Paging Albert T Cone

That isn't entertaining, even for me and as I think everybody knows, I dislike Passats.*

Well apparently it's Cat C - having gone to the approved repairers to make sure it was still there given that's what the insurance bods told me yesterday, I now find it's been relocated to a salvage yard in Wimbourne, Dorset.

'Humm... it's still my car (1) til we reach agreement on a settlement? Oh, and while we're here, how much is the salvage up for?'

'You may need to deal with the third party company.'

'Erm, no - my car, you've got to reach a settlement with me on it, I'm not lining some third parties pocket if I do decide to buy it back or want decide to insist you're to repair it rather than write it off'.

They've told said company not to touch it for now.

Humm... :-P

Just got off the phone to the hire company - I've elected to pay a bit extra and got an upgrade (or at least I hope it's an upgrade), from a Corsa 1.2 to a Focus 1.8.

(1) Well technically, anyway - the finance company own it, but all the time I'm responsible for the outstanding debt on it, I think I'll have my say on the matter???

D'oh - for "uneconomical" read: "economical" heh.

I like that facelifted version. Mine's the one before that, with the non-circular foglights and hidden exhaust.

Nice

I'm not just saying it because I've said I'll try and punt it on for my mate (well, I technically own 2/3rds of it, but it looks really nice for its age. :-)

Not really - I bloody love that car! :'(

Shiny-shiny! Looks nice. I'd be tempted, but I really need an estate. Out of interest, how do they remap? I know there is no intercooler, so options are a bit limited, but still - ?

:-(

ECU out, EEPROM removed, wiped, map uploaded.

Not had it on the rollers yet, so no idea on actual gains, but it's fair to say it's a lot more pokey now than it was. :-)

Others have retrofitted a front mount intercooler with reportedly good gains, and I was going to look into doing this had I decided to keep it.

It's a Passat... you should be pleased. ;-)

Right, Jolly good. Cheers for that. You don't happen to have the .HEX file for the EEPROM, do you? If it happened to wing it's way in my direction, a handful of beer tokens might be sent in retaliation...

Hmmm. 'inneresting.

Heh. I don't despise them - I think they are very worthy, but terminally dull, family wagons. It's when people ludicrously praise them for their dynamics that I get all het up... :-)

I need to know which make ECU it is, as they used several different types on these apparently, and the ECU number.

I can then but ask the chappie down the unit if I can 'borrow' a copy of it, as my mate no longer runs it and these maps are sitting on said chaps own laptop...

Makes a difference worth having apparently, and I've priced up the parts to do it for under £200.

It's then a question of making it fit.

:-)

Even said mate who was running the unit and runs a tuned 106 GTI as his daily drive (1) and has that Skyline engined 200SX commented on how well mine went / handled.

Fair enough. I'll bear it in mind, just in case.

That's where I've come a bit un-enthused in the past. There might be a bit more room to play with on the 306 than on my old 205. Well, maybe.

Okey dokey.

There is - seen pictures on the internet of a conversion, so it must be true. ;-)