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Some parts are relatively cheap, some are just ridiculously expensive. Depends on what bits (brakes especially seem to be a tad pricey, comparatively). The 996 did not have any carry over parts from super old 911s. Have a look here for an idea of costs for various bits. If I was buying a 996 (or 997.1, for that matter), then I'd go for a good condition one with high miles. Much less chance of IMS explosions that way, as if it hasn't happened already then it probably won't. If the IMS goes, then you're looking at around £7k to £10K to fix. RMS is a just a seal that might leak a bit, you can get this sorted when the clutch gets changed for a couple of hundred quid. There are still D-chunk risks on the early M96 engines, but that's pot luck and nothing you can do about it. A full inspection including checks for bore scoring would be a must, for me. Have a read of this website and see about IMS/D-chunk issues for yourself (covers 996 + 997 engines). As a drive, the 997.1 is a better car than the 996, but as you say will also suffer depreciation. I'd be tempted to go for the 996 and just enjoy it for what it is, which is a very capable sports coupe.

Cameron has committed to no such referendum. It might well be in the Tory manifesto, but don't kid yourself that they wouldn't drop it if it suited them politically. If Scotland leave the UK, then they become independent. The UK will still exist. The UK is a member of the EU: England, Wales and NI are not. The UK will remain part of the EU. Scotland may or may not have to apply for membership. The Act of Union 1800 is not affected by the withdrawal of Scotland from the 1707 one, just like when the ROI act was repealed in 1962.

It looks an utter mess. Until you see it in the flesh. I've only seen the one, at a PHSS two years ago, but I've still got the hard-on from that. Incredibly imposing cars, very unique in design.

Exactly. Guesswork and probablies are not a good reason to vote for such a massive change.

Funny, I completed it too over the Xmas break after going back to it, and I really enjoyed it too. It's not the deepest game in the world, but it's very entertaining and extremely pretty. Although it is QTE-heavy by nature, I never found it to be dull or repetitive, and some of the bad guys are right sods to kill unless you get your counters spot-on in timing. Combat flowed better than AC3 and just as well as the Batman games, I think. I doubt we'll ever see a sequel, but I'd give it a shot if there was.

That website is truly horrendous, and full of the worst kind of subversive text. I'll pick on just one 'fact' that caught my eye: 250,000 tonnes of low radioactive London Olympic waste was dumped in Falkirk! Well, no actually. Their own quoted source is the Daily Mail from 2008(!) that says that a report states that there may be some contaminated land around the site of the 2012 village. Nowhere do they actually say that the land was definitely dumped in Falkirk, or even if it was dumped at all. It's a cheap headline that they cannot prove either way, and that's disturbing. The whole site is sham figures and guesswork ripped from old sources. I'm not saying that the No campaign website is any better (I've not looked truth be told), but that's truly awful.

You're assuming that the general adult populace is making an informed decision, and not just going on soundbites. I'd put more faith in kids to do a bit of research than I would adults who generally just seem to vote for the person they like best on the telly. Applies as much to politics everywhere in the world as to this particular debate.

The UK will let Scotland keep the pound, I've no doubt, but it will be in return for a massive amount of your oil. The cost to change currencies for Scotland would be massive, much larger than any deal that will be struck for oil, so I suspect that any Scottish independent government will have little choice but to give in on that.

360 and PS3 versions were cancelled in Nov last year.

Your call, of course, but I wouldn't be risking a £1000+ bill because of what some spotty oik in Halfords was guessing at when he's about as clued up as I am on what the oil level is. It's not his car, he's not going to make any money from it if it goes bang or if it's okay, why should he give a damn? You could've had a single litre of oil in there. You've now got 1.75L of oil in there, which is still massively below the recommended level. Why chance it? In the hours since you've been posting this, you could've easily drained and replaced the oil and know exactly where you stand. I really hope it all works out for you, and I'm sorry if my posts are coming across the wrong way, but sticking your head in the sand and hoping for the best does not seem to be conducive to a good result here. Good luck with your car, fingers crossed you have no damage.

Bosch for me, too. Or whatever Halfords have in stock that fits, if you need it desperately. You're after one that is the same physical size and with as many CCA as possible.

Why 0.75L? You have no idea what is in it, by your own admission, so you could now be 1L under or 0.75L over, you just don't know. Stop driving the car, drain the oil, and refill.

At this point, the only answer is to do a full oil change. That way you can find out exactly how much was in there, as well as ensuring you have the right amount in.

Woah, hang on a bit. How long did you leave the car before taking the reading? I'd be leaving a good 20 mins just in case, and making sure it was on proper level ground too. Did you take numerous (5+) readings to confirm? Are you 100% sure of the level? I ask as if it is full and you've either got a faulty gauge or read the level wrong, then by adding more oil you've just as big a risk of doing some serious damage by popping seals et al with too much oil. Try spinning the dipstick in the tube if possible to get a more even reading.

Alex Salmond has no idea what he's talking about. Whether or not it would be a good thing for Scotland is pure guesswork as no-one can predict the future, however the risks about currency and the future of Scotland in the EU are very real and the really scary thing is that he has zero idea about what will happen. Read the Yes website and be truly astounded as to just how much groping in the dark he's doing. One of the biggest trumpets blown by the Yes side is that Scotland is rich with oil, so they'll be okay. That's very true, but they will also have to share a massive part of the UK's debt and I can promise you that there will be a deal struck where the UK will right off Scotland's share in return for rights to the oil and other goodies like the fishies in the sea. The UK will remain unaffected, but suddenly Scotland will have much less bargaining power with their oil than they are saying they will. Despite all that, I don't know whether it would be best for Scotland to go it alone or not. Long term it may well be, or it could be a complete disaster, but certainly chest-beating and mathematical guesswork doesn't seem like a good basis to strike out on your own to me. I'd rather you guys up north stayed with us, but tbh it really won't affect us south of the border much regardless: The risk is all yours.

The real truth is that no-one has the faintest idea what's going on. If they did, then the scientists would have a consensus and we could move forward with a plan (like happened with the ozone layer and CFCs), but they don't so everyone guesses and invariably it's the WE'RE ALL DOOMED theories that float to the top and make the most noise. Until someone can prove something one way or another, I'm carrying on as I am. That doesn't mean being wasteful and not giving a toss about my actions, but neither does it mean heading back to living in the dark ages.

Very pretty, but the general consensus is that it doesn't drive as well as it looks which makes it utterly pointless.

^^^ This. Why did you carry on driving the car when a big red light warning you of low oil popped up?

Announced by who? There's nothing on the Ferrari F1 page, official F1 site, BBC or Autosport pages about this.

It's only £40 you tight git I should have far more GSP than I do, considering the amount of games I own

Ah hell yeah, you're in a lot of the races I do! We should do a proper thread, really. For GTs, I mean.

Or if it has a waving flag smiley in the text. That's usually spam and can be ignored, too.

What's your GT?

That person is correct. That person also happens to have been me, but that's irrelevant Genuinely though, as long as you have pressure there and it's not bottoming out on either scale, then that's all you really need to worry about. Oil level, viscosity and time of day can make a massive difference to the pressure, so just go with somewhere between min and max.

In theory it should mimic how you drive, but I've no frame of reference to see how accurate it is. In fairness mine's probably quite aggressive too, as I tend to look for gaps between cars then barge my way through, and I'll often do the cutback on consecutive corners just to give myself track position. I do like it though, makes it seem much more real than just racing against the AI. I assume it uses the actual cars we've picked too? In the modern FWD hatch championship yours was a black hatch of some kind, maybe a Golf?