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I’ve had to grind excess material from the non-friction material parts of pads before to get them to fit. It’s just manufacturing tolerances, nothing to worry about unless something really really doesn’t fit, or you feel that what you do to make it fit will cause a safety issue. Happens with genuine parts as well as pattern ones.

I’m making the most of having a great excuse for avoiding people I otherwise can’t

Well I’m bang on 40 so that’s me f*cked

We’ve had three confirmed cases at my place, I’ve been in direct contact with two of them and about 2/3 of my wing has/had symptoms. Yay!

Totally sarcastic post mate, just would be nice to see some of that gear in the prison too!

PPE? What’s PPE? Sounds fancy, like something they should have at our workplace too...

I did think that too, more than a hint of the Bmw-lite in there.

F*ck those mock ups by a bored student are ugly as sin. They’d be lucky to sell six if it looked anything like that. The baseball cap look is not a good one for cars.

Good call, forgot about that random one.

Also given the huge financial hit all car manufacturers are taking right now, I wouldn’t expect to see anything fun coming outside of the obvious any time soon.

So they need to make a car with an engine mated to a manual ‘box (where that engine currently isn’t offered with one that I know of if we’re hoping for the V6 twin Turbo Infiniti lump, happy to be proved wrong mind you) and for a price of about £40-43k. I cannot see it happening. Ever. Auto maybe, but still it’s pie in the sky and nothing more than wishful thinking.

Met him once, such a down to earth chap willing to talk about anything to do with cars and racing to absolute strangers. Will be sadly missed.

Dear god no.

Link???

That looks really smart, nice job mate

Bet the beaches are packed today. Me, I’ll be sat in the garden reading my kindle drinking pink wine, because I’m such a man.

I may well trust him, but his site is shockingly bad as it let’s complete idiots post reviews of tyres too and most are either just saying how wonderful a tyre is because they spent money on it, or how crap one is because it does what it’s designed to do (review of a MPSC2: “Pricey and really not worth the money.6 months and 20,000 kilometres and they are finished.Interesting I had equal wear over all 4 tires without rotation. Not so sure footed in the wet or in cold weather. Noisey, actually very noisy tires especially when wearing low to 4mm down to 2mm tree depth.10% increase in fuel consumption driving the same roads I have driven, same vehicle with previous tires that lasted 45,000 kilometres. No real sense of better anything really”. and that’s on a Ford Falcon Ute ffs! I mean what did they expect?!)

And I’ve already said before that my opinion differs from everyone else’s on the F1s of days gone by, so I’m not sure what point it is you’re trying to make? I’ve never said that my word on the subject is the definitive one, only that I pass my experience on in the hope it may guide folks. I’ve found all that I’ve tried to be a bit rubbish in terms of wet grip and certainly feel, but I do appreciate that’s not borne out by testing. Honestly, I can’t explain it. All I know is that they felt like they were trying to kill me, and that was on 4WD cars. Maybe they’re different on 2WD, I don’t know. It’s very odd.

Manual? No chance, it would be auto only as per the usage in other applications I strongly suspect.

Were the old Eagle F1s not their equivalent of the old MPSS? And of course, you should always take the advice of an expert over one guy on an Internet forum. Just my thoughts on it, nothing else.

Pretty sure the police pay tax.

And that’s the key, at what price all that engineering? Who’s going to buy a £50k 370, when they could get a Supra?

Not really, I’m going off personal previous experiences of their previous tyres of the same ilk. I think I said that everyone else finds them good in the wet, yet I found the feel and grip to be dreadful. That was across multiple years of F1s, so I don’t expect that to have radically changed. Seems fair enough to me, but I’m happy to try them and see if that’s still the case. Turtlewax is still sh*t though

This makes me feel like I’m losing my edge and getting old

Oh I know, but there have been many different revisions of the F1s and they’ve all been consistent in the wet handling IMHO that I wouldn’t expect Goodyear to suddenly throw all that away and go in a different direction.