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"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

That's the real issue there: The tests have NOTHING to do with real life driving. That's where people's anger should be directed, as it's also why we end up with cars that are advertised as doing 70mpg yet only ever getting 45mpg in the real world.

Gotcha. Sorry, I thought you meant they'd been banned or something equally daft, not that your setup won't fit on them

Well, people have said I'm an irritating c*nt...

Again, stupid people... I'd buy VAG product happily. In fact, I'm more likely too now I know they think the emissions test is stupid as well!

I heartily approve of this purchase

I'm not keen.

http://www.sun-sentinel.com/local/broward/pembroke-pines/fl-pines-i-75-fatal-crash-20150928-story.html Oh look, a GT-R got set on fire after the driver was acting like a berk! They're clearly not safe! Let's sue Nissan! You see how silly this looks?

This is ridiculous. I genuinely cannot tell if you actually believe the tripe you're spouting, or if you're trolling me hard. He binned a car at 90mph into a tree. A solid tree. It's not realistic in the slightest to expect to walk away from that at all, regardless of car. Sure, it can happen, but then people die after crashes at half the speed too. It was a crappy sequence of events (wrong speed, wrong thing to hit, wrong angle to hit it at etc) that led to the car going up in flames. That's it. End of. No one else to blame, no fault on Porsche, just a crappy thing that happens. I can't understand how someone as clearly intelligent as yourself cannot see that. It's like finding out Stephen Hawking believes in the tooth fairy.

He hadn't even said no yet. Give him a chance to respond, at least. Assuming it's a negative response, simply lodge a claim with Money Claim Online and state your case. It's a simple breach of contract, and as long as you've kept all your conversations then judgement will be found in your favour. This is assuming you haven't made ANY special requests to the item (might be an idea to tell us what it actually is), and it's a generic item.

Not just you at all, it's a stupid test designed to make stupid consumers feel better about their stupid purchases.