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Was obviously very difficult - they've done away with it on the 370z

To be fair its probably the worst migraine I've ever had. I used to think people were joking when they said they can see flashing effects during them when you have your eyes shut. Ended up having to stack ibuprofen, paracetamol, and some other funky pain killers to get rid of it! Shame the girls bail - bloody wusses! Was a cracking ride all the same, would have been better if it was dry. Also managed to get up and around Lee Quarry which was a good crack. Was silly blowy up there (gusts up to 20MPH) so took a bit of the fun out of it. Will upload the Garmin traces later.

Hope it works our you Thomas. As said above, at least you have some kind of dispensation and its allowed to be upto 130% of the cars value to be repaired. In the UK they would have probably written it off by now

That should be fine. Remember the speedo will over-read the speed slightly and your ground clearance will be lowered a bit too.

Not sure there is a definitive answer, no one has put many tyres on to check how far you can go. 2 things I know for sure though: 1. Keeping the difference 2.5-3% between front and back (ie back ~3% bigger than front) the TC is happy 2. Run the same size front and rear and TC will not be happy at all. Remember this isnt a speed differential, its a rolling radius. If you run massive 20" 50 profiles, so long as the rear is 3% bigger than the front, the TCS will be happy as it expects to see that 3% difference in "speed" of the tyres. Equally, if you could fit low profile 15s on there, it would still be happy if the 3% difference is there. Sure in those two examples the speedo would be a fair bit out but as far as TCS is concerned it doesnt care so long as the front to rear stay within the limits of each other.

Not to mention a heavier flywheel and probably clutch assembly. That will slow you down a treat. Surely a heavier flywheel with its greater inertia will reduce the effects of engine braking? Lighter flywheel will give you more engine braking. Or when you say slow, do you mean its harder to get up to speed? That will take more power and thus fuel if start stopping all the time

I'd be happy to spend an extra £163 a month to NOT be driving a depressing diesel soot chucker.......and be in a 340 bhp GT sports car..........no brainer. Best of both worlds, get a lift with the missus in the DERV during the week, saving the pennies for me to spend on petrol and nice drives at the weekend

Its a great loss. Whether you like his work or not, you have been influenced by him, his brand, his ideas. He turned great ideas into reality, something which many businesses still fail to achieve.

This - as my mother found. Took TT about 3 months to get an engineer out to find a fault on a line When we had a similar problem on our line, PlusNet had an engineer out the next day. If you are in a high competition area, I would vote for PlusNet - but I'm bias as I was on their trail for Fibre to the Cab (aka BT Infinity) and get it for £11.50/mo

Sure you can get an 8k 350z, but remember just how old that will be. The 370z will be box fresh, tight handling and far better interior. People will say I was mad to chop in my 350z (which would have gone on a forecourt for about £8-9k), but for me it was the best decision. I am fortunate in my poisition as being able to do so when the economy is as it is, but I wouldnt change it for the world. You'll be over the moon with it Al, and so will the missus - she'll be a lot happier in that than the 350z - just ask my missus and she'll tell you theres no contest.

Ouch sorry to hear that Stu. Was that from oil starvation? As Vik says, Mr Alex will have a new engine no doubt, I would imagine thats the most cost effective way to fix it, just drop it straight in.

You'll need something like 245/50/17 to keep TCS happy. Putting the same size on front and rear will send it into overdrive. That will also keep the speedo right I think too.

No Chris's round here - no sir-ee

I'm guessing going from Harrow to Heathrow has a hell of a lot of stop/start driving. As Stew pointed out this is what kills MPG. This seems to be backed up with your average speed of only 15MPH. Going from that I'd say its normal. Not a lot you will be able to do with that, even with using engine braking, keeping momentum and trying to minimise start/stop.

To be fair I've seen far far worse than that - some bits of it do look ok.

