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Sam Mcgoo

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  1. Eh? I can't think of many tyres that are better. Get the standard RE050A and not the Eco version and you won't go far wrong.
  2. Person 2 opens nipple. Person 1 presses down brake pedal. Person 2 closes nipple Person1 releases brake pedal. And repeat. Sounds like your just pumping the brakes without closing the nipple and sucking the air back into the calliper.
  3. Is there two of you doing it ? Person 1 on the brake pedal, person 2 opening and closing the bleed nipple?
  4. Snap! Lol. Another example might be having a Ferrari Tattoo....................and driving a Nissan ?
  5. Welcome to the club. I'm sure your gonna have a cracking day on Sunday!
  6. I also run the DBA T3 discs, ferrodo ds2500 pads, HEL lines and RBF600 fluid. I am very impressed with the setup and suffered no fade or soft pedal feel on track and I had my discs to well over 600 degC It doesn't squeal on the road either. I would highly recommend them, but I'm sure Alex has already sorted you out by now.
  7. Sounds good Mark. Do you think there will ever be anything similar using Uprev?
  8. TC always off here, unless there is a lot of standing water on the roads. I really hate the way it operates, far too harsh. Its much smoother and more predicable to control any loss of traction with your right foot. I'm not quite as mature as some on the forum but I think spending a lot of my teenage years sideways in Cortinas and capris definitely helped.
  9. I had read something similar, and Caroline did say that they were showing her all the 'problems' on screen and towards the end of it asked how long she wanted to be protected for, trying to sell her protection. I just hope that's all it was. But I can't help wondering what information they could have gained while all this was going on. It was my old laptop and had a lot of financial documents/info still on it. Thanks Chris for the info and offer I found a set of recovery disks and it turns out there was a recovery partition so I have restored it to factory. I'm now just waiting for the 81 important windows updates to install I might just do that, I have Win 7 on my new lappo and it is far easier to use and does seem a lot quicker.
  10. A similar thing made her fall for it. That day she emailed me to tell me that the computer had ground to a halt to the point that is was almost unusable, then a few hours later she got the call........she assumed it was something I had organised for her.
  11. Thank you very much for the prompt replies guys. So you know the next question......how do I go about formatting the drives (vista)? Is Restoring from a back up ok? Or is there a way to totally wipe them and start again? There were no other computers in the house turned on at the time and we don't have any file sharing on so I assume they couldn't have accessed any others?
  12. Unfortunately, while I was away working my wife fell for a scam over the telephone from 'Microsoft Windows Help desk' and her laptop was accessed remotely by the scammers. Once she realised what was going on, she shut down and removed the battery. However, she says they were probably on there a good 10-15 minutes before she realised it was non-genuine. So, we have informed our banks, credit cards etc and changed all internet passwords for every account I can think of. She also spoke to the police who referred her to Action fraud who took some details and gave us a reference no. This was a couple of weeks ago now and there has been no suspicious account activity as yet. Regarding finances etc is there anything else we need to do? So, I would like to get the laptop up and running for her to use again and have done the following so far... -Switched on in safe mode and rolled back to a system restore point a month before the event. -re-enabled the firewall and antivirus that they had switched off. Also turned off remote access. -Ran several scans using Kaspersky 2012, Malwarebytes and Superantispyware. About 13 things were picked up, trojens, vunrabilities etc....but nothing that stood out as really bad (not that I know anything about it lol) - Switched the wifi back on, Connected to the internet and done all the windows updates etc.... Those in the know......Is it safe to use again now? or should I format the drives and start again? If the latter, whats the best way to go about it? do you just do the C drive? Thanks in advance for any help.
  13. I'm sure I read this on the US forum a few months back and was gonna do it next time on track. But was going to fit a switch instead of just disconnecting it. Disconnecting the yaw sensor will stop traction control and stability control kicking in (stopping it applying the brakes mid corner when you start to slide) It will not give you more mpg or faster acceleration (unless you were previously kicking in the traction control) It would definately improve the car on track, but be very careful if considering doing this on the road. And make sure you have premium tyres fitted if you do.
  14. Welcome to the club rob. I am also an ex supra owner. (a BPU TT6)
  15. Absolutely. If the wheels are only on for the winter, a winter tyre would be the way to go. Its been covered many times before that there are mixed opinions on the 452s. I am another hater and think they are absolutely sheite in the wet and in cold conditions. However, they are probably slightly better than Wanli and 040s.
  16. Pretty vague, description there. Try and give as much detail as you can of exactly what you've got and include pictures of your connections etc. Someone might be able to help then.
  17. They look almost identical to my Kinetix HFC Only difference I can see is the support bracket. ( mine haven't got any) See 350wiki here: http://www.350z-tech.com/wiki/index.php ... x_Cats.jpg
  18. Get the Wanli off ASAP It will transform the feel of the car and should sort your traction issues. What are the bridgestones ? RE050a or RE040?
  19. to the club. Seems to be a lot of members in Wymondham now so you will see a few around. I'm a bit further west than you, but might see you at a meet sometime.
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