dinkus

The problem is - public transport will not make a profit if it's run as people want. The best city transport system I've seen was in Toronto - it's $2.50 (about £1.20) to ride anywhere in the city by bus, tram or subway. It was reliable, quick, clean and fairly comfortable and one of the most efficiently run transit systems in the world. Yet it still needed subsidising by the government by millions of $ a year. This is all very well if you happen to live in an urban area - I admit that we really should be expecting a better and cheaper service in the UK's cities for this. (We won't go into the fact that Toronto is a modern, grid-based city with wide roads - unlike most UK cities). However, outside of urban areas public transport isn't really a viable option as such. If you're travelling between cities, then it works fairly well with the use of trains, but after that you need to drive to get anywhere. The population is too sparsely distributed to make buses or trains even financially viable, but because most of the MPs either live in London or have enough money to be able to afford to drive everywhere, they don't think about it. At the moment it works the wrong way around - the people in small villages and the like have to pay the most for fuel and they're the people that need it the most! My suggestion would be to get rid of road tax, and have regional taxation differences on fuel and stop the fuel companies price fudging. That way you get more expensive fuel in cities where people should be using public transport and cheaper fuel in rural areas where people don't have a choice.

It's been on Andi's Fast Purple site for a while - I encoded it :D

I was talking to my dad earlier today and he casually dropped into conversation that he's getting himself a brand new A4 Cabby :lol: Which is all very well and good and wotnot, but he's getting it on a long-term lease for 2 years because apparently it saves him money and hassle rather than buying it outright. The thing that got me was him saying that it's "only" going to cost him £6k for 2yrs ownership, which isn't much different to the amoutn he'd lose if he bought the car himself, then sold it in 2yrs time. I was sitting there thinking what I could do to the C with £6k over the course of 2 years :lol: But it makes you think - if you get a new car then you just throw the money away in depreciation, but if you get a Corrado then you're still spending the same money, but you get new shiney toys every time you empty your wallet. I know what I'd rather have :)

I'd go with thetino's diagnosis. Usually it just means swapping 2 wires around - there will be instructions on how to do this in the manual :)

Do you drive it very often and/or taken it out for a long drive recently? Mine always takes longer to start when it's just been doing crappy little journies to the shops. The long drive will blow out the cobwebs and make sure the battery's fully charged :)

Dammit :lol:

I refuse to post pictures of me up cos I always get gay comments

:norty: ?

You've missed my point.... I understand why we have blanket car taxes, what i don't understand is why governments think putting a higher rate of car tax will encourage people to be 'green' with their journeys...... If I had to pay £400 a year on the VR, I would probably come out of the house in the morning and think "well that cars tax is costing me £400 a year, i'd better use it more.... I know, i'll drive to work" a higher rate on a blanket tax doesn't change peoples mentalities about the reason or way they drive...... its just one payment a year (or 6 months) and then its forgotten about... pb Yeah, fair point. TBH I'd be much happier with them doing away with road tax all together and just wopping a couple of pence per litre on fuel. There's already a computerised MOT database, so you know if a car isn't road-legal and if you only tax the fuel then it's then immediately a tax on how efficient your car is and how many miles you drive.

I know! The perfect solution - put GPS trackers on every single car in the country, track every single journey you make and automatically take the fee for your road usage from your credit card. Oh and speeding fines too. Excellent, can't see any holes in that plan, let's roll :lol: I think I'd rather have a blanket tax...

Yeah, I'm gonna go with the Audi Coupé too...

Well now you come to mention it... :lol: Not sure how the law works if you do an engine swap tho... anyone?

Some sexy pics there! 8) I'd guess so - must be a pretty light camera though as you've managed to get rid of nearly all the vibration (that and drive very slowly ;) ) 8)

According to the Times website So I think road tax will probably go up a bit, but not the huge £400 bill that the media are getting all foamy about the mouth at.

Yeah, fair point. You're lucky they've even got washer jets :lol:

Hmmmmm, very interested in this mod. Are the Ka ones heated too, so they won't freeze up?

Strange - I was just examining my brake pads earlier while washing the C and thinking I'm gonna need some new rear ones soon. I've got Pagid FR's on mine at the moment, but will probably give the Green Stuff's a crack next time - the old ones were apparently a little 'interesting' first thing in the morning, but I've heard good things about the new ones.

The pin is/was actually a small chamfered head screw, but they nearly always corrode in place and then shear in half whenever you try and remove them. As Goldie says tho - they're just there to make your life a bit easier when replacing the brake disks and it can be done (with a little more faff) with just the wheel bolts. If you do fancy drilling the old screw out and putting a new one in, then you're welcome to try. Unless you know what you're doing then you'll probably strip the thread from the hub tho. You can ask your dealer for the brake disk locating screws - they'll know what you mean :)

ROFL now that's some classy driving! :lol: According to the caption on YouTube "This vid was taken by the passenger of a old BMW M3 on the Nordschieife. they came on the track at Breidsheid and crashed 7 sec later on the way out of Exmuhle. its a clasic" Although I did think it was a piss-take at first and it was going to be some local car park :lol:

A quick search for 'girling' chucked this up ;) http://the-corrado.net/.archive/forum/viewtopic. ... ht=girling

Take the under-side of the dash off and get to it from behind?

Blimey mate - just seen this and that doesn't look very nice at all! Glad the car's ok tho :lol: I've got braided Goodridge hoses on mine and they came with rubber sleeving on them already... but that'll still wear away if they're rubbing... Edit: Oh and make sure you wash that wheel arch thoroughly - brake fluid will strip the paint off anything it touches!

I think these are just passive fan blades that sit in the intake airflow. They make up some balls about them turbulating the air or somesuch, but all it does is block airflow into the engine. A similar effect can be had from gaffer taping a kids' windmill to the airbox.

Red feels a bit like you wish they were Brembos to me, but it does look good. Pink however... :lol:

Prices always pick up in spring/summer. If you've just sunk all that money into it to get it through the MOT, I'd hold on a bit until the prices go up a bit and sell it then...