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PostPosted: Mon Dec 18, 2006 9:33 pm 
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Ah but Steveo, you don't drive a vehicle that handles like a tank at the best of times.

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I didn't know they done remoulds for ford anglia's :wink:

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I do well enough thanks GBC. And if I didn't buy new you wouldn't be able to use my cast offs. Bet you shop at charity shops for your work 'uniform' as well.

And do you recycle Taxi Talk in your bog down the bottom of the garden.


Not in the south Mr MCM, I've got the choice of 3 thanks. :wink:
One of them is named after you.

I'm not really interested what you get up to in uniform, best leave that sort of stuff off the forum, some people have to eat breakfast over this.

Try this site if you need any further idea's:

http://www.annsummers.com

Good luck, I gather some of their gear is also recycled rubber. :wink:


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Tom Thumb wrote:
Ah but Steveo, you don't drive a vehicle that handles like a tank at the best of times.


I'll let you into a little secret Mr MCM. :-$

It's not the vehicle that matters, it's the amount that it generates, and as you know that's plenty :wink:


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Ah but Steveo, you don't drive a vehicle that handles like a tank at the best of times.


I'll let you into a little secret Mr MCM. :-$

It's not the vehicle that matters, it's the amount that it generates, and as you know that's plenty :wink:


Of course GBC likes Hudson retreads as they have radials for his old bus :lol:

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I've had the two front one's done yesterday, apparantly they're NOT remoulds, just an imported brand.

Well I never.


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GBC wrote:
I've had the two front one's done yesterday, apparantly they're NOT remoulds, just an imported brand.

What you mean there are no rubber trees in the UK? :?

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JUst had two on the front £40 for both. Bs kite marked and rated to 117 mph.

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Where do you get these boots ? Has Jet Tyres got them ?


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Where do you get these boots ? Has Jet Tyres got them ?


City Tyres, two doors along from the Hackney 'Jet Tyres' branch on Cambridge Heath Road.


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PostPosted: Thu Jan 04, 2007 1:50 pm 
FFS I go off line for a couple of days and get slated for stating the LA guidelines yet again - I didn't write them and ain't saying they are right of wrong simply quoting wots in B&W! Still wouldn't use one though; having had a tyre blow out at 40 mph and seeing the devastation it caused I'll stick with paying over the odds ta very much. Just getting the magnifying glass out to check the small print on my insurance docs re tyres etc to see if I were to use re-moulds / second hand re-cut tyres whether I would be covered and what the HSE would say about it..................


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Tigger wrote:
having had a tyre blow out at 40 mph and seeing the devastation it caused .


Well i'm guessing it killed two people, hit a bus windscreen which then ploughed into a primary school which caught on fire killing 32, which subsequently spread to the fuel station next door. . . . .

But the next fare was good.


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having had a tyre blow out at 40 mph and seeing the devastation it caused .


Well i'm guessing it killed two people, hit a bus windscreen which then ploughed into a primary school which caught on fire killing 32, which subsequently spread to the fuel station next door. . . . .

But the next fare was good.


:lol:

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TravisBickle wrote:
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Where do you get these boots ? Has Jet Tyres got them ?


City Tyres, two doors along from the Hackney 'Jet Tyres' branch on Cambridge Heath Road.


Thanks very much.


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unfortunatly Hudsons no good to me, after a long investigation on the net I got it down to this tyre firm, link below, the only trouble is some tyre companies will only fit tyres they have sold

you know the score, you go into the tyre company, can I have some tyres fitted, they only sell you what they got in stock

me I have spare rims sat at home as all good taxi drivers do, remember you only go down with a flat or puncture on a friday or saturday night

so I found what I want have ordered and found a cheapo garage who will fit them, fiiting and ballance
http://www.mytyres.co.uk/start.html


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