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I agree with JTM here, i had one 10 in my golf and it was perfect, it is now on a shelf as i sold the box and i am making a flush mount bhox for it. in the mean time, i hooked up the 2 12"Infinity subs out of my van, running off a 600W (@ 2 ohms) kenwood mono block, and it really really hurts- it shakes the car to bits, and overpowers the other speakers, its too much in a hatchback (while good for a phat chevy van though). Just one of the 12s is great, but my single JBL ten really surprised people. it was only running off a mutant amp, at about 200w RMS and was dropping seriously low for a 10, just ask prawn or tic. sort the rest of your setup, and dont waste money and space on 15s. If you msut have a 15, just get one, and then get a 10" as well and have a staged sub set up, 15 for the really low stuff, ten for the higher bass.

If your interested in safety, you wont be getting the cheapest nastiest budget tyres! they are possibly THE most important thing on the car in terms of safety, and choice could be the different between crashing or not. in the UK climate, and with it coming up to winter definately get tyres that work well in the rain. in the dry most tyres grip well, and i would sacrifice a bit of dry grip and wear for wet grip any day. i have had some sketchy understeer moments, and there not fun! IMO the uniroyal rainsports are the best all round tyre for british winter, and what, if i can afford it, i will put on my 2nd hand alloys before fitting them to my car. ( if i cannot afford, i will leave the brand new budget tyres on there, as they will be better than nearly worn out budget tyres). Toyo proxes, although a big name ( and remember the price that comes with it) are surprisingly slippy in the wet, despite the excelent dry grip. i have heard bad stories (although i belive prawn thinks fairly highly of his on his A3). When i had a customer enquie if we could get a certain tyre on some alloy at work, i spoke to one of the hugh uyp guys at Rimstock, a mojor alloy wheel distributor, and they said they would reccomend the uniroyal everytime for the road, unless it was a trackday car- in which case the toyos.

yoko 539s or uniroyal Rainsports, uniroyals prob better since its coming up to winter. if i were buying i wouldnt buy anything else right now, except maybe expensive michelins if i had the money.

Hell Yeah!! damn good for both parties. Again, very very nice, surprisingly intimate too! Another one of my favs would be sitting up on the bed, gril sittting in your lap huging you- amzingly intamate - great for taking it slow during a long session. Who, havnent had any of that for tooo long!

£450 is exactly wht i paid for my mk2 driver 1.6, nice car. expesive on insurance, but hey. currently spending as much on the car on a MOJOR 100k service - timing belt, full brakes, full exaust, new clutch, doign the head gasket while im at it jsut in case and a new carb thrown in for good measure. should be nice when finished. Notrouble getting a bike in, as long as you keep standard front seats. In my dads mini, i can take front wheel off, open door, tip seat forward and put the bike in across the back seat with room to spare (26" bike).

if you have a card reader use that, otherwise do as above (may need to install drivers / software first from CD/website)

the weller website sayds they dont make em! very confusing. That bug is gorrgeous! Cant wait to get my golf goign again, missign haveing a workign car. tempted to do a ghetto paintjob with a load of matt black rattle cans from halfords lol, thanks to noicy for the idea.

right, yeah def amp the front speakers then, along with the sub. instead of using the crappy parcel shelf, make one out of MDF to make the rear speakers more secure, and box the speakers of to isolate them from the subwoofer, to prevent damage and distortion. A soundstage is the term used to describe where the sound apears to be coming from- in front, behind, up high, low down. ideally it should sound like the music is coming straight at you though the windscreen, but this is often very hard to achieve.

You are right, theres prob not a lot of point amping up those front speakers power wise, they are designed as factory replacement with low power ratings, and quite cheaply built. However, amping them up will allow you to control what frequencies they get, so you could remove the bass from them to prevent distortion. Amping the front speakers, and getting them set up right, and the amp again set up right and just running the 6x9s off the headunit will sound surprisingly good, and if you set the high pass filter for the fronts to remove the bass you will be surprised what they can do, i have some smaller speakers in the dash of my golf (still havent got round to making pods for components) and have them amped and they go VERY loud with a good soundstage, just lack mid kick.

my music taste is very diverse, and people can think what they like! a lot of songs hold memories for me, i associate them with people and/or events in my life, they will always be enjoyable to me for that reason no matter what anyone thinks. an example would be Hanson -mmmbop

how can they get it so bad? i had voice recognition software on my WINDOWS 98!!!!! pc and that worked fine, granted you have to 'train' it by reading certian stuff, but thats to be expected.

