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

The revival learnt that one, so to even out ticket sales was to spread the races on both saturday and sunday with Friday being practice.

Go for the weekend, dress up in something period and non military. Might be worthwhile to look at joining the flying club and look at the benifits ;)

Does a remap also affect your insurance?

Looks like that's the way to go.

Yes.

You and @danb have an interesting take on the same thing, and both right. I would draw attention to how much has been written about this topic alone.

Same as dyno runs discussions.

Great idea! Watch out for dodgy air suspension (test with passengers in the rear) and rear hatch wiring loom (lights and heated window). Sunroofed versions can have an issue with water draining into the spare tyre well, so check it’s dry in there too (and check idrive for service & fault codes).

of course - its still a modification

Why is everyone only thinking of cost to themselves when considering diesels against alternatives? Is pollution fallacy? Sorry if have missed this argument. Also BMW under investigation regarding emissions figures manipulation.

Who's not under investigation these days? The whole industry is a joke when it comes to testing, including the test itself.

I have done all 3 days of revival for the last 4 years, as a GRRC member.

Friday is "more quiet" than the other days. It is still busy, but mostly feels like corporate days out and guests so the bar queues suffer more than anything. Generally all the groups run, but it is practice so there is no really exciting track action.

Saturday is busier, qualifying is on for almost all groups and the first race runs in the evening - it's normally a 2 driver 45-minute job so if you are using the whole day it's quite good! Saturday has the biggest focus on the Revival things like dressing up (as far as scheduled events go). I normally go with the girlfriend on Saturday.

Sunday is best for track action with it just being racing, but also it is busiest.

If you can do the Kennels package and are doing a day, I would go Saturday - Food at the Kennels is really good, solid parking is a bonus (I'm taking our series 1 if the weather is mixed this year, and the Defender again if it is shit, so no car park fears.) but the other thing on the Kennels package is the paddock pass - Make sure you have a jacket and tie as they get picky about it. but you do get to have a look up close at some really special cars.

Hope that helps

Brilliant, thanks.

Yeah I’d go petrol then. Any reduction is mpg will be offset by possible diesel costs.

I probebrly should have gone petrol, but couldn’t find the right one and a diesel popped up.

I understand your point, but there's a difference between adhering to the stated test rules and intentionally designing in mechanisms to give improved results. The majority of motor manufacturers were audited following the Volkswagen emissions recalls and found to be following the requirements. We'll see results of BMW 'raid', may indeed just be media hype.

I think it's all hypocrisy, just like the stated mpg is nearly always 5-30% better than anyone gets in real world driving

Are you surprised?

Governments are incentivising low emissions and customers care more and more about fuel economy.

What's better than making a car that produces fewer emissions and is more economical? Fooling everyone into believing that you have, especially if it's much cheaper than actually making one.

#LateStageCapitalism

It's a fair point. I do also consider that if it's less awful for the environment, that's a good thing. But I framed it as a cost issue out of fear of seeming like a hypocrite/doing something a bit superficial by choosing a marginally less polluting vehicle and expecting it to make much of a difference.

In my defence I at least walk my kids the mile and back to school, cycle on any journeys I can, etc. But I am not masochistic enough to even consider transporting 2 small children + multiple bikes and bags by public transport whenever we go away.

how could they tell? without some sort of detailed inspection of the ECU code?

indeed, but you would be in serious trouble if they did

How about the "previous owner must have done it with no record of it or telling me it when i bought it from the trader" defense

Yep, that is guaranteed to be 100% successful,
especially when you've tail-ended a stationary vehicle because you didn't have the braking power to match the increased performance.

^please show workings...

Given that it’s easily possible to activate ABS in even the weediest family car, it seems doubtful that upping braking power would help much. Maybe putting massive sticky tyres on would though...

We had a customer with a 135i Coupe that we superchipped for him when the 135 first came out. It came with a reader that you could plug in, upload the superchips map and it bumped it up to about 350BHP. When taking it to a dealer for warranty/service work, he'd just plug the device in again and re upload the factory map. There was no way of telling that it had been done afaik.

Certain car manufacturers can see if the ECU has been flashed more than once or even how many times.

1 = factory
3? Factory, remap, back to factory - no warranty kthxbaix

Not surprised, but disappointed.
@kboy My point is that the majority of manufacturers are honestly adhering to the independently set regulatory testing requirements, unrealistic though they may be.

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