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Nah, me neither. I always give the keys to the missus on arrival now when we're out and I drive there/she drives back.

Yeah, don't do any of that if you like being insured. Look at it like this: You have an accident and end up piling into a load of people waiting at a bus stop. They all survive, but all need special care for the rest of their lives. The bill is going to be in the region of £10,000,000. Do you not think the insurer might spend another £200 getting the ECU checked? I agree that if it's just a minor ding then no, they probably won't check, but I wouldn't want to stake every penny I own on it. Not telling your insurer about every single mod is just dumb. Read the contract.

Since that increases power, and you've told them about it, then a remap isn't going to add much (if anything) to the premium. Also, Sky are ace for stuff like this.

If you have the keys to a car, and are inside it, you're in control of it. You have to do something pretty spectacular to prove that you're not in control of it (we'll ignore the whole 'innocent until proven guilty' thing at the door), like sleeping in the front seat whilst the keys are in the boot or something equally as daft to get out of it. It's a very wide open law, but on the other hand it does catch those people who are clearly going to drive but happen to be caught by a copper when the engine isn't running and the car isn't moving. Not being too drunk and passing the attitude test is critical to getting away with it, but really you're better off just not having any car keys on you when drunk.

You'd have heard the clutch from where you live, trust me!

It's a remap. If you do not obtain any dyno numbers for it then you can legitimately claim you do not know if the power has increased or not. However, we all know you will so only if you can get the dyno sheet to state less or equal to OEM power can you say that it's been optimised rather than improved. And if you did that, getting an Uprev would be pointless! I wouldn't risk it. Tell them you have a remap up to 10% of the original bhp (that's usually the first bracket they offer) and see what they say. If it's too much, then change insurer.

It's still got that daft metallic clutch in that Aaron had put on, the one that makes immense amounts of noise when you push the pedal but can take a billionty torques. Jo hates it, I'm on the fence. I may swap it out for a standard one, at £90 it's almost a no brainer.

£100K :lol: If your goal is winning at trackdays, then yeah why not. However, with even stiffer suspension, that's going to be handful of the wrong kind on UK roads.

Certainly no doubt they drift well, that's for sure!

Nope For some reason the vids don't always display properly on my iOS devices, and that's where I usually browse from. It's only when I get on the desktop that everything works.

THIS WEEK MOTHER BITCHES :D I'm actually really excited now, was watching this video earlier which I'd not seen before: http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=wCevlrxZTd4 The way that the Kinect keeps the person in focus on Skype, and how smoothly it shifts between profiles and dash/games: Amazing. Editing and uploading video content looks great too, even though it's not something I'm interested in. It's this kind of integration that made me want the Xbone over the PS4 as this is what the future should look like, not just another games console.

Serious dickery

AMG cars have the worst paddles ever though. They're like buttons, they're bloody awful and I'd never buy on based on that alone.

If I could get one for £2K, then I'd consider it!

Couple of things: You cannot get a course for dangerous driving. That's a very serious offence that's pretty much guaranteeing you prison in all but the most bizarre circumstances (sentencing guidelines here). A course for careless driving exists though, which I'm guessing is what Ricey was on about. That said, Ricey knows his sh*t so I'd like to see proof of that, and not to be a d*ck but because I'm genuinely interested in the circumstances. With regards to being done for drunk in charge of a motor vehicle in a petrol station, I'd suggest there was more to that than it seems. Failure to pass the attitude test or more likely he was playing silly buggers would seem to be a bit more likely, although granted it's not impossible and technically he did break the law. Another good reason to make sure you never have control of a vehicle when bladdered!

No, you're thinking of Judge Dredd. He's the law, not God.

They are a fantastic drive, very (cliché alert!) go-kart in their handling but also very benign if you get the geo sorted. They're quite compromised as a road car in terms of practically no storage space, although I used to be able to pack for camping weekends without too much strain, but as something cheap and fun there's very little that can get near them.

Sells clothes for dwarves.

*whistles nonchalantly*

When the 911 goes next year, I'm getting a Temper HR coupe. Already decided, nothing else comes close to tickling my fancy,

sewer unblocker then ? Come on Andy, get it right. It's Dan so it's......... Sh1t stirrer. GLOL

Hydro-environmental technician.

Only on the motorway. Also, carrying on driving in a motorway lane that has an X above it on the gantry carries the same penalty as jumping a red light. I didn't know that until the other day.

What, racing others or as it is right now where he's winning everything? Either way, I would guess the answer is no. Maybe you don't get that ultimate thrill in beating someone else (other than in qualy and off the start line), but there's still a thrill in racing regardless. Even if that thrill is coming from besting your own lap times or simply hitting every apex perfectly, it's still going to be fun. The trouble is that every single driver on the grid would rather have be in the lead by miles and not really racing anyone rather than be battling for 2/3/4th place and maybe a shot at the win if you're lucky. The Red Bull machine (and I don't mean the car) is just too good at F1 right now for entertainment purposes.

Even if it costs you a couple of hundred quid for another opinion, it could well be worth it long-term. What price your health?