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Where are you trying to order from? I know that Toyo have reduced their suppliers, plus it's the start of the racing season and so racers get priority (although I doubt there's too many running that size).

Fair enough. I've never owned a car that can spin the wheels at low revs in 2nd, nor would I ever wish to, but each to their own.

Not often I recommend anything other than stuff that's sadly quite pricey, but this is too good to ignore. And cheap! I ordered a Blackfire Ultimate Applicator pad from Polished Bliss along with a load of other goodies a couple of weeks back, but yesterday was the first chance I'd had to try any of it out. Make no mistake: The first time you hold the pad in your hand, you'll think it's miles too bag and what the bloody hell use is that going to be. I did. Then I tried it. Basically you nudge the sharp edge of the pad (on the yellow side) into your favourite pot of wax, maybe perhaps a little more than you might with a regular round applicator pad, and then apply to the car. You should lead with the loaded edge, but keep the pad flat against the car. After one pad length you'll find the whole pad is now loaded up, and you just sweep it from one panel edge to the other. You'll end up with a lovely thin layer of wax across the panel, and it'll take mere seconds to do and with just one loading up, rather than ages using a round pad. Honestly, the results are fantastic, and it makes even the more stubborn waxes easy to use. I tried it with my Swissvax Zuffenhousen which gives a quality finish but isn't the easiest stuff to remove usually, but because you can get such a thin layer on, it just buffs off with ease. As good as this is with normal hard waxes, I suspect it's amazing with liquid protection products too. I'm going to have to get me some more of these, they're incredible.

As a cheaper solution, look at your driving style. If you're finding low rpm torque lacking (which the V6 isn't particularly), then you may be sitting in the wrong gear. You mention 2nd gear not spinning up, I'll take that to mean that you tend to 1st to move off and then 2nd everywhere else in town traffic? If that's the case, try using 1st gear more or not shifting up from 1st to 2nd until much later in the revrange as that will drop you back in the powerband. 2nd gear not spinning up is a good thing, as otherwise you're just pissing power away.

One is full of know-it-alls who treat life like one big joke. The other is missan-tortz.

So you think that footballers and F1 drivers got into it because of the money? I think you may be somewhat mistaken there.

Say's a lot for your personality if Hamilton impresses you dude! Why? What does it say about me? I'm impressed by any driver who races balls to the wall. Any of the F1 lot really, barring Massa. And I never said impressed, I said entertained.

I understand that. I have a different take on it as well. Not really sure of your point. If those WORLD level atheletes were any good or had half a brain, they'd change discipline and go into something that paid more money if that's what they were after. I'm guessing that whatever it was they chose to do, they did for the love of it rather than the money. I'm pretty sure that just about every player in the top leagues around the world don't have what you'd consider to be a normal life either. That's the price you pay for competing at the very top, no?

Why not? They wouldn't want to poison the RS brand by using the 2.5L motor nor stripping the weight down, so the TTS seems like a better place to start.

You know what? I'm going to second the Corsa VXR mentioned above. For what it is, and I'll ignore the drive as I've never been in one, they got the styling absolutely spot-on and at a great price. Looks like a modern-day Max Power special but with a lot more class, and the fact that you never see one with extra bodykit bits on means they got something right. A nice turbocharged engine means you can get some good power out of it easily as well without massive expense. I'd drive one.

Exactly. Hamilton entertains me far more than Captain Johnny Go-Faster-Smythe in a Eurofighter, so I don't care if the racing car driver gets paid more than the pilot.

In that case, those cars were worse than I remember. They look like Halfrauds cheapo specials! Stickers are ace though

OH NOES A TYPO THE END OF THE WORLD IS NIGH

I was thinking about it but most places set everything up the same! What? No they don't, that's rubbish. Take it to a specialist (pref someone who knows about Z4s, ask the owners club) and get it done to how you like it. The only type of car I'd have a generic 'get it back within the specs' alignment on is a shitbox used for the daily grind. Sometimes you just need to bite the bullet, accept that you're never going to get decent service from a place, and take your money elsewhere. If they can't get an alignment correct, do you really want them servicing it?

Just take the car somewhere else for a proper alignment. It'll be better than generic BMW settings too.

Beautiful.

*brake Sorry

Why not? You've watched enough to form an opinion on who is better than who, surely?

Dunno, I've never watched surgery so couldn't comment I could tell you how to run a doctor's surgery though, or at least how not to if you use my local one as an example. There's a difference between the tiny details (I wouldn't tell Adrian Newey that his diffuser is 0.5mm too high to work) and the bigger stuff (I'd tell Ross Brawn his cars are working their rear tyres miles too hard).

Quick, someone get the Whoosh Parrot!

I would disagree there Vik. I'm not involved in TV either, but I'm pretty sure that the acting levels in Silent Witness are significantly better than in Hollyoaks, but I still enjoy watching Hollyoaks more I don't think you need to be directly involved in something to have an opinion on it.

Gearbox. Quite usual, especially on the HR models.

That's why the RoC is so good. It separates the drivers from their disciplines, and it's just a shame the top F1 guys don't get involved too.

Cloud cuckoo.