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Couldnt agree more mate, I have some titanium ones around the edges but some based in the engine area itself would make a huge difference - might go off and do some internet searching for complete kits right now..!

Problem is it makes everything else look old! 😄 Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Alternator pre-paint... Post

Yep and the metal bit next to the charge cooler, suppose a pre photo would have helped !! Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Polishing by hand, then sealing by wax will give a nice result - but its almost impossible to correct paint by hand with the stuff you mentioned. I got a DA with menzerna polishes and its amazing, not just better than doing stuff by hand, its an absolute country mile different.

...had to call the previous owner of the R33 I bought, couldn't work out how to open the fuel flap!

Painted some engine bits...lets see how well it lasts! Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

There are self flocking kits (seriously!) on ebay you can do a cheapo job with (sorry this is sounding more and more funny!)

Sure they do: http://www.dailymail...ment-drive.html p.s: I had to google that... I don't read the daily mail. yeah yeah... I was referring to the usual individual cases they like to shout about, Mr Khan Originally from Pakistan claims £43,000 in benefits whilst playing Squash each week.

Even though it was said tongue in cheek, if leaving the Eu will make no difference to immigration, laws and host of other stuff apparently leaving wont make any difference to, why not leave and stop chucking them 10 billion net each year? You are absolutely right, which is why up front I said I believe this is not a vote on immigration as a central argument, but many people think it is. In its simplest form I see this as a vote of an aspiration (of being independent of the EU of which I am not against btw) offset against the financial risk associated with it. Will the resulting uncertainty and protracted trade negotiations mean my cost of living goes up to a point it makes that aspiration worth while. I am trying to be practical on this as well as balancing that entrepreneurial spirit we all have in us. At the moment the Leave campaign have been so superficial in their arguments I cannot possibly, reasonably vote for them.

Freedom of movement of movement isn't really the concern, it's managing the related expenses. For example the "we won't pay benefits until you've been here X years" idea has gone down like a lead balloon inside Europe, outside Europe we may have control over that. But this is such a basic view its bordering on pointless, what sort of rules do you apply, how do you apply them in line with international law. For example, so what of the 1m couples where one half is EU migrant and the other British born, do you penalise the British born person because their spouse is claiming a benefit. What does benefit claimant mean? It could well be that some of them are very well qualified but cannot find work (like British people who are well qualified and also not in work - do you penalise the EU migrant just because they were not born here?). What of the life long British claimant, do they have a birthright to taxpapers money over an EU immigrant who could have come here qualified and been sacked 6 months ago? I could go on about the number of permutations... ...the number of people that the basic view looks at i.e. you came here, didnt work, now claiming, is tiny, a single digit % of the overall impact on benefits in this country. Yet this is the headline grabbing stuff you see on the front of the Daily Mail (newspaper for people who want to read the Sun but don't like football) - they do not shout out '95% of benefits claimed by British born people' do they?

...just to note, For Flocks Sake is a real company!

Leaving the EU will not stop immigration, you wont be able to 'shut up shop', the global economy doesn't really work that way. We will have to include freedom of movement in any trade deals we sign in the case of an exit, given that everyone seems happy to slate our politicians at every turn for being useless at negotiating anything I am not sure on that basis then why people would think they would suddenly become ace trade negotiators and be able to somehow prevent freedom of movement (which is a requisite of being in the European economic area). Are we bursting at the seams, or are people going over the top thanks to the role the media play in influencing people? Would it surprise you to know population growth in the 1960s was higher than it is now, did the country fall over then? Of course what I mentioned above is different to refugee migration, and people seem to mix the two together as if its the same thing - dealing with this is not a case of shutting the door, its about dealing with it at its source. Already most of the European continental countries are harbouring the majority, because they have nowhere else to go. Shut the door and the weight against that door just gets bigger and bigger until it goes bang and you are overwhelmed.

Flock off!

Search 'For Flocks Sake' on Facebook, guy on there does some great work and has done plenty of cars on the Celica forums. Very reasonably priced as well (£35 for my centre console I think he quoted).

Birthday wishes mate!

Oh ha ha

As you may have read on other threads the old girl took on the NC500 last weekend, and passed with flying colours drove absolutely faultlessly, started on the button every time and never dropped down on power. Very pleased and just blown away by how she did a good job of keeping up with many much newer more powerful cars. So as a reward she got a good clean and was treated to a new set of wheel nuts

Super thanks guys, MopedMark it was your recent post that has inspired me to have a go! Might even try it this weekend...

...some of the metal parts on my engine are looking a bit sorry for themselves, so thought about working back as much as I can to a smooth surface and painting them with VHT paint. Now, its going to be difficult use a spray because some parts are not easily accessible, has anyone tried using good old fashion paint with a brush on stuff? How have they found the experience, how did it look once done? I am hoping to put a nice gloss aluminium colour on.

Exactly what he said, this database if mined correctly would be worth millions, maybe billions of pounds. Imagine knowing the driving routes, stop offs, locations, routines, distances covered etc etc of every driver in the country, that is highly valuable data - wouldn't be surprised if its being sold to marketing companies as we speak...

GLWTS, you swap cars more often than me!

It's because the negativity in the Scottish referendum won through...so both sides playing on that now...for me the negativity isn't the issue, it's people so passionately in favour one way or the other based on reading the Sun newspaper which I find shocking. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

The content of most meetings are secret? We don't get a public dossier in the press each day about what Cameron says in his meetings each day?

Im going to make something up, share it on FB, wait for someone gullible enough to share it as the truth and watch it spread and be posted up on a forum as something believable that others are meant to take notice of. Seriously, crap like this that pops up on social sites...come on, we can do better than reading anything into that.