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Harv do you find you get hit by a heatwave when you get out..I swear the heat coming from under the car can be mental sometimes

Was thinking smooth gear changes then..auto

So much want, do you have to stuff the tank with crisp £20's ?

Anyone else? getting alerts suddenly for every reply to posts.

Thats what I thought..I just payed £200 fully comp for the BMW lol

Fugitsubo Thank you it's killing me

Took the kraut wagon to be laser aligned at a well reputed place here last week. Tow and camber were shot all round and had similar wear to what your saying. Steering was a few degrees off centre too

That could bring me back to a Honda

Still astounds me how I insure a 3.0l BMW for under £300... Yey swiftcover

Awesome mate, how does the engine compare to the 1.6 supercharge checkmate the misses has? I think if I show her these pics she will be all over one

Can't Believe This Has Happend To The Alfa!! Always love that..you were not even in the car yet your insurance goes up

Having problems where it will take me to the first page but then not display the page count at the top to get to the current one, only on this forum

I'm surprised by that..I did over 110k on mine and it was still good when I sold it.

wtf did they wash it with a scouring pad?

Easily accessible for an engineer..easily accesible for a thief lol. Know where mine is too it really is easy to get to.

Bosch from euro car parts if you have one

I wasnt kidding lol..I used to do this all the time because mine ****ed me off no end... that and the random days when it didnt work at all and made me have to get a lift into work.

change the battery and always touch you chin with it when you go to open the car with the fob..

Last year the BMW Dealer thought I was fkin mad when I said I wanted to test drive at night to check the lights..welcome to 9 years of EP3 ownership and fannying around with the lights

Btw harv thats fkin sick how different that exhaust sounds to the 125i !

You didn't just unclip the cable in the boot?

125i msport coupe... 31 lol

Mine were a fin whore to get out, had to drill one of them in the end

As always all the best things are breaking a law somewhere

The cat is a two part heat shield I think. Probably the other part

I part ex'd mine with 107k no aircon left the alpine head unit and cheap crappy tyres on the front for £2500..that was 5 months ago

No way..Sharky!

I went through about every tyre on the market and the P Zero's were by far my favorite..never had any of the trouble of grip loss when getting to the end of their life like other tyres and good in the wet and dry I have RE050A's on the bimmer now and they are nice.

Yea I laughed when Honda came out with some crazy price, IIRC the terminals are the wrong way round on the Civic which a lot of places dont pick up on.

Could be worse...In the kraut invader my petrol light comes on at quarter of a tank anyway :lol:

My old Skunk2 used to do it too..never had the issues with the Apexi or Magnex though

128.9 atm Swinetown

I havent moved from Swiftcover for three years now..they just keep throwing cheaper premiums with protected no claims at me

Mine turned out to be the heatshield on the cat

Fk me smeg's car is still alive?

Brake squeal? my rear offside does it after about 15 minutes with these cheap discs and pads on

Well that woudl explain the creak ive had for years and never bothered looking into :lol:

Yea they were cheapest for me this year too..just think its due to their big advertising push..wont be the same next year

Not yet fella I have not been able to get my remote to accept the new codes yet!

Temped to clean my bay this weekend...its never been done in 90,000 miles :lol::lol:

Yea I was spurned into action when the alarm started going off at 5am sunday morning. Disconnected the terminals and charged it in the bay till it went dark..started first time :cool:

Ok so if I pull the battery is the alarm (hamilton & palmer) likely to go mental while I have it out for a night charging?

I'm gonna have a pop at charging it in situ, As long as the ignition is off it shouldnt be an issue to not disconnect the battery from the car..though might pull the fuse on the amp :lol:

Car has been on the drive for about 3 weeks and rarely used in about the last two months due to work. Came to start it and its dead. Jumped her yesterday and let the engines run for about 10 minutes still connected then disconnected everything and tried to start..same problem. I have a...

This ones for SPM

Delivery of manure is far better

I find down the side of the seats a very good place to store your chance...every now and again I have a clear out and theres enough beer tokens for an evening at the pub :lol:

Dont have it yet..its a work in progress shall we say :lol:

Well oddly enough Sainsburys of all people are coming up lowest so far. about £490 after cashback with 6 points :lol: Finding any insurance company linked with HBOS are the cheapest atm

a few months ago i was browsing and seeing 3/400 quotes...now all my quotes are coming back around 6/700 robbing cnuts

cnut :lol:

Never been happy with my 12" sealed sub..might self port it :lol:

My idle was unsteady for quite a while...it just stopped doing it one day though...I might have reset the ECU but I cannot remember as it was a few years back. Also an 02

You sure your windows rubber channel isnt on its way out..I have had three so far...Look at the channel running up the door and see if its folded/looks melted etc.

