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Assuming you've got no idea really what sound you're after yet, I'd be very tempted to stick with something from Peavey. They're not the greatest name in guitar amplification, but you will get a fair amount of bang for your buck along with a sound that's pretty flexible. I currently use a Bandit 112 which is probably way overkill for your needs, but it suits me very well for anything from classic rock to metal, although it's happiest when I'm playing something with a more average rather than extreme sound (think Foo Fighters etc). Tbh you're best off going down to your local music place and having a play with various stuff down there using your own guitar, then at least you'll know exactly what it'll sound like. Doesn't matter if you can't play for peanuts, just give the sales guy the guitar and let him demo it for you while you listen. If you really want to go cheap and cheerful then there's always the option of one of those £50 mini-mini Marshall things and plugging a decent set of headphones into it, no good for jamming though.

Whereabouts in Berks are you Mark? You're welcome to pop round and borrow my OBDII reader if you like, but I'm not exactly just round the corner! I'd be tempted to find a small-ish garage close to you if there's no-one on here closer, they should all have code readers and shouldn't charge more than £20-ish (realistically that's all Nissan should charge you too if you pop down to a main dealer). Well worth investing a code reader off of eBay, worth their weight in gold.

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Very obscure codes those, any of them. I'd carry on as normal and see if the CEL comes on again, and if it does with a repeat code then we've got something further to go on. If not, call it a fluke and ignore it.

Won't be anything to do with the exhaust as everything you changed is long after the O2 sensors. Only thing that would throw an O2 error code would be different cats or test pipes, or a leak before the sensors.

He should be shot for turning such a beautiful car into such an ugly piece of @*!#. Front looks like a snowplough and the rear looks like an ironing board.

I'm running the Cuscos as well Maz, lovely pieces of kit.

I've only ever seen them facing one way on both front and rear discs, although I guess there's nothing to stop you having it your way. Seeing as how the fronts carry the vast majority of the braking force they would be the ones I'd have set up aggressively if anything, but DBA might well have put them your way round simply to avoid any excess pad/rotor wear.

Take the keys to bed with you. Job's a carrot.

You can put them either way, it just depends on what you want the rotors to do. Having them facing forward as per the first pic is the more common way, as the vanes will dig into the pad more and allow greater braking at the expense of pad wear. Having them the other way basically does the opposite, but with the benefit also of de-glazing the pads. I'd always fit mine as per the first pic, and indeed that's what AP recommend in their Big Book Of Brakes (or their tech catalogue as it's more commonly known).

Interesting one. I can't find anything on either the DVLA website, PH nor the whole of Google about this, so I'm tempted to call BS on it. Saying that, I honestly think it's a bloody good idea and if it stops chavs sticking black dots on their hideously-fonted number plates, then I'm all for it.

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Wait, what? You MUST declare all mods else your insurance is invalid.

I need a life

E46 330i. You'll pick up a decent one for that money, it'll be as quick as you should realistically need it to be, loads of room, looks good, bulletproof, and a great drive as well.

What was the code when you reset the light? Please tell me you wrote it down...

I'm assuming they see it as heat-related paint damage, i.e. you took a paint stripper gun, melted the paint off and let the body underneath rust. Which obviously any self-respecting owner does to their new car...!

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Doesn't work. * It's more like 8m than 20m over 50s right now * 8m of those 50+ workers currently contribute £80bn per annum in tax revenue that will then need to be replaced * The over 50s are highly qualified and experienced, not easily replaced by recently fired call-centre workers * Buying 8m new cars also means selling 8m used cars, destroying the second-hand values and driving costs up for everyone * Once 8m new cars are sold this year and none next, how is the industry to survive that dramatic rise and then crash * Over 50's selling 8m (large) houses to downsize will drive down the price of expensive property and drive up the price of smaller houses forcing even more off the property ladder. Or basically, an eight trillion pound boom and bust.

Daft question perhaps, and forgive me if this sounds too harsh, but do you actually know exactly how a stiffer set of ARBS will effect the handing of your car? It's not always a good thing to have really stiff bars...

Is it a Bose? Is it stock? Then it it's amplified as far as I know. There's so much info on the ICE side of this car on this site it's untrue, and if you'd looked at the FAQs then you'd have found this.

That's what I like to see, positive thinking!

See, now I want to know if you actually do have a funny haircut or not: Pix plz!

Very true, but then no-one forces you to post them either.