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Pretty good mate I just resprayed mine and am not that impressed with my workmanship, may have to whip it back out again and redo it.

Yep. The best drive and performance of the season so far, by a long way. Yay BJ! You multitasking LG? Hadn't even realised I'd hit 350 no that, will send a PM shortly. Although my car is pretty well stickered up from the previous owner anyway

He is definitely an inconsistent driver but he he does tend to seriously shine in wet conditions. I don't see the arrogant thing myself, I've always quite liked him. Hamilton on the other hand reminds me of a petulant, spoilt child. He's undoubtedly a very skilled driver but not quite as skilled as he thinks he is. To my mind he's trying to emulate Schumacher of old, creating a presence on the track and bullying people out of the way. This only works if the other drivers are scared of you in the first place which they don't appear to be at the moment. I disagree that Button knew he was there yesterday, all Button would have seen in his mirrors would be spray. Hamilton was simply going for a gap that didn't exist, and against your own team mate that's just unbelievable. And his claim that the pit crew were wrong to retire him as he only had tyre damage was refuted less than 5 mins later by the pit crew reporting suspension damage to his car. I may be being unfair to him but he just reminds me of a schoolboy pointing at all his classmates and shouting, "Him Miss! It was him!" and never taking responsibility for his own actions. Case in point was the early collision with Webber last night. It was just one of those things, a little too much slippage, nothing malicious or dangerous but when Hamilton was asked about it he tried to avoid the question. Most other drivers would just have held their hands up and said, "It was wet and slippy".

Quite possibly.

Everyone should play with a 4wd rocket at some point in their lives. They lack the smoothness and finesse of the Z but they are huge fun

Take enough clothes for the first 3 or 4 days. Once you've worn them post them home and buy new ones.

Beetle

Tron is alive and well and living at Abbey Motors

Good to hear...I am thinking of plenum/exhaust/remap/berks combination at some point in the future now I have the wheels sorted and getting the rear bumper done soon hopefully. Strangely that's almost exactly what mine's in for today, just replace exhaust with y-pipe. That and a couple of irritating niggles to sort out.

I'm nearly 40 and still can't walk past a toy shop without staring at the Lego

But it's for my unicycle.......

that's you!? I have bad news stuart, I AM your boss. Now bend over Correction. That's you? I have bad news Stuart, I am your boss! Now bend over! 3/10 an Improvement. Only joking mate, force of habit. Like it

I prefer these: Correct Accuracy Pride

That's the bunny! Nice one Husky

We need a flame thrower smilie

Not my sort of thing either. Not exactly vile but a bit too Halfords.

Beautiful cars, nice buy mate I see you got one with the satnav that still shows our capitol as Londinium tho

Absolutely it would. When an insurance company sent me a letter several years ago stating they would not insure me as I'd not sent them my proof of no claims (was on hols and forgot) but then still charged my account for the cover they could find every letter they'd ever sent me on record apart from that one. A less trusting person might think they were lying.

I spoke with Brian at length about what I wanted and he seemed to know his stuff. The main reason I didn't use him in the end was that he couldn't be clear on a price. I would be told one thing in the morning then a higher price in the afternoon then an even higher price the following day, all without the requirements changing and each rise came after a promise to try to get me a better deal with the manufacturers. From what I understand his work is good but I just started to feel I was getting the runaround.

Try Mike (can't remember his trading name) on 07851115590. He gave me a hand when I got confused with my upgrade and comes highly recommended from a friend who had a shedload of work done by him. IIRC he lives somewhere near Redhill but covers all over the shop.

I did an R8 track drive a little while ago and I have to echo what you've said, it is an awesome machine. I was also lucky to have a very good instructor. He started off with the usual, "Brake.. turn in.. accelerate..etc" on the first lap and by the last he was shouting, "Accelerate!.. Overtake the slow bastard in the Aston! Don't you dare ****ing brake for that corner! Accelerate! Accelerate dammit!". He was quite excitable but it made for an awesome drive. I guess they gauge your capabilities and adjust accordingly. And I of course, being the new Stig, was egged on and then some The car took everything I could throw at it and wanted more. Would love to be able to afford one myself one day

I've finally got round to dismantling the trim on the rear strut bar. I'd like to say it's taken this long because I'm such a busy international playboy but it's really because I'm just plain lazy Anyhoo, looking at the Z badge fitted on the silver section it looks like it's superglued on. I can probably paint it properly without removing the Z but it'll be a damn sight easier if I can get it off first. My first thought is to cut the 5 glued points out from the back with a modelling knife but does anyone have any handy tricks of the trade before I do my samurai impression on it? Free cyberbeer for the first person with a decent answer

One thing to keep in mind is the Cinavia DRM system which is embedded in the audio tracks of some new DVDs and BluRays. If the movie is not being played from its original format then Cinavia enabled streaming devices will halt the playback. If you're planning on using a PS3 as your streaming device then you'll have to make sure you do not upgrade the system software on it beyond 3.60 and preferably not beyond 3.50. With 3.60 there is a workaround but if you update to 3.61 then there's no known workaround. I'll leave it to your google skills to find any necessary workarounds or you can PM me if you like.

93k and counting.. still on original clutch