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Yeah sure, that's the story for the police and the insurance company. Now just between us, what's the truth? One of the jobs I've done in my life is crash investigation, and I can tell you that one of the ways the experts judge whether a driver is telling the truth is whether the story they...

Here's the facts. To reduce your quarter mile time by 1/10th of a second and gain approximately one car length you have to strip out 28 kilograms, which is approximately the mass of the spare wheel and tool kit, if you've got them, plus the rear seat. Those plus a nearly-empty fuel tank...

OBD II port. On-Board Diagnostics version 2. It isn't unique to Renault. Its an industry standard that other companies diagnostics systems can access and interpret. http://www.obdii.com/

OK, I got my 172 remapped to use higher octane fuel. Nothing else. The people who remapped it said 10% more power. It was hard to notice the extra power, because even 10% more at the top end doesn't feel that much different, despite what some people would tell you. Whatever I got in extra torque...

We'll give you the answers if you can answer one question. How exactly does it help us if you get your qualification and whatever job that gets you without knowing enough to be able to do it? I'm involved with another web site that offers free help on a completely different subject. I'm sure...

Yeah, I'm being pedantic, but I think you mean "will this affect starting?" as in will it prevent the car from starting. "Will this effect starting" means exactly the opposite. It means will it cause it to start.

The induction system, the length of the intake runners, the length of the pipes in the exhaust manifold and the cam timing and duration can all be tuned in an engine to work best at a particular rev range. If you tune them all to work best at the same rev range you'll get a significant boost in...

Oh, so people in this forum bought their Clio SPORTs for the climate control and the leather seats?

Ha, ha, ha. I don't get screwed by the insurance companies because I've grown up and I drive like a grownup. Isn't it infurating.

And I suspect they were supercharged 2-stroke diesels.

The Dell 9200 uses SATA drives doesn't it? Are you installing the SATA driver at the start of the XP install?

A supercharged diesel is silly, but for different reasons than you cite. There were a number of supercharged diesel trucks back before turbo technology was available, but I doubt anyone would bother building one now. And an supercharged diesel car would be an especially dumb idea. Here's the...

Yeah, laugh at old drivers, they are one of the two groups of road user who have lots of crashes. But the other group that has lots of crashes are people just like you. And when old drivers have crashes they're mostly panel damage. If they kill anyone its usually only themselves because they're...

Stoichiometric (14.7:1) is the theoretical right answer. But in reality that's what you get best fuel economy at. If you want best power you find you have to run a significantly lower number than that. So you should be seeing 14s at cruising revs, but numbers down in the 12s at the...

USB hubs work the other way around. They do NOT allow you to connect multiple computers to one drive. They let you connect multiple hard drives and other devices like printers to one computer.

We can all have our own opinions. But if they're having trouble selling them that means the majority of people must think they've gotten it wrong with the directions they took the car in.

http://www.autocarmagazine.com/News/NewsArticle/AllCars/223794/ Renaultsport has started work on a more extreme version of the Clio 197 for the UK market. “We have demand for a number of different versions of the Clio 197,” says the company’s new commercial boss, Philippe Talou-Derible...

Those of us who predate were around in the computer industry before there was a Microsoft can only laugh at the way some people love to hate Microsoft for its dominance, while they keep buying its products. You can do better than Microsoft, but you can also do a lot worse. Before Microsoft...

Imagine a closed, taped up carboard box, one those boxes where the top is in two halves. Its pretty rigid and strong, right. Cut the packing tape and open the top of the box. Now the box is weak and easily deformed. That's what the front end of your car is like because the bonnet isn't welded...

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Its a problem, because you can only buy tyre sizes that are available. There's a good range of tyre sizes for 16" wheels, but they're expensive. And tyres for 15" wheels are cheaper, but that's at least partly because people usually buy larger wheels for performance, and smaller wheels for...

You can't use improved top speed on the road. You can use improved acceleration. You can use improved grip. When I realised that it made me realise how much money I'd wasted hotting up road cars to produce more top end horsepower, which usually meant less mid-range torque.

They have different sorts of inaccuracies. Being analog the speedo is a fundamentally inaccurate device that reads high by varying amounts depending on the speedo and the speed you're doing. But its inaccuracy is consistent. The same speedo's error at the same speed is always the same. You can...

I suspect that Microsoft programmed a drop-dead date into the XP 64-bit trial version based on when it expected to have the next version of Windows on the market with its own 64-bit version. After all the point of letting you trial their product is to get you to buy it. There's no commercial...

There's one thing that's certain, with no power assistance its going to make the steering a lot heavier. I can't imagine Renault would have fitted it even to the 172 Cups, which didn't have a/c, unless they thought it was necessary. It was interesting that Renault chose to retain the...

Let me get this straight, you're going to replace your alloy spare wheel with a steel one to save weight? Changing to the same size steel wheel isn't going to save any weight. And changing to a smaller steel wheel and smaller tyre isn't going to save enough weight to make a noticeable...

A lot of the possible and probable faults like a failed lambda sensor would cause the warning light to come on on the dash. Since that hasn't come on it has to be something that affects performance but doesn't register as a fault to the computer. A restriction in the intake system would fit...

What's it matter if it doesn't accurately tell you whether the tank is full? The pump at the servo cuts out when its full. Its not work 300 quid. It only matters if it doesn't accurately tell you when the tank is nearly empty.

Filters need cleaning, or replacing if they can't be cleaned, when they have filtered out enough dust to need it. Any statement by the manufacturer about when it has to be done is based on assumptions about how the average user is likely to have used that type of car. For example, circuit racing...

Given the way they build them why would Renault bother with an odometer that read past 99,999?