Cars, cars, cars...
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Touch screens in cars should be legislated out of existence. They are more dangerous than phones.
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Yep, ridiculous.
"I spent most of my money on birds, booze and fast cars: the rest of it I just squandered." [George Best]0 -
I was on the Cornish lanes this evening (cycling) and passed a few VW Ups. They are fantasticall small by today's standards, because a Polo is now the size of a Passat.
I had a strange fantasy about thrashing the shit out of a 1L engine like I did with my Metro, and maintaining speed around every turn because it was such a bastard to get that speed back.
How is it we ended up with 1.8 ton, 200 hp and a centre of mass around waist height being the baseline?
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Thrashing it in a 1l isn’t all that tbh - I was that bloke testing the limits of the grip around corners to maintain speed like I’m in a go kart.
All that happens is you come up to the bumper of some nervous mum in some 250bhp SUV who does 40 down the slip road and then blasts it once they get in lane, leaving you well in the lurch.
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Another forum members car resprayed:
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Quite possibly, although if the current one is still running OK I may keep it for another few years after that.
"I spent most of my money on birds, booze and fast cars: the rest of it I just squandered." [George Best]0 -
Nice job. It'll look lovely when some Sahara-sand rain has christened it.
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Must say that I like that.
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Porsche 944 Turbo S2. Very expensive respray done by a company called Augment engineering (who I know and I may be buying one of their specialist cams off). It's a small world 944 ownership in the UK.
I drove a Turbo in Glasgow yesterday. Identical to the above except it is in Champagne colour and heavily modified (internally). Didn't have that 80's turbo lag with a more modern Turbo but it was a risk taking it for a drive because if it really grabbed me...
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Nice colour, good to see one not in the usual bright red.
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That's 'Guards red'. Nice on a 944.
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Prefer the deeper red myself. But that is irrelevant to any owner.
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Reminds me of my first proper road bike. Black cherry I think Kinesis called it. I still have a tiny bottle of the paint cos Dom Mason kindly sent me some when I ham-fistedly managed to chip the chainstay in the first week of ownership...
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Pleased to have played a part in this at my previous job (I also designed the adjacent Renishaw roundabout about 25 years ago which is slightly scary as it only feels like half of that).
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Saw this while on holiday. A cautionary tale of getting enthusiastic in a whale tail turbo. If you can't see it, the rear wheel fared no better than the front.
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I guess they called them 'The Widowmaker' for a reason.
"I spent most of my money on birds, booze and fast cars: the rest of it I just squandered." [George Best]0 -
Meh, Mat Armstrong could fix that, piece of piss.
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I was expecting a joke about T-Cutting it out.
"I spent most of my money on birds, booze and fast cars: the rest of it I just squandered." [George Best]0 -
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It failed the MOT because a bulb was out.
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Never heard of him before so had to Google him.
"I spent most of my money on birds, booze and fast cars: the rest of it I just squandered." [George Best]0 -
I've not watched any of his videos for more than a couple of seconds, keeps coming up as suggested watch or referred to in other comments so I'm aware of him.
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I watched some of his stuff a fair while ago when he was still doing half believable things like fixing some reasonably salvageable stuff but the last year or so has been ridiculous and not worth a look at all for me.
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I almost put this in the cheering up thread, but since we've got a car thread...
The 2003 Almera seems to be back on form after changing a coil pack and all four spark plugs. Easy peasy. Total time about 15 minutes, plus test drive. After I'd changed two of the coil packs and all four spark plugs, I turned the engine over, and it still sounded a bit lumpy on tickover, so did the diagnostic thing of disconnecting each cylinder in turn, and unexpectedly, when I disconnected one of the ones with a new coil pack, the engine sounded sweet again, so I put one of the old coil packs back in, and all seems to be good (so I'm guessing it was a faulty coil pack). You can probably guess which cylinder hadn't been happy.
Took it for a test drive, and it seems to be pulling really well again, and I couldn't make it misfire even when putting it in too high a gear. Hurrah.
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Excellent! So satisfying when it works out well. Not had chance to change sparkplugs for years! Since 2008 when we both went Diesel.
In my teens I had what was officially the worst car ever. A Renault 14.
It had an inclined transverse engine so the cylinder head faced towards the dash. The spark plugs were underneath that right at the back. Needed long 14mm plug wrench and all done by feel. Horrible car. Rusted to bits. Brake calipers and wheel bearings seized as a hobby. It was very comfortable though.
Sometimes. Maybe. Possibly.
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I'm glad I'd had the foresight to get a proper sparkplug wrench (@masjer) - the little plastic clip did the job perfectly of lifting the plugs. £10. Total cost of the bits about £40.
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Nice job! Having the right tools is key for these jobs to go smoothly and quickly, and all for £40. The value of car parts* compared to cycle bits (or rather the rip-off cycle parts are) still astounds me.
*Maybe not if you belong to @Stevo_666's German performance 500BHP+ car club.🙂
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YouTube videos are great too - gave me confidence to do something I'd otherwise have been scared of getting majorly wrong... and I could see how essential the right tool was... just the right length grip too to be able to undo the spark plugs but not to overtighten either.
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Not too bad as I have hardly needed any replacement parts beyond consumables. But in any event, some things in life are worth it 🙂
"I spent most of my money on birds, booze and fast cars: the rest of it I just squandered." [George Best]0 -
Sure but...
Flat seat plugs - (unless otherwise specified) half a turn beyond finger tight and taper seat plugs - quarter of a turn beyond finger tight. Important not to overtighten, Tighten when engine is cold.
If plugs weren't firing properly for a length of time (2 & 3? and it wasn't a mixture problem), this can cause 'bore washing' where unburnt petrol gets into the oil. Take your dipstick out and smell it. Any whiff of petrol, change the oil and filter pronto. Have you done an oil and oil filter + air intake filter change recently? It may have not done/does many miles but an oil and filter change is the best thing you can do to it.
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