iainc

I was with KM and although I got a quote from them that was £113 less than last year, I used to be insured with A-Plan so thought nothing to lose by giving them the opportunity to re-quote. Got a call from call centre lass who sounded like she was on speed saying because my car was modified they couldn't quote me, but she was going to put me through to five insurers directly in turn to get quotes from them.

I thought the whole point of going through a broker was so you didn't have to go through the hassle of contacting dozens of insurers directly, giving the same information time and time again - which is what exactly they wanted me to do, being passed back to the speed woman in the call centre each time so she could pass me on to the next one. I hung up before I got to the first insurer.

Disappointed in A-Plan as they were spot on last time I dealt with them. Ended up staying with KM simply because the Gathering stuff is mental, it was cheaper than last year and I didn't have time to shop around.

Yeah, I had that same hassle earlier on this year. Thought that by passing me directly to the other insurers that it'd be a quick check of details not giving them all the details time and time again. Right PITA and at the end of it all I don't think any of them were any better than my renewal with Bell Direct.

IainC; we still have the house - rented out to a Finnish family. Keep an eye on it as you go through.

Jools...the Viking

Aye, so I heard... first time I passed it I wondered when (and why) you'd bought a red Rover 600

Iain.

Good to hear you're still around Jools... not so good about your son but glad to hear he's on the mend now though. Still pass your old house every few days on the way into work

According to the latest figures road tax should be around £450 in 2010 for a scoob, I lasted ten months with my Audi & it had to go cause it just aint a scooby

I lasted about the same in the 4.2V8 Avant that I had... was just too nose heavy for my liking on back roads and I just never got on with the semi-auto box on it either, traded it for the 06 STi I have now and haven't looked back.

thats the one iain

Very sad all round.

It is something I look at now when choosing a car, drove the sister-in-laws 106 diesel a few years back and would hate to be in an impact in something like that as I'd imagine there'd not be much left of you afterwards.

Could have been worse... I had a close shave years ago with the Discovery V8i... had been bombing into work as normal without a problem. Got into it around lunchtime to head to the other office and pulled out the car park, put my foot on the brake and nothing... turned out I'd burst one of the calipers Was so lucky it happened at 10mph or less rather than the 60-ish I'd been doing on the way in. Also lucky it was at such a slow speed 'cos the disco has a transmission brake and I'd probably have fooked the drivetrain or just spun out of control trying to use it to slow down.

Glad to hear you got away with it as well... would hate to be going at speed and then find out I had no way of stopping

yes i remember this, its happening far too often up this neck of the woods

It was my brothers best mate that lost his life on the cullen to buckie road along with a really young lad and another woman from the area. that was just 16 weeks ago.....

heartbreaking

Was that the one with the young guy in a recently purchased Puma or something similar?

Turned out I knew people from both vehicles, was someone at work that was best friends with the parents of the boy and the wifes boss was driving the other car. Seen the "devastation" on both sides... shows that it doesn't really matter who's fault it was both sets of families (and friends of the family) were quite affected by it all.

Nah.. Just glad to get the car back in one piece.. Although I dare say I'd get a good service if I ever go back there for anything

No excessive damage by the looks of things. He's replaced 3 of the lower control arms at the rear end.. But everything else looks good, can't see any evidence of any twists bends or any abnormal loads begin applied anywhere.. So thumbs up for service!

Genuine error on their part. Certainly a one off, and car repaired very quickly at japerformances expense..

Fortunately a good outcome.. Could have been MUCH worse...

Woohoo... good to hear that you got a good outcome out of it. Yours was on the rollers just as I was leaving (only just made it timewise for the party). Was relieved to hear your "problems" weren't down to your self mapping.

Il need to scan my graph in at some point. It just looked so different to everyones elses that I seen anyway! Even IainC's 2.5 STI Hawkeye graph was different.

Most people seemed to have their torque and bhp follow each other up the graph as opposed to mine, where the torque was starting to trail off and bhp was still on the rise til about 5700rpm.

Already strated looking for bigger, better (even STI) TMIC, any suggestions appreciated.

Think my peak torque (from memory) is about 4k... seem to remember yours being a lot lower than that.

Well done to robert (wrxbob) for having the most powerful car on the rollers.

I didn't get everybody's torque figures but I know Aaron's 2.5 pulled some good torque.

Nice 1 folks

Rich

Woohoo... 4th most powerful car on the rollers and it's std

My torque was fairly equal with the bhp, ~300-ish as well. Was getting that a lot higher than Aarons though, shows the benefit of the remapping getting it moved further down the rev range.

Iain, pretty sure they are all the same "two bolt" connection. atleast all the milltek, Blitz, H&S, TSL etc... stuff I have seenin 3" were.

Gus

Cool... sounds good to me... certainly sounds a hell of a lot cheaper than a Milltek dp or centre Sports cat.

Ok, I'll have a look even though I don't have the first clue what I'm looking for!!!!

