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Ignore the gauges and listen to the engine (and use your nose). You can't miss a slipping clutch.

No, I was only joking, I know it's the clutch. The way the revs bolt up towards 3 with relatively little propulsion and that.

So, 1000 RPM difference between 70mph and 80mph in a Golf TDi?

Well granted I have the GT which is the 2 litre TDi and also has 6 gears but for me in 5th the difference is 400RPM, and in 6th 200 RPM.

Conclusion is I can't see how it is possible.

I am fairly certain that 1000rpm is NOT the difference between 70 and 80mph in my VAG TDi-engined car... in fourth or fifth.

Correct, it isn't. Mali has even admitted as much!

I checked my dials last night on the drive home - there was approx 800rpm difference between 60 and 70 and between 70 and 80 - the needles on the speedo and the rev-o-meter moved up and down at the same rate.

Result = Kalmar is correct.

If there is 800rpm difference between 60 and 70 then there has to be 800rpm difference between any speeds 10mph apart.

How come everyone is finding the maths so difficult?

I'm not. I was giving empirical evidence to back up Kalmar's (and your) assertion that there has to be the same rpm difference and prove that Mali is, for once, being wrong. Seeing as he's being so boneheaded about it.

Oh right. I thought you were expressing surprise.

We have a dimlie for that, Grimmeh. Its absence was notable.

I'm having brain fail.
Which of these do I need to fit a 31 10.50 R15 tyre?
http://www.allterraintyres.co.uk/index. ... piiejdrnf1

In fourth (1.9 TDi, 110bhp), 70mph is dead on 3,000rpm, 80mph is about 3,300rpm. Traffic too heavy to have time to check fifth.

Car delivery date confirmed for next Tuesday! Paperwork signed and returned! Excited!

*Awaits next phone call to Craster saying it's delayed*

As a former Sam Coupe owner, he'll take that on the chin. Then when it arrives bugged he'll take it on the chin. Then when the bug fixes are late he'll take that on the chin as well.

Frankly he'll be happy if he has something that half works after 6 months at which point the manufacturer will go bust.

Been reading about spigot bearings. Seems that not only do they exist (I was dubious) the diagnosis of it needing replacing was not only likely correct but timely - mine's probably progressed to disintegration now, given the increasing difficulty of selecting 2nd and particularly 3rd. So that's clutch, spigot bearing and guibo. Plus alleged leaking of geabox and diff.

I won't have to pay more than £50 for that, right?

"No".

Hope I'm wrong but that sounds more like gearbox input shaft bearing to me.

Chaps! I managed to get a stone lodged into the passenger side front brake calliper today as I was leaving work's car park. Sadly I was half way down the road before I noticed the awful screeching coming from the wheel. When I gently reversed the car into a layby, the stone got dislodged and everything seems fine, though it's definitely scored the brake disc.

The 5-day old brake disc, I should mention.
(Had my MOT last Friday and had to have the front pads and discs replaced as part of it).

Will this scoring on the disc be a problem?

The spigot bearing going can cause the same thing apparently.

My dad's recommended a transmission specialist, I'll take it there.

I wouldn't worry too much about the brake disc scoring Zio, at 5 days old you're still bedding the disc in anyway. Couple of months and it'll probably disappear, unless it was a diamond.

MOT failure, innit?

Anyway, brake discs are dirt cheap and easy to change (apparently).

How far up the M40 did you go the other day, by the way?

No.

You did *know* it's a Renault, right?

IT WILL BE THE BEST CAR EVER.

I may even change my avatar to a Renault logo.

The brilliant thing is, you can keep telling yourself that and you'll live happily ever after never having been disabused of that notion, because you're never getting the car.

Someone pulled up in a 59 Clio Sport down this week.

I was having a chat about this yesterday with someone and I decided it's pointless my getting a Porsche or a Fireblade as I'd get bored of them within a week, and that's why I can't have nice things.

What, you mean... I got something right?

I'm not sure I'd say that getting a stone in your disc is 'right'.
But I've had hundreds stuck on my Tomcat, as you can imagine. The scores wear away soon enough.

C U Next Tuesday!

I've had it in the focus twice, too (a stone lodge in a brake that is). It's annoying, but wasn't really that problematic.

Although, i suppose it depends on how deep the scoring is. I'd not be too inclined to worry, myself.

I didn't say it was right, I said it would be fine.

Is it not time to get a new car?

Friend of mine needed two new tyres. So she bought them. Only they were attached to a new car.

Yeah, an electric one, to kill some of those pesky blind people.

http://www.pistonheads.co.uk/news/defau ... ryId=20922

This is a design concept for a motorbike which utilises a turbocharged 4 cyl subaru boxer engine. Hmm

Why do all concept vehicles look proper wicked sci-fi, when they take those technologies and put them in boring boxmobiles for production?

Direct descendant of the MKR concept.

Well clearly we were never including concept cars from Lincoln.

What's the reflected car?
My money's on a Cayenne.

Concepts nowadays are more studies of new materials, propulsion and safety technologies, dressed in eye catching but impractical (for legislative or manufacturing purposes) clothing.

Have you seen that new BMW concept car?

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This looks very cool.

What with it being on a Lincoln stand I'd bet it's the Lincoln MKX

Well quite - and wouldn't it be better to be ripped up by that on the Motorway that another bloody identikit 911 or 360?

I long for a 1970s/1980s 911. They've got proper soul.

My experience of 911s or Ferraris is that they're usually driven quite conservatively on the motorway - it's usually diesel vans or dicks in Audis and BMWs who drive like they've recently been granted immortality. Don't know why this is though the cynic in me thinks that the motorway police would be more likely to nick you for doing 85mph in a Ferrari than in a saloon which could drive equally fast. Anecdotal evidence I know, but I have a friend who owned a F430 spider for six months and he reckoned he got pulled twice in six months in that for the most spurious reasons and not once in the three years prior he ran a 997.

Might be beacuse the Police want to look at the car

I don't doubt that, but it's hardly a legitimate reason to stop and delay someone is it.

The police don't need a reason to stop you.

They Can't Stand Losing You.

Ah so you think the Police need a legitimate reason...