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Interesting... Also, a very good and easy way to prevent water marks is to simply use the open end of a hose for a final rinse, after you've jetwashed (or using a hose nozzle) off any shampoo. Do that all over the car, couple it with a quick spray of a QD and you'll find you'll get almost zero water marks with almost zero effort.

Keep Zed, but VX220 for track, sorted. A £12k 996 will always be worth £12K, drop £7k into a 350 and you'll lose half that overnight. Personally I'd always go for a new car, as the experience of owning something different is what excites me. An Elise should be on everyone's driveway at some point, you could run it for a year and not lose any money the other side.

The only thing I found RMT useful for is as a glass cleaner. It's superb for that, I found it far too streaky on paint compared with something like the Supernatural Spritz (which I actually use as a wheel sealant!) or the Blackfire Crystal, my current fave.

Where these machines excel is for quick paint improvement, getting rid of swirls and making RDS much less noticeable. Essentially you use one to make paint as flawless as possible, and then you put the wax on top just for protection. You need very very little wax in truth, most people put far too much on and then it just cakes on in hard lumps, which makes it a pain to remove. Once the pad is loaded, try putting on a tiny amount (1/10th of what you normally use), then keep spreading it until there is nothing left to spread. You'll be surprised how far it goes, based purely on watching others I reckon you'll get an entire panel done where previously you'd have though the pad was empty

If you only want a machine for the wax, don't bother. I find it quicker and easier to do by hand, plus I've never found a liquid wax a patch on the solid stuff.

Everything counts, get some pics up when you're done

After my accident, I never drive other cars that either I can't afford to replace immediately with cash, or that I'm not insured FC on. This is a sad and stark reminder of why I do that. I'm just glad you're okay though, cars can be replaced but people never can.

Just to go back to your first post, you say that you're not driving fast or anything so don't understand why they're shaking their heads at you. You don't have to be driving fast to be discourteous when driving. Maybe you're not indicating? Maybe you're not leaving enough gap when pulling in after overtaking (SOOOOO many people do this!)? Maybe you're sitting a bit too close behind them? Maybe your stereo up up full playing something awful with the windows down? Maybe you're banging off the rev limiter, or TLGP all the time? There's millions of things, not saying that you're doing all of them or indeed any of them, but we should always be more critical of our own driving.

No, the average Joe sees it as yet another youngster in a flash car paid for by Daddy with an obnoxious sound, driving too fast and not giving a fig about other drivers. None of which is true, but stereotypes stick and it's up to all of us to change them.

When I emailed the manager, I gave him my phone number for him to call me to discuss the situation, but they did not call. Which I am quite glad in one sense. As we emails I can use as evidence if things got worse. Previous experience when calling dealer has not been successful as they always seem to be busy with a customer. Which is why now the majority of my communications is done via email. Its a sad state of affairs that you have to rely on emails for evidence especially if things goes wrong. Whilst I see where you're coming from, and indeed I always get things in writing as well, there is no better way of sorting out a problem than by simply picking the phone up. Make it personal, don't just let yourself become another faceless person on email, you'll get far better results. I'm not saying the dealer handled this well (they obviously didn't), but by the same token a quick phonecall could've made this go a lot smoother. It's very easy to sit back and say that you're the customer and the business should move heaven and earth for you, but sometimes in the real world it can really pay to give as much effort back the other way.

It's a cheap £5K car, it's hardly a P1 Like I said, you will always find the odd person who doesn't get sports cars, but if you're getting this a lot then I'm sorry, but you're the problem. Why some people can never admit they might be a teensy bit in the wrong, I'll never know.

One or two people, yeah they could have issues. If you're getting this a lot though, you need to be asking questions of your own driving.

What did the dealer principal say when you rang him and spoke to him about this?

Completely unique, just like everyone one else.

Can't really tell, someone kept revving the engine during the video! Grab another one, use a mate to help you by sitting in the seat and pushing the clutch down every now and then so we can tell the difference, whilst you film from just outside the door.

I love your little nuggets

*awful

Keep an eye out for me, the car is particularly subtle this year...

Unfortunately, they're all due to your original mistake, there's no easy way of saying that. I fear you're on a hiding to nothing here. By all means ask the question, but ultimately you really should pay up and consider it an expensive lesson in keeping an eye on things.

Really? Never knew that, thanks for the heads up Seems bloody stupid though, surely a default is a default, but there you go folks: Better to screw the state than a private company!

DPM.

Well of course it does, that's photoshop for you!

Bloody rip off, that's per surname so if you're like me when means the missus moved we'd have had to pay twice, as she still had the odd thing left in her maiden name. Sod that, I did the important stuff then told the new owner to give us a call if anything interesting turned up OP, you need to speak to the DVLA and the Mags to get some more detail. Sounds like an error to me, but either way you need this sorted as this is the kind of thing that ruins credit for years.

Gorgeous!

Hah, well spotted! That's what you get for not paying attention when you're copying across settings! I meant 3-5mm, not deg, correct. I've used both extremes of that on my old car, I used to play around with tyre pressures as well to get the right balance up front. If on stock pressures and assuming decent tyres, then 3mm is probably going to be fine. Bennet, that's exactly why I don't bother quoting front camber I just go as much as whatever I have on front allows me to, which works for me as I've never had anything allowing stupid camber fitted to a car. Running toe in at the rear never feels right to me, so I always leave it at 0 and that seems to work for me. There is no right or wrong setting, it just depends on what the driver is happy with the car feeling like. Some like understeer, some like oversteer, some like neutral.