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Mk1 MX-5 Anything from £500 upwards, get a good one for around a grand, parts are cheap and there's loads of guides out there to help you if you get stuck. A great car to drive as well. You've got is wrong about insuring SORN vehicles though, you either tax + insure or you SORN and don't insure.

Premiership??!! Hasn't been called that for years, not since Carling departed as sponsors IIRC. Anyway, I think Utd will still win it. They'll lose to City, who will promptly go on and lose to the Toon and then draw with QPR. Would rather see Utd win it than City I think, as SAF hasn't been half as irritating in the last couple of years as he used to be and I don't want to see Balotelli end up with a league medal, the petulant little brat. If Pardew doesn't win manager of the year, there's something very wrong with the world.

Yeah, no chance

Never, ever trust auto-renewal. Doesn't matter if it's with Admiral, or Direct Line, or the AA: Always, always, ring them up and speak to someone. In all likelihood if you'd been stopped and this had gone to court, you'd have been okay with what the bank has told you, but that doesn't stop it being terrifying anyway. I tend to check AskMID every week for all my vehicles, just to check. Takes 30 seconds and whilst overkill, does put my mind at rest.

If it's only from a company car, then it's incredibly unlikely he has any NCB. You may be able to get a letter from his company insurers stating he's never had a claim over X years, but whether the individual insurer will accept that is totally up to them. The gap allowed before NCB disappears is 2 years.

Am I right in thinking though that you're now breaking the copyright laws by having got rid of your CD collection but still kept the rips? Not that I give a hoot really, but I'm pretty sure I'm right in saying that.

Fair play to Lewis for not commenting or complaining about it like Alcocko has done: Last year he'd have shouted his mouth off and ranted, this year he's just got his head down and carried on.

I just want to know if it'll be quicker than the Cayenne tubby, or the ML AMG.

Boring race, I bloody hate Bahrain. McLaren need to sort themselves out, they've got the pace but they're too inconsistent. It's no good having a car that can keep tyres well if the driver can't get them hot enough to work properly.

All my CDs are ripped to lossless and stored on the media server, then streamed to wherever I want.

Better than the Bentley.

Why do you see that as a problem? Too many hidden niggles still waiting to come out. I'd take a punt at 3 years old, but not at 6.

10k miles in 6 years? No thanks. Should've had at least 6 services, intervals didn't change from 9k/12mths.

Not going to happen for many years yet, I don't care what the current timescale says. DAB just hasn't caught on enough for any government to consider switching analogue off yet.

*Brundle.

Got my launch night tomorrow night, looking forward to it Is that the Agate Grey? They had that on the 911 at the launch of that and it was the first grey I'd seen for years that I actually like. I'm hoping that the lime gold one will be in Colchester tomorrow, really want to see that up close.

This.

Nowt wrong with them at all. Bit heavy, very ugly with the roof up, but that aside they're fine. A much more involving drive than the coupe too when you drop the roof, as you can actually hear the engine and exhaust! Loved mine, and unless you're after the hardcore drive I'd still pick one over a coupe.

Proper depressing day mate, I tell you. Haven't had such a bad day on cars for a long time, guess I've been quite lucky really! Pics as of this AM: I've left the centre console in for now as I'll need to relocate the window switches first, but eventually that can come out too along with the underside of the dash.

But correct.

Well, what was supposed to be a big day in getting the car sorted turned into one massive failure Big plan was to get the humps of metal removed and the seats in, but that first of all means you have to remove the carpet. Simple job thinks I, until I discover that the carpet is in one piece and you need to remove the entire dash to get it out! I don't see the point of getting every last bit out really, so decide to sacrifice the carpet by making a couple of cuts and just leaving the remaining 4" square section under the centre console in place. With that done, I start to get the seats ready. Pop the new rails on them, get them in the car to make sure they'll fit where I expect them to, and then when I try to relocate the seatbelt clip (as it is mounted to the stock seat normally) I discover that it interferes with the seat itself and I can't get it to mount safely. New seats go back in the shed, and OEM seats go back in. In short, I need to get the roll protection and harnesses in at the same time as the seats, and with only two weeks to go before my one and only likely trackday in it this year as I'm due to be laid up for the entire summer after a back operation, then it's £500 I can do without shelling out right now. They will have to wait until September at the earliest, which is a bit of a bugger. Still, at least it weighs a bit less now, and after running a can of 10K Boost through it (amazing stuff, you really must give it a go) it's idling a lot smoother and quieter now. Almost as much of a pain as trying to fit a set of front discs and pads to the Impreza this morning. Old pads out, one caliper bolt free, go for the second one... Snap. Shears off and I've no helicoil to remove it with, so I have to put the thing back together again and take it to the local Subaru specialist first thing on Monday whilst giving Jo my truck to use for the week until they can get it fixed. It's a common thing apparently, as the bolt is steel but the bracket is aluminium, so they corrode together nicely. All in all, a very unsuccessful day spent on cars.

First make it stop Then make it handle Then make it GO!

Heh, I don't think they get quite that hot but top marks for a quick picture

It won't take that long.

Two octanes will be plenty.