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Triple D
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I know sorry matedevonmikeyboy said:The bloody vultures !
, you must be absolutly gutted, i know i would be. Did you do it this morning?
No friday at about 5.10am well f ked off.Just had the propane fitted last week and was ment tobe going to Allards to have a remap to lower the boost so that i could add more propane.I was hoping to get about 260-280 bhp then the voices in my head keep telling to get bigger injectors and a vt7 torbo and try and brake the 300bhp limit. 
ked off.Just had the propane fitted last week and was ment tobe going to Allards to have a remap to lower the boost so that i could add more propane.I was hoping to get about 260-280 bhp then the voices in my head keep telling to get bigger injectors and a vt7 torbo and try and brake the 300bhp limit. Triple D
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That would really fly then, have you heard anything from the insurance yet? were all your mods covered?
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i m thinking of going for the vt2 turbo conversion next year or possibly the vt5 and manifold. just need to sort out my finances before hand.
From what i know ( which isnt much ) a vt2 turbo is big enough if you are going to stay with stock injectors as the injectors will max out before the turbo best speak to Allards though.
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I feel for you, I usually leave home around 5:30 each morning and the first 30 miles or so are on mostly untreated, hilly rural roads too.devonmikeyboy said:
Last winter I had to drive down this hill through a neighbouring village, and despite creeping "over the edge" and downwards at a crawl, the tyres just lost traction and I started sliding downhill towards various parked cars, houses and oncoming traffic, frantically flashing my lights and sounding the horn to try and make people aware I was sliding out of control towards them.
By some miracle I spotted a driveway that forked off uphill to the right; I let off the brakes, aimed for the driveway and prayed, luckily the car started to steer and I got up the drive, then slid backwards to a halt without hitting anything.
It's an awful situation to be in 'cos there's nothing at all you can do, you just become a passenger and wonder which thing you're going to hit. That's why I thought I'd try some winter tyres this year - I did hesitate at the cost of a full set but your photos have just convinced me it's worthwhile.
I suppose if it came to it, one option might be to buy yours back, buy an older yellow TDI Sport (fairly cheap) and transplant the bits...
Good to hear you ain't hurt.
I might be an asshole in saying this but i shall.
People can spend huge amounts on tuning there car and big fat alloys to show it is something different. But to spend 400 pounds on a set of winter tyres which don't just work in snow like everybody thinks but work very well on wet roads as well. Seems to much money, thing is these tyres will last 2 to 3 seazons before needing changing. A written of car costs a lot more in time and depriciation
Over here the season for these tyres runs from November till April. Or earlier depending on the temperature going over 10 degrees when winter tyres start going off and summer tyres come into play.
I might be an asshole in saying this but i shall.
People can spend huge amounts on tuning there car and big fat alloys to show it is something different. But to spend 400 pounds on a set of winter tyres which don't just work in snow like everybody thinks but work very well on wet roads as well. Seems to much money, thing is these tyres will last 2 to 3 seazons before needing changing. A written of car costs a lot more in time and depriciation
Over here the season for these tyres runs from November till April. Or earlier depending on the temperature going over 10 degrees when winter tyres start going off and summer tyres come into play.
Bunglebonce said:I'm quite sure the newer vag diesel lumps by-pass the heater matrix / aircon if there is no load put on the engine to enable them (the engines) to warm up with the little heat these thermally efficient engines produce.
I could be wrong but I think that if you left our car running at tickover all day on the drive, it would not warm up the matrix more than a whisker.
The best thing to do is get in, put a fleece on and drive it hitting 2.5k through all (or as many as possible) gears until the water temp gets to the one quater position, then you can rev it as much as you like.
If you're sitting in trafic freezing your t1ts off, rev and hold it at 2k in between moves, for short periods.
Dont set the heater to manual - I'm sure it will make little diference anyway as the bypass thing will limit the heat to the heater until sufficient is built up in the engine.
Put it on say 25c on auto without aircon and try and keep hitting 2.5k
Take it you don't have the oil temp guage? When my water temp is showing one quarter the oil isn't even warm. It takes a lot longer for the oil to reach operating temperature, so personally, I wouldn't rev it as hard you like.
My brake setup is ferrodo ds2500 pads and 312mm tarrox g88 discs all standerd cupra size.Sorry muddyboots just been reading your thread.Going to phone Nordic tyres to try and get a price on tyres.Good thread mate pity i didnt read it last week and get myself some winter tyres. 
Ah well, you'll know next time ! Just hope mine arrive soon, Sod's Law states the worst snow will fall in the next few days before they arrive !devonmikeyboy said:Going to phone Nordic tyres to try and get a price on tyres.Good thread mate pity i didnt read it last week and get myself some winter tyres.
I got mine from mytyres.net, have a gander on there.
its not also a case of what you have but also how you use it
recent fall tonite frozen over on way home get to an incline to see a landrover (new) spinning away sliding back down towards me so i moved over watched him have 2 more goes and fail then after politely trying to advise him where he was going wrong and being ignored i let him slip back the 3rd time and slowly cruised past him and up the slope steady and carried on my way in a FWD ibiza 16v
some muppets just really dont have a clue do they - hope he's still there now - 2wat
must admit though winter driving for me usually entails finding slippiest/biggest open space i can so i can have some fun
recent fall tonite frozen over on way home get to an incline to see a landrover (new) spinning away sliding back down towards me so i moved over watched him have 2 more goes and fail then after politely trying to advise him where he was going wrong and being ignored i let him slip back the 3rd time and slowly cruised past him and up the slope steady and carried on my way in a FWD ibiza 16v
some muppets just really dont have a clue do they - hope he's still there now - 2wat
must admit though winter driving for me usually entails finding slippiest/biggest open space i can so i can have some fun
LOL Flapper - I know what you mean.
Last Christmas day I was driving carefully to my MUm's in the snow, when this Disco came tearing past me, thinking "I've got a 4x4 therefore am invincible".
How I laughed when a few miles later I cruised past and saw him stuck in a ditch (right way up and OK mind!!)
Last Christmas day I was driving carefully to my MUm's in the snow, when this Disco came tearing past me, thinking "I've got a 4x4 therefore am invincible".
How I laughed when a few miles later I cruised past and saw him stuck in a ditch (right way up and OK mind!!)
just moved my car off the road to neighbours driveway - seems every chav in town likes this long sweeping bend and as i was parked on the inside itll only take one muppet to over correct and wallop - seen same honda civic tonite go past 15 times
This thread answers my question why the heater in our Leon takes ages often 10 miles to even get even slightly warm.
Shame that SEAT did not add a pre electric heater into the water pipe to the heater matrix like citroen do with there TD cars and have done for at least 10 years now i was quite amazed the VW group does not do this infact. Meens us owners suffer in the cold.
Shame that SEAT did not add a pre electric heater into the water pipe to the heater matrix like citroen do with there TD cars and have done for at least 10 years now i was quite amazed the VW group does not do this infact. Meens us owners suffer in the cold.
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