Scirocco Central

...And I know Lee's name is Lee before someone corrects me :-)

My pleasure Paul, I mean Dave. :-)

Nice to meet you Both, apologies it took nearly 2 hours. ;-)

J.

So very quick to jump to the assumption. I did a fair bit of research and found that these tyres are made by Continental and the reviews were very good. My experience is that they are quieter and provide far superior handling in both wet and dry compared to the Dunlop Sports. Check out the reviews....

I had a set of mich sports fitted. Not that impressed. Great in the dry awful in the cold and wet (they are a summer tyre...) They didn't last long either....

Ah what a shame I bought the very first issue. Didn;t it have a dimma pug or a R5 Gt turbo on the front?

Viper, It will possibly send the sound of the call thorugh the speakers but you would have to hold the phone to your face for the other person to be able to hear you. The amount of back ground noise in the car would kill your voice. Fiscon do a bluetooth adaptor that fits the head unit and allows yo...

Mine is mounted in the centre cubby using the cigarette lighter, the same as Trix has her smartphone. I fixed a TomTom mounting plate on the roof of the cubby and use the window suction mount to hold my GO730. Ignition off and the cigarette lighter isn't live so no issues about battery drain. Thats...

Mini Cooper S - the worst car I have ever owned and sold ASAP. just out of interest BMW Mini or old Austin/Rover Mini???? BMW mini. I waited 6 onths for the car to be built/delivered. Hated it pretty much from the minute I drove it off the forecourt. That was after 2 extended test drives... :-( It ...

trix wrote:if thats in order I love how the 7 is thrown in there between the festy & the cortina

The westy took all my funds so I needed sheds to drive around in :-)

lol...nah it is based on the C-class floor plan, the call it the e-class so they can charge the earth for it... about the same size as an audi a5 cab or bmw 3 seires cab.

J.

My car hisotry is a little bit, err, checkered... I'll include the cars I have bought for my wife as well... Diahatsu hi jet van fiesta mkIII in blue fiesta mkIII in Red Westfield 7 2.0 ford cortina triumph toledo mkII fiesta Datsun cherry turbo mkI golf Gti - I Still have this one. 1.9ltr engine fi...

Thank you :-)

@Chungster thats what wifes are for :-) so they get the family wagon. We have a mercedes ML as the family wagon, although we have just ordered a replacement as it is coming up for 3 years old. But not that much of a family wagon as she wanted an e-class convertable.

Chris, If your not keen on doing too much maintenance yourself I would offer the following advice. Pay a pro to do the hard work for you and then just do the weekly/fortnightly maintenance. I used to think nothing of spending 8 hours on a saturday washing, claying, polishing and waxing my car but no...

Not been around for a while due to a variety of reasons. One of them being the birth of my daughter :-) Born on the 28th weighing 9lbs 2oz, mother and daughter doing very well. It all happened really, really quickly. My son was induced and the labour took almost 23 hours, this time we were warned th...

Had to bed my new brakes in and test them :-)

Not on mine it doesn't... Tried many times.

DO you mean after ordering a new car? If yes then the answer is no. Thats why they only give approx delivery dates.

J.

Wow in that case I am obviously wrong! a 200hp scirocco will easily do 156 mph as they can apperently do close to 170mph... (I know 270kmh is only 168mph but I was using artisitic license ;-) )

I hit 150mph (240 Km/h) on an empty stretch of highway but then it wasn't so empty anymore :shrug: I drive a REVO remapped 1.4 and I reckon it should hit a similar MAX speed as the 2.0L. If I had to guess, I would say 250Km/h is a fairly reasonable target. 250kph is about 156mph, I doubt very much ...

bianco wrote: If You break hard from a speed above (? km/h), then the hazard light blinks (all indicators)

Not in the uk they don't...