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Congrats, you've just admitted to driving without due care and attention as well! Tbh fella I don't particularly care if you find my posts boring, but I do promise to stop once you stop posting such utter drivel and stop driving like a numpty. Had you slipped to 35 in a 30 then fair enough, no-one's perfect and it's easily done if you're trying to nip past a bike, but 45 is some way over and takes a fair bit of commitment to do, especially in said van. I'm no great fan of PCSOs either, as I'd rather have one proper policeman on the streets than 10 of the little Hitlers, but that's not really the point here. /rant

Exactly. Make the info as easy to find as possible so that it'll smack you right in the face upon a simple search and you won't need to dig through pages to find it.

If you want me to send you my spares shoot me a PM, I can always pop down and get myself some more. Goes for both of you, first come first served though

How long until the DBA discs turn up? Assuming you're not going to do 1000s of miles in it, nor 14 laps of the 'Ring, then it should be fine. Just be aware of it and avoid hard braking as much as possible, as you don't want to transfer the extra heat to other more fragile components, or run out of pad material completely. Pics of the new discs when fitted plz

Definitely the spade clips, as I lost a couple (well, broke!) some the other week fitting my bracing. Didn't come with the screws mind you, literally only got the spade clips for that price.

Noble will cost you a fortune, TVR will fall to bits, Exige S will be 95% as quick without the fear that it'll kill you everytime you stamp on the loud pedal. There's no doubt that the Noble is a thing of pure aggressive beauty, but could you really live with no boot? The footwell is tiny as well so if you've got medium to large feet forget it, and I'd definitely be looking at the servicing costs before picking out a car... The T350 is stunning but too fragile UNLESS you can get one that has had all the required rebuilding done to the engine, but even then I wouldn't touch one if you need a resemblance of reliability. The tendency to break down is very over-stated, but it's still 10x worse than anything else you could get. Exige S looks good, and has a very exploitable power band. It's relatively bullet-proof mechanically (I believe the oil surge issues on the early N/As was sorted for the S) and there is simply nothing in the world that drives as purely as an Elise or one the many derivatives. Well, IMHO anyway.

To be fair, they have said on their advert exactly what tyres the wheels come with, so whilst it's a crap set of sizes and unsuitable for the car it's not like Jo didn't know what was coming (although obviously wasn't aware of the potential issues). Not picking holes, just looking at it from the other side. Not entirely sure if there's any recourse here via distance selling regs and/or SOGA: You might have to just suck it up and consider it a lesson learnt. Would be a good idea to edit your first post with the company name, the eBay link, the sizes and everything else you can think of to aid in searches for others who may fall into the same troubles as you.

Not £10 each, just £1.40-something. I bought 6 for myself this week from Nissan themselves (Glyn Hopkin in Bishops Stortford), so that's definitely the right price.

Interesting, not a name I'd ever really considered. Good rates on the springs though, assuming they're linear. Looks like more money I'll be shelling out soon then...! Cheers for that Adam.

DO WANT Almost bought an early V8 before the Zed, just couldn't live with the potential for bills and unreliability. Would love to own a 350 Sport one day, though.

You're 2% undersized on the front and 5% undersized on the back. Switch to the stock 225/45/18F and 245/45/18R and it should sort itself out nicely.

Disconnect the wastegates on both turbos, means you can't go into boost and I'd leave it on the stock ECU to control the fuelling. It'll run pig rich but that's better than the alternative... Or you could be all sensible and hire a trailer for a day. Probably the better solution for the sake of £50.

What would be best for a 2006 roadster, running Michelin PS2s on the stock Rays, for someone not worried about how the car looks (i.e. major drop really isn't needed) but wanted less body roll without making the ride stupidly stiff? I've no intention of changing the shocks themselves, and the car will remain a 90% road/10% track car.

Flight Control and Bejewelled 2. These are the reasons to buy an iPhone. Oh yeah, and pr0n looks so much better on the iPhone screen than any other phone out there. Gets you some weird looks down the gym, mind.

Any idiot can drive in a straight line. I'd much rather be doing 30-60mph on windy roads than 140mph on a boring piece of road.

I've had both gens of the Ford Ranger, and for £4K you'd almost certainly be looking at the older version. We've still got our old one, and while it's been absolutely bulletproof (maintenance has been the bare minimum and less for over 100K miles!, it's survived a coming together with both a Transit and a thumping great lorry!) it's hardly the last word in comfort. Does what it does very well though, although I would agree that either the Hilux or the L200 are probably better buys at that price point.

That's alright then, I'm sure the magistrate would've totally understood had you actually been caught.

A Nano version would be rubbish, as the main attraction of the iPhone is the decent screen size. Any smaller and it'd be a waste of time. I believe there's an annual keynote speech planned for June anyway, so expect it to be announced then with a release in July, and regular stock to be around November time if it's popularity is anything like the 3G. You won't be breaking an existing 18month contract, they'll simply sign you up for another 18 months and charge you an extortionate upgrade fee if you only got the 3G within the last 6 months. Well, that's my guess anyway, but tbh if you've got a 3G I can't really see what the iPhone 3 will have that would entice you to upgrade anyway: Certainly the 3G didn't do that much over the 1G, hence I've still got my trusty 8GB one. The 3.0 firmware will be along in a few months, yes.

Agreed, but with the current proposals we'd end up with a two-tier system anyway, more or less the same result. I just hope that Ferrari, Toyota and Red Bull all pull out and others follow, and then we can watch Bernie's empire crumple around him. Horrible little man, he's only desperate for the money side of it all and cares not a jot about the actual racing. Let the teams decide what they want to do, not one crusty old git.

For once, I'm going to agree with Ferrari on this one. Does anyone really want to see a pikey version of F1, 'cos that's where it's headed with caps on spending, no refuelling etc. F1 always used to be about the pinnacle of motorsport engineering: Getting the car to go as quickly as possible, with the most grip and the most control. The last few years have seen the sport deviate from that, and I don't want to see cars with ridiculously strict limits imposed. If they want to save money like that, why not just give them all a bunch of road cars, a fresh £20 note each and a bucket of paint so we can tell them apart? I want an F1 that pushes the very boundaries of what is technically possible, not one that is governed by a rudimentary sum of money.

AE86 Corolla was RWD, as were early Starlets

It could technically void anything to do with the suspension components or anything attached to them, but they'd need to prove beyond doubt that the Eibach or TEIN stuff caused the damage. Seeing as how there's very little can go wrong anyway, it wouldn't stop me changing them over, just remember to tell your insurers.

Looks like a standard ISO connector to me, you should be able to get something from the 'net to go from the 350Z to ISO, however I'm not sure how that's all going to tie in with the Bose at all. It might be that Pioneer expect you to use a Pioneer stereo with it, and that whilst it's possible to tag it into a stock head unit, you'll need to start cutting and soldering to do it.

I don't disagree that it's as loud as Satan's arsehole after a night on the curry, but no way is it louder than even the stock stereo at level 20+.