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Actually, this is a point that gets lost a lot amongst Ring goers. I cannot believe that people drive the Ring on a TF without a helmet, it seems utterly crazy to me when you consider everything going on around you.

the OP wants some snow tyres for the wheels Bugger

But you'd need new tyres with the 17"s, which would be more expensive than just swapping the 18" tyres over

Yup. There was definitely a crash.

He's already tried swapping the wheels around I can't believe that the now sadly defunct V6s use completely different wheels to the rest of the TT range, as long as the wheels clear the calipers they'll be fine for test purposes. I wouldn't use Zed wheels as they're staggered, and you say that the TT tyres/wheels are identical.

My guess would be the tyres. Even if the wheels are balanced you can still get a tyre that's out of round and can cause the same issues. Get back to Audi and get them to physically swap the wheels with another set from another TT, at least that way you rule out it being anything to do with the wheels/tyres if it doesn't solve the issue.

It would've been a great race if they'd given Seb a drive through for that early doors and he'd have had to fight his way back through the pack.

Thing is, JB was correct. He obviously gets on well with Seb as the jokey congratulating punch during the weigh-in in qualifying shows, but there was no need for Seb to do a Schumi and shove another driver off the track, especially when the championship was 99.9% already his. He was wrong to do it and I suspect when he looks at it again this morning he'll realise that, but in the heat of the moment he didn't want to back down which is understandable.

Pre-facelift Zed lights aren't that hot, post-facelift are significantly better.

Definitely split it, someone would have to be bonkers to pay £10K for a 9 year old import.

I like the gearknob, looks very meaty

Whether they're road legal or not (and I'd love to see the tests the guys do when fitting the film to ensure they are legal), reducing the amount of light given from the lights just seems a really daft thing to do when most of us complain about how poor headlights are and wanting to be seen on the roads at night. Granted they look more aesthetically pleasing and pop them on for a static show, but making yourself harder to see or reducing your own vision just seems very counter-productive.

I'm now desperate for Lewis to smash into Massa now and take them both out of the race, I reckon we'd have a proper punch-up between the two of them after

FFS even I'm getting fed up with Hamilton now They give him a great car (finally), give him the track space to use, and he's too busy fiddling with dials to get a move on and put a lap in. As much as I've defended Hamilton in the past, I was genuinely pleased for Vettel to get pole today as he seems to be a really decent guy.

Ask them for proof that you authorised the works beforehand, or else you're not paying. It's as simple as that, and if it went to court you'd be laughing. That said, if you want the car back then I'd offer 50% of that as a solution since they mucked up.

Yeah, I guess Siri will be how Apple will drive things forward now. It'll be interesting to see if Android follow suit, or whether they condemn it as the gimmick that I think it is. That said, would it make more sense for a tablet device to use it when you're not likely to be out and about than a phone?

Seeing as there is obviously quite a large number of Apple fans on this board, it might be a good idea to try and keep all the Apple-related stuff in the one place. So, anyone got any ideas/rumours/insights as to whether Apple are sticking with the 12mth plan for iPads, or going to 18mth as per the phones? Not sure I want to wait too much longer for the iPad3...

Who cares? If they've got the money then fair play to them, why wouldn't you want to have the best available? It's like any other upgrade for anything be it phone, car or kitchen, as long as you're comfortable paying for it then why not? That said, I let my 3GS contract run out specifically for what we now know to be the 4S, but I'm not getting a new contract just for a minor upgrade to the 4 I managed to acquire a couple of months ago.

I'm tempted just because I kinda promised my current 4 to the missus, but I may hold off until June now to see what happens. I don't think I'll be a day 1 adoptee, at any rate.

Got to be the filter. By a process of elimination, when the phone is plugged into the socket straight it's fine, but as soon as you put a filter on it then it's rubbish, then it has to be the filter, even if it was different doesn't mean you don't have two dodgy ones. /not_a_telecoms_expert

Very good, and a bargain too

Trouble is fella, I do sarcastic very well and it's a terribly efficient tool at getting a point across without resorting to base insults but also with a slight edge. I like edgy, it keeps life interesting. Look, truth be told no one is right or wrong here on either side, and I really can't be bothered to carry on a circular argument over something so petty. I'd rather leave the sniping to others who do it far batter than me, and normally behind people's backs too.

It does, ish. When I said I was trying to steer the thread, I didn't mean into a pro or anti Jobs/Apple debate, I meant more into a healthy lets-not-get-too-aggressive-here discussion. That's what is called lenient modding as opposed to telling people what they can or can't say in a thread. I'm still not sure what you're arguing over though, whether it was the fact that I dared try and start a discussion without being abusive, not slapping LRH down immediately or not deleting the petty comment from SMD that was trying to incite a reaction.

Right, so a thread dedicated to Jobs isn't the right place to discuss whether he's worthy of the accolades that some give him? So we need a brand new thread for that, and just leave one thread open for "Steve Jobs RIP" messages? I really don't understand the big uproar over this, surely we can debate the issue like adults without having to dictate to people what they can and can't say in each separate thread? As long as you're prepared to argue your point without being abusive or petty, I really don't see the problem. If any of the Mods had felt that LRH had gone way over the top we'd have removed the post. For me, I'd rather steer people in the right direction than just edit and delete willy-nilly.

Yes, please do. Or perhaps you'd like to carry on PM'ing some of the other users on here about my posts as you've done before? And yet, of course, it's the mods that want to cause arguments, isn't it? I don't see any harm in discussing how Jobs will be remembered in this thread as long as it is kept respectful. I don't think LRH was coming on too strong really, and I was hoping to guide the discussion in a way that would be constructive for us all to see just what Jobs did for the world over the course of his life. I don't actually see how that could be a bad thing, really.