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  1. et 15 will be fine, et0 won't! I ran 185/45/15s 15x8.5 et 15 all round on my old Lupo, rear arches rolled tight, fronts standard. It was lowered a lot (No rear adjusters on FK coilovers, so about 100mm?) Plenty of camber up front stopped them rubbing much. I got the occasional scrape from any corner occasionally, but it was perfectly driveable, but definitely on the limit especially with people in the back.. With rolled front arches, normal camber would be fine. ET0 on the other hand I'd recommend against, and I'd not be happy running 165s on an 8.5. While they would bring the tyre sidewall to about the same place on an et0 rim and a 185 on an et15 rim, the stretch would be too much imho. http://www.willtheyfit.com/index.php?width=185&aspect=45&diameter=15&wheelwidth=8.5&offset=15&width2=165&aspect2=50&diameter2=15&wheelwidth2=8.5&offset2=0&Submit=Submit That's how they will sit on the rims.
  2. They are fine, I've ran with them for the last 3 years and never had a single issue. Passed 4 MOTs with them in too I had a set for 3000K HIDs, and also a set of Nokya h4 yellow ones I brought back from the USA which are excellent.
  3. Police cars parked on the hard shoulder at night with full flashing lights on are an absolute danger, and selfish in a way - The lights are so dazzling and bright, they are the only thing you can see, so everything else goes to pot. Personally, I'm not shy about hard shoulders, but perhaps I have too much faith in people being able to stay between 2 white lines with about 8 foot of spare room. If I got pulled on one then I would'nt really be upset for myself. The sheer problem rubberkneckers cause makes this an issue though - over the last few weeks I've done m18-m1-m6-m42 about 6 times and I've seen massive tailbacks on the opposite carraigeway just because of someone pulled over. Miles of standstill traffic! That stretch of the m42 really winds me up thought. Variable speed limit with cameras everywhere, people on and off the hard shoulder and lumpy concrete road surface - I've never been on a road that is more distracting than that. I don't think there is a lot more they could do to confuse and overwhelm drivers than they have there. People are doing 50, but it's really not safe at all. I'm a confident driver - I'll drive anywhere, through London in rush hour - through San Francisco in rush hour! but that bit of the M42 is all wrong, and I've just noticed they are putting the same average speed cameras up on the m1 - They are a small minded, short sighted approach to a problem which doesn't exist.
  4. 185/35/17 on 17x7s et35 will be overall near as anything to stock wheels and shouldn't catch. have a play on http://www.willtheyfit.com and if you buy tyres through it I get about £1.
  5. Petrol is easy - Lift the back seats up, pull the rubber cover up and youll see the pump. Cut the hoses and wiring off, knock the locking ring round and pull it out. 5 minute job at most.
  6. cobblers

    Carly

    Saw yours in the show and shine at vanfest rob, looked great!
  7. It was on a moving treadmill travelling in the opposite direction at 100mph, which left me doing -5mph in perfect safety.
  8. It's already (what's left of) a 1330 All sorts of stuff done, and runs a claimed 85bhp at the wheels. They are 6x10 wellers, with Yoko a032rs on - Sticks to the road insanely well, and goes like stink. Just makes a nasty noise! I'm hoping it's not the bottom end, especially since it was all rebuilt 2k miles ago. I do miss the Lupo (Being able to do 95mph while holding a conversation) I had my canalphones in with no music playing all the way back in this, at 60. Absolutely loads of fun though
  9. Sold the Lupo this morning to a nice chap off here. Got the train down and picked up my new ride - this: Unfortunately it's not gone well. It's developed a suspiciously bottom end bearings type knock, cuts out when warm, and I ran over my foot when pushing it out of the road.
  10. For a joke, ask them to do it through the back bumper and watch their faces drop. They expected to take 2 hours, and took six. The fitter said "well, it's certainly unique, because I'm not doing another bloody one!" Considering the amount of chav tat I see coming out of there, they can make a subtle system when you want My system is 2 inch throughout to a 3 inch tailpipe, with a massive middle box (really long) and a reasonably big back box. Quite deep, but slightly TOO quiet if anything!
  11. The golf AHW engine has a different block, despite being the same engine code. The head could well be different.
  12. Listened to both these again, they get better with every listen! Found out I need to sort out the cooling on my sub amp though, It's just clicked off. You know it's a good mix when you overheat a 400w RMS class D amp in a house Has your mate thought about sending these in to Hospital records/ DnBArena? Could easily get in as a guest mix on one of the podcasts with this sort of quality, and it would get his name knows a bit more (What does he go by?)
  13. I got fed up of using a spreadsheet I made ages ago to work out offsets and tyre fitments and fancied doing something slightly different today so I made this: http://www.willtheyfit.com Stick the tyre size, wheel offset and width in and it works out how everything lines up, how much the speedo is knocked out and everything. Quite pleased with it for 6 hours work Hope it comes in handy for some people!
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