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No issues with that at all. Looks perfectly normal and doesn't really try too hard to spell anything: If I didn't know any better I'd say that probably LDS are your initials. Go for it

That doesn't mean he has to inflict it on the rest of us

A set of Ditchfinders all round is still better than mixing tyres front and rear I'd love to pick up a set of these crappy things and run them on track with the intention of just killing them, I can imagine I'd probably have just as much fun as when on gripper rubber.

As I already said

Sooooo... The front looks like a snow plough The rear looks like it's not been finished The wheels look horribly cheap The interior has a stuck-on lump of grey plastic on the console The boot is full of crap so you can't use it The bonnet looks fine I think that just about covers it. Shame PH screwed the price up for him, as at £15.95 I think it's probably worth a punt. Just.

Price vs grip & wear level. On something cheaper like, say, an MX-5 they'd be a bit higher up the range, but on something as powerful as the Zed they're definitely on the budget side. They last for ages, they have average grip in the dry and above average in the wet, but they melt like anything if you start putting serious heat into them. Just my opinion mind, but when you've got a car costing £30K new I wouldn't be putting cheap rubber on it as you'll distort the performance available. Nissan almost got it right with the RE040s (dry grip on those far exceeds the T1-Rs), it's just a shame they're so useless in the wet which is why they made the RE050A OEM on the HR models.

My last three companies didn't give a hoot either way. One of them didn't even care if you had 6pts, but would rape your face off once you got to 9pts.

If you want the best then you need to be prepared for the cost Personally I think they're worth every penny, and given that the tyres are the only thing in contact with the road why scrimp on them? That said, if you really can't afford them then try the Vredesteins (the RE050As will be about the same as the MPS2s).

You're after Michelin Pilot Sport 2 tyres, and if you can I'd get them from the interweb and have a local place fit. You should expect to pay anywhere between £700 - £900 for all four, and you want 225/45/18 on the front and 245/45/18 on the back, assuming yours is a UK car.

I'd do the same, but you do realise that your insurance won't go up at all even if you did have 3pts for an SP30? Well, if it does then I'd be moving companies very quickly, as most don't give a damn any more.

Then I'd go for the MPS2, if you can. They're a billion times better than T1-Rs in the wet, and about a hundred times better in the dry. Not cheap, but if you really want the best then that's what I'd go for. Alternatively the Vredesteins mentioned earlier in the thread would be my close second choice, followed by the Bridgestone RE050As. Don't bother with the Toyos or Falkens, they're good for the money but they're still just budget tyres for a car like the Zed.

And this is why the car simply isn't the performance bargain it so desperately wants to be. That is utterly ridiculous money for that little lot.

Utterly, utterly fantastic site. Chavvy plates are one of my pet hates, and that site just about has them all (I recognise a few from round my way!). Top find, you're my new forum hero

Ah, gotcha. All the detail will be on there matey

Have you actually received the NIP then? Should tell you on there what you're getting, which at 7mph over the limit in a 30 will be £60 and 3pts.

A Gatso camera can only get you from behind. A Truvelo (or copper in a van) or SPECS average camera can have you from the front.

CS4 installed on mine perfectly. Legit copy? 32 or 64 version? No other programs running at the same time?

Very nice

I really, really want to do an LS2/LS3 swap on the Zed. I reckon it can be done all-in for under £10K easy, which compares pretty favourably with an FI solution on the stock engine. 400+ NA ponies plus that noise? Yes please!

Really? Wow, doesn't look that bad from the photo, guess I got that a bit wrong then! Hey, each to their own, I can see why some people are bothered but it doesn't even cross my mind when on track. That said, I can run pretty fast when I want to so heaven help anyone who smacks into me!

Don't bother. With all due respect to Greekman (and I think he's even said that it was totally his own fault), if you drive within your limits then you won't ever have an issue due to anything you've done, and if the problem comes from around you (i.e. people driving like tits) then either stay well clear or, even better, report them to the TDO on the day who should sort it. If they don't, then at least you know not to spend your money there again. That said, if you can get it built into your main policy when you take it out then go for it. I'm with Richard Egger mainly because they gave a great price and don't care at all about mods, but having trackday cover added in is a nice bonus. As Darren says though, the excess is going to be at least 10% of the cost of the vehicle, and you'd have to be doing something really stupid to cause that much damage to your car in the first place. For all the damage that Greekman did, it's not £2000 worth there so even if he'd had cover (he may have done, I don't know) it still wouldn't have helped him. I didn't even bother with it when I had the VXR220 despite each clam costing £2500 to replace as it simply wasn't cost-effective.

As far as ditching that bastard piece of 'software' that is Norton goes, try Avast. It does everything you need it to do and is very unobtrusive, as well as using about a tenth of the memory that Norton wants. Get the home version for free mind, not the Pro version unless you really want to make use of the extra bits. Others are Sophos (as mentioned) and AVG, or anything apart from Norton or McAfee.

Norton is made of fail and AIDS. Horrible piece of bloatware. But yeah, Win7 is a great improvement over Vista in terms of how it structures things on the desktop, but it's not really any different underneath. Few tweaks here and there sure, but it's still Windows. Plus I'm still bitter that Vista worked first time for me, but with Win7 I had to spend 6 hours trying a billion different drivers for my 9800GTX before the stupid thing would work out the resolution for my monitor

I don't think it's too sensitive for spirited driving at all, as if you drive the car neatly then it never kicks in (even on track, a tidy line doesn't set it off). The times when it is far too intrusive is when trying to make a sharp exit from a junction, or even booting it in a straight line in the shift from 1st to 2nd. I'm not saying your driving isn't neat and tidy as the quickest line through a corner is with a degree of slip as I'm sure you know, but that's not something I particularly want to do on the road anyway. I've confidence in my own ability and confidence in the car, but it's the surface on the road that I don't trust and that's why I wouldn't try and take a corner like that. Each to their own and all that.

If you've got matching tyres of the appropriate depths, and everything else is mechanically fine and you're still lighting that little light up, then you're driving the car wrong/badly. The Zed isn't the first car to be built with a big engine up front and power at the back, and people managed for years perfectly fine before ESP was ever invented with far worse chassis/tyre combinations, so if you're driving correctly for the conditions then there should be either no need to have it on at all or at least ever see the light on. Relying on it to save you should something go wrong because of a poor driving style is a seriously worrying trend IMHO.