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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.

M3 exhaust tips are the same size, not staggered. 997.1 PSE cars, on the other hand, look like this: ...which happens to look ridiculous. Please don't do this! Also, the 458 barely manages to get away with the triple exhaust thing because it's so awesome otherwise. On a 350, that is going to be chav central and then some, I don't need a 'shop to know that.

Easy to check if you have a claim, they'll just ask for the last MOT cert.

You might get more help on your posts if you made the thread title more obvious, rather than just a generic help. Lots of people will skip past the latter, but will click a link if it's more detailed

Stock is understeer city. I'd go with as much front camber as you can get, a couple of degrees on the rear camber, zero toe on the back and 3-5 deg of toe out on the front. Pointy but slidey, should feel lovely

That's as good as any

Are the Torqen brakes not just rebranded ARTs? Not that that's a bad thing, mind, I'm just not convinced there's a need for them from a performance POV on a non-tracked Zed. I'm the first person to say do the brakes first, but a solid Brembo setup with good pads, discs and fluid will be more than enough, which you've already done Kaveny

It really, really won't. You can't even hear it inside the car, or at least I couldn't on mine.

Come one, come all, post up and don't be shy! Who's off to LM this year for the race then, in a couple of weeks? I'll be there, going out via Tunnel on Weds and coming back on the Mon, staying in Blue Nord in the PH/1st Tickets section. I've nearly finished stickering the car up, I'll post a picture later.