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Yeah, it makes perfect sense. I mean we’ve all seen Tesco close it’s forecourts for months on end until the price hits a certain point. Or something.

And what “legal reasons” might they be then? Perhaps Tesco taken out a super injunction?

Flip side of that, someone comes along and puts your fancy brand oil into cheap, nondescript bottles and sells it off for less than the fancy brand. Would you pay extra for the fancy brands fancy branding? Or to make it more accurate - fancy brand established it's product with decades of R&D, fancy brand sells a great product at price point to recoup those costs and make a mark up on top. Non-branded guy comes along years later, reverse engineers the same product and produces it at a much lower cost. Now let's assume non-brand guy can get an exceptionally good copy. As close as possible the exact same product... do you you pay still pay extra for fancy brand?

I’m not sure it’s a case of Shell being greedy per se, if you look at the two products Shell has a very specific portfolio of products, massive sponsorship deals in place in very prominent and expensive places across the globe, not to mention marketing costs and other significant overheads. Teaco on the other hand have a massively diverse portfolio to spread costs over, have nowhere near the sponsorships and when was the last time anyone saw Tesco advertising fuel? They’ve been very savvy buying into an established market in the cheapest possible way and their overheads as a result are much lower - they don’t need to partner with anyone else to make their forecourts turn a profit, they all already have a supermarket attached to them! They are two very different business models which will naturally creates very different pricing strategies. I mean, just take a look at Tesco profit margins, they’re not exactly giving stuff away themselves!

Mister2, 3000GT and even Ford Probe immediately spring to my mind from that front 3/4 view alone.

Completely agree. My point was more around the tankers lining up side by side filling up with the “same” fuel rather than the performance of each product. Cant day I’ve noticed any discernible difference between the two in terms of performance so I’m happy to go with whichever of the two is cheapest at the time I need to fill up (including factoring in which is closest, etc).

Front or rear for that price? MPS4 are only £127.62 each for the fronts from Black Circles, before the 10% off (which Shezza forgot to mention is only for Michelin or Avon tyres, by the way).

Given there are only, what, 6 major oil refineries in the UK, this shouldn't be either surprising or news to anyone. It's akin to there being only a handful of detailing manufacturers in the UK and almost everything on the shelves is a slightly different combination of the same ingredients. Similar analogy with supermarket "own brand" products, they're usually made in the same factories as brand labels with slightly different combination of the same ingredients. And clothing. And so on. It's ripe across retail as a whole - the only difference is minor amendments to the recipe and major amendments to the price.

Could be worse, it could be adorned with garish white dials and a 7inch screen in the centre...

Definitely akin to speeding; no harm unless it goes wrong or involves other people... More seriously though, it depends on what you define as terrorism. Typically they tend to involve breaking others laws with a specific motivatio, so it depends on the individual act; murder for revenge is equivalent to murder for terrorism, for example.

Ah so he is doing the VVV20 Frankenstein's-monster-triple-engine conversion to the Pop after all then....

Laws that expressly prohibit taking someone into custody without suitable suspicion of breaking said laws, you mean? So... ...under what law? Annoyingly I actually agree with you (to an extent) but the law doesn't allow us to simply take her into custody without good reason. Currently, buggering off to Syria and being very blasé about seeing some horrific things isn't, to my knowledge, "good reason" in the eyes of the law.

It’s not telling the other country to take her though, it’s saying she’s nothing to do with us anymore as there is a potential alternative. So long as we get in there first..

True, she shouldn't be allowed back until she is genuinely remorseful. What I meant was that she is currently so unremorseful that she's not even prepared to pretend to be, she so utterly believes her actions are so completely justified.

The problem with that is, she’s isn’t horrified with herself... yet. Until she is, my personal opinion is that she shouldn’t be allowed back into the country. Yet. That doesn’t mean we can't send people to her to help her though. This kinda plays into the “she’s just a naive child” argument, but she’s (arguably) currently too stupid to even pretend to apologetic for her actions just yet.

So in the course of 1 page we’ve gone from “not interested in German cars, they’re all boring” met with a resounding “you’re wrong.”, a quick verse of “sweeping statement was not accurate” and landed on “that’s it, I’m buying a German car”. Do you feel you’re easily swayed? I’ll rephrase that, you’re easily swayed... aren’t you.

If Minis did Time Attack... photoshoots.

It'll last longer if the surfaces are prepped properly. Proper, thorough prep is likely to take at least 2/3 hours on a reasonably tidy car - the worse it is, the longer it'll take.

Two things; 1) Admiral absolutely will increase the renewal for next year, no matter what. So remember your renewal date. 2) Is the Z modified at all? Admiral don’t replace modifications so it might not be a like for like comparison. That said Admiral do tend to throw out low premiums for the 1st year on the 350z - they want to attract new business but are terrible at keeping existing customers happy.

Waxoyl is no good for many areas due to the type of product that it is (wheel arches, for example, it'll last about 10 minutes before it's gone entirely) and tends to dry out/flake off if not properly applied. It can't bond to powder coating at all and doesn't bond properly to flaky surfaces, so all surfaces need to be properly prepared first which takes time and therefore, if you're paying someone else to do it, money. When not properly applied it also has a tendency to trap moisture in that gets underneath it. And it needs to be applied with a rather specific thickness for it to work at all - too thin and the crud just breaks through, too think and it cracks before the crud then breaks through. It's largely down to the prep and application, but there are now much better alternatives available that are less fussy to apply and therefore more difficult to apply badly and will simply last considerably longer per application. If you can get under the car, it's much more of a DIY job these days with the right products. Waxoyl isn't a terrible product, it's just old tech now that has been surpassed.

Waxoyl is so horrendously outdated now that I simply can't accept the advice of anyone who recommends it. Undersealing in general isn't a bad idea, especially on imports where they're not sealed at the factory but is it worthwhile to add more? How long a piece of string? Look into alternative undersealing products to Waxoyl such as Bilt Hamber as a starter, there are much better products available these days that are much less faff to apply properly and will last longer for not much price difference.

They really should add the “u” in there for accuracy.

That depends on if they voted for or against Brexit...

The seats look okay. That's it, that's all I've got.

That's more likely to do with what was on the cloth than what paint was on the car. The problem with both this technology and coatings claiming certain hardness is the paint that's underneath. The softer the underlying paint, the more movement there is for the top layer when it's put under stress, therefore the more likely it is to break through the surface and cause permanent damage; i.e. scratch (I found a wonderful analogy about planks of wood on various surfaces once but I'm struggling to find it again.). It doesn't matter how hard that top layer is, a few microns of it ain't going to make up for the give underneath it!