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Your insurer will ask you if you have had any accidents or claims in the last 5 years. They don't care what you were driving, where you were driving or even if you were driving at the time, but you must answer the question honestly. Even if you didn't go near a claim, you'd still have to declare the accident.

Your gfx card is a 9300GS, it's shown under the Video Graphics heading. It's also completely rubbish, you'll need something with far more clout to run the latest F1 game. Like an Xbox.

Japanese tax or MOT thing isn't it?

Thanks for all the replys guys just wanted to get some general opinions on to have or not! drls sound the best option imo. Z If you're worried about being seen in the daylight, then put your headlights on. That's all DRLs are for, visibility.

In 12 years of driving, I've only ever needed front fogs once, and even then the fog was so thick it made almost no difference. It would be better if no manufacturers fitted them to cars over here, then muppets wouldn't be tempted to either use them as DRLs, forgetting to turn them off or more usually just putting them on when they're completely unnecessary.

Added you to the list Jason

Sounds okay to me on a cold engine. Your old oil was probably either well worn and thin, or there wasn't much of it left. As long as it's not off the scale at either end it'll be fine.

Lols, that's awesome Stew!

HE LIVES!!!!11

Because most normal people give up early on, so they don't have to try and explain their entire business strategy to you!

I don't understand why you're upset. This doesn't effect your existing policy in the slightest, they're just changing their customer base is all. To be fair that's how they used to be, competition car specific, until they started branching out. Just because they want to change their demographic doesn't mean that it effects you at all, just take your business elsewhere. It happens a lot right now, especially amongst Elise owners who are finding that, upon renewal, their insurer won't even offer a quote.

CCI, much like REIS, are narrowing down what they will insure from now on: Whether that's due to their insurers or a general thing I don't know, but sounds reasonable. If they go specialised then they can probably get cheaper rates for clients rather than trying to capture all and sundry. They're not saying that your current policy is invalid, only that they won't take on any new business under that scheme. Why would they lie to you?

If I can't find an empty corner, I'll either try and find a car of the same make and model to park next to (working on the theory of camaraderie) or I'll park next to something very expensive (working on the theory of it costing them more to fix theirs than to fix mine). Costco have the greatest parking spaces in the whole of the UK. Proper US-style ones as mentioned above.

Get hold of the manual and have a read if you don't already have a copy.

Just change your forum time setting when the clocks change. No point the admins changing the time here as that would effect people who read the forum in other parts of the world where the time doesn't change.

First make it stop Then make it handle Then make it go It's an old mantra but still holds true and gives the best results for the smallest outlay.

FI on a 350Z is throwing money down the drain. With a lot of those cars you'd lose precious little money on them, and unless you are 100% sure that the car is a keeper then I wouldn't go down that route. As you say, there's a lot to be said for the thrill of owning something different. Would running two cars be an option? I'm thinking something like a TVR Chim or Griff and a decent barge to go alongside one.

Basically this: 996 NA cars: M96 engine 996 Turbo: Mezger 996 GT3: Mezger 997.1 NA: M97 engine 997.2 NA: MA101 997.1 Turbo: Mezger 997.2 Turbo: MA101 (may actually be MA102 in designation, can't remember!) 997.1 & 2 GT3: Mezger All M96/M97 cars have the potential for the IMS issues, but none of the Mezger and MA101 engined cars do as it's a radically different design (the Mezger engine is very old in basic design, the MA101 bang up to date). In essence, it's a very big reason why I sought out the later 997 cars rather than save a packet buying an early 997. I didn't really fancy a 996 at the time and the 997.1 tubbys were still out of reach. 996 tubbys will handle 10K miles a year with zero issues, it's why people buy Porsches rather than Ferraris if they intend on actually using them. My 997.2 handles 8K fun miles per year without breaking a sweat.

Nice, I'm stealing that one

Evos are ugly. There, that's the elephant in the room pointed out quite nicely. None of the other cars that the OP was looking at is anything other than beautiful. Even the Audi is nicely proportioned!

Leggy ISF is a good shout, not quote sure that you can get an Evora for £22K yet though

I think all the cars listed are doable on a £1500 pa service budget, but none are doable if anything major goes wrong. The one exception is the 370Z, as I've not heard of any major failures associated with those yet. All the Pork options mentioned are very good cars, although ironically the cheapest car to run there will be the 996 Turbo as what you'll spend on consumables (brakes being probably the most obvious one that could have a sizeable bill) you'll save in having a relatively bomb-proof engine. Only possible bill there is if the coolant pipes start to go, then you're looking at a bill of roughly £2K - £3K to sort unless you can take the engine out yourself. 997.1 non-S cars are a 3.6L engine not a 3.4, and just to confuse matters the 3.4 in the 987.1 Cayman S cars both share the well-known but not actually that common issue of potential IMS (intermediate main shaft) failure and the far more common RMS (rear main seal) failure. Last one causes a bit of oil loss from where gearbox meets engine and is perfectly liveable until the clutch needs doing, first one causes massive engine failure and a £6K - £8K repair bill. It's pretty rare though, less than 5% of all cars at best estimates. I looked at 4200s as well, and if I'm honest you're going to need a huge slush fund to keep one running if you get one with issues, and I wouldn't even consider one if you don't have that. Great cars and far more reliable than people give them credit for, but still not BMW standards. Putting aside my favouritism for Pork products for one second, I tend to agree with Rich that the 370 isn't enough of a step up from what you have now to give you the smiles you're after. The M3 would seem to be the pretty obvious choice as they're new enough that nothing obvious has particularly surfaced regarding huge costs, and they do have a lovely V8 soundtrack along with genuine pace. Personally I found it a rather dull car despite of this, but there's no denying that it's a true great. Z4M also great fun and a great looker, not convinced that it's the huge step up either though. Jags are nice but waftmobiles rather than sports cars, a trait that will apply equally to the Audi. My own money would go to a 996 Turbo as it'll be monstrously quicker than what you have now, totally different style of car to drive with the weight in the arse, and you'll lose precious little if anything if running it for a couple of years. Running costs will be the same as the M3, so it really then leaves it down to what you prefer.

Mega lewls

I'd drop a couple of psi as the sidewalls are quite firm, maybe 2-3psi. As Stew says though, start at 35 and see what works for you.

This X millionty. I don't have a particular brand I stick with, I use a range of stuff depending on what I need to do. AG, Megs, DJ, Swissvax, Poorboys, Blackfire, Menerza: They're all in my garage.