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Before, and after. Thoughts? Apart from the fact it needs a clean.

Waaaaaaaay too much effort there. I just got mine drunk and took her to a beach on Xmas Eve. Bloody freezing, she would've said anything just to get somewhere warm. But yeah, congrats and stuff.

Your car has something called handling feedback though, which is what the CTR and S3 sadly lack. The Golf R though, can't help you there, it's a cracking all round package.

I'll give a pug a kiss on the cheek. Does that count?

sssshhhh don't tell everyone

Honest, they're brilliant. If you like cats and whimsical stories about the countryside and and stuff. WOFFAL!

Tom Cox's cat books are an essential read. As funny as they are insightful as they are sad. I don't normally do books, but I love this series.

I have to agree with BBK, that really is a well done vid.

This is getting painful, for the both of us. Look, you clearly don't understand how democracy works on a large scale, and I don't understand why you feel it's a big deal that we don't always get what we want. Let's leave it at that, we're going round in circles otherwise.

In a democracy, yes. How many of those 480 laws actually made any difference to our lives?

I'd also paint them black

Not really. I mean, it's arty, but I like my car films to show the car doing more than 20mph or parked in someone's driveway. Stunning car though. Thank god they fixed the Huayra's front end at last!

True, but extra layers and a decent lacquer is always going to be more resistant. The finish may still get whacked, but at least you're protecting the actual fibreglass.

But we are in control of our destiny. We didn't want the Euro, so we don't have it. That's being in control, is it not? Don't even get me started on the mess that is Greece...!

But we didn't, so the point is moot.

They'll get slaughtered by stone chips. Just get them painted before you fit them.

Don't worry, it's higher now than it will be if we leave Just be grateful you're off next week rather than in July

He's a genius. It'll be nice to have someone who's both very clever and with a personality in politics.

Power isn't noticeable, it's the extra revs that make the Revup and HR more delicious to drive

My revup used chuff all oil. Luck of the draw, more than anything .

In the on-going experiment that is fiddling with things just to see what happens, I've been playing with the suspension again today. Yeah, still...! I've put all four corner on max soft, for no other reason than to see how close that actually is to the stock settings. The answer? Closer than I expected, tbh. You do notice the extra spring rate (exactly what that is I don't know, I really should speak to BC and find out) as it's more resistant to immediate bumps, however the damping at full soft is remarkably compliant and IIRC pretty damn close to stock. Certainly the car wafts much better at this level. My previous posts relating to super soft were actually made at 5 clicks from soft, turns out I can't actually count Is it what I'm after? No, but it's nice to have the option. I'm still struggling to find the perfect balance as the roads round here go from billiard-table-smooth to 13-year-old-boy-pockmarked within a few miles, but I'll get there. Oh, I should probably mention that I also have the full fitting kit for a bucket seat sat in my dining room right now too...

Yay!

Not the case. Unless they've changed the terms recently, then the document you sign explicitly states that all parts must be Porsche OEM or the entire warranty is void. Doesn't matter what the guy on the phone says, or if they'll let most things go, if the engine goes pop and they send an engineer round and they can see you've got a Bosch battery fitted, I can promise you that you won't be getting a new engine any time soon. They no longer put the policy documents online which is a shame. If they've changed it then brilliant, common sense at last, but as of a year ago that definitely wasn't the case.

Everyone (myself included) assumed that Lewis preferred his cars with a bit of oversteer, given that was how his championship winning MP4-23 was setup that way, along with watching his driving. It was only a few years later in an off-the-cuff moment in a random interview where he said he actually preferred a smidge of understeer instead, it was just that McLaren wouldn't set the car up like that for him.

George Foreman plastic spatula. The old skinny style ones. They're utterly brilliant for this kind of thing.