thewelsho

I use a lathe to open jam jars. I just set it in the jaws of the lathe, not too tight mind, other wise it will break the jar. Then, grab the lid really tight, and fire up the lathe; the lid comes off in my hand, great.

haha. Yeah, seen it all now - nut job indeed.

Ha yeah! Doesn't take a lot of "falling into" when its free! Good luck with it, April could be a goer for me too

I'll lend you some 17 if you like. Tyres are not great but they will do you a turn to at least try them out. I have a track day on March 15th so if you want to try the 17s ma man, you can, just as long as I get them back a couple of days before the 15th. You might also want to try a change to your geometry. In standard trim the Scoob is set up to understeer. The reason for this is that it is easy to correct by simply lifting off. However, oversteer is not so easy. It's a kind of fail-safe measure to protect new Scoob drivers from thinking they are invincible behind the wheel of their new car, so I have been told.

Wooo nice!

Funny guys!

Is there anyway I can check that? Is this a major problem; in other worrds ifI keep driving it (specially on the track) can it do a lot of damage?

I have a weird noise coming from the back of the car, perhpaps to the near side. The sound is totally random and I cannot recreate it by going slow or fast, over bumps or level roads, it just comes and goes. If you imagine having a saucepan and holding it by the handle and dragging it along the ground, then this is how the noise sounds. Sometimes it is followed by a banging sound as though someone was beating the back of the saucepan with a dull object. All very wierd... any ideas? As I say, it comes and goes, scraping and banging all very random.

Where is the location of said road, so that I too might indulge myself in a bit of high-speed action!

Cooool! Yer a gid man!

When I was driving the wife's Fiesta (my car was off the road) I felt very much in danger. It wasn't that people were bullying me, it was more to do with the stark difference in the driving experience, in that I was at the mercy of the car's crap performance. Being so used to drving the Scoob, I found the transition a difficult one to handle. it wasn't that I was bullied, it was that I couldn't drive in the manner that I was accustomed too, I was no longer in control. I couldn't pick gaps in the traffic 50 metres down the road to dive into from the outside lane etc. I just had to sit and wait my turn like any normal person. Dare I say it, perhaps this is what you were experiencing and mistook it for being bullied, no? That aside, I belive myself to be the most curteous driver on the road! So there. I will always let people in, let them pull out, let them skip me in trafic queues etc etc. but that is offset with launches away from lights in the inside lane to get ahead, passing on the inside of idiots who hog the road while going slowly (like ) and dithering muppets who ought not to be within a mile of a car. I can't stand getting stuck behind the 25mph ditherer, so if I have to be a little aggressive to get on, so be it. As I already stated, people who do the same to me, I jsut think "oh well, one day I'll be doing that, no need to get PO'd! J

Thanks, will do mate.

Nice one, good luck with it.

Hope you will report back the problem/solution and cost etc. Just be nice to know cause I am getting some light crunching when changing up into fifth at high revs/speed. So I might need to look at a similar solution if the warranty wont cover it.

LOL! Most likely! Yes, I have seen these before. They do look pretty good, I like them. Cheers mate. I don't really know how to get a hold of that stuff though. AFAIK, Chris is based in Perth now, so a bit of a hassle. I'll probably try a smallish area first to see how it goes and then decide from there. Defo a job for the warmer weather though.

A heat gun it is then, I will have to invest in one of these. I'm dreading removing them to be honest. Mind post up the finished article. J

Car looks great, very nice indeed. I took advantage of the nice weather and the fact I had the day off too by removing my now totally trashed front splitter. Car doesn't look as good without it to be honest, but owning one is not worth the hassle IMO. So Ritchie, think on before wasting you cash on one! I did go for a little spurt of the back roads and took another wee test video, nothing worth posting though.

Pfff! LOL!

Maybe you should put my Teins on it!

Amazing what a set of wheels and some tints does for the look of a car. Looks good. Be better once its dropped too. As stated, aren't coilovers a rather harsh choice for a road car? Enjoy your trip to Canada. J

Peter, still not heard from Duncan. I called him and he never picked up, I'll try again though.

Colin, I don't have an induction kit fitted, so what am I hearing then?

Indeed they are; another knowledge bite to file away. Since I got my car mapped (still on standard recirc) I can hear PSSSSSHT during gear changes at high revs. It's not loud mind, but definately noticable. Why has it started doing this, when it didn't do it before?

Oh Goody!

I attempted to take mine off yesterday and realised it was a bigger job than I had anticipated. So its still stuck on there all smashed up and taking the look right off of my car!