Paint drying would also be more interesting than F1.
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Depends what Golf you have driven. The Mk4 is rubbish, the Mk5 is far better. Actually can feel what's going on underneath you. The Mk6 is better still but I've yet to try.
I'd always pick an Audi over a BMW aside from the 335d vs the Audi A4 equivalent or the BMW M3, however I would probably rather own the RS4 day to day.
EU laws are to blame.
Could be loads of things. Not gonna start throwing up ideas but you'd need to get it scanned and see what comes up.
http://www.bimmerforums.co.uk/ ... ding-*swirl-flaps*-t5537/
http://www.bimmerforums.co.uk/ ... ding-*swirl-flaps*-t5537/
Further confirming my theory you are a closet gay.
this thread
Ugh CSL style, boring overused and especially if you do not lower your car and have the m-sport styling pack which yours doesn't it will look stupid.
Save the money for when the swirl flap goes and you need a new engine :> lol
Save the money for when the swirl flap goes and you need a new engine :> lol
lol this thread lmfao
I love my car more than most people here love theres but I'd never give it a name. You can care for an inanimate object but no matter how hard you try it does not have a personality.
No-one phoned me.
And sorry Flame *whiteflag*
Can we all hug and be friends?
And sorry Flame *whiteflag*
Can we all hug and be friends?
I can only apologise if you felt offended by my previous statement. I have set up a hotline, 07851289215 where you can, in confidence, call or text if you have any further comments.
Last race is not last play, nice try though. There are quite a few people on the forum who don't play the game.
It's a problem of the players which are a problem because of LFS. If I still played I'd have long forgotten about racing and joined the croozurs brigade bruv innit
I know that I would rather own a Scirocco TSI with budget tyres than wait for 3 years for the garage to put a set of Goodyear F1 ASD2's on.
I also know about the ESP system in VW's as my car has exactly the same system. It applies brakes to all 4 corners independently in the event of a slide. It can act as a electronic diff when accelerating around corners (in the dry it works quite well, in the wet you'd just understeer) although that was not what it's designed for. Even with the system disabled the ESP is in a passive mode where it will still try to take steps to keep you safe.
It reads wheel speed, slip angle, steering angle, throttle position, there are lots of parameters it reads and computers to calculate what to do.
Now compared to the TC system that LFS already has, there is not a massive amount of difference aside from the wheel braking and he background calculations.
All I know is that they should have released the Scirocco - kept people happy with the release, even if it was not 100%, it would have been 95-98% finished aside from the ESP and the tyre models which would affect all cars anyway. If they had released the Scirocco it would keep the community happy for 6 months to a year at the very least, look how long the FBM effect lasted, people were very happy for over a year!
So if the Dev's reasoning is not wanting to release the Scirocco because of the lack of updated tyre physics, why don't the devs stop all the existing cars being used? After all, if their "baby" (as in the game, the LFS Project) needs to be perfect they already have imperfect cars driving around so the release of a car which is physically, at worst, the same as what's already there, what's the reason for withholding the car.
Either VW pulled the support which wouldn't have surprised me, or it's not ready, or the Dev's are really thinking people will hang around waiting for a SINGLE CAR which is already a few years late (and for which the real life life next-gen model will be out, probably before the original one is released in a game).
As for overheating tyres in LFS, I never had a problem except when I ran aggressive qualifying setups (designed for a couple of laps) over extended races when racing at close to WR times (CTRA brings back good memories, me, NickC, inferno boys, a lot of good racing back then).
Yes but that does not mean you will get those side effects, nor does it mean that you wouldn't get others.
Well if you think, the amount of time it took them to make the FBM which is arguably harder to code and design than a hot hatch, and yet the FBM didn't take 3 years.
I tried cars at my mates house. It's very promising. The silly little tracks are quite good, I like conneticut and also the "test track" is a lot of fun.
Although the graphics are good and the choice of cars pretty wicked, there is a problem with the physics. Cars are too understeery and while you can sort of fix it with setups, the only way to fix the problem is to whack your rear suspension stiffness up and increase the strength of the rear ARB. It goes from understeering like a biyatch to being so unstable that you spin out if you even try to turn and accelerate with no sort of "magic" point in between the 2.
I find it very hard to drift as well, although I can drift pretty much perfectly on every other sim, GT5, LFS, rFactor, GPL, etc. Perhaps it was the wheel settings (I was using my friends G27 at his house) but it was like no matter what I did when correcting a slide it would spin the other way in a sort of pendulum effect even if the correct steering inputs were applied.
BUT it's only a beta and i think it's gonna be great.
Although the graphics are good and the choice of cars pretty wicked, there is a problem with the physics. Cars are too understeery and while you can sort of fix it with setups, the only way to fix the problem is to whack your rear suspension stiffness up and increase the strength of the rear ARB. It goes from understeering like a biyatch to being so unstable that you spin out if you even try to turn and accelerate with no sort of "magic" point in between the 2.
I find it very hard to drift as well, although I can drift pretty much perfectly on every other sim, GT5, LFS, rFactor, GPL, etc. Perhaps it was the wheel settings (I was using my friends G27 at his house) but it was like no matter what I did when correcting a slide it would spin the other way in a sort of pendulum effect even if the correct steering inputs were applied.
BUT it's only a beta and i think it's gonna be great.
I have driven and always preferred manuals but when I test drove a DSG last month I was completely sold. It was quick, smooth, responsive to manual inputs, a very good gearbox. You literally could not tell when an upshift occurred and I'm not just bleating marketing spiel. In sport mode it would blip aggressively on the downchanges to match the revs perfectly each time, if you were decelerating the downchanges were equally as smooth as the upchanges. Although if you were accelerating and you decided to change down, you would feel it but it's no worse than any of the regular ZF automatics such as BMW, Jaguar, etc.
