Mark W Posted February 4, 2015 Report Share Posted February 4, 2015 Need to get some acrostic poem style shit on the go. That's rad news anyway! In semi-related news, Skoze - any chance you could fire me your address either via PM here or over FB please?* *Not bumming related. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MadManMike Posted February 4, 2015 Author Report Share Posted February 4, 2015 Reckon they'd be pissed off if you put Burton in there a lot but actually referred to the mens clothing shop? 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
monkeyseemonkeydo Posted February 4, 2015 Report Share Posted February 4, 2015 Late to the party I know... Side note: Photoshop does some pretty racist things when you change Blending Options. There is a chef in my passenger seat haha. I can't see it on my phone! Blatantly should've been Terry Crews to keep the theme. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AdamR28 Posted February 4, 2015 Report Share Posted February 4, 2015 Anyone else think this looks absolutely awesome? Very very rarely do a look at a car and go 'wow, I love that', but I keep returning to pictures of this new Cayman. Manual gearbox, 385bhp from a 3.8L flat 6, yum. http://www.topgear.com/uk/car-news/porsche-cayman-gt4-revealed-2015-02-03 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dman Posted February 4, 2015 Report Share Posted February 4, 2015 It just looks right from all angles. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Skoze Posted February 4, 2015 Report Share Posted February 4, 2015 (edited) Cheeky bugger. If I have this process right so far, you were given £10k and some other paid writing gigs alongside the comp update, and everything you've bought with the £10k has been cut price? £5k, but yeah pretty much massively grateful for the position it's put me in really, if I couldn't have blagged the majority of what it's needed I think my ownership of it would have been very short-lived. I do all the PH updates free, but they sorted me a full set of Toyo Proxes when the Ditchfinder 3000s started trying to kill me so it all evens out. Get a banging showcase for my writing steez too. That explains how certain car journalists can afford to run several cars! I'm excited to see how many times the word Burton can be included in your write-up. Certainly does! If you approach it the right way, people are very keen to help out. Even if you're just fairly well known on a decent forum or something, you'd be surprised what people can do if you ask nicely and present a good case to them. Need to get some acrostic poem style shit on the go. That's rad news anyway! In semi-related news, Skoze - any chance you could fire me your address either via PM here or over FB please?* *Not bumming related. Certainly will do amigo! I'll do my best on that. B - bumming. Ah, f**k. Edited February 4, 2015 by Skoze Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Danny Posted February 4, 2015 Report Share Posted February 4, 2015 How much should that lot have cost? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JD™ Posted February 4, 2015 Report Share Posted February 4, 2015 Anyone else think this looks absolutely awesome? Very very rarely do a look at a car and go 'wow, I love that', but I keep returning to pictures of this new Cayman. I'm sure it won't surprise you to know that I agree 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Skoze Posted February 4, 2015 Report Share Posted February 4, 2015 How much should that lot have cost? About 750 quid I think, didn't ask for main bearings or rings because I couldn't afford them and these are useable. but I think they've been added to the list. Can't wait to put it together now. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
craigjames Posted February 4, 2015 Report Share Posted February 4, 2015 Matt that's a pretty sweet little deal you've got there really can't wait to see the end product. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Skoze Posted February 4, 2015 Report Share Posted February 4, 2015 It's gonna be a celebratory set of 11's. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Haz Posted February 4, 2015 Report Share Posted February 4, 2015 Have fun on your next MOT! It'll be fine, mine has passed twice with no issue. If they are fitted, they must work. They are not fitted. MOT pass Bingo. Yes mate! Took me 5 mins per side so it's not the end of the world. Wouldn't waste your time. Also, black inserts ***. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Greetings Posted February 5, 2015 Report Share Posted February 5, 2015 That's a jolly nice Clio! Sorted the ABS in the M3 (wonder how many times I'll say that this year ) and got some Nordic winter tyres. So after 6 years of owning M3's, today marks the 1st time I'll ever drive one on snow and ice. I tried in the Daihatsu a few days ago and concluded after spending a lot of time in ditches that I'd feel safer in a RWD and leave the AWD for a more open terrain where it's ok to experiment and get to know the drivetrain again. Fingers crossed. Our plan this night is to visit three locations which means a good 200 miles of driving all over the province. Hope to return in one piece and a better driver On the subject of ABS, half a year of intermittent problems, numerous attempts, mechanics and 3 sensors later and my electrician called in to say he still can't sort it out on the 7 series. Seems this car has developed a taste for the very expensive sensors which would be fine if they were available. Since I've owned it, the M has been running 4 sensors for 10 quid each with no issues... Can't even word how sick I am of ABS warning lights. Even though the Daihatsu doesn't have ABS, I'm half expecting to see the beloved warning light appear on the dashboard sometime soon. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AdamR28 Posted February 5, 2015 Report Share Posted February 5, 2015 You know what to do with all the ABS systems on all your cars...... