Hi James,

I believe I saw the item on our favourite auction site! If is the same one it has a tyre pump, inspection lamp, tyre pressure gauge, tyre lever, spanners, spark plug spanner, spark plug adjusting tool, large allen key and is in a wrap around carry case. It doesn't appear to have any Volvo markings on it, and the wheelbrace isn't the normal Volvo 300 style. Still all pretty handy.

Pete

have a look on ebay.

i'm glad i didnt win it actually. £10 for delivery???

btw redline, stop using auctionbots. you git

an old stirrup style tyre pump, inspection lamp, tyre pressure gauge, tyre levers (like i'm gonna use them ) spanners , spark plug spanner, spark plug adjuster all in a sesame seed bun , sorry I mean a brown bag. I only bought it coz I had never seen one before

Hugh , I'm an old fart at 45 , wots an auctionbot ? and when did I use one ?
By the way when you get a job and stop surviving on a student grant and ponsing off us hard working taxpayers ,£10.00 quid postage on frivolous toys is nothing to worry about

auction bot is something that bids for you at the very last second.. your bid was suspiciously late imo..

incidentally, i've never had a student grant, i've worked since i was 16 to pay for uni, and so far have paid more than £8k in tax/national insurance. so stfu

no that was a legit bid , just lucky I guess ( or maybe not )
and good for you , having had to support my own lad until he got his first job and seeing what his mates were like you tend to paint all students with the same brush .
I stand corrected,I just used the same speech on you as I used to use on him whenever he moaned about lack of dosh.
If you get to Gaydon I will buy you a drink by way of apology

I once won an item by 3 seconds - I'd forgotten how slow dial-up was, having just got back from uni

I know plenty of students who 'scrounge off the system', but if you ask me that's a reflection of the kind of people they let into university these days. My experience has been in general that those with the least money (whether that is students of those in poorly paid jobs) do the most 'illegitimate scrounging', apart from kids with rich parents, who just whinge until they get bought a new Saxo. We could get into the psychology of that, but I reckon if you either work hard (or very little) for your money, it affects your perception of it. I was reading somewhere that a huge proportion of 'accident helpline' style claims companies' clients are on the breadline...

Remember we're all spending our own tax - I've not 'paid in' as much as Hugh, but it must be well into four figures - and I don't pay income tax (don't work enough). I had one flatmate a couple of years back who got a 'hardship grant' for running out of money, and was smug that he'd scabbed £500 out of the system (yes, these kind of people are out there!)...until I pointed out that every time he puts petrol in his car (the car being the reason he was in this financial mess!) he's paying a huge proportion of tax, every time he has a pint, every time he buys a new PC...the 30% or whatever income tax he'd paid in his gap year. There's no such thing as free money, and I think they ought to point that out on 'accident helpline' style TV ads - kinda like the smoking health warnings!

Sure you've just got a £10k payout for the phony injuries you didn't receive in that car accident. What about the single mother who hit your unsafe car (rotten seat mountings), who can't afford the insurance now due to this incident, and now can't drive to her job or take her kids to school. BL**DY GENIUS I'D SAY!!! Obviously there are legitimate injury claims, and I'd make one if I had to, but I'm quoting a real scenario that happened to a friend above.

Phew! Rant over...

cheers

James

to be fair to my lad , he left college after 6th form and got a job as a trainee i.t. technician at the open university been there 18 months and not looked back. (plus now he pays me rent lol )

Please don't think I was directing my rant at anyone here - these kinda folks are pretty few and far between! I must have been uber-annoyed this morning!

cheers

James

foggyjames wrote:No....that isn't a photoshop....there are videos too....

Just trust me - it isn't worth the pain of watching them!

cheers

James

Oh!!! I wanted to laugh a little bit before going to bed but I can't find the car on http://www.cardomain.com/

Pleaaaaaaaaaase, James, may I have the link for the video?

http://forums.turbobricks.com/showthread.php?t=24204

Enjoy...

cheers

James

Ooooooooh thanks!