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What stress? Pretty much anything german does that, unless you're implying that a 335D is taxing to drive on a motorway? At the end of the day a rangerover is a nice novelty because it's like doing 70 down the outside lane in your livingroom. Even if you do want one, why new, for 30k a year...
I know loads of people like that and I just dont get it, they feel huge and disconnected to drive. Comfy, but extremely dull.
True, I only suggested a 3 series as he had one before, insert any decent saloon car tbh.
3 year old 330D and a Noble/911/Clio V6/whatever.
I do as many miles as you do and even if I had baller sums of cash, I'd still rather have more toys than a brand new 50k commuter :P
Same with anything, my daily will do 55mpg @70, 50mpg@80 and 49-51 sat in commuter traffic doing 40, but if I nip over the hill (B roads and lots of tight corners and gradient changes it's down to 38-43 depending.
If you went from 10% town and 90% motorway to all town or backroads you'd be back...
Remember that when @Waitey isnt doing 'performance testing' late at night, most of his mileage is at 80 on cruise. I wouldn't imagine that 34mpg would last long blasting up and down B roads.
I bought mine intending to keep it road legal so I could avoid trailering it (already had a trailer but cba etc) but at the end of the day, I didnt want to risk driving home with no tyres/pads/bodywork, so I've always trailered it and after the first year where it saw some road use, decided to...
I suspect because it has a very linear power delivery so you dont get the oldscool shove in your back in the midrange and it will be devoid of wind and road noise
Ridiculous figures for a family hatch!
So instead of changing a set of stem seals on a saturday morning, you're building a new track car? While keeping the old one? Which got used on track 4 or 5 times since you bought and built that?
Makes perfect sense 😂
@NorthloopCup have you watched Roadkill mate? 😂
As my old boss used to say, "this reads like the beginning of an accident investigation report..."
All credit to all involved and glad the cup is still straight and lives to fight another day!
The crownwheel bolts around the outside of the diff normally, so they are independent, you can install the diff with any number of different final drive ratios.
Diff looks like this with the crownwheel attached:
This is a rear drive one, but the principal is the same:
A kilo or two a corner
Mostly for the benefit of cheaper tyres, but yes, there will be some improvement from the weight too.
£250-300 for team dynamics, belive they're a touch over 300 new.
Hi,
I have an ABS light I'd like to diagnose and I have a generic bluetooth OBD dongle which I use with Torque. I've tried various apps, but none of them want to talk to the ABS module. Has anyone managed to get anything to work apart from CLIP?
Will RSTuner read the ABS?
Cheers
Theres too many cyclists, VW busses etc to risk that and its so tight some cars wind up doing three point turns for the odd bend. I dont really get why TG thought it was so good. The other side on the other hand is well sighted mostly second to third gear hoonery