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General Car Chat / Re: Winter Tyre Choice

« on: 31 October 2011, 12:12:05 »

These new Dunlop's are very good for the money:

http://www.camskill.co.uk/m96b0s629p73551/DUNLOP_TYRES_WINTER_SNOW_CAR_DUNLOP_SP_WINTERSPORT_4D_DUNLOP_SP_WINTER_SPORT_4D_-_205_55R16_91H_TL_

Here's a winter tyre test reviewing them, also compares against some Summer CS2's.

http://www.autoexpress.co.uk/products/total_tyre_guide/259435/winter_tyre_test.html

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General Car Chat / Re: Winter Tyre Choice

« on: 31 October 2011, 11:46:36 »

I was in the same position as you and I went for 205 55 16.

Will be fitting mine next week I think.

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General Car Chat / Re: Tyre position

« on: 29 October 2011, 13:59:55 »

If you're only getting 2 new tyres, rear axle every time.  Much safer.

Here's why:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l5YsQ_a_ijA

tried to embed the video but it appears that feature has been removed.

I notice she gave it an armful of steering lock to provoke the oversteer , but fair point, if replacing 2 tyres. I maintain that, if replacing all 4, you should match them.

Woops, I only skim read the OP.  Thought she was only getting 2 new tyres!

Yeah I agree, should match all 4 where possible. 

I'd pay the extra for the 4 premium tyres.  You don't want to be crash into something/someone just because you skimped on some rubber.

I've even got a spare set of rims now for my winter tyres!

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General Car Chat / Re: Tyre position

« on: 29 October 2011, 13:18:26 »

If you're only getting 2 new tyres, rear axle every time.  Much safer.

Here's why:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l5YsQ_a_ijA

tried to embed the video but it appears that feature has been removed.

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General Discussion Area / Re: Ice road truckers:deadliest roads

« on: 22 October 2011, 11:41:21 »

I've just come back from those roads 2 weeks ago, and yep they're mental!  I expected it though as I've been to India before.

It's especially dangerous at night, still loads of traffic, unlit roads and the headlights are very poor ~ equivalent to our sidelights.

There are people hanging off every vehicle imaginable, everything just screams unsafe but that's how it is there.

We even had a motorcyclist crash and grind down the side of our Jeep, despite it  not being our fault our driver did not stop and drove off as fast as he could.  The reason being that we weren't local to that particular village and when there's an accident a big crowd swarms to defend their locals - whether they're in the wrong or not.

Worst roads I've been on though are the mountain roads to Bhutan, scary stuff!

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General Discussion Area / Re: for potential iphone buyers :)

« on: 19 October 2011, 16:31:10 »

Seems the new iphone 4S is having a lot of problems with battery life.

http://www.pocket-lint.com/news/42593/iphone-4s-battery-complaints-flood-in

The SGS2 has also been proven to work faster in real world performance tests.

Both great phones mind.

The Galaxy Nexus was announced this morning too, another fantastic phone especially on ICS (Android 4.0).

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General Car Chat / Re: Fitting your own tyres

« on: 18 October 2011, 12:19:37 »

Not an area I'd like to experiment with or cut corners to save a few pennies...

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Omega Electrical and Audio Help / Re: NCDC Units & CD-R's

« on: 21 September 2011, 10:30:38 »

 

I have noticed that some iPods are getting a little lower on their output levels, and I think it something to do with the settings that "Balance" out the audio signals of the music that has been recorded so that they all play at the same levels - I might do a bit more investigating into that one.

Don't have an ipod, using a creative zen which is a few years old.

Out of interest, where did you mount your modulator?

Used the +12v feed and earth of the rear ciggy lighter, the modulator's on the floor behind the drivers seat.  Can't really think of a better place for it atm, if it was a bit smaller it would have been perfect underneath the armrest where the cupholder insert it.  Might see if I can somehow squeeze it in there later, would look tidier there with no exposed wires.

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Omega Electrical and Audio Help / Re: NCDC Units & CD-R's

« on: 21 September 2011, 00:18:04 »

Received and installed my FM modulator from DND Dave today.

Works a treat, no static and much better quality than the chinese tat.  Only downside I found was that the volume output was a bit low, need to wack up the stereo volume to compensate.  Easy enough.

You could always experiment with turning up the volume a little on the MP3 device

 

I'm not that dim, it's on max!

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Omega Electrical and Audio Help / Re: NCDC Units & CD-R's

« on: 20 September 2011, 17:17:06 »

Received and installed my FM modulator from DND Dave today.

Works a treat, no static and much better quality than the chinese tat.  Only downside I found was that the volume output was a bit low, need to wack up the stereo volume to compensate.  Easy enough.

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Omega Electrical and Audio Help / Re: NCDC Units & CD-R's

« on: 16 September 2011, 14:10:19 »

Cheers Dave DND, think I'll buy one of those now.  Already have the correct RCA to 3.5mm cable.

That setup sounds ideal Weds, could I just wire the +12V to a ciggy lighter? 

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Omega Electrical and Audio Help / Re: NCDC Units & CD-R's

« on: 16 September 2011, 12:45:47 »

Has someone installed DND's modulator and posted a guide for it?  I've never wired anything directly to the car, I'd also like ideas of where to neatly install the modulator.  I have a NCDC 2015 if that helps.

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Omega Electrical and Audio Help / Bose specifications

« on: 02 September 2011, 18:32:34 »

Nothing urgent here, just curious to know the full specifications of the Bose setup in a 3.2 Elite.

I found this picture:


Does anyone else have any more detailed information on the speakers/tweeters and amplifier?

Thanks.

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Omega Electrical and Audio Help / Re: navtech disc compatibility with ncdc2013

« on: 02 February 2011, 18:49:48 »

Unfortunately, as I thought

At least you can still use older discs I suppose.

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Omega Electrical and Audio Help / Re: navtech disc compatibility with ncdc2013

« on: 28 January 2011, 17:39:48 »

In dream land I'd hope the 2011 disc has TMC, post codes and speed cameras. 

Thinking pessimistically I think they could just introduce this 'big' update to make sure people have to buy the whole package so that they have access to the software cd, preventing splits on ebay.  And just a simple map update.  Hopefully not though ey!