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General Car Chat / Re: budget tyres...
« on: 15 January 2012, 09:48:07 »

Need any help getting down from that high horse ?  ::) ;D

Quite happy on my perch thank you. :P

I'm being serious though, people who buy budget tyres and try to pass them off as good tyres to other people are ignoring every tyre test done in the last decade.  Other like minded people are more than happy to make their decisions based solely on a few internet opinions.  Have you ever seen a car manufacture sell budget tyres on a new car?  Of course not, in fact some manufacturers develop tyres specifically for their car.

Having good tyres is even more important than having good brakes, yet a lot of people still go for whatever is cheapest in their size.

It's a bit like going for a run in some clogs.

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General Car Chat / Re: budget tyres...
« on: 15 January 2012, 00:21:52 »
Premium tyres are good tyres, generally soft compounds for increased performance meaning less mileage per set.

Mid range tyres are average tyres, average performance and average mileage generally.

Budget tyres are poor tyres, poor performance but will last longer.

Simple.


People who say good things about budget tyres are just trying to justify their own purchases imo.  There are dozens of tests over the last decade showing that budgets are a false economy.  If people can't afford to have some decent rubber they should own a cheaper car to run imo.

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Turned 23.

Had a really nice Indian, then played 7 a side with friends.

 :)

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General Car Chat / Re: budget tyres...
« on: 14 January 2012, 17:10:51 »
"Good budget tyres"

Oxymoron.

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Meetings, gatherings, parties etc / Re: north east
« on: 04 December 2011, 22:48:16 »
Got winter tyres here.

Bring it on :P

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Certainly smaller nowadays.

The one we have is the size of a 24 pack!


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General Discussion Area / Re: Sky F1
« on: 26 November 2011, 13:40:03 »
Rumoured commentary team is David Croft and Martin Brundle, fingers crossed this is true.

Hopefully Brundle still gets to do his grid walks and that there will be after show analysis like the BBC do on the F1 forum.  Sounds like they're going to.

The live free practice and dedicated channel are big pluses for me too.

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General Discussion Area / Re: Annother Mobile Phone thread
« on: 26 November 2011, 13:34:42 »
Got my Galaxy Nexus a few days ago.

Here's a video of me using it.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ENdJv_AI5vU

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At least everything turned out for the best.

Told you sourcing wheels here would be better, turns out faster too haha.  Much better tyres, and overall price should be similar.  Result.

We've even had a mild November so far, so not missed out there either.  :y

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General Car Chat / Re: Halfords Trade card
« on: 17 November 2011, 12:31:16 »
I just showed them my Vx Trade Club Card, no problem.

Ditto.

Easier to get when there are teenagers at the counter.

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General Discussion Area / Re: Annother Mobile Phone thread
« on: 16 November 2011, 20:03:07 »
2 mates that swear by apple have n=been won over by the s2 and they are now working on the S3

the new model is the nexus to be released before xmas

 http://www.pocket-lint.com/news/37162/samsung-nexus-s-vs-htc-google-nexus-one

I've just upgraded to that over the phone this morning.

It gets launched tomorrow, I should have it in a couple days.

Hardware wise it's a side step from the S2, but the OS and screen are very nice upgrades.  Looking forward to it!

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General Discussion Area / Re: Annother Mobile Phone thread
« on: 16 November 2011, 20:01:18 »
Some of the apps I use:

3G Watchdog
Opera
ESPN Goals
F1.com 2011
Mini Info
PDF Viewer
Places Directory
RAC Traffic
Torque - particularly useful for my 3.2 :P

There's a plethora of other useful stuff too.

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General Car Chat / Re: So what have you done to your car today?
« on: 16 November 2011, 19:55:34 »
New VX wiper blades recently, much better than what was on previously.  Pretty cheap too at £13.

Fitted the VW 99 relay today for variable wiper speed control, works great!

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General Discussion Area / Re: Proper Support Fail. (NWS!)
« on: 12 November 2011, 22:01:06 »
I found it via the YouTube comments below a few days ago.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=pFBD8TVK6z4

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General Discussion Area / Re: Proper Support Fail. (NWS!)
« on: 11 November 2011, 17:47:18 »
And that's the short clip. :P

Longer version is even more NWS!

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