Ekona

It's your pic, you remove it!

He's right, y'know. It should, in case blind people come to visit.

Your car looked very smart Mike, and thanks too for letting me ahead of you when we entered the main gate too, thought I was going to be stuck on the wrong side of the road for ages

What do you want to achieve? Looks, handling, adjustability? Budget? No point anyone recommending anything if you don't know what your goal is.

THE CAR YOU FILTHY MINDED SODS

Saw your car Sam, didn't manage to see you though. Looks good naked

I had a glitch on the SP ship level where one of the NPCs was supposed to run up a ladder, but instead ran round and round on a pile of rubbish I even gave MP a go. I hate MP games. This was, to my surprise, really good fun! No knobheads like in CoD, a much more relaxed way of playing and I didn't feel like I was getting picked on for being utterly useless (2/8 in the final stats after just 10 mins!). I was on some CTF-style level where the tickets run down if you die and stuff, don't know what that is but it's a hoot. I had flashbacks of playing one of the earlier BF games on the PC (either 1 or 1942) and it all suddenly clicked again as to what I was supposed to be doing. And the destruction on the levels, mental stuff! Yeah, I'm going to enjoy this.

Autoexpress are to detailing products what I am to subtlety.

Cheap shite is what it is It's a sealant, so it protects rather than polishes. Crappy TW branding bollocks. Grab some Megs 3 stage paint cleaner, polish and carnauba wax (all liquids), it's in the red bottles near the TW stuff in Halfrauds. Really inexpensive, and will give a 100% better finish than that stuff. In fact, if you try it and genuinely prefer the TW, I'll give you the money for it myself.

Bloody hell, BF4 is very pretty I couldn't care less about 720/900/1080 whatevers, all I know is that in isolation on my setup it's stunning to look at.

I think you're getting a bit muddled, but not necessarily your fault as some products offer a combination of effects. A polish adds shine by removing defects. This what makes your paint look pretty. A wax protects this shine. This can add depth to a finish as well. Not sure what product it is you're using for those instructions, but they're wrong. What they should say is BUFF to a high gloss shine, not polish. Whatever it is, those instructions make it sound like a wax/sealant rather than a polish, especially as it says to put it over the plastics & trim: No (decent) polish should ever be put on those, as it'll stain and mark it.

DON'T FORGET TOMORROW FOLKS I'll be there in the black 911 with the Martini-esque stickers over the car. I'm friendly enough, come say hi

Come and do my fleet, will you? I can't be arsed right now. Looks lovely mate

Used a free sample on the Impreza bonnet when we had it. Glad it was free. Wouldn't bother again, but then it's better than no protection at all.

In other news, I caved and got my bro to buy me BF4 today instead of Lego Marvel like I originally wanted. Gonna go play it in a bit, and hopefully it'll be better than I remember generic FPS modern war games being. Mainly the 64 player online stuff sounds like it could be a hoot, if not full of mindless cretins.

It is USB, yes. I'm in two minds. In principle yes, I would like them to support legacy devices so I could go out and purchase a Fanatec setup, but then part of me wants them to move forward and not hold back. There's a good reason that they can't just release drivers, and it's to do with the signals that the Xbone uses to control the feedback to different motors within the controllers (pads, wheels, whatever). Don't ask me the ins and outs, I'm no software engineer, but you would think that there simply has to be a very real technological reason why it's not just a case of drivers.

I felt the same, but I'm starting to gel a bit more with the controller now. The rumble triggers help massively to give you the feedback, and whilst the assisted steering is ace for bumble-thumbed nincompoops like myself, if you set it to simulation and are very very very very gentle with the inputs then it's a pretty good approximation. It'll never be as good as a wheel, which is why I'm desperate to get my hands on one, but it's not half bad if you give it a fair go.

No, we haven't. There is zero excuse for doing 50 in a 30, end of. 9PM. Pitch black. School disco near by, so very real likelihood of lots of kids around. Conditions not great. That kind of driving falls well short of what would be expected by a competent driver. I'm not having a go at the OP for being honest (in fact he should be applauded, too many people try to make excuses) and yeah, the kid aspect is quite humorous, but I personally cannot look at that set of circumstances and just laugh it off. If people want to do 100mph on the motorways or similar speeds on well sighted roads, then that's their prerogative. Not something I'd do, but I don't see a massive amount of harm in it at all. However, 50 in a 30 is almost never acceptable, and certainly not in a built up area on a winter night when there's kids around.

HBTY HBTY HBDC HBTY

Don't judge us all by your standards, please.

Chavtastic.

Monaco is dull as anything these days, we only really watch it for the famous posh totty that goes there. Spa for me.

Yeah, in case it's no obvious my GT is Ekona, so all feel free to add me. Have I been defensive about the console? Genuine question, don't mean to sound arsey bud. I know I defended showing it off, but I apply that to if I'd bought a PS4 as well. I don't think it's perfect, but it's definitely perfect for me. Some more games would be nice, but I'm happy to wait for them.

Because you can then go faster as well, which is the whole reason for upgrading the brakes

Side lights should never have been called side lights. If they'd called them parking lights, which is pretty much all they should be used for, people might have a clue when to use them.