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Yes bought the camera seperately off eBay. Saves on paying duty on it then. Very easy to install, if you get it from Brian he includes instructions and settings for the headunit.

Good to see someone with some experience backing up what we thought would happen. We decided not to go down that route for the exact reasons you mention. A big no no for me for an elected mod is that they will have access to things that are kept from the general membership for good reasons. Members approach us in confidence to help out with issues and whats to say a new mod wont go blabbing it to all and sundry? I'm sure they wouldnt but with them not being selected by the team we dont know that. And saying "well fire them after they step out of line" - well the damage would already be done. Which is basically what we do now non? The regional organisers could probably do with a refresh now and again, but you don't have to be a REO to sort a meet. Mostly. I will admit that some get brushed under the carpet because we dont want to air publicly why we dont want to take up an idea or someones offer. We do usually PM them in that case.

Heres an offer for you then if want a social plugin for the site. Given we cant afford the time to do it personally, how about you all chip in and we get a pro web developer on contract to do the work for us? Shouldnt cost more than £200/day for a week or so. So get £1000-£2000 together and lets get it done. FWIW, if you want to pay me to do it, my current market rate is 2-3x that of a web developer, and I dread to think if I billed the club for the work how many thousands it would run into for the work myself and the other members of the team have put in. The social plugin was looked at by the team, and deemed that the ROI on it, plus the fact that it might just outright break or slow down the site, was just not worth it for what we gain. All mods to the site put extra strain on the server. At some point we need to beef up the hardware to cope. This costs us more to keep it running. So would you rather a new social plugin or nice things like free BBQs at Wales?

Looking good Kev

As Mac says get back to the CCTV footage ASAP, as it may be overwritten in a day or so. Sorry to see that, its gutting people can do that damage these days and just drive off. IMO the law needs to be harsher on these kinds of incidents to protect people like yourself from potentially having to claim on insurance

And with that .... lets lock the thread ... JUST KIDDING!

Surely at that point you just lie? Why on earth would you tell the truth??!! +1 You just agree with them & after the test drive tell them its not the car for you This. I tell them I can buy it outright but would prefer to finance it. This is their dream as they know they can make the sale and also a bit extra on the finance

Wonder how much he would fetch? not much Agreed Has his uses though

This was actually considered multiple times and dismissed due to technical contraints. We liked the idea of having a 3rd level of mods who could do basic stuff but would have no say in the bigger team matters. The problem with this were (1) giving anyone mod access gives them access to the team areas and certain functions we cant lock down that we wouldnt want mini-mods to have access to and (2) we feel that mini-mods may then feel hard done by that they are part of the team, while not actually being part of the team. Like I say, we do actually consider a lot of ideas you guys chuck forwards, just there are many unforseen reasons why they dont always get implmented.

I break it, Chris B fixes it, perfect synergy

Yeah I'm not debating that at all. I just think that other people should be regularly considered to be part of the team People are considered to become part of the team as and when they present the traits that the team look for in a new moderator. Also for clarification, Admin are just Admin because they need the technical access to the site to fiddle with it. In the team structure everyone is at one level. Even though Chris B could pull rank and overrule us I cant think of any single instance when he has.

I think he might be a bit preoccupied atm

As I said earlier....we do not have a committe. Nor do we want one. We have discussed the managment structure and are happy as it is with a small tight knitt team

And no one can kick him out - we've tried IMO the team works well for a reason, we very carefully select like minded people who we think will run the site the way the team want it to be run. Yes its good to have new fresh blood, but the site has lasted as long as it has because the team obviously steer it in a direction that the majority of the membership are happy with. If not then you would have all left. As Martin said, we are happy for new ideas, just put up a thread or PM the team. We have quite a few behind the scene organisers who are helping out with a range of stuff and have no recogniton or power on the site.

Good luck with that one Actually think that rotating meet organisers could work as people lose interest in it and it would make way for fresh blood to organise some meets.

Gratuitous pic whoring In place, bumper off: Bumper back on (w/ Nismo engine cover that Mr Tarmac also does!): Glad I got mine when Stillen were doing them free with the exhaust. Cracking intakes though, really look the business.

We certainly have a few of them on here

I think it was after that test drive that they black listed him

As Toby says its all down to the policy of the dealership you are at. When I test drove a 370z we had to go on a specific route so that the sales manager knew how long we'd be and where we'd be if we went missing. Needless to say, we took a wee detour but still made it back in the alotted time. The girl from sales what accompanied me said it was nice to see what the car could really do down those roads When we test drove the Alfa, we signed a chitty of paper and took it away for the weekend, just asked to replace the fuel we'd used if we used more than half a tank.

Next time dont put the name of the car in the URL for the pic

very nice as i said before but outta my price range John Lewis will do it on 6 months 0% APR

You wont be sad for long though

Samsung Series 9 - way more expensive, but way better. Just as small and light Not that I'm bias

I think its probably a greater issue for the JDM's as they are originally mapped to use 100 RON. 95 RON might not kill a perfectly working engine, but any issue with the MAF, inlet air leaks or similar are going to be a lot more likely to cause damage than if you were on Super. Its a much bigger issue on FI engines, Ive driven a standard Evo that was detting its tits off on 95 RON (the guy in the garage didnt even realise) but even with NA I wouldnt risk it myself. Theoretically you could also get into more trouble when running with breathing mods (intakes/exhausts/etc) when you could be running lean. Running lean could cause it to run hotter which cases more det. Coupled with 95RON thats not a good combo. All ok if you are mapped for it though, its just the stock map doesnt appear to be flexible enough to wind timing back enough. Agree though, most driving wont cause any problem at all with 95RON as its below 5kRPM. The main problem is a lot of members on here dont know how to change their driving style with 95RON

We normally count they down from 10. It depends how annoying they are as to how quick we count