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33 for me at the moment in heavy traffic and with lots of AC etc. In the summer I was getting high 34's. I find it doesn't vary much in relation to my driving style. For a laugh once I tried going for economy as I used to get 55 out of my 1.2 but I could only just get 37 out of the 182 so...

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You gotta be smart about these things. Don't do the blokes car straight away. Give it a few months, maybe six months. Maybe he will get a nicer car with far more expensive insurance..... No point doing it to some old banger that he will just scrap and avoid making a claim.

Hmm yeah still not sure if that silly driving was just done for the cameras but they cut it so that it looked like he did that on his hot lap.

Yeah thats the idea, you want him to know who it was but not be able to prove it. Around my way though its an every day occurance so he would probably just blame it on the chavs again.

Yes you can. Actually I think the lap time was fairly impressive. I still wouldn't buy one though.

At the end of the day you are probably going to have to claim on your insurance maybe lose your NCB and either way the insurance co will screw you over with the premium next year even if it wasn't your fault. You are going to be out of pocket whilst laughing boy gets a slapped wrist and he will...

So he has his own car with insurance? I know what I'd do.

********HEY HEY!!! FIESTA ST GOING ROUND THE TRACK IN 5TH GEAR TONIGHT ACCORDING TO THE WEB PAGE*********** If it is only 0.1 slower around a long fast circuit like the ring it should post an identical time to the Clio around this track. Please paste the result onto the Fiesta forum...

Basically it reads like this: "I couldn't afford to buy and insure a Clio. So instead I bought a Fiesta and along with my fellow club members will try to reassure ourselves by inventing false figures and statistics to make us feel better about having to buy the second best car. If we all keep...

I remember when I started playing CS on dialup with a ping of 200+ and I would empty a clip into someone at point blank range and not even take 1hp of them as they were already long gone! It was like I was firing blanks. Upgraded to broadband, went back on with a ping of 20 and was immediately...

Most of the people crashing their Cups last year did it on wet slippery roads as remember? Hit the brakes and couldn't steer although there was one young guy that was over taking or doing something silly going up a hill and around a corner or something and had an almighty crash? That sounded...

How many did we have last winter writing off their Cups? I lost count of the number of threads! This winter is supposed to be really bad so they will be dropping like flies! I think for an 18 year old the risk of crashing is not always related to how quick the car is. Almost all of my friends...

Nah I've seen it, its just a standard unmodified (apart from tints) Mk1 V6. Not sure what those bits are made out of but it ain't carbon fibre but he was there in the pub car park going on and on and on and on about it! It is obviously some kind of heat resistant material, just want to know...

A chav mate of mine has just bought a Mk1 V6. He is convinced that the air intakes on the side and the engine covers are made of carbon fibre! Didn't look like carbon fibre to me but can anyone confirm that he is wrong?!

I am still wondering who owns the red turbo'd Mk1 in Bristol. Given that this is not a common mod I was hoping that they may have come looking to people that have already done it for advice and would be known to someone on this forum.

To be honest I didn't really want my Samsung and had no idea I would buy one until my bro got his a few weeks before. I was planning to spend around £2k on a TV but I knew if I got an expensive one now I'd only use the high def for 360 and for everything else it would be wasted. I also knew if I...

I'd still get the Samsung, I bought one after my brother got his and I was able to check it out. Weird thing is, we have identical TV's yet mine is slightly newer and I think they must have changed the firmware as my low def picture is noticeably softened compared to his and therefore looks...

I think to be honest I wouldnt have a leg to stand on cos its not like they even take money off your credit card and if they did they would just credit it back. I told my bro to wait but he is desperate. Way way back when I ordered mine he wasn't interested and was ranting about the PSP, now I...

My bro still needs to order one. I don't trust currys though, they say it will guarantee you one on launch day but Gameplay stopped promising that ages ago.

I got mine free on 02 online Tariff. You can get them from £19 a month and as you effectively get 50 quid worth of free texts with it on top of 50 anytime any network minutes the phone is genuinely free.

I find the camera is absolutely brilliant especially in good light. A bit noisy in low light (hardly surprising with no flash) although the firmware has improved it. The mp3 player is amazing and the headphones give a superb amount of bass so I sold my zen micro as a result. Its a really good...

http://www.esato.com/board/viewtopic.php?topic=92737 That thread applies, looks like maybe T-Mobile phones won't have the latest firmware yet though so beware if you have one. Otherwise yeah the latest one is available to download from Sony if you install the special usb drivers and follow...

Yeah go for the dongle, its a pain in the arse using the cable. Bluetooth is so much easier. The original firmware was ok but unstable. The firmwares that followed absolutely knackered up the video and picture quality but the very latest one has fixed it.

I can't stand using a pad for fps's, it totally does my head in. My bro though is a big console fan and when he got a PC I tried to get him into CS and Battlefield. All he did was moan non stop about how bad the keyboard and mouse controls were. When we were on Xbox Live playing Rainbow Six he...

The K750 is officially sh*te. Mine broke - the camera stopped working so I pulled it apart myself and plugged it back into the mobo. A common fault apparently. They have only just released a half decent firmware but many people still find it unstable.

LOL yeah around my way that would be gone in sixty seconds. Whats more they would kick your mirrors off and key every single panel and maybe burn the thing out as punishment for having the cheek to try and stop them scratching your car!!!!!!!!! I'd avoid anything that attracts attention to...

If FEAR does come out on Xbox it will be on the 360. Personally I won't upgrade my PC until I know the new machine will get at least double the score in benchmarks. That has always been my policy. Now that consoles are moving into hi-def and I will be using the 360 and PC on the same screen at...

I have to say I am very impressed by these times especially the 12.5. I always thought as rough figures go that you need about 400-450bhp per tonne to get down to a 12.0/115, 750bhp per tonne for a high ten/130 and nearly 1000 per tonne for mid 9/high 140's. I don't know much about car...

They are psychic or something. If you park under a bright streetlight at night they stay on but if you are stopped under a bridge in daytime and its dark in your car they can kind of see ahead and know not to come on! It must be down to different types of light or something!