Lady Elanore

Only £100 for a pair of Hunters Wellies https://www.hunterboots.com/gb/en_gb/mens-tall-wellington-boots

I think it might still not be too late for a final Unimog push from the Brisky cognoscenti

Or some sort of Land Rover

Clue??

Obviously I agree with Mr Harris and his views on the current M3/4 Although He would have preferred the manual gearbox it seems. I'm not a fan of BMW manuals over the last few years, there's nothing really wrong with them, but they don't have that special feeling, they're just a bit numb. It was also nice to see he realised it wasn't just men who had M3/4s

There is a clown on YouTube who heavily modified his new PCP BMW and was angry when the finance company took the car back. He didn't understand that the car was not his to modify and BMW quite rightly said he had deflated the residual value of the car so the PCP figures were no longer valid.

I've read a few cases of people having bought a secondhand car with a manufacturer backed warranty and later having the warranty cancelled when they had a valid claim. The reason being they had unwittingly bought a modified car from the dealer and the dealer had noticed the mod after the car came back, but not before they sold it. Personally I would never knowingly buy a modified car (not including OEM additions) unless it was a very unusual/special vehicle that modifying was important to the final result. I'm thinking of something like a Cobra replica that had been tweaked over the years. I don't believe that cars have the over engineering that was once prevalent, as we can engineer tighter tolerances and so save money on build and materials. Hence, simply adding power is more of a potential recipe for disaster than it has ever been, doubly so as turbo tweaks yield big torque gains very easily and cheaply. It's one of the reasons that a manufacturer doesn't just take a car and turn the wick up to 11 to be faster than a competitor's car and for no extra cost in the build. Instead, they beef up brakes, suspension, transmission etc all at extra cost, to them and you, when it would be the easier and incorrect way to simply turn up the boost.

I've been on both sides of the modified car game as a modifier and also as a motorsaleswoman (is that a word?). I sold a modified Uno Turbo ie (mkII) and declared it to the garage when I traded it in for a Clio 16V (the original one ). I got a call after a relatively short while from the new owner, telling me the turbo had blown up. I said I had declared it to the dealer and he said he knew of the mod (it was fairly obvious, especially once you had driven the understeering monster ), but was disappointed. I asked if he was using the recommended octane booster? and avoiding massive 5th gear pulls up the M62 (Windy Hill for those who know it) and he said he had being doing exactly those things! Charging up and down on the M62 and running on the cheapest fuel he could find. I had little sympathy for him, but it does show that while I owned the modified car I had no problem, but perhaps I gave the next owner a more fragile car, or he was plain unsympathetic and drove the car hard all the time. Shy drives his car like my Dad so it probably isn't going to go pop in the immediate future, but it is a certainty that the life expectancy of certain components of his car will have been reduced. Simple engineering and physics dictate this. When I was a saleswoman, chip tuning wasn't so popular in those days as cars were much less sophisticated and I only got caught foul of it once. The boss went mad when we found out as he said he wanted to be shot of it immediately, so we sent it off to the block. Perhaps he overreacted or perhaps he was prescient to it's future, either way he didn't want the hassle of it coming back with a con-rod poking out of the block (he didn't put it quite so eloquently!) Usually, tweaked cars are fun for the modding owner, but a pain for all the next buyers imho

I thought you had captured 'The Donald' there for a moment

Martin Brundle mentioned that he thought the Albon comment of "they race me so hard" was a reference to the battle he was having with his sister team mates at Alpha Tauri. It appears he thought he had right of way with the second division Red Bull team (and perhaps his next berth for an F1 drive after this season).

Maybe I could just move into a Cray Computer and sell the house?

Thanks. I find it interesting to look at the task manager and see how much effort various parts of the system are putting into the operation. I ran an edit and export with the GFX utilised/alledgedly-optimised/not utilised. There was a slight difference and the card was definitely doing something, but it rarely did more that 10% of its max potential and I guessed it was roughly where there were things like a crossfade and text overlay that it was busiest. I imagine that a secondhand Cray wouldn't be enough for my efforts as I am pretty clueless as to the most efficient way to work (I imagine that a Cray probably wouldn't run on Windows 10 )

I was thinking more of I only had a single x16 slot and the other 2 slots are for lego or similar low channel peripherals (Maybe I shouldn't have tried to ram lego into the slot ....only kidding.....or am I?) I kept reading that GFX cards would be more and more utilised by media type programs and take advantage of their number crunching abilities, just have seen it yet. I often have a look at the task manager to see how much work is being done by the GFX card and it's surprising little, at least going by the amount of real estate the programs advertise they can use the gfx card. Mind you it's a few years old now, so the card isn't exactly cutting edge (Nvidia 1070). I can't remember what the motherboard is, but it only supports pretty slow RAM by today's standards, but it was ever thus with technology. My 'future proofed' TV which was an early LG OLED (only a few years old) does not support 4K 60fps on it's HDMI I/Ps, so if you were to use something like Apple TV then you would only get the 1080 stream as they refuse to show 30fps at 4K. Technology eh....who needs it But as I said, if I knew much about computers, I would build one myself I can barely remember an Amazon locker code between reading it in the car and pressing the buttons at the lockers

Buy Unimog drive to Toyota dealer Park Unimog on top of Land Cruiser Plant flag of victory through Land Cruiser roof and claim it as yours Post pictures on Briskoda Become all time legend

You're going to look silly in those when you climb into your Unimog

Maybe in a year or two if you are still offering this service I will give you a shout I see PCIe 4 is coming as well as new 30xx Nvidia cards and new Intel i7 and presumably i9 chips. I've never had an AMD PC but I keep reading good reviews about them. I bought my PC without really knowing much about them and only after upgrading a couple of HDDs to SATA SSD and adding a couple more hybrid HDDs have I realised I have nowhere to go. RAM maxed out (32GB) and not particularly fast RAM either :( and I only have one decent PCIe slot anyway. I made the mistake of not investing enough on a PC with a better motherboard, which is something I would at least be wise to now. I do a bit of photography and Lightroom can chew thorough memory when you have a huge number of files in an edit session and also do a bit of video editing, so the CPU gets a good workout (the video edit progs don't seem to utilise the GFX card as much as I hoped, even after alleged 'optimisation' by the edit prog) Your prices look really good btw

I doubt I could help I'm afraid, but have you scanned it into a pooter so at least you can let someone have a go at fixing it? There are a few Photoshop wizards about on here I think

Honda don't use Irony, they use steely and other lighter metals

Unimog will hold it's value you do realise we won’t give up on you getting a Unimog until you have a car on your drive .

It's a tough life being a ring taxi! Shame the Porsche was turbocharged, robs the sound quite a lot imho :( GT3 with its stratospheric red line sounds so much better

Funnily enough Honda has just announced its staying in Indycar racing

I think the only mod I had to do was link the live to the relay's traveller. Would have to open it up to check, but it was the work of 2 minutes, if that Nest would have been too tricky for me as I'd have to sort out the connections for the boiler controls and I don't have a schematic - and to be honest I would be quite likely to muck it up

If I had paid for someone to fit the system, I might have gone for NEST, but as I wanted to do it myself (a bit of a challenge keeps you young...or freezing cold if you bork the heating system of your house), HIVE was by far the easier option

So the guys who did the M4 video posted a little earlier also posted this one. Looks a hoot

You can not only hear the cars when looking at those pictures, but I swear I can smell unburnt fuel coming out of the exhausts