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Just sluggish and slow to rev. With the maf disconnected it has a sharper throttle response, better immediate pull and just generally a bit more responsive. I have managed 24mpg over 220 miles, with 120 miles of that motorway. :/

BMW drives a lot better without the MAF, looks like I will be getting a new one then.

Yep, I know it is a good idea. No maf is better than a faulty one, misreading and misinformation can cause all sorts of problems without ever showing fault codes or noticable symptoms. Chances are on a 100k 15 year old car that it might be gone and sending things a stray with regards my occasional high idle and poor economy. Maybe I am just suspicious of MAF's from years of maintaining 1.8t's. There is a kick to it mid range which is very strange, like it isn't quite giving it it's all. And when driving like a grandma (econometer hasn't seen below 30 all week) it uses the same amount of fuel as it does if I don't bother and just drive it normally. It runs fine with only a fault code logged without the maf connected, so worth a try to see if it improves things.

. Depends if it is your chest or your belly that's in the way I guess. Also, my max throttle position is only ever 67% is that about right for M44's?

Thanks Bucky. I am going to unplug the maf for a couple of days and see if the fuel eco improves, I am getting about 25mpg. Is that normal? - Fatboy, seen this?

Nope couldn't find anything on the part number either, hence the question. Stop doing my job George, it's my role to tell people to google shit lol

Bucky, what is this? Map sensor? Why does it buzz really loudly when the ignition is on?

Good, I have some great dark blue correction kit from the Clio. Might be aboutbon Friday, and will be about on Sunday.

Wow. - It wasn't actually me, but a pretty true depiction of just how meh I feel at the moment. Not much I am sure Craig, £20 and a sunny afternoon is all I need. What color is it, and what is it exactly?

You guys are right, I'm such a douchebag! I'd also like to just say that you lot were right all along, my BMW is shit; its a crap colour, and has a horrible interior, I really wish it had more power too To make up for the lack of power I had to fit the BBS wheels (which, by the way, you guys were right - they weren't worth anywhere near as much as £800, my bad!). I really wish I had just kept the 172 instead of wasting money on the grandad wagon! After some research, it seems Prawn is right, the wheel IS a fake (how stupid do I feel now?!), maybe I should learn to be less of a keyboard warrior next time!

What steering wheel?

STOP TALKING ABOUT THE f**kING STEERING WHEEL RAWGHAGAGAHAGAGAGAHAHAGAHAHAHAH

I literally couldn't care less about the if's buts and maybe's, but just stop going on about the wheel please. I think it was real, and if it wasn't then I feel embarrassed for selling you something that wasn't what I thought it was. The way you were about that wheel was exactly the way I am about falling out of bed with cars, and you tell me that it's retarded when the shoe's on the other foot. So please stop going on about it, because I just don't want to hear about it and it's embarrassing. I tried to talk to you about it the other day but you didn't Whatsapp me back, and when I rang you I was with people. Also, your mum didn't ring me. But I think I saw her walking through the village anyway, I was going to give her a lift but we had a full car so I just beeped and waved. Next time you talk to her ask her if she got beeped at by three weirdo's in a brown Datsun lol. Oh, and I was a passenger in a Ferrari 599 today. Was pretty awesome, I was waiting to get out of the car show and there was a huge traffic line. It was PISSING down and I was taking a picture of a 599 and the guy offered me a lift back to my friends car; some how I'm not sure that the Ferrari was his by the way he did a donut in it as he pulled away. Also I think I saw the real life child snatcher today -

Every time you say that wheel is a fake it makes my shit itch. If the wheel is a fake why don't you unstitch it and look for a part number. Just because some lard arse forum god off Northloop tells you it's fake doesn't mean it is. And nor does the fact that it bent, ANY steering wheel is going to bend in a 130mph shunt. You didn't think it was a fake when you fitted it to your own car the week I bought it, and nor did you up until some muppet off Nothloop just outright said "that wheel's a fake" after an off focus and out of shot picture of it without even a proper look at it.

I would pronounce it the same as I would he's. Hayes is pronounced like haze. I'll wait to see if I am right, but it seems like basic English to me.

Buy SpeedView Pro on your phone, really good. And only costs £3.

No please do write your essay, I would love to know why it's bullshit and why it wouldn't work. It seems to work fine to me, and I've been doing black cars with purple haze and collinite for a while now. Always seems to give the paint much more depth. If I could skip out using another product inbetween and get straight to it them that would be awesome. I'm not a huge fan of Dodo Juice either, it seems a bit of a marketing joke compared to other stuff. But it smells good and does make metallics pop a bit better. Here's what the same process did to my Clio - I have been reading up on this now, part three of Dodo Juices own conclusion in this post tells me everything I should need to know - http://dodojuice.com/juicebar/viewtopic.php?t=2011 Taking that and reading the thread, surely as Dodo waxes are super soft applying a layer of each spread an hour apart and then a coat of Collinite 4 hours later is actually a good way to manipulate the paint?

Three different waxes to build up a deeper colour profile. Purple haze is a soft wax with purple light diffusers, blue velvet is a medium wax which has blue diffusers and Collinite is the shiniest hardest most badass wax known to man. Using multiple waxes is pretty common I think. You only have to look at this picture to see it works

They all have that lip.

I'll bring my t-cut...lol I am such a bitch.

If you want a moan ring me up, I am king of rants. Gutting Looks like I might need a new boot then, tempted to fill and fit a smaller lip spoiler instead and then repaint it myself.

lol Bob, f**k off moaning already. You can't prove me wrong and I can't prove myself right, shut up being a bloody misery already. Just like your old man! You should be posting in here about the A3's developments today, but any chance for a climb up the moral high-ground ladder. - Seeing those pictures makes me jealous Alex, I want to go sideways Question for the BMW people that Google has no answer to, should the spoiler on my car have little plastic shims/gromets/spacers underneath where it attaches to the boot? Because my spoiler wobbles, and I removed it today and the bolts go all the way to the end of their threads and it still isn't tight. Judging by the state of them and the untouched plugs I presume they are original too. I just waxed it with Dodo Juice purple haze, blue velvet and then sealed it with Collinite 915. Kinda transformed the color a bit, it looks much nicer now. Not bad for a 17 year old bonnet that's done 100K - It means that he lives in/his car is registered in Oborniki. Polish plates have the same system we do, with W being south west, D being London etc.

Yeah I can do that, I have got some posh new Zymol you will love. I am thinking of doing some proper paint correction on Sunday or Monday, if you can be arsed I will show you a few bits. Might let you play with Lou's boobs again if you are lucky.

But you are bald due to old age, not to look like a thug. So you can't be a chav, old man. You coming down at the end of the month?

I do mean gudegeon pin, but VAG refer to them as wrist pins, and that's what they are listed as on EKAT for some reason. The new ST estate looks sick as, I never liked the old one too much but my missus mentioned the other day maybe looking at an ST3 as her next car. God knows why. I never liked the front end. This is the estate -