MattEB
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Just got back from 2 months overseas and found the trusty loop has two shagged front tyres (the missus has been driving like a woman possessed!) and I need some new standard size tyres today or else I've got to travel upto my folks in the missus's Celica BOO HISS!
Any help much appreciated.
Oh I am in the Reading area by the way.
Cheers
EB
ps Like the new forum layout/format thingy
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Is 2.3Bar absolute not actually 1.3bar relative which equals
out to about 17-18psi in reality anyway........
or am I just confusing myself. I could be wrong on this but I thought
1 Bar was 14.(something) psi which means your 'chipped' and std
pressure figures are in fact the same??
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got mine this morning!!
*drools*
Me too!
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No its a black Vauxhall one, as in the ebay link a few posts back. It never arrived today though!
I had some probs with the supplier but it was just 2 days late,
think he quoted supply problems...
typical stores excuse of not getting stock in before you sell it IMO.
Hope your case arrives soon.
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I bought one of these on Friday, should hopefully arrive tomorrow. i will post pics up as soon as I have it on.
Be careful with the bolts you refit, I read people have damaged
their car roofs when refitting the bolts, I had no probs just thought
I would mention the roof issue though!
Look forward to the pics!
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yes good character, i love the dudlerdudleler voice music theme he does when ever he's running.
Hole in the ring! Anne Robinson eat your heart out!!
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Rover slogan....
'Above all its a Rover'
now should read.....
'Above all its a Rong Wei to design a car!'
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That car looks cool, I would get one (maybe for the missus though!),
enough retro style but still enough modern design.
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I like Sir Digby Chicken Caesar, one of the best characters in the show.
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15mm would be great, I'll have a goosey for some. Where were you gonna get yours from? Direct form H&R?
I go over to germany fairly often to see family so I was going to see
if could get some whilst i was there, thought they might be cheaper.
If I find some I will let you know, work is being a pain so not exactly
sure when I next be going over.
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Anyone done this on a 02 Loop GTi?
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btw their estimate for a custom chip remap is a 6bhp gain and good mid range torque improvement. so quite concervative.
cost is £325 inc vat.
Sounds like a tuning company that tell the truth with
power figures and don't just pluck figures from thin air!
Who are they?
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Bah! Thought I'd checked venom. Thanks. Comes to £167.44 for the 4. They have 25mm, 30mm and 35mm. I'd need the thinnest possible, and preferebly a bit cheaper than those ones.
H&R ?? do them at 15mm thickness, i was considering them for fitting OE Monza's
but looks like too big an offset with the adaptors.
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Any pics mate?
I'm lucky enough to have a gray headlining so I was fine to use a couple of Beetle cases, intrested to see how the black ones look
Not too sure how to host/post photo's so no pics at the mo, sorry.
The Ebay shop is Here, comms can be a little slow with these folks
but the product is really good, I had no need to cut bolts down or
any of that faff so it was all done in just a few mins
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Old threads revisited!!
Just fitted a VXR sunglasses case from Ebay to my GTi,
looks nice and OEM style and was dead easy to fit.
VXR sunglasses case is black and goes well with my black
headlining, was not sure if VW did a black sunglasses case and I
am really happy with the results I got.
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hi does anybody now the difference between the 1.4 75bhp and the 1.4 100 bhp?
is it the ecu, exhaust etc?
i think there was a post on this before but cant find it
And also is there any advantages disadvantages of having one over the other?
please help?
This is only a guess....is one variable valve timing and the other not?
I could be very wrong on this!
Yeah I remember seeing the post on here before too, I will have a look.
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hi,
has anyone any experience with those cds on ebay that have ecu maps on them so you can remap your ecu at home ?
i have all the hardware to connect my laptop up to the obd port (i did a bit of embedded development using the obd port to drive an lcd gauge)
my thinking is when i drop a bigger engine in the car that i could simply reprogram the ecu to run the bigger engine with the appropriate map rather than replacing the ecu with one for the engine ?
any ideas on this much appreciated
Sounds like a lot of potential for a knackered engine to
me, but if you do it well done.
Think your first step would be to change the scaling on a lot of timing/position
sensors first and then once that is done (no easy task) start work on the engine
mapping.
Not heard of these ECU map CD's on ebay before???
EDIT- Looks quite limited as to what you can do and not GTi compliant either-EDIT
I would say get the correct ECU for the engine and tune that if you
fancy a go, it should be much more rewarding and much less costly
on stuffed engines that way!
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so then....is it possible to just remove the the glue and whack a new chip in? i dont understand how the whole thing's not accessible, what if VW need to get at it??
Not looked inside my ECU yet! thinking about getting a serial port
reprogram done though. I will find out about the accessability of
the chip though and keep you all upto date.
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Does anyone know whether I can get a OEM toggle
switch for the switch panel on my Loop GTi?
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how this thread should have started......
Ladies and Genlemen.....
This evenings main attraction.....
In the red corner, weighing a little too much but with a hell of a punch.....DIESEL
and in the blue corner the floats like a butterfly stings like a bee......PETROL!!
Please pin this thread its sooooo funny IMO (legalalities done away with three simple letters!!!)
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We've just been discussing this.
We dot understand the glue either.
I used to work for a tuning company a few years ago working on ECU's and can
tell you there are other ECU's out there that are 'glued' (potted) but not that
many of them.
One opinion we came to was that the ECU maybe subject to water ingress and is
potted to prevent this, another idea was that the ECU is indeed potted to prevent
tampering with the ECU. I however feel this is a decision taken by the ECU
manufacturers and not VW and is Lupo GTi specific because it runs a different
spec computer ie Simos and is to prevent water imgress.
Removing potting/glue can be done on the whole ECU and then once the location
of the memory device (chip) has been found you only need to remove that portion
of the glue to gain access to the chip.
Oh just thought Simos may not even have a seperate memory device it may be in
the processor
Hope this helps clarify the Loop GTi ECU situation a bit.
Before anyone asks I will not disclose which tuning company I worked for!
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Some of them look quite good in a crazy cartoon way,
you know stereotyped....errrrr... think I might be on my own on this.
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Get them banned from sale to the public and only have
organised licensed events.
Why are they still sold in high street shops anyway,I thought
the goverment would have banned them ages ago as they are soo dangerous.
Firearm and shotgun licenses are issued by the police after
strict criteria are met yet any adult can buy fireworks.........CRAZY!
Desperate Tyre Help Please!!
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Looks like Mytyres is going to be the way ahead then and it also looks like celica (sillycar!)
journey up to see my folks tonight then Harumph!
Really wanted to drive the loop today too, its been 2 months too long!
Can I get another Harumph?
HARUMPH!
Thankyou.