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How long does the computer log the faults? will it be ok taking it in in 2 weeks when I get paid?

Abs has been cutting in for no reason for a while, tonight on the motorway i was cruising quite fast for a while... then ABS, SERV lights came on. Restarted car on motorway sliproad and lights still on. tested the brakes and lets say that the ABS defiantely isnt working :evil: . Left the...

can't always be arsed to dry the car... and the pressure drop was my main worry. figured someone on here who's spent £100's on PC polisher, synthetic waxes and do-do feather wash mitts might have had a bash with one of these. perhaps not eh?

http://www.vertar.com/prodtype.asp?pt_id=106 Anyone tried one of these. i am in a hard water area and it really annoys me when i just rinse the car off and it gets limescale spots all over... looks dirtier than before i washed it!!!

last year there was a red 2.0 valver, a blue gdi'd valver, and my green 1.4 mk2. over at harry french or bill mo (cant remember which) there was a blue 1.4 mk2 with 172 bumpers iirc. i'm finished now though... :( i hear the male/female ratio is up again this year... more like 1:1 than 7:1...

massive cliosport logo accross the rear screen. I followed behind for a bit then realised i still had half the country to go so went a bit faster :evil:

i think it could be the one fred posted up. lol thats a bigass turbo! surely it cant accelerate quicker past a certain point...

I am looking at buying the Motorola HF850 kit and fitting it myself. Does anyone have any experience or pointers? Have found this picture of the component parts: Integrate with car audio - is all i need a jack to phono lead and the aux input on my headunit? searched internet but...

I am looking at buying the Motorola HF850 kit and fitting it myself. Does anyone have any experience or pointers? Have found this picture of the component parts: [list=1] I'm thinking a 12v supply from the cig lighter? crimped connectors so it can be removed. but soldered connections...

ok this popped up on another forum. to start with i thought the guy was taking the piss... but looking at the fella's website and a pic of the car i found hosted on there i'm not so sure! this is based in greece btw. what do you think? traction might be an issue... lol website on his...

Ok have had the dash off and found the following... If you put a resistance on the two end pins of the grey plug the display works and shows a temperature. 1k3 ohm resistor shows 43°C... http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v669/gladey/My%20Car/1k3resistor.jpg and a thermistor that gives...

was an excellent weekend. stupidly didnt bring any waterproof jackets so got soaked on sturday. managed to get the car in a good position to on the hill leading up from the old hairpin though so sat inside and watched quite a bit. I expected all the CS people to be parked on the gravel by...

http://premium1.uploadit.org/gladey/before-after1.jpg http://premium1.uploadit.org/gladey//before-after2.jpg That was... wash with tutrlewax xip wax and deep pile cotton pad polish with autoglym super resin polish, meiguars foam pads wax with meiguars NXT tech wax lots of...

oooh youve inspired me... only have tomorrow morning before the world series event. gonna get up and go get... wash mitt clay bar some form of polish (ill see what theyve got in halfrauds...) NXT wax (like the idea of polymers crosslinking... lol) foam pads currently i use a turtle wax...

mmm i want. £128 for the bits im looking at. Dont suppose there is anyone in swindon area willing to loan a PC polisher for the weekend... crate of beer in it for you!

mmm i want. £128 for the bits im looking at. Dont suppose there is anyone in swindon area willing to loan a PC polisher for the weekend... crate of beer in it for you!

ok got off my arse and installed diologies and figured out how to make it work! fiddly software, maybe its just my laptop! http://premium1.uploadit.org/gladey/grey-plug.GIFinfo on the grey plug inputs http://premium1.uploadit.org/gladey/temp-sensor-values.GIFresistance values for external...

excellent edde. only thing is my car doesnt have a temp sensor i wanted to fit one from scratch. i dont think there are any green or brown wires connected at the moment!! dont suppose you know which pins on the connector it goes to? i think a bit of soldering will be in order! ill take the...

i posted the elise plug. :D you need one wire from the temp sender one wire from gauge to earth and one to a switched +ve so it powers off the key. ive got an oil temp gauge i never fitted if you want it. £15 and ill post it too though the mod to use the external temp readout would...

oh and if anyone knows the resistance it needs to display certain temps ill whip the dash off and try adn fool it into displaying a temp before i buy the new mirror! then let everyone know. theres about a million threads about this sensor business!

BUMP... just searching though old posts to figure out how to connect up the external temp sensor i know that the wire goes to one of the pins on the red plug behind the clock/display. anyone know which pin the sensor goes to. i guess that you need to connect it to a ground somewhere too...

er anyone know what the difference between compact and new road angel is. because on their specs there is no difference!!

so any suggestions about my buzzing then roy? i dont think the two circuits on the lights should affect each other.

which i dont.... there may be two separate issues :o the question is which buzzing is it?!?

yeh was getting carried away about soemthing id read... but in theory, just increasing the ratio might not save you fuel straight off.

jsut to check... we are talking about the light in the roof here?... no fans up there! how could a shagged bearing in the dash make a buzzing noise in the light as it fades?

nope i have a1.4 mk2 ph1 and it does it too. i put it down to since i twisted my ariel and water went in. you guys have ariels in a different place though so it cant be that :@. i have neons in my boot wired off the interior lighting. i did once wonder if there was a capicitor in the power...

not always really true. quaieter but perhaps not as economic. the figurs below are just examples to illustrate the point, plucked out of my arse. to maintain 70mph may take (plucks figures out fo the air) 20bhp.. there is no way round this. to do 70mph you need 20bhp at the wheels. it doesnt...

so to stick an engined in the boot of a car you could take engine and subframe, and construct say a box section frame that goes from subframe to engine mounts and weld it into the back of the car, then just need to fix the suspension turrets and it goes (more or less) into the boot? engine...

cool cheers guys. jsut realised i didnt really know what was connected to what down there! lol