Just traded my very sensible Golf GTTDI in for a lot less sensible and hopefully more exciting Nissan 350Z. Pics to follow!
I though he might, in which case a month sounds like a good estimate
I agree, it definitely shouldn't take a month full time for this amount of work.
I suggest working out what he thinks he's worth per hour and scaling that up. So if £20/hour sounds about right and this is going to be 4 weeks work for 5 hours a day that's £100/day, £500/week, £2000 in total. If its '4 weeks work' but its really only half an hour every other evening, adjust the quote accordingly.
The problem with design work like this is the client has a tendency to take the piss going back a forth, so much more important than overall price is to specify in the contract exactly how much work is required, how many iterations of the design will be included in the price etc.
The problem with design work like this is the client has a tendency to take the piss going back a forth, so much more important than overall price is to specify in the contract exactly how much work is required, how many iterations of the design will be included in the price etc.
wtf? for that money you could have SO much more car if you bought second hand. Even something just 2 or 3 years old.
Standard spec, high miles, 1.9. Obviously going to be cheap.
I've got a 2.0 GTTDI which I paid £10K for, but it only had 30K miles and is actually high spec. I've done *nothing* to it, only ever gone to a VW garage etc and will probably still be able to sell it for 8-9K.
Seriously though, why anyone would want to make it individual or even waste money on making a low spec one look better is beyond me. Just save the money and get a better car.
Sennheiser HD380 headphones
Razer Blackwidow mechanical keyboard
Some geek goods
Once you know where the numbers are you only really need to focus on what position the needle is at.
The point is, unless you did 500miles a day for 60 days straight, you did not do 30K in 2 months...
Really? By that do you mean if you drive into a ditch you'll get a ban, and is this a new rule? Seems a bit stupid to me :/
20mph in first is long?!
My old Fiesta 1.6 used to be able to do well over 30 in first, then shift straight to 5th, they were some pretty close ratios!
ABS control unit failed, ECR failed, combined total for those to be replaced was £1500 (although I managed to get VW to come down to around £1000 with a free MOT and Air con recharge thrown in too).
Turbo is whining too which is very common on the GTTDIs, I will get it replaced at some point but you're looking at £300 for a second hand unit alone. Repairing the current one is just as much
The problem with these newer cars is that everything is so sealed up and such a bitch to work on you either spend days in the garage doing it yourself, or you pay through the nose to get someone else to do it. To even get to the turbo you have to remove the front subframe, so much effort!
edit: Mine had 30K on the clock when I bought it last year, the electronics problems just happen overnight
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I've got a MK5 GTTDI
had a few problems with it though which apparently have been resolved in the MK6, maybe worth holding out for those to come down to a reasonable price.Insurance for me was £900 this year (I'm 23) so a 10% drop will be nice, as long as they don't get you elsewhere like you say!
I've never crashed a car... a lot of young drivers do though, just statistics.
But the Golf probably cost 4 times as much as the 106 Jamie, not everyone can afford to spend £1000s on their first car.
Anyway I would definitely start off in a cheap car, then it doesn't matter so much if/when you crash it (assuming its just into a ditch and not into somebody else).
Anyway I would definitely start off in a cheap car, then it doesn't matter so much if/when you crash it (assuming its just into a ditch and not into somebody else).
Except females generally crash at low speeds, and males at high speeds. High speed crashes tend to cost/kill more.
Who doesn't have at least a dual core CPU these days anyway?
SSL doesn't do anything on the server though does it? How do I know my files are safe in your 'cloud'?
In all seriousness... The world does not need another site that is essentially a bunch of third-party applications thrown together on a cheap web server, that stores your files in a 'cloud'.
I'm not being funny but it's a waste of time. It's even more of a waste of time if you don't learn anything about the technologies you are actually using. Not unlike the "General forum" we had here recently.
I'm not being funny but it's a waste of time. It's even more of a waste of time if you don't learn anything about the technologies you are actually using. Not unlike the "General forum" we had here recently.
Ugh the term 'cloud' has become so popular these days, and people don't even know what it means 
I gave this a go with my iPhone mounted in the tomtom cradle and it worked beautifully. Video is pretty good quality and in 720p.
Won't bother uploading though because it only takes me 10 minutes to get to work, and thats just going one junction down the motorway so there's nothing to see really
Won't bother uploading though because it only takes me 10 minutes to get to work, and thats just going one junction down the motorway so there's nothing to see really
I can assure you the VW 10-speaker system I have in my mk5 Golf will destroy any cheap aftermarket setup. Plus it doesn't look like a 5 year old went mental with a bunch of tacky LEDs around the dash. Trust me, I've been there. I had the £200 Clarion headunit and it was fine but not nearly as good as the standard stuff I have now. (Not 100% sure it is standard as the car has quite a few option upgrades, is still VW though).
And no, FM transmitters are not fine, but I'm guessing if your setup is crap anyway you won't notice.
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