Picking up a second hand car can be tricky. It’s so tricky, some people avoid the activity altogether. They instead go straight for a new car. Financially, that’s a mistake. You lose much of your value the moment it leaves the new car dealership. I HATE taking a financial hit like that so I can’t… Read more
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How to Get Your Car to 500,000 Kilometers
The last car I owned had nearly 500k KM when I stopped driving it. The only reason I’m not still driving it is because I was side swiped while passing through an intersection. And actually, the car still ran fine. But the insurance paid a lot more than the car was worth so I let… Read more
How to Enjoy Driving an Older Car
To many people, driving an older car is embarassing. I understand that. Driving an older car can make you seem unsuccessful, sloppy, a has been, a child, an under achiever. But are these thoughts that race through your head actually real? Think about it. There’s a saying I’ve heard that goes something like this, ‘You… Read more
Car Modifications That Actually Save You Money
Tons of people love to modify their cars. There’s a car modding subculture that exists in basically every country on the planet. The biggest problem with being a petrolhead is that it’s expensive! Really expensive! At least… it can be. If you’re modifying your car purely to go faster, that will be expensive. There are… Read more
Paris restricts driving, could you live without a car?
For the first time since 1997, the city of Paris is limiting car circulation to try to get rid of a big smog cloud that has been looming over the city for too long. According to Reuters, the pollution levels are very high, the European Environment Agency (EEA) reported147 microgrammes of particulate matter (PM) per… Read more
Second Thoughts & Borrowing Money from Family
Today Mrs Scot and I decided to take the motorbike to her Mums for lunch. It was so much fun to be out on the open road together with our headsets plugged in so that we could chat. Although driving on the motorways is not much fun (very straight and generally quite busy) it was… Read more
I’ve Got my Baby Back :)
As my regular readers will know (I have some of those now 😀 ) Mrs Scot was in a car accident on Thursday evening 🙁 – The car is badly damaged – both airbags went off, bumper / bonnet ruined, possible cracked radiator… – and is currently at the insurer’s garage being assessed. Given that… Read more
Somebody’s Watching You
One of today’s headlines on the BBC is that a guy has been refused entry to the USA for stating on twitter he was ready to ‘destroy’ the place. While many people think that this is a bit extreme, it’s certainly a wake up call to us all that social media / the Internet is… Read more
The Cost of Commuting – Is it Worth Buying Another car?
I hope that everyone had a nice weekend – I had a great time tackling the crowds in central London for Chinese New Year – it was absolutely chaotic! There were queues to get into every single restaurant! I haven’t seen that many people since London New Year’s Eve 2010! Got a short post… Read more