Thanks guys, drink isnt a problem- niehter is going out, thats why i dont understand why i have no time! I just want to make the most of what im doing. Ive started riding to work again (5 miles there and 5 back) as it does keep me fit, alert ect. (although ive been doing this cause im fixing my car!, not out of choice lol). still need to get up early enough for breakfast though- i know it will help. i think big to do lists are the order of the day

Right, iv ebeen feeling rather down over the last few weeks/months. My time management is going increasingly downhill and my motivation is poor. At school i used to be abel to get up in the mornings no problem, did my homework the night is was set ect. and was well motivated. my first year of uni i screwed things up and dropped out, found it hard to get up in the mornings, dont get what i need to get done done, been generally depressed. its been up and down recently, i just don't want it to go downhill again and i want to go to uni this year focussed and sorted, as i have big plans- and with my current time management there way too ambitius. whoo- i needed to get that out! please help me!

haha! i might win up to 40 or so, as the mk2 is lighter but once your turbo spools up youl be gone nick! when my minis finished il wanna race yours, there both gonna be beasts. we def need to start a car club of som sort if there isnt one, like at soton the motor club did autotest and road rallys, so much fun. if we get enough people intersted we could then do joint events with soton if there low on peeps.

Indeed charel! , will be a monster when ive finished nick! since you both saw it last its been lowered 40mm, got some alloys, curently fitting new + upgraded brakes, and new carb and new exaust. will be looking good when i get the head back on and the engine bay ist quite so empty lol!

4x100mm pcd, offset (et) 35. thats the standard sizing for you. Im running 14x6 speedlines, small alloys but picked em up for £60 so not complaining. James noice (the666ers) has 15s on his and and looks mint. I think larger than 15s and it has negative effects on a mk2. look for some nice 15x7s or so, ATs classics, BBS RAs, Borbet A's, ATS cups ect.

sounds like its sprung an air leak, causing it too lean off and then cut out due to lack of fuel. It didnt just run out of fuel did it, as if they run out fo fuel while at full throttle they will rev extra high due to temp leanign of the mixture, then cut out. air leak is most likey to be in fuel line or carb area, can be very hard to find. ive got an engine sitting at home which i need to rebuild with gasket sealant as ive got an airleak i cant find playing havoc with the tuning.

I dont want to get involved with her relationship wise, i stated that previously, but i do want to end on good terms. She is very depressed, and confused which is why shes talking like this, the whole situation has shaken her up big time and i dont like that- yes its 'her problem' but i still care, shes a friend, or at least i regard her as one, even is she doesnt. In terms of the whole cheating thing, i had talked to her for 2 weeks about her relationship and she wasnt happy and was goign to end it, and she did, we just got a bit carried away. Im proud to be thought of as a nice guy, im friendly and say what i feel. i dont want her spouting off about how shit i am, as people may believe it- yeah yeah all that about your true friends wont care, i dont know. I do feel bad about myself as im not hugely confident, and have a TERRIBLE (unbelievably so) guilty conscience. eg, at school if someone did something bad in class and the whole class got told off, i would feel guilty for it!!!! wierd i know, but thats me! I know its not entirely my fault, but i did convince her to end it with her ex as she wasnt sure. i said if your unhappy, theres no point stayign in it just for routines sake, she said she liked the routine and security, and couldnt be bothered . Oh well. Its jsut hit me hard, as this is the first time i have had someone going from gettin g along with me really well, confiding in me, bering good friends, to hating my guts! (and going via physical relations doesnt help!) ARRRRRGHHHHGGHGGHGHHWHEHAFHDAFHSDFHEILHFSQ!!Q!!!!!!!!!

Right, crank bolt holding crank pulley onto crank on a 1.6 engine- how the hell to i get it off!!!! i dont know if its conventional or reverse thread, but it wont move either way. have put car in gear, had someone sitting in the car foot on brake hard as poss, 2ft breaker bar on this bolt and either pulling the wheels through brakes or slipping the halfords pro ratchet!!!! blow torch and hammer??

Splx are one of the more "budget" brands lets say, frequently found in motorworld and ebay (not even halfords stock them!). I persoanlly find them to be up to par with standard factory fit speakers, maybe slightly better. spend a little extra and something slightly better made. The new sony HUs and Speakers are actually very good, still dont like there subs though. The sony cdx-gt300 is a smart unit, understated looks, good sound, reliable - and I pod compatable too, as well as front aux in- very usful feature. at halfords kenwood and JVC are the most returned units for repair.

It happens on left hand levers, the way you pull the lever undoes the bolt, ever so slightly. not normally a problem, but when the thread and bolt are well used/old/slightly worn it gets a big problem. Use threadlock on the bolt and leave it overnight (dotn do it up too tight, make sure the lever can move) and youll be fine!

im not sure whether to find that funny or not to be honest. Im not really in the right frame of mind to, but you are fairly accurate. theres far too much politics and hate being thrown around, its meant to be fun. Ok, how do i respond to her, or do i ignore her? she sent me this text message at half one this morning: "I hate all the poison you put into my mind. My life is finished because of you." Nice. doenst make me feel all that good, as i have a terrible guilty concience. I dont want to totally ignore her as she will see me as ignorant and not caring, but if i respond it will probably provoke another argument.