In "D" it would shift "economically" so at around 2300rpm in the Golf 1.4 TSI 170 I tried. In "S" depending on throttle input, it would shift much higher, around 4500rpm unless you floored it, in which case it would pull to just below the redline and shift up. In manual mode it would do what you wanted, when you wanted.
Not only that but it's quicker than a manual, more tunable (can take more torque) and you get better miles to ze gallon.
I want a Golf Mk5 GTI as my next car and will definitely be getting the DSG. And because I want the DSG I'll be getting it from a VW dealer with a warranty. The only thing I will make sure is that I get the flappy paddles as those are awesome.
In "D" it would shift "economically" so at around 2300rpm in the Golf 1.4 TSI 170 I tried. In "S" depending on throttle input, it would shift much higher, around 4500rpm unless you floored it, in which case it would pull to just below the redline and shift up. In manual mode it would do what you wanted, when you wanted.
Not only that but it's quicker than a manual, more tunable (can take more torque) and you get better miles to ze gallon.
I want a Golf Mk5 GTI as my next car and will definitely be getting the DSG. And because I want the DSG I'll be getting it from a VW dealer with a warranty. The only thing I will make sure is that I get the flappy paddles as those are awesome.
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Yah stuff on the internet can be wrong, depends weather you read "review" websites or actual owners club info, generally owners clubs tend to be comprised of people with a more level head and more interest for the oily bits anyway. Although some people have all the tools but not a single clue what to do with any of it. *facepalm* Yet some people know what they need to do but don't have the tools!!!!
I wish I had some spanners, I can dream of a nice garage space, I'd put in floor ramps and everything if I could.
I think my cars emission rating is like 140g/km, seriously that's 1000 Ooh-rows? And I thought 60 odd quid every 6 months was steep..
By electronics I mean the mechatronics unit. 90% of failures of DSG are rectified by a new mechatronics box. Which is sort of odd because for the size of it, it's probably the most expensive box ever made!!
Nathan, exchange price of a DSG in the UK is around £3k, the electronics for it are around £1500. Those prices include fitting at VAT.
http://www.honestjohn.co.uk/forum/post/index.htm?t=58098
http://uk-mkivs.net/forums/t/155170.aspx (cost for replacement mechatronics module £650 including a 60% goodwill gesture from Audi - normal price £1755)
If you can do that price then no wonder business is good for you!
http://www.honestjohn.co.uk/forum/post/index.htm?t=58098
http://uk-mkivs.net/forums/t/155170.aspx (cost for replacement mechatronics module £650 including a 60% goodwill gesture from Audi - normal price £1755)
If you can do that price then no wonder business is good for you!
Ah well, so you're arguing that I am agree with you? I never said it's impossible to set diesel on fire just that compared to petrol it's far, far harder and diesel is a much safer liquid to be around. I didn't reverse any position, I simply read and understood the topic better so I could explain it in a way which matches my view. I find things hard to word so with greater understanding comes a greater ability to explain.
There's no pleasing some people.
The issue is not a fracture in the fuel line, it's the injectors. The risk isn't fire, it's losing all power steering at most of your brakes at any time when the injector(s) decide to fail.
The TDI 170's came with two different injectors depending on manufacture date, batch etc - Siemens and Bosch. People with Siemens ones or injector part numbers ending in M (I think) are the ones who the recalls apply to.
For example the injector would be 3K0 248 189 A-T, where the 3k0 ### string is the part number, the letter at the end is the REVISION number. Normally the parts are interchangable so for example a 3K0 248 189 A could be replaced with a T and vice versa, although that's not true 100% of the time. Normally later revisions are improved versions of earlier revisions or just updated when VW move their part number systems around.
The problem is that it happened so often that people got fed up of paying over £800 a pop PER INJECTOR) so after much complaining to Vosa/VW, VW offered the recall notice. Total cost for 4 new injectors and the wiring loom is around £3250. The fuel lines and fuel pumps aren't even touched.
http://briskoda.net/forums/top ... tor-failures-vosa-action/
http://www.audi-sport.net/vb/a ... -2-0-tdi-injectors-2.html
The Siemens one fail and so are replaced. I am not denying the official recall notice states fire but that is not the reason for the recall.
There's no pleasing some people.
The issue is not a fracture in the fuel line, it's the injectors. The risk isn't fire, it's losing all power steering at most of your brakes at any time when the injector(s) decide to fail.
The TDI 170's came with two different injectors depending on manufacture date, batch etc - Siemens and Bosch. People with Siemens ones or injector part numbers ending in M (I think) are the ones who the recalls apply to.
For example the injector would be 3K0 248 189 A-T, where the 3k0 ### string is the part number, the letter at the end is the REVISION number. Normally the parts are interchangable so for example a 3K0 248 189 A could be replaced with a T and vice versa, although that's not true 100% of the time. Normally later revisions are improved versions of earlier revisions or just updated when VW move their part number systems around.
The problem is that it happened so often that people got fed up of paying over £800 a pop PER INJECTOR) so after much complaining to Vosa/VW, VW offered the recall notice. Total cost for 4 new injectors and the wiring loom is around £3250. The fuel lines and fuel pumps aren't even touched.
http://briskoda.net/forums/top ... tor-failures-vosa-action/
http://www.audi-sport.net/vb/a ... -2-0-tdi-injectors-2.html
The Siemens one fail and so are replaced. I am not denying the official recall notice states fire but that is not the reason for the recall.
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