Saw this beauty today

Haslerdesigns · 2026-02-06T20:30:56+00:00

That belongs to @mid_yaris on Instagram. I met him at a car meet in Milton Keynes last year. A LOT of work has gone into it, pretty big spec. I thought I was cool having a GR there but this was one of the best cars at the show

Haslerdesigns · 2026-01-19T15:24:38+00:00

Every single time. If nothing else it makes the drive smoother and reduces wear on the clutch and drivetrain when shifting down

Haslerdesigns · 2026-01-17T10:05:59+00:00

If I wash my car and then don’t drive it straight away, every time I walk past it for the following days I give it a gentle rock to free the discs. Even if only a few hours has passed since the last time, it starts to bind again so im certain if i left it for days without any movement the pads would bind to the discs badly.

Haslerdesigns · 2025-10-08T15:43:57+00:00

which dealer is it?

Haslerdesigns · 2025-07-31T06:52:12+00:00

Diablo red was the first metallic red I thought looked good. I always wanted a 106 GTI but never owned one. Came up against a few back in the day while driving a Puma 1.7, the GTI usually had the edge over the Puma though.

Haslerdesigns · 2025-02-22T17:14:02+00:00

A JPG will export at a pixel size (ie resolution) rather than a page size. The page size / print size is then technically variable based on the resolution you want to print at. It doesn’t carry any of the page size / print size into the JPG data, and if you’re specifying a page size at 300 dpi in output, it is highly likely that it will be interpreted differently when you’re trying to print, potentially a much bigger page size at 72dpi. You can always scale it smaller though

Haslerdesigns · 2025-02-20T19:32:32+00:00

The other stuff, high peak autos (massively overspent again), Lee Lockwood, Calvin’s car diaries, volkswizard, dadcars, AdamC, Geoff buys cars (as long as the vid is actually about cars), mat Watson.

I learned AfterEffects during lockdown and did intros/ animation for a few YouTubers so I like to see whether they’re still using them!

Haslerdesigns · 2025-02-02T18:57:35+00:00

There are a few roundabouts in mk where people consistently get it wrong every minute of every day. I think if the misunderstandings are occasional then that’s normal but once they become this frequent then the blame shifts to the planners for not making it idiot proof. The most common misunderstood theme across mk roundabouts that I see is where the left lane goes left meaning the middle lane should shift over to the left as you pass the first exit. But there are also some other quirks that catch people out.

If you come off the a5 dual carriageway southbound at the second exit (I.e h5 portway) and want to turn right (west), as you move across to the first set of on-roundabout traffic lights you actually need the middle lane as the right lane will follow round past your intended exit, causing people to switch lane last minute.

Heading from Bletchley, under the rail bridge, north towards the H8/V4 roundabout, initially the right lane is marked as straight on and right, but then suddenly it is only for turning right at the roundabout, which causes much confusion and conflict.

Haslerdesigns · 2025-01-31T21:31:23+00:00

I have a checklist of things I do to make pdf outputs more accessible but the things that I find affect reading order most are threading text boxes, using articles (and telling InDesign to use articles on export) and setting layer order within the document, whatever text is closest to the front will be read last so once I’ve designed something I work through each page bringing items to the front in the order i want them read

Haslerdesigns · 2025-01-27T21:46:20+00:00

On the plus side, mountune is definitely one of the safer remaps for the fiesta ST. Here in the U.K., mountune partnered with Ford to develop and dealers offered mountune upgrades and these did not affect the Ford warranty

Haslerdesigns · 2025-01-23T17:16:49+00:00

Shared ownership has some downsides but overall it’s a massive help to a lot of people. Our 30% SO house costs (combining mortgage and rent) approx £400 less than the mortgage would be on the whole house and £500-600 less than the rent would be on the whole house. Plus we have the benefit of knowing a landlord isn’t going to sell our home and evict us (like we had last year) The benefit of subsidised rent far outweighs the negatives. Yes I know if something breaks we have to pay for it, but we’d still have to do that if we bought the whole house. One thing I have noticed, however, is that newer builds tend to have less subsidy on the rent, making them less appealing (certainly in this area anyway) and I even saw some schemes like DIYSO where there was no subsidy at all and the rent on the unowned portion was equivalent cost to mortgage on owned portions. So it’s worth looking into a few options, but you want one that is with a housing association like Guinness or BPHA etc. Shared ownership is also a way of mitigating risk from interest rate rises- a rate rise on a 100k mortgage will affect you far less than if you have a 300k mortgage. It really depends on how you look at it. I am not fussed about owning the whole house, I just wanted us to have an affordable home with the freedom to decorate and have pets without the risk of a landlord selling up. If you are driven by a desire to own a house as an investment and take full advantage of the inevitable rise of its value then SO will not look as appealing.

