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Couple of blasts up and down Mt Bulla road made me happy (was yesterday, does that still count?)

They use the South Oz dyno's?

Cheers - will hold off a bit longer then

Hey guys, Quick query. I've read that the first thing to do is often to disconnect the battery for a half hour of so to reset ECU/transmission/economy etc.(FG MkII) If I do this do the settings in the trip computer get reset as well? (litres used, average speed etc) No real biggie, just wondering.

fixed

I'd like to see the foot bindings being made use of

Or just his snowboard he's transporting.

PMSL - this just popped up in the news webpage http://theage.drive.com.au/motor-news/fords-advertising-blunder-20130325-2gozz.html Fits the problem with door locks

If the Figo is (as I think) a Festiva then I don't blame him for trying other vehicles

Shoot me now - please I think we found something worse than Chevy badges

Yep - donated a week ago and not sure what to do now - error on support/ticket page

I'm a bit more old school - in my day we'd put the dizzy cap from a GT351 onto a an RS2000 Escort for an easy and undocumented mod. 4 cylinders firing with and 8 cylinder pattern means they fire twice as fast = twice the power. Jag V12 dizzy cap was tried a few times, but 3 times the firing was found to be an uneven number and coz the car has four wheels it set up a shocking harmonic and unless you were running a 3 speed gearbox it's flip the car over. If only we had six speeds back then. Actually - if we had 12 speeds it wouldn't matter if you ran a 4, 8 or 12 spark dizzy - wow, imagine the potential. 1 dizzy for economy, 1 for fun and then another for ballistic. Was a lot easier before these computers and ECU's and stuff. Used to be that it actually mattered what hardware you had rather than what hardware you told it you had. In my day you couldn't just tell the car you had a turbine from a F16 fighter powering it and it'd act as if it did and fly at Mach 2.

I think after the tune you've only got 1 gear - unless u know what the + & - symbols mean

Hey guys, Picked my silver XR6T LE up tonight after a very long (because of the excitement) couple of weeks waiting. AWESOME machine Auto too which was a bit of a pleasant surprise (LE's were advertised as manual) I was sort of wondering if the manual would be the best for me (city driving) - especially after hearing how good the auto's are. All was going great. Got home, sat in the passenger seat reading the manual for about an hour and soaking in the new car smell. Get out - I'm standing in a puddle of coolant. WTF - check under car and yep. that's a heap of coolant. 75kms (picked it up with 26kms on the clock, so less than 50k's from the dealer) on the clock and something isn't quite right so to speak. Waiting on the free roadside assist to come and take a look - too late to call the dealer now. I did notice - I filled up (about 5kms from home) and everything was normal. Stopped at the milkbar on the way home and the thermo fans kept going - the whole time I was in the shop (over a minute). They went for about 10 seconds once I pulled in at home too. I thought that a bit strange, but really have no idea if that's normal or not. Something maybe not screwed in on the pre-delivery that could be important I'm hoping.