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It's Dappy I'm with Danny on this one, I quite like N-Dubz as well and not just 'cos I'd bang the snot out of the girl and I'm nigh-on 30 too. If you take the music for what it is, which is just a bit of fun and not to be taken seriously then it's actually pretty good. I saw them live at V this year and they were absolutely superb: Full of energy and with some quality backing musicians, so to write them off as chuff really isn't very fair.

Agreed, and knickers go on last so you can rip them off and still have the awesomeness that is the stockings + belt left on for sneakytimes.

If it's a 2003 car then it's got 276bhp. If it's a 2006 car with the nicer interior then it's got 296bhp.

First time I took a Zed coupe out they just threw me the keys and left me to it, second time they had to come out with me as it was a roadster and that made all the difference apparently...

A PlayStation first and foremost

Lollerskates

More than reasonable, glad you got it all sorted

I've got a Panasonic system too! Small world and all that. Mine's an SA-PT850, which suits my needs for now but I'm going to have to get a proper setup soon as the TV is just so much better than the audio at the moment.

This is another way of doing it (and indeed, is how I've got mine setup currently on my Sammy 7 series) if you don't have a decent enough surround system, but for £700 I'd be looking at something more high-end for better results. Agree with Fiddy about the Logitech remotes though, a mate of mine has one and it's a beautiful piece of kit. That said, it's attached to £15K worth of audio & visual equipment so it wanted to be pretty good!

By being very polite. Honestly, they're completely in the wrong to charge you much more than a couple of hours labour for this, so if they give you a bill for £200+ then I'd simply say that you don't feel you should, and what would they do if they were in your shoes? Truth is they sound like a decent place anyway if they were going to start chasing Nissan for you as you're only just out of warranty, so just be polite to them and I'm sure they'll do the right thing.

For that sort of money I'd be looking at an amp with 4 HDMI in as a minimum. Basically, you connect everything to the amp via HDMI and then output to the TV from the amp via HDMI: You won't be using the optical input/output at all. All the sound will come from the amp (to which you'll attach either 5.1 or 7.1 speakers) and switch sources on that. There's about a million different options out there, I'd start by perusing www.avforums.com and make your own mind up from there. Just a question though: Surely you only watch TV via Sky? There's no need to use terrestrial analogue signals if you've got something better (assuming you've got a Sky HD box here, of course).

Reading that and moving past the ZOMG NANNY STATE bullshit, it's no different to what happens now. If a child is thought to be at risk then someone has to be allowed access to view the accommodation they're living in, and all this new guidance (and that's all it is, guidance not law) will allow them to do is to pass comment over things like grates in front of gas fires, bottles of bleach kept in cupboards and not on the side etc, basically common sense stuff any decent parent will be doing anyway. If you live like a pikey in a shitty council house full of rubbish and crap that's blatantly a death trap for kids, then I'd want the appropriate services involved and doing all they can. Honestly, sometimes the Times is as bad as the Mail for this kind of thing. And to think people mock the Sun for crap journalism...!

Can you not just log in via the AOL homepage and access your emails there? That's what I do as I refuse to put any AOL bloatware on any PC I have to use.

They won't issue a new V5 there and then, but they will remove/add a number plate on the spot, is that the general consensus? That's how it's always been when I've done it.

Sadly I think you're right, which is very disappointing. I did it in a couple of days but made sure I took my time. I'll have another walkthough at some point this week, but the SP on MW2 isn't as involving as it was on MW1 which is a shame.

I played this on MP yesterday for the first time (not usually a fan of MP games tbh, but I was bored so thought I'd give it a go). My final result after the first game looked as follows: Kills: 2 Assists: 2 Deaths: 16 Yeah, so I'm not touching MP ever again. DO NOT WANT.

'07 could still be the revup model though so RE040s, but if you've already got RE050s on if the HR then I certainly wouldn't be changing to anything else.

Just a shame that money talks so much and that they're losing the Brawn branding. It would've been nice to at least have kept the team as Brawn Mercedes rather than just plain ol' Mercedes GP. Button and Hamilton in the same team would be disastrous IMHO. Have McLaren learnt nothing from when Alonso was there with Lewis?

Black ones. Definitely get the black ones.

You're kidding?! Ah man, that is a real PITA.

Ah well, I was close Been a while since I did mine, I must admit.

Straight away if you go to a DVLA office and do it there, putting the plate on retention is £80 IIRC.

Sorry, didn't mean it to come out like that, I just presumed that the only tyres you'd tried on the Zed were the ones you listed: I didn't realise you'd tried the good stuff on the car, I apologise for that. This is what I was getting at more than anything. The T1-Rs would suit something like an MX-5 very well, but you wouldn't necessarily put them on a higher performance car where levels of expected performance are that much greater. For instance, and to stretch the point somewhat, I'd see it as something like this: Nankang ditchfinders = Chuck 'em on a 107 or something. T1-Rs = Great for budget performance cars, like the MX-5. MPS/Eagle F1 Assy = 911 onwards would suit these very well. It's all about what you expect to find on a performance level from the tyre in comparison to what car it's on. The mk3 MR2 came with RE040s on as OEM and they were horribly vague, but on the 350Z (in the dry only) they were very good, so it would seem that those tyres work best with a bit of weight on them. Stock for stock, a Zed is capable of much more than an MX-5 which is why I would always go for a better tyre to make the most of that. If I were doing 20K miles a year in the Zed then possibly I wouldn't be running PS2s as that would prove an expensive way to go about it, but as I only do about 8K fun miles a year it makes sense for me to use something that allows the exploiting of the car's performance. Truth be told though there's only the perfect tyre for the individual and their own car, not one size fits all.

Good lord man, there's more than enough info on this thread never mind on the forum to be able to make an informed choice! If your budget stretches then the Vredesteins, if it doesn't then the T1-Rs would suit you but they're far from the 'acknowledged best tyres for the 350Z' you were asking for in your first post.

I ran T1-Rs on my VXR220 for a while, absolutely hated them. No feel, marginal grip compared to the chassis, and melted so very quickly on track. Changing back to the OEM A048s was the best thing I ever did on that car. On the Zed, out of the tyres you've tried I'd be sticking with the T1-Rs too, but they're still at the lower end of the quality spectrum even if you disregard price. If you ever get a chance to drive a car fitted with some proper quality rubber I can guarantee you'll be able to feel the difference instantly: I didn't expect the PS2s to be that much better than the RE040s, but they really are worth the extra.