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No question man! If you can get a decent Turbo you'd be mad not to...

Im a bit worried about getting a quad cam, how reliable are these engines? What sort of problems can i expect? the car has done 97,000 km's, belts have been done. 97,000km's?? Barely run in McRooster. My UK-spec Turbo wagon (c/w Subaru intercooler - just under 200 BHP as stock) has done 188,000 MIL...

Rob, haven't heard from ya in a while! :) Yeah man, life's just been TOO busy to spend time on the net really. I drop in and lurk occasionally to see what's happening. Turbo is still running fine, nearly up to 190k miles now. The Delfino might be worth a look although I seem to remember it being ta...

Anyone know if there's a company that sell kit cars based around the Legacy? My wagon (estate) shell is beginning to get VERY rusty around the edges and I was wondering if there's anything to transplant all the mechanicals into. The idea of a fibreglass bodied open-top car with my Leg turbo drivetra...

I've just fixed this. Same symptoms - no heat from heater (on 60 mile run! - cold...). Next day top hose to rad exploded. Put it into the garage. They diagnosed a failed sensor. The likes of Josh, vrg3 etc will confirm but apparently there's one sensor for the dash gauge and one to control the fan e...

vrg3 wrote:It's base 16.

For those who don't know how you can go past base 10, you use the first 6 letters of the alphabet to count. So instead of 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10 etc you go 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, A, B, C, D, E, F, 10 and so on. It's most commonly used in computers for programming.

A Tesco van over here would be like a Wal-Mart truck over there...

Gordon, I don't know any good bodyshops in your area. You could try the Subaru Impreza Driver's Club on 0870 055 0073 though - they should be able to help.

I like the double-L too...

I've got a bike and a few of my friends have too. Apparently we're the second-most 'at risk' group after 17-year olds for dying on bikes - the born-again biker. Yup, I had bikes when I was a kid and now that I'm older I enjoy the freedom, thinking time, solitude, fresh air, cameraderie (how the h*ll...

New rust free bodyshell...

BAC5.2 wrote:I can.

Hahahahahahaha!!! Beautiful BAC5.2 - love it!!

THAWA, I've started folding...

Didn't notice the link on your signature until this posting about URLs. Maybe you could do something more to publicise it on the board?

JasonGrahn wrote:Especially in Coventry!

You're not kidding...

Cheers for that - I'll pass the message on. I think the 'stat is OK as the car hasn't actually overheated and the temp needle is rock steady on the normal part of the gauge. I'll get him to check the pipe though.

I had something similar happen last week. On a 60-mile run the heater wouldn't run hot. The following day my top-hose exploded on the way to work. Long story short the car is still in my local workshop as it took them three days(!) to source the hose. I said to the guy I thought there was something ...

Top three: Italian Job (the original obviously...) Ronin Cannonball Run My favourite bit in Ronin is the chase at the end where De Niro is in the white Peugeot 406 chasing the baddies in the BMW. Next time you see it, notice how scared he looks! Apparently this is because Remy Julienne Equipe (the F...

Just be careful when you pull it off though... I smacked my nose really hard when pulling the wheel off a Mini some 17 years ago now, and it looks like I might have to go for an operation now as I can't smell things too good. It ordinarily wouldn't be a huge problem but my 2-year old son is getting ...

We have a selection of V8 Jags here, but I wasn't offered one of them (boo...)

For example the XK8R with a supercharged V8 http://www.jaguar.com/uk/en/xk/performance/default.htm

I, like some others, have been considering whether it's worth the effort to keep my Legacy going when there are so many other nice cars available. A friend who works for Jaguar here in Coventry managed to organise the loan of an X-type Sport 2.0V6 for a week. I collected my Suby last night and was S...

Welcome!

vrg3 wrote:Is this the bike you're talking about?

http://www.bmwmoa.org/features/newmodels/r1200gs.htm

That's the very one! Thanks vrg3

An aside- BMW have just released a motorcycle in europe where some of the wiring loom (like to the back lights) is a single wire. I haven't read up much about it but I guess it uses fibre optics or something (like Cable TV) to run a bunch of different signals up the same piece of cable. I don't like...

The guy who painted my car said that reds and whites are the most expensive to paint, though because of the cost of the pigments.Steve Here in the UK white is the cheapest colour of paint you can buy! (Ford Diamond White to be precise...) Also white cars are the slowest selling and tend to lose the...

Fair point. No problem with that...

I may have taken that the wrong way, but that seemed a harsh reply to a simple question. I had no problems getting it to work and had a brief chat with Josh, THAWA and jasongrahn with no problems at all. I just thought it would perhaps be sensible to have a link instead of either (a) having to bookm...

The UK ones don't all have the center speedo. If you buy a Cooper or Cooper S with sat nav it replaces the centre speedo and you get pod speedo/tach on the steering column.