Quote from SpooNJaB :

you related to Klutch?

harsh br0

I'M ON A BOAT MOTHER****ER DON'T YOU EVER FORGET

Quote from [RCG]Boosted :

is that a fusion?

Ford Fiesta. The Fusion is a bit more... bulbous.

Quote from P5YcHoM4N :

Haha, I knew you watch too many traffic cop shows because I recognised that line from Traffic Cops the other day.

I quite enjoyed Road Wars.

Road Wars is ok, but I much much prefer BBC's "Traffic Cops" - it's a lot better quality (and doesn't always end up strip-searching some drug dealer to find he's got 40KG of Heroin in his rectum), it's just a shame it's so hard to find older episodes.

Quote from majod :

Police in England are to use laser scanners at the scene of serious road accidents, so they can clear crashes more quickly.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-14091873

I bet they read about Rockingham development before

It's been used for quite a while tbh.

Quote from The Very End :

If that can help solving the case faster and giving an reliable answer on what happend, that is a great new gadget

It's not done to make things easier to solve - it's just meant to get the road open sooner. I.E. there was a fatal accident on a busy motorway ~5PM, and it was not until dawn that the motorway was re-opened. That has a massive (hidden) cost on the economy.

Quote from [RCG]Boosted :

i guess the only use it in cities where a lot of accidents happen?

I would wager there aren't that many police forces in the UK (maybe around 20) and each one is only likely to have one or two collision specialists.

Remember that this technology is only needed in a fatal or incident involving "life changing" injuries where a record must be taken - it's very rarely (luckily) needed.

I watch far too many traffic-police shows... I have 60GB of them on my HDD

Quote from Migz :

And i've only ever seen one golf driven by a teenager between the age of 17-20 and he wasnt chavvy. The only few chavs ive seen driving them are 20+ driving banged up about to fall apart GTi's. Might be a chavvy car over there, luckily doesn't seem to be here though.

Sam93 owns a MK3 Golf.

Mega-bump, but today I passed the first year of my degree with a first (74%), slightly worse than last years 76% though

The splitters made of wood?!

So it turns out I have no life...

http://youtu.be/17L6jJcjde0?hd=1

Out of interest Chris, is the splitter a universal item, or a VX specific one? Does it add anything real to the aero profile, or just look cool (not flaming).

So much want...

http://www.autotrader.co.uk/cl ... code/radius/100?logcode=p

Only ~£300 more a year to insure than the ZT for 50% more cylinders, RWD & another 30 odd horses (+ more when tuned).

So tempting.

Last edited by Jakg, Mon, 4 Jul 2011 22:01.

Megabump...

Just bought this from work for £2.97 - was going to wack it on eBay but I've just realised how much I love infuriatingly complex games.

Any more opinions on it?

Quote from mrodgers :

All-seasons are what 95% of the people put on their cars. They aren't the best for snow, but driving in the rain is no different than driving in dry conditions. These last anywhere from 35,000 miles to up to 80,000 miles depending on the particular tire (based mostly on how much you pay.)

35-80k on a set of tires is pretty much unheard of over here. At most, you might get 25k out of the front tyres driving like a nun...

Quote from mrodgers :

Summer tires also are terrible in the rain. For the entire time I had these tires on, driving in the rain was basically like waterskiing. I had to drive horribly slow on my way to work holding up cars and cars of traffic behind me because I couldn't do more than 40 mph or my car would hydroplane on the smallest amount of water on the roads.

I have no problems with my Summer tyres in the rain, sure I've got a bit less grip but they still deliver loads and loads of grip.

Quote from Matrixi :

Here's how it goes in Finland atleast.

Summer:

This would be my definition of "summer" tyres (in fact I'm running Falken FK452's up front on the ZT).

I get through a pair of front tyres in about 12k (heavy car + FWD), and rears 25+k (the last set lasted that long before they got a puncture).

The FK452's cost me ~£100 + fitting (~£10) each in 225/45/18

And what I use at the back:



Vredestein Ultrac Sessanta's - usually ~£125 each + fitting (although I only paid £110 for the pair)

In the UK tyres are usually described as "all season" but are really summer tyres for comparison. Nobody really uses winter tyres at all.

Cant remember what my winters are (Yokohama something), but their just studless mud/snow tyres.

Quote from doyal :

looks terrible

Have to agree. But function > form.

Brace for epic flames.

Out of interest, what sub & amp?

Haters gonna hate

Quote from pearcy_2k7 :

Your tyres found enough grip to turn sharply and avoid but not brake?

I didn't turn sharply, I turned maybe 5° at most.