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Azarathal Posted February 5, 2015 Report Share Posted February 5, 2015 Sky insurance £600 fully comp with all mods declared - winner Elephant automatically renewing my policy despite when they called to confirm me saying no and putting me into overdraft, c**ts. I've been getting the bus for 3 days because I thought I was uninsured, I've had no emails from them or anything. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Danny Posted February 5, 2015 Report Share Posted February 5, 2015 Esure still owe me £48 that they took out of my account after i cancelled my policy. They keep telling me it should be refunded automatically buts its been a few weeks now. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Greetings Posted February 6, 2015 Report Share Posted February 6, 2015 (edited) Okay, I'm back from quite possibly the most intense / fun / stressful 8 hours I can remember. Should go to bed but I need to write this down while I can still remember the details. Did 160 miles in very remote locations. 4 cars in total - an E30 318is, Impreza Type R, my M3 and a Phaeton. 6 people, all rally drivers or co-drivers doing pace notes. The Phaeton was not driven on the stages, my friend heard we were going out tonight and wanted to go. He had to buy a car for this outing since nothing he owns was adequate for such a task. They checked out a rally spec 318is but the car required work before it could be used. So rather than go home, they came with us hoping there would be enough seats in the cars to drive shotgun. Unfortunately there were no spare seats. We started off normally. A few hours in I wanted to have a rest so I stopped by the VW for a chat, took the key out of the ignition, left the car and as I was walking away, I thought to myself "something's not right". Indeed, with the keys in my hands I was bluntly staring at a car which was still running. I put the key back in the ignition only to find it was rotating freely in the barrel. I couldn't stop the engine and I probably wouldn't be able to start it. It was "stuck" at position 2. I concluded it'd be best if I didn't stall the engine that night or we'd have problems starting it again. About 100 miles into the journey, at another location in the woods my friend went off in his Scooby and got stuck (got lots of vids of that, will upload later). It took us over an hour to get him out and it was incredibly amusing. The chief difficulty was that we had to pull uphill and on ice. The M3 managed to pull him out but initially we used the E30 in fear of stalling the engine in the M. At the same time my friend in the E30 found his nearside McPherson strut was in two separate pieces and no longer attached to the strut tower. With the Scooby out of the ditch, we noticed that the rear wheel bearing was falling off with the wheel. My windscreen had developed even more cracks from driving on bumpy roads and we all concluded it's time to end. That was around midnight. On with pics before I get to the nasty bits. This is Peter, a middle aged CEO. He drives the most tatty cars I've seen in my life (posted them in here many times) and he's my best driving friend. There's never a boring moment with him - a case in point would be him damaging an STi intercooler which sits protected under the bonnet, atop the engine from direct collision with a barrier. This happened because he continued driving during a competition with his bonnet resting on the windscreen and a high power LED lighting system poking through the shattered screen and shining in his face. Why the open bonnet? He always tests things, that night he was testing whether winter tyres are better in the rain than rain tyres on which he had just won a special stage. Ended up with him understeering into barrier and damaging the latch mechanism which failed shortly afterwards sending the bonnet up. He's as ham-fisted as Clarkson on the TG specials but also very civil. And behind the wheel, his inner child comes out to an amusing extent. Some attempts at getting the Scooby out (typical ham-fisted approach from Peter, you can see the wheels spinning very fast although we told him time and time again this only makes things worse): A slightly better perspective of the task at hand - steep hill and ice. Me demonstrating the engine running with the key removed: The 60 mile return was quite uneventful until everything started to go tits up for me. Since we all live far apart, I turned off in a small town leaving the convoy. As soon as I turned off the main road I passed a police car standing on the side of the road. Shortly afterwards, in the only mirror I had - which was falling off and angled very badly- I noticed they were following me. They didn't have their sirens on or anything otherwise I'd have stopped immediately so I decided to gently get away. I was driving through a village so I kept the speed low and so did they, but they were slowly gaining on me, clearly going above the speed limit. I just didn't want to talk to them - they're usually ok, 2 weeks ago we were pulled over with my friend and his Impreza and despite the cars being about as wrong as they could possibly be, they just checked our documents and bid us farewell. However, it's better if you're with someone and I was now alone. I got out of sight in some corners and accelerated quickly to get as far away as possible, slowing down using the handbrake so as not to switch the stop lights on when I was in view. I could see they were still following me. I lost them shortly afterwards on some windy roads but there was a problem. I was on a 15 mile stretch of road which you can't get off and I was pretty certain they'd just radio a patrol in the city I was headed towards to look out for an odd car entering the town on that road. And I'd probably be in trouble. I don't live far away from that road