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Can I get her teeth fixed under warranty?

452s do not have good grip, they have average grip at best. Feel is also limited due to the sloppy sidewalls. They are the budget tyre for the Zed, and a good choice only if you cannot afford a performance tyre. Vredesteins have better grip, but where they excel is feel and this makes pushing on a pleasure. I love these on a Zed, especially in the winter. PS2s have incredible grip and feel but are being phased out in place of the Pilot Super Sport. These are longer lasting than the PS2 and have better wet AND dry grip, so in short if you were considering the PS2s then the PSS really should be the only ones you should go for. Utterly, utterly wonderful tyres. RE050As are also pretty good (better grip than the VUS but not as good as the Michelin) but considering how close they are to the PSS in cost, I'd spend the little bit extra and get the Michelins.

I hate to tell you this, but someone appears to have left a Lego brick in your car.

^^^ This. Contact the ombudsman too if you have no joy, but be sure of your facts with regards to what the policy says, what the chain you used was and the specs of the one you were supposed to use. Gutted for you mate, but hopefully things will work themselves out for you. If you want me to have an eye over the policy I'd be happy to do so, I've won stuff like this before against insurers (Elephant and claiming for the rear glass in the soft-top, they had to change their wording after I pointed out their mistake!).

Guys, let's not mistake what could be a dodgy batch for a rumour that all 452s will definitely crack when used. Mountains = molehills and all that.

Contact Falken and ask them. Not impossible, Toyo had an issue with the first few sets of R1R in the country but that's all been sorted now.

I went to the official launch of the 991 earlier I spent the evening getting slowly more p*ssed drinking free champagne I blagged a hardback copy of the new brochure, a Porsche Exclusive catalogue and a metal paperweight in the shape of the 991 I'm also going back week after next to test drive one Epic evening was epic! Must admit, the 991 is lovely up close and I'm going to have to leave my wallet at home on the test drive in case I do something stupid.

IME, the more notice you give people the more they complain. I tend to just turn their water supply off without telling them now and blame an emergency repair, which tends to go down better than "Can I turn your water off for half a day while I fit a new water main please?".

First bad frost you say? Ah, sounds like the guffinsprocket has come away from the discombobulator which leads to a complete and severe enzyme imbalance within the coating of the cylinder walls, so your engine is about to explode and/or start breeding fluffy kittens. Read the code. The guide is on here etc. Does the car feel abnormal? If not, then there's probably nothing major wrong.

If there's snow on the ground, the fun car stays in the garage. When it's gone, it comes straight back out again. Never seen the point of buying a car and then being too worried to drive it, regardless of initial cost. Driving a sporty car in winter marks you out as a member of the I'm Totally Awesome Club, with bonus points if it's a ragtop and the roof is down. The only possible exception might be an old Ferrari or Bugatti with race history that could never be replaced, but then they should be being ragged to death on track as the maker intended.

HBTY HBTY HBDN HBTY

I had to stop sadly, even my eyes were starting to feel the strain

Indeed, why you'd need Exige sidepods on a front-engined car is beyond me. Needs those horrible visible rivet/bolts blended in too.

Thanks chaps! I would've done, but I had to work last night so no partying for me On the upside, the missus has said that because I worked I get to extend my birthday across the entire weekend and can do whatever I want today as well! Being a typical man, when a woman says I can do anything I want, clearly there's only one thing to be done: IT'S A WHOLE DAY OF XBOX FOR ME!

Best of luck to you both

Job's a carrot, cheers for the heads up fella

Definitely what I'd check first, probably just coincidence it's happened after your new mod

Wheel is out of balance, more likely. Probably a weight fallen off. I assume a "ressie" is a reservoir?

"Mother, brother, any other sucker!" Lock, Stock

Those girls were killed a few miles from where I work so you can imagine the sympathy vote that flew around here in the local rags denouncing the railway as made of Hitler's sperm and such-forth, and yet no-one ever questioned why two apparently intelligent teenage girls couldn't work out that crossing a train track when there's a f*cking great train bearing down on you isn't a great idea. I feel bad for the parents, but in all honesty I think the girls did the gene pool a favour.

Sounds like she needs a new instructor tbh. If he's already moved onto parallel parking but she still doesn't get the basics then there seems to be a communication breakdown somewhere along the line, and it might be worth cutting your losses and finding a new one. They're the experts and however much we all like to think of ourselves as driving gods (and clearly we all are!), I think we'd all fall down in the teaching aspect which is the most critical part. That said, just plenty of seat time is the way to go, regardless of where or when. If she's that nervous around other traffic then definitely go somewhere quiet for a bit before you tackle the city together.

