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Are control arms pricey on the Z4? They're about £50 a pop for the E91 for Febi


Febi units are £90 without the rear bush for the Z4 as far as I can see, basically it's the 'modern classic tax' taking a bit of effect.

Mechanic there knows I have a preference for OE or good OE equivalent (not ...

Are control arms pricey on the Z4? They're about £50 a pop for the E91 for Febi

How much do people actually pay for a European beach holiday? For the past few years we've been camping in France. Two weeks, ferries, campsite, fuel, all food and all other spending for a family of four, has consistently cost about £3400.

Fancying a change, I just looked at a hotel in Greece ...

ZedLeg wrote: Fri Jan 09, 2026 11:52 am I love this

That's fantastic

Question though - given the pop-ups would you need to IVA it if you went down that route? And would it fail?

Garage reports that the squealing is Best Case Scenario - the aux belt is bloody old, and when they tweeked the tensioner a bit, the noise went away - so probably just the belt stretching enough to juuuuuuust start slipping. Don't even think the idlers or tensioner need replacing, just the belt ...

integrale_evo wrote: Mon Dec 15, 2025 9:26 pm Would be handy if they included a little slot to store it in while it was in the car being charged too. Doubt it would ever catch on though.

Yeah, it would stop it from rattling around in the centre console or taking up space in one's jeans pocket.

Someone should invent a fob that self charges when you put it in the car, and doesn't emit a signal unless pressed. Might mean no keyless though...

unzippy wrote: Mon Dec 15, 2025 12:20 pm Sad times.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c79x7q325p3o

And then this was all over the Aussie press:

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-10-31/ ... /105931332

Good. We buy Tim Tams now

Share price over 5years suggests it's returned to 2019-2023 levels. So, it could just be an interim over valuation I guess. But it looks pretty damning in reality.

Next years cars are conventional, albeit active aero aren’t they? So maybe Lewis will bounce back but you tend to end up with one driver who masters every era of car. I don’t have faith in the current Ferrari team producing a decent car though.


And even if they did (they have in the recent past ...

He ordered from Costco as they have £100 off Michelin.



Don't Costco still refuse to fit anything other than RFTs? I've never used them because when I last went they were still trotting that line out, despite the fact my car's not been on RFTs since 2013 :lol:


I’m not sure, haven’t used ...

duncs500 wrote: Fri Nov 28, 2025 11:28 am

Mito Man wrote: Fri Nov 28, 2025 10:40 am Looking from the outside in its as if the majority of them have never worked outside of politics or integrated in society.

Sums it up nicely.

You can extend that to the civil service as well then, given that RR and other politicians are simply mouthpieces.

Alpine...

Went to the detailer to get teh PPF re-applied on tuesday. He found multiple paintwork defects which after claying and machine polishing are actually under the laquer. :evil:

Bodyshop have picked it up from the detailers today to fix. Unsure if i mentioned but when they had it the ...

Mito Man wrote: Thu Nov 27, 2025 8:04 pm He ordered from Costco as they have £100 off Michelin.

Don't Costco still refuse to fit anything other than RFTs? I've never used them because when I last went they were still trotting that line out, despite the fact my car's not been on RFTs since 2013

I’d rather they didn’t pledge in a manifesto whilst trying to be elected to carry out a policy that either had zero research beforehand or was known to be incompatible and was still spouted.. either option isn’t exactly who I want running the UK Government


You'd best not vote for anyone ...

GY F1 Asymm 6?
Hankook Ventus S1 Evo3 X
Vredestein Uktrac Pro
Conti 4x4 Sport Contact

There are more as well

Mito Man wrote: Sat Nov 22, 2025 3:35 pm They don’t do PS4 or PS5 for the rear sizes. I think you get above a certain width and it’s automatically into sport tyres.

What size?

That didn't take long:

https://www.autoexpress.co.uk/news/3684 ... y-mile-tax

Jobbo wrote: Wed Nov 26, 2025 10:08 pm I do agree - this is apparently the largest tax take as a percentage of GDP ever. Spending it correctly is a duty they have to us, since we pay it.

Yeahhh. We all know what's really going to happen to that extra cash though don't we?