FredTransit

It's working OK for me mate. I'm not helping am I?

Gone again! Lasted over a month this time.....

I agree Me too, and I think their general consensus is we can't handle the fact! Either that, or they are still trying to work out how to turn it into a weapon.

I had no interest in further education, couldn't wait to leave school and get a wage, and I did. I haven't starved. I have worked all my life from school and have never had a penny in benefits (we don't have kids). I get this from my Dad, who, being disabled, was very much at the end of the que for jobs. In the 60s and 70s there was no obligation to employ the disabled, so firms just didn't. For that reason, I don't think there was a time he wasn't on some benefit or other, if he didn't claim, we wouldn't eat! As for college fees, I do think the less well off should have a chance at further education if they want it, but the degree should be a useful one. If you want a free course, it has to be for something that we as a country are short of, not yet another 'Media expert'. Choose a free or subsidised (grant not loan) course or pay for it. Too many graduates are serving burgers and stacking shelves, and too many students are on a gravy train!

Yeah I believe in ghosts. It's the times when you are not expecting them that is the proof. Some 30+ years ago I was taking a short cut across a park at around midnight with my then boyfriend. We were crossing a bowling green, and saw some old bloke coming towards us. He looked easily 80 something, had on a flat cap and raincoat. As he approached he asked the time (it was ten to midnight) then walked on. I commented that it was a pretty strange time for an old feller to be out in the middle of the park, and we turned to see....... nothing! There was no way he would have made it to the edge of the green. Well no way he would have done it as fast as we did My point is, I hadn't been told any spooky stories about the park or the bowling green, and we both saw it/him. So no way were we thinking oooo this is spooky, we might see a ghost!

Very very well done Chris! I know that's not what you are looking for by posting this, but credit where it's due. Just one other comment though, as all involved where white, how could you care that the attackers were Bulgarian? You did what you had to do, and good luck to you.

Good luck Grizz! Nasty expensive habit you are best off without.

Would be so much better if it was a Mk1 transit breakdown truck....

Challenger blowing up- I was in hospital having me appendix out Princess Di dying - Fell asleep on the sofa, half woke up and saw the news, was pretty much awake after that 9/11 - had just finished unloading from an exhibition, was going home in the van and it came on the radio. I honestly thought Bush was gonna Nuke Bin Laden. 7/11 - at a customer's warehouse, with vans out on the streets affected, the phone were down and I didn't know if anybody working for us had been blown up!

Following Alex's argument with a bus, this is my current daily. Not the bet thing in this weather. The heater is just not up to warming the whole thing, and the rear heater blows, but only cold. Understandable as the heat for it comes from the engine 10 feet away, and the pipes go under the floor outside than! Not surprisingly we call her Connie the Conservatory. Oh and some fool fitted a 1.6 pinto to her in the dim and distant past....

Well it makes a change from "I was walking around naked and I fell on it"......

He's thinking "finally me bits are at the right temperature!"

I like it, must be the Scot in me!

Just as I opened the thread I remembered that!

I did just that, and have found a sunburst pop for the job. Thanks all!

Ah, maybe next time then mate......

how poor is poor? Primer and odd panels? No doors? Just needs a wash?

Anybody? Gotta say I don't usually ask for red cars, so this is a rare chance!

I am looking for a red Mk1 for a shoot in North London next Wednesday. Anybody interested? MUST be red and as standard as possible. They may go for a terracotta one. NO WINDOW TINTS please! My number's on my website at http://www.a2ecommercials.webs.com or post/PM me here. I need a number if you are interested, and pics of your car or a link to pics online ASAP.

Yep bortaf's right, does sound a bit odd, if it was a SWB (I am not really up on models of later vans). If it says 3500 on the VIN, it's been downrated to (currently) 2850. It can be returned to 3500. If it says 3500 on the VIN, you might struggle getting a class4 on it, as they will read the VIN plate before testing, and see 3500. 3500 is class7.

Yeah, on the passenger step, and if it says 3500 gross, somebody must have re classified it in the past, maybe so they could get a class4 test on it. You can reverse this, but it's a bit of form filling with the DVLA. I would do this, as most cars would take it over the current gross it's registered at, and you could get done for over loading (3 points and a fine). The first re classification wouldn't get a new VIN plate, so it's good it wasn't changed. The VIN plate is proof the truck is good for more than the V5 says it's good for. All the same, the Mk5 is only ever good for 3500KG, ie 3.5 tons.

I love Chunk! He's gotta be the cutest pup I have seen in a long time, since this one sadly he grew up, old and left us at 15. Here's the current mob Lurchers and Terriers (with the old feller, mentioned above)

If the VIN plate says 3500, you should get a copy of it (like a brass rubbing, and a photo) with a weigh ticket and get it re classified on the V5.

Is there any water in the engine?? If there is, put some cardboard in front of the rad!

For under a fiver? Damn I hadn't heard about that!