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tfl emissions zone in 2010 london
Posted: Thu Jul 10, 2008 11:12 pm
by uk les
i hear that in 2010, any land rover, 90/110, series 3/2 van or station wagon type, with a oil burner engine pre 2002,
will cost the owner £100 a day
to drive in the capital citys emission zone .
pre 73 are exempt.
wonder if v8 conversions will go through the roof in the near future ? ?
any thoughts, should i/we start stocking with engines up now ! !
cheers les , v8 90 on lpg...
Posted: Thu Jul 10, 2008 11:31 pm
by ppyvabw
I suspect before long, car modifying will be banned soon anyway. Maybe within 15/20 years I think.
conversions/classic/kit cars will get hit soon I expect.
Posted: Fri Jul 11, 2008 12:58 am
by stevieturbo
Too soon....
In a few years time it will be cheaper and easier just to steal cars instead. Also less chance of getting penalised for it.
Such is life, in our wonderful, free and democratic society
Posted: Fri Jul 11, 2008 1:16 am
by ppyvabw
stevieturbo wrote:Too soon....
In a few years time it will be cheaper and easier just to steal cars instead.
That's not as far from the truth as you might think. Round our way, people are getting their heating oil nicked, syphoned out the oil tanks.
Posted: Fri Jul 11, 2008 1:20 pm
by stevieturbo
Thats been happening here for years.
More often than not, its the gyppos.
Some even have tankers, so no neighbours even suspect anything. Others just have the usual transit, with a cube and pump in the back.
Posted: Fri Jul 11, 2008 5:50 pm
by HairbearTE
Stealing Catalytic converters is the latest trend in london. I know a van hire firm that lost 15 cats the other night and there have been many similar instances. You can weigh 'em in for 50 quid each apparently.
Posted: Fri Jul 11, 2008 6:04 pm
by stevieturbo
Hard to believe, but some lunatics even tried to cut down an electricity pylon in Belfast a few months ago...
Not sure what bit they were after...cut power to thousands of homes.
Posted: Fri Jul 11, 2008 7:03 pm
by kiwicar
When I was on holiday in Kenya many years ago we lost the power in the hotel, turned out that someone dug a up the power cable (power still on!
) put a chain around the exposed cable and fixed the other end onto a pickup, drove off pulling up the cable. They got a about mile down the road before the cable broke, cut the power to about 15 hotels aparently they sold the cable for the copper, happend all the time!!!!
Mike
Posted: Tue Jul 15, 2008 9:58 am
by Ian Anderson
2 blokes were killed in Zimbabwe when they tried to steal the cable that had just been installe near the railway line.
Silly buggers had never seen electrified rail overhead wires and clibmed the pylon with a hacksaw!
Out in Zimbabler - and a lot of the rest of Africa too the biggest thing is Copper - steal any wire they can get their hands on and melt it down and sell it for recycling Telephone cables now last a matter of days! LAy it in a trench and they come in - connect a tractor and tow it away.
I am surprised though that more petrol is not being syphoned in this country - A tankful is worth £50 and is really quite easy pickings.
Ian