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With a Mini it's common to have rust on parts of the car that are impossible to rust, like the seat fabric and the dashboard switch covers. If it's a part of a Mini it can rust. I'm leaving the 998 standard apart from upgrading and intake and exhaust. Maybe buy a stage 2 or 3 engine in a year or two, they're about £2000 for a newly built one. Brakes will cost about £25 a wheel for the fronts so fairly cheap. Here's the nearside front brake. Underside of the car, with many oil leaks. :lol: Inside the nearside front wing. And some various poor repairs if I can call them that. Can you believe he paid £250 for the "welding" in the front footwells? Nearside footwell Offside footwell Sills and inside the rear bins, these show what the inner sills are likely to be like.

Did some of the checks, mixed results. The brakes are way past their best, one side is binding badly and the other has a warped disc. So I need new discs and pads. The calipers will also need a refurb so new pistons, fluid and a general clean up is in order for them. The underside of the car is pretty good. The only rust I could find was on the rear subframe and that's only surface rust which I'll be fixing shortly. Front subframe has small patches of rust which again should be fairly easy. And then just some new sills, flitch and floor panels should get the rest sorted. Checked the HT leads and they're slightly corroded on the inside and the spark plugs were thick with carbon so gave them a quick clean and now it runs so much smoother, cranks much faster(not sure why the plugs made a difference to this, thought it was mainly the battery). Seems better in the corners now as the power is so much smoother.

Drunkard MrLolololXDaphobe. :toetap: Maybe he wants an hourglass figure.

TDUCk domination - Check

You were never asleep!

They pretty much are against N. Korea.

I woke up dead. There, beat that. :lol:

:bye: Thanks for ruining Test Drive!

With some of the potholes around here that is very likely. :lol: And I will do if I remember. Should get some tomorrow showing the poor state it's in around some areas tomorrow.

No, I don't think it blends. Yes, it does certainly does "drift" when I go around a left hander sharpish. And I'm probably going to get it resprayed in Blue, a similar shade to what it is now if I can't get the same one. I love the colour it is now but the paint job was done by the last owners and is pretty terrible in certain areas. Mainly the bonnet, scuttle panel, roof and wheel arches. Plus I'd like the inside sprayed Blue properly too. Should also mean less prep work.

BOOM! Got a semi-plan ready for my car now that I've got my job sorted out. :) Should hopefully be ordering all of the parts soon. Tomorrow I'm hoping to get it on stands and clear sections of the underside of the car of underseal to see if there's any hidden rust. Depending on what I find I'll be ordering some new panels for it. So far I'm looking at inner sills, outer sills and front floor panels as some numpty in the cars pat has jacked it up using the floors so they're bent in which irritates me. And the last repair job is terrible in the front tbh. Fairly cheap though, looking at about £60 for the parts and I'm borrowing a MIG welder. Next up is a stage one upgrade kit which is basically a whole new intake and exhaust system. About £200 for a new air filter, carb needle, water heated intake manifold, exhaust manifold, downpipe, twin silenced centre exhaust. Should be fairly easy to fit myself but I'll need to get it tuned up properly on a rolling road which is an extra £80. Should hopefully be checking the brakes tomorrow to see if they're worn or not. They feel fine to drive and stop the car easily enough but still worth a check. New discs and pads are fairly cheap, £40 for the fronts and around £20 for the rears if they need doing. Some other minor things that will soon add up and cost plenty. :lol: New HT leads Enamel paint for the head and rocker cover Still need to paint the alloys Front wheel bearings New locks all around and a new locking filler cap And once ^^^ is done I should hopefully be getting a respray which should be fairly cheap as my uncles friend resprays cars and tracc'ors in one of his barns. Apparently he's really good at it and some of the tracc'ors have won awards at shows. Not sure how much it'll cost but if it's £500 or less I'll be happy even if I have to buy the paint. Full respray at decent garage would cost £1000 upwards. :eek: tl;dr I'm actually gonna start fixing it up. If anyone has any ideas feel free to share!

Lost my voice at work whilst in the middle of a phone call! :lol:

Multiplier! Although I always do the single player/co-op campaigns first just to get a eel for the game.

It's BF3 on steroids where the steroids are already on steroids!

:drool: This and BF4, I just had a crisis. :eek:

:eek: Didn't think my laptop or TV would do the trailer justice. *takes PC down to the bigger TV*

Nope, that was Vettel overtaking Webber again. Only that time Vettel turned into Webber and they both crashed.

Ahh, he won 1 race with his current teams sister team? He's so awesome.

It's a matter of life or death for me to miss the potholes around here. Even just the small ones make me bang my head on the roof at low speeds. >.<

And recordings will be linear on the HDD unless it's badly fragmented. Also unless you're recording at silly resolutions or bitrates using an SSD over a HDD will offer no improvement at all. A normal HDD is more than adequate for any sort of media content.

They're good as primary drives as they cache the most accessed files on the SSD which is why programs and the OS start up so quickly. With gaming, video editing, or anything with larger files etc you would just get the same speed as from a normal HDD as it'll be reading the files from the disk and not the faster flash memory. IMO not worth it as a secondary drive.

Thanks, I hope I do well enough to get onto the graduate scheme. Almost double the salary and would only keep going up as the company treat their staff well and offer decent pay. I already get 20% more per hour than my mum and I'm just working part-time alongside uni. :lol:

:drool:

:bparty:

I got my uni industrial placement sorted out. :bparty: It was my first proper application and I got the job. :cool: I have friends who have done well over 30 and still not got one. :eek: :yay: