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Would they not send the TC in to a spaz?...... especially being winter when your more likely to have slippage TCS doesn't really care as long as you drive to your own and your cars limits. If you push past that then you're not driving correctly, so for the purposes of using winter tyres for more grip in the snow then you really shouldn't be pushing any way. For once I wasn't even being sarcastic! Truth be told though if people want to start mucking around with the only things keeping them on the road, and especially in the winter, then they probably will anyway. Personally I don't feel it's worth saving £50 and risking the car, but to others they're happy with that risk. Each to their own, and I genuinely mean that. I've said in the past njthat I'll only give general advice on tyres now anyway, after the abuse I've had in the past. So, in all seriousness, they probably will be okay as long as you don't drive like a tit.

Probably be fine.

No weather, no night/day, and most importantly no Porsche! I'm sadly going to have to skip this version, tbh I still haven't completed 3 yet any way. Maybe they're saving all the really good stuff up for FM6 on the Xbox Next? One can hope, at least. Regardless, FM still p*sses on GT from a great height when it comes to the feel of the actual cars, which is the important bit.

Talking to the other chaps in the queue, it looked like everyone wanted a white one. I went for a black 32GB in the end myself.

Siri is rubbish. You know the really cool search feature where you can ask it if there's any good restaurants/Apple stores/sex parlours nearby? Only works in the US. Thanks for telling us that, Apple. Sending texts via Siri is also very hit and miss, although I did confuse it by asking it to wipe my bottom for me

Locked, please try and keep all the Apple-goodness in one place please folks Clicky clicky

Got it Just setting it up now. Tell you what though, I will definitely do another launch again, it was brilliant! I was number 7 in the queue after getting there at approx 6:40am for an 8am open, and I got chatting with another 4 or 5 chaps and we just had a right laugh over the whole thing, especially when the lady who was at the front of the queue (and had been since 5am) was clearly having difficulties getting her new phone. They only let 3 people in at once so while we were standing outside we could see but not hear what was going on, and this woman was getting more and more irate over the whole thing. 30 mins later they finally gave up and she left empty-handed, not looking particularly pleased Definitely worth doing, it's a right geek-fest but all the more fun for it. Got free breakfast muffins and OJ too, which was nice.

All 97/98/99RON fuel must be made to a certain British Standard, so anything you put in from anywhere will be fine. Some may be marginally 'better' than others, but it's going to be practically unnoticeable. It's almost irrelevant whether the additive is added at the refinery, the tanker, or the station, as long as it all meets the requirements of BS7800 it will be perfectly fine.

I am awake at Daft O'Clock to go and buy a 4S. Yes, I shall indeed be queueing with the rabid Apple fanboys today, just because I already had the day off work for other reasons and I've never been to a product launch. Wish me luck!

I think it's broken, the roof appears to be up. Looks in good nick, what spec is it?

Theoretically, yes. More pre-detonation will cause increased damage to the pistons, the rings and the bores, which can lead to oil passing the seals and getting burnt off in the combustion chamber, which obviously then causes massive oil consumption.

Why? Read the BB, learn the flags, drive test at 8/10ths and don't spin, job's a carrot. If you track your car regularly then what other prep is there? I'm not trying to be argumentative here, I just don't think I understand what you mean by prep.

Take your pick of dates from here Prep time is down to the individual, some will need none and some will never get there, so it's impossible to quantify. You will also need the Go Racing pack from the MSA though of course, which is another £59.

BP97 is fine. That's what I use/d on all my performance cars.

It's as secure as any other cloud service, which means anywhere between 'incredibly' and 'not at all'. If you trust cloud computing then it's great, if you don't then there's no need to use it and you can turn it off. It should be safer than most as Apple have the technical ability to make it that way, but then we all said that about Sony too. iCloud shouldn't see any more of the machine than it needs, but that doesn't mean it doesn't. Tbh if you're one of the tinfoil hat brigade then you probably won't ever feel comfortable using iCloud, but for the rest of us at the moment it sits somewhere between handy and novelty. Only time will tell if it can become essential, I guess.

True, but if you're Apple you can either spend another $10M on some more server space for one day, or just accept that the early adopters (myself included!) are just going to have a little whinge for an hour or so and then start raving about how good iOS5 is, and when the dust settles 24 hours in no-one will have an issue at all. It's sound business sense, and I can totally understand their point of view.

My iPhone4 bricked itself for a while, but it sorted itself out and is back up and syncing via WiFi as we speak I'm surprised that Apple's servers held on as well as they did/have, there's a hell of a lot of people trying to update their iDevices right now.

They are truly hideous. Great noise, but styled by a blind work experience lad.

Nowhere near £20K. £250 for your ARDs, £5K for a Cat-D Zed, £200 for pads, £1K tops for suspension, £1500 - £2000 for cage & extinguisher & cutoffs, £500 for seat & harness, and then whatever you want to spend on safety gear but around £400 is doable for the minimum. Under £10K for a competitive car, sorted. That said, you have to be prepared to write off the cost of the car if you bin it, plus body damage at each race, & the entry fees, tyres and timing bits at each race. That's where the costs quickly add up.

Having a sticky for the blatantly obvious does seem a tad overkill in my most humble opinion. Also, is your car one of the super limited editions that doesn't come with a 98 RON sticker inside the fuel cap? As much as I'm clearly taking the mick here, I do genuinely feel sorry for any car enthusiast who has an engine go pop on him as it must be one of the worst experiences you can possibly have and I'd be gutted. That said, there has to be a certain amount of common sense used when owning a car, and certainly a little bit more when owning a performance one you admittedly drive the ass off of.

Just double-checked mine and it was actually 1860kg, so that would sound about right Chris.

What does it say in the manual? There's your answer I would always put super in unless an emergency. Always.

A tad too high, I've had a fairly standard Roadster weighed with a full tank & fluids & driver and it came to 1760kg IIRC, so knock off approx 50kg for the roof mechanism, 95kg for the driver ( ) and 75L of unleaded and you'll be there or thereabouts I reckon.

I'm assuming at a minimum you'd be looking at: Full cage Extinguisher system Elec & fuel cutoffs And then for mods you keep it free for: Pads Dampers & springs (non-adjustable), or maybe leave these stock for low cost? Exhaust Intake ARBs ... and I reckon you'd have a decent sized grid without breaking the bank. Run the 888s as control tyres and you're laughing, hell I might even be tempted to flog the MR2 race car and build myself a Zed instead! It's a great idea and one that I hope gets the grids it deserves.

The car should be run on 98Ron, it even says so in the manual. Not saying that's the cause of your problems, but if you do get another engine dropped in then it's worth bearing in mind for the future. Still, I am sorry to hear of your woes, get yourself down to Abbey they'll look after you