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Mint, ta.  

Any of the bigger models? She's spied some of the 250/400/650 armchair style things and seems to like the look of them...

Glad you mentioned the speed capability @tortron as aside from the local weekend shlubbing around here, whatever she gets needs to be capable of open road touring without causing her old man and brother to be waiting forever for her to catch up - Bandit and S1000RR.

Evening lads - First time reader and poster in this department.

Does anyone have experience/advice on big scooters? Burgmans and their equivalents from other manufacturers.

The wife wants two wheels, but being a short-arse and suffering the limitations of her spinal surgeries, even getting on and riding the likes of a GN125 for more than about 5 minutes is a painful exercise, let alone managing to shift up and down with her foot due to the nerve damage from her original injuries.

Depends where they source it from - The usual mob of thieves buy the same stuff as you said, and add the same additives under their own brand names, to achieve the same result. Gull source theirs from elsewhere, hence the higher lab test results - 91 = closer to 93, 95 = closer to 97.5 - coincidentally the figure that BP/Mobil 98 guarantee as their minimum RON and their 98 = closer to 99.

NPD likely score their 100 from Gull 98 and top it up with toluene to hit the magic number.

Hopefully, I believe it's cracked (distilled) to a higher octane than the BP/Mobil offerings so has less additives to bump it up to the the 100 mark.

Yep, still ethanol. 

Throw some NPD 100 at it and enjoy.

Thumpers ring a bell.

A Mk1 Octavia! An unkillable shitbox.

Yellow gets my vote - it would look great next to @yoeddynz's blue one!

4 hours ago, kws said:

A car with zero redeeming features.  Even a Tiida, as horrible as they are, will keep running despite horrible neglect. 

The turbo models go well, but we never got them down here.

Try Kiwi Rail or whatever they call themselves now. 

Like you, I bought a car from the opposite end of the country and it was about $800 from Christchurch to Hamilton.

Good stuff!

On the bright side, a gearbox is a relatively simple thing to deal with compared to some of the gremlins that Renaults of this era can have. 

VW diffs of the recent past have a similar issue where they are retained by a ring of rivets but thankfully there are off the shelf kits with super high strength bolts to replace said rivets.

Correct.

1 minute ago, cletus said:

 

Could you set up something in the ecu to make the engine slow suddenly when the clutch is used ie to change gears?  

Maybe like those DSG vw things that fart at gear shifts

 

That's an ignition cut, with the fart being the unburnt juice igniting downstream.

The 2.slow is a super easy cam belt job too, and if you're patient then a 1.8T will show up, usually with the auto that seems to be made of cheese. 

VAG Lego means it's a piece of piss to manual swap one too - Again, super easy belt job on them too.

Gti6 are good fun, but likely any you'll find will be spendy or fairly well fucked.

I thoroughly enjoyed mine, despite the usual quirks.

And so begins the slow march to 911 ownership!

They're not horrifically difficult cars to work on, and there is a decent logic behind the way things are designed and assembled in these and pre-996 911s, as opposed to other high performance vehicles of similar vintage.

As you're no doubt discovering, there's a large amount of aftermarket suppliers too which helps. 

Likely works off individual wheel speed differential via ABS sensors.  Take it for a hoon and see if it clears the light.

VW/Audi products light the dash up like a Christmas tree after disconnecting the battery and they'll all resolve within a few hundred meters when they get the feedback they're looking for.

Miami Blue! Otherwise known as beach public toilet block blue... 

Looks like an easy save and comes with a parts car, so I'd call that a win.

Is that an old Octavia sitting to the right of it in the paddock pic?

Nah, it's the ABS sensors - All it's doing is measuring wheel rotations relative to each other while taking in to account steering inputs.  

There's a good chance the other cases you found were shitty sensor pickups/wiring or just plain shit tires creating a bit of slip.

Another culprit for this - If you've got lower/stiffer springs and the car is capable of cocking a rear wheel around a corner, that pings the TPMS as well.

Wheel size won't matter at all, as long as all 4 are the same diameter.

I see a lot of Mk6 imports on those rims - Super light, but being so open they're begging for a big brake conversion behind them...

Fuckin hell that's some serious boots.

What's the price point between the 4s and 5s?

Not interested in a Mk7 to add to the herd?