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In equally boring news; Bad weather combined with lots of driving in the lanes had led to a pretty filthy Leon. Combining this with work being pretty slow meant I decided to slack of and give it a quick once over. Nothing too hardcore, just enough to bring it out from under the layer of dirt it'd been hiding in for the past few days.

Ignore the smears - hadn't fully dried off :P

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After having it home for a fortnight or so, I've averaged around 30mpg too which I'm pretty happy with, given that most of the trips I've been doing have been short and un-economical given the nature of the roads/my driving :P

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£1500 with a full tank, so it's a huge amount of car for the money and utterly spotless. There's one or two marks to the paintwork, the electric fore/aft switch is a little intermittent and the heated seat switches are the wrong way round, but otherwise its in near-showroom condition. Full Seat history with a folder full of receipts, including having the whole interior redone by Seat while they sorted out the usual door seals issue etc - proper no expense spared type deal.

Seriously stoked as you can probably imagine!

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Ah sick - there are a few about at that sort of money but I took a bit of time waiting for the right one to come along and got rather lucky too! You should be able to pick up a tidy pre-facelift for £1k-1.5k, or facelift for £1.5k-2k or so, it's just a bit of a waiting game and keeping your ear to the ground.

Keep your eyes peeled on SCN, SSS, other generic/VAG forums, eBay, Gumtree, Preloved, AutoTrader and Pistonheads and they pop up all over the place. One'll turn up eventually, but you've got to make your own luck by checking constantly. Get in touch with eBay sellers whose cars didn't meet reserve, didn't sell, or are resisted after time wasters etc and you'll have one in no time (Y)

See also: Have fired you a PM ;)

Don't rule out the pd150s though if one falls into your budget, great engines and what you lose in insurance you'll save in fuel. Nice and torquey too. Performance won't be hugely far off the 1.8t either until you start factoring in any modifications. Presumably still a fair bit more to buy though.

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Ah sick - there are a few about at that sort of money but I took a bit of time waiting for the right one to come along and got rather lucky too! You should be able to pick up a tidy pre-facelift for £1k-1.5k, or facelift for £1.5k-2k or so, it's just a bit of a waiting game and keeping your ear to the ground.

Keep your eyes peeled on SCN, SSS, other generic/VAG forums, eBay, Gumtree, Preloved, AutoTrader and Pistonheads and they pop up all over the place. One'll turn up eventually, but you've got to make your own luck by checking constantly. Get in touch with eBay sellers whose cars didn't meet reserve, didn't sell, or are resisted after time wasters etc and you'll have one in no time (Y)

See also: Have fired you a PM ;)

Don't rule out the pd150s though if one falls into your budget, great engines and what you lose in insurance you'll save in fuel. Nice and torquey too. Performance won't be hugely far off the 1.8t either until you start factoring in any modifications. Presumably still a fair bit more to buy though.

Yeah I am thinking going for a pd150 next year. For a lower mileage one though you are looking at 4.5k+ really. Enjoyed my pd130 so much it kind of makes sense to stick to roughly the same thing (I just want a bigger car basically)

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Those do look nice.

Was about to say they've probably just got handles on both sides, same with my Recaros. I love my seats too, they suit my height/build perfectly and are the most supportive non-bucket seats I've been in ('90 spec Escort RS Turbo seats):

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Look great, bags of support and look comfortable too.

Night sprint stage over. Course all together took 18 minutes over 4 runs, I'm 2nd overall, 1 second behind the leader in an Evo IX. Over 35 seconds ahead of 2nd in my class. No chance for 1st overall tomorrow, despite some very powerful lamps on that Evo the guy clearly can't see where he's going. In daylight he's going to piss all over me. Although there are rumours that his gearbox is packing up.

Finally the speedo is visible!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OaJ3S3AF68g

I know, health and safety, in the UK this would never be allowed bla bla... :D

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I watched about 10 seconds of that before I thought "f**k that!". I wouldn't do that in a million years with just those lights! You must have to have a lot of faith in yourself that you 100% know the course!

And you're right, there's NO way we'd be allowed to do that here! Shame really :(

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And you're right, there's NO way we'd be allowed to do that here! Shame really :(

Really?

Admittedly I believe the entry requirements are somewhat higher (not sure on the regs for the polish stuff, but they don't appear as strict), but it still very much happens.

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Well I'll be damned...never knew that Robin! Like you say, I bet they are far stricter though!

Greg, what car is it? I had a Revo stage 1 map on my A3 when I had it...it was alright, very punch, but ran out of puff pretty quick, although I believe they have now developed "linear" maps, so the power is a lot more spread out over the rev range.

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Well I'll be damned...never knew that Robin! Like you say, I bet they are far stricter though!

Yeah, that's an MSA regulated event, so MSA log-booked cars only meaning full 'blue book' regulations, drivers needing a race licence as well as approved flameproof overalls/gloves/boots/helmet, car needs plumbed in extinguisher, compliant roll cage etc, etc..... Strict but it's all only sensible stuff to have really, just a shame it ends up being pretty pricey to compete. A mate entered this year and I went along to watch, great event for spectators being in a showground.

A few shots I got, not easy photographing moving cars at night!:

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4wd Cosworth powered Anglia:

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Ex-works Rover SD-1:

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Good event, well worth popping down to watch if you get a chance next year. Same with any rally's that are in a fairly confined space really, especially night ones.

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Well I'll be damned...never knew that Robin! Like you say, I bet they are far stricter though!

Greg, what car is it? I had a Revo stage 1 map on my A3 when I had it...it was alright, very punch, but ran out of puff pretty quick, although I believe they have now developed "linear" maps, so the power is a lot more spread out over the rev range.

It's a golf r I have mate car will be getting put on dyno make sure everything is running ok afterwards but there the closest tuner where I stay.

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