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brettE30cab
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Mon Apr 30, 2012 7:25 pm

Taxed the cabby at the beginning of April (as I do every year) and I've driven it once because of the poxy weather!! Not even had a chance to clean it yet!!

Anyone else wasted a months worth of tax?
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Mon Apr 30, 2012 7:27 pm

+1 :x
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Mon Apr 30, 2012 7:28 pm

brettE30cab wrote:Taxed the cabby at the beginning of April (as I do every year) and I've driven it once because of the poxy weather!! Not even had a chance to clean it yet!!

Anyone else wasted a months worth of tax?
me, me and me

next year i am taxing it beginning of may cos october is normally good weather
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Mon Apr 30, 2012 7:30 pm

i actualy thought that as i was walking my dog earlier and it started raining FFS,was thinking id be well pissed off if id had it all done and taxed for april and i would hardly of driven it
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Mon Apr 30, 2012 7:34 pm

It's a joke! You should be able to tax your car monthly, no wonder I've only done about 2k miles in 2 years.
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Mon Apr 30, 2012 7:35 pm

I insured my car for a year on the first of August, non-refundable. The car snapped its cam belt three weeks later, and it's been in my garage ever since...
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Mon Apr 30, 2012 7:40 pm

i taxed mine then the engine blew up? month and a half down the swanny
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Mon Apr 30, 2012 10:06 pm

Sorry to break the news but May doesnt look too good either!!!!!!!! :x
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Mon Apr 30, 2012 10:10 pm

Who would have thought it. West coast of Scotland has seen very little rain at all, not the warmest but had the cabby out most days, fingers crossed it will be back in the road on Saturday.
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Mon Apr 30, 2012 10:27 pm

Why cant you drive cabbies in the rain? Thats when i have the most fun in mine!
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Mon Apr 30, 2012 10:39 pm

Rtaylor2208 wrote:Who would have thought it. West coast of Scotland has seen very little rain at all, not the warmest but had the cabby out most days, fingers crossed it will be back in the road on Saturday.
fancy sharing some with us eastern ceeunts?
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Mon Apr 30, 2012 11:03 pm

My cabby has been taxed since 1st March, used it one day (as a wedding car) and it's been relegated back into the garage since then. Seem to prefer my touring (impulse buy) just now...........
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Tue May 01, 2012 2:11 am

I've been driving my cab in all weathers no problem.. winkeye
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Tue May 01, 2012 12:21 pm

Rain rain rain rain! I hate it, i taxed my sport on april 1st and have driven it twice!!!!!!

It will be coming out regardless of weather on saturday coming for my best friends wedding!
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Tue May 01, 2012 12:43 pm

taxed mine april use it daily,had to fabsil the roof though as it only stopped for three hours and don,t know when i,ll get time to do it.yorkshire=convertible=pointless!!! :mad:
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Tue May 01, 2012 2:42 pm

Taxed the cabbie from 1 April,took it for fuel on 1 April,went for a quick blast and a bird flew through the windscreen(it was so clean it thought it was'nt there)...took three weeks to get the correct replacement :cry:
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Tue May 01, 2012 7:49 pm

Taxed mine like some of you on the 1st April. Serviced it, put new discs and pads on, got all the work done that needed to be done for the Mot pass, replaced rear axel bushes. All in all a she'd load of money of it to driven back and garaged.

Not had the chance to clean it, fuel it or bed the brakes in!

It never comes out unless the sun is out so it done about 300 miles since the last MOT.

Fecking weather. You guys are right, we should
Tax much later because the weather is nicer in October and November than it is in spring :?
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Tue May 01, 2012 7:59 pm

Cars are waterproof you know :mad:
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Tue May 01, 2012 8:40 pm

These are e30s were talking about here!

Never been waterproof!
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Wed May 02, 2012 9:39 am

brettE30cab wrote:These are e30s were talking about here!

Never been waterproof!
certainly aint rust proof, as we all know! :D
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Wed May 02, 2012 12:56 pm

I taxed mine 1st October and driven it since. It due for re-tax on 1st October so will tax it again and drive it, after all its just a bladdy car. Although i get you cab owners are cautious what with the roof getting wet and all, but doesn't storing a car for 6-7 months in a garage do more damage than good? I mean damp? Car not getting a run? Things seizing up etc etc? How do you guys prep for this? Or is it just parked and left?
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Thu May 03, 2012 11:08 am

Cotton buds, Vaseline, WD-40 and incantations to the tin word God.
They're a strange bunch!
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Thu May 03, 2012 11:17 am

Morat wrote:Cotton buds, Vaseline, WD-40 and incantations to the tin word God.
They're a strange bunch!
I will make sacrificial offerings and deflower virgins on the bonnet too.. :D
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