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Lifer
1. Park up in a Welsh field at the end of May. 
2. Go to France.
3. Come back in October.
4. Think about firing up the Zed but get diverted by a wife who wants to steal all your redundancy money to start a new interiors business.
5. Money gets stolen as expected.
6. Work three days a week as a bloody shop assistant because wife wants to hold down full time job til March 2011. :x
7. Watch thermometer drop to -18C as Zed vanishes in a foot and a half of snow. :?
8. Wait three weeks for it to reappear, wondering what the anti-freeze level was like
9. FInd battery as flat as a witches tit....
10. Charge overnight......somehow, after six and a half months baby starts on the first turn of the key!
11. Sun comes out so quickly open hood a bit in the hope it will dry off. :?
12. Find that it does, so drag aforementioned wife, moaning and groaning from in front of the fire, to assist with application of hardtop, miraculously managing same without dropping it on to the boot lid, despite assistant whining "its too heavy, its TOO heavy!!"!
13. Had to be 13 didn't it; drive down road to find not firing on all cylinders and EML lit up like a christmas tree....
14. Contemplate 40-mile drive to BMW at Swansea at 30mph
15. Turn engine off....wait ten seconds, start her up again.....ooh, sounds a like a sewing machine again? EML gone too.....!
16. Floor it and vanish into the sunset, grinning from ear to ear!
17. Book service
18. Write note to self "Don't do it again!" :headbang:
2. Go to France.
3. Come back in October.
4. Think about firing up the Zed but get diverted by a wife who wants to steal all your redundancy money to start a new interiors business.
5. Money gets stolen as expected.
6. Work three days a week as a bloody shop assistant because wife wants to hold down full time job til March 2011. :x
7. Watch thermometer drop to -18C as Zed vanishes in a foot and a half of snow. :?
8. Wait three weeks for it to reappear, wondering what the anti-freeze level was like
9. FInd battery as flat as a witches tit....
10. Charge overnight......somehow, after six and a half months baby starts on the first turn of the key!
11. Sun comes out so quickly open hood a bit in the hope it will dry off. :?
12. Find that it does, so drag aforementioned wife, moaning and groaning from in front of the fire, to assist with application of hardtop, miraculously managing same without dropping it on to the boot lid, despite assistant whining "its too heavy, its TOO heavy!!"!
13. Had to be 13 didn't it; drive down road to find not firing on all cylinders and EML lit up like a christmas tree....
14. Contemplate 40-mile drive to BMW at Swansea at 30mph
15. Turn engine off....wait ten seconds, start her up again.....ooh, sounds a like a sewing machine again? EML gone too.....!
16. Floor it and vanish into the sunset, grinning from ear to ear!
17. Book service
18. Write note to self "Don't do it again!" :headbang:
Lets hope point 19 gets you the partridge and the pear tree 