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top write up m8 think 1 of mine is duff as it does a bit of missing and a bit of smoking first thing..

desertstorm wrote:0.8% is fine, you won't even notice it.

thanks

Picked up my brackets today for the modified audi strut brace From TPS (with our discount saved over £5!) Got some speakers for the rear doors JBL sent my stubby mirror covers to Jake @ Panelcare to get painted , should be ready sat to collect Got me some lovely mats for the show season ! - http:/...

i had this last week turned out to be just a bit low on brake fluid, scared the shitt out of me...

55 passed bike and car test in early 70s drive the sat like a vicar only because the price of fuel. come the better weather though the barry sheene head is on and you wont see me for dust.age is just a state of mind

thanks bud it says on there the difference in speedo readings would be 0.8%. i dont know but i think this aint to bad ?

hi getting some 18" r8s with 225 40 tyres on them to go on my 03 sport with the std 205 55 16s on, does anybody know how much this will affect my speedo or anything else on the car. im sticking with the std suspension. thanks. Cam

like i said in the other forum, in 1970 and started working in a coventry back street jag repair garage with a couple of right dodgy geezers. there was a old red E,type 4.2 roadster in the corner of the yard with a core plug at the back of the engine gone, i ended up buying it for £150 :-o i was on...

E type 4.2 roadster brought from the guy i worked for in 1972 with a core plug gone £150 lol only had it for about 6 months when it failed the mot on a poo load of welding. swopped it for a mk5 zephyr that smoked like a chimney.if only we had hindsight..

Hi If you have no flow in to the bottle from the return then you have a problem. Sounds like the water pump and thermostat fault. Dave Are you saying there should be flow through the Expansion Tank? I don't understand why there should be! I would like a schematic diagram of the Cooling System. My W...

mines the same had new pump fitted and new coolant, no pressure and cool water in the header. been the same since i had the car. heater works fine. i wouldnt worry about it if you start messing with it you can guarantee you,l create a problem

+1 for continental winter tyres. I bought some last year and used them in the bad snow we had then and they are great, I tried to get off the estate this morning up the hill and passed 2 cars that had people pushing them up the hill :) . Just popped it up the kerb and drove around them :). as you d...

dubber36 wrote:4WD Vectra???

I haven't tried my Hankook Ice Bears in the snow yet. I was going to yesterday, but couldn't be arsed.

thats what i thought but rear wheels were def spinning

to right m8 on my way home last night some homi bird in a vectra was turning left at the lights and was stuck in the middle of the road with all 4 wheels spinning so i just drove up the inside of her had a look in smiled and drove on. she was a right minger.

must admit i was a bit sceptical about how good winter tyres were. not anymore though, got a pair of continental winters on the front and the difference is unbelievable. so funny last night weaving in and out of the cars trying to get up the hill outside my house.

could,nt imagine what that would feel like. brass monkeys comes to mind..

only getting 30 round the town never had it anywhere near 40 till i get on a run. thought this was quite normal

dubber36 wrote:

lol you need to get out more m8

dubber36 wrote:You mean, the one that's a completely different shape?

is that a no then ?????

says in my manual 29f 31r. i run 31 all round

TG1 wrote:dont suppose anyone knows if you can get the built in booster seat with sport trim?

or even better has a pic of it

i have them in my sport only trouble with them is when their down the rear seats are rock hard

av 31mpg out of my 130 avf on my daily trips to work at an av speed of 16mph. can get it up to 58 on a motorway run.

ran my 405 on old chip shop oil for years used to get gallons of it every month from the chippy the misses worked at smelt great behind it never had a prob never mixed it with diesel just stuck it in. putting it in my pd now thats a different matter all together.

getting an av of 32mpg going to work and back with an av speed of 15mph.