Didn't think id be posting in here, but hey I need a bit of advice. Apologies in advance for the long post. I’m not going to mention any names, as what has happened is strictly between me and this girl, and if certain people found out, there would be a lot of questions for both of us. So for the purposes of this post she will be known as Miss X. I’ve known her for a couple of years, we met through a group we both attend (the main reason I’m not naming names, they don’t know). She’s had a bf and been in a stable relationship for the past 3 years or so, but for the 6 months-ish before easter she wasn’t getting on as well with him as she had been and it was going a bit stale sexually and non sexually, as far as I am aware. At Easter I went skiing for 2 weeks with this group, she came too, with her bf. We got along very well, always laughing and joking and even a couple of sly gropes on night’s out- just having a laugh. By the end of the trip we realized we liked each other quite a lot, and talked about it on the last day but weren’t sure what to do. When we got back we started seeing each other in secret, going round each others houses some evenings. Still all a secret. Things progressed and we were kissing and fondling pretty much every time we met up, she was still with her bf at this point but didn’t want to be, and I was a bit uncomfortable with the situation. Eventually it happened and we slept together, the night before she broke up with him- I’m not proud of this. We continued seeing each other for a week or two, and then she became unsure of her decision, and tried to go back with him, I respected her decision, but it didn’t work out, she then didn’t want to see me again, which is understandable. Since then she has been very depressed saying things like she’s ruined her life etc, and she’s not been very friendly to me at all. She has recently called me a ‘big headed know it all’ and gets pissed off when I leave my msn on and I’m not there (which I frequently do by accident) and left a message saying “are you there? Your not are you. Why do you leave your msn on? Are you hoping you’ll get a message? Well here’s a f*cking message, I don’t like you!” As you can imagine, I don’t like it when she says things like that, it doesn’t exactly make me feel good about myself. I don’t quite know why she’s being so hostile towards me, she’s fine when I’m around her in the group, as they don’t know what’s happened, and it would provoke questions. I think she may be blaming me for what’s happened, and yes while I have been involved its not completely my fault! She could have said no and stayed with her ex, I didn’t make her dump him. Another reason maybe that I hit a nerve by accident while talking to her on msn after her 21st about her party. She had hired a local hall, and had bands playing which was very cool, they were good bands. As none of them had a PA, and the band she knew was low on money she lent them £100 to put towards a PA. they bought a £200 pa system of ebay, which is a nice little system, ideal for practicing, but not quite up too a hall gig. This meant that you couldn’t hear the vocals in any of the songs, and when you could hear them they were very distorted. I said on msn something like: Great party, the bands were good, shame I couldn’t hear the lyrics very well though. She said: why was that? I said: the Pa wasn’t very good She goes off on one about how I’m a big headed know it all, not even in a band so what do I know about pa systems blah blah blah I think I was justified in what I said as I know exactly how much the PA cost, and what its spec was as I had looked it up on ebay (the sad know it all that I am). I also know a fair bit about stage equipment, PA’s and sound stuff as I have helped back stage on various productions sound and lighting, and know the physics behind sound amplification, so I know enough to know a good PA for a bad one! ( I thought it best not to point all of this out, only selected points) It all ended up in a big argument anyway. The problem is she’s a really great girl, amazing IMO. Great sense of humour, cute, always has something good to say and is damn good looking (and pretty good in bed), so I still have feelings for her. I don’t know if I would go out with her again right now as it would be awkward ect, but id do care for her and do want to be friends. She doesn’t believe this, and when ever I say I like her, care for her ect she thinks I’m lying. Is there anything I can do to show I am sorry, and that I care for her. I don’t want it to be too cheesy, but gentlemanly is good. Letter and flowers? Present? Just a letter? I really don’t know. Help me please! I just want her to know the truth and be friends. </rant>

Mines a halfords bikehut own brand one, £40 get you a lot. it has a hydropack section, with 2 litre resevoir, bungee cords and various small pockets, enough for phone, keys, small lock, multi tool ect. But it also comes with a sizeable rucksack with its own straps that can zip too it, giving you a 2 litre thingy and a LOAD of space. i use it for getting too form work in full mode, and just as the hydropack for xc/ trials. is great.

has been done sucessfully, someone even managed to get 3 working gears! if you dont mind the weight then cool, but i would personally stick to a single beefy chain.