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I hate the A14 with a passion. When coming home from the North I'll take the A1->M25 rather than sit on that godforaken road.

Depends on the person. I know 17 year olds who are more than capable of handling a 350, and I know 40 year olds I wouldn't trust with a Fisher Price trike. Genrally speaking though, I'd be in favour of a similar power limit like they have for bikes on cars, so over 21 would be a good base to start from. Everyone is different though, I bought my first sports car at 23 and I had no idea what I was doing with it or how to drive at all at that age. It was mid-engined too, so far harder to drive quickly (and easier to get wrong) than a 350.

Ultimately the issue was massively compounded by the drivers themselves. The early crashers simply weren't looking where they were going as the big cloud of smoke should've brought them down to walking pace (the camera guy managed to see it and stop in time, why didn't the others?), along with parking in daft places. If you park before the accident, you're more likely to become the next accident: You really should always try and drive past it to park up. That said, in this case that would've meant the guy would have had to walk even further back before he could start flagging cars down, so a lose/lose scenario really. The ones that panic and just mash the brake also contribute here. If they'd stayed calm and in control, they could easily have slowed down and driven around the obstruction. It's poor driving all round. And despite all that, it just shows what a seriously dangerous place the Ring is. Also, it's why I'll never do a TF day there unless the car is 100% sacrificial or as insured as I can reasonably make it.

Wherever else she'll let me put it

I'd smash it until it fell off. Front doors, back doors, side gate, the lot.

It's like buses in here today! Also, congrats Brian!

Would've been Mr Wrong Opinion if I'd have gotten my way

Nah, it's just that at least one of those hands has been touching their willies at some point, so I figure I don't want that hand used to operate the forum Or I might just have missed a couple of words out

Who? Oh, those two. Blimey, really scraping the barrel, wasn't like this in my day etc. Congrats guys, couldn't think of two safer hands for the forum to be in

Good for you Hugh, I definitely reckon you’ve earned a rest

Caveat emptor of course applies, but that can’t provide a defence for misrepresentation. So if the guy lies to you about the car, like saying he’s just had the clutch changed for example when he hasn’t, then you have legal recourse. Desperately wanting cash only is perhaps a tad odd but it’s the only way to be sure really, aside from forged notes... But as above, you MUST get a signed, dated and timed receipt, preferably a copy each. If he won’t do that, then I wouldn’t buy the car tbh.

I run their front splitter on the Bummer, and it was (surprisingly, given the price) an absolute perfect fit. I'd buy their stuff again.

Exactly my point: Could be on the US looms only. Wouldn’t be that hard t do from the factory, they may even just have done it for all LHD cars.

On UK and JDM cars, I doubt it. Maybe on the US ones?

Not as standard I'm afraid, no.

I don't think the plugs are too hard to do on an Impreza as there's a fair bit of room to manouevre, but I've not actually tried it myself yet. The ones on the 911 were a piece of cake though.

I remember our last place, which was also my first, cost the previous owner £58K to buy. We paid £128K for it just two years later in 2003. Not quite as impressive a set of figures as yours, but it does show how the market leapt in the early Noughties. One guy I was chatting with at work a few years back said he bought his place for about £6K in the Sixties, and was then worth about £300K. I did some back of fag packet maths and worked out that, if house prices rose by the same amount over the next forty years or so, that my house would be worth about £14M which seems bonkers But then, I'm guessing £300K also seemed bonkers back in the Sixties so who knows?

I went with £50-£60, but only because I had the figure of £50 in my head. That's what an average non-specialised psychiatrist charges round our way, so I figured that's got to be in the ball park.

I've had ceramic coatings done on exhaust parts before, but that was on turbo applications where you're dealing with much higher temps. Was it worth it? No idea, never took pre/post temps to find out, but it looked pretty No real drawbacks that I'm aware of, but obviously you need a total coating to prevent anything getting underneath it and also reasonably thick so it does the job, On relatively low power NA (i.e. anything short of pure race engines) I wouldn't bother if I'm honest, unless it's for the looks.

Yeah, it's pretty disgusting that we're so far behind. What worries me is that there doesn't seem to be any political will at all to improve things. I get that as a country we're skint, but then at least incentivise the private sector to do something about it themselves.

It may not be my personal topic of choice, and certainly the way this particular discussion has gone has been challenging, but I do think it's an important subject to discuss and understand.

I’ve no issue with BT spending money on sports to generate profits to plough into infrastructure. My personal issue is that something as key as digital comms shouldn’t be left to a private company to do on their own: The government should be pushing them to do far more, and to subsidise connections as well. Putting billions into HS2 for limited benefit of one part of the country is ridiculous, especially when it could be used to benefit every single person throughout the entire country instead.

This is the Other Cars section, so it definitely does have a place here But yeah, EVs are dull. No argument from me there.

Nah, not on just a wheel change, but definitely the springs