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Cleans anything, does that stuff. Even Dirty Cheryl's filthy stained lady garden.

Bloody hell, what a mess! Drain the oil and start again. You know exactly how much you have in there then.

If you don't have a slush fund, don't get a Porker with a water-cooled non-DFi engine. You've a 5-10% chance of IMS failure, which means a 5-10K repair bill. I'd buy an Elise, even if it was only for a year just to say I'd done it. Every petrolhead should own one at least once in their lives.

It's closer to the TT really. Good looking car, shame it's fail wheel drive and a bit rubbish to drive by all accounts.

They're not skinny legs, they're bloody perfect Cheryl is a dirty scrubber covered in dodgy ink, and I wouldn't touch her with anyones unless she'd been in for a funnel/Lucozade/scrubbing brush job first. Horrible whingy little thing.

So what's the actual budget then? And how are fixed for running costs (fuel, tax, insurance, servicing), and what about a slush fund for if something goes really wrong?

Nice vid Mark, thanks for posting that

I packed everything last night: Clothes, helmet, racewear, tools, fluids, cleaning stuff, passport, cameras, the lot. Except a pair of trainers. Now I have to go home and pick them up instead of leaving straight from work. Knobhead!

I don't think anyone said they were dangerous. I came closest with my comment I guess, but I meant it more as a general rule rather than ZOMG YOU'RE GOING TO DIE LOLZ. Speaking from experience, cheapy discs do not last anywhere near as well as a decent name, and neither do they stop you as well. Personally I quite like my brakes to not warp after 500 miles and to stop me when asked to, but each to their own.

No great surprise, and tbh I wasn't a massive fan of the new stuff on their recent Greatest Hits 2 album so I won't miss them that much. I'm still bitter that they made you buy that album if you wanted pre-sale access to the latest tour, which I refused to do as I already own the original greatest hits anyway. I suspect they saw that these tours didn't sell out and so they made a commercial decision rather than a musical one. The Chemistry tour and the Greatest Hits tour were two of the best shows I've ever seen in my life, right up there with Muse at Leeds a few years back, during their Origin Of Symmetry time. Also, Nadine has the best pair of legs I have ever seen in my entire life.

'Tis a proper BaT track day. They're doing a double header but I didn't fancy pounding the car that hard for two days straight.

Track insurance, mostly. Bit too pricey this time round, and since we may or may not be getting rid of the Impreza this year it would be rude not to do at least one track day in it. I'm toying with the idea of taking the 911 to the Ring in August...

You've been then? How did you find it?

Sssssshhhhhh the bastards haven't got me yet!

I squash potatoes with my bare feet and put the juice from that in my tank

Off tomorrow evening towards Folkestone, ready for an early AM crossing on Friday and heading towards Belgium all set for my first trackday at Spa First time at Spa, as well as first European circuit and first current F1 circuit, so I'm really looking forward to it and seeing how it compares with 'normal' UK tracks. Jo has very kindly lent me the STi for the weekend so I won't have to push the MX-5 up Eau Rouge, and since I've never tracked that either it's a proper weekend of firsts! Still need to fit a harness bar and wash the car tomorrow at work at some point, and I'm not even packed yet so it may be a late night. Will be taking my GPHDH3 with me too which I've yet to use (again with the firsts), so hopefully I'll be able to get some decent footage of the day. Fingers crossed the snow holds off

Maybe she was a serial nagger?

Golden rule of putting things on your car: Ask yourself what is the worst thing that can happen if that part fails. Once you have that answer, you can decide on how best to spend your budget.

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wibble

Lol someone's on the blob this week

Ah, Scotland isn't that bad

MASSIVE NECROPOSTING WIN

Flog car, buy new car. I would.

Agreed, same reason I'm with Sky on the 911. We'd have the Impreza with them too but they don't cover under 25s on the specialist stuff, so will have to wait until after May when the wife finally hits 25