Quote from P5YcHoM4N :

I felt this required two different quote boxes. If you're sliding in the snow you was going too fast for the road conditions or your tyres ability to cope in the conditions. The fault was squarely in your court. You cannot blame nature for shit driving.

Sure I've posted this before, but here goes...

After work I decided I would "get the feel" of the ZT in the snowy conditions (having a large empty car park helps). I got the hang of feeling up to (and over) the limit, practicing stopping, feeling how much grip there was etc. I spent about half an hour doing this, so I had a pretty good idea on the conditions.

Once I'd stopped doing this, I come to leave. Theres a roundabout leaving work, as I come up to it theres a car stopped in front of me waiting to join. I've got miles of room to stop, i'm doing maybe 10 MPH at most. I brake nice and early (nice and early even taking the conditions into account), only for the wheels to lock up instantly, ABS to kick in, wheels lock again all the while losing no speed. There simply was pretty much no grip that my tyres could find.

No warning, no funny looking ice... just some grip to none in a second. I slid straight towards the back of the Mondeo up ahead, and luckily managed to go between it and the traffic island (just enough room) and came to rest in the middle of the roundabout. I was very lucky there was room and not a car coming...

The only way to avoid such a thing would be to do ~3 MPH everywhere "just in case" or to get some decent tyres... I chose the latter.



EDIT - Just to point out again, I wasn't doing any sort of stupid speed and I knew full well how long my car would take to stop in the conditions. I then braked much much earlier than I needed to, there just wasn't any grip there. There was no way any sort of driver skill (or lack thereof) could of got me out of that situation, or stopped me getting into it (unless I decided to take every snowy road at 1MPH just in case).

Quote from pearcy_2k7 :

15" wheels are always going to look rediculous on a car that big, i don't see how you can justify the outlay either, you paid £50 for a set of 2nd hand tyres, 15" ones, then i imagine £40 for the other wheels to be posted, then you've got to get them fitted and at the end of that your stuck with some shitty wheels all so you can drive in some snow for about 5 days a year i know they work better in colder/wetter conditions aswell but most seem to get by with normal tyres. Just seems to me you fanny about alot, not just with these wheels/tyres but in general.

Every mile I do on the cheap wheels with cheap tyres is a mile i'm not doing on my (much more expensive to replace) summer tyres.

I "got by" with my summer tyres last year, but I did very nearly rear-end a car through no fault of my own. As I was sliding towards the back of the Mondeo the overriding thought in my head was "this accident is going to cost much much more than winter tyres would of done".

Quote from pearcy_2k7 :

Instead of paying for 2 sets of shit wheels why didn't you just get 1 half decent set? They're going to look rediculous...

What?

I bought the first set really for the tyres (£50, bargain). The wheels fitting would of been a bonus but alas no. I got the second set for free, so I really can't complain at that...

No 15" wheel is going to look good on my car tbh, especially not the sort of thing in my price range (trust me, i've been looking...)

I've got some wheel cleaner, but it's last squirt this morning. Will pick some up tomorrow and give it another go when I get round to fitting them (i.e. the winter).

Quote from Jakg :

The wheels turned up, they look shit to be honest, but the tyres are good.

Trial fitment (looking even more ridiculous!)



Didn't fit up front (caliper was touching the spokes), and the wheels somehow managed to glue themselves to the hubs in the meantime, so took an hour of swearing to get them off...

Looks like I either need to get some spacers (would rather not) or get some new rims to put them on...

Decided to get some new wheels:


Look like arse, but only cost me postage so I can't complain. Plus I will probably get the cost of postage back when I scrap the old wheels, so I can't really complain.

EDIT - Picture is pre-clean but most of the shit wont come off anyway.

Quote from Luke.S :

If I didn't go on pistonheads I probably wouldn't have believed that but since over there people have all sorts of expensive motors. Hell one guy even has a Mclaren F1, wait actually 2 guys have Mclaren F1's it is more believable that people who use the internet are wealthy.

The difference being that people like Flemke are remotely believable... whereas a 17 year old from Finland wouldn't be, at all.

You might want to Google "Pyramid Scheme".

Hint - your never getting your laptop, ever.

Quote from sam93 :

Seems pretty legit to me

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Quote from hiroshima guy :

Other thing though, why didn't you get one with a Sandy Bridge processor? 1st-gen are already obsolete, unfortunately. Expensive doesn't mean much in IT-related context.

An i7 based laptop isn't "obsolete" - sure, it's been replaced, but in tech terms everything is replaced within a few months. The i7 is still a phenomally fast CPU.

The GPU in the laptop isn't that great though.