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Just the shampoo I wash the car with (mguires gold class), after finishing the car. but I have used autosol chrome cleaner on them, maybe once or twice a year to bring back that mega deep shine, looks lovely on deep dish alloys

That is nice for you lol but I'm looking for something I can get my hands on. I take it the Bosch SW is full of all the features you could ever need, at a price...

Does anyone have any really good OBD-II software for a PC? I know there are some opensource versions. Does anyone know which is the best or have access to any proprietry/commercial OBD-II software that is even better still?

I guess it could be fake perhaps, there is still hope for me yet...

amazing! I'm learning right now, that smarts a bit, he is just 4! maybe I'll go practice some more (or put the kit on ebay lol)

mine works well but the internal aerial that comes with it doesn't pick up anything, works well off of the roof aerial though - handy for recording programs to the hard drive, sometimes I DVD them after too

I believe I do understand. it is more that any doubts on caliper rigidity is purely (and highly) speculative at this stage and by far the biggest problem with cheapo brake kits are with poor quality disks. Especially if these are basically AP copies... and parts are interchangable - if they follow the same basic design then it's hard to see that any minor differences could be so drastic as to turn a really good design to complete rubbish

I for one am very interested in how you get on Jamie, I might like to get some of these myself later in the year, funds permitting. Did you go for the larger of the two sizes? and all this about they must be rubbish because they havn't been used in real racing. On the D2 website isn't the first link on the menu information about the successful d2 racing team... Personally I'd think that if they are better than Uk's then they are very good value for money. I don't really loose much sleep over caliper rigidity since compared to the disks they are virtually indistructable no doubt. Do you know if they needed more or less wheel clearance than the uk spec calipers? Interested because I don't have masses of clearance with my current wheels.

I didn't like them when I first saw them Then a friend at work got one, he had it a couple of years and took me out in it just before he sold it. Although it handled quite well the car felt all rather plastic and flimsey. The sound of the engine is crap. Whilst it is impressive that it revs to like 10k or something, you could tell it had very little torque and even at the red line it wasn't especially fast. overall, very average I thought, not really a successor to the rx7, the rx8 will be soon forgotten

vegetables! blergh! I'm back in today, just 4 days left now, my last day is Friday so I'll probably just be surfing the net and drinking coffee. Don't think much gets done anyway the 1st week back. I've had about 5 weeks off in the last two months so I can't complain too much For such a high security company though I'm really suprised they didn't give me garden leave when I handed in my notice, I think they actually expect me to dutifully work right up until my last day (yeah right!) new job next Monday, getting nervous now...

Phones are so dull and despite what people think they a) don't make you look cool b) go out of date quicker than x-factor songs spend it on the supe

just watching it, entertaining stuff however it is done!

Well I think it was black, it was dark and I only saw it briefly as it went past the other way, going North through the town

oh I forgot about this, we watched it a little while back, you're right, it is one messed up film with a few good twists in it... I remember thinking wow what a messed up film at the end too, worth watching if you like weird twisted films

they don't if you get a good launch lol after all woon in america can do 8.4s 1/4s with a stock manual box, so the gearbox is hardly the limiting factor. Lets face it, if it can handle that it can handle all us guys would throw at it and then some you couldn't say the same about the auto. anyway I'm keeping out of it, this subject has been done to death many times before...

OMG not another manual vs auto thread, this is a regular occurance lol would it possible to make a sticky thread, maybe a tech article that lists the acceleration times, the estimated max power ratings etc and all the other things that people ask time and time again. that would cover all the facts, as for the subjective side of things, that's down to personal preference and there is no right or wrong answer - so go and test drive them

hello and welcome

Hi, well santa (the other half) bought me an ipod video for christmas. Very impressed with it, nice bit of kit. Anyway I've got a few music videos and podcasts on there already, but if I wanted to convert some existing wma, avi, mpg files for it or even maybe rip a dvd, what is the best software to do it? anyone recommend some (preferably free/open source) tool that can convert most formats to ipod compatible mp4? thanks

if it is a manual I'd be tempted to remove the fuse and then save up for rltc, it really is worth every penny imho - saves on rear tyre wear too

sorry, I meant that I would switch it off everytime I started a journey, with the switch on the lower centre dash... I believe that you can disable it by removing the TRAC fuse. You could even remove the whole TRAC unit (that is what you do when you fit rltc, it is under the passenger footwell by the main ECU) - the existing box is removed as the scrap piece of junk it is lol

haha sounds familiar. Mine did exactly this and left me trying to file onto a dual carrage way from a slip road with no power - it was the first time it happened and I thought something had broken - it was quite dangerous. I'd just been booting it and it did a massive backfire when it cut the power, must have scared the life out of the people I'd overtaken. Not only was the continued loss of power more dangerous than the original wheel spin, I know what part of the road caused it. There is a dip in the road and the car goes light, I was flat out and so it did a momentary spin and then as the weight came back on the wheels it was fine. I knew and was expecting it, TC did nothing at the point it happened, it actually kicked in about another 100 yards down the road ater the dip, just as I finsihed overtaking a car (luckily) and was about to file on... anyway, suffice to say that was the 1st and last dodgy experience with stock TC of that nature. I switched it off from then on and fitted RLTC as soon as I could, never looked back since, the two systems arn't even comparible at all - get it!

that's quite a car, mental! it looks so normal too...

if they are silicone they might be heatproof surface protectors as satnav said. Not sure about the long things though, they came seperately or all together? might be easiest just to ask lol

My last job was good, very interesting work but I wanted more than it could offer in terms of career and pay etc so I've just got 4 days notice to work out in the new year and then I start my new job... I hope it's as good as I think it could be. It puts my in a high up position in the company, the highest I've ever been anyway and yet I still avoid management crap and excessive paperwork I think this new job has better potential for big £ in the future fingers crossed I made the right decision, otherwise I'll have to go contracting and work for my old company again for twice the £, I know they really would need me back (but I'm not sure they woudl admit it lol)

that beemer really is dull, if you want something else swap your supra for something that's at least nearly as good!