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Looks way too haphazard to be a bad respray to me (although I won't rule that out entirely just yet...). I'm assuming the weather where you are has been hot and dry (until you washed it!) for the last few days? Any rain? Im assuming this is shortly after you have washed it? Where was the sun/shade on the car whilst you were washing it? I'll be back with more questions when you think you're done with these.

Are you referring to the arc-like line travelling horizontally in the last picture? If so, it could be a couple of things, mostly nothing to worry about. You've not mentioned anything about decontamination, have you used an iron remover or clayed the car in the last 6 months? ETA; Curse my slow typage.

First things first, does it actually have an aftermarket immobaliser on it, or just the standard NATS?

I had that "pleasure" too, Waterloo was a nightmare, trains on a go slow because tracks were bending in the heat! I'm sure some of you who have Facebook probably saw the below last night, which was actually pretty appropriate for my journey home lol I now have the "joy" of the Central & District lines every day. It's almost enough to make me miss Hull.... almost!

^^^ As per a recent thread.

Really? You want to go round in this circle again? Can you not just go back and re-read what I've already written rather than making us both type it all out again in slightly different words? It's hot, I'm tired, lazy.and this brick wall is starting to give me a headache.

As I recall it, it was based on Gangzoom proffering 2020 and your own comment of; "A handfull" of years doesn't equate to 100 to me, which is how we got onto this whole supply & demand disagreement. Even "in a lifetime" doesn't quite equate to 100 to me though, but at least that's close enough to accept.

5 year rule came from Gangzoom talking about "by 2020" actually. Everyone else is talking about "in a life time" because everyone else has a more realisitic timescale in mind.

I didn't say it was the highest everer though. Compare it to the 1250-1350 usage, today's use rates are extortionate... Context dear boy, context. As a side note, if you're thinking about 65-165 years ago as a fair comparison for a hypothetical future just 5 years away; have you applied inflation rates to the price of coal in 1850-1950? If not, how do you know that the price is higher now despite the comparitively lower demand?

The demand for coal is still relatively high, given how there's few power stations that run on the stuff and all. I do, but that's more due to the long term sustainability of electricity harvested from fossil fuels as a power source. As Ekona elluded to, IF that happens at all, it certainly won't be in the short or mid term. 100 years isn't mid term.

How many companies have you heard of that are happy to have gone out of business instead then? I didn't say they'd be happy about it, doesn't mean they wouldn't do it though.

Most (sensible) businesses will opt for the smaller profit rather than pricing themselves so high chasing the same profit that they drive all their customers to the alternative and put themselves out of business altogether.

Yeah, I mean it's not like supply and demand is an established economic principal or anything. What you've found is one exampe of supply driven pricing, which tends to be a long term effect. You seem to be thinking long term, whilst I'm talking mid-term - largley because we're not even close to 80% of road users driving EV's and it'll be a while before we are. Think of it in terms of diesel, which used to be cheaper than petrol, demand for diesel went up and the price followed at a larger rate than the less in-demand petrol which is now cheaper than diesel.

No, I'm a little too busy to go round phoning companies for prices of a redundant fuel type, especially one which decline was directly relating to legislation rather than a choice of alternatives, you know like we were talking about before 4 Star tangeant. Unless you're implying that with the meteoric rise of EV's in the next 5 years that the Government is going to all-but-outlaw petrol along the way as well? (Or what he said^^ )

Okay. Now, why am I doing that again?

But at the same time, demand for petrol will decrease as demand for EV's increase. Supply & demand dictates that EV prices will subsequently increase whilst petrol price will decrease. Thus nullifying that gap again.

I don't disagree that the prices of EV's will fall and that their popularity will increase, but in 5 years time? Maybe 15-20 years time, but in 5 years the technology will still be in the midst of being developed and improved rather than primarily being made affordable (IMO), I just don't see how the price of an EV is going to drop so significantly whilst also increasing the practicality so significantly at the same time in such a short period, hence then question.

There's two sizes; one to fit the Brembo calipers and a different one to fit non-Brembo. Most of the traders on here offer both - usually labelled as for Brembo/non-Brembo rather than Fairlady/350Z btw.

I'm intrigued, what makes you think that a combination of new technology and all the extensive R&D that goes with that will mean that the resulting product will become cheaper in the mid-term? Currently the Leaf is virtually double the price of the Micra, how will ploughing a lot of money into developing an EV that can still only do circa half the range of the comparable ICE bring down the price of said EV? Or do you suppose that the price of the increasingly reduntant ICE car will double as a result of selling in fewer numbers?

But it's perfectly acceptable for you to do the belittling though?

I'm going to hazard a guess at; for that reason what he did gone done said... Just a wild stab in the dark you understand.

Compared to the revenue they drew in, it was probably a drop in the ocean. No probably about it, Top Gear was one of only a few BBC programmes to make a profit (and a significant one at that).

Because he had been "sacked".

It is not just you...