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I went to helmets with drop down visors years ago. No messing around changing tinted and clear ones all the time.

That remine That reminded me of a story. We imported some UK cops a few years ago. One of them booked a biker for having a tinted visor (it was daylight at the time). The problem was, they're illegal in the UK, but fine in NZ. I can only imagine the interview he had with his supervisor.

I don't drive much at night, but when I do, I want to see stuff.

I looked at DIYVan, but $US94 was a bit steep. So I had some 3mm black plastic sheet that I cut to size, heated and bent it into shape and secured it with marine adhesive and 4 self tapping screws. I filled the actual hole with blocks of polystyrene, and the shields deflect debris and water...

If the lotto angel smiled on me I'd get a GTD. Just for scarcity value as much as anything else. The big catch is, I doubt there'll be a RHD version. So that means another house where they drive on the wrong side. Starting to be too many zeros in the equation.

Manual boot lid here too. 1st world problems, therapy is helping. Seriously though, the auto tailgate lift with foot activation was excellent on the last car. Same here with the wipers. I've turned off rain sensing, I think I'll cope with manually selecting wipe speed.

When I looked at the colour chart. I didn't like Grabber Blue much. But when we went to the dealers other branch and saw it in the metal, we were sold. Especially SWIMBO (she who must be obeyed), she told me "no more grey cars". And, it does get lots of 'love the colour' comments.

Tell me about it. I had to fold the mirrors on a Peugeot 308 to squeeze up one street (alley more like) in Cefalu. I would not drive a Mustang there.

Either Ford is still building Monday and Friday cars, or I'm getting less fussy. But I'm quite happy with the build quality of mine for the price. The biggest WTF I've had was the holes at the bottom rear of the front fender liners. All fixed now though.

I thought the PZ4's were OK. Had them on for 3 years. But I did prefer the quicker, more positive turn in and quietness of the Mich PS5's I replaced them with. But the biggest surprise was the improvement in fuel economy averaged 2 US mpg better, driving fast, lots of overtaking, on the highway.

I don't know about that, I like the flashing light show. It's like a little puppy all excited to see you and go for drivies.

Yep, I found that on the badge, but wasn't sure about the 401A. Our dealers don't seem very knowledgeable.

Interesting, the 401A package is what we get standard. I'm quite impressed with our spec. Someone at Ford NZ knew what people would want.

I agree. I've seen bleeding done by forcing fluid back into the reservoir. But never heard of circulating air bubbles around the system.

At least these don't show the brake dust like the black and copper wheels on the last car. I cleaned them yesterday and was surprised at the amount of crud that came off, they didn't look that bad.

If the brake hose to the caliper is capped to stop fluid flowing, then it should be just a matter of reattaching the hose and bleeding manually. Pumping the brake pedal and opening/closing the bleeder.

How did you guess?

Grabber Blue shows a man has great taste and distinction. Well chosen Sir.

I don't think you have to race to appreciate great brakes. My Cupra Ateca had Brembos and that made the stock versions, which did have good brakes, feel like stomping on a lump of wood. That was my first exprience of excellent continuous braking performance

I doubt that's relevant. Different technologies have different characteristics, hobbling one to favour another doesn't make much sense. I also think rev limiters have severely damaged the engine rebuilding industry. Now you have to completly screw up a manual downshift to even valve bounce an...