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Another reason to ditch HR altogether

Investigation? For gods sake, a fracas means a fight, it's prettybloody obvious what happened. Bin Clarkson, then bin TG as it wouldn't be the same. Hopefully then JC will have more time for writing, something he's exceptionally talented at.

Looking at this again (yes, I'm desperately trying to give myself a reason to buy one), there's more cool but every day stuff you can use this for: Control of an ATV Remote for the camera on iPhone Quick sat nav using Siri whilst driving (this could be VERY useful)

That's a good point: Whilst people are okay with changing a phone every couple of years, no-one does that with watches and it's crazy to think that people would consider doing that. But what more could they add to it?

Premier Cru for me. Lovely stuff.

You'd be surprised, lots of guys are wearing half decent watches these days. Plus if you're happy to take your £700 smartphone on site, what difference a £300 watch...?

Prices are up on the UK store, if you want to see them. Not quite $ for £, thankfully. I was thinking about this earlier, and I suspect that the most common use is actually the least exciting. When you work with your hands a lot in construction, or any skilled labour job really, often you feel your phone vibrate in your jacket pocket and have to decide whether to try and stop what you're doing to answer it, or ignore it and hope it's not important. With a watch you can simply glance at your wrist and decide immediately whether it's important or not, and choose to answer it with a quick "I'm busy, call you back in 5!" if you need to. That alone could be worth the entrance fee. The £££ ones are for the elite, and they're priced exactly where they should be.

I guess it could be one of those things like the original iPhone, in that you never really saw the point of having one as your normal phone did everything you need, but now you couldn't imagine not having a smartphone. If anyone can make a smartwatch popular, it's Apple. If this doesn't take off, then the idea is dead forever. As much as I love my gadgets, I genuinely think I'm going to wait this one out and see what they're actually like to use first.

See, I like the Milanese loop too, but I didn't know if that was a girl's strap or not

Woah, hold on there! Got that wrong. They've changed it now, you MUST have an iPhone 5 or newer running 8.2 at the minimum. I suspect it will work if you leave your phone at home or it runs out of juice, but requires one for setup or app data transfer.

Like any smartwatch, it will work standalone but that's missing the point of it entirely.

I'm a full-on, self-confessed Apple iWhore, and yet I'm not as excited about this as I was on launch. Prices are about right as it's a premium product, but I'm not seeing the killer app for this yet. Heart rate monitor is good as those things are expensive anyway, and the NFC stuff to open hotel room doors and buy things is cool but nowhere near ready for over here yet. 18 hours typical usage is good but what's typical? I'd want the stainless 42mm one, but that's £500 (ish) and there's a lot of competition for my money for a watch at that price. I don't know if I need a smartwatch just yet, not on what I've seen so far.

THIS Always change dampers in pairs, unless you know they are within a few miles of each other (for example, if you fitted brand new dampers and one developed a fault within a month, I'd only replace that one).

It's all cars. Most people are perfectly happy with how cars come from the factory, on a default 'safe' setup. Plenty of toe in at the front, just a hint of neg camber all round, but nothing that will cause a car to be unstable or give excessive tyre wear. As enthusiasts who have more knowledge and skill (allegedly!) than Joe Bloggs, we want more from our cars. We want our sports cars to handle like sports cars, as since we sacrificed things like boot space, comfort and fuel economy in search of a more thrilling drive, we might as well get the most out of that. Applies as much to someone driving a Corsa VXR as it does someone with a GT3. Every fun car deserves a decent geo set to the specs of the driver, not just a generic 'fast road' or OEM setup.

Just move, you tight git

Solar panels not an option?

Why not? No law against it, just lay a couple of road protectors over the cable like they use on sites, all sorted.

None of those will work: A kettle will kill it in seconds. Really you either need that extension lead, or find a way of running a cable round their from your supply. Got any pics, or an aerial shot? Minus details giving away your exact address, of course!

A +1 for WiM too, very good chaps. Also, owning a Hunter machine means zero, squat, zip. A competant bloke with string can give better results than generic garage guy with a Hunter machine.

You didn't say they were for competition use I don't like them, as I'd rather have my vision on track and as long as you're bolted in securely then any FIA seat will do, but if you like them and they're comfy for you then go for it. I'd rate comfort as the most important thing, tbh. You seem to intimate that you'll be driving to events though, in which case my original comment about road use stands.

Proper rotary, then. You can get the Scholl polishes I mentioned from somewhere like CleanYourCar, as well as the Lake Country pads too. I tend to flit between the orange and red ones, depending on the paint (for swirl correction, the blue is usually too firm). You'd need to use the 17 first, and then the 30+ to remove holograms and swirl marks. HOWEVER That sounds very easy in practice, but there's a reason people do charge a whack for this kind of stuff It's easy to go wrong, to burn through the compound and wreck a panel, or to simply not touch the swirls and end up with holograms every where. Tbh if you just want to make it look pretty before an event then I'd be tempted to try a glaze, Poorboys do the Black Hole for dark cars and a lighter one too (the name escapes me now!), they're perfectly decent as a quick fix and will save you a day of improving swirls or three days if you want to remove them, and with no risk.

Proper rotary, or dual action? Quickest way to wreck paint is to attack it with a rotary with no idea of what you're doing. Not saying you don't as you've used it before, but you do need to be very careful. I'm personally using the Scholl range right now, with Lake Country pads for my correction work. Something like a 17 followed by a 30+ is giving me great results across multiple paint types.

Oh absolutely!

I love the contrast between the red ARB and the blue arms! Good choice, where did you get them from?

But yeah, if you can't judge whether the road you're on is either safe for the speed you want to do OR is likely to have police with a speed gun, then you need to work on judgement and observation before buying gadgets. That's not to say I don't use a GPS based device (iOS TomTom has them built in) when travelling places I'm unfamiliar with, but they come in most handy on motorway average speed sections where it's not always clear that you're in or out of a zone. I'll sit bang on the limit in a managed zone, but will set cruise for 75mph on the open motorway.