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Also with a ping of 130 you'll be terrible at CoD

Not disagreeing with you, but why? And is there one available in the OP's budget?

Sorry for your loss Celia That's a great photo, almost looks like he was trying to sneak into the driver seat before you

That's actually not a bad deal there for that, tbh.

Those numbers will be just fine, no fear there Exactly what model is it you're looking at? IIRC it's something plasticky that actually snaps off, but I've not used one for a while so exactly which bit I'm unsure. Who knows, they may have improved them by now in fairness.

But yeah, just give it a bit more oomph and it'll come apart.

Kranzle ftw, but a touch out of your budget Karcher are okay, but expect to be replacing the gun in short order as they're made of chocolate. That said, for £50-£70 I'd be happy enough recommending them as aside from the guns I've never had an issue with the ones I've owned over the years. But I do love my Kranzle very very much now.

Well yeah, there is that Why Joe Public spend £££ going there though and treat it like it's the Best Race Ever, I've no idea. I'd be quite happy for it to fall off the calendar, at least that way they might have a rethink about improving it rather than just raping wallets.

I don't understand why anyone bothers going to Silverstone for the British GP at all. I can't think of a race I'd like to go to less: Literally any of the other F1 circuits appeal much more. As you point out Doc, it's ridiculously expensive there too, so why bother? But then, after LM everything is a bit disappointing COTA, on the other hand, looks absolutely immense

Nowt wrong with a worm drive clamp. If it fits, it fits. The other alternative would be to get a bigger coupler and possibly shave the hardpipe down a bit.

Put it this way, that’s the same price bracket as an R8 or a 540C, and I’d damn as hell take either of those over this. I cant help but wonder if this was designed as a race car first, and a road car second. Aston aren’t shy about pushing their racing credentials these days, so I wonder if they’d decided to make the best racer possible so it would sell more road cars? Don’t know.

Messy. And waaaaaay too much money.

Get it bloody sorted then

So, this Sunday, everyone still in?

Just to note, you no longer need a breathalyser in France. There is no legal punishment for not having one, so just don't bother. Also don't speed in France, they take your licence there and then if you're proper naughty. #VOE

Might have missed it, but when are you planning on going?

PIX NEEDED GODDAMMIT

FWIW (and following on from our many conversations about this), the answer for you is Job A. You spent forever and a day bitching to me about how crap your last job was, and that you hated it, and you desperately wanted out of the industry to go and do something you enjoyed. We worked up plans to put in that place, and we spent time figuring out just what kind of roles would get you to a point where you didn't hate work and life in general. To go back to that is utterly pointless. Put it this way: You were doing a Mon-Fri, 9-5 job that let you spend money and time on your cars, and you hated life. What makes you think going back there is suddenly going to make you happy again? Unless you desperately need money (and you may well do at this point, which is fair enough) then the only answer is Job A. Job B is going to leave you f*cking miserable and stuck in a dead end again, and then you'll be a year or two further down the line with nothing to show for it once more. I see zero point in that. If you take Job A and don't like it then you can fall back to Job B (or similar) in a couple of years having lost precisely nothing, but if you don't take that chance while you can then you'll be kicking yourself about it. Do you want a job, or do you want a career?

Very good You might well find it's repairable, in which case I'd personally just let the insurer's garage deal with the whole thing. No disrespect, but it's only a Nissan so doesn't exactly require a huge amount of expertise to sort and all OEM stuff should just bolt straight on (i.e. you don't necessarily need an top-level bodyshop to fettle everything). Also this then puts the ball in their court to make sure it's all done properly, as they chose the garage not you Insurers don't want to pay twice for the same thing nor naff their customers off, so the big guys will only deal with quality garages these days anyway.

I see no reason not to leave it up, nothing there is prejudicial to your case. Video is as cut and dried as they come, arguably there's a criminal case for the other driver there but that's unlikely to ever be proven. And yes, dashcams are absolutely superb in these situations. What I will say is that this demonstrates why I say get the best one you can, as your footage isn't remotely clear enough to identify the car in the dark. Irrelevant in your case as clearly you have other pics post-crash, but if he'd driven off you'd have nothing. That said, anything is better than nothing as proved here. Good on you for getting a camera sorted Sorry to see this though, but please don't be too shaken up as there was absolutely nothing else you could've done. You were at the appropriate speed for the conditions, the other guy clearly wasn't. Cars can be repaired, people can't. Just glad you're okay bud.

I googled, closest I could get was Tom Hartley's son.

Don’t worry, the Scoob has a the big STi spoiler we can use

Who?

Oh heads up for the Xboners here, the Xbox Game Pass is currently £1 for 30 days rather than the usual £8. Sign up, play a bunch of games for 29 day’s, cancel before the end and you’re done. Or carry on paying if you make use of the service, or buy the games cheaper than usual etc. Im currently finishing Halo 5 (which I started when they did a free 24 test a year or so ago) and trying F1 2015 (always wondered how good the F1 games are, the answer is quite). God bless Black Friday deals!

Nothing else lined up right now, just fancy a change and going to see what’s out there