I believe that is what is known as feeding the troll. Remember kids, it's not cool and it's not clever and I really should know better.

That's exactly what I said, because that's the source I used too. All it does is prove your original picture wrong still. He did not discover insulin in 1922. Simple as that. Can't follow your logic, sorry... By the time Banting also isolated insulin, Paulescu already held a patent for his discovery and he was the first to secure the patent rights for his method of manufacturing pancreine/insulin (April 10, 1922, patent no. 6254 (8322) "Pancreina şi procedeul fabricaţiei ei"/"Pancrein and the process of making it" How can I make this more simple for you? Let's see... IN YOUR FIRST POST, YOU PUT UP THIS PIC: IT CLEARLY STATES THAT HE DISCOVERED INSULIN IN 1922. YES, 1922. IT'S VERY CLEAR ON THAT STATEMENT. I THEN POSTED THIS: "Paulescu didn't discover insulin in 1922: That was when he first patented the right to manufacture it. He actually isolated it back in 1916, although Banting and Macleod were officially recognised via the Nobel prize for the discovery of insulin in 1923." THAT WAS WHERE I STATED FOR THE FIRST TIME THAT HE DIDN'T DISCOVER IT IN 1922, THAT WAS WHEN HE SECURED THE PATENT FOR THE MANUFACTURE OF INSULIN. DO YOU SEE THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN THE WORDS "DISCOVER" AND "PATENT"? YES? THEN I'LL MOVE ON. YOU THEN RIPPED A HUGE SECTION OUT OF THE WIKIPEDIA PAGE THAT WENT A LITTLE SOMETHING LIKE THIS: Nicolae Paulescu, a Romanian professor of physiology at the University of Medicine and Pharmacy in Bucharest, was the first to isolate insulin, in 1916, which he called at that time, pancrein, by developing an aqueous pancreatic extract which, when injected into a diabetic dog, proved to have a normalizing effect on blood sugar levels. He had to interrupt his experiments because the World War I and in 1921 he wrote four papers about his work carried out in Bucharest and his tests on a diabetic dog. Later that year, he detailed his work by publishing an extensive whitepaper on the effect of the pancreatic extract injected into a diabetic animal, which he called: "Research on the Role of the Pancreas in Food Assimilation" [36][37]. Only 8 months later, the discoveries he published were copied (or, as some say, confirmed) by doctor Frederick Grant Banting and biochemist John James Rickard Macleod, who were later awarded the Nobel prize for the discovery of insulin in 1923, which Paulescu discovered as early as 1916. By the time Banting also isolated insulin, Paulescu already held a patent for his discovery and he was the first to secure the patent rights for his method of manufacturing pancreine/insulin (April 10, 1922, patent no. 6254 (8322) "Pancreina şi procedeul fabricaţiei ei"/"Pancrein and the process of making it", from the Romanian Ministry of Industry and Trade). Moreover, Banting was very familiar with Paulescu’s work, he even used Paulescu’s “Research on the Role of the Pancreas in Food Assimilation†as reference in the paper that brought him the Nobel [38]. THE BIT IN BOLD IS FAIRLY IMPORTANT HERE, AND IS SOMEWHAT CRUCIAL TO THE ENTIRE PROCESS. DO YOU SEE THE DATE? THAT WOULD BE 1916, OR EXACTLY WHEN I SAID HE DISCOVERED IT. IT ALSO MENTIONS WHEN IT WAS PATENTED FOR A SPECIFIC METHOD OF MANUFACTURE, WHICH WOULD BE APRIL 10TH, 1922. I REALLY HOPE YOU CAN SEE WHERE WE'RE HEADING NOW, BECAUSE I'M STARTING TO DEAFEN MYSELF WITH ALL THIS SHOUTING. TO SAVE SOME TIME I WON'T BOTHER REQUOTING THE LAST COMMENT I MADE AND YOUR SUBSEQUENT RETORT, AS I SUSPECT THAT MY POINT IS NOW MADE. JUST IN CASE, HOWEVER: NICOLAE PAULESCU DID NOT DISCOVER INSULIN IN 1922. HE DISCOVERED IT IN 1916, HE ONLY PATENTED IT IN 1922, THUS YOUR PICTURE AND ASSOCIATED CAPTION IS MORE WRONG THAN A NUN ARMED WITH A BOTTLE OF KY LUBE AND A SMALL GERBIL. And yes, Romania is a very pretty country. I particularly like the car park in pic 62, but the pregnant boy in pic 4 scares me.