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Nice car. Our R32 has been serviced at APS for the last 4 years now. I found replacing the front consol bushes to solid AUDI ones rather than standard (tired at 40,000miles) voided VW ones made the front end much more precise. I've got my own press and was a really easy job to do. On a ramp in...

Forgot to add the 2L 16V Rover engine in the Meastro was rated at 150bhp which is the same as the 8V Turbo, but was lighter with much better fuelling being injection and not an SU carb. The car was well under 1000kgs and the Turbo would do 0-60 is 6.7seconds and I doubt was any quicker than my...

Enjoy the car. Even more so once it is fixed and you're 100% happy with it. We've had ours for 4 years now doing 16,000miles in that time and it has just clicked over 40,000miles which for a late 2008 car is pretty low. We both love driving the car and haven't got bored of it. Someone recently...

My father-in-law worked for Tickford as a development engineer back when they developed the MG Maestro & Montego Turbo's but was never a huge fan. He did have a 1990 MG Meastro though which he re-shelled in 2000 into a brand new LHD Meastro meant for the Bulgarian market he got cheap. Selling...

Car looks great in that colour. I do not like the Monza exhaust, it is just wrong to have 4 small exhaust pipes which never seem to sit straight in two big cut outs meant for two large exhaust pipes. It is such an after thought. The original exhaust looks good, and the BTB turbo back not only...

As Jamie says I've been using a Ctek charger on my integrale for years, after a recommendation plus I think they are supplied as standard on some Porsche and other high end cars that are not expected to be used all year round. It is meant to be left plugged in and is supplied with a permanent...

Nice pictures. That's our R32 sat there with my father-in-laws Clan Crusader sat to the right.

Fantastic looking car!

Great looking car. I've seen a good number of these now on my travels to and from work. This is only the 3rd I've seen in yellow and looks excellent.

Escort Number 14; Guy Woodcock came first in class and 5th overall which was pretty heroic when you look at the competition from other classes. His co-driver was Graham Dance, who is my work colleague. Really nice guy who does some driving himself in other categories. Recently put up for sale...

Not exactly, as there will be a number of development engines that do meet the publicised figure, and are homologated as such. But they could have had optimised parts that are all at the very tightest of tolerances, i.e the rods and pistons are all nearly exact if not totally exact in weight and...

It is not just Renault. When an engine is homologated the manufacturer only has to ensure engines are within 90% of that figure, and even then only something like every 100 off the line need checked to meet that standard. AUDI and BMW used that to the full extent and the n/a AUDI RS and BMW M...

Love it, but a little biased bring a Lancia integrale owner. Few years ago now, but I sold a set of Compomotive MO's on eBay to a guy in Belgium who drove over via Dover/Calais ferry to my house near Silverstone and back to Belgium in one day to buy them as they were for his Monte Carlo.

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The rear bump stops are long, giving the rear suspension little travel before bottoming out, the same problem the 500 Abarth has as they share a platform. This gets even worse by fitting lowered springs as the car continunally bottoms out on the bump stops. Fitting the Fiat Coupe bump stops...

In 3.5 years/44,000miles with my Trophy I had to replace nothing other than routine service items like tyres 2 sets, brake discs and pads all round once, oil/filter changes, 1 36k aux belt service etc. I had the dampers rebuilt after I bought it when it had 26,000 miles on it and were still...

I did run mine about 4 weeks ago but i really need to do the cambelt first before I start tidying it up. I blame having kids and not having as much free time.

Very nice, but I'm biased having owned an EVO1 for 10 years now, don't think I'll ever part with it. The Japanese cars need the 8/16V headlamps replaced with Euro spec EVO equal size projectors which admittedly are hard to find and very expensive for a complete set but the headlamp units...

You can control your gas central heating with British Gas from your iphone/pad or andriod device. Costs £199 http://www.britishgas.co.uk/products-and-services/hive-active-heating.html

I bought a set of Lockwood yellow dials. I cut the tacho dial off the originals leaving everything else in place, this meant I only had to remove the tacho needle leaving all other undisturbed. I then used that as a template on the Lockwood dials and cut out the yellow tacho to replace the...

I was one of the early coverts to as Snappy's work when I got the wheel done on my Trophy, so much I got him to do our Civic Type-R wheel and when I get time I'll track down a Megane wheel and get one done for my DCi175 as wheel is great size and thickness but the covering feels cheap.

Great car, really like Alfa 147GTA's, and 156GTA's and Coupe's all designed around the same time and all have great visual appeal. And only Alfa could take the GM sourced V6 and make it look and sound so much better than it does in a Vauxhall. The Auto Delta cars you see at Auto Italia days at...

I'm very impressed with the overall condition of your EP3 for the money, once the blue LED's go it will even be highly acceptable :p

Great looking car. I looked at them a few years back before buying the premier EP3. Really wanted a DC5 but lots seemed rough on inspection and I couldn't justify the extra money and insurance over the EP3. Maybe if I'd found one in great condition I would have paid the extra, but I didn't as...

The Golf is really the family car as it's what we use whenever we go out together. The Megane my mile cruncher for my 90 mile a day commute which it does admirably. Really I could have brought the integrale out of the garage and used a proper camera and got some decent pics, but that would have...

Within the last 4 months I've sold my much missed Trophy and my partners EP3 Civic Type-R Premier to be replaced by a RenaultSport Megane DCi175 with Cup & Lux packs making it rare as only about 390 were sold in the UK & not many had both. And the Civic with a late model 5 door manual VW Golf...

Harley Davidson 1800cc Rotrex supercharged with no silencers on a rolling road while a family friend was mapping it. I had ear defenders on & it wasn't just the incredible noise, but the change in air pressure as it rammped up the rev range that truely shocked me. I can't imagine what it was...

Enjoy it, now the misfire is gone. As said on CT; 44,000 trouble free fun miles, an extensive test drive round some demanding and fun country roads near Silverstone to highlight the great suspension set up, sure footedness, plus lack of rattles. And you make it ten miles down a nondescript dual...

Depends on model. I had a late facelift JDM ST205 in white. Was a wonderful car overall but you have to tread carefully when buying as they were very expensive new at about £30k back when a Subaru Imprezza Turbo was £19k, Escort Cosworth & Lancia Delta integrale's were about £25k. It was the...

Firstly congrats to you both. When we had our first child my partner used my Clio as you could switch off the passenger airbag and have our child in the front, something you couldn't do with her EP3 Type-R. The normal Clio RS passenger seat has Isofix one of very few cars I've ever known to...