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Ooh, one letter out, I was close!

The Admiral group have dropped their premiums by a considerable amount recently, and I'm assuming that's because everyone has put theirs up so they'll take a loss on the first year on the gamble of repeat business by people too lazy to shop around. Pretty clever idea if you ask me, and it's certainly paying off as even I switched to them as of tomorrow because no-one else could get anywhere close to them on price.

I would imagine they have either the word runflat on them, or RF, or similar.

RS2s are very good, wouldn't bother with anything else in their range though really.

Yup, take it wherever you want. Just remember that the sales and service departments are separate and while you've found the sales side to be rubbish (why did you buy from them if it was that bad?), the service guys could be brilliant. Just a thought.

They do make an 050A run flat though, so just be aware when you order them

Don't be stupid.

If it's colder than that just run the heater for a few mins to warm it up a touch. I never had any issues lowering the roof on the 350 in temps much lower than that

Told you it was good It really does make such a difference to the car, I'm still surprised that so few people have gone this route. Utter bargain for the effects you get.

Running the same size tyres all round won't dial out understeer, you'll just get massive oversteer as you'll have shifted the balance too far to the front. Drop the front tyre pressures a couple of psi (what tyres are you running, and what pressures?), and get some adjustable A-arms on the front along with some camber arms on the rear so you can set the suspension up more aggressively first. That's the correct way to get rid of understeer, adding massive tire widths at the front is only going to cause a very unbalanced car which will in turn reduce your track times.

Very nice, get that up on the wall!

Happy birthday John, hope you have a good day fella! I always thought you were much older than 25 though...

Surely it comes down to one very simple question: Do you want to take the roof down or not? If yes, then get the ragtop. If not, then get the coupe. Everything else can be changed (or if you want the HR engine just buy a later car), so that's the only question you need to answer.

Still one of the worst looking cars on sale today. Utterly vile, why anyone would buy that when you look at it's rivals I've no idea. I had one as a courtesy car a few years back, and it was the single worst driving experience of my life. Turgid little buggers.

Correct. Any competent garage will be fine

To be fair, it could've been that person's first day at work and they might not come from a car background, so wanted to make sure they got everything right for you. Not everyone knows everything about cars, for some people it's just a job. If the work is fairly priced and the person actually carrying out the work knows what they're doing, then who cares if the person on the phone knows chuff all?

Fugly and turbocharged Still, it now makes the Zonda more of a classic than ever. That F above is pure sex

To keep the balance correct between front and rear grip. Surely you've noticed that the car is somewhat oversteery?!

I do hope you mean 225/45/18 on the front and 245/45/18 on the rear...

Right, let's start this again with the facts, shall we? There is no law being rushed through this week. What does happen this week is the end of the consultation period of the new Defra Business Plan, which includes discussions as to what the best way forward is. If you want to actually read the draft proposals. then click here and follow the links. If you decide that you actually want to pass comment on the plans in a reasoned way and to someone who will actually listen, then you need to write to Information-consultation@defra.gsi.gov.uk and not just stick your name on yet-another poorly informed and pointless internet petition that goes nowhere and achieves precious little other than wasting people's time. It really does bug the hell out of me when people get all excited about stuff happening without bothering to actually read up on the details behind the action. It's not rocket science, all the info is out there, it's just a case of looking for it and digesting it instead of getting all Daily Mail about it and concluding that the government are going to stitch us all up. FWIW I agree with the sentiment here, but we're still a long way from a law getting pushed through on the quiet, much less any actual land getting sold.

Complete opposite, space saver always goes on the non-driven wheels. On the front if your car is RWD, on the rear if FWD.

Scam, ignore.

Very surprised you don't like the RE050As, they're very good tyres and do give a lot of feedback before they let go. Have you had a geo done recently, as if all that's out you can get the symptoms you're describing. That said, if you're looking at 050A prices then try the PS2s, they're marginally better for feel at the slight trade off of all out wet grip, but it's marginal and I'd be happy to run either on my car. I suspect however you might prefer the VUS, as they are the second most communicative tyres I've ever driven on (right behind the Neovas on an S1 Elise) and while you are going to sacrifice a fair amount of grip all round you do get an immense amount of feel from them.

They're quicker than a Lamborghini, y'know /PH_folklore

No your wrong there they arent check them up. Near same pricing as gsd-3s. That doesnt make them a cheap tyre. its not all about what you think it cheap aswell as Neil said Alex's 600bhp car runs them no problem. I personally dont think they are that great but some people love them. Different people drive differently and need different tyres to suit their driving style or what they need from a tyre. I have 'checked them up', and they're a cheap budget tyre. They have a poor compound that doesn't like heat so you'll never be able to work them enough to get them proper sticky without them melting, they have floppy sidewalls so you're always increasing the internal pressure to get any turn-in from them, and (whisper it) they're not actually that good in the wet either. Alex may run them on his car but I bet he doesn't get anywhere near adequate grip on them, with his monster you'd need R888s or full slicks to get that kind of power down. They're a cheap solution if you just want something to kill off on a trackday and don't really care about outright pace, which I suspect is how Alex uses them and I would too given how quickly his car must go through rubber, but don't mistake that for a quality tyre. At least you're right about different tyres suiting different driving styles, but we're talking thousandths of a second at the top end of the market here (i.e. the difference between the 050As and the PS2s), not the basics between a budget tyre and a premium one. Have you ever driven in anger a 350Z on the VUS, PS2 or 050A back to back? I have, and the difference is night and day. The FK452/T1R are cheap budget tyres, simple as that. If they were that good do you not think that the big manufacturers would put them on their cars from the factory? They don't, because they're not. By all means put them on your car, but you're sacrificing grip, turn in, feel, and reduced stopping distances in both wet and dry conditions. Yes, they're legal, but that doesn't make them a good companion for the Zed.