Car appreciation... the aesthetics, the engineering, etc

Not a slightly bit envious. At least I know what I will ask the missus for my 40th.

Awesome.

I need a fun car in my life.

Nah I'm with you. In a perfect world, if I had a sports car, it would be an open gate manual. No doubt. Rowing through the box is extremely satisfying. As is a bit of heel and toeing (not that I'm any good at it.)

Double clutch is about the best compromise I suppose, torque converters, while clever should remain the preserve of luxury / utilitarian cars.

Real or fake.

Made sense in my head..

Beyond the gearbox issues, lots of cars have dead steering with no feed back don't you find that a greater issue than a gear change? I loved the selaspeed gearbox, was a fun almost computer game like car to drive.

Have you tried living with a sequential box on the road? No steering wheel buttons just the up and down, say of a motorbiked engined car and used that every day? Have you tried the MK1 MR2, the car that has the gearshift of a wrist flick. It is like changing gear on an arcade machine.

Lots of things to wrong...probably expensive ;)

That's the gearbox in the XF, isn't it? Nice gearbox and setup in the XF, seemed not to make mistakes in selecting the correct gear.

Think that the future will be auto boxes for economy, how that has changed from the 3 speed borg and warner box with a torque converter using more fuel than the manual and the autobox being only for large engined executive cars. Are we following the US trend of automatic cars?

Noticed an odd knocking noise from the passenger side front this morning, stopped to have a look - 4 out of 5 wheel nuts left, all of the remaining nuts (including the security/locking one) loose, capable of being spun out with fingertips.

I tightened them back up with a socket-wrench that I had in the passenger door and continued on my way - only for them to back out again.

I did them up with the proper wrench from the spare wheel well with a bit more meaning, so they are now at "PFT".

Are they likely to be FUBAR due to backing out in the first place, or did someone try to nick my wheel?

Anyone had this before?

Never had this before. Had the issue of not being able to get the fucker off when I've removed the all the wheel nuts.

Well, the Continental tyres guide suggests that 140Nm is the correct torque for my wheel nuts, which is a lot - I'll get the big torque wrench out tomorrow.

check the wheel bolt mating faces, dished or conical? i.e.do you need radiused or conical bolts?

So anyone able to read a remap printout? Got it off the fella selling the golf?

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Tonneau cover, lowered floors and leather seats. And get a quote for some 6 point harnesses rather than inertia reel belts. Everything else is a waste of money, unless you really have to have a windscreen. Which you don't.

Did he send you one for the fueling?

No just that and last mot

Looking on google for maps. might be better to ask on a gtimk4 forum

Do any of you have one of those gadgets that you use to measure how far down the bores the crown of the piston sits?

@OldSkoolRacer will be able to answer almost any question you may have about that golf as he has one very similar.

Thats not very nice at all. sucks lemon

So jel. I need to fix my car :-(

Please stylist or hairdresser ;)

Small car, low weight, powerful engine, low to the ground.....

Stylists only use product and GHD....;)

'400hp, estate, space for bikes'
are we still on this?

Might not have been 400hp off the forecourt,
but,
that 5.7L V8 must be tuneable?

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The 'wood' is entirely synthetic,

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buick_Roadmaster#1991.E2.80.931996

Of course it is only a Chevrolet Caprice really,
and the last big rearwheel drive car from GM.

seen that round my way a few times. it's hideous. But i'd like to wallow across the US in something similar