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I went from doing 5k a year to 2-2.5k a month and it still doesn't really feel like I spend that much time in the car. I think as long as you don't spend the trip crawling along in traffic it's quite easy for the miles to roll past without you realising!

[email protected] 2xGTX670@1200/1502 (ish) 1440p I lol'd :p

I've done a couple of trips recently via the m25 from m11 to heathrow and the cameras near the M11 area have been flashing away a lot in both directions, the first trip it flashed at me and I was doing GPS 71!

My employer pays shift uplift for any shift outside of 9-5 regular. What the actual legal requirements are other than giving the minimum rest period between shifts/per week is I don't know, however... Expecting people to work shift patterns without any recompense seems rather unreasonable though.

I have an allstar fuelcard, which if I used it to actually buy any fuel (no stations near home take fuel cards :/) I would have to declare private mileage which would then be deducted from salary on next month's pay slip. What I actually end up doing is buying fuel myself then putting the entry...

1.7 diesel in multiple generations of Vauxhall, thank god it's been finally replaced...

I'm a field service engineer so a little different to sysadmin type on call but I get paid hourly on standby at 25% of my overtime rate relevant to when the standby is i.e. 25% of time and a half or 25% of double time. If I get called out it's then the full overtime rate while I'm working on a...

There have been 2 cars in my team's fleet that have had mystery sensor faults on the gearbox that VX have been unable to fix resulting in the cars going back to them as the lease company got annoyed and another one the cambelt tensioner failed at 7000 miles or so(but dealer just slapped a new...

They have to put the reg into the system when you fill up with the card so up to you if you want to give it a go I guess! I would just fill up myself and then put the figure into the non fuel card spend box which is what I do every month as nowhere round here takes fuelcards :p

Mondeo. We've got Astras at work (although admittedly the 3000 year old 1.7 diesels) and the reliability levels are comical which combined with the god awful dealerships the cars spend most of their time at would rule Vauxhall out for me if I had a choice...

Even when people overtake they seem to be terrible at it, like they're accelerating from 20mph in 5th to try and get past a tractor/combine (and there are certainly no shortage of them out here in the fens). Then you get your overtaking spot filled by one guy crawling past when the queue of 10...

After one of my GTX580s bit the dust a couple of weeks back this is the kind of deal I've been waiting for :p

1.69 litres and 114bhp from 5 cars although thanks to company cars the last 2 have had basically the same engine...

I changed my entire system a bit over a year ago from qx9650 to a 3770k, was using a single GTX580 with both before later moving to SLI. To be honest I hardly noticed a massive performance difference but it kind of entirely depends on how much cpu a game is using! One thing I would say is the...

Certainly a lot better than my new company astra which is almost as shocking as the old one, 48MPG so far over the first 3k miles!

The last card I had blow up was my 6800GT which was annoying as it was XFX and their RMA is terrible :p

My parents gift went through my current account it wasn't an issue and the only thing needed was a signed declaration that it was a gift.

Well if it makes you feel any better mine are reference and suck :p so yours will still be slightly quicker...

My 580s refuse to run anything over stock without driver crashes or lockups, might just be unlucky

SLI might supposedly work in fullscreen windowed mode but if I run WoW in windowed I get less than half the FPS I do in fullscreen proper on SLI 580s... Never really found it to be a bother in non-MMO situations as you don't tend to alt-tab so much :p