Timbo

Um... OK? :scratch: :cuckoo:

Yup, but I don't mean the nut is going to slacken, I mean the pressed bearing race and the bearings themselves will bed in a bit with use and slacken accordingly. Just something to keep in mind, that's all -- you don't want to be driving around on a slack bearing for too long, and it's impossible to tell if the bearing is slack unless the wheels are off the ground. The "jaggy hats" and the nuts effectively make up what is known as a castellated nut, by the way :). (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Castellated_nut)

You'll probably find the bearings slacken off after a little use, and you'll need to take it all to bits again to tighten them. Just keep this in mind if you literally have only tightened them with your fingers :).

I don't think I would ever want to own a Porsche. In my head I have this picture of a Porsche driver as an 80s stock trader with red braces and a mobile phone the size of a brick. But maybe that's just me :shrug:. Nice car though. I just don't like the image, if that makes sense.

I do find it a touch ironic that someone so pro-G60 runs "SIX CYLINDER CLOTHING" :lol:.

Probably a typo to the tune of one too many 0s.

Damn it! Wish I'd known about that...

mph / 1000 rpm 1st 5.2, 2nd 9.3, 3rd 13.5, 4th 19.2, 5th 23.5 So in 5th at 120mph ( 1000 * 120 ) / 23.5 = ~5100rpm. Add another 1000 or so for 145mph. I would imagine you'll hit the aero limits before you hit rev limits at those sorts of speeds, but I wouldn't know; I've only got the balls to do ~125 on my private test track.

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Well aren't you the mature one... :roll:

You mean practice?

I was recently replacing the twirly bit of clutch pipe that had almost rusted away in my VR6. I put a rag under the master cylinder to catch clutch fluid drips. Got the job finished, everything tightened and leak free etc. Drove the car round the car park of my friend's industrial unit where I was doing the work. It all seemed fine. Cool, I thought... job done. So I drove the 5 miles home at 1am pace, parked up and got out the car. Funny smell, I thought. Hmm, that looks like smoke from under the bonnet. CRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRAAAAAAAAAAAAAPPP. So I open the bonnet and there is smoke pouring out from around the exhaust manifold. Bricking it, I run into the house and fill a pan of water, run out again and pour it on the area the smoke is coming from. Then it twigs. I didn't take the clutch fluid catching rag out of the engine bay. Rubbish. So I fish out this decade old piece of cloth which is soaked in every kind of oil and grease known to man. It has a nice little black hole smoldering in it. What a relief. If it had caught actual proper fire or I hadn't noticed the smoke... argh. Then I had a sleepless night worrying about the effects of pouring cold water on a very hot exhaust manifold. It started the next morning fine though, with no blowing. Phew. Obvious moral of the story: DON'T LEAVE THINGS IN YOUR ENGINE BAY THAT DON'T BELONG THERE.

Having three bikes on the roof and booting it on the twisties on the A701 probably didn't help. I guess I just hate bodywork clamping stuff -- it's so naff.

I've got a Thule roof rack. It's pretty good quality, but it doesn't grip the roof as well as I would like, having a tendency to slide back and inch or so on long journeys. I should maybe tighten it a bit more, but I'm already cranking it up quite a lot. If you do go down the Thule route, you don't need the short roof adaptor thing. I'm not sure why this was ever recommended; there are even little arrows above the rear windows showing you where to put the clamps. I went to see a used Fabia with a friend who is thinking about buying one last week. One of the nice touches is its roof strips have some kind of clip arrangement to attach roof bars to, so it's more secure than the old body work hugging ones and won't scratch the paint either. I'm really tempted to look into doing some sort of conversion at some point...

Fuel economy through braking/clutching? :norty:

I reckon this should go in the wiki or be a sticky in the engine bay forum. :notworthy:

Odd, I just renewed mine and it was 185, like last year :shrug:.

It could do with being raised a wee bit. Cars look daft if the arch and the wheel aren't concentric. That's just my opinion though :wave:.

Don't forget international money transfer charges. In my experience many germans prefer this method to using paypal. The last time I bought something from Germany I think I paid £14 to my bank to send the money. Makes you wonder how they (the banks) managed to get into the state they're in now when they're robbing you like that... :roll:

That's quite similar to mine (paint code LA9V). Mine really needs at least a partial respray though :(.

The ones from ECP are likely to be remanufactured, whereas the VW ones may not be. It doesn't really matter though, IMHO. If you're doing your rear calipers, it's worth getting MK4 Golf ones as they're a superior design and better materials than the MK2/3 Golf ones you'll normally be supplied with for a Corrado. You do need some new brake hoses if you do this though -- search the forum.

The most obvious symptom is if the inside of your car smells the same as the inside of your coolant header tank.

Interesting article on mechanical KERS.

http://forums.vwvortex.com/zerothread?id=4262855&page=1 You really want your car to look like that? Really?

Me? No I never touched the pump besides cleaning the electrical contacts etc. (but this wasn't a problem). Cleaning it was going to be the next thing to try before swapping the pumps. I'm so glad I don't have to do that now as it would inevitably mean doing the brake lines as well.