Recent content by rallychief

hi Zeitgeist yep my hid kit works perfectly what I am trying to determine is whether the car actually REQUIRES a kit that is canbus rated ie does the car have a canbus ecu that would be upset by a hid kit that isn't canbus compliant ? that is what I am trying to establish, as other things have...

Hi Dink does the car car need can bus friendly hid units though, or does it not matter, the hid kit I bought came from china is that an indicator that it ain't good and could be noisy and causing the issue. Cheers Chris

Hi everbody have fitted a hid kit ( AC) to my x reg phase 1 172 only to the dip beam the kit I used is not Can Bus friendly, I am having a lot of problems with ecu faults being thrown up, the scanner is saying virtually every sensor on the car has a fault, would the hid kit be causing this as is...

Will cup dampers work with non cup springs ie standard phase 1 172 springs, as I understand the cup is a little lower, is the difference within the dampers working range, how much stiffer are cup dampers, I cannot lower my car at all in fact would like to get a little more height on front, what...

if you go the electric route I have a Corsa C variable Column from a low mileage 2005 car, and a manual controller I bought from a guy that makes them in Ireland, it plugs in to the port where the speed sensor would go, and has a control you mount in the dash somewhere, and you can dial in the...

Cheers guys n gals... hopefully this will work

I've done a search on here, but all the links seem dead. Been on the DFT site, and it appears to have gone from there...

Very low efficiency, normal for a cup... Also failed it on not having compensator rod attached, even though on his paperwork it said it should't have one. Muppet MOT tester, so want the doc to go back down there, and shove it up his ar$e !!!

Hi all, yet again, another 172 cup has failed its mot due to rear brakes !!. I've found the link on here to the vosa document to give to MOT testers to give them an insight to cup rear brakes, BUT, all the links i've found don't work on the vosa site??? Any ideas where to get this doc from???

i've gotta build a car first...

One of these setups, like tescos in plymouth now have:(

Pizza hut is ok, but don't they have stupid parking eye things up ???

I'm up for it...

Stuart172, i'm in Tavistock and have ALL the tools for doing belts...

Hi all, as the title says, i want to remove the immobiliser on my 2000 172 sport. Is there a cheap and easy way, or do i need to send it away??? cheers