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It's going to be around £500 to get it done outside of insurance at a guess, and since your excess will only be about £60 I think that's a no-brainer.

That's what you get when you extrapolate!

Dude, you know I'm never wrong. *smugface*

Package? Please don't tell me they're the same size all round... Also, what happens when you bin the car because you put crap tyres on it to save a few quid? I'm not hating on you fella, in fact I admire you for having the balls to put up a thread and invite the negative comments as well as the positive (too many people moan about that IMHO, so good on you) but I hate to see people risking their P&J for the sake of a couple of quid when they've just spent a small fortune on it. What wheels are they, and how much if you don't mind me asking?

I'd have any R8 over the GT-R. In fact, give me a regular V8 with the manual 'box and I'd be perfectly happy. Except I wouldn't as you get zero storage space on those, so I'd go and buy a 911 instead But as a rule, involvement & usability > outright speed every time.

Spain? I'd have thought he'd have gone to Ireland to pick up that dodgy engine...

Well, better send me your address then Cemetery, I owe you some Curly Wurlys. Hands up, and all that. I just checked on the Meerkat site and there is now an option for glass claims that's never been there previously. This is new then, as it's never ever been an issue in previous years.

You don't need to get anything, just ring Autoglass or whoever and they take care of everything for you.

100% I can promise you that it doesn't count as a claim. If I'm wrong, I'll buy you a box of Curly Wurlys to say sorry.

Have you had a look under there to see if anything is broken, i.e. drop link or spring?

Utterly vile, and you put cheapy crap tyres on. What wheels are they?

Another typo, perchance? You've had an issue with the car where the handling caught you out, but you feel you know the handling of the car well enough to disable the ESP? Would you like to read that back to yourself and ask yourself if you think that's the right thing to do? Just drive there a bit slower and a bit more sensible, to take into account the odd handling you've got, and you'll be okay. I certainly wouldn't be disabling the ESP.

Mine was dead out of the box, replaced within 2 days by Thrustmaster. Excellent service, I thought

Don't mix tyres, you get some very odd handling traits. Pop some F1s on the front, they're a great tyre.

No idea! Tbh I wouldn't even give this a second thought.

Get yourself the Ferrari GTE wheel, it's so much better than that 458 plastic POS.

Alignment should be done annually at the very least, 6mths is preferable. You say the judder is when coming off the motorway as an example, can you be any more specific? I.e. are you braking hard, med or soft; what speed are you braking from; is it to a standstill; do you have any lock applied?

You'll be notified by post if you are, don't worry.

Unlikely, I think. Out of 6.5M vehicles affected worldwide, 5M are Toyota and 1.5M Nissan. It only affects 25K Toyotas in the UK, so extrapolating roughly that leaves about 8K Nissans over the entire range. Edit, beaten by Graham.

Because, in theory, it's insulting to the people claiming benefits.

Who are you with right now?

Auto 'box in a sports car, no ta. I much prefer paddles that turn with the wheel, like VAG stuff. Having them stuck to the column just seems silly, as it assumes there's never a time when you've got lock on and you want to change gear, which simply isn't true. If that way was more effective, then you'd see it in motorsport. It's not, so you don't. Still, huge man points for buying a car without ever driving it!

996TT is a proper supercar. Stock it's a weapon, tuned and it's a monster. The 996 may be by some margin the ugliest 911, but it's a better steer than anything that came before it. Like for like, of course: I wouldn't say that a 996 C2 was better to drive than a 2.7 RS!

I suspect you'll find most people feel the same way too.

Mine was the same, I used to buy it in 20L (4x5L) so I had enough for top ups and a change!