Thanks for the replies .....putting it down to a bad experience..I might offer the loan company the auction price for the car and then hand it over to my niece instead if they accept

for some a mobile is complicated and do not have a clue how to use them apart from texting and making calls, I have relations that when someone explains how to make bluetooth connection, they tell them not to bother as its too complicated.

Had 5 cars with bluetooth now and pairing the phones has been simple enough whatever brand of car and whatever brand of phone we have had at the time. Once its done it connects automatically the next time you turn on the car (providing bluetooth is turned on in the phone)....

I don't think it is the media at fault here - the report is just repeating the statements of so-called scientists who have zero evidence to support their statements.

I disagree. The media will report any old load of garbage simply to perpetuate their incredibly boring and mundane occupation. They need so many stories per day to run with or all those people milling about in studios, newsrooms etc etc would be out of work. We can't have that now, can we? The prime example of how feeble the media really reveals itself in the way they put such dramatic emphasis on the most inocuous stories. Trying to engender some form of import to an otherwise mundane event. Also can anyone explain why they have a reporter outside some Government building at 10.20pm, with the usual crew of lighting, sound and broadcast engineers, simply to reiterate what the newsreader in the studio has just told us?? Would any of us get away with that kind of useless and unecessary behaviour at our workplace? I think not. But then again we had proper jobs....

I wonder if it relates to the speed reading as well. I tend to trust more the satnav than the speedometer which apparently is has all the same components regardless of wheel/tyre size. If indeed there is a +/- 5mph on it readinbg over 70mph, why not distance as well that probably rely on the same sensors?

Normal tyre valves don't need the centre depressing to fill with air, but you need a fair shove of pressure to open the valve against the spring, though they obviously need the pin depressing to release air.

Its much easier to fit a valve with one of these...