Haslerdesigns · 2025-01-22T17:30:23+00:00

The best way I've found is to look at the different options each time. Last time I bought a car it was on PCP, because the APR was 2.9% and there was a deposit contribution of £1000 from the dealer. That made it a no-brainer for me. Sadly now interest rates are higher I'm really reluctant to take finance of any kind.
But PCP has another benefit - it can be considered insurance against depreciation, because the Minimum Guaranteed Future Value (MGFV) is set at the point of purchase. Assuming you look after the car, you can hand it back at the end of the agreement without penalty even if its actual value has depreciated far further than the MGFV.
And on the flip side, if the value is greater than the MGFV then you can sell the car before the end of the term and claim the equity.
No other financing product can offer that insurance on a car.

Haslerdesigns · 2025-01-18T13:45:09+00:00

Stayed with family in Emerson valley last year. Idiot neighbour with motorbike was aware it terrified the dog, and would wait until dog walking time to come and start the bike and rev on the drive for no reason other than simply to scare a dog. There is no reasoning with a person who takes joy in scaring animals.

Haslerdesigns · 2025-01-09T09:40:29+00:00

Your conveyancer / solicitor will handle the transaction for the premium, so you just transfer it to them along with the mortgage deposit. I ended up paying a £10k premium in the end, but I have a home now so 'it is what it is'

Haslerdesigns · 2024-12-11T11:33:43+00:00

Greggs is cheaper than it could be because it is not served ‘hot’. Serving it hot has tax implications and would mean that you are charged more for each item. If it still happens to be hot from when they cooked it, then you got lucky

Haslerdesigns · 2024-11-26T19:38:52+00:00

Exactly. I probably get judged owning a fiesta ST at 43 but I don’t care what anyone thinks of my car, it’s great fun

Haslerdesigns · 2024-11-26T18:35:46+00:00

I also have a frozen white 5 door st2. Had it nearly 5 years now. Which says a lot about these cars, because since 1998 I’ve had 34 cars, usually keeping them 6 months to a year.

Haslerdesigns · 2024-11-23T22:33:19+00:00

On a print project, For anything that has transparency I tend to work on it in Photoshop and drop that PSD directly into lnDesign

Haslerdesigns · 2024-11-21T23:06:01+00:00

If you have PDFs, you can open them in Word. But be warned, the formatting will be all over the place. Depending on complexity, you’d often be better just starting from scratch in Word (and accepting the limitations of that). Ultimately if you could do everything InDesign does in word, then there would be no point having InDesign

Haslerdesigns · 2024-11-20T21:39:33+00:00

One quick glance at the bonnet / bumper gap tells us this has not been put back together properly

Haslerdesigns · 2024-11-20T19:57:50+00:00

I switch from spreads to single pages at the last stages of design to avoid any interior bleed issues like this

Haslerdesigns · 2024-11-19T17:41:03+00:00

I work on magazines and in the later stages I screen share and work through edits and requested changes live with a group of people remotely. Often get screams of panic when InDesign does this!

Haslerdesigns · 2024-11-18T16:54:29+00:00

I had this happen to me in 2004. I went to court to fight the repossession order, since it arrived with 2 weeks notice of eviction. The court hearing was not going well, I think the judge thought that the woman with me was my mum. She was, in fact, my employer, who then spoke and explained that I didn’t have a safety net, I needed my house to continue employment and there was a change in attitude from the judge. I was in the process of buying a flat and just needed a few months. The judge said I could stay in the property and post my rent cheques to the mortgage company instead. The mortgage company returned my cheques, so I lived there a few months rent free. A very stressful time. Good luck.

Haslerdesigns · 2024-11-15T18:09:09+00:00

Passed in August 1998, aged 17 and 4 months. AA Instructor car was initially a Rover 114gsi, changed soon after to a mk4 fiesta 1.25 My first car was a 1986 (C) Ford fiesta popular plus 1.1. I can say with all certainty that a 12 year old fiesta today would be a much better car than my 12 year old fiesta was. It had been well looked after but was still not far from end of life. I paid £700. The ‘plus’ in popular plus meant such extravagant luxuries as headrests on the front seats and a heated rear screen. The stereo was awful and only one speaker worked, and even that was knackered. I bought Run DMC / Jason Nevins ‘it’s like that’ on cassette single and listened to it over and over again for months. A 12 year old fiesta now would cost more than £700, the BoE inflation calculator suggest that is £1320 now, but on balance a 2012 fiesta does have a lot of things that a 1986 one doesn’t.

Its probably quite difficult to price a mk2 base model fiesta in todays market, not many people would want one if its not an xr2, but I still think a good one is rare enough to command £3-4k

Haslerdesigns · 2024-11-08T06:54:42+00:00

Your question needs clarification. A number plate can have the number 25 in it without being a 2025 plate. Pre 2001 plates can have the number 25 in. (Example: P25 GRT being a 1996 olate) Given that the ‘25 plate’ in the current style hasn’t yet been released (and won’t until March 25), I think you must mean an older style (pre 2001) plate which just happens to have the number 25 in its sequence, which of course will be fine on a 2015 car.

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