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Euro Car Parts, GSF, Renault themselves or a scrapyard if you want to save money would seem like the best places to try and find what you need.

At that price point it’s a lottery, personally from the sounds of it all your car actually needs is a driveshaft so I’d get it done and stick with it. The Mk3 is arguably the better car but an early 1.5 diesel at £600 could just as easily be the biggest money pit in the world ever as it could...

Yeah BMW have apparently recently upped the price of the SMG unit and, of course, will only supply the complete assembly and not just the bit that fails........ Even if the solenoid pack does go (which is incredibly rare) BBA reman will do a complete reconditioned SMG unit with lifetime...

Yeah the SMG pump motor is the usual issue, £400 or so plus fitting these days which any decent specialist can knock off reasonably quickly or it’s DIYable if you’re handy with the spanners, so it’s nowhere near the issue it used to be. Not that I checked it out before buying an SMG car or...

Nice one :) Got a duff coil on mine too, went south when I took it into work one day last week. Just a shitty idle and then after a couple of minutes it popped the EML on, other than that it’s all good so it’s sat forlornly on the drive waiting for me to get my arse in gear and get the spanners...

Goddamn it, I want it back.

The plus range has got a considerably bigger battery than the non-plus though, something like a third bigger, it's the one to have if you want decent battery life out of an iPhone. The 8 apparently has slightly worse battery life than the 7 in all models because it has about a 10% smaller...

I had a separate cheapie laptop, I've had some fun and games with running various diagnostic kits in VMs - usually just getting the comms right - but that usually works too

I can't heel and toe to save my life. Size 13 feet plus being a clumsy b*****d. Therefore I welcome our computerised throttle-blipping overlords with open arms :)

One thing I hadn’t really appreciated about the X is that is gives you a screen the size of the 8 Plus in a body the size of an 8 (OK, not exactly, but near as damnit). That’s quite nice. Good hands-on review of the 8 and 8+ here: https://arstechnica.co.uk/gadgets/2017/09/iphone-8-review/...

Looks like that’s one of the good things about it, you can vary all of the settings individually and assign them to a mode. Want the auto-blip off, suspension in max comfort, noisiest exhaust, most aggressive diff settings and medium throttle settings - you can have that, and any other...

Be interesting to see if there are decent discounts on these through brokers or not. High praise from Sutcliff in that video, it’s like the best of the Megane RS range but more composed - blimey.

I've had wireless charging before on a previous phone, it's a "nice to have" but I can't honestly say I missed it when I went to a phone that didn't support it. I can see in the car with CarPlay and wireless charging it will be good, more convenient than sticking the phone in a holder and...

Just got the options through for the new work phone, all 64Gb models, iPhone 8 for nuffink, Pay £80 to go to iPhone 8+, or pay £250 and get the iPhone X. Now that's a dilemma..... but does mean I'll always be contactable by work because I'll use the work phone for everything. Nah, screw that :D

Doh, yeah, it's an SE. Brain-keyboard interface failure :D For what it's worth (which I appreciate isn't much, as it's all anecdotal), my work 6S has been running iOS 11 since Friday and that's fine too.

Have a look at the battery use chart and see if you can see a particular app that’s caning the battery, might be an older one that’s not yet been updated for iOS 11 and is causing an issue. Also try a hard reset (hold down power and home key until the phone reboots) if you’ve not done it...

Got my pre-order in for the new one, very rarely do that so they must have done something right with the last two. Not that I ever have time to play games these days :(

Good effort!

IIRC it’s one of the conditions of using the site that you have to check the details that actually get sent through on the policy and warrant that they’re correct before accepting the policy. It sounds like a c**k up transferring the data over, it’s unfortunately not foolproof as things don’t...

They probably just don't know, that'll all be in the hands of BT Openreach who are a law unto themselves.

According to the hands-on I've read by default video doesn't play across the bar, but if you choose to then it will. That's assuming 16:9 video.

Nearly bought one of those about..... oh..... a decade ago. s**t, I'm so old. Anyway, I thought it was a bit dull TBH, went well enough but didn't have the sparkle of a really good hot hatch. Bit surprised to see what a cult thing they've become to be honest, but I can see they're a genuinely...

Edge to edge screens are a bit meh IMO, never liked them, quite happy that there's still a little bit of bezel. The actual quality of the screen is supposed to be amazing, all of the hands-on tests I read commented on it and that's what really matters. Thing is it's not a right/wrong thing...

Next generation X (X S?) will have touchID in the display IMO, they wanted it for this gen but the technology to make it work in such a slim package with OLED isn't quite there yet. It will be interesting to see how FaceID works in reality, I'll give them the benefit of the doubt for now but I...

Pretty much what I expected TBH, nice incremental bump for the 8 and the X is at least fairly pretty. I’ll reserve judgement on FaceID until I’ve tried it, not that it’s relevant really because I’m never dropping a grand on a phone. An 8 will be my new work phone so nice to see it starts at...

I'd like to start at the budget end and if I really get the bug I can upgrade, so £300 to £500 tops for amp, speakers and some sort of streaming module. Not fussed about new or used. I'll check out AVForums, thanks.

I have been having a look round eBay, but some of the prices on there for the stuff I remember are pretty incredible too ;) I might get some new speakers and then just get a pick ‘n’ mix of cheaper stuff off the bay, cheap way to find out if I really want to get back into it properly again.

Many years ago I used to be properly into hi-fi kit, pretty much knew the "best" components to get at every price point (or at least what the mags said they were), blah blah blah. My own system was very modest 'cos I was only a kid and had to save up for everything, but I'd now like to get a...

Suspect they won't have touch id on the X, they wanted to get it integrated into the screen but it sounds like they couldn't get it to work in time. From what I've read the facial ID tech is going to be a big step ahead of other solutions - 3D modelling and using infrared too. Personally I...

Animal, vegetable, or mineral, I’ll try anything once.