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Spotted in Norwich today. Sounded alright I guess but he was just pootling about. Also followed a 2008 RS6 most of the way home tonight, no photo though. I love how under-the-radar they are compared to current gen RS6's.

Newest find of bodgery on the £400 A3... Noticed the brake pads were very low when I put new tyres on, I didn't twig the main issue though... OSF. As it should be. Typical VAG caliper with a 282mm disc. NSF. Off an early A3/Fabia with a smaller (262mm?) disc... WTAF? 😂

The marshals in the assembly area are normally pretty spot on and get you lined up, usually leaving enough room for people to come in to the area across the front of the little grandstand on pit entry. If you go back up to the main paddock you won't get back down.

I worked in the event industry for a few years and we did a show at Milbrook Proving Ground called Company Cars In Action, a place where you could drive a Nissan Leaf or a Golf GTD around the Alpine circuit, or maybe a 330d around the high speed bowl. Most companies brought a few hotter cars...

Well thanks to your advice, I have managed to fix it. No more limp mode and seems to be boosting as it should. I don't know what I would do without you, @Cub. :love: I can tell there's a lot of oil in the DPF and exhaust though... It'll burn off eventually. I was going to spend an hour...

None of those issues were @charltjr The telltale sign is liberal use of woodscrews.

Same as the answer you got on another forum, the seat is a rebranded Corbeau Sprint X. Fixed buckets will never be the best for daily duties but the decent Corbeau seats are fairly comfortable.

I've picked up a cheap 2011 Audi A3 to fix up, it's a CFFB 2.0TDI, 140bhp. It was smoking like a train and the DPF was full of oil where the turbo was buggered. So I ordered a new core. After a day of faffing about to fit it, skinning knuckles, arms, forehead and other body parts, it got fitted...

Potentially, we're not far from the coast and have a LOT of holidaymakers here now. Can't imagine there's many green ones kicking about.

Excuse the s**t pic but there were kids sat in it. Green with tan leather, looked stunning in the flesh!

The Clio finally got some love today and my mate came over to weld in the front half of the cage, so now I've got that fully fitted and ready for the rebuild. Just needs the dash bar and dash trimming. And the wiring sorted. And the fire extinguisher plumbed in. And the bonnet and boot pins...

s**t picture because we have "AI" cameras in the vans that shout at you for blinking for too long. But it's a super rare FK1 Mugen Type R. I assume the stripe makes it a Mugen Type R anyway...

I have a gravel driveway to work on and I never use the jack on the gravel, I have a perfectly sized chunk of 22mm marine ply that the jack goes on. Allows it to move naturally, even with the weight of the X5 on it. But then again the Clio was on axles stands on ply on soft grass a few years...

Yeah rather than the old divorced shock and spring setup, the GAZ Golds are a true coilover. OSR has enough space between the spring and body that you could house a small CS.net forum member.

Got around to fitting the rear GAZ Golds today, I know you need to fettle the inner arch/body on the NSR but holy s**t I didn't realise how much you need to beat the living s**t out of it.