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Not to you, the random Skoda post haha.

Huh?

I remember when I drove Nicks track car home from Plymouth with no RARB and three tons worth of metal in the boot. Scariest shit ever.

Haha.

It isn't encouraging though is it, if we have to work as a public that will filter through and inspire a lost responsibility in our companies and employees. I assume not many people are employers on here, but as ssomebody in charge of my own sales team...Do you know how hard it is to find GOOD employees? The reason unemployment is so high is probably to do with the number of idiots in society. Business are in decline, profits are at a low and unemployment is high. Personally I think it's because the quality of employee is diminishing. Elitest I know...

Morally though, not a great idea. How much debt are we in as a country? Wrap up all the student loans and make people pay or work for their educations. Job done. Offering tens of thousands of pounds worth of debt with no obligation to pay and an incentive to not earn above the threshold. Sounds like a pretty stupid idea to me. A restricture is certainly required, because it isn't sustainable.

This. My problem is that the generation which may or may not have existed has watered down and dulled the power that going to University and graduating with a degree once held. It isn't a sign of a fine education necessarily anymore, it appears to me to be a title awarded to people to bolster their CV's and grant them access to the elite tier of non existent jobs reserved for post graduates.

I do. I don't see the point in a lot of other shite Universities seem to subsidise.

As it might be apparent, I don't see the point in University. Why do people go to University? Is it genuinely because they think they will earn more when they graduate? Social and internal pressure to achieve? Social awareness and understanding? A continuation of structure and process to guide you into adult life? Or a genuine desire to continue your learning and expand your knowledge? If that could be done honestly, that would be an interesting statistic.

If I said... "I'm going to go to University because statistics say that on average I will earn X amount more per year when I graduate than if I don't go to University." But locally that wasn't true. The statistic has led me to believe that I should go to University, because I will earn more. When actually the true statistics for my locality are that when I leave University I will struggle to find employment, have lots of debt and not be able to fiancially support myself because my local demographic is the trough of the statistic. I probably shouldn't have gone to University and I should have just started at the bottom of my chosen profession and worked my way up into my employment. Which is where I am now because I can't walk straight into the job I want because the graduates from last year already have the jobs I want... Is that a hugely complex thing to understand? Or have I just written it badly?

But it's local. So my dealership is spending thousands unnecessarily on a finance incentive, because regionally we are seen to be suffering, but more locally we are the total opposite to the statics. The same can surely be said for a university? If it is in an area where employment is down, but the national average is saying that graduates are being paid higher then that average isn't relevant. Because you should be looking more local for your specific area or demagraphic? I would rather see a break down of; X students from Y University which studied Z degree now earn £. So you could see which studies, and which universities it is which are growing. Because the peaks and troughs are what matters locally and statistics are far more important when they are personalised. For me anyway. I'm not disagreeing with what you are saying, but I don't really care for "national" averages, because generally speaking they don't effect me quite so greatly.

I got told this morning that 75% of people finance their car through a bank loan. It's on the regional statistics for our 1/4 year review. My statistics from my 72 sales this 1/4 say that over 80% of my customers finance through the dealer ship and less than 5% pay through a bank sourced loan. My manager seeing that statistic has launched a huge dealer finance incentive costing thousands. But it isn't necessary. My argument here is that if the statistics were localised then maybe individual demographics would view University in a different way? Statiscs are always flawed because they aren't localised. Whilst you might have 100 friends who all went to Manchester University who earn 100k on the stock market, I might have 100 friends who went to uni in Plymouth and earn £4.60 down the fish market. I don't, because I don't have 100 friends. But as a rule, I ignore statistics and speak locally with my own findings.

