Recent content by DOHC-kinda-guy

Fiber glass strands with an epoxy resin... I was extremely skeptical until I read the article, now I'm less so, but still don't know if I trust it. Steel has a nice property of being extremely flexible making it ideal for springs, while as fiber glass is stronger than steel but more brittle...

If your tech savy you can flush your DNS and see if it helps... Hold windows key and press "R" , then type CMD and and press enter, then type "ipconfig /flushdns" and press enter. This sometimes will fix this problem because your computer will store DNS and if the DNS is updated then it's...

It's best to not have allot of fuel in the tank because it like oil will degrade the longer it sits the worse it gets until it basically brakes down into sludge, keep as little as possible in it for long periods, 6 months isn't to bad Just park it with 1/4 +/- and add a little bit of fresh gas...

If you jack the wheels off the ground you can use jack stands on the suspension to keep to keep it compressed. But only if it's in a stable area. You can also get trickle charges for about 20 euro that are meant to keep your battery topped topped off, but don't use to much power, they're not...

I can't imagine plastidip would go to well, it has a tendency to rub off when applied to things like door handles. That and you'd have to really put some thick coats on there if you were going for a rubber feel.

When this happened on my focus is was due to a bad seal, actually the rear/underside had cracked and exposed the insides to out side air... The only way to fix it was to take the headlamp apart and clean it with some turtle wax headlight restore, then I patched the crack with some fiber glass...

Greetings! I just purchased a new (to me) 2000 Renault Clio 1.4v 16v and really loving it, it has a few minor scraches but has a great maintaned mechanical history and is very clean. I find it quite snappy coming from a 2000 focus 2.0 DOHC; defently prefering the Clio right now but only time...