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unless you grind about 4mm off the caliper carriers yeah 8)

mine are 17x8 with a 60mm drop, no rubbing problems with day to day driving but they will catch if you're giving it some serious stick on the bends.

better late than never... hello! very shiny looking g60 there, and you list of motors in your signature isnt to be sniffed at, bet that GPz750 T goes like a rocket!

my knob... sorry its a bit small

posting it on forums would work, obviously if its bmw related a bmw forum would be best! check on the dvla website and see how much plates containing 'm5' are going for, just so you dont under or over sell it. failing that, theres always ebay.

the funniest part of that video is at the end where you're obviously taking the phone off the dash... theres a sound like you let off a cheeky sqeaky fart! :lol:

I just had a bit of a search for threads on the TPS and turned up one of your old ones kev, is the throttle potentiometer another name for the TPS? its just euro car parts have a potentiometer listed but not a TPS...

seems reasonable... i'll give vw a call now, cheers!

have to say i still perfer the wiperless look, but if i had to have one, this is what i'd be doing.

it doesnt really seem to follow a consistant pattern for when it happens, although I would say on average its happened under mild/gentle acceleration, say going from a 30 zone to 60 and taking it fairly easy. It seems to cruise fine in traffic situations, theres a oh so slight wavering in the revs but that could always be my imagination. someone else mentioned it might be the TPS, or that the ECU wasnt getting the right signal from the TPS and to reset it, which we did at the weekend. Is it a hard/expensive job changing the TPS in order to rule it out or cure the problem?

the best way i can describe it is that it feels like i've changed down from 5th to 3rd, and the revs are too high for the gear so you get, what feels like, heavy engine breaking. it lasts about a second then goes back to normal. While its happening the revs drop off totally. I've also had it randomly stall at junctions a couple of times. At the weekend Chris checked the MAF which was appeared to be working, as did the lamda probe. we checked the dizzy cap and leads and so on but its not like its loosing spark on one of the cylinders, its more like (in my limited understanding) the fuel being shut off for a breif second.

yeah i read bosch are doing them on an exchange basis, but if i can i'd like to try and find a 2nd hand one first, theres been a few on ebay for about £40 which is less of a sting. good point about checking the number on the MAF thats already there... doh! - edit - yeah i could try chris's if hes willing to let me borrow it for a few days since the problem comes and goes, and didnt show itself at all during the test runs we went on at the weekend... sods law!

I think my recent probelms are down to an intermittently dodgy MAF. I know i need the part number ending in '461' but whats the rest of the number? Also, is there an alternative? say from a ford galaxy or such? I've used the search and found a few threads but mostly relating to the other MAF type on later vr6's.

yup!

that looks good mate, very neat! was it easy to do? what does the transporter wiper look like?

just signed up, although i have no idea what colour code my car is, randomly guessed at something that looked sort of silver...

'gripping the shaft tightly in her right hand, laura contemplated how remarkably heavy the head was and wondered if she had the strength to weild the tool, or if she'd need to use both hands'

page breakage fix!

randal, yeah its NG's mate, laura, the unofficial forum mascot (along with corradowales). looks like she's dished out a good pounding...

-instert 'girl with large tool in her hand' joke here-

I intentionally didnt say where i got them dave, I wasnt going to blame you at all, I know you wouldnt have sold them as VR clocks if you didnt think thats what they were. I'll PM mike and see if he knows anything.

try getting someone to pull the release handle in the car while you gently 'bounce' the side of the bonnet that wont come up, it sometimes works, i used to have to do it all the time on my valver. if you dont have anyone to help, loop the drivers seatbelt around the handle to keep it in the 'pulled' position then do the bounce thing. hope that helps!

jim, its a bit of a mongrel anyway to be honest, its had an engine swap and now a clock swap. engines done about 128k, shells done more like 160k and the clocks show about 94k. I dont have much paperwork, but since i bought the car off chris vr6nos/vortech/mr name change-a-holic, and i know he'd looked after it, i felt safe buying it. I know it'll effect resale but i'm not getting rid for a good few years yet.

ah now hey, thats not fair! other than the colour of the needles, are there any other visual clues to tell you they're 4 or 6 cylinder clocks?

ahhhhhhhhhh feck! they did have white needles on when i bought them, but thats only because the chap i bought them off wanted the red needles for his clocks and put the white ones on mine so he could sell the whole unit on. I think i'll get in touch with him and direct him to this thread...