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My yacht club is doing a major rebuild of our jetty and pontoons. We have been fortunate to receive government and council grants to cover material and some external contractor costs, but insufficient to cover the arms length costs of having contractors fully do the work. With the assistance of a number of general working bees attended by 15-20 members (like one held this morning), and 5 retired but very handy members working generally a full day or more each week, members have put in over 400 hours of volunteer work. This is a fantastic display of what can be accomplished by dedicated club members, however, if i look at the number of members we have all up, the contributing members form less than 20% of the total membership, yet all members will of course benefit in the long run. Ain't clubs wonderful....

For the fans, S4 now available on SBS On Demand, entire series, a week before it will show on SBS. Saga gets released from prison in Ep 2 and the first thing she does is goes for a drive in the 911. Amazing but it starts immediately after 12 months sitting........

Signal Yellow is prime pick, I quite like the Aubergine, Leaf Green is the only one of the greens that does anything for me....

Filled 996 up on Sunday, think it was around $1.64........ As Adam says, we're usually pretty consistent (ly expensive) down here, but we don;t get the Friday price rises so the weekend fill up costs you more

We only use BP Ultimate or Caltex. Were warned off Shell by a P workshop which says they have a regular stream of cars coming in with fuel problems, nearly all of which seem to have been using Shell. Now this was 3 or 4 years ago, but we've steered clear anyway. Anyway, BP is closest service station to home, and our local Woollies aligned Caltex doesnt; carry 98. Whether there is any difference in quality between Woollies Caltex and proper Caltex I don;t know, and who knows what will happen to BP when they become the Woollies aligned brand. I've also used BP Ultimate diesel almost exclusively in my Territory for last couple of years now after I did some research on United, which was offered big discounts through RACT. Anyway, BP has become more price competitive these days, plus link up with Virgin points and able to use AMEX, so this makes them my usual choice for all our cars

Is this our own @Simonk????????

On the basis of purchasing from a recognised and reputable independent specialist Porsche workshop / sales business, I did not get PPIs on either our 987 or 996.2. The 987 perhaps because it was our first Porsche and I was perhaps a little naive, the 996 not done on a reputational and relationship basis. The only work we had to do to the 987 in the following 12 mths (tyre and ignition pack replacement x 1) couldn't in any way be attributed to condition at purchase. The 996 had a small issue which my mechanic negotiated with the seller workshop to my satisfaction, and appears to have been fully resolved. Again, both newer cars. Another 996 I was looking at I had booked in for a PPI until I found out it was a RWOV and canned the deal. That was through another dealer who I didn't get the warm and fuzzies about. If I was looking at a car model about which I had limited knowledge, and didn;t have someone with that knowledge helping me, I'd probably still be inclined to get a PPI in some form done, even if just to improve my knowledge and make sure my eyes were wide open.

That's good, will be able to get a diesel Macan or Cayenne for a great price then... Can't see me wanted a tractor so all good ☺

Received mine yesterday thanks, but no autographs!!!!!!

CDs are things you can use to listen to music if you don't have a USB input ☺

These units are tuned to a radio frequency right? Does that mean that you can't listen to the radio / play CDs when the unit is active?

Our 987 has the CDR24 unit, but has standard speakers etc, i.e., doesn't have the Bose update. I understand the Bose audio uses fibre connectivity, but how about the standard unit? Reason for asking is that I'm looking at Bluetooth options for handsfree phone. I've just purchased the Rennkit option for my 996 http://rennkit.com/product-info/bluetooth-retrofit-kit/ which works with non fibre installations. If the 987 is also non fibre I'll try it in that first. We would lose the 6 stacker CD unit connection, but we rarely use that anyway, and the 996 doesnt' have this option anyway. Otherwise, I'll investigate the Continental units (eg http://www.soundlabsgroup.com.au/p/Continental-Car-Radio-CD7416UBOR/Continental+CD+Car+Radio+CD7416-UB+OR) as I don't want to go double DIN, and don't want to spend a fortune. Any thoughts?

Friend is looking to get into a 246 Dino. LCT is definitely the difference in price between UK / Europe and here. He's sweating on it going, but I also reckon it's here to stay for a while....

And a pretty valuable one at that. Great job

OK, questions as to exactly how this is done, and what configuration for the pipe. The photo above looks pretty straight forward, and appears to be just a short, straight section in between the exhaust in and out pipes, whereas others I've seen appear to be longer, curved sections per this photo. Any comparison between the 2 sound & drone wise? The one shown above looks to be much simpler to do, and I can probably get done at the engineering business I work at as we do a fair bit of stainless stuff... cheers Peter