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Hubcentric, 15mm all round.

Apparently your wheels will fall off and you will die but I’m yet to have that happen

I'm going to take my chances...

My E92 M3 had spacers - it looked so much better for it too. I did 30 something thousand miles with no issues.

Looks great. Mine has 5mm from factory.

I was going to say, various Porsche’s have spacers from the factory, so they can’t be unsafe.

Like anything it usually comes down to whoever fitted them.

I’ve used cheap bolt through spacers from JJC / demon tweeks for years and many tens of thousands, possibly hundreds of thousands of miles.

I wouldn’t trust some of the cheap bolt on ones which are just threaded into the alloy, but happy with my eibach ones which have steel inserts.

Broccers wrote: Sat Nov 07, 2020 1:54 pm Replaced one of the rear lights on the boxster this morning, just need to buy one for the other. Had a quick blast in to the peak district where the whole world* is out walking or riding push irons. Cars abandoned everywhere. More people out there than were in pub beer gardens weeks ago. I somehow think noone is taking lockdown seriously this time.


*most of surrounding areas.

The Cotswolds were full of walkers and cyclists too. But not much vehicular traffic, which was nice.

Foz wrote: Wed Jun 17, 2020 12:49 pm Squeak tape

Bought some of this finally and worked a treat on my seatbelt in the boxster, cheers.

Broccers wrote: Sun Nov 08, 2020 6:22 pm

Foz wrote: Wed Jun 17, 2020 12:49 pm Squeak tape

Bought some of this finally and worked a treat on my seatbelt in the boxster, cheers.

I must have missed this - wtf is Squeak Tape?

S2K looks great pretty much perfect size/arch/track/height ratio.

Only ever fitted spacers once (10mm) - car felt horrible, so removed them.

Cheap-n-nasty 10mm spacers on The Compact, does seem to make it feel more stable.

Semi-decent 5mm spacers on the Porsche. Only really noticeable if I run them on the front only when it changes the balance slightly. More oversteery.

Compact news - it's a fair bit quieter now I've fixed the exhaust leaks ! It was blowing on the manifold-downpipe joint, and also the centre section-blackbox joint. Hopefully that'll get it through the emissions test tomorrow.

Leaky joint. Fair cop.


Note the broken stud on the right. It took bloody ages to drill that fecker out.

mik wrote: Sun Nov 08, 2020 7:27 pm

Broccers wrote: Sun Nov 08, 2020 6:22 pm

Foz wrote: Wed Jun 17, 2020 12:49 pm Squeak tape

Bought some of this finally and worked a treat on my seatbelt in the boxster, cheers.

I must have missed this - wtf is Squeak Tape?

https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B0 ... UTF8&psc=1

How do you use it? I can link felt tape with seat belt solution.

mik wrote: Sun Nov 08, 2020 8:17 pm How do you use it? I can link felt tape with seat belt solution.

Stick it to the area which is squeaking like your dash inbetween plastic on plastic or glass. Seatbelt against leather seat works

Ah Ok. Making more sense now.

American cars seem to use it instead of insulation, it’s everywhere on them!

With the extra darkness after the clocks went back I'd noticed how poor the headlights are. I went to adjust them and found the reason why, the adjusters have pooped themselves. A bit of nosing about turned up a late A2 being broken localishlly so a quick, easy, cheap fix - except I bought the whole car. It's currently at the mot station awaiting a slot. So I still need headlights... oh and a windscreen; it cracked the day after the other one was left for an mot (original screen too )

nuttinnew wrote: Mon Nov 09, 2020 1:17 amA bit of nosing about turned up a late A2 being broken localishlly so a quick, easy, cheap fix - except I bought the whole car.

I like your style

(the buying crappy cars you don’t really need bit; the obsession with A2s I’m still struggling with tbh )

Fixing the exhaust has not fixed the emissions Reading the internet has been no help, depending who you ask pretty much anything attached to the engine might be the problem. Any suggestions for home emissions tests ? The annoying thing with this is that I need to take the car down to the TUNA each time to see if it’s fixed. I can’t tell just by looking or driving it.

Next up, wife’s MINI is in for an MOT today. Fingers crossed. I’ll start getting grumpy if there’s two cars off the road with no MOT.

Do you know specifically what it failed on or are you just told emissions in general?