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Guys, As you might have seen in my thread about Silverstone, on the way home I lost the back end slightly and ended up hitting the curb quite hard on the passenger side. (A428, just close to the burnt out Chinese place if anyone knows Cambridgeshire.) Anyway, a cursory check of the wheels showed nothing other than some curbing damage to the alloys and certainly no damage to the tyres. I did a few basic checks while driving home and no pulling in either direction under braking or accelerating, no wheel wobble and she felt perfectly fine. No issues with the 800 miles i did during the week too. However, last night I was taking a spirited drive home and coming around a sweeping right hand bend at speed i felt my front brakes bite, only slightly like i was tapping the brake pedal, but it was certainly there. I couldn't recreate the issue on other bends on that drive home though. I've not had it up on a ramp or even on a jack to take a look, and there has been no fluid leaking from what i can tell. Could have I have knocked something lose / cracked something here, or would this be something not to worry about too much? Cheers.

Bumped into Mike a few weeks ago, he'd done 1200 in between MOT's. I do that in 2 weeks

But I see no men in that picture

Forward facing is fine, but I can't remember the one I used as both mine are now big enough for just a booster seat. Rear facing is a 100% no no unless you disable the airbag, but forward facing ones will be fine.

When you're out, or out out?

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Agreed, for me the Z is unusable in the week due to the mileage I do, fuel gets eaten .. but will return to the Z in the future, beautiful machine, for now its the BMW badge for me I do 600-1000 miles a week in my Zed and think its wonderful

Bank notes?

You been on my FB page again

Seated lawn mower modification area

I'm game

I spend my life on the road. The Zed isn't the most economical car to pick, but bloody hell does it make the miles worth driving.

I've purposely not watched anything regarding this Harlem Shake thing. Hell, it took me 4 months before I released what this Gangnam thing was. Think I'm turning into my Dad already..

What annoys with ads like this is the way the plate is described. "NL55 ANZ" which reads Nissan Z. No it doesn't, it reads NL55 ANZ. Rant over and nothing else to contribute, sorry

Do they have options to set access it via POP3? I've done that on my phone with my hotmail and personal domain name e-mail

Leeds Armouries: Silverstone Driving Experience: Belfast City Airport: The Goodbye.

Pictures!

I'm in exactly the same boat with my contract up in April. Thinking of the iPhone 5 at the moment though, but I have bought into the Apple brand in the past few years with purchases through iTunes and such. Although, of course, I'll still have my iPhone 4 handset if I just want a glorified music player. Will watch this thread with interest

Private plate, lowered, body kit, coloured Rays, rear diffuser, Z burger badge on the rear. Looked very nice, even parked close to a Maserati

Yep, the collection of toy cars was also very impressive. The lady giving us the tour was rather attractive... so I'm rather tempted with that Porsche experience!

Ever thought of putting purple dye in your petrol?

I got so much whiskey for Christmas, I'm tempted to start putting that in instead.

Much to my frustration, I'd never been to Silverstone* in any capacity despite a few attempts in the past. On Sunday a mate and me had one of the official tours of the circuit, the BRDC club house and other various elements of the track. Apart from the early start, I'd certainly recommend it. The tour in total was just over 2 hours and was very informative with the tour guides all current racers (Ours was a Porsche advanced driving instructor) and very knowledgeable on all things Silverstone / Racing. It wasn't expensive either, being about £30 in total through Red Letter Days. There was also an open Track Day going on around the full F1 circuit so got to walk around the pits and chat to a few of the guys, which was really good. I saw two 350's (Silver and GM) and a black 370 but didn't get chance to see if they belonged to anyone on here. We did see one guy write-off his S3 at Copse, he looked devastated as his GF was stomping around the car park pointing at the recovery truck! What made it all the more amusing, once we realised he was wasn't seriously injured, is we'd seen him lose it at the same corner the lap before and only just manage to get it back, seems he didn't learn his lesson. Some really nice cars on the track day, with Aston Martin, Porsche, RS8 and a few dedicated track BMW's in attendance too. The biggest cheer went to a guy in an A2 though, I admired his courage! I've got a few pictures and will put them up a little later in the week when I get home. I also had my first proper scary moment in the Zed on the way home, coming off a roundabout and lost the back end on the slippery road. Thankfully, managed to get away with nothing more than a couple of seriously curbed alloys and a car full of expletives, but if there had been anybody next to me on the dual carriage-way it could have been a different story. *Despite my girlfriend being a relative of a current F1 driver...

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I've done 7500 miles since I last reset my mpg computer. 27.9 and average speed of 41. Very large majority of my miles are on the motorway though.