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Ekona

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  1. It's actually what happens when you start mucking around with the group settings in the UCP
  2. I owned one for about 19 hours last year, amazing car that is so very capable and oh-so-quick
  3. Sounds relatively normal for most dbw cars these days, certainly I remember my Zed doing something similar even if I don't recall the exact amount of revs it sat at.
  4. I tend to err on the side of caution when it comes to roads and my life, in so far as I'll always take so much more care if I don't have a huge metal box around me. I always check both sides of the road at least four times when crossing on foot for example, although that might be an OCD thing too. You wouldn't just cross a road without looking, so why on earth some cyclists ride like they do and then complain when a car comes a smidgen too close is beyond me.
  5. Top marks on admitting your error and posting up, I suspect a lot of people wouldn't! Glad to hear that things are progressing on getting it mended too
  6. Nice Don't forget it's Human Remains rather than Human Resources though...! *ducks in case anyone in here works in an HR department*
  7. I wish I had indicators and rear view mirrors on my cycle, it would make me feel a million times safer. It would also help if I rode it more than once a year too.
  8. I can't remember what the gauge reads between now, but oil pressure is related to how much oil you have in the sump as well (although it's not a reliable level indicator before anyone points that out!). I suspect you were fairly low on oil before and now it's been topped up after a service are just noticing the gauge reading a bit higher due to this. To put your mind at ease, changing the air filter will have no effect on this at all.
  9. £300-£500 for a set of OEM Rays depending on condition, you'll struggle to get anything better for less. Definitely the way to go, that's what I did with my second set of wheels for track.
  10. Best of luck with the new car mate, they really are stonking
  11. How long have you got?! He's incredibly talented and one of the top two drivers on the current grid, no doubt. He's also a big whiny whingey girl who has to get his own way or he'll through a huge strop, and not just in the way that Lewis is prone to by having a whinge in front of the cameras, but by either telling tales to the Big Bad Boss Bernie to get everyone in the brown stuff or by insisting that the team make the other driver move over and let him through. If the team themselves want to pick a no.1 driver and focus on him then that's fine, but it's no secret that Alcocko has it written into his contract that he has to be the no.1 and I find that disturbing from someone who clearly doesn't need that kind of help. I don't particularly like Lewis as a person much either truth be told, but I vastly prefer the way he goes about his racing and his driving style.
  12. I know, I'm helping save the planet!
  13. Much better, I used to get bang-on 23mpg with the Zed but I'm getting around 28-30mpg now on the same roads
  14. I did a tour of the RR factory back in the summer with the PH Sunday Service lot, I was both impressed by how incredibly simple it is but also just how much attention you can see they pay to the cars. Just a shame there were boxes everywhere with BMW plastered over the side, ruined it somewhat
  15. To be fair any manufacturer can have issues with the odd car as a Friday afternoon special, regardless of price point. Look at the issues Simon George is still having with his spanky new 458 for example. I genuinely don't think you can buy a bad car these days. Even the joke that used to be the Korean cars is now as out of date as the Skoda ones, as their quality is right up there with the mid-range stuff now.
  16. Best way to be I used to run with the a/c off in the Zed for most of the time, but on the Pork I leave it on all the time. I have no idea why my attitude has changed, if anything you;d have thought it would be the other way around trying to save a few pennies to run the more expensive car! It's always on in my truck though, that thing steams up so quickly otherwise for some reason.
  17. You want the car to run rich when cold really as it helps protect the engine until everything's nice and warm. FWIW a 3 min drive to work is likely to do more harm than good to the engine as it's never getting a chance to circulate warm fluids properly, which you're seeing as vastly increased fuel consumption. I would definitely look into other means of transport if possible, even a £150 shed of a car just to get you there and back could cost you less in the long term. Another issue (by design) is that with rich running at start you're also looking at a higher risk of damaging the cats too, which isn't going to be a cheap fix either.
  18. I was gutted when Seb couldn't continue, I was hoping he was going to prove a lot of people wrong and work his way back through the field, would've made for a fantastic spectacle. Good to see Lewis smiling again though, and also for Alonso to congratulate him. As much as I despise Alcocko, he drove the nuts off that red car today, fair play
  19. Claims that "all Android touchscreen stuff" is non-responsive are of course utter garbage... I guess swishing a static grid of icons backwards and forwards gives some people a boner Sure the Android UI and scrolling aren't quite as smoothly animated, but for major functionality like browsing it can match Apple's latest and greatest: So basically you're agreeing with me then? The screens aren't as smoothly animated and they simply aren't as responsive, but they do just as much if not more. If that's what you want then an Android tablet is clearly the way forward, but for the vast majority who aren't as tech savvy and don't need the faff then the iPad seems the better buy to me.
  20. The iPad responds exactly when you touch it, and exactly where you touched it. I have to second guess my Galaxy Tab every single time, as well as wait for it to have a cup of tea before it decides to respond or not. It's the exact same issue I have with all Android touchscreen stuff, their screen and tech just simply isn't a patch on Apple, regardless of how much more you can theoretically do with it. That said, pop into a shop and try them both out, you may find the trade-off in price worth it. I'm probably going to flog my Galaxy Tab cheap soon anyway because I can't be doing with it any more.
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