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Not had chance to have a look yet mate, but I think I will do it today if it's not raining. It's always a bit of a PITA though as I have to use a jack/stands/groundsheet etc.

lol It doesn't look bad at all, it just doesn't look like a Supra that's all.

Not sure. Looks like an old man with greasy comb-over style waves of hair. A bit Mitsubishi Eclipse from the side. Wheels look shit on there too. The whole thing's too whisky and wavy. It's making me feel sick.

it's just not high quality enough

Maybe the truth is that I just don't take risks with the car much any more after driving it/its predecessor for 4 - 5 years, rather than it being about the traction control actually being better. I do think it's better than the UK spec pre-facelift one though. If I force a slide on a 90-degree bend in the wet (foot down a little too hard from a standstill with full-ish steering lock on to take the 90-degree turn out of a junction), the facelift traction control will cut in just as the slide starts, which I'm sure the UK one didn't do. I to tend to push the slip-cont button right after it kicks in though so I suppose to be fair it is limiting power too much, but I have got the hang of hitting that button instantly. The main appreciable difference seems to be in how quickly it responds.

Yeah, the quality one that I don't have any more does. It's like something from the big old days of zero cost-cutting

That's exactly what I thought for the first few weeks But I'm certain it's fresh now.

Will do, thanks.

D'oh. I want one

Facelift trac/slip-cont is much better. When I had a UK car, I used to turn it off religiously, and I even started enquiring about a device which would switch it off for me every time the car started (didn't want to pull trac fuse). Now I have a Jap car, facelift, I find it much better. It kicks in pretty quickly, and although it robs a chunk of power, it doesn't rob *all* power like it did in the UK car. The most notable difference though is that it's much quicker to respond. I often get a little flicker of the slip light just to warn me, but don't feel any change to the power. It still won't help if I hoon it around a bend in the wet of course, but then I doubt anything would. The upshot is that in my UK car I used to turn it off, and in my facelift Jap car I leave it on.

That's a fair point. I have them going to an email address I stopped using years ago I'll disable it now

Must be a UK specific thing then. The bendy wire one with a massive handle is miles better. The flat one is so tough to get in and out, 'cause it's resisting bending.

I seem to have an oil leak on the Supra. I'm fairly confident that it has only appeared since I last changed the oil & filter. Is it therefore reasonable to think that I might not have the filter on tight enough? I try to do it pretty tight (using marigolds), but not so tight that it'll be awkward to take off next time. It's possible that I didn't have marigolds to hand and used something less grippy when I did it, I can't remember. Is this at all likely, or does the oil system not work like that. i.e. if it was leaking around the filter, would I have had no pressure and catastrophic engine failure by now? Oil/filter change was done over a month, maybe six weeks ago. I tightened the cam covers a while back, so it's unlikely to be that. Evidence of leak is small patch on driveway. Any ideas? Thanks!

My UK car had a lovely twisted (braided?) oil dipstick which was nice and flexible. It would bend in any way and had a super massive handle on it - big like everything else on the car. My Jap car has a flat bar type dipstick with a small yellow hoop for the handle. Because it's a flat long bar thing, it only bends one way, and because of that it isn't so nice to insert and remove. What's the deal here? Has my dipstick been lost and replaced with an inferior item, or are all Jap cars like this?

My missus' sister went to the job centre and they advised her that "You are better off going to college and working a few hours a week because then the government will pay you loads". So she did. I think they pay her mortgage too.

Are you having a laugh?! You can go and have a baby and still take pay, you can't be sacked if you are thick and shit at your job, you can get compensation for a job you never got, because your feelings are hurt. You really must be having a laugh if you think workers have no rights. As a single-man small business, I hope I never have to employ anybody.

Sort of looks like he should have known after the first lap that he was doing it wrong on that bend, and slowed down or just generally been smoother Oh, just read the Audi forum.. he was intentionally trying to powerslide then. I feel sorry for the guy but I can't help thinking he's utterly stupid.

That does make interesting reading, because I had no knowledge of anything at that time, although I was born in 1981. I lived in a Council house and was accepted for scholarship at a private grammar school, so not a particularly bad memory. I read all of the comments last night on that bbc.co.uk link you gave, and it helps me understand how things might have been. What I saw from those comments was a country stuck in old fashioned industry, with lots of unskilled workers whose jobs were being heavily subsidised by the government, and the country being held to ransom by trade union strikes. Power cuts due to strikes. It sounds like a dark time. I got the impression of lots of poor unskilled workers who knew nothing except their old job finding themselves screwed and not knowing what the hell to do as the country was being pushed towards a modern society rather than a coal miner's country. The kind of picture I got was like something from an old book. I had visions of what I saw when reading the book A Kestrel for a Knave whist at school. So, if that's how it was, then I can only decide that Thatcher did something awesome. I feel we are in a modern cutting edge society now, a stark contrast to what I have envisioned from the negative Thatcher comments on that bbc.co.uk page.

That's a strong argument, and all those things upset me, so I am back in a Conservative position now. See how easily people can be influenced?

I really like my Honda Civic, and they do an auto for the petrol models. Not sure if there's a 3dr petrol auto though, but the 5 door looks like a 3 door anyway. Great car to drive. Great in so many ways. I'm talking about the new shape 2006-on Civic.

I wasn't having a go, and you seem to have got the hang of it now anyway

You speak sense as always, but I can't help thinking that there are too many freeloaders. Not imports particularly, but a combination of imports and local white trash.

You need to learn to use the quote tags properly. You keep copying what people are saying instead of using keeping the