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I get a pop up message preview which I can either expand to read a little more, click to open the app fully, or swipe away leaving just the notification you speak of. This is on my Nexus 5 running whatever the latest version of Android is. Were you using an original Galaxy S with a prehistoric...

20k is the best I've had from my second set...and I had 19k from the first.

As someone who asked myself this exact same question I went ahead and took it back to bare metal inside, removed both airbags, anything at all that wasn't functional in me getting around a track was removed. Yes it made it faster by quite some margin but it was certainly no more fun and it made...

Are you trying to set lap records on track? If not, don't bother. I took 117 kgs out of my 172 Cup and it ended up 100% totally ruined. Became a real chore to drive...I so wish I'd never bothered and just left it exactly as it was. Stripping weight out will gain you nothing, ease a little...

This post takes on such an air of seriousness, importance, and hilariousness when read in the voice of Gareth Keenan. Brilliant.

You have a great memory! I'd jacked up the front on the passenger side and swapped the wheel for one with track rubber on, then, before the driver's side was lifted to do the same I went around to crack the wheel bolts off so my electric torque wrench could cope with them. I then completely...

Long empty motorway exits are good for practicing this too. I was lucky enough to be 'gifted' a rattly old 2.5 V6 auto Vauxhall Omega which I ran for a year before selling it on. From day one I swore to myself that my right foot would never touch the brake pedal. It was hard work, in the...

Plus it's fun, it get's the car moving about, helps you learn more about how it behaves and how you can influence it.

That looks like a lot of fun. Amazing roads.

It's actually of no use at all unless you're shifting very very slowly. The natural rev decay on my ST is ultra slow (either because of mapping or the very low friction engine I guess?) so if you are in any way trying to make progress, you'll be re-engaging the clutch in the next gear way...

Amen. Not a lot wrong with them as far as I can tell apart from mid to high road noise levels. Progressive, enough sidewall movement but not too much, 20k per set including two trackdays, £85 per corner fitted. So long as they keep making them I'll keep fitting them to my ST.

You're doing say 4k rpm in 3rd, you change to 4th. The revs drop down to 2k ready for 4th but stay there for a second or two before decaying down to tickover. So all it does it hold the revs at the right level for the next gear on an upshift.

Bridgestone RE050.

Yep...I let out between 8-10 psi to have them running at the standard pressures when hot. That works for me.

Practice, practice, practice, practice, practice. Eventually it will become as natural as any other action you use your feet for in a car, you'll be able to do it without thinking. That hardest thing I found is to be able to maintain a constant pressure on the brake pedal while blipping the...

How much pressure did you let out of them when on track?

Nice work! Looks good, especially the wheels. I find the complete opposite on track with the OEM Bridgestone tyres. Love them so much that I had my third set fitted on Saturday in advance of Goodwood this coming weekend. can't wait...will have some comedy moments as it wobbles about on the big...

Yep, colour match is as good as it always was and they've got the gold flake spot on. I took a bright LED inspection lamp with me as it was overcast at the time. Major paranoia on my part but I needn't have worried. They've done a good job.

So it took a few days longer than expected but I'm pleased to report it's back. It's been a very long three and a half weeks. I only got to drive it the 0.2 miles home from the bodyshop (compared to the Zetec it felt like it had zero suspension LOL) as I'm working on the company's payroll...

Give me a few more hours of recording and I'll be able to confirm one way or another. I believe it does, but looking at the file on the SD card from my accident I don't see any change in properties to suggest it is write protected. As it's 32gb the card is taking a while to loop back...

Is it not friction between the cloth and the contaminents? The same as with clay, when it eventually falls silent there are no contaminents on the surface to make a noise with as they've been lifted off.

Update on the repair, it's been pulled, cut, welded, should be going to paint later today, aiming for a return to me on Friday. Thank f*** for that. :D

Is streaming for free from whatever source you can find not the ultimate in pikey-ness? I pay for s**t (Sky) then watch it when I want to which works just fine. To me that's how it's meant to work.

Not on orange they don't. Blue or black definitely but MO has to be the rado grey IMO.

I've just been to see it/them, so sad walking away and having to climb back into the Zetec. Their operation looks professional enough though...it's in good hands. As for the wheel refurb, they sub it out so don't do it themselves...and he couldn't comment on any likely paint match issues so...

So two weeks after this happened and the bodyshop have all they need except the rear bumper which is en route from Germany. I'm going to take a stroll across to see it at lunch, see how they're getting on and ask if they might be able to refurb my one slightly kerbed wheel while they have it...

You removed/loosened the cap from the master cylinder resevoir before trying to do this?

Once you've had some from George, you'll never go back to anyone else.

http://www.johnlewis.com/panasonic-hc-v160-camcorder-hd-1080p-8-9mp-38x-optical-zoom-77x-intelligent-zoom-2-7-wide-lcd-monitor/p1989464 Any good? If I had £150 in my back pocket for a camcorder I would buy this one with little hesitation.

Looks good enough to me. I've only had Panasonic ones myself...I tend to buy last year's models once the latest one is released with features I'll never use...that way I get video and audio as good as it gets without paying for stupid face identity/tagging software or YouTube uploading...