My car feels much better now

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Psychological?

A whole ten miles? Your engine and oil may have actually reached normal operating temperature.

Shoot, this weekend we're going on a long drive - York to south London, then to Motherwell, then to York again. What's that, erm, around 800 miles. Perhaps a little bit longer.

Peter (petermcmillan snipped-for-privacy@yahoo.com) gurgled happily, sounding much like they were saying :

No, precisely.

"The Tooth Fairy".

Let's be fair, it's more likely than some of your half-arsed theories.

Ohmigawd, Peter... How did you cope? Did you take a Thermos of tea and some nice biscuits with you? Did you remember to phone your mummy when you got there, so she knew you were safe, and could stand down the search party?

Peter (petermcmillan snipped-for-privacy@yahoo.com) gurgled happily, sounding much like they were saying :

Priceless. Absolutely priceless.

Well, some car's are too fast for me, generally everything over 1.8's. I can keep up with most 'normal' cars though.

Well, the 0-60 times don't indicate much about the 0-30 times etc., so it's possible that upto say 40mph the Sei could be faster than the Metro. It definately feels a lot slower now then it did before.

Yeah, my car's really confusing me :-(

lol! There isn't really much to see now though, it generally runs quite well and only makes the pinking noise when under heavy load. I was thinking though, it's probably the injector that's making the pinking noise. When it's cold the injector sounds like a typewriter (which is normal for my car), this is what the pinking sounds like, but a bit louder. I think that's got to be what it is, but why?

lol! Actually, has anybody noticed the effects caffine can have on driving? I found it pretty shocking. I usually don't drink anything other than water, but occasionally have something like coke (about once a month). After not having any for a couple of months I had a couple of cans, and when I drove home my driving was amazing. I couldn't believe how I was driving, I wasn't as safe as usual and I was really braking late and heavy all the way home. It was if I was in a real hurry. It was really fun and I seemed to be driving really well, but I didn't feel completely safe. I'm going to avoid drinking (caffine) and driving from now on. btw, I don't drink alcohol. I was also felt pretty addicted and a week later I really wanted another can, it was pretty hard to resist!

Oh yeah I forgot something, my dad cleaned a filter. I'm not sure what it is, because he doesn't know what it is. It was near the injector, in a tube and he thinks it stops oil going into, the air filter (I think). Any ideas what it is and whether that could produce these results?

Peter (petermcmillan snipped-for-privacy@yahoo.com) gurgled happily, sounding much like they were saying :

Step away from the toolbox. NOW.

Peter wrote on 21 Jun 2004 13:44:49 -0700:

OK. You're now banned from this group (and uk.rec.driving) until you complete a trip of at least 50 miles each way. Preferably more.

Now I know why you can't still get Siecento 900s - they're too powerful...

I wasn't too happy when he said he cleaned it, but without knowing what it is I can't tell whether it was good or bad :-(. I wouldn't touch something unless I was pretty sure what it was/did.

Maybe, I'm starting to think the speed improvements are psychological because the engine is a lot quieter and more refined now, so it sounds like the engine isn't doing much. As for the different noises though, that's definately not psychological and the brake pedal thing is also not all in my head.

Actually the traffic was bad on the way and I had my cooling fan comming on after about 3 miles!

like

Coolant temperature and oil temperature are not the same thing.....

It was somewhere around Barstow, on the edge of the desert, when the drugs began to take hold. I remember petermcmillan snipped-for-privacy@yahoo.com (Peter) saying something like:

Troll or a Turing machine - possibly run by schoolboys.

All three.

Works though - 'it' keeps getting them to bite.

"DervMan" wrote

Let me just stop you there Dervy and say:

"Urgh, Motherwell."

What on earth are you going there for?

(c:

Douglas

Oh, I never did understand that!

much

But you said you'd read all of my website! ;)

Three reasons, really.

One, there's a car show we're showing at. :)

Two, it's there to be driven, from London. :)

Three, my Dad was born just south of Motherwell, so it's an opportunity to visit too.

In message , Peter writes

You don't understand about trimming posts either (ditto for dervy).