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Unless they’ve sorted their horrendous quality control issues, banging them out of the door any quicker isn’t going to help Tesla. Cynically, I see this as an easy bit of good press to encourage more people to put a deposit down to assist with Tesla cash flow, rather than them actually having sorted anything.

Exactly. No way a Milltek for a P1 costs 500x the amount one for a Corsa costs to R&D and produce, but the market will take it so that’s what they charge. See also M/RS/AMG tax etc.

Given the cars are worth a min of £10M, how does that compare with regular stuff in terms of percentages? I mean, it’s a lot of money but is it out of whack considering the value?

Losing the plot? I’m not the one claiming that a regular insurance policy can be treated like a warranty They’re not saying that steering lock failure is covered in the slightest: Damage, loss or theft are NOT the same as failure. And you’re right, I do take issue with people making foolish and utterly bizarre recommendations without having the common sense to understand just why what they’re proposing wouldn’t work in the real world. Utterly bonkers.

Not a cat in hell’s chance. Damaged does not mean broken, as then you could claim on your insurance for anything and everything, including grenaded engines etc. If anyone is successful in claiming for this, I’ll pay their £100 excess myself!

Nissan themselves say that the issue is down to wear and tear, so this insurance policy wouldn't pay out for that. It's not a warranty, it's meant to fix things when thieves try and steal your car. Tbh every single insurance policy covers the exact same thing anyway, which is general damage by vandalism or theft, so whilst it's a nice idea any one buying a JL policy on the basis of claiming for this is going to be sorely disappointed methinks. Plus it's going to affect your claims history, something most folks want to avoid. Unless, of course, you could somehow lose the entire steering lock mechanism, as it clearly says that it'll replace it in that case...

Demon tweeks have pretty much exclusive sales in the R888R (note the extra R) these days. Just checked and they’re in stock right now. Tried Camskill, Black Circles etc? Where are you looking?

R888R in 235/40 and either 265/35 or 275/35 will do you just fine. 285 rear is really excessive unless you're running massive power, especially on track rubber where you've got masses of extra grip anyway. Tbh, if you're running track rubber then you'll likely want to be running with the TCS off anyway, which makes the debate redundant. FWIW, I used to run 225/40 and 245/40 R888 on my old car and never had issues, nor a lack of grip

The trick is to keep the % rolling radius difference between front and rear the same as OEM. Do that and you should be fine. For track, I wouldn’t look further than the R888R if 18”.

I would've thought so, as you're not really limited by where you put the batteries (assuming they're flat rather than boxy) so you'd probably lay them all out on the floorpan. Would do wonders for dynamics as well, keeping the weight down that low. Just a shame they weigh so much right now.

I've no doubt that one day I'll own/rent/hire an EV. It'll be for the daily grind, where the car drives itself and I can eat breakfast or read the paper or snooze away. That's the goal, that's where an EV can beat anything else. On the weekend, I'm firing up my ICE car and enjoying every last noise, smell and odd shaking through the steering wheel on right hand bends at 40mph that I have to diagnose myself.

Did I ever mention that I quite like Porsches? FWIW before this gets locked, whilst I do still think that one single EV thread would work best right now (at least until we have many more options available to discuss) and can see where JP is coming from, I'm also aware that GZ hasn't been quite as *ahem* 'vocal' on the subject in this thread as we've had in others.

To fit the RB kit, you have to cut them. A few months between shouldn’t make much difference, however I’d put something over the rust to stop it getting any worse at least. If you decide not to RB the car, then you can get them done properly.

Is it still that crappy wasteland from last series?

If you’re cutting the arches, then rust is a bit irrelevant

Is thraping an EV round a track not like watching your favourite film with the sound on mute? Sure, you still get the core event, but you remove something very visceral from the entire experience.

It was a handbag, h’actually. I needed a new handbag.

I wasn’t far off then Doesn’t seem horrendous to have an official sticker, but are there no trustworthy local garages you could go to instead? No real value in staying with main dealers at 100k+.

Which Christmas?

Every other DC wheel I’ve seen (like the M3 ones) are proper shiny, these just look the same colour all over to my dodgy eyes.

I’ll stick my neck out and say they don’t look diamond cut to me, but then I’m notoriously rubbish at these things

It doesn’t. Just upload the pic directly to the forum

Couple of hundred for the service, another hundred for the gearbox, and fifty for the tracking. All ish.

You're thinking of the BP23: This is the P15. The BP23 will be centre-driven.

It’s a Halfords special without a special drivetrain, I genuinely don’t get the love for it. Of course it’ll be fast and drive well, but no kid is going to put that on their bedroom wall. It’s just a terrible, terrible design. Cars can be very fast and look good too, they’re not mutually exclusive.