done. I then drilled a hole in the top of rear edge of the spare wheel well (which is why you have to take the plastic tril off) and fed the cables through and placed the connector box below the rear light cluster. Once all the panelling is back on, nothing is in sight. Good luck

I have never seen or heard of a GS with LPG conversion, only LS400's So your best starting point is to buy a standard GS and convert it yourself. You could try this one :winky: GS 4 sale

Forgot to mention an interesting bit about knowing Nike Brewer, got invited to the final show of Driven when they had teh best car of the series - Mini Cooper S v Porsche 996 Turbo v Merc SL - had Jason Plato drive us around teh preimter roads of an airfield in pitch darkness - man can he drive and can those cars go B)

I met Mike Brewer a couple of years ago and have met up with him a few times since. Not really A list but it's car related... .... and his wife had an IS Sportcross for gratis - how cool is that

Apparently not, 7 bids and up to £3950 now. Does it come with a "Captains Log"

am i being stupid, but what is it and how can bidding get up to $2.5m???

It was kind of my fault leaving the phones in, its just after 6 years of doing so, you become comfortable about where you live. I dont get any netwirk coverage here so I never need to bring it inside, but will do from now. Funny thingt was that despite saying that my car was a 99 and had a green tint, they still came out with a 95 GS window in bronze. They couldnt get one until today so I had a GS mk 1 glass in the car with the last 2" covered over in gaffa tape, where its a little shorter.

"Symptoms of being over 25" How many of these would you admit to.... 1.You leave gigs before the encore to "beat the rush". 2.You own a lawnmower. 3.You stop dreaming of becoming a professional footballer and start dreaming of having a son who might instead. 4.Before throwing the local paper away, you look through the property section. 5.You prefer Later with Jools Holland to Top of the Pops. 6.All of a sudden, Tony Blair is not 46, he's only 46. 7.Before going out anywhere, you ask what the parking is like. 8.Rather than throw a knackered pair of trainers out, you keep them because they'll be all right for the garden. 9.You buy your first ever T-shirt without anything written on it. 10. Instead of laughing at the Innovations catalogue that falls out of the newspaper, you suddenly see both the benefit and money saving properties of a plastic winter cover for your garden bench and an electronic mole repellent for the lawn. Not to mention the plastic man for the car to deter would-be thieves. 11.You start to worry about your parents' health. 12.You complain that ecstacy's "not as pure as it used to be coz you know that if you have some it will take about 48 hours to recover and anyway, you might look a bit of an idiot. 13.Sure, you have more disposable income, but everything you want to buy costs between 200 and 500 quid. 14.You don't get funny looks when you buy a Disney video or a Wallace and Gromit bubble bath, as the sales assistant assumes they are for your child. 15.Pop music all starts to sound crap. 16.You opt for Pizza Express over Pizza Hut because they don't have any pictures on the menus and anyway, they do a really nice half-bottle of house white. 17.You become powerless to resist the lure of self-assembly furniture. 18.You always have enough milk in. 19.To compensate for the fact that you have little desire to go clubbing, you instead frequent really loud tapas restaurants and franchise pubs with wacky names in the mistaken belief that you have not turned into your parents. 20.While flicking through the TV channels, you happen upon C4's Time Team with Tony Robinson. You get drawn in. 21.The benefits of a pension scheme become clear. 22.You go out of your way to pick up a colour chart from B&Q. 23.You wish you had a shed. 24.You have a shed. 25.You actually find yourself saying "They don't make 'em like that anymore" and "I remember when there were only 3 TV channels" and "Of course, in my day...." 26.Radio 2 play more songs you know than Radio 1 - and Jimmy Young has some really interesting guests on.... you know. 27.Instead of tutting at old people who take ages to get off the bus, you tut at schoolchildren whose diction is poor. 28.When sitting outside a pub you become envious of their hanging baskets. 29.You make an effort to be in and out of the curry house by 11. 30. You find yourself saying "is it cold in here or is it just me?"

Alarm went off on the Lexus at 3am this morning - woke me up, looked out the window and couldnt see anything so went back to sleep. Went to go out this morning and found they had smashed the passenger door glass and stolen the mobile from the car kit. I know I shouldnt leave the phone on display but its a private driveway on a dead end next to the woods so no passing foot traffic Thankfully the wife left her car unlocked (eh? ) so they didnt do any damage to her car but took the phone and cd player. If it had been locked, they would have just smashed her window in any case so i was better of with it unlocked. funny thing is that they left the DVD player and headrest TV screens, her handbag and my golf clubs, so it could have been alot worse. Just waiting for autpglass to come out with a replacement glass for the GS. makes you wonder why we bother locking cars as its so weasy to get in and no one takes any notice of alarms nowadays. just need to rely on a mobilisor

come on, you know that mirror idea is cool!!! (as long as it all works ) No, i think 2 or 3 sensors are fine. Steve would you have to wire them all up? I would have gone for the mirror type, except you lose the auto dipping function in the exsiting mirror so didnt bother

would have thought a fake dog would have been better :doggy:

Blimey, I thought you had sold the GS - good to see theres still one here! Anyway, check the oil fluid level - exactly the same happened with me and it just needed topping up

Do you really need parking sensors with a screen - the mirror idea is good but the others would be a pain. Most car manufacturers just have an audible warning (except Merc) I just fitted some with just a speaker and 3 flush sensors and there great. With Gold discount it only cost £65

I have always bought private to get a cheaper deal. However, a friend of mine bought a B*W 540 from a second hand car dealer recently. He took it for a service and as it was a bit lumpy on idle so they did a compression test. Turns out it is either the engine block or something else expensive and B*W suggested he budgeted £2-£3k to fix it. Took it back to the SH dealer and whilst he tried to wriggle for a while, we got all his money back. I did have to remind him of the Sale & Supply of Goods to Consumers Act!! Whilst he paid top end retail price for it, he had the protection if it went wrong. The same car could have been sold privately for a £1k cheaper but there would have been no protection. with that said, money talks and I hate paying over the odds for something that I could get cheaper elsewhere. and you can always buy a warranty

On my Black GS Sport I did red calipers with white stickers. Depends whethe ryou want the calipers or the stickers to stand out or both!

Does it have a map display or is it just voice commands