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Philuk

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  1. in the 21 years i have lived here (Scarborough) i have never bought or thought about buying a crab or any fishy friend from the seafront kiosks lol, if you want one posting let me kno! rofl ;) On Topic, I got my new surround sound today from Comet and the bloke who brought it out said he loved it and has always wanted one :D made me feel nice inside , this meant i had to give it some beans as i left hehe :)
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    Personal Plates

    altho a private reg is something that never needs repairing costs nothing to run(unles you change cars alot) and stays with you forever! :)
  3. yea yea. sere what you mean now :)
  4. to be fair to the motorstore, its not always the person who orderings fault, they might of asked for the right part but had the factor deliver it wrong, unless where you go is direct to the motor factors, in that case there just numptys lol. im not saying that halfords batteries aren't any good im saying there relativly expensive as to what i sell the same battery with longer warrenty for. eg 063 (3year at our local halfords) around the £70-80 mark, i sell the same battery with 4 year guarentee for £49-99 (063+) and its one of the Moura Intelligent batteries. 8)
  5. no but it warrents out the stereo is draining too much power whislt running :) thats wqhat i mean, more than anything its bloody annoying when it keeps cutting out halfway through a decent track
  6. or take it to your local kwik fit Hi-Q etc and ask them to do a battery test on it, if they do a drop test on it, thats the way to finally kill a dieing battery so they might want to do that. then they can sell you a new one of course :), just dont get a battery from halfords they cost about twice what i sell em for and they have the same if less guarentee!. visit your local A1 motorstore and see if they can help ya
  7. i would of guessed that they didnt spend millions of pounds(deutchmarks sp?) researching into the hub units etc to put a 5th bolt in just for the laugh. it will be a 5 stud for a good reason. the brakes wont be big enough really for a 2.9V6 from a valver will they?. will they have anywhere near the stopping power of the v6 brakes, but to answer your question i would of thought the v6 outer shaft wont fit into the boot you have, will be bigger i would of thought?
  8. now just to make it uber messed up, its doing it without the stereo facia connected which means that only the car is running, the worst bit is it never did it before i put the stereo in, gonna try disconnecting the subs and try it see what happens, :), btw can any1 post a pic up of how they have there amp cable connected to there battery?, i have just had a thought and i think it may be the battery cable earthing out on the bonnet! will have to look into it
  9. thought about looking see if spax do more than 1 kit for the corrado. i kno that for alot of shall we say "unusual" (not meaning as said but its not a corsa is it!) cars, they only usually do maybe 1 kit for it, if that fails give a spring a wipe clean unless there ancient and check the part number against one on a spax dealers site?
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    Mats

    Auto Style mats are top banana, we can seel em at work but ive looked into getting group buy discount to no avail, unless you can talk to them as a person (or forum) and the company. because i was going through the shop where i work it was no use :(
  11. ive read alot of people recommend them for the VR6 lump, i had one on my clio and it made........ sod all difference, just made it louder. had a sports cat on my bravo and i swear that made the revs feel smoother might of just been me tho :D
  12. sounds good does that, might have to look into getting a miltek over a magnex, Ive read a few people had issues with the magnex, but with the ones i have sold for various cars. ive never had or heard a problem! decisions lol
  13. ok it did it again a few times tonight? anyone know what sort of tolerance the standard alternator has? is it powerful enough to power the engine and then a sub/amp dvd screen on top or does it need to be upgraded with something off a derv?? or has anyone had any problems that are similar? its just weird it will be fine but then the stereo will jsut cut out, or the engine lights will flash on and the abs light will flicker. strange????
  14. reading from what i can see as last post they are still available, very interested as my headlights are gash! would be an ideal oppertunity to change my bulbs while im at it i suppose :D
  15. if the switch is heating up, i belive its a common fault and needs a new switch before your wiring goes into Meltdown! Might be something to look into replacing, i would much rather replace just a switch than a switch and a bunch of wires lol :)
  16. i kno the question has been answered but the only downside to the head unit if it is the Mex-BT2500 is it has no Aux outputs on it, apart from that mint unit and lights up really nice aswell. Shiney Lights make me smile! :D
  17. i helped fit new tumblers to a mates MK3 polo and it was a piece of cake( similar door handles so one would presume similar tumblers) not sure about the boot one but the doors we did. im not sure if that the stealers can use the chassis/engine number from your car to get the key number, might be worth taking a trip to them to find out, only problem, are you sure it was the ignition barrel that was changed and not the entire lock set? if so you'll be getting a master key for the ignition barrel lol :)
  18. Mark @ A.C.C.E 33A Trafalgar Road Scarborough 01723 374113 Fitted my laser line last week, cannot fault the work or the alarm Did a really nice job, does do Toad and can do Clifford (not sure about fitting but can fix em) also fits Towbars, stereos, subs, amps, speakers, etc, not massive installs
  19. its usually part of the ISO loom that connects into the back of ure HU from the cars main wiring, Check your connections on the ISO plug, theres a chance that Alpine in there infinate wisdom took it out from the standard block and made it seperate just to make life difficult. chances are if so there will be a blue/white wire that connects to nothing on the ISO blocks :)
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    Gear Boxs

    I as looking at short shift kits available on the net, i have fitted a B & M kit to a Civic VTi and it looked cool was a piece of cake to fit and was really good after driving, i think i will be going for the B & M kit, altho unless anyone has had any bad experiences then i could be targetted towards a different brand
  21. i dont understand how a 205 is streched on a 7.5? you sure they aint 9's lol, reason being that 7.5" is 190mm which would mean that the tyre being 205mm should be wider across the tread than the wheel is *confused*
  22. can you see any obvious breaks in the lines across the screen? os is the clip that connects to the left and the right of the screen still connected? (i presume its got them i havent actually looked) or are they corroded? If not then you have jamf wiring :(. try connecting some new wiring from your battery or a 12v source and see if it works then. if it dont then. erm, well we cross that bridge when we come to it i guess, if you can narrow it down to something , either the wiring, the switch or i presume there is a relay???then your onto a winner *Edit* i feel a bit of a dime bar now, if the entire screen isnt heating at all then it cant be the lines across the screen unless there all broken, because if only 1 was broke i would presume that only that single element wouldnt heat not the entire screen :)
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    Personal Plates

    a plate can be put onto retention i.e its legally yours but not on a car, BUT to take it off a car and put onto retention costs about £120 and then it costs another £80 to put it back onto the next car! when it would only cost £80 to shift it from one car to anther, Most gayest of the DVLA to come up with that! :S
  24. when i saw the topic i thought i might answer a question i was wanting to ask aswell, but everyone has said different lol, i was looking at K&N either panel filter or Cone, and BMC. altho the K&N is cheaper is it worth paying the extra for the BMC (and not just for the fancy Carbon Fibre effort) or does it actually give better response and more bhp( i kno its minute at the most, but every little helps). Any answers would be helpful to both of us by the way it looks!
  25. would ya recommend a change from say 10/40 for 10/50 then?, or is it just semi synth to fully that shouldn't be done
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