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Forum: General Chat Topic: Anyone familiar with the Nissan X Trail? |
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Posted: Mon Sep 30, 2013 18:21
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Mole
Many thanks for all that info, it's been very handy as is the forum you recommended.
Cheers ! |
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Forum: General Chat Topic: Anyone familiar with the Nissan X Trail? |
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Posted: Sun Sep 29, 2013 18:07
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| Thanks for that, this is the sort of thing that I'm finding in my price range: http://www.autotrader.co.uk/classified/advert/201306207388622/sort/default/usedcars/price-from/4000/price-to/6000/fuel-type/diesel/model/x-trail/make/nissan/onesearchad/used/onesearchad/nearlynew/onesearchad/new/postcode/... |
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Forum: General Chat Topic: Anyone familiar with the Nissan X Trail? |
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Posted: Thu Sep 26, 2013 20:32
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| Hi A new job is looming and I am looking for a decent softroader. 80% of my time is commmuting chomping up and down the M11 the rest of the time I'll be on muddy rough construction sites or out bushcrafting. so something fairly car like with some raised clearance and a bit of 4x4 capability would be... |
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Forum: General Chat Topic: The claim culture. So exactly how much is an arm and a leg? |
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Posted: Wed Apr 20, 2011 20:39
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Replies: 7
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| It's not exactly surprising that the claims culture is getting as bad as it is, despite protestations from the insurance industry from thier own financial reports show that on some policies including the higher risk drivers ther can be as much as an 80% profit margin, so when the public are being ri... |
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Forum: General Chat Topic: Fuel Protests |
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Posted: Thu Apr 14, 2011 22:00
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| Seems this lot have quite a following on Facebook and are involved in organising protests: Website: http://lowerpetrolprices.co.uk/ Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/pages/Stop-the-UK-Petrol-Rip-off-May-2010-Protest/110748015608987?sk=wall#!/pages/Stop-the-UK-Petrol-Rip-off-May-2010-Protest/11074801... |
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Forum: General Chat Topic: This is how road repairs should be done |
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Posted: Thu Apr 14, 2011 21:55
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Replies: 9
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| Was watching this video a few months back - my current employer and one of thier subsidery co's are the contractors on this video. |
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Forum: Speed, Safety, Driving and The Law Topic: Electric handbrakes - non-interventionists beware! |
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Posted: Sun Mar 20, 2011 18:08
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| I have a vauxhall insignia with this piece of junk on it, and like most modern vauxhalls I've had the misfortune to drive the electrics are pretty shoddy - in the 20k miles I've done I've had sevral cases wher pulling away from lights it refuses to disengage - cue trying manual override - sometimes ... |
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Forum: Speed, Safety, Driving and The Law Topic: Another Fuel Price Hike 'Solution' |
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Posted: Sat Jan 29, 2011 21:55
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| I recieved this the other day as another 'solution' for protesting about fuel hikes: We are hitting £1.32.9 a litre in some areas now and soon we will be faced with paying £1.50 perlitre. So read this good idea: This makes MUCH MORE SENSE than the 'don't buy petrol on a certain day campaign' that wa... |
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Forum: Speed, Safety, Driving and The Law Topic: Start date announced for A13 average speed cameras |
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Posted: Sat Jan 29, 2011 21:15
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| I use this stretch regularly and would suggest that even with the upgrading work that has gone on over the years there are sections that haven't had much upgrading and as such you get a lot of stop start bunching when traffic slows down on the 'poorer' stretches - resulting in rear end shunts from v... |
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Forum: Speed, Safety, Driving and The Law Topic: Road Safety Event 15th March 2011 |
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Posted: Sat Jan 29, 2011 21:02
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| Gotta admit, that it's a a damm site cheaper than many safety conferences and events that I've attended over the years - some of the safety bodies I've been a member of charge £500 plus to attend, not sure what they charge speakers or exhibitors though. |
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Forum: Speed, Safety, Driving and The Law Topic: Snow on Car roofs |
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Posted: Wed Dec 08, 2010 14:48
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Replies: 23
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| Been having a look at the German and it's a little vague, the temperature and road conditions are mentioned with only specific areas having a set date to date requirement. Recently, Germany added new rules to their Highway Code. According to the law, motorists must have winter tyres (that bear the M... |
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Forum: Speed, Safety, Driving and The Law Topic: Snow on Car roofs |
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Posted: Tue Dec 07, 2010 22:10
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| Spent last week enjoying the snow my last two days out were near Selby I had a small car behind me with a foot or so of snow on the roof as we approached the roundabout he's braked the snow fell forward over the windscreen and he stopped half on, half off the roundabout complete snarl up and he was ... |
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Forum: Speed, Safety, Driving and The Law Topic: UK Accident Drop Mirrors US Performance |
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Posted: Tue Oct 19, 2010 15:58
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| The error many people seem to make is that 'speeding' is more than only a contributory factor in accidents. They seem to believe that if someone was not speeding then the accident would not be so 'bad' but this ignores the main fact that had the attention and observation been correct in the first p... |
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Forum: Speed, Safety, Driving and The Law Topic: Wiltshire speed watch scheme 'helps to fill camera gap' |
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Posted: Tue Oct 19, 2010 15:54
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| Essex Camera partnership run a few community speedwatch type set ups and made a few claims of people 'caught' as has the replacement body the Essex Safer Roads Bureau, yet when challenged as to prosecutions resulting from these they remain very silent - in my very cynical mind I think the word caugh... |
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Forum: Speed, Safety, Driving and The Law Topic: 'Bullying' council buys £100k mobile camera |
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Posted: Tue Aug 17, 2010 18:49
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| 'Bullying' council buys £100k mobile camera to issue parking fines on the school run Now at the risk of calling me cynical, but when there was a parking problem with the school near my parents, the school sent a letter to all parents informing them that poor parking was a risk to the kids and illeg... |
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Forum: Road Safety, Speed Camera and Policy News Topic: Speed Camera Sell Off Fury |
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Posted: Mon Aug 16, 2010 21:55
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Replies: 7
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| Private Operators set to cash in under plans drawn up by UK's most senior traffic policeman The threat of private companies handing out speeding fines is hanging over hard-pressed drivers. Only months after government funding cuts meant relief for drivers running the gaunlet of traffic cameras and ... |
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Forum: General Chat Topic: A wiki for Safe Speed ... |
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Posted: Sat Aug 14, 2010 01:52
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Forum: General Chat Topic: Help! I can't unlock my holiday hire car |
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Posted: Sat Aug 14, 2010 01:44
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Replies: 15
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| Have had the new Astra and it's 'smart' indicators - the damm things are a nightmare, when the links / switches in the stalk get sloppy (from the two I've had as loaners it's about 8k) try to indicate and blind the oncoming driver when the main beam comes on - spoke to the hire co, they had a lot of... |
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Forum: General Chat Topic: Police chief: Yes, my plods sometimes forget photo laws |
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Posted: Sat Aug 14, 2010 01:36
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Replies: 11
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| I believe that the identifying marks were removed before the event happened, which in a member of the public would be held to imply a measure of planning. There have been stories that the officer in question had "history" of heavy-handedness in other areas of the police. From my time in t... |
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Forum: Improving Road Safety Topic: Biker Advert |
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Posted: Sat Aug 14, 2010 01:08
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Replies: 11
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Something I noticed, maybe nit picking but how many riders in the ad had any hi viz clothing on ?
Have seen quite a few berks round here black bike, black clothes and dark tinted headlights that show very little light. Oh well that's what I get for living in Essex. |
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