but there's a big river in between so I was stuck with going in the wrong direction, no matter where I chose to go. Thankfully, I was next to a big wood where we frequently drive and did that night. Peter discovered that area so I called him and was told how to get off that road so that I could enter the city from a different direction. This was a big mistake - I didn't really know where I was going and if I stalled the car, I'd be stranded. And that's exactly what happened. I was using GPS to navigate myself around the woods, hoping I would finally arrive on a known special stage which starts just off a different main road. I was headed in roughly the right direction. After about 10 miles, on a junction deep in the woods I turned off and got stuck. Not badly, but I stalled the engine trying to get out without spinning the wheels. This was very bad. It was around -5 celcius and I wasn't properly dressed. There was hardly no reception on the mobile phone, I was losing signal all the time. The phone battery was only 30% which to anyone who's owned a Galaxy S3 means it's going to die shortly. I had a bad car battery and I couldn't switch the ignition off to preserve power. I didn't know where I was and would not be able to explain my location to anyone. I didn't manage to get the coordinates from the maps, all I knew was that I was a blue dot in a huge green area with no roads marked. Having decided the best chance to get out of this was to get the engine going by hot wiring the ignition, I called my friend who that night was driving the VW. After many incredibly frustrating attempts to get a signal, I told him what had happened and he said he'd get back to me with a solution. I had to preserve as much power as possible so that the engine would start once I knew which cables to connect. Not easy when your ignition is stuck at 2. I had to pull a lot of cables out from various modules which don't have an off switch. I got at the ignition terminator style due to a lack of tools. At the same time, in a pitch black forest, I was wasting the last bit of juice left on the phone for the flashlight and determining on Google Maps where the hell I was. I managed to call Peter and told him roughly where I was and whether he'd come back for me. He was already 30 miles away at home by then. He got in his car straight away. When he was already in the area and my phone battery had fallen to just a few %, I got a text explaining how to hot wire the ignition. The flashlight didn't work anymore and I was shaking from the cold. One of the cables was hidden away and it took some effort to find it. I used a pair of house keys to connect the terminals and the car struggled to start with the battery almost flat. But it did start. Black-yellow and green - won't forget this for the rest of my life. I managed to get out of the soft sand by rocking the car and headed back towards a small village I asked Peter to drive to before receiving further directions. We met and he navigated me through the city I was originally headed towards so we could avoid the rozzers. Half an hour later, I was at home, trying to get in. The house keys I used to start the car had disappeared - they probably slipped under the floor. Managed to wake my mother up and she let me in. I disconnected the car battery so I could start it tomorrow and take it for repairs. That's it. Since we do this regularly and only now have I experienced how dangerous such outings can be, something has to be done to avoid such situations in the future. But now, much rest is needed. Edited February 6, 2015 by Greetings 11 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MadManMike Posted February 6, 2015 Author Report Share Posted February 6, 2015 Amazing story, sounds terrifying in parts! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
george_seamons Posted February 6, 2015 Report Share Posted February 6, 2015 What an awesome read, well done for writing it instead of sleeping. Maybe CB radios would be an idea? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pashley26 Posted February 6, 2015 Report Share Posted February 6, 2015 Strongly considering an Edition One G60 Mk2. There is an immaculate one local to me, it's always going to be worth what I pay for it. I can't see much reason not to? 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Danny Posted February 6, 2015 Report Share Posted February 6, 2015 As long as its all original and you leave it original. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pashley26 Posted February 6, 2015 Report Share Posted February 6, 2015 http://www.edition38.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=537434#entry5629368 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MadManMike Posted February 6, 2015 Author Report Share Posted February 6, 2015 They're epic. Do it. Tomorrow I am fitting my de-cat pipe and replacing the door lock spring (£7 for a spring the size of a penny... wtf). It's Avenue Club at Queens Square in Bristol this Sunday, so I'll be there with the camera again. Before then, the car will be getting a good clean and polish and I'll be fitting another part that turned up today - GOOGLY EYES Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Skoze Posted February 6, 2015 Report Share Posted February 6, 2015 Fantastic story Alex, glad you made it out alright. Simple, but I always keep some blankets in the boot just in case of being caught in the cold - cant imagine what it must have been like for you over there though! Agree with Seamons though, CBs could be a good, fairly simple idea. And you get to fit a massive aerial to your car Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jolfa Posted February 6, 2015 Report Share Posted February 6, 2015 Interesting read that! Next time just bridge the terminals on the starter motor with any metal object Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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