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| Posted: Mon Dec 3rd, 2012 12:19 |
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steve of oxford
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jk wrote:
This is what I am thinking of going for. No good on the car, but if you walk up to the camera it should be possible to knacker the CCD, if not you could always blind the speed cop or your local bus lane enforcement officer. http://www.megalaseruk.com/laser022.htm Alternatively, do as I am also considering and remove the number plates then drive past the cameras. They'd be mightily pssed-off as long as they couldn't catch you. jk wrote:
Instead of burning all those cameras, it might be more efficient simply to pour the petrol on the person responsible for their deployment.
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| Posted: Mon Dec 3rd, 2012 12:30 |
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steve of oxford
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Robert; "Now it's a fools errand, the roadside cameras can clock your number and check instantly if you are insured and up to date with MOT and licence, you simply get a massive fine and a ban through the letterbox. Many of the cameras are mobile and hidden. They can even put cameras in the cat's eyes in the middle of the road and on bridges. Talk about big brother..." The problem here is the DVLA shts grassing people up. Incidentally the fee to local authorities for giving your name and address is £1.50, or 30 bob i.e. 30 pieces of silver. Then again, despite the obvious breach of privacy you can bet your life the grassing Judas filth are exempt. In relation to the cameras I have been done three times in the last year by Reading Borough Council's bus lane department, each time the bus lane identification has been non-compliant. I now consider myself being stalked by RBC, and am considering buying another SLR and stalking them with it, right in their faces. Seems fair enough, they take imagery of me without my permission, I do it back. Ultimately the only way to deal with these government serving CCTV snitches is to grab em one dark night and kick their heads in, same as you would deal with any grasser.
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| Posted: Mon Dec 3rd, 2012 14:54 |
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Ray Ninness
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steve of oxford wrote: Ha ha! well as it happens I've just been driving one of my cars for two weeks without road tax.Well both my Jeep Cherokee and the Mini "S" are properly licensed, but not passed the state vehicle inspection. The Jeep is fine, and it's insured, but the Mini needs $1200.00 in tires (Tyres), it's riding on slicks now :-( 49,000 miles and five sets of stick, expensive rubber later, it's still a hoot to drive, oh it hasn't had insurance on it in a year :-O I have been driving the Dodge Mini-Van (Espace) Soccer Mom car  And the wife won't part with her SMART car for anything 
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| Posted: Mon Dec 3rd, 2012 16:00 |
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steve of oxford
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Ray; it's still a hoot to drive [Mini] I got rid of mine 18 months ago and bought an MX 5 (Miata) Personally I think the MX 5 is a better car. Did the cooling mod on mine, induction kit. Is faster than a cooper S & out-handles it, especially on winding country roads. Not bad for a 99 normally aspirated 1.8 with 140,000 on the clock, vs a blown cooper. AND....a lot less maintenance hassles. There is nothing on the MX 5 I couldn't tackle myself. Joy to drive joy to work on. Perfect 50-50 weight balance (for which they are famed) no torque steer obviously, nice and low to the ground and with perfect steering feedback. I put a hand built sports exhaust on, and threw the CAT away, replaced with a bypass pipe, 'F' to emissions regs this how we do things in England.....the exhaust and induction side sound just perfect on full throttle. Mods that give gains but don't cost an arm & a leg. Looking back I wish I had got an MX 5 instead of the Cooper. Wouldn't sell mine for anything. Next best thing to an Elan, but with the reliability. She's getting on a bit now though, it's coming time for an engine strip, top end job and new rings. Oil gets a bit black sooner than normal these days. Best mass produced lightweight sports car, IMO. Heres mine: Attachment: DSC00475.jpg (Downloaded 32 times)
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| Posted: Mon Dec 3rd, 2012 16:07 |
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Robert
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Tires are fine Ray! Especially if they cost $1,200 a set. We have to have at least 1.6mm 1/16" of tread depth across the full width of the tire. I get all my tyres from a local friendly car breaker at between £5 and £10 a time, inflated, on wheels. Find the prospect of $1,200 a set hard to grasp.
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| Posted: Mon Dec 3rd, 2012 16:23 |
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steve of oxford
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Robert wrote:Tires are fine Ray! Especially if they cost $1,200 a set. We have to have at least 1.6mm 1/16" of tread depth across the full width of the tire. £600 + VAT for my old Cooper. Mazda I got a set of Avon ZV-3 locally for £280 including fitting. They're a pretty good tyre wet & dry. Tried to get BF Goodrich but for some unknown stupid reason no one round here seems to stock them. I used to get part worn at about £10-£20 a tyre when I first got married, but there's no way I could trust anything like that on the MX 5, now and then in the summer I might touch 130 on the motorway, cheap tyres aren't worth the risk for me.
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| Posted: Tue Dec 4th, 2012 05:13 |
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Doug
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blackfox wrote:... cut the premium to £2000 Holy Crap My 19yo Daughter is able to drive my Hyundai Getz for nowt extra, the excess just goes up to $750 for under 25yo drivers It was much the same for some much hotter cars here too with the insurers only issue being that the government here recently banned younger drivers from having a Turbo V8, No problem (ooh 4 cylinder with Turbo, can't have that) I was seriously considering the Fiat 500 Abarth or the Toyota 86 to travel my 25k/year I am now considering the Holden Barina CDX because it will be the first to have 'Eyes Free' or the VW Up because it goes about 1,000,000 miles on a wrung out rag Decisions Decisions...
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| Posted: Tue Dec 4th, 2012 09:29 |
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jk
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Steve, I see you have a very interesting number plate on the MX5. VSOLLY. One more numeral addition and it would be VSILLY. 
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| Posted: Tue Dec 4th, 2012 10:13 |
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Eric
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jk wrote:Steve, I see you have a very interesting number plate on the MX5. It's actually being very apologetic in Japenglish
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| Posted: Tue Dec 4th, 2012 10:22 |
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Eric
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Some years ago there was a craze of mounting small flash slave units on the side of the number plates. They were supposed to trigger when a speed camera flashed you/them and obliterate the number plate with extreme over exposure. Don't know if they worked? You could look really daft giving rude gestures to the camera only to find the battery on the slave was dead. 
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