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How much info do you want?! Your car will not do more than 6500 rpm safely. You cannot EVER do more than that without major engine work. Just because the speedo says 180mph, doesn't mean your car can do that either

No, it doesn't. The rev counter might, but the engine doesn't.

Has anyone passed in anything decent?!

Erm, no. Just no. It's there for a reason. Unless you've strengthened your engine, you need it right where it is.

Mk4 Escort 1.3L Bonus. My first ever car, a 17th birthday present from my lovely parents.

1972, apparently. Close!

Can a mod please edit the title, my OCD can't take the rogue apostrophe any more

It makes absolutely no sodding difference whether you use 97, 99 or 105 unless you've specifically mapped for it. As long as the fuel is made to the correct BS, and they all are, then that's all that matters. The 350/370 wasn't made in the 1960s, so it'll be fine

For those of you that watch Eastenders, does your vagina twinge in excitement when it's on?

MPSS will do about 50% more mileage, like for like driving. Unless the alternative is half the price, it's always more cost effective to buy the MPSS. The fact they stick like sh*t to a blanket and have masses of feel too is just a nice bonus.

I was going to answer, but then I had something better to do.

Set of 888s and a trackday.

'Course it was, used by various people when the launch took place and they didn't like the original concept.

I call it the Xbone for the same reason homosexuals use the word queer: Initially, it was an insult, so I've reclaimed the word to be positive instead

Which Potenzas? RE050A or RE040? If they're 040 then bin the horrible things, if 050A then good choice I run both road and track tyres, depends on what I've got floating around or what I'm driving. I normally drive there on the nearly dead set (but still legal, I hasten to add) then set about destroying them on track. I then bring the new ones with me, and swap over either at lunch or at the end of the day. But yes, absolutely a great idea to flog them on eBay or wherever to get some cash back. Good track settings almost never make good road settings, hence the odd tyre wear. Never bothered me as long as I get 10K from a road set of tyres then that's just an annual cost, and I'll easy get that if I buy track tyres as well and keep them on a spare set of wheels.

Yeah that's right, just checking

You don't actually do a summons, you know that?

No, you don't! Do you honestly think that they are going to turn around and tell him to pay you back, and that he's then going to do so out of the kindness of his heart? No, of course not. They will advise him, and he doesn't have to tell you what they said, so he'll sit there until you bug him again. Then you're another month down the road and no closer. Just go and start the proceedings now, you can do it all online, these things don't just happen overnight. At least he'll know you're serious then. Right now, he's gambling you'll just go away.

Perfectly normal. it's the Ackermann principle in effect. Happens on every car with wide tyres.

I want a Tower Zinger Burger now, you git.

Well, indeed! Even if they tell him he needs to refund, unless you chase it he's not going to do anything, is he?

PMs can be read by anyone with access to the actual database. It's a faff, but doable. Admin, for example, could do this if they really wanted to. That said, I'm comfortable enough to say with a large degree of certainty that that's never happened here. If it did, then I think you'd quickly see a mass exodus when folks realised that PMs weren't P any more, so ultimately self defeating.

No. This has nothing to do with them and all to do with you. Start a claim today, no need to wait for anything else. They may well advise him that he needs to cough up, but regardless he's not going to do anything until court papers drop on his doorstep.

You've rejected the car, he has refused, I assume you've started a claim in the courts now?

Well said. The irony of someone telling people not to believe anything they see or read in the media because a piece of media told them to is brilliant. You don't have to believe everything the Daily Mail tells you, but neither should you believe that the Illuminati control Rupert Murdoch.