What have you done to your car today?

Frozennova · 23 Jun 2013 at 00:30

Have you tried giving it a good old bit of heat with a blow torch matt?

Matt82 · 23 Jun 2013 at 00:57

Unfortunately no, I've not seen my blow torch in ages. In any case, even if the flange came off I'm not 100% confident giving it to my friend to weld as if the alignment is out it just won't fit so ill palm it off to a posh exhaust place

Hades · 24 Jun 2013 at 00:49

Took the Corrado for a night time drive. Roof open, windows down, heater on, music on, moon above. Sometimes the simple pleasures are the best. The sound of a VR6 is addictive

Blackhawk47 · 24 Jun 2013 at 09:49

Drove 3 hours +, roughly 220 miles down to South Devon. Car was great, did well on the a38 towards Plymouth. Stayed in 6th gear no problem up those hills.

-westy- · 24 Jun 2013 at 10:24

Even up the Expressway? I find that fairly difficult to believe...

Blackhawk47 · 24 Jun 2013 at 11:08

-westy- said:
Even up the Expressway? I find that fairly difficult to believe...

I don't know what bit you mean but yes, generally no issues. Changed down to 5th on the way down hill though.

LizardKing · 25 Jun 2013 at 20:58

Ninja

nothing to see here

MagicBoy · 25 Jun 2013 at 21:13

Other than a picture of Paul Di Resta in Asda.

???

JonnyGeee · 25 Jun 2013 at 22:34

Bought a complete fuse box woth relays for 99p off ebay fpr the mk1 golf project car

Ezah · 26 Jun 2013 at 08:02

Steam cleaned, wire brushed, painted and rust proofed the sub-fame.. well, someone did it for me for 100 quid as I dont have the time or space to do it myself.

Not very sexy, but I feel better for having it done. Luckily the car was from florida before it was in Dubai, so it was really just some surface rust, nothing serious

the_r_sole · 26 Jun 2013 at 08:17

did some electrics on the old pickup, fixed the door switch for a light and installed a lights on buzzer from a seat Ibiza
also added an aux in and power socket in the glove box...

shauncr91 · 26 Jun 2013 at 19:50

Picked it up after having new Fast Road cams fitted

Vigoro · 26 Jun 2013 at 22:40

Drove it for the first time in a week, I always seem to forget how quick it is when I leave it like that

ci_newman · 26 Jun 2013 at 23:03

Vigoro said:
Drove it for the first time in a week, I always seem to forget how quick it is when I leave it like that

I drove my car for the first time in weeks too.. from my garage to my driveway, woo!

Commuting into London via train sucks

[TW]Fox · 26 Jun 2013 at 23:04

-westy- said:
Even up the Expressway? I find that fairly difficult to believe...

I have never owned a car that won't go up Haldon Hill or Telegraph Hill in top gear without slowing down so I doubt his A1 had a problem with it either?

Janesy B · 26 Jun 2013 at 23:28

lol even my Focus copes with those inclines in fifth as long as I keep at 70 and above.

mrk · 27 Jun 2013 at 17:23

Head unit upgrade ordered, collecting tomorrow. About time I had bluetooth streaming, means one less storage medium to sync up with when adding music. Also nav through car speakers and calls.

This (with amber light theme):

Alpine IDE-178BT

Howard · 27 Jun 2013 at 17:27

Want. Very much.

Do you have any friends with iPhones (4/4s) who could test that it works with Spotify either over USB or Bluetooth?

mrk · 27 Jun 2013 at 17:32

Always liked Alpine's sound but never their designs, always "in your face" with weird angles and lines sticking out. This is the first one I've seen that's actually quite flat with only the rotary sticking out and not a silver wheel either.

One thing that Sony did with one of their mechless units is give you a storage compartment with a USB port behind the face so you could put your phone or MP3 player in there nicely tucked away, how useful is that?

On the other hand that same Sony unit is ugly as hell to look at. Pioneer seem to make some nice units as well but the features available don't always support all devices, they seem iPod/Phone biased quite a bit actually. The one unit I was going to get only supported album art when an iPhone was being used which is pointless when it comes with a big 3" colour screen :/

[TW]Fox · 27 Jun 2013 at 17:32

Clarkey said:
I'd rather stick to the speed limit than have that. In fact, I'd rather have points than have that clutter all over the dash :/

Completely agree.

And to be honest the only speed cameras worth detecting are mobile vans - which this won't until its too late.

If you need a device to tell you there is a GATSO beside the road are you really paying enough attention to be speeding