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However, I will happily admit that part of it is down to being nosey, but then that's human nature. As is pushing boundaries, see my point above.

Doc explained it pretty well, I think. I also maintain that if you don't know where the lines are, how do you know when you've crossed them?

Oh lord, that is soooooooo much better than the standard 370 interior! Gauge pod isn't a great fit, but I really like the idea and that's certainly better than what was there before.

Looking at it from their POV, and I'm not speaking for them nor am I saying that this conversation went down when I was a Team Member (as it didn't), but my guess would be that sometimes people don't get banned because they break one rule, it's because they break several. You then need to explain each and every rule that was broken, which isn't always possible as the data isn't kept in a format that's easy to search, and justify each one: That takes time. I still think a quick one-liner saying "Jeff was banned because of some bad trading practices and poor reactions to moderation requests" would be enough, but others may want more detail which, let's face it, would be a real sod to sort out. I can't see any moral reason not to disclose the reason for a ban (it's not without precedent, think Greekman), so I'll assume that it's a time/effort thing. I'm not having a dig at the Team here, as it's not like I particularly tried to change things when I was a Mod and perhaps had the ability to chat behind the scenes, so I'm as guilty as anyone for the status quo.

Phew, just checking! That's cool bud, it just seemed a very final way to end your post, I nearly expected to click the submit button and find the topic locked! No-one expects the team to debate things forever, certainly I don't, and I'm not trying to be a PITA (for once). I just thought a bit of clarity was needed. And of course, you can guarantee that now we've cleared this up, the thread will die and no-one will post again! :lol:

+1 on Tarmac's pricing on the BCs, he was miles cheaper than anywhere else I found on the internets

Martin, whilst we understand that the decision has been made and will not be changed and I'm sure I speak for all of us here when I say we're fine with that and respect the Team's decision, surely you're not forbidding us to discuss this further? No harm in letting us put across our opinions, even if we ultimately understand that nothing will change. As long as we remain polite and respectful, I'd be very disappointed if we were banned from discussing a subject on here like this. Not a personal dig mate, we know each other well enough to by now that I'm sure you can see where I'm coming from, but just to make sure (and remembering my earlier post on here that got taken the wrong way) I'll chuck up some happy faces so you know I'm saying this in the nicest possible way. :)

BC for me. I've tried them on the 350, and run them on the MR2 and BMW. I'm not saying the others aren't any good, and indeed they're all much of a muchness, but I'm satisfied enough with the quality of the materials used as well as the properties of the damping itself that I feel no need to buy another brand. Teins are not a better damper, IMHO. None of their products really do it for me, even the N1 stuff isn't as well balanced as the KWV3.

No, I wouldn't use 9 year old tyres either, however Michelin actually recommend a 10 year changing regime. I've copied this next section from the 911-UK website, where they had a Q&A with Michelin UK Technical Manager Jamie McWhir last month (FYI I've edited the formatting to make it easier to read): The tyres the CGT originally came on were part of the reason the car was tricky on the limit as they weren't great (along with the geometry and the ceramic clutch, amongst others), and owners are reporting vastly increased control by running MPSS on them now. That's the difference that Jamie refers to in his last sentence.

Sorry mate, my stunted comment was meant purely in jest, hence the multiple winky faces. My apologies if you or the Team took any offence, you're absolutely correct in that I do know exactly how long the Team debate these issues: Honestly folks, they do really go over and over this stuff!

"Some of them want to know why we ban people. Shall we tell them?" "Nah." "Sorted." ;)

Agreed. A simple one line post saying something like "Person X was banned due to abusive PMs / bad trading practices / consistently ignoring Moderator's instructions to wind their neck in etc". Can't hurt, and if anything it prevents other bans if people know where the line sits. No ones asking for all the gory bits, and having sat on the other side of the fence I know what the team go through and how each decision is discussed and analysed before any action is taken, and I just think it would be good to share the basic knowledge with members of this community.

I've got a giraffe one

That's brilliant! :lol:

That's... Actually not bad looking at all. Utterly pointless, but certainly looks good.

*grabs popcorn, settles in for the evening*

Looks broken. And that awful wrapping on the front lights needs to go. Good colour scheme though.

:lol: Can't... breathe... :lol: Sorry man, I know you're passionate about your car and that's great, but that sentence is utterly hysterical!

I mean, do we have to go back to every single car crash ever and send it off for independent tests? Where do you draw the line? This is a feeding frenzy for the lawyers, that's it. If there's any one to blame it's the driver, so why is the family not suing his estate?

Every other manufacturer in the world has had cars that caught on fire, both through crashes and also via other issues (electrical is the most common one). Every manufacturer. Every. Single. One. The car passed the safety tests. The police saw no reason to look any further after the crash. Why on earth would there be any need to carry out any further tests on this? Car driven like a knob = hits solid object = occupants dead. This is not an uncommon occurrence, in the US or the UK or anywhere in the world.

I was going to try and use some technical words that I googled like 'polling the database' or 're-imagining the integers at a quark-based level', but figured I'd just make myself look more stupid than people already think I am.

Probably! The forum always seems to be a bit tardy in the mornings, is that when the database is sorting itself out? PMs though are deathly slow any time of day.

Only if you're silly enough to admit you took the picture whilst driving, and that you were on a public road.

i was going to post in here about how incredibly slow the forum is this morning (1-10-15, 6am to current 8:30am), however it was taking so long to load that I sent my next few posts by carrier pigeon instead. I assume it'll be much quicker than it is right now. Also, on a serious note, why do PMs always take an age to load, even if the forum is running fine? Click the envelope icon, click the message to read, and then you sit there for half an hour* waiting for it to load. It's getting very painful. *My mum told me a billion times to stop exaggerating.

Nah, if you've have sped up to 80mph and taken a photo then, that's would've been perfect