Why don't you wait till after the bank holiday and have it on a 61 plate????

Plates mean nothing to me, all my last few cars have been registered in August, it also helps with bartering as the dealers always have a slack month before the new reg
I know it can affect residuals, but it will be a workhorse doing 30k a year.

The Merc goes back Friday, if I can get the Freely Fri/Sat it will be ideal, otherwise its a Polo hire car

Pray for fine weather, 10 minutes after pickup I will be in the Trough of Bowland, hopefully getting some good pics!!

Fair enough. So what is it your getting???

SD4 GS in Indus Silver, Ebony cloth interior (last car was leather and didn't get on, on a long journey, which all mine are)
Winter pack, mainly for heated screen and Xenons, heated cloth seats may be a little too toasty!!
Privacy Glass, although with prices of gear dropping I may have been more profitable saving the money and having clear
18" Alloys with full size spare, courtesy of July reg
Front & Rear Mud flaps, I do like a nice set of flaps
Supagard treatment included
3 year minor repair protection included

and probably a few diesel fumes, the garage is a mile down the road so we will see what I get

I have never had a silver car, in over 30 cars, so the girls won, I wanted grey, they wanted silver, so Silver it is, mainly beacuse I couldn't have red, although looking back i am now glad as i think red may have been a bit OTT for me?

On the 1st October it is booked on a day in Kielder to recieve some sort of tree rash., on the 14th it is going home for a factory tour.

Me.......well like a kid before xmas, can't wait

Heated screen and heated seats are a must I think!!! I was looking at a used sd4 xs the other day, very tempting but I need something bigger again!

If it makes you feel any better ....
...try this.

We put an offer on a house in April; offer accepted. Everything in place for a mortgage in principle. Skip a few horror stories along the way... brings us to an e-mail from our solicitor Saturday evening before last. The vendor wants to exchange contracts next Friday with a view to completing the following Friday (today). Bit of rush but no real problem... skip a few more nasty stories...

Today (completion day). Long story short ... solicitor receives money from building society and promptly deposits it in the wrong bank account! Can't get it back until the bank admits it shouldn't be there. In the meantime misery ensues! Freelander 1 TD4 HSE - gone, 2 weeks after the Cat.Converter!
Freelander 2 TD4 SE Auto MY08 - Santorini black

!  2012 DISCOVERY 4 GS AUTO ORKNEY GREY
2012 FREELANDER 2 SD4 GS AUTO BALTIC BLUE - GONE
2011 FREELANDER 2 TD4 GS MANUAL BALI BLUE - GONE

razmabaz wrote:

If it makes you feel any better ....
...try this.

We put an offer on a house in April; offer accepted. Everything in place for a mortgage in principle. Skip a few horror stories along the way... brings us to an e-mail from our solicitor Saturday evening before last. The vendor wants to exchange contracts next Friday with a view to completing the following Friday (today). Bit of rush but no real problem... skip a few more nasty stories...

Today (completion day). Long story short ... solicitor receives money from building society and promptly deposits it in the wrong bank account! Can't get it back until the bank admits it shouldn't be there. In the meantime misery ensues!

That surely is the solictors problem - they should transfer the correct amount to the correct account anyway. After all - that is what they agreed, and are being paid, to do for you. 2002 Honda VFR800
2002 Toyota Celica 140 Silver (mid life crisis - again!)
2007 FL2 GS Manual Army Reconnaissance Green + freel2.com sticker
2004 Toyota Celica 140 Black - Gone
2000 Toyota Celica 140 Silver - Gone
1998 Toyota Celica ST Pearl Green - Gone
1996 Nissan Primera 1.6 - Gone
1994 Rover Montego 1.6 Auto - Gone

simont wrote:

razmabaz wrote:

If it makes you feel any better ....
...try this.

We put an offer on a house in April; offer accepted. Everything in place for a mortgage in principle. Skip a few horror stories along the way... brings us to an e-mail from our solicitor Saturday evening before last. The vendor wants to exchange contracts next Friday with a view to completing the following Friday (today). Bit of rush but no real problem... skip a few more nasty stories...

Today (completion day). Long story short ... solicitor receives money from building society and promptly deposits it in the wrong bank account! Can't get it back until the bank admits it shouldn't be there. In the meantime misery ensues!

That surely is the solictors problem - they should transfer the correct amount to the correct account anyway. After all - that is what they agreed, and are being paid, to do for you.

Quite agree - but have to understand this is what the solicitor told me so there is a degree of cover-up going on. I only know the 'filtered' part

My last conversation with a Senior Partner was pretty much like this... "you had our money in trust - you lost it. You have a duty of care to replace it". There was a promise of this being sorted Monday - without the our money returned from the bank. They've gone away to discuss this with an "Equity Partner".

Next phase is going to be - how do you sue a solicitor?

Anyway, need to start my own thread (not hi-jack this one)... thought it might make the OP feel better  Freelander 1 TD4 HSE - gone, 2 weeks after the Cat.Converter!
Freelander 2 TD4 SE Auto MY08 - Santorini black

Razmabaz, I hope this gets sorted, and soon for you.
A colleague is being pursued by the land registry for money for his house move 5 years ago, the solicitor never transferred the money and has since stopped trading.
Unfortunately lawyers are becoming a hated profession in my book (sorry Bro) but he will be the first to agree, it's why he sticks to Uni, rather than practice.

Try the legal ombudsman. http://www.legalombudsman.org.uk/



Ps. Get orf my thread

Car has arrived at the dealers about an hour ago.
Pick up tomorrow afternoon

salesman said it was a little strange though, the car came up from Gaydon this morning along with a RRS, although mileage is only 4.5 miles, so has been transported back and forth,.......or round the test track and then clocked

Happy days

The speedo will be a few hundred miles below Zero when on the production line so they can use on the LRExperiance venues for a few weeks, they have obviously used it a bit more

taztastic wrote:

Car has arrived at the dealers about an hour ago.
Pick up tomorrow afternoon

Excellent - they finished fitting the new roof

Yeah, roof's all finished. I saw them prepping it at the dealers
The fit is a little iffy but alright from a distance and the rain/snow won't settle on the roof

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Heard them say that they need to source some new wheel's, They were on the phone to a chap in Yorkshire, but he only had Iffy's