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The 2L STi lump is hysterical when properly tuned to about 330bhp. Our old blobeye PPP one would easily keep my 911 in sights on pretty much any road you'd care to mention, it had bags of feel on turn in and with the DCCD you could essentially make it slide on a penny on command. Such a frenetic engine too, one of the all-time greats for me, and with just the right amount of driver involvement that the Evo of the era always struggled to match, even if it beat the Impreza for pace. The WRX has the chocolate gearbox, but the STi is pretty much bulletproof in that regard. I wouldn't own a WRX as the ones we tested felt very tame, but the STi? I'd have another in a heartbeat.

What did you order? DT are usually a tad expensive, but I've never found their service to be anything other than excellent, especially when I've had cause to have a moan.

I'd happily defend myself against anyone. Sex, size, glasses, none of that would come into it. Not that the Thai bloke who kicked her in the head was defending himself at all. mind.

Insurance finally agreed the bill, and it's being repaired at the garage of my choosing next week. Hopefully I'll have her back for next weekend More than a month later, but half of that was taken up with me faffing around with AMCs. If there's one thing I've learnt from this, just let your insurer take care of it as that's what you pay them for. Maybe I'll pay a bigger hit next year on the premium, but at least I get my car back all sorted and looking better than ever. Onwards and upwards!

She looked like a gobby old cow to me. Doesn't mean she deserved a punch in the face, but she certainly wasn't going quietly.

Agreed, I wouldn't look further than the BCs at that price point.

Not my favourite colour, but it's my favourite car so I'll forgive them.

What on earth were the tourists thinking?! That's utterly insane to start anything in that kind of area. Annoyed they might be, but to argue back like that... Well, I don't want to say they were asking for it, but it was spectacularly dumb.

Elephone?! :lol:

http://www.pistonheads.com/gassing/topic.asp?h=0&f=159&t=1570353

Exactly what I was going to say!

Technic has never about aesthetics. It's about the mechanical side, and the structural side. Creator looks more accurate, but it's much less interesting to build.

Already on the PH GB for one

Same pads I use! And I agree with you about the hex pads, I don't like them for the exact same reason, clogging.

No need to wash after a clay, I tend to use the water on the car to clay with as well after you've rinsed. After all, you're only going to put more wet stuff back on it to clay. That doesn't mean you don't need any QD as well, as the car will dry in places. It just means you need less.

That is the cheapiest, nastiest mesh I've ever seen. £40 to ruin your car? Yeah, sounds a bargain. Honest, if you genuinely like that style just go to Halfords and pick up their mesh for about £10 and DIY, it'll likely be a better job.

It's just a Zunsport one, no? Readily available from the UK.

Amen!

Have you ever driven one? You'd understand then

Having seen the form they wanted you to use, it counted for nothing anyway. If a gazebo falls over it can kill someone, fact. That's a three on their risk scale. If you weigh it down it'll be very unlikely to fall, so that's a one on their scale, giving a score of three on their matrix. They won't let you do anything over a two though! In their example they say a falling gazebo might just injure someone max, not kill. That is utter rubbish. Would you be happy standing up in court arguing you got it right when someone's dead? I wouldn't. Risk assessment is a minefield, and you don't want to be doing it unless you're 100% sure as once you do, it's your neck on the block.

You don't get the choice to go to court or not, your contract with your insurer gives them the right to settle as they see fit. You can push, or you can go it alone, but you can't make them take it to court if they don't want to.

It's all about the polishing. The longer you spend on that, the better your result. If 1.5hrs is all you can spare, and nothing wrong with that, then I'd ditch the snow foam and TBM, just get the car as clean as you can as quickly as you can (don't worry about adding swirls, you're about to remove them!) then spend your time with a decent polish. SRP will work if that's what you already have, and just take your time until you get the finish you want. You can always use a liquid wax instead of the Nattys to shorten the waxing stage, giving you more time on the polishing stage. To be honest, really you need to be looking at a minimum of a day for the whole car, however no reason you can't split that up over multiple weeks! Do a panel at a time, literally just wash, polish then protect that panel, then the next week do the next one. Once you've done them all then go back to the snow foam & TBM method, skip the polish and just top up the wax if required.

Knowing the roads in your area well, I'd suggest a starting point of 15F and 20R, all set from hardest. Tweak as you see fit, keeping a 5 gap difference first of all until you feel the car is stiff enough without jumping over the surface. You can then adjust the ratio as you feel is right. This is only an incredibly rough guide, as your geo settings, wheels, tyres and pressures of will also affect what works for you. Don't be afraid to experiment, you won't damage anything, just be aware that stiffer rear than front will promote oversteer. That said, if 32F/0R feels good then go for it!

I'd probably just take it to a paint shop, can't be any more than £60-£80 to spray a wing mirror. Hell, you could probably buy a decent used cover for less.

For a 2004 car with 60k on the clock? Not with cars like this around. It's not an awful car by any means, but the apparent paint mismatch isn't doing you any favours,. Neither is the need for a service, the camber arms and a front end respray. That's a few quid right there. You say it's tuned for 99, I assume it has a map on to run regular Super too? I'm not saying you won't get £10k for it, but it'll be from someone thinking with their heart rather than their head IMHO. *Note for Mods: I've given an honest opinion here, as the OP asked an honest question. Please let me know if you think I've overstepped and I'll edit as appropriate.