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Could be worse, it could've been in Scotland!

When I did VMax in my 911 (which wasn't anywhere near as quick as yours!) I nearly shat myself when I hit even 150mph for the first time, and I had to force myself to keep my foot buried to get to the 176mph that I eventually topped out at. By the end of the day it felt natural, but I am impressed by the guys who plough on through the double-ton and just keep going...

It does work, cheers dude

Honestly? Not really. You could try as not fit for purpose, but it would be 50/50 all the way to judgement and I certainly wouldn't take the punt. I'd be sucking up to AS first of all and then getting more irate if they did nothing, but really that's just life. Bodge it up and move on with life

Pfft, he only got caught at 156mph, probably hitting the brakes at that point

If you want to raise and lower at will, then you’ll need either a proper hydraulic lifting kit or air suspension. Even regular adjustable suspension will take you a fair while to change ride heights. As for a more planted feel have you done a proper geo, what tyres are you running and are you on stock roll bars? Also are we talking low speed or high speed corners?

Oh him! Why didn’t you say so, everyone knows he knows his onions! We’d neber have questioned it had you said it was him!

The only oil I don’t use is Magnatec, as I’ve seen first hand how thin it goes when warm. Nowadays I’ll use whatever is on offer at ECP in my cars, and change it every six months. If there was a budget tyre that performed identical to an MPS4, then why wouldn’t I buy it? I’d buy any tyre that was excellent and suited the car in question, which is why the Scoob runs RE070 and the Omega some cheaply nonsense tyres. Brake pads, tyres, seats etc: these all have physical properties I can tell the difference in quite easily when driving. I’m sure I could tell a car on stale fuel over fresh fuel, but between Tesco and Shell? Nope, I’ve never ever been able to tell and as said above, I doubt 99% of people ever would be able to on a blind test.

I view it as eating supermarket crisps over posh crisps: Sure, one may taste better depending on how you feel that day, but neither is going to keep you alive for longer over a billion other variables. Mmmmm crisps...

Tbh you would hope they do, given the amount of different places that things can come from and the nasties they could potentially bring with them. Seems eminently sensible to me. And tbh the pallet issue a non-thing, all they'll do is draft a statement saying that all pallets from the UK currently or will meet the EU regs, so nothing will change at all. Much like everything else to do with Brexit, it'll all carry on just the same as before.

I’m never using whatever garage you use for work

Just don’t speed where there’s likely to be cameras or the police. It’s pointless tbh. A generic satnav app on a smartphone will show you where the fixed cameras are, and that device won’t tell you about mobile ones until they’re already targeting you and have your speed. Honestly, they’re a waste of money when common sense and the mk1 eyeball do a better job.

Every other interaction you have with your car will make more of a difference than whether you use supermarket or premium fuel. As long as it meets the correct standard (95 or 97+), then it’ll be fine. V-Power, BP Ultimate etc have been around an awful long time now, and yet we’re still having these conversations. If they were that much better then we’d be seeing pics and vids and scientific papers all over the place showing this off as 100% fact. That we don’t screams volumes to me, especially in the social media age. I don’t doubt that the effort involved into the premium additives makes the end product slightly better, but I see little point in paying that much more for a 0.05%* improvement. *made up number, obvs.

Linky no worky.

I did

You still need to define what one is, there’s no getting around that and tbh it’s nigh-on impossible to do much less obtain convictions based on it. Look how long certain hate preachers have been able to get away with things, it’s because the law had to be specific to not punish the innocent. Sinn Fein have been getting away with it for years...

And how do you define a terrorist regime? And who decides? If you say it's any group that states openly they want to kill all people in a country, well we've already got laws against that so it's pointless. If you say it's any group that says they want to bring down a government, whoops suddenly all members of the opposition are guilty. If you say it's any person that says they want to bomb somewhere and kills loads of innocent people, well suddenly you've just criminalised most people who share a Britain First post on FB. Granted, that last one may not be so bad... But you can see the point of how hard it is to draft something like that. Ultimately the laws we do have now aren't that bad, and really we have to accept that as a civilised society sometimes we're going to have to wait for people to actually be in this country and do something against the laws we do have instead of trying to create new laws that could criminalise the innocent. You fund the security services correctly and hope they do a good job, and accept that life isn't always perfect. Small comfort if someone you love is killed by a terrorist I know, and it's only natural that rage and anger would change a person's viewpoint if that happened. I'm not saying it's the right answer, or the only one, but that's how I see things right now.

Have you ever been to prison? Because I can promise you it’s not somewhere any sane person is happy to spend any time.

Mate you don’t get to move into Buck Palace if Liz gets kicked out, soz

The trouble with radicalisation laws is that it’s very hard to write them to make it easy to prosecute, but without tarring too many people with the same brush and removing freedom of speech. That in turn means that they’re too narrow and actually gaining a conviction under them is difficult.

Which is why she should stay where she is for now. Doesn’t mean we can’t try and reach out to her at least, as decent human beings.

Plenty of 15 year olds make huge mistakes when they’re that age believing 100% they’re doing the right thing, gang culture immediately springs to mind with all the violent crime and murders that go with that. Give it ten years when they’ve actually grown up and come to realise just how stupid and naive they were back then, and they’re horrified with themselves. Could the same not possibly be true here?

That’s an aftermarket jobby, I’ve never seen those before so god knows where you’d get one from. @Adrian@TORQEN? @Tarmac@TarmacSportz?

So if it’s just a matter of risk, why do we not lock up for life anyone committed of any crime? Or deport anyone who commits any crime? If she has been an adult when she’d gone to Syria then no, I don’t think there should be any conversation about her coming back. The fact she was a child and thus had been radicalised at a young age means I believe there should be conversations and interviews at the very least, not a blanket no. Like I said, if she is still a risk and there’s no likelihood of rehabilitation then leave her there, but if we can help her we should. As for speeding, my issue is with people doing it in silly places where the cameras and police sit thus contributing to more enforcement. That’s why I have a go at them: I really don’t care if they do it on the fun roads where no-one gets caught

Given my current job, I do believe that the vast majority of people are capable of rehabilitation. 15 is a child, some may be more mature than others, but they’re just kids. Anyone could have a car accident and kill someone, so I’m not going down that argument. Doesn’t make them terrible people. Don’t get me wrong, if she is completely unrepentant and still holds true to the Daesh principles then of course she should not be allowed back, but if there’s a chance that we can rehabilitate someone who was corrupted at a young age then should we not try and do that? With regards to the Bulger killers, one has remained free from crime and as far as we know is living a normal life. The other is still behind bars, as he clearly is a danger to children. This kinda proves both arguments really, that some can be rehabilitated and some can’t.