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Ekona

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  1. Mass Effect Andromeda. Nothing else matters in the slightest. Also, I expect big things from Assassin's Creed 27 since they've had an extra year to do it. And if the Scorpio isn't the game changer it should be, with MS having learnt from the debacle of the original Xbone launch and the weakness of the PS4 Pro, then I'll be massively disappointed.
  2. You can always fab something up, might need to adjust the floor pan though (cut out any humps etc) so you can get proper flat.
  3. Ekona

    MOT time.

    Go to Halfords, Kwik Fit, or simply stay with the car on that case.
  4. Bucket seats normally sit higher than OEM, unless you get custom mounts or bolt direct to the floor pan. I'd have said that adjusting your position is the way to go. The 350 seats do go pretty low, and can enable an excellent (and correct) poisition. You say they're not comfy, that could be due to a poor position you've got them set to. If you change it and accept it may feel odd for a while, you could be much better off long term. Drop the seat as low as possible, get your legs so that you can fully depress the clutch without locking your leg, then adjust the backrest so that when your arms are stretched, your wrists rest on the steering wheel. That should be perfect, albeit it does feel odd at first! Of course, I may be teaching you to suck eggs and you've done this, in which case it's custom mounts for you sir
  5. Ekona

    MOT time.

    It's just an MOT. Take it to the local family run garage, chuck a bit of business to your local area.
  6. Just remove the airbags themselves, easy. No point carrying weight you don't need.
  7. Yup, it's a crock. Go and stay gone.
  8. Ekona

    Aftermarket Seats

    Make the trip. 3 hours is nothing, you're going to spend 1000x that in driving time so you have to know they'll fit perfectly and be comfortable. I highly recommend GSM, they were super helpful when I took the 2.5hr trip to see them. I tried every seat, moved them around in the showroom, pulled apart the seat bases to try different ones etc. Massively worth the trip.
  9. Some do, some don't. My insurance went down after my accident a few years back, and again this year after the lorry driver ran over the BMW in April. So if you take your car for a service, and the garage snaps the exhaust hanger by accident, and they then replace it for you, do you have to notify then? What about if they drop a spanner and have to get the wing resprayed? Where do you draw the line? I think if you look at it that way, you can see that it would be unrealistic to have to notify your insurer if a company damages your property.
  10. Didn't even know you could still get the original Cups!
  11. Your car is crying inside because you've not driven it enough
  12. I didn't even read Blyton, I only saw the airfield one old age, dodgy eyes etc.
  13. It's not a claim (not his policy), not an accident (obvs), and not loss (he's not out of pocket or lost anything). It was damage that occurred when the car was being worked on by someone else. It's their liability, nowt to do with the OP. If a tradesman damages a counter top when installing your washing machine, do you declare it to your home contents insurer? How about if someone damages your watch when servicing it, and they replace the glass? Contents again? Nope. I know you work in the industry bud so I'm not trying to teach you to suck eggs, but in no way would that affect his insurance at all. 100% wouldn't need to declare, that just wouldn't make sense. The car wasn't his responsibility when the damage happened.
  14. I've been playing Watch Dogs 2 (superb commentary on modern life as well as a great sandbox), but even better was System Shock 2. £1.74 on Steam, 17 years old, and utterly brilliant. If you've never played it, you really must. The story holds up incredibly well, and even the graphics & controls are on the acceptable side of old school. This must've been terrifying to play when it first came out, and if ever a game was ripe for remake you'd hope it was this. Seriously, it's a couple of quid, what have you got to lose?
  15. I'm only jealous because my savings amount to half of bugger all as I keep spunking it on cars and guitars
  16. Interest on savings? That'd be nice... Not even worth it imho. Better off putting it into something worthwhile (like property or supercar) if you've got a six figure sum, or keeping it at close hand on instant retrieval should rates go negative. IANAFA etc.
  17. It was fairly foggy here today, but the amount of idiots who decided that they needed their rear fogs on when travelling at 70mph and when there's a car directly behind them beggared belief. Blinding others just for the sake of being too lazy/ignorant to not flick a switch. Front fogs are no brighter than headlights, so you don't need them to let others see you, you just need headlights on. Rear fogs are to let others behind you know you're there, but if they're behind you and close enough you can clearly see their headlights, you can turn rear fogs off. It's just needlessly dazzling otherwise, like the berks who sit with their foot on the brake at night at red lights. Shoot them. Shoot them all.
  18. No, not his insurer, the garage's liability insurance. It won't affect his insurance in the slightest, no need to inform them at all.
  19. Note your (their) claim is with the garage, not the cleaners. That's very clear, no matter what they say.
  20. Not a police matter, it's purely civil. The easy answer is to speak to the garage and tell them that they've put the wrong window back in, supply proof of pics if needed. If they refuse to help, look for their insurance policy that legally has to be displayed and contact their insurers and claim through them. Trust me, when they see you going to do that they'll put it right.
  21. Ekona

    275/40/18 good wet tyre

    Yup, budget nonsense. Okay, so there are a couple of Kumhos that are okay for lighter cars, but not for the Zed. MPSS or ContiSC5/6 would get my vote for wet weather importance.
  22. Was that not the second Death Star in ROTJ?
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