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Agreed 150%. Ran mine on 95 from purchase until a few weeks ago. Since I moved to 99 it is like a different car...especially below 3k rpm. I'm obsessed with recording everything I spend on it too, and thus far, the figures I'm seeing show that the extra cost is more than outweighed by the extra...

LOL at being in denial. Perhaps he was thinking VFM when making the purchase decision? I played with a new one recently - granted the screen is mightily impressive...but spend £x to change from my iPad 2? No thanks. The comparison with HD TVs I don't think holds too much water tbh either...on...

Deactivate it? Why? I've found that I have to be within 0.5-1.0 metres of either door or the boot for it to work...are you sleeping on its roof?!

For me the only corner at Brands that feels like a real challenge is Paddock, massive gradient change, unsighted upon entry...all the rest are a bit meh. At Goodwood they pretty much all take balls to commit to. Monotony perhaps wasn't the right word...but I find it a bit repetitive...here's...

That'll be good...an extra corner will help relieve the monotony.

Buy a low miler at £10k, keep it until it dies. Depreciation ceases to be a factor. That's what I did/plan to do. As for chocolate gearboxes, I'm happy to take my chances. Simple rev matching (not necessarily heel and toeing) will prolong the life of just about any gearbox, as they're designed...

Bedford, Saturday 18th August, Easytrack. Done.

I bought my 172 Cup originally as my V6 Mondeo would have been useless on the trackday my wife bought for me. Was browsing a copy of Evo magazine and they were running one as a long termer and couldn't praise its abilities highly enough. 48hrs later had one on order...don't know what came over...

Good day then Jon? Know what to do next with the car? Any major issues from hurried perparation?

EFA ;)

I think you could do with slowing down your inputs...you were quite abrupt when you started the turn on the clip above...asking for a lot of turn before the tyre's properly loaded up will give the inevitable under steer. Think of it like when you brake hard...jump straight on the pedal and the...

Nice, love the 200s in RB. Was going to warn you that everyone will call you a cnut for sticking with the very adequate standard chairs...but seems plenty have made that point already.

And it's a 4-pot :(

Looks nice :D Stupid question here...the tints...is it just the rear side windows or do they do the back window also? Never thought i'd say it's but I'm considering getting mine done.

Pay attention to your tyre pressures, get them working right. Apart from that, as above, a little tweak to the brakes is all they really need out of the box...my recommendation would be lines first as I think standard lines are a weak link.

So much standard chair hate in here! From a purely functional perspective it's completely unwarranted.

Aye, that it is. Just over 5k in with it now, and I'm more attached to it as a driving device that I ever have been to my Cup.

My 2.0 Dynamique...

You're a brave man Jon!!! Good working getting it this far though, looks good with the contrasting colours, LOL at everyone wanting a piece of you.

I'd agree with this ^^^. A blowout on the unloaded inner tyre while going around a bend...isn't likely to spear you suddenly inwards and up a verge to summersault over a wall. Is the "NSF tyre blew" an excuse just to save face? Realised the tyre blew in the process so you could blame that for...

As above, leave the rears well alone, my original rear discs/pads from the factory lasted 90k miles they do so little! As for the front, as has been said, Brembo HC discs are enough, with whatever pad takes your fancy. DS2500 can wilt, but CL, Pagid or PF pads tend to soak up the abuse. Lines...

I've recently put my cat back on and left it, having been decatted for the last 100k miles. The engine feels blunt and muted now, not right.

You sit in lane 2 regardless of speed/lane 1 traffic? The randomness of other drives beggars belief sometimes though, I tend to always find someone who resents being overtaken, so comes past, then slows down, so gets overtaken again, then comes past, then slows down, so gets overtaken again...

As above, Rentech. They're the only ones to have had their hands on my 172 Cup throughout its 9 year 130k mile life so far...and they'll be the only ones I'll trust with my 200 too.

Pics anyway?

"This would be spread across your remaining monthly payments" ^^^ this seems pretty self explanatory to me.

It's the insurers fault. I've got two works van at the moment that have been flagged up via ANPR as having no insurance. I've provided copies of cover notes/policies etc. and they've told me that they levy a penalty against the insurer for not updating the database the police use. It's the...

Correct, he'd have had to take it on the chin, unless he had asked something like... "Is there anything else I should know about which, if I was aware of it, would affect my decision to buy the car or the price I'm prepared to pay?". However, that then comes down to verbal discussion etc...

Do you have contents insurance? With legal cover included? If so, call them, this is exactly what that sort of cover is for.

Apart from the fact that said traders friend is a user on here...and would likely have been able to get evidence that the seller knew of the problem beforehand. Revels, if you lie to induce someone into a deal, as a trader OR random member of the public, you have done wrong. The courts would...