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With photos the PC link can be a pain. To easily get them off the iPad you just access the ipad as a USB disk in Windows as you would any USB disk, though all the photos are in many folders and just have numbers for names. To get photos to go the other way - on the iPad - I haven't tried much, though I have put a few MP4 videos on, and for that, I coped them to my camera's SD card, then pushed it into the camera connection kit and it imported them no problems. None of this is really an issue though as I've moved online for all my media some time ago (after deleting 4 years of photos by mistake!) I pay £5 a year for 80Gb of storage with Google. All of my photos and videos on my PC automatically upload to the web via the Google Picasa software. This happens in the background and is automatic and not intrusive. This means I have full resolution, uncompressed copies of my photos and films on my LAN Disk at home, a backup (auto once a week overnight) to a usb disk hanging off my LAN disk, plus a backup online - at Google. Three copies. Nice. The real beauty of this is my media is now available everywhere. On my iPad I have an app called "Web Albums" - this is a very pretty front end to access local and online photos, hosted by just about every provider out there. It looks like the photos (and movies) are locally on my ipad when you are connected to the internet. You can set it to auto-cache photos (with a set limit) so it keeps local copies of photos you have viewed - so you can view them offline. You can also tell it to cache entire folders / albums. I tend to do this with recent stuff so it is available to show friends offline etc. I also plug my digital cameras directly into my iPad and transfer my pics and movies to it. Once there, the app, Just Pictures, syncs with my Google online storage (Picasa) just like the Picasa desktop app does, so all my photos still end up in the same place. Consequently I use very little space. I have an iPad 16Gb with LOADS of apps, and I'm still 8Gb free at present. Finally, I have an app on my Android phone called "Just Pictures" - which does exactly the same as "Web Albums" on my iPad :-) If Apple were not such miserable gits about what you can and can't plug into the iPad via USB, I'd be able to plug my Tascam DR-05 digital audio recorder into my iPad and then stitch together my track day videos in iMovie whilst sitting in my camper van at track days :-p

I don't know all the costs involved in these and other parts you make but it does seem that you like to charge a premium on parts. Just take radiators and your wide track kit as prime examples. It only takes 10 mins with google to find the same or equivalent part with substantial reductions. It doesn't seem right to milk your customers and been perfectly honest I would spend more of my money with you if you we're competitively priced and I'm sure I wouldn't be alone.