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The expensive letdown was A1 on the Wolverhampton Road, who said they'd fixed my rear brakes but instead left them in even worse condition. AA were the ones who said they did my tracking three times in 6 months yet when I took it elsewhere, the new garage said the bolts were rusted solid and...

I wouldn't call myself an unfortunate gamer-type, I proudly suffer with my hobby :) It might even become a career for me at some point, but I have taken the time to answer this questionnaire for your buddy.

Cheers for the kind words all, I've put the car through the car wash at Asda and there's still a decent amount of paint on the car. Through one of Glam's mates(I'm assuming Andreas?) I've got a method of contacting the painters; first thing in the morning once I've slept on it I'll be writing a...

Yep, new place appearing in place of the older Indian restaurant... no consideration for the locals - working late at night with drills and other power tools being one such complaint but my biggest one is paint all over the pavements and my car, which was unfortunately parked in the spot nearest...

Got a new one, coming home today at about 7pm. Popped into Tesco, left and drove past the station. Some idiot in a Vauxhall Frontera was in the drop-off point; with barely a car-length to spare in front of me he roared onto the road forcing me to swerve onto the central reservation dividing the...

Another friendly recommendation for the lads at AA, the mighty Fiesta went in a couple of weeks ago with a couple of punctures on both front tyres... as I'd worn these through in under 4 months you can understand I'm a little worried about something being wrong. Lo and behold, there was! Top...

I do wonder if, aside from the lack of awareness, people don't use the multistorey as it means an extra 30 seconds walking? It's one of my pet peeves that people are getting too lazy to walk to a crossing to get across the road safely; I'd also guess these same people are too lazy to walk to...

I suppose I should attempt to defend my mother and myself here, because her comment that I originally quoted was actually aimed at slow traffic on busy roads, for example Wolverhampton Road going into town at about half 8 in the morning.... I guess the original statement could have been...

In addition to that, can I add Queensway? That's a 30 until after the new lights, then 40 and back down to 30. People are quite quick to tear-arse up there doing significantly higher speeds... I'm doing 30 until the next speed change, why do you feel the need to be an idiot? Meh, tis their...

There's a saying Glam told me some time ago; if someone's stopped to let you out onto a busy road, they're not from Stafford! I've only been driving for about 6 months but the standards out there of some people are shocking, you really need your wits about you. I've nearly been smashed into a...

Wow, I feel like such an idiot now. Thank you for putting me right on that one. If only I'd thought to look at the mighty source known as Wiki first before presenting my personal non-factual rant, then perhaps I would not be in the position of being embarrassed in such a public fashion by such a...

Polite bump to this thread for the DJ's, Vidal is back after its short break. New management, upstairs bar is open, requests still taken, open 9pm-2am(I think), good times to be had. Last week was a blast, this week I plan on going to celebrate my 30th so if the music choice is awesome you can...

Ah, that wonderful cycle again. Shops are empty, so council puts rents up to cover costs. Some businesses can't cover costs, rents go up again. What's the betting that if those empty shops were suddenly filled up, that the rent would magically stay the same? As long as Stafford Council hold...

I could understand people treating it poorly if it were, say, a K reg or around that age. But a 10 year old car by modern standards is a much more reliable/better car than a 10 year old car would have been ten years ago, if you follow what I mean. There's really no excuse in any case for not...

Thought I'd pop in to leave some feedback about the cambelt/water pump change on my W-reg Fiesta. All in all another positive experience, so if you wanna stop reading there then feel free to do so because the rest of this is just me saying how awesome these guys are ;) I think I mentioned...

Noooooooo it doesn't ;) I like having a congestion-free commute! :xd:

Rent too high... people vacate shops... council push up rent to cover losses... more empty shops... rent goes up again.. a lovely vicious cycle, to pay for what exactly? A stupid building that falls apart if you sneeze within 200 yards of the place and some pay rises. If empty shops are to be...

I lost half a tooth in the Nelson trying to stick up for my then girlfriend, the lovely landlord trying to make out I'd provoked the "quiet" gent who assaulted me. I won't miss the place, not one bit. As for the Tree, I heard something along the lines of the owners of it not wanting to commit...

Can I ask why you're so set on something relatively new? I recently picked up a W-reg Fiesta and as it's a bit more modern than a Beetle, it should last me several years - especially if I look after it. And if I were to crash it, it was only £750 which is going to be a lot cheaper than however...

I would like to blame other residents in the house for hogging the bandwidth, but I was the only one in at the time... glad to know I wasn't the only one suffering.