Stutopia

Please elaborate on the bad influences of gender.

This isn’t a political issue, it’s one of awareness. There’s no subject that is improved by withholding information from people. Keeping ideas from people only serves one end. Same reason Latin is so prevalent in certain teachings, we’ll tell you what they mean, you don’t need to worry yourself about it.

Yeah, unless you plan to navigate your ship on truth or fly a plane on truth, facts are under appreciated by the masses

It’s not like they’re all getting stuff chopped off/added on as tweens, live and let live for me Clive. Much like the abortion brouhaha in the US, I find it really hard to get my head around getting worked up about what decisions someone else makes. Don’t believe in it, don’t do it, easy; but if other people want to do something, what’s it go to do with anyone else

Hi A mate of mine has an intermittent issue shifting into 2nd in her Hyundai IX35, it’s out of warranty and her local indy has test driven it but found nothing, their advice is to wait until it fails and deal with it then. I don’t think they’re keen to open the box up TBH. She’s not mad about the idea of waiting for it to fail and being stranded somewhere with a young ‘un in the back, so wants to be more proactive, without throwing endless money at it. There’s no noises, no clutch slip and no other gear shift problems. Most of the time it’s fine but, as with all intermittent issues, it never manifests when she’s got a mechanic nearby. I’m not mechanically gifted but it screams synchro problem to me as it’s just the one gear. I’ve googled it but there’s not much out there on these types of vehicle that isn’t just generic “it’s the clutch/gearbox, go to a main dealer” chat. Any ideas?

Thanks for the kind words. It’s a different kind of fun to the Zed, obviously torque is next to nothing so you have to be in the mood to do some work if you want to have fun. I’ve enjoyed the loss of weight, but it’s hard to pinpoint exactly why. The way it behaves on the edge is quite addictive too. If you were serious about changing, then a drive in a lightly modified one where the irritations have been ironed out (torque dip mapped out, silly noise generator removed, etc) will quite quickly either convince you or warn you off. I’ve technically had two adults in the back seats, both under 5’9”, and they were quite keen to get out after 30 minutes. They’re reasonable for a short trip to drop/collect someone but they’re not a serious solution to regularly ferrying 4 people around. It’s nice to have the option though. Long term is quite likely to turn it into a dedicated track toy, so the seats would go and some BBK and coily action would happen, then boost somewhere down the line. It needs boost if you want to really get down the road, but I’m not that arsed about doing more than NSL on the highways these days.

It’ll be Clarkson apologists trying to stir it up. If it’s gone from racial slurs and lamping producers to this, it’s going in the right direction!

Thanks mate. Part is OEM from the facelift, came from Japan though so JDM as **** yo!

Nice friday afternoon mod, OEM fitment and 2 minutes work, perfect! Out with the old plastic. In with the new leather. Perfect match on the stitching too.

Yeah, could be. I REEEEEALLLLY want to weaponise it for track, but my garage woes are getting in the way for now. I'll get there. It was a bit lively at first, with the crap primacies on, which a lot of people like for being a drift god etc. This mostly went away after fitting the MPS 4s, which is fine by me, I prefer grip, and has really diminished since I put the new rims on and added an extra inch of rubber.

Put up with it is the option for an easy life. You could try: - invading his personal space when you chat - not showering - burping and/or farting around him - go nuclear and ask if he fancies a bum? Obviously the risk on the last one is he says yes.

Something to bear in mind, if you go against your partner’s wishes and the worst should happen, you’ll literally never stop hearing about it. Best to be on the same page, right or wrong.

I’m quite morally flexible when it comes to this sort of thing, so that’s not really a consideration IMO. From a lending eligibility perspective, you need to know if your partner’s job has a probationary period and what your lender’s criteria are about using income from people in probationary periods.

I wish I had a garage like this, let alone a spare parts unit!

I’ve approved it subject to prices being added ASAP.

Please add prices @RobPhoboS

Hi Rob, I’ll have a look. Sometimes there’s a few backed up and mods don’t always have time to drop a PM.

I was appalled just at the thought of it but must admit, I was way off, it’s been funny as so far.

I've been sunning my self in sunny Italy and then attending Japan v England in the WWC this week, a nice treat when I got back was to find a P3 Vent Multi Gauge waiting for me. I'm only after this for oil temp (possibly pressure later), so I've been waiting for one to pop up second hand, as these are expensive toys IMO. It may be the first tiny step in going boosted too, but there's no plans for that right not. Easy, if fiddly, install in the bottom half of the gauge. It's got some quite delicate ribbon cabling and not much room in the dash to play around and get fingers in, but nothing a few cable ties can't overcome. Little demo of what it can do (some of which requires additional sensors) from the OBD2 port feed.

Sold - thread locked

Well, if you insist.

Alternator?

A decent APC should deal with most things, but if you get really stuck then a rag with some carb cleaner on does wonders. In terms of a bespoke degreaser, autoglym at Halfords is easy to source and seems fine to me. I think dwell time and agitation can save quite a bit of elbow grease but some is still required! When I did mine last, I used a toothbrush, but obviously that’s aggressive for paint, depending on how fussy you are about paint in the engine bay.

This isn’t a knee jerk post on the back of one event, it’s been a growing trend. Please don’t feel it’s a pop at you. Way bigger things, relatively speaking, than meets come up in all our lives and considerations of notifying people are, quite reasonably, far from a priority at the time. People affected by family events are not who this is aimed it. It’s a general message, and, I take your point that blanket posts are not an ideal solution, but in the absence of a better alternative, it’s what we have.

Dead easy to audit, but people are seldom audited.