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Julian Edgar

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    Roomster Tdi 1.9 x 2

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  1. I tried using VCDS and the Fabia approach and couldn't achieve any change.
  2. I drive a lot on dirt. No hitting of the bar yet - the attachment ends rise and fall with the wheels, remember. Regarding noise - over the years, I have tried reducing noise in many cars I have owned. It's never been very successful.
  3. Story on my modified Roomster - may be of interest to some people - http://www.autospeed.com/cms/A_112589/article.html
  4. Great write-up. But what a ***** of a job....
  5. Watch the belt timing! I have just had mine changed by a specialist VW mechanic and it's going back because the car no longer runs exactly as it did prior to the change. Worse fuel economy, powerband moved up rev range by 1000 rpm.
  6. thanks also from me - I wondered how you get those panels off.
  7. I reviewed the Ignis Sport as a new car - see http://www.autospeed.com.au/cms/A_2295/article.html As the owner of a 1.9 TDi Roomster, with about 20 per cent more than std power, there is no way in the world that the Roomster is anything like the "driver's car" of the Ignis Sport. No way at all. In everything else I can quickly think of, it is much superior. Depends on how hard you like to drive.
  8. For those interested, a story I wrote for an online magazine http://www.autospeed.com/cms/A_112171/article.html
  9. I don't know for sure but looking up under the dash (RHS on RHD car) appears to reveal a panel of relays. When I replaced the horns I wanted to ensure that the car used a relay to control the horn and the clicking came from this area.
  10. Thanks - we'll be running lots of Roomster-based modification stories this year.
  11. On the road the results are excellent. The brake bias is clearly more to the front, but this is noticeable only when reversing down a steep gravel driveway, where the fronts will ABS earlier than before. The ability of the brakes to pull the car down from high speed with progression and feel is superb – vastly better than with the standard brakes. On a back road (hmm, I mean the track) you can drop from 150 to 60 km/h with literally a gentle push of the centre pedal – and do it corner after corner. In an emergency stop the ABS operates as it did with the standard brakes. Downsides? There are some. When the brakes are dead cold (in my normal daily drive I arrive at a roundabout after 30 kilometres of country driving that has had literally no brake applications at all) the pedal needs a distinctively firmer push. In normal urban braking that doesn’t occur (the brakes must retain some heat) and in spirited driving the pedal effort is clearly lower than with the standard brakes. Each new disc has a mass that is 1.4kg greater than standard (interestingly, the new calipers and pads are 200 grams lighter than the old ones) and the Roomster is a car where the 1.2kg increase per side in unsprung weight can be clearly felt. When I went from 15 to 16 inch wheels, the latter fitted with larger tyres, I could feel the increase in unsprung weight, and the same has occurred with the new front brakes. The result is that over lumpy bitumen, the car does not ride as well. Overall? Very impressive.
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