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Hi Tony. Sort your website out? I've just spent a very frustrating 15 mins trying to find some info. - the page loading times are attrocious!!! Enjoy your stay. Mark

Most insurers specifically say you are not to admit liability at the scene. That's for the insurers/police to establish. Were you on the roundabout when she started pulling out, or were you approaching it but not on it yet?

Am I the only one that can say they've never used it. Comparing stats is bad enough...but comparing made up ones? Or do they have real stats too?

I was thinking more like "this thing corners like it's on rails"...while trying to impress his PA.

Even better.

Assuming no one was hurt... Ha ha ha, some fat balding businessman is nursing a sore head I bet! LMFAO - would have loved to have heard what he said to his passenger in the minutes leading up to that.

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The pallet scales I'm using are infinitely adjustable height-wise (it's designed to lift pallets) so I'm able to very accurately ensure that when all 4 tyres are at rest either on card or the scales, they are in the same position relative to each other. This is the point you made Paul - for the...

Well I still cannot see the logic to your argument. So what if 3 wheels are on pallets. They are static and do not affect weight distribution of the wheel being weighed. It still weighs 350/150 kgs as per my diagrams above. Can we agree that if I go down this route, and do everything...

OK then, consider the £800 + VAT scales I pictured above that everyone seems to agree will work... Now, let's say that you disconnect one of the scales from the main display... The other corners that are still connected to the main display are still giving the same reading for each...

Mine stopped squeaking the day they did this and never has squeaked since. Probably is vaseline, it's certainly 'greasy'.

That's exactly how I felt after I caned one around Brands. It is a totally different car to the standard 197. Airfield?

Whatever you do, don't ask Renault to sort it under warranty. I asked them 90,000 miles ago to sort mine, and you can see from this picture, that their hopeless attempt at sorting it is still visible on the back of my seat today... That was the only time someone other than Rentech Mike...

YOU CAN! The scales I posted a picture of do exactly that! It didn't work because... I used stacking card under the wheels to get each wheel to the same level. The amount I put under each wheel was exactly the same, and was exactly equal to the top of the forks on the pallet scales. But...

Nice :approve:

That's lush work Tom.

Both feet aren't level if you do that affecting weight distribution. I made sure my car's wheels were level. Although I've now worked out why it didn't work, can't believe I didn't spot this - it's visible in the video for all to see GGGRRRRRRRRRRR :mad: Part 2 to follow soon...with an...

My scales need re-calibrating? ;)

Thanks Nigel. I'm not disputing the fact that my car does NOT weigh 654 kgs - see the close to my video clip. What I am saying, is that in principle the method works (notwithstanding my erroneous results of course!). All 4 wheels were level regardless of their being weighed or not. Weight...

See my post above. You are saying that the weight under the wheel of a car depends on if it has a scale beneath it or not - which is obviously not correct.

That doesn't make sense. Think about it... There are 4 scales, 1 under each wheel, each saying (for arguments sake) 250 kgs - so total weight equals 1,000 kgs. That works according to your theory. Now imagine 3 of them are not scales, but platforms exactly the same height as the scale. Does...

If that's the case, why do these work? This is what I was replicating, but I only had the one scale, so I had to move that around one wheel at a time. I've tried the weighbridge thing, but my Cup doesn't weigh 1,240 kgs.

I'm looking at getting one pallet that's big enough for me to drive my Cup onto. That'll do Tom, that'll do.

Good work Paul!

If you look you'll see I did actually have the car level all the time I was weighing. I started off using pallets under each wheel, but they were too big to get under each wheel so I substituted stacking card to the same height as the weighing pallet truck. Take stack of card out, put scales...

Aren't those front tyres rotating the wrong way?

Exactly. It will lower the C of G so it's benefits will be far greater than just the reduced mass.

Thanks so much.

It is great isn't it. I'm thinking of offering it as a cost effective upgrade service to fellow Cliosporters. ;) Glad you all like the video. Wasn't going to pull one together when I saw the final figure, but then I got that music in my head so I had to. Obviously something not quite...

...had to give it a go. Very impressive result I thought. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jqLFERq8mKQ This is just for you Tom.