Jay

cant come :( no clutch :(

Cheers Sara, Ill have a look They had advertised a bmw 318 - spoke to em on phone and got told nick was good condition Drove 50 miles up there and it was a complete dog!!!! :( Not happy opened door and window fell down, boot had black tape over holes where spoiler had been I know for 1300 it was never gonna be mint but I at least expected tidy Rest of cars up there were crap too - Never again!!!!!

Cheers Si, thinking of the coupe 318i now :)

is it open on sundays?? Cheers

Getting rid of the wifes MX5 - Gonna be asking £4k on ebay later on (old style but black with lots of extras and excellent condition). Looking at replacing it with a bmw 316 or the like for about £1300 L reg onwards (one with the facelift lights) What are these like on fuel etc just as a daily driver.

sad to hear fella glad to hear only bumper - couldve been worse

Cheers fella, how do I test? is the slave cylinder bolted onto the gearbox?

cheers Rich - will do ;) I know they're not really expensive bits - just get down with it sometimes - there always seems to be *something* not right with these cars. forgot to mention fan belts slipping too :) Gonna give meself a break for a few days then get me head stuck in and get em all sorted. Dont wanna go on a downer in weather like this :)

went to matlock yesterday then the clutch decided to fail. no pedal stiffeness whatsover, checked reservoir and it was empty. Used a locking wheelnut as a scoop and took some of the dot4 from my brake fluid and half filled the clutch reservoir with it :) pressed the clutch down and it all emptied, looked under car and big puddle. somethings broken somewhere methinks. got home by selecting 1st gear when engine was off then starting in gear and it jumps forward and presto - your moving, then 2nd and 3rd gear changes without clutch Problem is M1 has roadworks hence a lot of the time as we slowed down I put hazards on and undertook albeit it at a few mph on the hard shoulder. You know the sorta dirty looks you get from people when they dont know you have no clutch. Stopped at a motorfactor and got some dot4 hoping to get enough in just to get me on the final leg home. nope, all i succeeded in doing was jumpstarting the car in 1st again off the kerb cracking the only good sideskirt I had. eventually got home, but have now noticed rear tyres are bald on the inside. This is due to camber on rear being wrong - Not having this adjusted yet, as inner bushes are out and they are being swapped over next week sometime. So I need Fix Clutch reservoir/pipe 2 new tyres fit new hicas arms/bushes then 4 wheel alignment. fix up bodywork very disheartened now :(

M5, yeah I had one of them or should I say he had me never known owt like it - I pulled away then he musta realised I was playing - all I see was a fookoff big BMW badge in the rear view mirror, he caught me up like you wouldnt believe - fookin starship enterprise warp speed them things

Unorthodox pulley, decatt & full stainless exhaust, apexi intake, boost raised to 15psi, aggressive remap chip, ACT Heavy duty clutch, lots of optimax Car runs 0-60 @ 4.78 (G-Force & Datascan - several runs) and has no ECU faults registered. Gonna have to get bigger intercoolers, 555's then larger tubs :)

yep - feckin speed bump is responsible for smashing my west wing rear bumper!!! :(

true, looks wise I think we win hands down. Rarity wise - again hands down and if the road was longer to get into the higher gears it might have been a different story. Still cant work out how I heard his dump valves sl low down tho - really revved it low at lights and an almighty woosh he time he revved. Didnt think it was possible to develop boost at low rpm like that - either that or he ahd one of them daft speakers that means it wasnt a turbo :) God, that'd make mine even slower.....

twice in one night!!! :( 1st was a Sierra, sounded lovely, really high pitched exhaust on it. LIME green though :( But it was fast, Had the Cossie and NOS signs on the back but unsure as to whether it had either. Bloody fast though - pulling away I could pull up behind it and close the gap but it wasnt easy - at higher speeds It was pretty hard to close gap after overtaking etc. 2nd one was a rover 220 Turbo Sat behind me at lights, revving - one thing I noticed was at low revs I was hearing his dump valves - mine you have to rev to about 3-4K and jump off to hear em but his was dumping at about 1500rpm????? Bloody loud they were too Set off from lights and put about 2 cars distance in between us then couldnt shift him. Just snitched it into fourth before we ran out of road.

Getting a sorta whining/high pitched scraping from my front drivers side brake caliper. I thought at first it was a bearing on my power steering pump (That sortta noise), but its only there when I move car, and gets faster. I tried bending back the guard slightly in case that was rubbing/catching. Shims are all in and pins are pushed in etc any ideas? Shall I just get it up in the air and strip it down to try and find out Or is there something I can do with wheel firmly on ground? Ive tried hitting it with a rubber mallet too :)

Im sure its switchable, if its ECU your on about. from what I remember JD had 4 maps (I could be wrong) on his car something like chip is 1Mb and maps take up 256K each - I know he switched between maps on his - (custom build jobbie not motec). All from what I remember

the left (as your looking at the engine) is the power steering belt

Cheers fella, dont wanna spend much because I bought one a few years ago and used it once - then sold it for a huge loss, now regretting it coz of the nice weather. So Ill probably buy a cheapie use it a few times and may even give up again :)

looking into getting a bike, trying to get fit :) What sort of things should I be looking for - price is a biggie - must be cheap at the moment. Im 6ft so would I go for a 21" frame? Full suspension? Any makes worth going for/avoiding? Would like something fairly light but I guess cost goes up. Been looking on fleabay at around the £60-£80 mark at moment - like I said - Cheap :)

Cheers fella - Ill have a look

Anyone got any spare credits they could do a search for me on the 1901 census? I dont want to pay £5 for 1 search when the rest of them expire in 7 days, just didnt know if anyone was registered and had a spare credit :) Thanks I know its free to search and I found who I want, just cant get the PDF file

watch it, its capped at 40GB per month I can pull that down on my 2mb connection in about 15 days

Cheers all

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Oh, complained anbd been told "no liability for anything that happens in the carpark"