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What I want to know is why if some tuners claim better mpg, increased performance or drivability etc after a re-map dont the manufacturers of the vehicle do this from the offset?

If you can afford to run two cars (you lucky soul) think about getting the exige, they are like a road legal go kart with a rocket up the exhaust. Trouble is every lotus I've been in has given me a bad back lol, so I couldn't ever have one as an every day car :(

Something cheap to run but newer... dont know really.. quite like the new fiat 500 and that is about as cheap as they come to run. I was going to treat myself to a Vee for my 30th birthday, as I've been working hard, but I dont think the missus will agree with me getting that. In my...

Mine felt quicker after the cambelt change, and that was the second cambelt it's ever had, the last one being at the factory.

Nice, my neighbor has 955i daytona in Red. I prefer the colour of yours and it looks in mint condition! He duffed up the fairing on his a while back coming off. I would love to get a bike license one day I've never got around to it, when I turned 17 I got into cars and that was that...

I'd say. SCAM He mentions £7k on the add (even a cat D repaired with polly filler and painted with poster paint by a monkey would be more than that) A seperate email address (why not go through ebay, hacked account? wants mail getting to him instead, last purchace was 2006, maybe he found...

Panda pop! (the only thing it's good for) That just reminded me ^^^ n one of those posts, When I worked at a garage we used a bag of cement and dropped a shovel over the spill (too late for you now sorry, but anyone else in the future) it soaks up the stain using capillary action so lessens...

unfortunately because the brick will be slightly porus the stain will have penetrated into it so you can only make it slightly 'better'. You can get an acid patio cleaner from wilco's / homebase / B+Q that will help a bit, though you'll end up with a cleaner patch where you have been...

I had a magnex on my old mx5, transfomed that car, I think it was about £350. It fit perfectly, wasn't loud or raspy just the perfect note, made it sound like a mini rx7 at 6000 rpm and the car responded better through the gears too. Three years on it still looked like new.

Descent set of mats, no logo's, daft metal bits. http://www.demon-tweeks.co.uk/products/ProductDetail.asp?cls=ROAD&pcode=AIL23 I have them in mine. They were about £45 And I don't have one of these, but a better tax disk holder than the plastic dealer one...

haha, if you asked for a 197 cup they'd probably give you the one off the top of their drink flask..... 197 times.

You book a valet there and they phone pedro to come over and drunkenly wipe your car over with an oily snot rag, propper job.... Just like Renault uk.

I think it looks ok tbh. So long as you are planning on keeping the car a sensible amount of time then the depreciation is nothing to be concerned about. When you buy a house you will be more interested in that anyway so having a decent new car to do the commute in that isnt going to cost a...

Same thing happened to me. I went to put it up, sudden gravelly noise then got stuck. For now to make the car secure take the door card off, I put a length of wood under the window to hold it up, though if you havent the time you can pull the window up and use the ends of a seperated clothes...

Have a look at the inside of the dizzy, if it's clean and there are no cracks in the plastic, check the contacts are free from wear (after 20k I'd say it'd be ok) The same with the rotor, you can clean the tip with an emery cloth if it's gone dull. I doubt new dizzy and rotor would cost much...

Nice loaf there. The sides look really straight on yours too, they're such big panels any dents or ripples show up on busses that are full of filler. A nice set of wide chromed steelies with domed caps would set it off, I like slot mags but they look better on a bug / 70's ford to me, back...

Looks quick, I bet he strips it down and rebuilds it every weekend. Didn't Jamie Oliver have a porsche engine in his camper, I seem to remember him being forced to cook in it while the stig did a lap on TopGear. For what it's worth though Jamie's must be a pile of cack, it spent more time on...

Nasty, I hope it gets back on the road with not too much expense / hassle. Good on the guy with the mug of tea, my accelerator cable snapped once in the middle of nowhere and I forgot to charge my mobile so I walked to a house and was charged £1 to use the phone, that was 10 years ago when £1...

I would have bought a 1.2 or 1.4. clio For an average car I feel like I'm getting shafted handing over the the best part of £200 for tax. I'd rather get a new 1.2 fiat 500 or something for £35 a year and take the drop in performance, I'd also save another £100 on insurance if I dropped down...

Very true, like i said I am a cynic an not likely to trust on something like a cambelt when you consider the cost of a replacement engine. However when I bought my MX5 the guy who was selling it owned about 5 nice, expensive vehicles, one being a V8 mustang Boss and he started it for me and...

As far as a Cambelt you will want to see reciepts for the work done at a garage, sorry for being a cynic but f**k trusting someone you dont know to have done the work. Receipts from a reputable garage are where it's at, not just stamps. Anyone can buy a cambelt, tensioner etc from renault and...

Welcome to CS. I saw the thread where your bro cleaned your car, your lucky, my sister asked me to wash her car once and I told her to bugger off. Anyhoo what is it with students owning fancy pants cars these days. We all drove around in clapped out sheds when I was at college.

Absofukinglutly, over half that list right there are Jap cars, which wouldn't be so bad, but like usual there are about 5 versions of each crumby car I couldn't give a rats arse about. Who comes up with these lists, or worse who gives a damn if they can drive a skline GTRSTT Mines special...

If you seriously are going to do that I wouldn't bother changing to the 1.6 now, it will feel like a quicker car but it's not worth it short term. I'm saying this and I own a 1.6 16v. I would just wait a year, 12 months is nothing really, and get the car you really want. My advice would be...

Yeah I had the same happen to mine but instead I was reversing out of the garage when I knocked it. I saw the body coloured cover come off, thought aww hell, and then realised it just snapped back on without a mark. Pretty good design really.

Take it back and get them to sort it. Your pads may be glazed. Rust forms on the disks and is repeatedly transfered to the pad but rather than burning off it glazes. Getting the brakes hot by working them a bit might burn it off but you can take pads off and rub them against some w+d paper...

I really like this. You made a good choice with black I think, I wouldn't bother lowering it, it looks fine as it is to me.

Awsome. When I look at these pics I just think, if the Mad Max movie was set in the 21st centry this is the car they would use as the interceptor! I love the roadrunner sticker, when I was a kid my godfather had massive 'superbird' stickers on the rear wings of his plymouth featuring the...

To be honest though I'd rather get screwed over on my hobbies rather than my necessities. My car is half hobby / luxury as I don't really 'need' it, it just comes in handy to do jobs, I'm prepared to pay the £180 or more a year to have a car there when I need it. Sure it's a kick in the balls...

At least you are giving it a chance by looking into it. I've owned four rwd cars before my clio of varying power and the feeling of being pulled around corners rather than being pushed took a couple of decent jouneys to get used to. I must admit I never really noticed the steering being much...