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If I could get 25% more elsewhere, I'd be off like a shot.

Could you get more elsewhere? Can you?

Done too

Fail wheel drive though, at least with the Beemo he can stick with RWD.

As Rabbitstew says, get a 1 series diseasal. Pick an engine & spec that fits in budget and away you go. We looked at a current 118D last month to replace the Impreza, and it was far better than it had any right to be. Acceptable amount of pull, nippy and handled well, we both really liked it.

Not quite: They have to stand by the SOGA 1979 and the car must be of satisfactory quality, but there's no requirement for them to give a full warranty as such.

Gotcha. I'd leave the system alone for now, certainly unless you're going FI or a serious NA build the stock oil system will cope just fine, and you can spend your pennies on other bits instead.

Out of curiosity, what temperature do you think your oil should be? Or to rephrase it, what temperature would make you stop and cool down if you saw it? I'd be happy running to 110c, maybe the odd burst up to 120c if the car was otherwise looked after. Dependant on oil type, of course.

Just a smidge! Trouble with the older TT Go is that you can only have a few countries on there at once, and UK + France + Germany + Spain + Italy isn't one of the options sadly. Going with UK+FR+ESP+POR, that'll do me for now.

What must it have/do? The three you mention are wildly different, so if you can narrow it down to must haves and mustn't haves, it can often make life a lot easier.

Top man Just gone to start putting the route in the TomTom, found one slight flaw: I don't have Spain maps on there! Time for a quick download methinks. Also TYRE is playing silly buggers, but I've had issues getting it to work with Win7 before.

7 Days To Go Battery Bac Pac and SD card arrived this morning, really cannot fault the guys at Dogcamsport.co.uk at all. The pac itself is massive, but it does come with another couple of back doors for the waterproof housing to allow you to attach it, plus I've got the other non-waterproof case for it too in the larger size. I'll charge it up overnight and then see how much I can record at once tomorrow. Be nice if I can do the full 3 hours. I'm starting to panic a bit now. It all seems very close, and whilst it's only Spain and I've got the breakdown cover etc all sorted, it's a bit weird knowing I'm doing it all alone and there is absolutely no support for me there at all if anything goes wrong. Starting to wish I'd ordered more oil now too, but there's a 5L bottle of the stuff at work that my brother bought for his CR that I think I may be sneaking home with me. Been checking the weather forecasts too, and while it looks like it'll be a dry weekend so I can get the car cleaned, it's going to **** down Tuesday when I have to take it for the geo Ah well, if I put 27 layers of wax on it might all just bead off. Looks like plenty of rain in Spain (on the plain) too, so my glorious summer trip is starting to dangerously resemble a wet weekend in Wales.

Mental stuff. Doesn't seem quite real, does it?

Proper gamers ditched their PC for consoles years ago, when it became clear that lead development on games were designed for those instead. They also got fed up with having to buy a new gfx card at £200 every year just to keep up with technology, when their console playing friends had an equally good visual interface. I doubt that anyone bought a PS3 because it had BD, since it was (and still is) far more expensive than a dedicated player. That wasn't the case with the PS2 and DVD. Exactly. Comparing framerates is the gaming equivalent of having a tiny e-peen and boasting that your car as 1bhp more than your mate's car: No-one cares as it's irrelevant to the overall experience.

Graphics have always been better on the 360 in comparable games, due to it being easier to program for There's heaps of examples of this out there, from CoDs to ACs to Batmans. I'm a 360 gamer, mainly due to the design of the controllers over the cheap plasticky things Sony uses, and I was very impressed at the launch of XB1 yesterday. If it can integrate properly with UK tellybocks (no guarantees there at all) then they'll be onto a winner with the mass market: Look how easy TV manufacturers are selling these new motion-sensor SmartTVs, as it's a clever tech that's easy to use and easy to sell to the wimminfolk as a worthwhile upgrade as they'll actually be able to use it (apologies for the stereotyping, but you know what I mean). Specs are identical, and programming is identical so I don't see that either have the advantage there. Both are relying heavily on cloud stuff (MS via the 300K XBL servers, and Sony with Gaikai), Sony appear to be more interested in getting you to buy a Vita to add in to the PS4 experience where MS are using Smartglass to bring more to the table. As always, XBL is the better online platform but you have to pay for it, but the PSN has come on in leaps and bounds over the last couple of years so there may be nothing there between them now. I can't see that either platform is stronger than the other right now, and it all depends on how well developers are willing to integrate the Kinect functionality into their games now they know every XB1 user will have it. They may really go for it and games on that system will become the definitive version and that's the console everyone will buy, or it may be that no-one will bother because 2/3 of their audience cannot use it. I don't think there's much argument that the XB1 is a bigger potential step forward in gaming, but as always it's the games that will decide this. Oh, and the price and launch dates: Whoever is cheaper is in a much better position than whoever goes first. Can cash-strapped Sony afford to sell at a loss? Will MS want to take that risk? Christmas will be interesting, that's for sure. I'm buying the XB1, if for no other reason than I like gadgets and gizmos and if both consoles are otherwise identical, I might as well go for the one that I'm already invested in with GS and cheevos AND that has the gimmicks.

Definitely a new one? My current steed has that down the side, it's not a new level of trim. I'm really quite pleased if you've seen one, means that they actually are making the bloody things!

My cousins are hawt. I bet most of you on here would.

I BET YOU'VE NOT SEEN A BLACK WILDTRAK YOU LYING SHOWER OF B*STARDS!!!!11

9 Days To Go My EHIC card came! Makes a nice change to get some good news in a letter from the NHS I've also bottled it and ordered a larger battery for my GoPro in case the mains lead idea doesn't work, and another 32GB card for it too in case my one fails. Starting to get a bit jittery about it now, not because I'm nervous of the trip itself, but it's now getting to that time where if I've forgotten anything, I don't have time to order it. Probably should get a bag for my laptop, not the greatest idea to leave that floating around... Must remember to remove the back seats from the car again too, literally just remembered that! More room to pack/shove/wedge stuff when packing comes. Also need to do a final big clean this weekend, please don't rain please don't rain please don't rain

Obviously I am I'd expect nothing less

I don't think I'd accept that, if you have it in writing then I would go to the ombudsman with that info.

QD and an MF. You can sort anything with that as a temp measure.

Yeah, it's just the angle I think as the side on view makes them look more normal.

Are they 20"? Looks like a rollerskate.

You'll need an inline signal booster. Check the sticky in the audio section.