I might sound like I know WTF I'm talking about but I'm not that different to you

Just have a quick check of all airlines to/from the boost gauge to see if there are any splits/leaks in the system.

Well it's kinda starting working intermittently while I was reving in the driveway on its way into the garage - pfff who knows! I'm taking it to Meercat tomorrow afternoon to get my brokentail pipe replaced, so I'll have a look at it then during the extended run.

You don't have an air leak in the pipework do you? Would imagine that an airleak could leave the system sitting at zero pressure regardless of the actual boost at any time. Would be worth checking all of your connections to/from the gauge.

Wuz,

Paul will do the two of them for £270 each delivered (saves about £30 on delivery in total!). Hows that!?

Gus

Would imagine that they are all the same, but do the likes of Milltek, etc have different connections to "std" 3" systems?

Was driving along the road tonight and noticed that my Boost Gauge wasn't moving at all, I'm pretty sure it went up and down with the revs. Anyway, once I got to a quiet stretch of road I put the foot down and when I hit boost, the gauge came on line but only went to about 1.4 (usually 1.5). Soon as I came off-boost, the indicator again sat motionless at zero. When I turned the car off and then on again, the other two guages did their opening ceremony thing, but the boost guage was still stuck on Zero - any suggestions, or is it a case of replacing the gauge?

thanks!

F**k... sucks to be you by the sounds of it... if you didn't have bad luck you'd have none at all.

Generally (IME) you should get negative boost at idle and +ive once above a certain rev range, as some people have said, could be an electrical issue if it's not moving at all.

F**k... not good news.

When the wifes Leon was hit and run a while back we used a place outside Inverurie... can't mind the name offhand... Lethany body shop or something... small out of town place and it cost ~£300 to sort a rear 3/4 panel that looked like it needed replaced... bloke sorted it and you'd honestly never know it'd have been damaged in the first place... was a non-std colour to sort as well.

Wuz, I'll speak to Paul tomorrow and get back to you

What about 3" sportscat centres? (or D/P's for an 06Sti)?

Sorry Cal it will take a lot more than some rims and lowered suspension to make that ugly duckling worth a second glance.

Hawkeye all the way brother

Got to agree with you there, although the new one looks better with the different wheels/suspension I still massively prefer the hawkeye.

Keith had none last night, when I drove through.

Shell at the airport in Aberdeen had nothing either when I went thru' it earlier today. Ended up going to BP and filling up (well, £50 not filling up) with their ultimate instead. Saves a trip to Ellon I guess and is better than putting in 95RON stuff as well.

Would like to point out that the new Tesco in Ellon stocks 99RON, whether or not it's got any at the moment I don't know, meant to go up this morning before I headed on in to work but forgot about it! Will have a look later tonight and confirm but just wanted to let those who are coming to the RR day that 99RON is available in Ellon, it's not as backward a place as many think!!

Can you check and let us know if there is any.

All of the Shell stations in Aberdeen are out of V-Power!

One of the guys on AS phoned them all up this afternoon and all are out, apparantly they're saying it's looking like they wont get any in before the end of the week!

Not good............

Oh joy... wonder how long the £22 of 95RON will last me then... don't want to end up having to put more of it in. Really just is what everyone needs a couple of weeks before the rolling road day out... can see a lot of people with lower figures if they are having to run on 95ron (even with Octane booster), or worse... people cancelling 'cos they can't get the right fuel and don't want to travel so far on the cr*p stuff.

What's up with that!!!! Where's all the V-power gone!

I'm guessing with the drivers strike they have concentrated on getting diesel and normal petrol into the stations at the expense of the VPower fuels, hence it eventually running out in some places before it's been re-filled.

Only explanation I can think of for the lack of it everywhere.

Aberdeen Shells seem to be OK Iain, but both Keith and Elgin were out of V-Power the other day. Plus the bloody tesco and BP in Huntly had nae 97 even!! HAd to bimble along to Aberdeen for decent fuel!

Not this morning... Shell nr the airport in Dyce is out of V Power completely... they are waiting on it coming in. Apparently they just got their supply of V Power Diesel in today (WTF uses that compared to all the petrol heads using/needing VPower petrol?). Had to put in some 95 'cos I was on fumes... guess thats a bit of off boost running about for me then.

Hmnn.. ok.. No confirmation here so far...

Who usually arranges the event?

With little promotion there's less chance of a decent turnout!!!!

Last year it was announced several weeke before hand with detail of other clubs attending! Whats up this year?

Sorry for the wee rant but...... Seems to have been forgotten about..

I know JohnS was heavily involved with it last year, couple of us gave a hand being marshalls at it as well (although not as many as we'd have liked). Not sure who's been involved in organising it this year?

Had to put 95ron in it!!! (with octane booster)

Just what I need 2 weeks before a Rolling Road day!!!! Need to empty it out ASAP, without using boost

Hmmm... need to fill up soon myself, hope the Shell in Dyce is okay for supplies.