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Still at the garage, rear toe bolt broke when doing the alignment Patience is a virtue and all that.

Can you take a photo without any filters, so we can see the true colour? I'm in two minds about the colours, but there's no doubt that these wheels suit the car far more than the old ones.

^^^ That. I've driven a turbo 350 on road and track, but I've never owned one.

Tomorrow The sneak pics I've got aren't really that good, if I'm honest.

... said no one, ever.

Clearly you've been there too long then!

No, don't roger it! Bloody Welshmen...

Nah, sod the sheep!

In theory, you're supposed to micro manage the assignment of soldiers, which I started doing but now I just auto-assign via right click of the right stick. So much easier, and I don't feel hard done by at all. That puppy is quite important

If I was trying to be patronising Adrian, I'd have said that your contributions to this thread had been invaluable.

Yup, and it's quite low now, or at least low to me!

The car is ready for collection! No coolant pipe done as sadly it didn't arrive in time and didn't look like it would before next weekend, however mine is fine so that's good news. The roof also didn't get wrapped as there was a mixup, so may try and get that done during the week. Still, roll on tomorrow!

Bears are evil f*ckers. You need a capture cage, you unlock it later on along with more powerful ZZZ darts.

I think we scared him off

Can I just interject at this point and say that this is proving to be a very worthwhile discussion, and apart from a couple of posts where people have been trying to provoke a reaction, everyone has made some excellent points on both sides. It's refreshing to see this kind of open debate about the forum on here, it's not often that we all have a frank and open discussion about our community. Well done folks

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!