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Not me. I've stated from the outset that for some people these policies are useful. The point I'm trying to make (very unseccessfully it seems judging by these responses) is that if you buy it from a dealer when you buy a new car, 9 times out of 10 you have paid way too much. Why would you...

GAP insurance - for every £20 collected, £1 is paid back out to claimants (5%). House/buildings insurance - for every £20 collected, £16 is paid back out to claimants (80%). Is that good value - or is it just a serious money spinner for the insurance company? People's ignorance of the true...

It is if a directly comparable policy is available for 50% less. Isn't it?

Surely that doesn't rule it out though? We all know from experience that the average dealership can't tell their arse from their elbow. They may well have taken it as a part-exchange thinking it's a great example of a 182 and not checked it out thoroughly enough.

I've no idea. I've not been so obsessive that I've weighed all my different wheel tyre combos to work out what gives the most grip for the least weight. Yet.

Correct. These are my TSWs;

Has anyone suggested it could be a stolen/ringed bodyshell yet? Have any black FF182s been pinched recently?

I only run 15s now on both road and track. I've got an old set of Dynamique 5 spokes for road use and some OZ F1s like Steve above along with a set of TSWs (no idea what they are...err, they have six spokes) for track. I've run Yokohama A032s (205/50/15), Dunlop D01J (195/55/15), Dunlop...

Err, very possibly. He'd more than likely have been able to get equivalent cover from a third party provider for a lot less than £299. The article isn't saying that the cover provided is a waste of time, just that dealers that sell it with cars...massively overcharge for it - then reap the...

But you're not protecting £17k of value, you're protecting the difference between its depreciated written down value (according to the insurer) and how much is outstanding on finance at the time you write it off. The main point of the article is that if you buy it from a dealer when you buy...

I got sent this earlier and thought it might be useful to some. Maybe a mod could sticky this? Written by Cliff D'Arcy of www.fool.co.uk In today's 'The Good, The Bad and The Ugly' email, I'm looking at a particularly unattractive car insurance policy. Guy Hands, the owner of Odeon, the...

Sorry, couldn't resist.

Re: The "To be announced" game I couldn't name..... LOL 50 Cent in Afghanistan. Love it. Genius.

Strip it and chip it and I think you'd have a 1.6 Focus if ours is anything to go by. Pretty slow.

LOL at the stopwatch being bo**ocks...no amount of finger error would account for the difference in lap time between the two cars - maybe a few hundreths, or even a whole tenth, but not as much as the stated lap time difference was.

Yes...it's burning off the coating on the pads. You need to get rid of this before the proper pad material is in contact with the discs.

You're talking about the 'lip' that's formed on the edge of the treadblocks giving it a slightly higher point? I've experienced that on many of my track and road tyres when used on track. Spoke to some tyre sprecialist at the Festival of Speed last year and he said it was nothing to worry...

Yaser's sounds stunning. It's at full chat at the end of this clip... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VzeeBp7DffE

If you lost just 60 kgs (all would still be easily reversible) you'd see your power to weight increase from 110 to 116 per ton. That's the sames as getting a 7 bhp, or 6% power increase assuming a starting point of 1,100 kgs.

I've stripped my Cup back to the bare metal, and think I've shed a genuine 70 kgs. That puts me about 950 kgs and with 177.8 bhp my power to weight ratio is 187 bhp/ton. The table below shows just how much extra horsepower the other RS models would need to keep up on a power-to-weight ratio...

Urgh.

Yay. Lovely.

I feel that. My HD Sky+ box f***s up every now and then. Drives me insane.

Chuckle... I feel your pain. Looks/sounds like some fantastic action/racing.

Looks nice just as it is.

I'm 75kgs so not tooooo heavy. Not seats, just the one going in... I can't wait.

Well, sort of. Every little helps :approve: I'm now at a solid 186 bhp per ton. Got myself a nice 6kgs seat to go in next, hope to have that in before the Combe action day - and if that saves me 15kgs, I'll be somewhere around 190 :approve:

Make a decision Jay! I'll have one of these off you if you end up going black. Need to know soon though as want it in for Combe.

Waste of money? Cost more? An ITG panel filter costs £47 once, and it lasts forever...or you could pay £15 for a paper one at every service. You do the maths. I've done probably 85k on mine now, and all it gets is a blast from Mike's air-hose at every service (6k). As far as any...

That's mint.