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I'd wonder if it was done "not long ago" that it wasn't a "s**t happens" scenario, it was a "they did it wrong" scenario.

Re: Archived Post from old forum This happened to me. I had mine Superchipped - there's no alternative where I am on the other side of the world. A while later I went to the dealer complaining about something else altogether - the inaccuracy of the trip computer readings actually - and...

What's it cost, in English.

It is illegal to load the same copy of Windows XP onto more than one PC. But its not only possible, its easy. Since another poster has told you what the trick is I guess I'm not giving anything away by confirming it. There's a three month limit on it stopping you installing it on...

I'm confused. I'm an atheist, I don't believe in the Bible, so if you say the shift light is "the Bible for shifting" am I supposed to believe it is or it isn't?

Its called synesthesia. syn·es·the·sia also syn·aes·the·sia (sĭn'ĭs-thē'zhə) Pronunciation Key n. A condition in which one type of stimulation evokes the sensation of another, as when the hearing of a sound produces the visualization of a color. A sensation felt in one part of the...

Never bothered looking at my modem/router's ADSL attenuation and SNR before. Turns out its attenuation = 57.1 dB, and SNR = 17.9 dB. Wow, I knew I was a long way from the exchange, but I didn't realise I was that far. And I'm successfuly running 1536 Kb/s downstream.

attenuation : smaller number is better signal to noise ratio : bigger number is better It is better that your attenuation has gone down. That improves the speed you can get out of a line. But its bad news that your signal to noise ratio has fallen. That may though simply be the result of the...

It is NOT a momentary contact switch. It has two positions. The OFF position is in. When you push it it goes in a bit further then comes all the way back out to the ON position. When you press it again it goes all the way in, then comes out a little way to the OFF position.

If there's no arrow they aren't directional and they can go on either side. Hold on, info found. They have an asymetric tread pattern, but they are not directional. They should have been fitted on every wheel so the same side of the tread pattern is outwards. But they can be fitted to either...

Think about plastic bags getting sucked in. Think about when it pisses down with rain. Ram-air seems like a good idea. Until it fills up with water.

If they fitted 195s to the diesels then what could they fit to the "sports" models to make them look sporty? Manufacturers play a lot of "marketing" games. You don't seriously think that smaller engines cost less to build than bigger engines, do you? They've got the same number of pistons and...

Renault says the 172 was tuned for 95 octane. Higher octane than what the car is tuned for doesn't do anything except cost you more money. Oddly though the documentation for the 172 Cup says it was tuned for 97 or 98 octane. What running higher octane would let you do is get the car ECU...

Fresh (ie, not long out of the factory) tyres grip better than old tyres. When your car loses grip its safer if it does it at the front than at the rear. Understeer is safer than oversteer. So the experts say that when you put new tyres on you put them on the rear. But what that strategy is...

The phone company requires ADSL modems (including the modem component in a combined modem-router) to operate correctly under specified signal to noise conditions. Most would do better than that minimum specification. Some are better than others. I'm not in your country, I don't know what...

Maybe its not that its not coded, maybe its just faulty or got a flat battery, so it works as a key but the electronics in it aren't doing anything.

Fresh tyres are best. Over time and with thermal cycling the rubber gets harder and doesn't grip as well.

You shouldn't get a failure like that from speed. Certainly not any speed that you're capable of doing on the highway in a Clio Sport. If you haven't mistreated the tyre by bouncing it off a curb - if there's any rium damage it'd be incriminating for you, but the absence of rim damage doesn't...

Well, if we're talking merely plausible ways of getting bursts of higher power, yes, there's nitrous oxide. Its an oxidiser, ie, the equivalent of air with more oxygen in it, so you have to increase the amount of fuel being delivered too. But don't forget nitromethane. Its a fuel that requires...

You've heard of "brake assist" in cars? Where the interprets you shoving you foot fast onto the brake pedal, and interprets that as an emergency braking situation and gives you maximum braking immediately, even before your foot has pressed the pedal al the way to the floor. Well, what you need...

At full throttle a Clio Sport engine uses 2 litres of air every 2 revs. At 6,000 rpm its going to use 6,000 litres of air per minute. That amount of air contains 1260 litres of oxygen. That's how much oxygen you'd have to have in the balloon/tank just to produce the same power a Clio Sport could...

Properly adjusted harnesses are safer. But that requires each person using the vehicle to correctly readjust the belt for themself. And safety experts don't believe that would happen. The usual driver and passenger would be well protected, but anyone else driving or riding in the vehicle would...

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20 mm !!!!! You'll need upgraded wheel bearings too. By the time you get to that thick a spacer you'd be looking at ones that permanently bolt to the hub, and take standard wheel bolts.

I've had totally flat tyres on the rear of a couple of front-wheel drive cars and only realised there was a problem because of the noise. I drove the Clio 30 kilometres including a number of roundabouts and a section of motorway, and it was only when I drove past a wall that reflected the noise...

Its an 8 litre 4-stroke engine. If it was normally aspirated it'd use about four litres of air per rev. So at 4,000 rpm it'd actually use 16,000 litres of air per minute. But its turbocharged. So it actually uses more than that. I hope you don't have a job where my safety depends on your...

Stoichiometric is 14.7:1 by mass. Repeat, by mass. Not by volume. Air, a gas, is a lot less dense than petrol, a liquid. Air has a density of about 1.2 kgs per cubic metre. A litre of air only weighs 1.2 grams. So at an AFR of 14.7:1 that only requires 82 milligrams of fuel, which is only 111...

Thinking you'll notice some detectable difference in ordinary use between two brands of brake fluid is like thinking you'll notice the difference between two different brands of engine oil. Brake fluid is brake fluid. As long as its the product of a reputable company and meets the relevant...

This is getting too Eastern mystical for me. I think I'll stick to engineering ... like how and where you fit an Eaton M45 in the engine bay of a Clio.

Eh? If the throttle's closed the supercharger would have vacuum on both sides of it whether you had a bypass or not.