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    Most miles on a tank of fuel

    I'm only after buying an old shape a4 tdi and the day i bought it i but 50 litres into it and got 625 miles to it, i cudn't believe it,haha what a recession busting car,lol!!! :D
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    Gearbox mount query

    Sorry for the delay pgarner, i don't know what yr of car the mount came off but my engine code is AHU and the gearbox code looks to be either DHF or DHI, the original R/H gearbox mount that was on the car was part no. 8D0399114S and i just got the same thing at the scrap yard until i realised it...
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    Gearbox mount query

    Hi I bought a 97 tdi 90bhp A4 recently, but theres a thump from the gearbox when i change gears, i persumed the rubber mounts were gone but when i had a look under it the right hand side alluminium mount was broken. I got one from a scrapyard handy enough but when i took out the old one, i...
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    Advice on camshafts

    Thanks Sid that was some great information, but what do you mean when you say: "The stock heads flow well as they are, but a good 3 or 5-angle valve seat job wouldn't do any harm." Whats does 3 or 5 angle mean? is it degrees?
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    Car stickers

    You'd see some really good ones, my older brother had a sticker on the no. plate of his motorbike and it said "Sorry officer the devil made me do it" Or I've seen on a twin cam "After 7000 revs no one can hear you scream" lol!!!
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    Top Tips & trade secrets.

    Well this is probably obvious but when you're replacing spark-plugs always start them by hand if you can to prevent cross-threading the plugs and having to find out what a Heli-coil is!! :cheesy: haha
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    Would you buy a high mileage car or an older one

    I would go for a car that would in the country more than a city car, partly because and i often wonder this why manufacturers would never put an engine hour clock in a car aswell like on excavators,etc. A typical city car might only have 50,000 miles but how many hours of sitting in traffic...
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    Car Names

    I didn't either but then when i bought the 325, Lock Stock was on the number plate above the reg, i haven't a clue what it's supposed to mean but it stuck, now everyone knows her as Lock Stock,haha Then when i bought the 316, because the 325 had a name the 316 seemed to get called Dirty Harry...
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    How to use a choke

    God my first car had one too, a Fiat Uno! God can't remember when i heard someone talking about a choke,haha!! They took abit of getting used to but once you use it, then it was no hassle. No way the Fiat would have started though without it on a cold morning though!! lol!! She was a great...
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    cleaning the grime out of engine

    Well if its the inside of the engine, don't go down the same road as the guy who decided to shove the hose into his filler cap and wash the engine through with water!! haha :toung: Be cautious though even washing the outside of the engine with water or a steamcleaner, petrols don't like...
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    First thing you do when you get a car

    Usually when i get a car, theres always something to be done to it, like it seems to be that every car i buy is at the mileage where its due a timing belt, so i end up bringing the car home, ordering a belt and in the case of some cars take off the bumper :( nothing worse than having the rip...
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    help car wont run ????

    All it can be is something small I'd say too, the likes of a wrong vacuum hose somewhere, is your butterfly flap opening and closing smoothly?
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    I Had An Accident Last Night

    Nothing more annoying than having a tip in the car, but at least you're ok lad!! Don't know alot about Civics but could you convert it to discs at the back aswell? I'm planning to do it to my e30 316, just change over the parts from a 318is or 325 abit of work but can't beat discs all round!!
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    Other Car Forums

    I'm on E30Owners aswell but think TC is definetly the friendliest site and like pgarner said if you ask a question on TC then it will be answered :)
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    Staring at traffic lights

    The funniest thing happened me one morning heading to college, i was waiting at the front of the line at a red light and as normal half asleep and away in my own little world :cheesy:!! and all of a sudden i looked back up at the light and it was just going from amber to red again!! lol So i had...

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