If she ends up using them, drop me a PM and I'll let you know my member number. You can say I refered you and I get some points and I think you do too. The only problem I've found so far (not made the jump just yet) is that to get the good deals you have to buy goody bags. These give you the free net/txts/mins for a month. When that is up you need to buy another. Now you can queue one GB up after your current one but thats it. So each month you have to remember to go queue them. The are meant to be bring in auto-GB but this has been in progress for like a year or more so far. I think they are not going to do it as they will make a good chunk of dosh from those that run out of GB and revert to the paid for mins/txt/internet Still to get the mins/txt/net that I use for a tenna rather than £40, cant go wrong!

In lieu of any actual owners photos I think we'll let it stand

+1 I think you're meant to own the cars in here - unless Toby has bought one on the sly

Good to see its being "tested" properly

Meant to say that rogerxp's problem sounded like geo and yours was the brakes Col - 2 seperate problems. Not meaning to make the two sound like the same thing or that yours was anything to do with suspension

Well if it keeps them off here all the better

Colin, not wanting to go too far off-topic, but can I ask what your issues were. What was happening under braking (I guess) that was meant the brakes were to blame. My car does pull off centre quite badly when braking heavily but never dont anything about it - I was just wondering whether this is a similar problem to what you had (I've not had a alignment check done). That to me would sounds more like a geometry issue than the brakes, although could be one brake pulling more than the other. IIRC Colins issue was a warped brake which will give a pulsing feel when braking. This could have also been down to DTV but he will only know that whens he's put a few miles on the discs I guess. PH makes me laugh - so many people without a clue commenting. One says that the 370z gets 5MPG less than the 350z? WTF?! Mine (being new) averages maybe 1MPG less than the 350z it replaced but that was on quite a few more miles so a much freer engine. That kind of thing puts people off as they see the 350z does maybe 25MPG and then assume the 370z would get 20MPG (Evo territory!)

Have to agree. With the size of the screen, you really are limited to what you can do with a phone given unlimited resources, so theres no point having the power of a laptop in a phone. I dont really know what people expected Apple to do. Sure you can add more megapixels to the camera, but with a sensor so small it degrades the image quality even if its higher resolution. Quite a few SLRs took a step back in the MP race to get back better image quality if you look back over time. Having good software is where its at, and thats what Apple excel at. Its just a shame to get that good they feel they have to lock down the device so much. If only they'd open it up a bit it would be great, but they arent going to do that as people will abuse it and they will do anything to stop it. I'll be keeping my 3GS and moving to GifGaf from my O2 contract. Goes over the same network, but I can spend £10/mo for the same txts/minutes/unltd internet I give O2 £40/mo for. Will also be moving my iPad to them for £5/mo as opposed to £10/mo (but with less bandwidth than O2)

Its not so much a visible problem these days and not something that actually grinds your PC or phone to a halt as it did a few years ago as phones are as powerful as PCs were only 10yrs ago (maybe less!). The problem with Flash is its all propriety software, Adobe are very closed about how it all works. As such, hardware struggles to support it which makes it very inefficient. One prime example is BBC iPlayer HD. It is (was?) written in Flash. It would grind my PC to a halt (dual core 2GHz) purely because it refused to use hardware acceleration and did everything in CPU maxing it out. Rather than send the rendering of the video to the video processor, it would do it all in CPU which is far too much for it to handle. Whereas if you take blueray or other HD sources, they play with no fuss at all, using at most 10% CPU and utilise more hardware acceleration. As Octet says, this is seen as the CPU fan spinning up, which is the last thing you want when trying to conserve battery or indeed watch a film. On the mobile side - this means that your battery wont last as long and the phone will get hot quickly. If you do the same in HTML5 with H264, the phone can be made to have hardware that can render it rather than using the CPU, which means it is all optimised to work as efficiently as possible reducing the drain on battery and keeps the heat down.

and the rose-black ones are even faster Everyone knows Quartz is the fastest colour - thats why they had to limit it