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Sizes are correct. Michelin PSS can be picked up now for less than £800 for all four, you'd be mad to pick anything else. Miles above every other tyre you mention.

I believe this difference isn't down to the filter shape or size, it's down to (as I think you've suspected) how open the filter is. Put it in an air box and you muffle the noise, leave it open and you can hear more. Same principle with everything, really. From quiet to loud: Air box with panel filter Air box with cone filter (I have this setup on the 911) Open cone filter There's probably some flash name to do with soundwave dynamics but I've no idea what that is!

And then get arrested for sexual harassment

So what was the car then?

*fap*

I didn't get my free gift

But you had no way of knowing, and he did you a favour by pointing it out. I suspect the attitude test may have been failed along with the lightbulb

Did you thank him for letting you know?

+1 ... no issues Neither of you are driving hard enough then

Awful news matey, but for what little it's worth you did the right thing stopping and speaking to the owner.

I had a play with a 123D the other week when I was in the Impreza. Let's just say that we were absolutely dead level in a straight line, and the Impreza is running 320bhp... It gave me a whole new respect for these diesel lumps. They may lack character, but jebus are they exceptionally rapid.

Putting a plate in the grill will negatively affect airflow to the rad. Just a thought

Good lord you spout some garbage sometimes.

Yeah, that. Tell them what you want and the timeframe you want it completed it (reasonably). Bearing in mind they don't have to give you a courtesy car...

It's what you have to do legally. Yes, it's a PITA, but if you don't do it correctly then they'll never have to give you your money back.

This is easy. Write a letter yourself stating what has happened, and what you expect the garage to do to fix it. Give them 7 days to respond, and inform them that if they don't fix your car as requested then you will get the work done elsewhere and take them to SCC for the cost.

Sounds like a generic figure to me. You can either try and haggle it or you'll have to pay it.

Ironically, given how everyone is buying Android these days, it's become more fashionable to own one of those so people are just buying them because the hardware is more powerful, not because the phone is actually any better suited to their needs. Now who's jumping on the bandwagon?

^^^ Exactly what I was going to say. Much like cars, there are no truly awful phones out there anymore, it just depends on what you prefer. As I've said before, Apple have never had the best hardware: What they have had is the best OS and the best design, and that's what you buy one for.

That's a big phone. That said, I felt the iPhone 5 was too big at first but I'm comfortable using it now. Until they sort the input lag out though, it's nothing I'd ever consider. A knowledgeable mate of mine explained to me why Android devices appear to have this issue in laymans terms for me: The reason Android is "laggy" is because all the UI processing (animations/transitions/etc) is rendered on the main system thread. The upside of this is that in theory there should be slightly more processing grunt available to the currently active app as anything the app needs takes priority over UI rendering. The reason iOS and Windows Phone/Windows RT manage to stay fluid whilst doing tasks is that their UI rendering is processed in a separate worker thread. In iOS that separate thread is reserved for all Core Animation graphics rendering (which includes the UI). This means the currently active app can carry on with its work whilst also allowing the UI to feel smooth but the downside of that is the processing power is now divided. In reality, today's modern ARM processors can handle multiple threads quite comfortably so you might as well design your OS with separate threads for different tasks. As of Android 4.1 (AKA Jelly Bean), Google has implemented UI rendering in a separate thread (internally they called this Project Butter) so Android should not suffer from UI lag. As OEM's like Samsung and HTC put their own "launcher" over the top of stock Android this can still cause lag as it's up to those OEM's to make their launchers multi-threaded. Nexus devices should be buttery smooth running Jelly Bean or later. Makes sense now, and I would like to give a Nexus 4 a go.

Would flying in be a cheaper choice?

I'll cup and everything

It's steak and blowjob day. I've got the steak waiting Dave...

Which is what I said, just wordier!

You don't need to use IMAP over POP, it's just a much more efficient solution if you've got more than one machine you access your mail on. Been there, done that, had to completely change my folder structure to sort it!