sasha@lazytrips

Thanks for the replies & pm's. Gonna try to swap the spigot rings first and if that don't fix it, will think about wheels/tyres. Don't know what the issue is with main dealers which means they can't actually think for themselves.

Here's an update: It's been to an Audi shop for an entire week and they are none the wiser. They took off the non-standard wheels, put on standard wheels and say that "90%-95%" of the problem has gone away. They then put on the wheels from our Audi onto one of their cars and it was also vibrating at speed, so I guess it's got to be the wheels. Trouble is that their proposed solution was to replace all 4 corners at around £2,500 which I obviously won't be doing. A couple of questions: 1. The non-standard wheels have slightly larger hub holes and have plastic bits on the inside. Could a faulty one of these cause the car to shake at speed? 2. The tyres and wheels have been looked at a lot and no defects have been spotted. The tyres themselves are budget ones, but have a lot of tread. Should I splash out and buy a set of tyres and see if that fixes it? Basically I am at a loss as I don't have the cash to just go and replace all 4 wheels, especially at the quoted prices, but need to fix the car. The Audi has been from post to pillar and nobody seems to have a clue. I have seriously lost faith in mechanics. What would you guys do if you were me?

That's the going rate. Early jap import despite the UK bumper and no GT pack stuff albeit with relatively low miles for its age.

How much are these without a GB and how much does a pre-facelift bonnet go for?

I think if you're honest with yourself, those looks in a lightweight car with rear seats & 200 ponies for £20k list price is pretty awesome.

That's pretty shameful, but if she did not get into the papers, I would hedge a hefty bet that she would easily win the money back through the courts.

z burger badges which erode before you've finished sticking them on.

If Carlsberg did crash landings...

you haven't been doing any donuts recently by any chance?

If I were you, the simplest thing to do is this: pull out machine as far as you can and dismantle any pieces that you can off it. Then break it up without flooding the house carefully and get to the water supply and block that off eventually. Get all the bits of metal & plastic and stick them in the bin. Then go buy a slim depth washing machine (these can be around 40cm deep) and from the pictures should fit back down between the two worktops. That'll be the most effective way of sorting the problem without breaking your whole kitchen up.

You will not notice any difference between Momentum and V Power. It is debatable whether the possibly marginally better additives outweigh the higher octane rating.

As pointed out before, tablets are great, but not for your purposes. If you want to do any kind of web design, you will need a laptop. From having owned a range of different things, netbooks are a waste of money and space. They do not last at all and become frustratingly slow quickly. Get yourself a laptop and think carefully about the specs - you won't need a dedicated graphics card or a high end multi-core processor for your needs, so save money on that and get yourself a decent size screen and a good chipset so that your laptop won't slow down to a grind. This would be a great bet: http://www.ebuyer.com/279398-asus-k53u- ... 53u-sx072v . Asus motherboard & chipset at that price will serve you very well. Edit: These have gone out of stock since I put this link up! Can find other K53 variants around at very decent prices.

I think the stereotyping of "all lads" wanting to go out doing doughnuts in a Macdonalds car park is a little too general. I know that I and a number of other young male drivers have never really had the urge to do that primarily due to the fact that once you spend a little longer than half a second thinking about it and if you aren't the type who wears his trousers around the knees, you never really want to appear to be a clueless teenage idiot and actually might have better things to do at the weekend/evening.

Whatever people think of doing doghnuts in a car park at night, I would hedge my bets that those people who do them have a much higher statistical risk of having an insurance claim than those who don't. I've been young and never wanted to impress my chav buddies by burning my tyres for no particular reason whatsoever. The downside is that the insurance companies have no easy way of distinguishing the doughnuts from other young drivers, hence everybody gets stung by high insurance.

2,000 miles around Europe over the weekend and all I spotted was a silver car in Belgium with Belgian plates on. On another note, the zed was pretty awesome on the long stints and with the tarmac about 10,000,000 times better in Europe than over here, the tyre noise is pretty low too. P.S. bit of advice for fellow travellers: going around Europe in the middle of the night, finding your hotel in a city you've never been to before and all that jazz is actually pretty difficult without any maps or a SatNav.

I might be slow, but I've looked through that ad about 10 times and I still don't get it.

Would a man wearing some ugg boots make them "mugg" boots? I guess you'd look like a.... erm... mugg?

And 300% LESS drive-able A number of other manufacturers manage to figure out alternative ways of building their cars

I heard there was a clinic in Switzerland which offered help in cases like yours.

Whilst technically you "can" get two full-size suitcases into the zed, but given the size of the boot, this would have been infinitely easier and less annoying without the strut bar. Same goes for any other bulky item I have had to carry. I love the car - but that bar has got to be one of the most annoying bits. If it wasn't there, the car would become about 300% more practical for me.

No wait. He actually stuck an R32 badge on the front and made it cost twice what he bought it for? Some serious modding.

1. Do-Luck rear - very rare and 2. Rear strut - so unbelievably annoying when trying to fit anything other than 2 bags of shopping into the boot.

Enjoy the hours of grinning.

How dare they do this just as I'm starting up my new business?! How exactly am I meant to concentrate?

This looks pretty decent too