TI Update...

Ooh my switches still light up...lights don't tho :(

Also had a 'press LHR window switch down = LHF parking light on" episode, that passed tho :)

-- Chet

Heh.. All my switches work - it's just that they don't light up. Well, one does, so I reckon 1/2 hour with contact cleaner and some new bulbs will fix that.

Reminds me of my old MkIV Escort - if you turned the radio on, the headlamps came on with it...... took me _ages_ to fix that one.

I can't be arsed, i'll only have the car for another 3-4 months then dump it!

I fitted a stereo into a 205 once, the ignition lights stayed on if you left the stereo on. I told the bloke it was a safety feature so he didn't leave it on ;)

-- Chet

It can be surprisingly good. But very difficult to get an accurate sound. If you listen to enjoy and relax though it's fine.

The space can be compensated for with correct system design (EQ is NOT the answer...) but the main problem is noise.

Can I borrow that next week cos we're having another house party :-)

Available for rent, all mobile, niceley racked, ideal for partys of up to

200 noisy people, or 600 quiet ones. Fits in an Escort van (ALMOST fits in my Zafira but I have to de-rack the amps and slide 'em down the side)

What is it, out of interest? TBH 40W is loud enough to annoy anyone in the house, and the neighbours if they're sat in their garden, and I've got the window open. Though twice as loud (160WPC?) would be nice :P.

Go on...

Old-ish technics amp (oldest bit in my rack, about 8 yrs) with Monitor Audio Bronze II speakers (very new). Work well, amp can drive speakers hard but the sensitivity of the speakers is low so it needs to. That and the matching ASW100 sub means you can hear it in the neighbors garden with the windows closed...

My "other" amps are 3x Crown Macrotech 1200, 600wpc into 8 ohms (will drive

2 ohm loads..), they are really nice sounding amps but as they're designed for live sound they have fans in them making them a bit noisy.

LOL ! Factory stoppers were crap. Now they're not. It's made PLENTY of difference - a set of decent pads is the easiest thing you can do to combat fade, and that applies to most cars.

Yeah right. If I had a thousand quid sat in my "car pot", then it would go towards a better car. The TI's only worth somewhere between two and three grand - it would be rather silly for me to throw that kind of money at it !

Don't really want it noiser. As I've already posted, I'd like a stainless one because A: The tailpipe looks nice, and B: it won't need replacing again. Any sound "improvement" is a free bonus.

No, they're 130w bulbs. The TI has an H2 bulb for dipped-beam, and a second H2 bulb that lights up on main beam - it's this second bulb that I've swapped.

They probably do run hotter, but they've lasted a year so far. They throw LOTS of extra light out !

Agreed. But they look nice, and they're only one inch bigger than standard, and I get the bonus of an extra 1cm of tyre-grip in the dry. I don't use the car right to it's limits on the public roads, for obvious reasons ! Wear doesn't concern me - as I said, I only keep my cars a couple of years (at about 7,000 miles per year).

Nope. I had em on my last car, and they were excellent. Same results here.

! Perhaps you SHOULD try them, before you comment ?

Ditto. But my now-good brakes, mean I don't have to do that.

Well these were only £26 a set, and they're supposed to last 100,000 miles. Even if they only make half that life, I rekon they're good value :) Anyhow, you'll probably find the NGK or Champion plugs for Turbo engines, are more than £10 a set - they were the last time I looked.

Because I have no idea what the real RMS value is !

I don't give two hoots what you think I sound like :)

Lifetime warranty.

It's way out of my league, way out of my budget, and the net result would still be a Rover 600. If I was gonna get a job of that scale done, it would be on a better car. If I wanted a V8 car, then, er, I'd buy one !

I'm quite happy as it is thanks :)

Give us the rest of the rig then - not just the power amps ;-)

Make me feel incompetent with my compact and bijou HK Audio setup :-(

*cough* "I only keep my cars for 2-3 years, and cover 16K miles in that time...." why would you need long-life plugs ? Or an exhaust with lifetime warranty? :-P

Andy

Yup - I was wondering when someone would notice ;)

I don't, but it's as good a reason as any for buying em :)

Heh.

Grrr. Bloody Yorkshire logic... :-)

I'd rather have the £500 and a couple of Hellas mounted where they used to put wing mirrors :P.

Hello Doki.

29 Sep 03 16:18, you wrote to Nom:

D> I'd rather have the £500 and a couple of Hellas mounted where they used to D> put wing mirrors :P.

Directed in a similar fashion? ;)

Sergey

... An elevator always smells different to a midget.

its at that point when i get normally get the lump hammer out :)

Can trump that, puddle lights[1] on my 1st 164, bulb fell out of holder, I lost wipers, radio, electric sunroof and offside indicators. Took me a week to trace the f'kin problem.[2]

[1] those awfully nice lights that dimly illuminate the pavement when you open the door [2] Problem was, it's an Alfa.

Ergo, the quality of the "wiring and / or the lens / reflector" is likely to have a significant affect. Quality varies between brands, so "by definition" the individual brand of car /is/ important.

As someone who enjoys listening to decent music in his car, I'd say "what a load of old bollocks" :)

Okey dokes, whatever you say. I 'appreciate' my music there all the time, and that's not directly related to whether it's of 'audiophile' quality.

I listen to all kinds. Current CD is mayday, so 'thud, thud, thud' is probably appropriate in that case, but in my doorbin at the moment I have allsorts, Bowie, Barenaked Ladies, Sam & Dave, Cure, Placebo, Squeeze, etc, etc. Even got some Stevie Wonder stuck in there. Personally I don't restrict myself to anything, I play what I like, and I like variety.