CyrusJH

Hi Guys - Recently the aircon seems to have been doing some strange things. It had been working perfectly up to this point. It started early yesterday morning when it would only seem to pump out cold air (even though I was trying to warm the car) then there was a sudden gush of condensation/steam over the windscreen and the engine temp gauge shot right up so I pulled over straight away. I let the car rest for two minutes and started up again and everything seemed to be working normally. But since then I have noticed it is taking ages to get cold and there seems to be a slightly musty/damp odour in the car all the time. Also I have seen that the passenger footwell seems to be getting very damp from the air vent there. Any ideas where this is going guys??

Craig.... do you have a contact number for HKS? That would be a huge help!!

Thanks Vince - has anyone else had this problem? do the springs need to be rated for the car? (Can't be just me can it?)

Hi Guys, Have not been on here in a while because car has generally been running fine apart from one REALLLLY annoying problem that caused an accident today so I really need to get it sorted!!! At low speeds or from standstill after blipping the throttle the engine almost dies or stalls completely. This is a real problem when accelerating onto slow moving roundabouts when I would blip the throttle then coast or brake to match the speed of traffic. This happened today - I was pulling onto a roundabout blipped the throttle and as the revs fell the car died!! A guy had decided to tailgate me onto the roundabout and ended up veering onto the centre of the island to miss me as I had lost brakes and steering - luckily he did not hit anything - But really need your ideas to fix this. Jeff at Zedworld has had a look at it and he feels that it is the internals of the HKS SSQV dump valves sticking like the springs are not powerful enough to close the valves properly. When he covers the back of the valve with his hand to seal it the problem stops. I have tried to find someone that sells the internals for the HKS valves but can't find anyone. I spoke to SumoPower about it as they are a pretty big HKS stockist and they do not know of anywhere you can get replacement internals but they brought up the point that the valves have been on the car less than 6 months so what are the chances of BOTH valves failing in the same way! Does anyone have an idea what the problem could be as it has happened numerous times now and is really spoiling my enjoyment of the car to the point where I don't want to drive it every day. I don't want to fork out for a new pair of SSQV's only to find that the problem could be somewhere else. PLEASE PLEASE help - all ideas welcome. :angel::cursing::cursing::cursing:

Stella.... you old romantic! I always treat the wife on Valentines day - chocs, roses dinner out the works! (to be fair she gets enough crap from me the rest of the year!)

Heathen!! You'll be asking who's Hong Kong Fuey next!!

Don't want to rain on your parade but without arch work THEY DON'T FIT!! I had these very wheels fitted at WHEELMANIA before Xmas and the offset for the rears is wrong if you have a staggered set of 19" rims. Jeff from Zedworld will tell you, I was looking forward to getting these rims for weeks only to find on the day of fitting that the rears stand proud of the arches after being assured that they would fit!!! Bummer!! went for VORTEX R's now and have not looked back - they are really pretty rims and good luck if you get them but the offsets just didn't work!

... and there was me thinking it was..... "JUST SPEAK LOUDER!!" Welcome mate!!

Going back to the original point of this thread..... don't like 'em mate

What sort of 300? jap/uk? LWB/SWB? TT? N/A? Colour? Can't gauge interest if we don't know what it is mate (lol) ?

Absolutely true - when did prison stop being a punishment?

I have had this conversation with my wife so many times - too many single mothers - too much supporting people who refuse to support themselves - too little responsibility for peoples actions. This country is rapidly degenerating into a pile of crap from these kinds of liberal attitudes. People need to take on personal responsibilty for their situation rather than welching off the state. Last year I was working 3 jobs to make ends meet (including doing night shifts in Tesco's because money was so tight). Too many young people these days blow their money on booze and fags and think they are going to be a pop star or a professional football player... or even worse just can't be bothered. It is endemic in todays society that a lot of kids are simply pig lazy!! (To be honest I know a lot of young people who work bloody hard too but that number as a proportion is diminishing). People blame migrant workers for not being able to get a job but that simply isn't true! The fact of the matter is, most migrant worker who come to this country work bloody hard - usually in jobs that most British people won't do. If these are old fashioned conservative values then the quicker we implement them the better. I have no problem with working hard for the things I want and to provide for my family and if that means I have to go out and clean the streets for a living then that is what I will do. Gits like the one Stella is talking about deserve to be burried..... end of story. This entire thread is a testament to how poor the moral values of this country have fallen.

Looking fantastic mate - NOW GET IT FINISHED SO WE CAN ALL HAVE A GO!!!

Whilst wear on the inside edges of all four wheels points most directly to camber being wrong due to oversize wheels or dropped/soft suspension it can also be an indication of drifting during cornering (check for lateral scoring on the tyre) this can be due to pressures being set up too high.

don't move the wheels - move the tyres then when they are put on the other side they will be rotating in the correct direction but wearing on the opposite edge