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'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.

Number plates look rubbish, end of. No-one has ever done anything to a plate ever which made everyone turn around and go "Ooh, that number plate looks amazing, what a brilliant idea!". All doing anything different does is draw your eyes to the fact the number plate exists, and looks crap. As such, stick a cheapy 100% legal set on there and be done with it. Make people notice the car, not the plate.

I would, unless you want to be chopping and changing the cat once a year. Some people do (I did with my MX-5) so always an option.

Lol not at all, it'll be bloody obvious to the tester that it's a testpipe and not a cat! All the simulator will be is either a resistor in the O2 sensor wire, or an extender to move the sensor out of the gasflow. It'll fool the ECU, but it won't fool someone looking at it nor the MOT sniffers.

Same as any exhaust, if it has a cat then you'll be fine (as long as it's a decent one that does actually filter the nasties), if no cat then it's an automatic fail.

You could do that yourself in 10 mins in Paint!

Stubby? Checked the physical connection of the antenna lead into the HU?

It'd look better without the watermark

Three strikes and all that...

In the convertible, yes. But still not on the coupe.

Beady lovely

10 is the best OS I've ever used. 7 is great, but 10 improves in every single area.

Absolutely. Thing is, I had zero plans to start gaming again when I bought this PC (indeed, it was an emergency purchase as the other one started being a knob and resetting itself every 5 mins) so didn't even consider it. If I'd bought something like a Titan then I'd probably have thought to check dimensions, but a sodding 980 should really be fitting any full size case these days. However, it was nothing a pair of tin snips, some duct tape and packaging foam couldn't sort out