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Brilliant toilet reading........each chapter is a different subject so you don`t lose your thread. Widely available in all good charity shops :D

They`re all called that, they each have a subtitle like "Is it really too much to ask" and "For crying out loud" I have them all except the last one but I can`t remember which one it is. Mine are all packed away for the house move so I can`t check......looking for the paperback version on Ebay.

I had one as a courtesy car while mine was in for a bit of work and I can assure you they are all terrible, does yours have those idiotic criss-cross wipers which park at the windscreen pillar and howl like a stabbed banshee at anything over 20mph? Oh......I have a question totally unrelated..........whats the title of Clarksons latest "World according to" book? Off on a tangent there or what?

Saw them at Donington in 1980 with Graham Bonnet lead vocalist, they were awesome. "I surrender to your armpit"

I used to get 700 to a tank in my old laguna. So your doing brilliant for a 4x4 Sent from my Galaxy S 5 using Tapatalk

Oh.....hilarious mate!.......you have a good trip anyway. [emoji106] Sent from my Galaxy S 5 using Tapatalk

And for no reason. That's why it was made illegal. They were just taking the pi $$ Sent from my Galaxy S 5 using Tapatalk

Only after the clampers were outlawed scooby. .....before that they could clamp you virtually anywhere Sent from my Galaxy S 5 using Tapatalk

You can still be clamped by the police or local council parking officials but the days of the rogue clampers are long gone! Sent from my Galaxy S 5 using Tapatalk

Seriously. ....get some pics rattled off! Great part of the world....God's own playground. Sent from my Galaxy S 5 using Tapatalk

2 tanks of fuel?????.....that's so not funny!.......[emoji85] Sent from my Galaxy S 5 using Tapatalk

Clamping on private land is no more!......it`s been illegal since 2012 so if ever you get clamped on private land you either call the police or cut the ba$tard off!

Probably not at the time but not relevant today. I suppose you could try and ignore, chances are you would probably out last them as they don`t like spending their own money, after all....all they want is everyone else`s. But legally that stance has changed. Ignoring is not working for Parking Eye and Civil Enforcement LTD, next they send another speculative threatening invoice and subsequently fake solicitors letter, then the.... "Avoid a CCJ" scam (even though they actually have to go to court for this)..... and then the fake court papers which usually get people to pay. The POPLA stick has worked quite well for now, costs the private parking company time, money, manpower, printing and postage, a good POPLA appeal and win puts the speculative invoice to bed for good.

Clamping on private land was made illegal in 2012 so you could have called the rozzers. Sent from my Galaxy S 5 using Tapatalk

Ok Dave. ....I did reply like a knob! No need for that Sent from my Galaxy S 5 using Tapatalk

And yes Tom....any car park controlled by private companies. Sent from my Galaxy S 5 using Tapatalk

You started it! I've never seen advice like that anywhere. If you ignore them they will send you fake solicitor's letters, fake baliff letters and then the fake court papers now owing £400 upwards. Once of a day you could just bin all these but nowadays you can't. Sent from my Galaxy S 5 using Tapatalk

Up until a couple of years ago you could just ignore them and throw them in the bin. But these companies went to court to get the law changed and now the advice is not to ignore but to write to the parking company and appeal. Your appeal will then get turned down and they have to give you a POPLA appeals code which you then use to appeal to POPLA and they will uphold any appeal. I have a different method which will stop everything in it`s tracks. That is not completely true my dear friend.. :) ....I shall endeavour to correct your assumptions.....by any chance did you read that information Did you get this information from some kind of savoury snack receptacle?

I used to do a lot of this on other forums and seeing as it`s becoming a wider problem nowadays i`ll post a bit of a heads up here. I`m sure a lot of you know the score but for those who don`t if this helps avoid paying these cockroaches then it`s all well and good. It`s exactly like you or me putting signs up in our road/street and charging people who park outside your house. Private parking firms typically operate in the car parks of supermarkets, NHS hospitals and train stations, and will often let motorists park for free for a certain amount of time, typically around 60 to 120 minutes. If someone overstays, the companies will issue charges ....they are not technically "fines" and cannot be imposed, unlike Penalty Charge Notices issued by local councils these so called charges are disproportionate to the losses the car park incurred by the vehicle having overstayed. If ever you see an un-barriered car park anywhere which is run by a private company you can park completely free....they usually work on the principle of putting signs up saying they have cameras or it`s monitored and that will work for most people, it`s a cheap way of scaring folk into believing they have no alternative to paying up. When you park in a car park the law says you are entering into a contract with the company which provides that parking space, fair enough. If you breach a contract then under contract law that company is only allowed to make a claim for the amount they have actually lost, but because these spaces are usually free to park in........the amount is actually nothing. Even when there is a ticket machine and the motorist stays too long, the "Charge" (it`s not a fine, no one can issue a fine except the police and local councils!) has to be proportionate. Except in Scotland, there is no legislation at all and you can just throw anything you get into the bin! It is normally a condition of the planning permission that parking in retail parks must be free. As such the rateable value of the car park is set at a lower rate than that for a 'pay for' car park/ the local council may be interested in making sure that the correct rates are paid for for the car park as it is revenue generating (as opposed to free) I have my own template letter to send back to them and which more often than not never gets replied to unless it`s to tell you your "charge" has been quashed. Available for free: claretsfan at gmail.com I don`t really want to paste it in a thread ;) Word Doc Info https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B8TFZlCx15kTSE5FalJyVEhkNjQ/view?usp=sharing

I used Megs on my sons 98 Yaris which were really bad. We got them looking like new but now they need doing again, I think a waxing should be enough to make em stay cleaner longer.

Get some wax on them now Dave or they will be hazed up again in a few weeks!

I`ve removed it just in case......I don`t want you all worrying

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I was on a mission from god!

Absolutely.......tell them they are wrong and it`s you who is knocking £3.00 OFF your monthly bill, they`ll $hit kittens!