Compared to WHAT though. Do these graduates earn more compared to people who leave school and go straight on to work? Or is it a comparison of mid 20 year olds earning x amount compared to a 17 year old who has just left school and started in Sainsburys? Do these figures include the potential three years full time wage potentially lost by this further education? Do these figures include the people who leave as a graduate then can't get employment? Or is this just cherry picking the fortunate? That's the problem as I see it, friends of mine leave school, go to uni on the promise of a bad ass job when they leave (because society tells them, rightly or wrongly that Uni is the right thing to do) and then leave with nothing. Usually because they should have chosen to gone back to college and inadvertently chose the wrong path of education... Hypothetical conversation playing all devils advocate of cause. As per my Sainsburys reference earlier, one of my close friends is a department assistant manager at Sainsburys, as part of their post graduate scheme. They earn comparable wages compared to the person who they went to school with who is assistant routing manager for the click or collect service. Both the same age, both the same job title. One started at the bottom and worked up over 4 years, the other went to uni to study and came out into a similar job but has no respect from her peers who are much older and more experienced.

LOL, I don't have a single friend who has gone to uni and isn't in 30K's worth of debt or earns more than me. And I never even went to school. If earning money is your main goal, you have either got it or you haven't. People who earn BIG money have a different mindset to the standard 50K a year millionaire.

Take it to a phone shop. You still drunk?

Goodyear vector 4 seasons. Used them shit loads on 500L Trekking and 4x4 Fiat Panda. They are really good and the road noise isn't too bad either.

Yesterday I looked at two Cooper S's. A 54 plate JCW at £5495, and a 52 plate standard S at 3. There is £2500, two years and 7000 miles between the two. I can get £5200 for my A3 trade. Do I spend £2500 on the extra perfcormance, and desirability. And being two years newer. Or do I pocket the £2500, and buy buckets, 17" pulley, injectors, intercooler and a set of wheels and tires then do a track day. Or do I save the £2500 and buy a Cooper S AND a Mk2 Golf/MX5.

Best way to check is jack the front up, and hold the wheel at 3 and 9, rock between the two. If you hear a knock, then isolate if it is the inner track or rack itself. Often the last splines/teeth of the rack wear on the offside because of roundabouts etc.

Play in the steering rack on inner track control arms. Common fault on Mk2 Granadas which use the same rack iirc, used to change them for non power assisted Corsair racks. Back in the day... Otherwise a quick rack is the obvious upgrade.

Directors.

Excluded from primary school at 7 after years of bad behavior and being statemented with Aspergers, didn't get accepted into a secondary school until I was 12. Left that when I was 14, lied to a bike shop and told them I was 16 and worked full time ever since. Started off as a shop bitch at a bike store, then found my way into a classic car business as an apprentice, three NVQ's in Motor Vehicle technology, an additional study in Motorsport development later and I decided to move to Plymouth. First job I could get was in a Specialized Concept store, where I found my passion for selling. I was fully trained by SBUK University and became a senior salesman. I set up and ran the entire online sales store, set up a large eBay presence and fulfilled around 20 orders per day, along with being top boy on the sales floor as well as managing stock ordering, rotation and display. An unfortunate turn of events involving me telling a regular customer he could take his forks and drop the money in later without asking the boss saw me leave that company and I started straight away selling new Mazdas, which had always been my dream job as a car salesman. Did that for a couple of years and moved back to Basingstoke. Now I am a senior sales executive in charge of my own showroom, stock ordering, registration and workshop control within a huge main dealer network and earning a fortune. I love my job and I'm regarded very highly nationally as the highest number of registrations in the South, along with a CSI score within the UK's top 5. Happy days. Moral of the story, it doesn't matter if you think you are stuck in a rut or you aren't smart enough. If you want it, you can blag your way through until you learn enough to support yourself haha.

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In terms of fuel I brimmed mine, £81, reset the computers on the 19th (pay day) I have done 372 miles, averaged 52.3mpg and have just over half a tank left. - I need to do something car wise, the diesel is soul destroying and it is an expensive luxury I cannot justify. A £3/4K track prepped 172 would also qualify. Or a 182 Trophy.

Girlfriend's sister has one and a couple of my mates, nice little cars. I want to buy a house next year, and selling the Audi for 6 and buying a Mini for 4 would give me a good boost up.

I keep looking at Cooper S's.