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    Electric Formula 1

    in Off-Topic Chat

    Posted

    I've marshalled a few meetings with electric bikes running amongst "real" ones. They have phenomenal torque out of the corners and get away from the normal bikes, but then seemed to be lower on top speed. If you want scary, then just be dealing with something on track (or close to) when an electric blasts past with utterly no noise to warn you of it's approach!

    If you watch motorsport for the bad bits, then dig out some piccies from 18 months ago when a battery fault sent £250k of bike up in smoke - lithium battery fires don't co-operate ......

    Take a look for Greenpower events in 2013 - a schools / uni competition for small cars - last year's winner used SMS to provide telemetry and control comms.

    Gary at Keith Michaels

    in General Subaru Discussion

    Posted

    stayed with Gary for yet another year, despite IAM being cheaper - the idiots would accept that i have several sets of wheels / tyres (summer / winter / 17 & 18) but wanted me to notify them every time these were swapped out. I also hated the way they they always want to undercut the opposition but are tough to pin down to a quote of their own.

    Good afternoon

    in Introduce Yourself

    Posted · Edited by hairydj

    How do, you old git xx

    So how long before you get it all vinyl-ed up like the old beastie then?

    Hope the old one went to a good home - rather than fell off a rally stage or got nicked by Gabriel ....

    Cheers, David

    Looking to join the fold

    in Introduce Yourself

    Posted

    wagons are good - had my 54 plate from new and now over 118k. previous did 65k before getting written off.

    the car is cheap, but insurance, tyres, fuel etc can add up to an awful lot.

    I get 20-25mpg; front pads last 15-20k with new discs needed every other pad change; tyres vary from 12-18k per set (but my second set of wheels with winter rubber do double that).

    watch out for rear shocks - mine go every 30-35k and that's expensive - see other threads for info on this problem.

    but ...... wouldn't ever want to part with the old beastie!

    you're thinking about it, so it's too late to back out - you're already hooked :smiley-taunt014:

    1996 v limited wrxc

    in Introduce Yourself

    Posted

    welcome Chris,

    Can't help with the techie stuff, but if you say what part of the country you live in, then you may find somebody not too far away who will be happy to take a look / listen and give you some thoughts?

    Or, look out for a meet & bring the new toy along to get everybody arguing :rolleyes:

    forum getting boring

    in General Subaru Discussion

    Posted

    Local fora have certainly grown, and with folk travelling much less to events there must be a lot less "going ons" to be advertised, discussed & then moaned about.

    Some of the busier posters have moved on from subarus, not just SIDC. There are only a few of the many friends we made early on left in scoobs, but then I've had mine for a decade now and life will keep moving on . . . .

    Perhaps whilst the volume is down, the quality is up? Perhaps we have a more intelligent bunch of members nowadays who search / read through old threads to find answers rather than bound into the forum and ask a question that has been asked so many times before.

    I tend to visit several times each week and use the button marked "View New Content" to catch up on stuff. I'll happily nose into any interesting looking thread wherever it is in the forum or the country. The ones I skip are those with lazy titles - "want help" as a subject will get ignored by me - if you really want some help, then take a moment to say why / what on the subject line, it's not too difficult!

    I think that since the forum restructuring, we're getting less multiple posts in different sections - not sure if that's down to members being sensible, or mods hacking back the garbage for us?

    Some of our heavy posting traffic revolved around special events like Richard Burns / Colin McRae - lets hope there isn't a need for any more of those for a very long time.

    My gut feel is also that we have less non-members on the forum - hopefully because folk using the forum join up!

    LIVERPOOL & VICTORIA STUFFED ME AFTER 10Years

    in General Subaru Discussion

    Posted

    Yup, left LV= after a lifetime with them, now with Moley for my second year.

    I tried a quote with Adelaide through IAM, but for several years they wouldn't touch any car whatsoever that had any kind of mod - really stupid as although I paid for my PPP as an upgrade, shortly afterwards Subaru UK were offering the WRX with PPP as a forecourt option.

    I can say that LV= were excellent when I needed to claim for my previous WRX when written off by a #@#@ golfie years ago, but for what I was paying I should hope so too . . .

    Have you tried Subaru UK's own insurance scheme?

    Another scooby fatality

    in General Subaru Discussion

    Posted

    Just noticed this story - presumably somebody's pride and joy got nicked to do the robbery which then turned into a fatal on some poor innocent. Just hope the usual anti fast car brigade understand it was nicked . . .

    http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-birmingham-13749705

    Oldbury death crash: Two boys arrestedTwo boys have been arrested over a crash in the West Midlands which left one man dead and injured two others.

    The boys, aged 16 and 17, were held on suspicion of burglary after the crash in Churchbridge, Oldbury, believed to be linked to a reported break-in at a Co-op store on Tame Road.

    The 24-year-old driver of a Fiat Qubo died when his car was in a collision with a Subaru Impreza at 0100 BST.

    A man, aged 44, was taken to hospital while another man had minor injuries.

    Fled crash scene

    Officers had been called to the Co-op at 0055 BST after a member of the public reported seeing people trying to break into the shop.

    People had entered the premises but nothing was taken, police said, and a car was seen leaving the area.

    The crash was reported five minutes later. The occupants of the Impreza fled the scene.

    The Fiat driver died in hospital following the crash, and both the injured men were passengers in the Fiat.

    Meanwhile, the arrested 16-year-old received hospital treatment for arm and facial injuries on Monday morning.

    Dont think I'll have the sub for long

    in General Subaru Discussion

    Posted

    Having been pi**ed off myself last year when my insurance for a Hawkeye STI (I'm 48 and with 15+ years NCD) almost doubled to £500 with A Plan, I was somewhat surprised, although more than happy, that I snagged a £388 policy with Liverpool Victoria through confused.com !! Makes a change to see insurance costs going down... :thumbup:

    really daft - I left LV= after almost 40 years of cover when they took me over a grand (55yo & g'teed NCB with them) - jumped to Gary last year and still under £600 this Feb renewal

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