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Nothing to be gained in naming names so I'll leave it as it being at a very highly regarded garage.

TVR was sent to a very well reputed TVR specialist when I went on my honeymoon for a general once over, 6k service and an MOT. I went to collect after my honeymoon, paid my £1100 bill, and upon starting the car it had an ECU error on the dash and oily smoke started coming from under the bonnet. Not forking happy!! They've since discovered they didn't change the rocker cover gasket properly, which was leaking oil on to the exhaust. They are still yet to fix it, and I'm totally in the dark still about the ECU fault they added. I normally try to do all my own work and giving it to a specialist was a treat to myself so I can avoid the garage floor time myself. Such a disheartening experience. :-(

I have Milltek & HFC - all I do is motorway driving - it's perfect... Like "OEM++"

Do whatever suits you and your budget... People being 'shocked' at X amount being spent on a wedding have no idea where those other people are in their lives in terms of housing / salary / disposable income / priorities / etc. Do what's right for you (just don't get in to debt for it; not worth it imho!)

Steering going light is usually under steer, but you can also get weird feelings if the tyre wall collapses (check the outside tyre for scrubbing on the wall and check the pressures all round too), if you hit a bit of oil / water, etc. This next bit of advice is given out a lot here I know, but go on a track day. Visit an airfield one where there's nothing to hit, and play around a bit. All the skill / experience is to be found in the corners, so go in to them at different speeds, use different brake points, different amounts of steering input, accelerate out differently, drive with the TCS off, etc... and see what you can learn about how your car handles. Then, next time you have 'a moment' on the road, you should be better placed to understand what's happening and how to fix it. If you don't get to play around enough on your TD to learn anything - get some track day tuition, either on the day its self or from a specialist at a later date. I'm a fairly capable track day driver, but I still think tuition is invaluable.

I proposed to my Mrs at home, over breakfast in bed. Fast forward 10 months and we got married 3 weeks ago. Total cost of EVERYTHING (invites, dress, rings, venue, cake, honeymoon, etc...) was £30k. This got us a very nice country house venue in Oxfordshire, food and wine for 85 guests, and a luxury 12 day horse riding safari in South Africa for our honeymoon. We didn't pay for the cake or the photos as we are friends with people who do this professionally and I used my own car as the wedding car. We also made our own favours. All this saved us about £3k I believe. We used John Lewis for our gift list and all our gifts arrived yesterday - it was like Christmas :-) Customer Service was good - we used their Reading store. We could have done it for a different price, or on different timescales, but this was right for us. The extended part of my side of the family isn't very affluent so I had some aunts and cousins who couldn't come because of the cost of travel, room rates at the venue, etc. We sent 100 invites to get our 85 guests, and personally I think that's about the upper limit of people to have attend as we struggled to see everyone. Best thing we did during the planning was to budget it all out in Excel and to keep the plan up to date as things changed. I'd encourage everyone else to do similar as it helped reduce the worry about cost.

Is this a metaphor for the 'special time' you two share?

Gold track have low numbers I believe

Re-read what I wrote...

If you put "http://www.nissan-global.com/EN/DOCUMENT/PDF/TECHNOLOGY/technology_overview/" in to google, it will show you a list of all the documents in that directory - all seem to be about Nissan technologies - interesting read.

Nice one. You know what happens next... We need pictures!!

Does it need a full respray? Give it a good clean and the. you can probably get a chips and dents service to patch the rest up.

Fortunately you're in a club where there are probably as many BMW / Jag / Civic / MX5 drivers as there are Z owners!

Looks like a copy of a TVR Speed 12

Actually - I will bore you! :-p One from the big day by the professional; Tom Peck of 'A Different Blue' photography - http://www.adifferentblue.com/ And another snapped on my iPhone;

Wedding went off beautifully - I'll post the car pictures up when I get them from the photographer. Stage 1 of the honeymoon is a few days here - http://www.hshotels.co.uk/bailiffscourt-hotel-and-spa I won't bore you with pictures of how beautiful the rooms and grounds are, or how bloody good the food is, but I was chuffed that I can see the motor from one of our bedroom windows

Cleaned the cars - getting married tomorrow!

I was looking at Maseratis before I got the TVR; never test drove any but they get pretty poor reviews on the Gearbox front. Excellent theatre and drama though. Cayman S / 911 / 911 Turbo with a decent exhaust and aero kit? Still a bit anonymous though. Motorbike? V12 Vantage? Suppose it depends upon budget and what excites you? Raw power, classy refinement, handling, noise, etc?

ADG Sevenoaks. I don't know what next but I want something that gives a sense of excitement one way or another. Cant afford to do anything for now. TVR Tuscan!! :-) The most exciting car I've ever driven

Tonight's line-up at Rock Climbing... Twin Turbo RX7 (engine re-built), TVR Tuscan (engine re-built), Elise (Honda engine swap) Unfortunately the 335i and SL55 AMG couldn't make it.

They sold more Chimaera than all other models of TVR combined, and the Rover V8 they used is found in all sorts of things and very reliable. Nice big boot and the seats are comfy too - so all round better than a VX220 for everything apart from track days I'd say.

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TVR Tuscan Bought it last Friday, don't think I've driven it with the roof on yet. Looks good, 400bhp, surprisingly big boot - even with the roof off. Oh - £15k - TVR Chimera. Rover V8. Sounds EPIC!

Yup - I'm with Brillo - I've seen drilled mtech disks literally cracked in half due to the heat they've been subjected to.

My answer to all things at the moment.... Buy a TVR