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e30andy123
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Sat Mar 23, 2013 3:45 pm

Well normally i'd be bringing my e30 out from its winter sleep at the end of march but as im knee deep in snow today im wondering weather to leave it until the end of april, what does everyone think?
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Sat Mar 23, 2013 3:48 pm

e30andy123 wrote: im knee deep in snow today im wondering weather
Good punning!

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Sat Mar 23, 2013 3:57 pm

Cheers!

i suppose i should leave it a bit longer, i ive been using a E reg Uno 1.0 for the past few months so im craving a bit of speed!
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Sun Mar 24, 2013 2:03 am

Save it till the roads are nice out. What's the use of driving it in snow when you are worried about all the other drivers possibly hitting you?
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Sun Mar 24, 2013 10:11 am

I was ready for an MOT all last week but to gay to take the car out in the rain/snow.

I've decided to strip the inlet manifold in an attempt to cure an idle air leak problem.

I don't see the point in taxing the car when the weather is so pap!
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Sun Mar 24, 2013 11:23 am

i doubt i'll be doing York on the 1st of April,forcast is for at least another week of this Shit !
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Sun Mar 24, 2013 11:42 am

Andy, perhaps the below will help with your decision. :)

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-suffolk-21916129
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Sun Mar 24, 2013 11:46 am

I'm the same mine is going to wait until May now :(
How do you pronounce 'either'? I say 'either', but some say 'either'. Either is correct.
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Sun Mar 24, 2013 12:49 pm

Glad I didnt tax mine this month. We had about 6" of snow when I woke up yesterday and have had about the same again since last night :x
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Sun Mar 24, 2013 1:00 pm

Get the E30 out? Are you mad? :mad:

This was yesterday

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And this morning

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And there is still plenty coming down :mad:
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Sun Mar 24, 2013 1:03 pm

You know it's heavy when the snow starts drifting like that :(
How do you pronounce 'either'? I say 'either', but some say 'either'. Either is correct.
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Sun Mar 24, 2013 1:17 pm

I'm impressed with how clear the actual lane looks, the A42 and A45 looked worse than that a 6:00 this morning!
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Sun Mar 24, 2013 2:01 pm

I tavelled from Aberystweth on the west coast to retford near doncaster yesterday and some of the roads out in the sticks were down to one lane an the snow was over the hedges, there were also a number of fields with sheep in with the snow nearly as high as the sheeps backs no way would the e30 be out!
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Sun Mar 24, 2013 2:35 pm

In a way I'm glad mine never came out at all last year either. Summer was so shite tax would have been a waste of money.

I'm hoping this year will be different.
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Sun Mar 24, 2013 2:57 pm

Mine gets driven all year!

I was at Mallory on Friday and it was fine, I even drove home on my track Kumho V70a's which was a little.... interesting! :eek:

A picture from Jan:

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Sun Mar 24, 2013 3:37 pm

gooner1 wrote:Andy, perhaps the below will help with your decision. :)

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-suffolk-21916129
A mile down the road from me...

Bloody hell! that was done with some conviction! 8O
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Mon Mar 25, 2013 8:22 am

I'm thinking of not taxing mine till May, and i was gonna tax it March this year what with Easter being early and how nice it was last year

Do it on line if April gets warmer
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Mon Mar 25, 2013 10:49 am

I hope the weather gets warmer and sunnier soon
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Mon Mar 25, 2013 12:13 pm

We are ok in London, snowed all through Saturday but didn’t settle really do hope it gets sunnier and warmer waiting to take the cab out. Wanted to go ACE Cafe on the 1st of April but I think I’ll wait till May
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Mon Mar 25, 2013 5:55 pm

Looks like fun, we have had no snow for once
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Mon Mar 25, 2013 5:57 pm

magpie wrote:i doubt i'll be doing York on the 1st of April,forcast is for at least another week of this Shit !
Dont be a let down :D
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Mon Mar 25, 2013 6:08 pm

It's not the snow we have to worry about. It's the salt that kills them!!!! :mad:
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