NEW ibiza Cupra - speed blue!

[NathWraith]

Glad your enjoying it, god job I let your dealer have it, was in our showroom

Hehe

Seen it today when I went to order a touchup stick. Looks awesome dude. When do you pick it up?

26th Oct is pickup date

 

[NickLCR]

Would kill me having it at the dealer and still having to wait 2 more weeks!

 

[CGD217]

Still my favourite colour! Would love to have one of these.

Also, what does the IAM course cover? Be interesting to find out as i wouldnt mind doing something like that in the future.

Any answer to the above? I may have missed it

 

[nightflight]

@CGD217: AIUI the IAM course basically covers the "Roadcraft" manual/system of car control,
it's about £100-140 to join a local IAM group (google for details) who then send you out with a local assessor/trainer for driving lessons based on Roadcraft, once you're at a good enough level you have an assessed drive (test) which if you pass gives you full IAM membership.

The other option is RoSPA, which uses the same book as its basis, but requires regular re-tests to maintain membership (not expensive as i recall) and has bronze silver and gold pass levels.

Neither had any effect on my insurance quotes when I tried them on confused.com but I'll still be doing probbaly RoSPA when I can afford it/place available on a course just to improve my driving smoothness and safety

 

[NathWraith]

Any answer to the above? I may have missed it

@CGD217: AIUI the IAM course basically covers the "Roadcraft" manual/system of car control,
it's about £100-140 to join a local IAM group (google for details) who then send you out with a local assessor/trainer for driving lessons based on Roadcraft, once you're at a good enough level you have an assessed drive (test) which if you pass gives you full IAM membership.

The other option is RoSPA, which uses the same book as its basis, but requires regular re-tests to maintain membership (not expensive as i recall) and has bronze silver and gold pass levels.

Neither had any effect on my insurance quotes when I tried them on confused.com but I'll still be doing probbaly RoSPA when I can afford it/place available on a course just to improve my driving smoothness and safety

Nightflight got it in one

 

[watchboy]

Nice color!!!

 

[lenny2007]

Love it!!

 

[NathWraith]

Picked her up today during lunch break. VERY impressed, taking it easy and filled her up full with V power

Gonna take her for a drive tonight, to test out those xenons!

 

[Mr_Dave]

Hopefully see you about mate

 

[lukeyyyyy]

Best colour IMO, would of gone for one over my stealth cupra

 

[Nutkin]

Run it in gentley for 1000 miles without using cruise control, I don't care what others say but I've seen enough tests at work with long running tests to see the better fuel economy from the properly and gentley run in cars vs the limit handeling ones that are thrashed from birth.

 

[NathWraith]

Run it in gentley for 1000 miles without using cruise control, I don't care what others say but I've seen enough tests at work with long running tests to see the better fuel economy from the properly and gentley run in cars vs the limit handeling ones that are thrashed from birth.

How come no cruise control? I haven't used it yet but just wondered why.

Did 100 miles last night, taking it easy. Fuel counter only went down by 1 bar (1/8 tank)

 

[Mr_Dave]

I don't see an issue with cruise. I used it.

Fuel counter will go steady til half, then it'll drop from half way to nothing after 100 miles

 

[Nutkin]

How come no cruise control? I haven't used it yet but just wondered why.

Did 100 miles last night, taking it easy. Fuel counter only went down by 1 bar (1/8 tank)

You will want to be varying the engine conditions and speeds to bed in the piston rings properly to vary the engine speed during wear in so that the top/bottom ridge (at the top and bottom of the cylinder bore) of the piston stroke is tapered.

Its not that the cruise control is bad its just holding a new engine at a constant speed can develop a sharp ridge which wont help the top piston right on top stroke or the oil control ring on the bottom of the stroke.

Idealy every now and then give the paddle a flick and drop a gear.

For abour 5-600 miles keep it easy and then start going up about 1000rpm every 100 miles after.

End of the day you can do whatever you want it is your car, but a properly bedded engine can make a huge difference in MPG and Oil consumption.

 

[NathWraith]

You will want to be varying the engine conditions and speeds to bed in the piston rings properly to vary the engine speed during wear in so that the top/bottom ridge (at the top and bottom of the cylinder bore) of the piston stroke is tapered.

Its not that the cruise control is bad its just holding a new engine at a constant speed can develop a sharp ridge which wont help the top piston right on top stroke or the oil control ring on the bottom of the stroke.

Idealy every now and then give the paddle a flick and drop a gear.

For abour 5-600 miles keep it easy and then start going up about 1000rpm every 100 miles after.

End of the day you can do whatever you want it is your car, but a properly bedded engine can make a huge difference in MPG and Oil consumption.

Ah I see.

I have been using the gears tbh, I thought it was best to use a range of RPMs but nothing excessive, no higher than 4.5k at a short blip.

Cruising around in D is so quiet though, can hardly feel the gears change either.

 

[NathWraith]

More pics

 

[Deleted member 35176]

Someone has stolen my car!!!!

Very nice car mate...the spec looks excellent and so does the colour, but I'am bias.

Got any plans for it? Thinking Dark Grey/Anthracite Alloys myself but not sure.

 

[stezo2k]

Damn that's sexy, nice car

 

[Mr_Dave]

Meet on at Preston Brook tomorrow if you're up for a ride in the new beast

 

[Wings988]

Lovely car that, the best colour IMO.