Jetpilot

7 hours ago, GranTurismoEra said:

£36,000 for highest spec.

Well that makes me look at things in an entirely different light, £50k ish for a A110, 4C or 718 is the bargain of the century!! 

S2000 are also a lot of money for what they are imho.

Coming home from a track day in a car always seem slow even at national limits, but a week later, your back in the groove of regular speeds.

14 hours ago, GranTurismoEra said:

 

Final price under £40k 

 

Good time to give electric a go?!

Woah and you think the Alpine is expensive, as with all these repeated discussions, its definitely worth giving electric a go if you have zero interest in anything other than getting a short a to b distance for as cheap as possible.

1 hour ago, rabbitstew said:

 

Its quite odd really. Ive fell off (well highsided) a motorbike at 120mph before and you soon loose momentum and slide to a holt. 156mph in a 911 however is a different matter. I find 120mph on a bike feels like nothing. Indeed, my R1 will hit 115mph in 2nd gear. Feels stable, solid and a quick touch of the brakes and you stop quickly. However if I hit over 120mph in my 911 it feels very fast and I start getting nervous. With the mods, my car in theory should be able to top 200mph, and people do at vmax, but I just cant get my head around doing that sort of speed in a car.  Dont know if other bikers feel the same or whether I just have a strange mind set.

I was like you, never really phased by it when i had bikes, we did a euro road trip and saw an indicated 179mph on a ZX9R but i definitely feel a bit different in a car on the road, personally i think its just we are not used to travelling at those speeds regularly, on some of the quicker UK circuits though i saw 155mph in the VX, the first couple of sessions took a while for the brain to get up to speed but then it started to feel normal, probably also on track there is nothing close roadside as a visual guide.

Depends on offset and how much camber you want to run, there is a sticky thread with loads of examples of what people are running.

14 hours ago, The G Man said:

And you don’t know what I voted for, but it was certainly to remain in Europe,

As a staunch supporter and pro debater for independence in the Scottish referendum thread, it would have been pretty ironic had you voted no and as pointed out many times in that thread, Scottish membership to the EU was never a given, so you would have been leaving the EU 

But to summarise:

As a Scot you are not happy with Westminster being in "control" of Scotland, I am not happy with the EU being in "control" of Westminster and just as you believed Scotland would be fine without England, I believe the UK (eventually) will be fine without the EU, so we both wanted the same result, independence.

Says the man who voted for his independence 

Found it 

https://www.stanceparts.com/

If you want to raise just for speedbumps for example you can get small air cup adjusters, @lmc can give you the info as I forget where he got them or the make.

BC's for the win

5 hours ago, coldel said:

I think the problem is mainly a psychological one

Is this akin to the "bum dyno"

Chuffed to bits for you dude, although not everything you wanted, pretty much a good win in my book, i had to compromise with my build which is often the way 

9 hours ago, davey_83 said:

As far as your concerned, as person in the industry. 

So your man/woman "in" the industry is saying, Tesco tankers fill up, take the tankers to their own stores, decant and leave it there till the price is right, go back with the tankers and refill to then decant at the forecourt. 

Apart from not being financially viable due the process required above the space required to store millions of litres of fuel is also not realistic, just looking from a logical point of view.

34 minutes ago, LRF4N said:

I’m usually a cheapskate mate- Scottish and Pakistani

 

but when I’ve been told there is a risk of using these fuels and best to avoid at all costs

But you wont believe anyone on here who has told you its fine? I get what you are saying, but usually people use substantiated evidence to support their argument, i.e Ekona Michelin tyres.

If one our resident tuners @Mark@Abbey m/s @Jez @ H-Dev came on and said, its fine or the risks are exceptionally minimal, would you then use it? He may say its sh*t then we all will have to eat humble haggis 

51 minutes ago, davey_83 said:

Problem with supermarket fuels is the winter and summer additives. Supermarkets buy fuel when its cheap, store and sell all year round. 

Source of this info please?

38 minutes ago, coldel said:

I think cars are more likely to fail due to other things - lack of oil, maintenance, stress caused by poor setup, tyres, etc. than having a slightly different additive mix in the fuel. 

^^^ This! Least of all driving, how do we know those cars running tescos werent driven like they were stolen day in day out, run low on fuel sucking sh*t up from the bottom of the tank, had fuel filters/spark plugs/air filters changed. I am afraid its just one of those good old internet myths being perpetuated without anything being substantiated.

31 minutes ago, Ekona said:

I view it as eating supermarket crisps over posh crisps: Sure, one may taste better depending on how you feel that day, but neither is going to keep you alive for longer over a billion other variables.

 

 

Mmmmm crisps...

You eat supermarket own crisps, you heathen 

^^^ How did we ever survive before 

 The Eu even has rules over pallets, thanks for reminding me how utterly farcical they are 

27 minutes ago, LRF4N said:

The damage won’t be noticeable in a few tankfuls though, it’s years down the line.

Tesco has been selling fuel for years, probably to motorists who have done hundreds of thousands of miles, is there any supporting evidence that those motorists cars have suffered as a direct result?

11 hours ago, davey_83 said:

Good luck finding a new DE. Picking up contaminated fuel obviously out of ones control, I'd personally would rather it not happen and could do without the hassle.

 

A forecourt could say go away and prove the fuel sourced from this station caused the engine fault. Prove that those decats and remap *declared to insurance, plugs that have never been changed weren't the cause of the engine letting go. Does the engine have full vat registered garage service history, helping to indicate it's overall health. Stands a chance a fair few cars on the forum would fail on some of those points alone. Yes we know those wouldn't directly cause an engine to let go, possibly proving it is another thing. Then if the forecourt insist you pay for a fuel sample to be sent off. Independent engineers report on the cause of the engine failure. Yes in long run you'd get an engine rebuild. By a specialist? Maybe, maybe not. Overheating issues afterwards as the cooling system can be a pain to do. Misfire at high rpm as dmf been put on a bolt pattern out? Again I'd rather not have the hassle but everyone's different right.

I was making a point in referral to another post re contamination and it wouldnt stop me using a tesco because once in a blue moon there was a problem, any tanks, shell or tescos could get contaminated, you would pretty much be covered either way as it wont just be a single car with issues (as was the case here) and I seriously doubt either would want the bad press that they are causing a fuss for repair work. If folk regularly had problems with Tesco fuel that would be entirely different, but they dont

I think the question re parents and how they would feel was answered if the news i heard on the radio today is to be believed, well 50% anyway, by all accounts her father agrees with the decision to revoke her citizenship.

Or should they be mid 4 mirrors seeing as this was probably around way before that m3 mirror style.

I am actually seeing more Nsx

Nice new engine for free, no bad thing, a massive inconvenience granted, the modified bit is irrelevant, it was all cars that suffered.