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Alcohol is a drug. Tobacco is a drug. Caffeine is a drug. People use these every day without major effects for the most part. There's nothing I've particularly got against drug use in general, except when it takes over someone's life and they become unable to function as a civilised person in society. For one person the odd line of coke at the weekend may make no difference to them at all, whereas for someone else those couple of lines could become a habit that continues during the week. Each to their own, and if someone is capable of keeping their drug habit (legal or not) in check then I've no problem with that at all.

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Halfrauds ones are fine, or the ones you can get at the ferry ports.

Sounds like a badge engineering exercise to me more than anything. Stick Red Bull logo on back + stiffen springs by 10% + remap for 10bhp = RBR Special Edition. Cynical? Moi?!

But the handling is much improved and more predictable now you have matching tyres, yes? *walks away whistling nonchalantly*

So they're old, then? Maybe they're hard of hearing which is why the TV is on loud? That's hardly going to be grounds for a legal complaint of any kind. Any kind of retaliation by making more noise really isn't going to help matters. GO AND TALK TO THEM LIKE A CIVILISED HUMAN BEING. If they're still arseholes after that than you can start thinking about other methods, but until you've done that then you're as bad as them.

Never, ever buy a car with flood damage unless you're prepared to write the entire cost of the car off and/or have an unlimited budget to replace everything electrically. Leave it alone, that's really not the bargain it first seems.

One of the best races I've seen for years When Lewis drives like that you cannot take your eyes off him. They even did the impossible and make me warm to Alcocko when he was doing his card trick

Go and talk to them like a grown-up should be the first thing. They may not even realise that the walls are that thin. My next door neighbours are a bit noisy (especially their dog!) but they take my parcels for me and don't complain when I crank the volume when watching a film once a week or so, so it evens itself out.

Financially she may have been a winner, but she's also possibly the biggest loser I can think of. I'll miss her only only in the sense that she was prime joke material, but other than that I couldn't give a rats ass about her. She had a million chances to sort herself out, and addictive personality or not every addict will have the occasional moment of clarity in which they want to seek help. She gave it a half-arsed attempt more than once but couldn't be bothered with it, so she has absolutely no sympathy from me. Utter waster

Bloody hell mate, glad to hear you're okay! I'd expect a bill. Friend of mine did almost the same thing as you on the A1, got a bill through the post for Armco replacement. I doubt the police will want any further involvement. What car were you in btw?

Sheddon was in a FWD car I'm guessing? Genuine question, I don't follow BTCC. If that's the case, I suspect he was gambling on the drying conditions allowing him to get more grip on the front with all the weight, but he was still wary of the conditions and knew that a loose rear end would cost him more than understeer at the front. It's a huge gamble, but in race conditions like that it's occasionally worth a punt if you've nothing to lose and are a genuinely talented driver. As you say, not really a risk you'd ever want to make on the road or on a track day.

Read the contract you signed for the work. It will state whether the contract was with the individual franchise (which I suspect it will be) or with the franchise as a whole.

I grab the mitt after I've cleaned the rest of the car, one last dunk in the bucket and quick wipe over.

If it has an aftermarket exhaust, possibly. You'll need to declare this to your insurers too.

Does it have one or two intakes in the engine bay? One intake is 296bhp, two intakes is 309bhp

So it's harder to navigate, with almost unreadable text, icons designed by a 5 year old, and you think that's an improvement? I know people knock Apple for playing it safe sometimes, but there's a very good reason for that too: Their design philosophy is practically unrivalled by anyone in the world. Sorry fella, I don't mean to come across so negative and I totally understood why people used to jailbreak the older phones (although I was never brave enough myself), but that looks like a good step backwards to me.

Christ on a bike, thats a real mess mate! So what does it do now that a normal 4 can't, or won't be able to after the new iOS is out soon?

Awful news, I hope you find something soon buddy.

That's the phrase I was looking for earlier! I googled for it and everything but couldn't remember what the correct term was, so chickened out with just 'vision' I already do the kerb-looking in corners to watch for the road tightening or unwinding (helps on track something chronic), it's the longer vision on normal roads that I suck at. Still, I'd rather admit that I'm not perfect and learn than assume I'm awesome and carry on regardless I guess.

Couple of little things I wanted to add to this after someone mentioned them to me in passing the other day with regards to driving... When overtaking, never pull back in until you can see the car in your rear view mirror. Now I'm pretty good at leaving space anyway but for the last week I've been using this technique on the motorways instead, and I have to say that it's utterly fool proof. Once you can see the car is behind you, the gap you leave when pulling back in is perfect and almost 100% prevents any coming together of the two vehicles. Looking as far down the road as you can. This is my personal biggest flaw as a driver as I tend to look only a short distance past the bonnet which can mean for a staccato drive at times, but if you force yourself to look as far down the road as you can see you'll find that your vision will automatically pick up what's happening immediately around you, and you'll naturally start to leave that crucial 2-second gap which allows for your planning time to increase. It feels horrible at first, but the more I do it the more benefit I'm getting from it and hopefully it'll come more naturally with time. Just thought I'd share.

Working on high-pressure, large-bore water supplies day in day out, it scares the hell out of me when people take liberties with it. That video is a great albeit scary example of just how vicious it can be.

Great news, might make Trulli up his game a bit when he gets his car back with improved power steering in Hungary. Karun seems a really nice bloke, will be interesting to see how well he does in the Lotus against the other smaller teams.

I suspect it was pure coincidence, but it won't hurt to be a bit careful when plugging the D1 controller back in though. There's no reason at all why it should drain more power from the battery, but even so...

Sounds like the battery to me. When you say it's showing green, do you have a tester available? IIRC the volt counter in the dash should show 12 or more if the battery is charged, or at least that was the case for me in mine.