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Hamsters and cats. Deffo. If I had the space and time, I'd be Crazy Cat Man with hundreds of the buggers.

Is it really?! Never knew that. My dad kept oscars until the angry sods ate all the other fish in the tank. Mean ol' bastards.

You just need the correct paperwork to back up whatever it is you want to change, Mazda UK were really helpful with me in my situation.

In terms of application, every wax is different. Some want to be done in the shade, some in the sun, some leave on for ages, some take off straight away. As a beginner to medium level wax, I find it hard to look past the Dodo Juice range. Hard wax lasts longer than soft wax and is better to put on with a pad, soft wax can look better but needs to be done by using your actual hands really. If you want something really good without going too mad, then the DJ Supernatural is immense for the money: It's what I use on my cars except the 911, which gets the ridiculously expensive Swissvax stuff. DJSN is a piece of cake to work with as well;, put it on how you like and take off how you like, it really doesn't care.

But if you're not lowered, which the vast majority of cars are not, then it looks a bit daft. Like I say, it didn't bother me as my car wasn't lowered and I preferred the run 40 profile so I could use 888s, but then I prefer to see a bit of tyre than just wheel. I like cars that look like cars, not rollerskates. ;)

Normally I'm all for name and shame, but I don't think it's justified in this case.

50/50 on the blame front then, I feel. You should've asked for pics (we insist on it in here for the very reasons you've encountered), but then if he's said that they're Horsham pipes and they're not then that's something you could've sent them back for and had a refund. Clear case of mis-rep, but it's a bit late now you've done stuff to them.

Yup, I prefer to wave though as it's less distracting for other road users.

His loss. Might be worth contacting the DVLA to get it changed over. Sometimes they can be quite helpful, I had no issues getting the MX5 re-registered as a Eunos, for example.

Did you see pics of them before you bought them? Did you ask about condition at all?

Because 'better' is subjective. They don't look as good to my eyes as you end up with a larger gap between rubber and arch, but you do get a better choice of rubber so if your TCS can stand it, then I'd definitely switch as well.

And how do you know which compounds are alike? Track day stuff like the 888 and 048s are easy as they tell you, but road tyres? None do, to my knowledge. As I believe I said in the original post, in the dry you're unlikely to notice the difference, but in the wet you really could. Which would seem to be backed up by your comment about the tread pattern, so thanks

370 isn't remotely comparable to an S2K, not really.

Alpine, then Pioneer, then anything else as I must be getting desperate.

Budget? In terms of purely how many miles you will get out of a set per pound, and ignoring the fact that they also happen to be the best road tyre available today, you will not do better than the MPSS. They may cost you 20% more, but they'll give you 50% more miles. That said, if you really can't afford them then you could do worse than the FK453.

Maybe this doesn't go into the same slot as all the other ones do then. Handy piece of kit. So how does the Bose control the iDevice then? Do you get full access to playlists and the like, or just everything?

I've never seen one of these work, as the socket that it plugs into is missing on UK Bose units.

Get the S2K. I was exactly the same before I bought the 911, I wasn't remotely bored of the Zed but I just fancied a change. As has been said above, you can always come back.

GLOL :lol:

Legs?

"Marriage: For when you've realised you probably won't find someone better, and you've had enough of sex" Congrats to you both!

Ouch. That really, really didn't look good. However, I now want to go watch an Indycar race. Looking at how relatively basic the vehicles are (although I'm sure they're not, they just don't look as fiddly as F1 IYSWIM) and how close you can get to the action, that looks exactly like my kind of motor racing.

You should get a full alignment every 12mths at the latest, more often if you drive on bad roads. Leave the spacers on, and take the car somewhere that can do a specific geo to how you want the car to handle. For me, it's not enough just to have the wheels back within the Nissan specs as they're pretty broad and not set up to maximise the car, so I'd want something a little more livelier. Even a generic 'fast road' setting would be better.

This. That's your issue, right there.

I bet he p*sses in Seb's water bottle though