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I believe HID' s would need the appropriate additional circuitry to drive them ie ballest which increases the voltage to the HID. If it were a straight swap I'd go for it myself cos my headlights are crap

Yes tuning via datalogs will never be as good as tuning the car on our dyno but we do know these cars pretty well so the map wont be far away from perfect. Well Mark, Ive got to confess to gravitating towards the dyno option because Id be very interested to know the before figures and to know that the best possible tune has been achieved to optimise my car. I'd hate to be always wondering "what if" How are the option costings going by the way? Is a site visit to a local a local dyno provider still an option?

We can tune your car a few ways , 1. come to Abbey for a remap on our in house Dynapack day. 2. We can supply a Uprev cable to allow you to upload maps tuned by Abbey 3. You can visit one of our Sub dealers we are setting up in the UK. Enlighten me please Mark cos I don't fully understand things what go up & down nd what go round nd round! I assume item 2) above would be less accurate than option 1)

Ha,ha ha ha .....sorry to laugh young man! .....Sounds like even Steven on the agrivation factor. It could be worse though, the nail may not have been right through and they've suckered you in to buying a new one ( nearly happened to me. Good job I got three estimates cos the first two were from the big named dealers who wanted to fit new and the last from a back street garage who found the nail wasn't right through)

Ooops ......sorry Mr Horsham and spot on Whatshot.......:-)

No it doesn't have to be remapped if you don't want it. But if you do then there are only three companies in the country who can do it as far as Im aware. Abby Motorsport RS Tuning Hold croft.

The car looks fine from the pics, but no substitute to crawling all over it. By the way an unfavourable reputation has to be earned in much the same way as a good reputation.

That's good advice. Your obviously a deep thinker !

Vacuum cleaner a good idea , if you can reduce the hose size to less than the 1/2" or so hole! Oh by the way, and smaller diameter than the lamp itself otherwise you' ll just create yet another little conundrum for yourself ha ha

The led lamps are plastic

Cheers chaps for advice :-)

Point taken

Anyone been successful tidying up their seats? My drivers seat is beginning to show scuff marks on the entry side bolster and the seat part shows bits of the orange colour coming through on the raised bits. Is this a professional job or are there any tried and tested leather repairs bits n pieces available?

Th way things have gone for me today I'd have had the spray nozzle pointing at me!

EFA What and be totally humiliated? She'll expect me to make dinner next

You can now see why a throttle body clean is maybe a step to far! Think I'll just tick to just washing it once a week. ha ha

Fitted LED side lights a couple of wks ago....lovely. Noticed the offside one wasn't working the other day so adopted the first rule of fault finding and ....GAVE IT A HARD BANG, which brought it on again. So today, while still recovering from the worst dose of cold know to mankind, I decided to sort it. It's only a five minute job anyway, jack the car, wheel off, liner pulled back, no probs ! Having got the jack out of the boot, all enthusiasm, energy and interest in the project drains from me completely, I consider putting the jack back...cos Im not well U know, nd theres snow all around nd it freezing as well. But no, Im a Geordie boy, freezing snow and sub zero temperatures don't scare us......gulp. So know I'm twisting the lamp holder to remove it for inspection, thinking " nearly finished, soon be having another Lemsip". The lamp holder as it happens was a bit reluctant to come out so I gave it ever such a little tug................have U guessed yet?..............yep you've got it the led lamp dropped out and into the far reaches of the headlamp unit........Oh bugger I said to myself.........that's made the job damed interesting ! Never mind though I've got a huge double skinned 1/2" hole to work through so no worries. 3 hrs, reels of sticky tap and bent bits of wire later I was still tussling with this interesting little conundrum......oh the joy of it. Frantically thinking over my options.........Head light will have to come out, bugger,the bumper will have to come off as well.....bugger, but there's no room to swing a cat in the garage, bugger, bugger squared ! Just then the light of my life, my little home maker came up with a winner, only to embarrass, humiliate, and demonstrate her intellectual superiority you understand, "why don't U use that bendy grabby tool thingy pet" "the one up there on the wall" Well another hr or so later Im in the bath defrosting and reminiscing on what a lovely little day Ive had, wrestling with this 5 min little job..................can't wait to check the other side !

Beauty is in the eye of the beholder! I don't think there to bad although I do prefer the led version. You go for it Roberto

So thats how it works.......Very interesting

Will do, cheers

Just been to get a quote to wrap all the centre console parts from the gear leaver surround, the cubby cover up to the 3 gauge binicle at the top ( not including the Bose system) The guy said wrapping was out as the plastic surfaces were dimpled and the wrap wouldn't adhere properly leaving air bubbles where the dimples are. He suggested having the plastic bits hydro dipped. Anyone had this done? Is it any good? And is he right about wrapping these bits? Cos I've read on here that others have had these bits wrapped?

WELL IT'S OFFICIAL...........I HAVE LOST THE PLOT.........being a retired electronics engineer you would think I'd know which way the battery should be fitted ! ! Turned it around and hey presto it works. Good job I'm retired and can't do any more damage ha ha

Has anyone been successful in reprogramming their key? As I said above I've tryed the procedure posted on this site but no luck. Just got off the phone to the stealer who wants £52 to re-programme my key. Any help welcome

Job done. The car's done about 56k now but the MAF looked very clean. The diode looking device must be a thermistor. I was expecting to see a fine wire. Also there didn't appear to be any obviouse air path across the device as the front was open exposing the diode looking device to the air intake flow but the back of it is closed?