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Recent content by g-a-c

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    Anybody else running a 120k+ miles clio thats still going strong

    Ticked over 135,000 miles this weekend, driven daily.
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    Interesting Inferno 182 at Players

    What he said. It's from the Mk1 SEAT Leon Cupra R - which is about the only car which never seems to have one fitted because LCR owners inevitably fit the worst coilovers in pursuit of megalowz and the splitter just clips on so it's the first thing to get torn off on a kerb/pothole. At least if...
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    Angry dashcam man

    If you lived here you would; that's about 90 seconds from my house, there's far too many bellends riding them round at silly speeds barely in control...
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    Angry dashcam man

    I can't sleep, so watched some of his other videos. The short answer to your question is "yes, just like every other driver, since he's still a human even if it's a fairly poor example of one"
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    Your Driving History by Numbers

    Years Driving: 14 Test Passed: August 2000 Cars Owned: 9 - Fiat Panda 750, Pug 106 1.0, Polo 1.0, (different) Polo 1.0, Golf 90, Leon Cupra TDI, Fabia vRS, Clio 172, Clio 182 Total CC: 13,450cc Total Miles Driven: 170k-ish since the Golf. Absolutely no idea what I did in the first 5 years/4...
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    So, what's this then?

    I'm not too worried, the bay is far from pristine and I don't have the valve anyway. If the valve is supposed to be in the arch, I guess mine's been chopped short then to make it easier to block up (and more importantly, easier to see if it becomes unblocked)?
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    So, what's this then?

    I figured it'd be something like that, it's the same method (and probably the same size screw) I've always used to stop troublesome EGR valves from operating on my VAG TDIs. Couldn't see it being anything important as the engine runs perfectly well :)
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    So, what's this then?

    I can't find an engine diagram on Google, and I'm not a full CS member yet so I dunno if there's one on here. Happened to notice this while I was checking the oil...no idea what it is, but my experience of finding/putting screws into engine hoses on my previous cars tells me that it didn't leave...
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    My Clio 182 has turned cold-blooded...

    Strange, I've had dead coolant sensors on VAG engines and they would warm up fine, but then when warm the gauge would be 90-0-90-0-90-0-90-0-90-0 every few seconds as the signal went from sensible to implausible and back again. In this case, it was definitely the thermostat, had it swapped over...
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    My Clio 182 has turned cold-blooded...

    Cheers, will try and look into it when I've driven home again :)
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    My Clio 182 has turned cold-blooded...

    Yeah, it seemed more like that than a temp sender to me. Will get it in to be looked at. Are there any easily reachable pipes that I can grab hold of to see if they're hot/cold to work out if it's definitely the thermostat?
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    My Clio 182 has turned cold-blooded...

    Noticed over the last couple of days that the temp gauge hasn't reached midway on my drive to/from work, which seems unusual (I know it's a bit colder at the moment, but even so...). So today, I was up a little bit earlier and decided to take the motorway to work. After 5 minutes of motorway...
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    Windows 8.1 on retina Macbook Pro

    No, hence the thread. There are tools to get Windows working on it (i.e. Boot Camp) but as I don't currently own an Apple product I don't know how good these are. Do they make it into a proper PC equivalent, or are they more like the "XP compatibility mode" in Windows 7 which turned out to be a...
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    Windows 8.1 on retina Macbook Pro

    I can only find one range of Vaio Pro 13" models, all of which are limited to 4GB of RAM (so barely enough for now, let alone futureproofing) :( That may well be the case, like I said, I can't think of anything I couldn't currently do on OSX but that's because I've never bought an OSX machine...
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    Windows 8.1 on retina Macbook Pro

    Nope, as I said, I'll look into it. I didn't bother yet in case it wasn't actually an option. That's a cheaper price than I've seen before for the Dell, and I'm sure the Apple prices have come down since I last looked at this so it looks like I've missed a recent price adjustment or whatever...
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