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It's probably illegal too unless it's in his contract, which is highly unlikely. I'd be tempted to mention that to him, he doesn't deserve to get shafted like this.

It's needed on any car where you cannot afford to repay the loan amount, or do not wish to repay the loan amount, in case of a total loss. If you can afford to pay the extra if a total loss then don't worry about it. If you can't, then it's pretty much a must-have. There are three types of GAP though, so it depends on what you want to cover (VRI, RTI or finance top up). Personally, if you need a loan to pay for a car then IMHO you need GAP insurance. I've always had it.

I haggled our agent down fairly easily. She worked on a fixed rate rather than percentage though, so maybe a bit easier to do? Either way, it worked out at about 30% off, so don't take their first offer. But yeah, it was a lot pricier than I thought it might be.

One of our friends had this recently, she had an offer accepted on a property and when they found out she hadn't yet sold they cancelled her previously perfectly acceptable offer.

I would imagine that I can count the number of people on here who have ever timed their car to any figure in a straight line on one hand. I mean, I guess the drag strip boys will have their 1/4 mile times and terminal speed, but again that's not really going to count for much. Why don't you start the ball rolling, and post yours up?

Assuming 987, money no object but no R, I'd have a gen2 3.4 manual with PCM3, heated adaptive seats, climate control, standard wheels and PASM. Oh, and PSE! On the budget end, a 2.7 manual with no PCM, sport seats, climate, standard wheels and no PASM (but enough cash to fit new Bilsteins) would be a cracking little car. Maybe get the 3.4 if you really must have the extra oomph, but the standard car is lovely and less prone to bore scoring. Bigger wheels and no PASM is a no-no as the ride is too firm, and tbh the gen1 PASM isn't that great anyway. You'd definitely want a different exhaust on it too, but the PSE is too expensive for an early car.

Will make no difference in reality, I've tried both and couldn't tell any difference at all. Get the cheaper ones

I don't get how anyone can prefer the interior of a 350 to a 987. Better switchgear, better layout, better leather, better plastics... I don't get that at all. The optional pcm2.1 is terrible, but then so is the Bose in the Zed so I'd call that a draw. Standard seats are more functional than the sofa style ones in the Nissan, so I'll give that one to the Zed as I preferred them! Sports seats or better in the Cayman trump both though. Each to their own. I still like the interior of the 996!

Something doesn't ring true here, I can't believe any company would try this.

The Cayman is still better, in terms of the drive. The interior of the Cayman isn't that much better over the 370 than the 350, but that's about it. I guess it depends how you view the 350 to 370, I guess. The 370 looks a bit more muscular than the Cayman, I think.

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Perhaps they saw your casual abuse of font size, and decided that you'd be happy with any old thing?

Do it nice or do it twice

And? Are you telling me that you actually think it's acceptable for a 19 year old to take his daddy with him when the mean ol' man at Kwik Fit makes a boo-boo of his wheels?

He was bloody good in The Wedding Singer, I'll give him that.

You are, but that's irrelevant here

See my edit, I read your post wrong at first.

What? Why would one wheel suddenly gain/lose a spoke between it leaving Kwik Fit and getting refurbed? EDIT Hang on, I see what you mean now. Well, that depends on how good a job they do on the refurb, doesn't it? If it's all good then great, if not then that's a different matter. Give them a chance to fix it first.

The customer should be put back in a position he was in before the negligence occurred, without betterment. Personally I would say that a refurb should be fine, assuming the wheel still balances out okay without excessive weights (a couple is to be expected). If not, then a replacement will have to be sourced. The OP did the right thing IMHO, going off half cocked isn't going to help matters, although FFS man why on earth did you let your Dad go down there: Are you 12 or something?! If the refurb works, then fine. If not, they'll need to replace.

Then they should have rang and requoted for the job and got authorisation What kind of companys give someone a a price then works through and charges over the top without authorisation from the customer to spend more time on it Depends on what was agreed with them at the time. For example, my MR2 is getting some work done and I've just told them to go ahead and fix it. I trust them, I've used them before, and I've not been given a fixed price as it'll cost what it'll cost. But it's a fair point, some places are more trustworthy than others.

Much better, cheers Hugh! It's the bloke who clumped your mirror at fault, nothing to do with the copper.

What? I have no idea what happened, your usage of commas is very confusing.

Or if you had an estimate, or if there was more work involved because other things broke through no fault of their own... But yeah, just go back and talk to them.

The same, as per my post above.

That's the first time I've seen your old MX5 Darren, didn't realise it was an SC setup But yeah, if it was me running an MX5 on a budget I'd just do what I did with my old one: Strip it, roll bar, seats, steering wheel, then either the grippiest or slippiest tyres you can buy.