shopping today

Spammer Joined: 27 Jul 2004 Posts: 5717

been shopping for the chammy today bought a few things,it is ferkin expensive out there
first stop gsf ,i bought a brand new heater matrix from them for 35 quid but after coming home put the 2 matrixes together ,they look different ??????new matrix on the left and the old one on the right

new one(smaller aluminium pipes)

and the old one with thicker brass pipes

got these as well ,triple whatever they are

been to halfords after ,the tungy metallic grey color is not on shelves ,what a shock Shocked

however friendly halfords staff offer to make the spray for you for the pricely sum of 9.99 ,i hope that color matches or we will have big problems with that unfortunate halfords staff in the nearest future Evil or Very Mad

the tax on the balck rt has expired today so another 6 months of tax is purchased from the nearest post office for 93.50

what a day

Forum Moderator Joined: 02 Mar 2004 Posts: 19978

you swap the rubber and felt bit over to the new one.

The old pipes are copper.

triple electrode plugs are crap. You should have asked for clio 16V plugs (twin electrode) or best of all got single electrode plugs.

The halfords paint match paint is quite good I have to say.

Forum Moderator Joined: 18 Feb 2004 Posts: 7432

halfords 449 is shite, too dark, more than can be put down to time fading.

Went to the local paint factors instead and they had a number of different variations on 449, they took the pad of samples out to the car and matched it exactly. Got a bigger can for less money as well.

Spammer Joined: 27 Jul 2004 Posts: 5717

Chris H wrote:

you swap the rubber and felt bit over to the new one.

The old pipes are copper.

triple electrode plugs are crap. You should have asked for clio 16V plugs (twin electrode) or best of all got single electrode plugs.

The halfords paint match paint is quite good I have to say.

i did swap the rubber and plastic bits on to the new one chris (as in the first pic ) what i cant understand is that why is the old matrix wider than the new one ???? is the new one circulating less water thus less heat ?????

i asked for r16 16v plugs and thats what they gave ,but i never fitted them on the car so i can change them ,no probs

Forum Moderator Joined: 18 Feb 2004 Posts: 7432

i got some single electrode Bosch ones that seem good, ill get the code for you later.

Spammer Joined: 27 Jul 2004 Posts: 5717

here is the halfords spray ,i dont like the nozzle bit ,its not to easiest thing to use really

sprayed this stuff on some paper to check the match with a broken piece of mirror cover ,seems to be fine but not perfect .

i will spray the mirrors with this ,as the drivers side cover is broken so i will have to stick the insides of that mirror into a blue 16v mirror cover after spraying the blue cover in tungy , bahhh

Forum Moderator Joined: 18 Feb 2004 Posts: 7432

i hope youre going to rub the blue off and prime it properly?

Spammer Joined: 27 Jul 2004 Posts: 5717

I will indeed rub it properly but did not think there would be need for priming Embarassed

that will be a pain in the neck Evil or Very Mad

Forum Moderator Joined: 02 Mar 2004 Posts: 19978

LOVE THE WAY THEY CANNOT SPELL TUNGSTEN! caps

Matrixs thickness matters not my man, it'll be fine.

The single electrode NGK plug number is on the site somewhere.

Forum Moderator Joined: 02 Mar 2004 Posts: 19978

BKR6EY

Spammer Joined: 27 Jul 2004 Posts: 5717

pmsl @ TUNGSTENE Laughing

BKR6EY noted Wink

Site Subscriber Joined: 11 Feb 2005 Posts: 2929

Quote:

triple electrode plugs are crap. You should have asked for clio 16V plugs (twin electrode) or best of all got single electrode plugs.

Why is this?? I don't understand why 3 electrode plugs would be any worse than a 2 or 1 electrode plug?

I put Bosch Super 4's in mine yesterday. Are they crap as well?

Spammer Joined: 27 Jul 2004 Posts: 5717

i dont think he is saying they are crap but unnecessary due to price etc

Site Subscriber Joined: 11 Feb 2005 Posts: 2929

I understand now.

He's correct, they cost me a fortune.

Â£20 for the super 4's, Â£39 for the Bosch leads, and for good measure I got a cam belt kit today and that cost me Â£87 from the factors!

The bloody energy never cost that much Crying or Very sad

Forum Moderator Joined: 02 Mar 2004 Posts: 19978

they are very crap, its all covered in my tech articles!

I would remove the bosch super 4's asap and get decent plugs in there.

Forum Moderator Joined: 18 Feb 2004 Posts: 7432

single electrode Bosch ones that i have in mine are 'FR 6 D+'

Bosch Super plus 'YTTRIUM'

Mr Quoter-vator Joined: 16 Feb 2004 Posts: 7405

i cant remember what i got but they are single jobbies...

multi's last longer but have downsides...have a look in the base of all knowledge worthy of man....

Level 8 User Joined: 02 Dec 2004 Posts: 263

My Bosch super 4'a are doing a nice job in my RT Rolling Eyes

Forum Moderator Joined: 02 Mar 2004 Posts: 19978

if you remove them and fit decent single electrode NGK's then it will be even better.

Soneji had them in his clio rt and I threw them over the railway line, fitted some of my old NGK's and it idled better and pulled much better and the NGK's had already done 20k in my engine!

Spammer Joined: 27 Jul 2004 Posts: 5717

so whats the magic of this single electrode ngk s than chris ????
it does not make sense as you would expect 3 electrodes to burn the fuel better not one .
can u explain this to me ,cause as far as i know ,bosch is not a crap make at all

Forum Moderator Joined: 18 Feb 2004 Posts: 7432

well it wont spark across all 3 electrodes at once will it. The only benefit of more than one electrode is that they last a bit longer, as one electrode wears down from sparking, the others become a better option for the spark to jump to. Course, the rest of the spark plug still beaks down at the same rate. They exist because marketing and lack of understanding means they will sell.