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Sun Apr 02, 2006 8:56 pm

Just thought this post would make everyone feel warm and fluffy inside after that stuart falkirk post (and no one is allowed to say ANYTHING on that subject) as I think there will be lots of posative responses to this one.

I went to pick up my new (to me :D ) Sport leather for the touring last week, got to Theo's in Uxbridge only to find I had no money in my bank account, theving bank bastards had held on to a transfer I had done the week before longer than they usually do, and stupidly I'd been paid by cheque that morning! :cry:

Anyway we trie pay pal and a dirct bank transfer which I mucked up by managing to transfer my last £50 to one of my mates! Anyway Theo let me leave with the seats in the pick up and only £35 in his pocket as colatteral on the understanding I'd send him a cheque for the balance the next day, which of corse I didn't do cos I'm thieving bastard........because I couldn't fint the cheque book, so did a transfer when the funds cleared miraculously the next day after a visit to my bank :x

Still has to come through mind, but the funds have left my account. An hope fully Theo will report money recieved tomorrow.

Anyone else had an act of supreme generosity bestowed upon them by a zoner they have never met before?
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Sun Apr 02, 2006 8:59 pm

Yes, You as a matter of fact! You know what I mean. winkeye

Also CharlE30 came round my house and lent me his engine hoist, he didn't know me from Adam but left it here for weeks!
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Sun Apr 02, 2006 9:01 pm

That doesn't count!!!!!! :D What I did/am doing I mean.

CharlE30 sounds like apukkah fella, very useful those engine hoists, and not cheap!
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Sun Apr 02, 2006 9:05 pm

Chris W has helped me out with a diff for cheap and is doing me a huge favour on my new car too.
Bollocks to this 24v scrap!
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Sun Apr 02, 2006 9:12 pm

Yes you replaced my clutch master cylinder and also did the cambelt service on my cabriolet!!!!! There again one good turn deserves another so hope you are enjoying borrowing it!!
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Sun Apr 02, 2006 9:16 pm

I'll make you an avatar and a sig if you'r going to hang around on here. Just a sec.
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Sun Apr 02, 2006 9:17 pm

Many good generous and clean transactions with Zoners. No negatives, many positives.

JonB excellent - but comes from Bristol - poor guy !!!
Pacerpete Top knowledge - talks like Ronseal
Johnna top man - a better communicator hard to find
NickE30cab - Dogsbollocks straight talking guy who can and does help
Placey first class - knows jackshit about sound systems though
Wayne brilliant - gone but not forgotten
All mods - superb
Maasterbates aka Andy - a bible on wheels
Tim S good communicator and looking good tks - real helpful guy

Many more but memory crap !!!!!
Apart from recent postings (no need to go into that again) Zone trading is normally very good, its the normal routine where the very small minority let the side down.
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Sun Apr 02, 2006 9:17 pm

Not so much had many good turns done to me,but i have dished a few freebies out!

Also done some great deals,like for like swaps with a few guys on here,swap shop stylee,works well on both counts i think!

Also sold tons of spares on the Zone and have NEVER had a problem with payments etc(cough,cough).
Just thought id get that in :)
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Sun Apr 02, 2006 9:21 pm

I've now dealt with both Widge and Theo, and can safely say that they are both what the zone is all about in my opinion. I wouldnt hesitate to recommend either of them as sellers.

(By the way Widge it was £50 for those BBS I'm getting from you tomorrow isnt it!!) winkeye
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Sun Apr 02, 2006 9:24 pm

Craigeeb I think it was posted me some of the bolts that hold the dizzy cap in place for free which was nice.
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Sun Apr 02, 2006 9:32 pm

less2303 wrote: (By the way Widge it was £50 for those BBS I'm getting from you tomorrow isnt it!!) winkeye
Aheeemmmmmm I think not my man :roll:
Craigieeb is one of the good guys I can vouch for that , borrowed his jack and axle stands for a week.
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Sun Apr 02, 2006 9:33 pm

got some free stuff off richy325, top bloke, so is simon, he drove over an hour from home on really shitty day for me to view a car with the possibility of buying when i had only been on here a month or two and had no reputation to my name when he could have the sold the car in days to someone with a good rep and would have went to his front door...top bloke

several people i have bought stuff and have all been very very trustworthy, honest and genuine, even bought a fire extinguisher and they posted it before they sent me their bank details to pay for it...now that was unnexpected :cool:
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Sun Apr 02, 2006 9:40 pm

What a cool topic :D

YES! My car wouldn't run without Ant's tireless efforts coming down to map it for me!

And the idle would still be pretty rough if Andy335Touring hadn't lent me his air flow gizmo :)
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Sun Apr 02, 2006 9:44 pm

Dave, im really flattered mate, I couldn't have sent you back home without the interior, would have been like telling a child in a sweet shop that they werent allowed anything!

Iain (less2303) - can't say how much I appreciate the comments, again, I can only say how trusting and easy going Iain is (sent cash through the post) and same goes for Chris (billgatese30) sent me large sum via the bank without hesitation.

Jonb - once again nothing but compliments to the man, sorted me out when a deal we did came unstuck, mainly due to my then total lack of knowledge about e30s - gave me £30 back - which I used to go out and get brilliantly drunk.

