Don't jest Terry B. We already have districts where you can only drive between certain hours based on your number plate... a sure fire money-making scheme for traffic enforcers.

A "barangay" is like a parish. It has an elected Captain in charge and a committee and employs its own low-level (in every way) quasi police force to keep the peace. A watchman could be anyone given a vest with a fancy badge on with vague powers .. Sometimes a gun as well. The more senior ones even get bullets to put in them, which they usually fire off when drunk in some karaoke bar.

Has its roots in the days of tribes. Philippine culture still very tribal-oriented.

I can't resist one another, which I know is not UK-specific but it comes from The Growlette Files. Metro Manila has a vast problem with thousands of ancient smoke-belching buses which race each other for passengers, stop anywhere they think they will to unload or load (I mean fast lane etc), many of which are unlicensed and unroadworthy and have absolutely no regard for other road-users.

Recent purge against this hailed in media. Roadside emission tests, roadworthiness checks etc. Result, authorities impounded or issued ban notices to some 2,000 buses in the course of a week.

Now big problem. Thousands of commuters are complaining there aren't enough buses and they have to wait for a ride (and this isn't even the rainy season yet)and are late for work. Trade unions up in arms, demos outside Mayor's office, all that.

Not only that, many of the illegal bus lines are owned by senior police officers, govt officials etc, so they're getting out of shape about their loss of undeclared income and so on and so on.

Coming up to elections, so Mayor thinking if I don't fix this all these guys won't vote for me again....worse I might end up in concrete boots in the Pasig River.....

Solution: let the illegals back after "inspections" and "approvals" and "fees" to save face and create the illusion of progress.

Mess with the status quo in the Philippines at your peril...

This country is a hoot.

John S, I don't think Fluff will hear you - old post.

In reply to Dan17, if you goto the vauxhall website (www.vauxhall.co.uk) look in the top RH corner and sign up to "My Vauxhall". You'll be able to then view stereo manuals in PDF format. These manuals will be newer than your stereo, but a lot of the features and instructions will be similar.

I thought so.

Basically Sheffield had a large Yorkshire Electricity depot on the main carridgeway into the town centre from the M1, IKEA wanted to knock down the multistorey car park and buildings and start again. But I believe the town centre businesses complained and permission was blocked. So instead all that business goes to Bradford or Nottingham. A well planned way to re-generate the city.

Oh and another thing, because the town centre isn't quite dead yet, a dual carridgeway (last one in the centre) that carries traffic to what car parks are available is now being turned into a single carridgeway. Ideal to have lots of queuing traffic, good for the environment I suppose.

Steve.

Steve.

Yes I do love the car. Everybody at work loves it. In fact one of the boys is extremely hacked off because he\'s picking up his new Toyota Celicia tomorrow. Comment \"Just my luck, three days before I pick up my new car, somebody turns up in a better one.\"
The car\'s silver and I think it looks great.(Goes pretty well too, although I\'ve never been over 70 (cough!!!!)).
I even caught my wife, who is totally indifferent to cars, looking in a shop window as we drove past.(No, it wasn\'t Dorothy Perkins).
I must confess that the radio\'s back on radio 2, (afternoons only) and the U2/INXS/Billy Idol CDs are in the changer. My four year old lad thinks it\'s a racing car, my three month old has approvingly puked over the alcantara interior. Can\'t be bad after all.
Still Smiling
MLC

Most of the major tyre manufacturers will send you a copy of their publications detailing tyre dimensions if you ask them nicely - a gripping read if ever there was one (pun unfortunately intended!). These list the range of acceptable rim widths for each tyre size. There's usually one rim width which is used for determining the other tyre dimensions - section width, static loaded radius, rolling circumference etc.

Before you start questioning my reading tastes (!), I had to go through this ordeal to find a suitable replacement for some metric Michelin TRX tyres......!