Say what? computer noise like clicking hard driver..fans?..modem squawk? Or is it "Do you want to play a game?"

The RE040's are a shitty tyre though (IMO) the good old days of tramlining and being like bambi on ice in the wet. Mine has never seen 040's since the first set and its staying that way. I dont do the miles anymore though and with summer coming might just try the yoyo's or parada

hmm gone up again then...I got about the same but was quoted less about a month ago

Esure are cheap atm mate

Bargain that...Hoping for them to quote me happy too :lol:

Skunk2..well we all know about those Apexi Haybusa..Who'd have thought one of those would go wrong!

Having spent around £1500 on Jap exhausts for them all to die on me I went with a cheapo 6x4 magnex...had no issues with it so the VFM has been far better.

I must have one in Bermuda Blue/Monte Carlo if I ever own an S2K :cool:

Yea just a stop gap to buy some time :lol:

think gaffa tape will work as a stop gap or is the bay going to get too hot for it there?

ahh gotcha lol

Blue SFS one?

Nobody loves a gaping hole and I just found one when I went to check the oil today :eek: Anyone know how much that sections going to cost to replace? its the bit from the engine to the air filter btw :lol:

thats alright then :lol:

facking hell..ill be leaving mine in the garage then and not binning it :lol:

**** me sideways im still getting shafted...your how old?

May 2002 Num 11697 Miles 87,000

:lol::lol::lol: esure (esure Insurance Limited)...

Sounds like what I'm dealing with. Have an Alpine with external bluetooth unit, The BT unit has 4 components to wire in :eek:

Discs are made to be worn :lol: Think im on my second..sure they are not the third...86k :lol: Pads....god knows

dont think the standard brakes have ever had any complaints? I still have standards on..only on my second set of discs :lol:

No news on it yet then?

I have this coming, Alpine claim "Dark Silver" http://www.caraudiodirect.co.uk/alpine-idax001-bluetooth-pack-p-6182.html

About as desirable on a CTR as beefcurtains on a woman

38 reviews and 4.5 stars cant go wrong for £44.98 :eek: Features: CD/MP3/VCD/DVD/MP4 compatible USB/SD/MMC Card input Video output via a suitable display (composite video output) Electronic Anti-shock mechanism Intro/Repeat/Random playback AM/FM Reciever with 30 preset memory Electronic...

Hmm the tweeters are fine but the rest of the components cant handle feck all bass...If I get bored I might try amp driving them to see if it makes a different but CBA to take all that apart atm

They may have improved but my itrip was never perfect on my nano...it never seemed to sit quite well enough so you always got a buzz on bumps...also distorts higher. I know you said no new HU but thats they route I just went down as I needed a new one anyway. all goes to plan the Ipod or a USB...

reminds me of the joys of loosing my locking nut key and not having the code :rolleyes:

Forgot I had the workshop manual on my desktop :lol:

There used to be a good guide around for getting the console out to replace the stereo, Anyone seen it?

Really? I have Focal and I fooking hate them

Sextons recommend ***** speakers IMO from past experience.

confused.com :lol:

I will always use P-Zero..Nero or Asym. Had F1's good but didnt last..only had the origional Bridgestone set..that was enough. Have had no reason to leave pirelli as I trust them in the wet and thats all that matters.

Me too but my alpine massacres the components at anything over 2/3 volume unless i turn the bass.treble down to -8 :evil: ok the components are 5 years old now but they have always been *****...Focal Access or something like that

Prudential were cheapest for my dodgy history this year..about £700 and got £130 cashback on quidco

Last well on my civ and find them better than most..you do notice once they have worn a fair bit they slip round the edges a bit in the wet.

We have an exhaust place here, they do them for about £15/20 usually.

and depending on the house your probably better off securing that more lol

Skunk2 mega falls apart like a piece of ***** exhaust, We did an import of these a few years back and every one of them died

Rings a bell :lol:

Alright spent about 10 minutes looking at the topics and cant decide which area to bung this. Whats the name of the company that did the alarm systems for the first type-r's Both my blippers are fecked and broken so I wanted to see if I could contact them for new cases. Im sure a mod will...

As above :D

Went to drive to work this morning, Engine started as usual down goes the pedal and I went to put the car into 1st and met resistance and even with some force it would not go into gear (tried 2/3/4 all the same) Turned the engine off and it went into any of the gears just fine so left the...

ahh for testing purposes that would work well to make sure 100% thats where its coming from...im 99% sure though lol

ooh not as bad as i was expecting