HartgeH27 - did me a great deal on some wheels, when he could quite easily have made alot more money selling them elsewhere, or even just at the market price - true gent - definately owed a beer, Cheers Iain!

Brown-nosing over.
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Sun Apr 02, 2006 10:30 pm

320touring - Neil is a Total Hero! When I was getting work done to my e30 he helped me find the place, plus gave me a lift to and from glasgow as i didn't have the car. I owe you one! :D
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Sun Apr 02, 2006 10:39 pm

stevetigger wrote:Yes, You as a matter of fact! You know what I mean. winkeye

Also CharlE30 came round my house and lent me his engine hoist, he didn't know me from Adam but left it here for weeks!

Hey Stevetigger, fancy sellin' me an engine hoist? lol


Back on topic - Stevo gave me some various sized E30 zone stickers for free!


Taylor.
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Sun Apr 02, 2006 10:54 pm

Mark (Zaust) is a top bloke!
Went round his today and collected a 3.73 lsd (M3 Diff) off him he has kept for me but could have used himself as his one was fucked, gave him half the money today and the other half will be given to him next weekend.
I have already met the geesa before but we don't know each other that well but what a bloke :thumb:

Neil (Nelly=Also top bloke!) has also helped me out in other way's and has offered to help me fit the LSD on Sunday next week.

These guy's are fucking brilliant and are also helping me out with finding a doner 325i for my project to whip everyone's arse up the strip at Santa Pod :lol:
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Sun Apr 02, 2006 11:06 pm

I bloody forgot Andy325i


He sent me some spacer rods free, bloody fast too.
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Sun Apr 02, 2006 11:08 pm

What the F are spacer rods????

And what's the project Jonbouy? 2.7 2.8 .29...... or a man after my own heart a 3ltr!???
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Sun Apr 02, 2006 11:09 pm

I would love to go to a 3ltr mate but i don't have the fund's :cry:
Will be a 2.7 :D
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Sun Apr 02, 2006 11:11 pm

Still awesome project.
Are you doing it the 731 wrongness :wink: way or the proper way??? winkeye Says he with no money!!
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Sun Apr 02, 2006 11:21 pm

Tylerma (Malcolm) and dips. these guys went out of there way to give up a whole Sunday to fit my tec1 kit (not to mention dips prepping and spraying it for me) and they done a great job.
Marc (zaust) for the help with my exhaust and Nidul for the leather interior wheels etc...

Oh the power of being a women :lol:

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Sun Apr 02, 2006 11:29 pm

So my experience of buying a zoner's car with a cracked cylinder head. That I knew nothing about. And him taking me to county court,after I stopped the cheque, to recover his full asking price is the exception rather than the rule then?.

But I'm not bitter!.

Cheers Gareth.
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Sun Apr 02, 2006 11:33 pm

TBH mate you'd be doing him a favour, getting it off the drive!!! I assume he said "Oh you do have to come and pick it up though...." :D
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Sun Apr 02, 2006 11:36 pm

gazza325cab wrote: But I'm not bitter!.

Cheers Gareth.

You obviously are bitter otherwise you wouldn't have mentioned it.
Lets not muddy the water on this happy :cheers: clappy :clap: luvvie :group: thread though
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Sun Apr 02, 2006 11:36 pm

lol widge

i told him its far from pretty
but it does have a sweet engine

pulls well and is a nice dry lump
probably cleanest engine i have tbh :D
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Sun Apr 02, 2006 11:38 pm

Well apart form the TWO 2.5's you now have :cool:
May this be the end of the 320 plague!!

It's not pretty, but it would make you get your arse in gear Daz, and a good engine is even better when the price is free!!
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Sun Apr 02, 2006 11:46 pm

Widge wrote:Well apart form the TWO 2.5's you now have :cool:
May this be the end of the 320 plague!!

It's not pretty, but it would make you get your arse in gear Daz, and a good engine is even better when the price is free!!
im so hoping that my 320i curse is over lol

nice to have some 325s again :D
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Sun Apr 02, 2006 11:52 pm

325's rock, make a cool sound, and I over took not one but 2 330ci's today with the roof down !!!! :cool: One was driving like a complete tit.
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Widge wrote:325's rock, make a cool sound, and I over took not one but 2 330ci's today with the roof down !!!! :cool: One was driving like a complete tit.
this wasnt in york by any chance??

was in the e46 earlier and had some total twat in a blue 330 being a complete knob

felt like ramming the fooker

all i did was pull out behind him next thing i know hes got attitude lol
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Mon Apr 03, 2006 12:01 am

Na on the Chevin on the way to Otley to the scrappy. Was over taking people in really dangerous places through Bramhope and stuff then sat at 55 along the chevin so I dropped a cog and booted it, I know the roa dreally well so fcuking left him in the corners. Hope he was annoyed by being over taken by a mechanic in a hoodie with the top down in an old BMW!!! :twisted:


PS Daz change your sig note now, you have 2 325i'S :cool: ------ that's more like it winkeye
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Mon Apr 03, 2006 8:58 am

Lets get back to topic guys.....................
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Mon Apr 03, 2006 9:13 am

Have to be:

JonB for his tireless work on my turd and deals we've done and help he's given me

And Eko for the free mirror and chek computer on my visor pod which would have cost 2x as much to send, but didn't!
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