nerdstrike

I suppose you can argue that there is at least room for bigger brakes.

The wiring to the antenna can act as an antenna, albeit a poor one. I was receiving only some standard TV channels at home until I found the end of the aerial cable in the loft with nothing on it. Try refit your antenna again, and then do as advised above.

That is a weird situation. If the fuel was to spec you would surely see close to regular mileage. I have never heard of such a drastic effect. It borders on criminal of the fuel station owner.

My rear brakes were irritating me with squeals, but only when pedal pressure was applied. Occasionally after crappy weather it would squeak at low speeds too. I lived with it for a couple of years, but recently had to replace the discs due to wear, and obviously the issue went away with new hardware. I have no doubt it was something about the pads. They're pretty tough for an OEM fit. You could check your slider pins and boots for good grease and no corrosion, or just move them to see if they're sliding well. Any issues here can lead to premature wear and sticking. Mine looked fine at time of change (62k), but I had acquired replacements so in went the new ones.

I like to convince myself that FaceArse marketplace is the new ebay for moving stolen goods, that way I worry less about not having an account. No idea if it's true or not 😕 Hope you all had fun.

I imagine the typical "free safety check" involves peering at the brake pads to see if they can charge you for replacing them.

You'll only know for sure if you have access to an ABS fault reader (not the usual OBD one). Odds are some monkey has bashed one of your sensors or nicked a wire and now owes you a new one. Could be worth looking in your front wheel arches at the cables, as they're where the most movement occurs. It occurs to me that we've had some pretty vile and soggy weather recently that could short any bared wire.

I suppose you could always turn it into an opportunity to put in a block that is designed for boost, but it would delay getting back on the road substantially. Perhaps you could replace only one of the short blocks?

My god that's a lot of material. What a tragedy!

Goes to show how bad we are at collectively driving smoothly. Sitting in a queue trying to leave a motorway is gonna hit me hard when full normality returns

There's also A-plan (https://www.aplan.co.uk/) but brokers are much of a muchness. You never really know who is going to come out on top. The number one problem I've encountered with brokers is the specifics of cover are really not clear until the policy arrives because of the variety of underwriters involved. You might find you get a cracking deal, but you might also find a limitation in the small print, like say no third party cover driving another vehicle. Technically you have refusal in the cooldown period, but then you have to begin the process again or be without cover. On the other hand, I once found myself jumping from about 2 years NCB up to 5 after running a policy with Adrian Flux. Not sure how that happened! On the flip-side, I've heard a few tales of misery when it comes to claim time, and I expect haggling over write off value is more difficult when there's a broker in the way. YMMV. Brokers are good fair weather companions, much like rock bottom insurers operating out of tax/law havens, such as Admiral/Hastings etc.

Until evidence to the contrary, it sounds like a manufacturing defect. I've heard of lines abraiding on the suspension when they're not the right length, but not rupturing like this.

I wonder if you're falling foul to the volume drop associated with notifications while other audio plays? I think I would lay the blame on some of the phone software and try to find out what app keeps grabbing focus or making silent notifications. You could start with playing music first and then setting a nav destination. Your headset is a little different because it is not carrying taking contacts a message history and such. Perhaps you could unpair them, purge the head unit and set up again? You could try limiting access to everything but audio to start with.

Lots of these bits look great. Is it going to be ok with matt skirts and glossy carbon finish on the wing?

Will they last? How quickly do they overheat? For the price it's either got to be a loss leader or made of very sticky cheese

For some reason a lot of car clubs just don't bother with Pirelli. Over a decade ago, the Pzero was capable but quite hard. Same for Bridgestone, whose RE040 was very snappy in the wet. Being a premium brand, I reckon there's always a cheaper option that performs as well or similar. It's not like the sellers give parameters to help you decide.

How simple!

Quite apart from the fine fine fine massive skids nature of the primacy, they're very robust and that tends to mean you might find old tyres on your buy. An old primacy is not to be trifled with on greasy roads!

Or £400 and many hours stripping your knuckles and losing many many tools into the undertray....

Let's be honest, we should be disconnecting our batteries at this time. The car will sit just fine for a number of weeks. It's just a pain to reconnect when you actually need to go somewhere. Good time to buy shares in battery charger companies...

*sigh* I managed to unlock my car but it wouldn't start today. The start system took one look at the voltage as it primed the fuel system and quit. It was fine ten days ago and had a good run then. Note to self - do not store jump leads in boot. The boot release didn't work so I had to crawl in via the rear seats. Mercifully I was then able to jump it and it was starting on its own after half an hour of essential errands. I hope I haven't goosed the battery, I only replaced it this winter.

You have to throw the lock and push back whatever motor drives central locking, so I'm not surprised it's difficult on a good day with so little leverage. Conventional keys have double the handle width and it's double sided, so you can put 4x the torque down the key. Frankly our emergency keys are poo.

Love the front lights, will the rear one be obscured by significant aero to tame your ridiculous engine?

Toyota/Subaru love their beeps: ignition on while door is open, key battery low, engaging reverse sensors, seat belt not on in occupied seat... I'm sure there's more I haven't heard yet! Not withstanding the annoying "I'm not going to lock until you wiggle my bonnet-closed sensor" beep beep beep. At least it doesn't beep near the redline like the RX8 did...

Good lord! That lot probably cost as much as your car! You don't need in-car stereo at all - you can probably hear your home stereo from wherever you're driving.