Ginger Tom

From my 120d I'm averaging 48.7 @ 80-90 on the motorways, according to the trip, I get about 515miles from about 48 litres of devils juice, if I stick to 60-70 I get about 600 miles out of the 48 litres

Have you read the hand book with regards to start stop?

It will only work when:

The car is up to operating temp,

All occupants have their seat belts on

The aircon is not on

The ambient outside temperature is above 5* iirc

The clutch pedal isn't depressed

Daz, as soon as you depress the clutch the engine begins to start and by the time you've selected gear it's running so effectively you have power as soon as you hit the loud pedal

Cheers Daz, just gotta get the mobile site up and running properly, then get some business cards and start handing them out

Web site is now online: www.gingertommotorsport.com

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I will shortly be getting a set of 19" wheels and tyres and I don't want the tyres,

The sizes are 225/50 and 285/50, one pair are virtually brand new and thet other should be good for a couple of thousand miles, all are run flats and Michelin's

Open to offers over £200 as the ones which are new will cost over this alone.

Will update when I have the tyre so you know which tyres are the newer ones and I'll upload pictures and tread depths when I have them, hopefully by next weekend

Put down a deposit on the 19's any one that owns an x3/5 need some tyres?

Looks smart that does, the ones I was gonna try and get have already been bought, gits. I'm going hopefully going to look at some 19's tonight, 225/285's respectively, see what they look like up against the car, I think that's 8/9" front/rear

Orgaised a viewing of some potention wheels for my car

:( smallest 20" tyres I can find are 225's

You can get 235/35r20's!!!!!! Gonna see if I can get the 20"

Apparently the ones I'm looking at are 9.5/10.5j, what's the staggared bit about?

Looking to get some x3/5 19/20" five spokes, I know they are gonna be a pain to fit under the car but I won't be lowering it if I get the wheel, I was wondering what size tyres would I need to get the stretched look going on?

Cheers for any help

Lol, no probs.

I would have thought it would be hydraulic so there would be no way of adjusting it, easiest way of checking for clutch slip is to drive up a slight incline in a gear that is too high, ie 5/6 and if the revs go straight up but your speed doesn't increase then the clutch will need changing, another way to tell is by how high the pedal is off the floor before it bites, should be about half way for a good clutch

Thank you, once it's all set up I'll put a link up to my site and look through the forum regs with regard to traders and the like

I'm soon to be starting up my own business

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Not sure if this is where I should put this, or if anyone is that bothered but I'm nearly a bonafide .com

Nearly time to se up on my own

The run flats I've got on mine don't seem to be any worse than standard tyres, I can understand low pros being poo my sis had them on her mini and they were awful but normal depth side wall run flats no so much

Where the prop meets the back of the gear box, if you can up load some picks of the box I'll have a look and see if I can spot it for you

It all depends on the gearbox, if there is a speed sensor on the output shaft you don't need the abs but DO need a decent auto electrician to get it to run properly, if there isn't a sensor on the back of the box you will need to keep the abs and the gearbox ecu so you can use the gearbox. This is all based on the ASSUMPTION that the gearbox is electronically controlled, some older automatics use valves and gearbox oil pressure to decide what gear to select.

Yeh but the ecu's talk to each other and trade information via can-bus/can-communication links.

The abs sensors double up as speed sensors when used on the wheels

Does the BMW box use a torque converter, like I would presume your yank tank will, if so you could see about mating the Ford torque converter to the BMW flywheel and making an adaptor plate to put the Ford box on the BMW engine that way you won't have to worry about the abs, there are ways of making the engine run without the abs but you need to be quite a good auto sparky to do it