I have been trying to get setups of different forum treads into my game but when i put them into the setups folder nothing happens. they will go into the folder but nothing more i cant see them in game so can not use them, can somebody please enlighten me on why that is please. And also wondered if it was because i had a demo licence. Much thanks Joe

Did you download setups for correct car?
With demo you can drive three cars, their setups are named: xfg_... xrg_... fbm_...

yeah i got like 3 of the ones starting with xrg, but nothing is in the game.

it is in folder LFS\data\setups\ ?
Can you please link to what you downloaded, maybe it is somehow broken or wrong named

yeah it is in that folder and heres a link to what my folder looks like https://gyazo.com/ce875c18c590118135f288f9c9d5a2af and this is the thread i got the setup from https://www.lfs.net/forum/thread/14587-Drift-setup-for-XRG

They MUST start with the short codename of the car and an underscore. XFG_, XRG_ and XRT_ in this case.

all the setups i have found dont, so what if they dont can i change them or not?

That thread is from 2006. Just someone bumped it up to top again.
At some time the car names used in setups changed.
Not sure if renaming works, maybe. But physics changed too, so not useful I think.

See http://www.setupgrid.net for up to date setups, in Misc section is drift sets too.

thanks very mcuh for your help