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Pulling away in 3rd is not the way to test a clutch: No wonder it stunk afterwards! Put it in 4th at 30mph and floor it, that's the way to test for slippage. Standard car will be absolutely fine, just check its mechanically sound. With just a fortnight to go, now isn't the time to be making any changes really.

Beautiful Very jealous fella, please keep us updated with how you get on with it.

My 6+ case came today, so I now know how utterly moronic I'll look using it as a phone.

Until you can plug your charger lead in either way up, I'm saying they are :p

I can only go off my own experience, which was changing an air to air intercooled system to a water to air one, which involved removed about a metre of pipework. Throttle response was massively increased, even on a small system like that. You're not just pushing along what's in the pipe, you're compressing it. To compress it means that you have to add more into the same size space, which if the pump (turbo) size doesn't change then it must take longer. Whilst a rear mounted turbo may well be acceptable for people coming from big turbos who are used to having large boost thresholds, they're just not for me. Each to their own though, as always What's that middle car? That looks amazing!

S Line AND 19" wheels? I hope you have a good chiropractor Congrats matey, I love the look of the A5 so will be very interested to see how you get on with it

97 is absolutely fine, so you can take it to the red line as often as you want. Any damage will have been done by the previous owner.

Nuke the entire site from orbit. It's the only way to be sure.

No argument there! Regarding Apple making a non-standard lead, you do realise that it's actually superior to mUSB? Try putting an mUSB cable in your phone in the dark: It's 50/50 as to which way round it goes, so invariably there's some fumbling. With the Lightning connector, it makes no difference which makes life a lot easier. Lightning also supports a higher power capacity than mUSB (12w to 9w). USB Type C isn't ready yet, and will require that everyone buys new adaptors and accessories et al, so the exact same criticisms can be labelled at that then.

I wouldn't say sitting down is heavy handed though.... Depends on how they're sitting. We have no idea what trade they work in, what trousers, was anything else in the pocket, did the damage actually occur during use etc. I agree, it's not great, but context is everything.

Shock news, thin aluminium device is able to be bent by someone being heavy handed with it.

The only place on the entire interweb that 'fact' appears? Right here on this forum! Yeah, I'm sad enough to have checked. Sounds like something The Onion would put up.

That's why I mentioned OO. Rule out any issues with the files themselves.

Can you open the files in Open Office?

Best chat up line ever

Lucky sod! I admit, iTunes isn't the be all and end all, but once you understand how it works and just let it get on with it, it's absolutely fine. I have all my music running from a NAS, with a single iTunes library that updates from either my PC or Jo's iMac. It accepts stuff from my iTunes account or hers, ripped CDs, or dodgy stuff I get from the interweb. Was it a faff setting it up? Yes, but only because I was trying to force it to do something that it wasn't designed for. Once I figured that out, and guided it on its way, it was more than happy. Half the trouble with moving from Windows/Linux stuff to Apple stuff is that you're so used to bodging everything, that you can't accept that there's a program that has s singular way of doing things. I used to love telling Win where to install stuff, as I wanted it in specific places to make my life easier. I can't do that with Apple stuff so easily, so it's best just to let it do its own thing and then you find it's actually a terrific piece of software.

Well, it was one of those things that sent my bullsh*t alarm ringing loudly, so I had a quick google and couldn't find anything remotely related to that at all. Hence the lol smiley as it sounds like one of those awful made up bits of propaganda you see on FB and the like.

I tracked an '06 roadster with full Summit underbody bracing back to back with a HR coupe. The coupe was far superior, and that was the exact moment I started turning away from convertibles. That said, I agree 100% with Alex: On the roads, at normal speeds, you will never notice any difference. I certainly didn't until that single trackday, as I was more than happy with my old ragtop.

How did iTunes delete half of your collection?

The biggest issue I have with iOS is that it's practically impossible to step back to a previous OS. It's a given that putting a new OS on an older device will make it slower (it's always been like that, think about when we went from XP to Vista then Vista to Win7 etc), but it shouldn't be impossible to go back. That irks me.

Where on earth did you read that?!

iTunes works on every version of OSX and Windows since it was released. Even the current iTunes 11.4 will work on XP with SP3, and that's not even supported by MS any more.

That's exactly how I choose my devices: Which one will irritate me the least!

HR can knock detect better than the DE, so will retard quite happily. DE cannot at high RPM, which is where most of the damage is done. I cannot fathom people who put 95 in when every single time they open the filler cap it states 98 or higher!* *At least, I think it does.