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Really? W is rated for 168mph. Now, I don't know the OP's car in detail, but I'm fairly confident in saying that it won't be doing 168mph any time soon Those tyres will be fine. Well, they're utter cheapy garbage so will be horrible, but there's no other reason you shouldn't be able to run them if you want to.

I think you're over-worrying about this. Buy some decent ones (i.e. not ones made up by your mate in a shed), fit them correctly, check after a week, then don't worry about them again.

Supernatural, if you can stump up the cost. Goes on easier, buffs off easier, gives a better finish.

I wouldn't have said anything. Yes, he's being a bit inconsiderate, but not all of us are car nuts and it is only a bit of sawdust: Cement dust I'd have been far more annoyed at. We too have issues with neighbours blocking us in and generally being arses by making noise and stuff, but we let it go as they take parcels for us when we're out and we take their driveway when we have friends with nice cars round. Give and take really, not worth starting a huge argument over it. If you think he's still pi**ed off then take a four-pack round, have a laugh and a joke about it and he'll probably be a bit more thoughtful next time seeing as how you're now his mate.

I wouldn't check them at all tbh. I would've checked them when they were first put on, and I would've checked them a week later, and then I'd check them every six months or so or whenever I had the wheels off. Stuff I'd be checking for trackdays would be fluids, tyre pressures, brake pads etc.

Our entire company is on O2, so it does effect us directly. Again though, if it was absolutely that dire a need you'd have a back-up plan, but if not you just work round it. Wasn't directly digging at you Lee, it just so happened that yours was the last post before I posted. I'd already decided what I was going to write back on page 2 after catching up this morning!

I would check them for normal road driving, and wouldn't do anything over that regardless if I was tracking the car or not. If they come with a torque setting then they should've been done up to that originally, otherwise I'd just use the same setting as the wheel nuts (100ft/lbs IIRC, but check the manual as I could be wrong!).

I don't get why people are making such a huge fuss of this. How many days consecutively have we had perfect O2 coverage/reception (location variables excluded)? I can't remember the last time it went down, and it's not like they're just sitting around scratching their balls wondering what to do. I bet the engineers are working some serious overtime to get it sorted, and their customer service have been pretty open and up front about the problem. Sure, for some it's an inconvenience, but it's not the end of the world. You've probably lost more days of O2 service in the last 10 years because you've run out of battery than over this minor issue. And yes, mine too is no longer working this morning. Nice quiet day for me!

The accepted plural is "roofs". The plural of roof is roofs or rooves The Oxford English Dictionary lists "rooves" as an alternate, one of several outdated spellings used in the UK, and in New England as late as the 19th century Thanks for the advice all the same. So the accepted plural is roofs, but you still used rooves?

That's because the 452s are only marginally better in the wet than the 040s, and they're both not really suitable for the Zed and this is what happens when you mix tyres. Oh come one, this has been going for pages now and that's the first time I've mentioned anything! Hope it gets sorted out soon fella, I think you took it quite well considering but please don't underestimate how important it is to have matching tyres all round.

Exactly. How would you like them to test it? 9 miles is nothing, gives the car a decent shakedown too.

That's pretty good for a set of tyres on the Zed. I quite like it when a garage takes my car out for a bit to make sure there's no problems, but that's just me. Also there's no point resetting the odometer as they can just reset it again after they've driven it, you need to be writing down the actual mileage.

Have you checked the oil level yet?! Yes, you need 5w-30 diesel oil, although tbh anything around those numbers will suffice.

It'll be fine. Also, roofs.

Mine's a 4S and is perfect

*head explodes from too many double entendres*

Trouble is, those tyre review sites assume that everyone who leaves a review has much of a clue what they're talking about, and also that people will actually slag off something they paid good money for. Which they don't, and they won't. The 50As are a superb tyre. Did you know that the Ferrari Enzo had them as OEM tyres? I didn't, until yesterday.

Mine's fine.

They would've been RE040s unless it's a HR car, in which case it would have been RE050As. HTH

That's very similar to GF William's style of photo

I hate to say it, but this is the downside to owning a silver car. It's very easy to keep looking clean, but you'll never be able to get a really deep gloss look to the paint as the colour just blends it all away. I wouldn't bother spending any big money on it, as you'll never achieve the look you're after that you could get on a black or a red.

Doesn't sound good mate, best of luck to you though and I hope it's an easy fix

See, this is why you should always watch the F1 on Sky, you'd all have seen this when it was first shown then

I judge on what I see, like every single other person on the planet. Hence, Alcocko,

So the same way the rest of the nation views Alcocko then