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I would agree with the latter. I've zero experience in these things at all but as a plumber I have a working knowledge of fluids and pressures/flow rates, and by fitting a regulator (a kind of pressure reducing valve) to the flow before the fuel rail then yes, you're limiting the flow across both rails and the return line to the tank to whatever you set the valve to. That makes sense to me.

In all seriousness though, I'm not entirely comfortable with major engineering works of this scale going on directly below a site of such historical importance. I'm hardly a tree hugging hippy, but this makes me quite uncomfortable. It's like putting a motorway on a big bridge over a National Park. To paraphrase the great Dr Ian Malcolm, just because you can doesn't mean you should.

Truth is that if you're not happy with the Ts&Cs, then go somewhere else. Insure what you want to protect, don't just do the bare minimum and then wonder why everything goes tits up when you need to claim.

Nice one, ta. It all comes down to reasonableness. Is it reasonable to know what are options on a new car? Yes, of course. On a ten year old one, and especially if you're not a car nut? Doubtful. Same with mods: Doris the pensioner might not be expected to know if those wheels aren't stock, but an active member of a car club certainly would be.

In fairness Admiral group are very clear about mentioning factory options in their paperwork, I remember when I was insured with them that that bit stuck out. Got a link to the thread Rich?

Yeah, it's not like you put it on the internet for every one to see, is it? Adding named drivers is fine, even if they never drive it. Not declaring mods is idiotic in the extreme, you might as well not bother insuring it at all.

I don't think you understand how sex works if you believe that a vagina goes inside a condom

Just bulldoze the whole lot, only a few bits of rock and you could put a decent sized housing estate there.

I wouldn't be eating potato products out of a johnny.

Until they make it 30mph with SPECS, of course.

No, you've missed my point: It's not the cost of the parts of the individual car you're insuring, it's the cost of ALL the cars that the company insures. The 3 series is seriously popular and seriously expensive to repair, Audis the same, and even Fords are no longer a cheap fix. Doesn't matter what you drive, it matters what other people are crashing.

458 is cheaper for me to insure than the BMW is 😂

Wouldn't worry about it in the slightest. All rolling roads use clever calculations and guesswork to get to the figure you see there, so really the only thing they're particularly useful for is before/after comparisons when you've done various things to the car. Outside of that, they're an interesting curiosity. Put it this way, if you really are that far down on power, you'd have plenty of other symptoms to be noticing!

You're kidding, they're the comfiest things in the world! I happen to be wearing a rather fetching grey pair as we speak.

Another thing affecting insurance prices, and probably more so than uninsured drivers and personal injury claims, is that cars are just so damn expensive to repair now. A few years back a bumper was £300, a spray job £200, a light cluster £400. Now the bumper costs £2000 because it has parking sensors, the paint alone costs £800 to buy, and a bi-xenon headlight with fancy LEDs in it is the best part of £1000. That just adds up so, so quickly.

If you're running GG 888s, then they're nowhere near alike in compound. Have you ever tried a matching set of either?

Don't mix tyres, especially when using trackday specials as you're playing with much finer margins at the limits (and it you're not running them to the limits, there's no point in them ). With such wide wheels, I'd suggest you're limited to running either the 888Rs all round or looking at the MPSC2s.

Oops. Best buy a new one then. No way I'd be happy with that, if it pops off you're going to lose the contents very quickly then bye-bye engine.

Almost certainly postcode then, which is the one thing you can't really do anything about

Insurance tax went up in October which doesn't help, so everyone will be/would have seen a rise anyway. It could just be that your car has been reclassified and is now statistically worse or parts are much harder to come by, or there's been significantly more crime in your postcode, or anything really. I'd suggest it's the car or the postcode rather than you, if every insurer is coming up the same. Tried it with a different car, just for giggles?

That's awesome Craig

Who was that with though? I wonder if they've adjusted their insurers list, as they seem to be far more reasonable for many people in the last few months. No chance in hell I'd be paying £700 to insure an ST170, much less £1300!

That doesn't seem to rhyme quite as well as mine though

They would be fine if it was three straight lines, it's the fact it tries to say Z when it actually ends up saying S on one side that makes them awful. IMHO, before anyone else starts.

Very different driving experiences, only you will know what you prefer. A turbo spinning may seem like winning, but life is great with a V8