April 2005
I have what I think is white road marking paint on two of my alloy wheels. Does anyone have any suggestions for removing this without damaging the wheels? Someone has told me that alloy wheels have lacquer on them which paint remover would damage. Read more
Well, it looks like our govt have found another way to tax the motorist.
www.tinyurl76126
....I stumbled across the following text cut and pasted from the appropriate site:
In order to recover the significant costs associated with changes of ownership of vehicles, a number of revenue raising ideas have been considered by the DVLA Steering Committee and the firm favorite is apparently akin to the Stamp Duty applied to house sales.
This scheme recovers a percentage of the declared purchase price or the current market value of the vehicle (whichever is the highest). A figure of 1% for prices up to £5000 escalating to around 5% for excecutive vehicles and 4 wheel drive/SUV type vehicles.
The current view is that commercial vehicles, vehicles for the disabled, charity and non profit making organisations should be exempt.
How they determine what you or I paid for a vehicle or its condition etc I don't know!
I have to say, this takes the biscuit!
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David
I nearly fell off my chair when I read your last two posts!!!
H
Oh dear, what's going on here?
See news item www.honestjohn.co.uk/news/index.htm?news_id=2094
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I don't want to put words into Aprilia's mouth, but some
time ago he explained why Japanese electronic componentry in cars was
vastly superior to European electronics. I think the reason was the
long Japanese history of development of consumer electronics.
HJ
Indeed I did say that - and its not just the experience that the Japanese have, but also the volumes that they produce and their whole vast electronics production 'infrastructure' - not least the availability of many highly trained and experienced engineers.
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Thank you. I will try turps as suggested in that thread.