Ben Smith

To be honest I to would of chosen 17s, but at the time you could only have 18s on elegance. I believe this has now changed and they will let you have 17s. Can I even fit 16s to elegance? Didn't think I could!

Hi guys, Have had my superb elegance for about 10 months now and covered about 60k. After the winter we had with pot holes the 18s have taken a bit of a battering. Due to this i've been using cheap tyres for a bit but have finally got fed up with the amount of road noise from these, so i'm going back to a high quality tyre and getting them re furbed.. But before I do this, i've considered switching to the se 17s for better ride, less road noise and cost of tyre. What do people think? Good move or bad move?

Send car67 a message on here. I know he's just put some canbus friendly side light led's in his car. not sure what make but no faults came up.

Will keep an eye out for you. We camp out in spay, think we're in blue car park this year.

What you taking shark_90? Gonna be in new superb and my mate was gonna be in his vrsII. Only trouble is, i think he sold that today. Trying to find a fl vrs 170cr in red with dsg and everything else in less than 2 weeks! Don't fancy his chances!

Which kit car are you building?

As title says! Off to le mans in a few weeks for the 4th time, anyone else going? In the past I've been in my caterham academy car or raw striker kit car. But we are going for a little comfort and taking my taxi this year, a superb 2 170cr . Will be going newhaven - dieppe. Now just gotta get the stickers on the taxi . Can't wait

Don't let them tell you it does, from memory it's pin 19 on the back of the dash cluster but may need to check that. There's nothing there at present, it just needs i wire in that terminal. My sister lives in brighton so will have to tell her to keep an eye out for best taxi in town . She did did get in a brand new superb a while ago, driver was telling her how he'd just had the door smashed in by kids with a catapult!

Yeah, mostly motorways, hereford to heathrow etc, hence the 42k already! Have been having a bit of a look at what i can get a deal on (other halfs dad has a tyre company ). Anyone got any opinions on avons or falkens? Just a couple that are on special at the moment.

I have a 6 month old superb elegance for my taxi in hereford. Also had the old shape superb before which was a 130bhp with a remap by oscarli. My old shape did 240k before I changed the clutch and even then I only did it cos it was having a cambelt and thought better safe than sorry. It didn't need a flywheel either, I'd had this since it had 9k on it so I know it hadn't had one before. My current car has now done 42k and I love it. I'm sure you won't regret it. Did you have any trouble fitting meter? Everywhere here tells you it will need a canbus box and charges accoringly! It doesn't, just a bit of a con going on or lack of knowledge I think.

Have done 40k since getting my 2.0cr elegance. Car is a taxi so tyre wear is quite important. Sadly the continentals only lasted 14k althouth i did like them for grip and noise. Since then I've put some budgets on which in fairness have lasted well, but are very noisey which drives me crazy! What are others using, surely there must be a compromise between wear and noise! I know some of this is down to low profile tyres on 18inch rims and have thought about switching to some se 17's but they are silly money. Have also noticed the rears prematurely wearing the inside edge. Anyone else had this? Is there a fix? Many thanks

Only 30k so far but it's only 4 1/2 months old!

Had my elegance about 4 months now, another taxi! 26K for me so far. I've also noticed this of late, only mine is a 2.0cr 170. Still loving the car and get loads of compliments from customers.

Have searched for remote sim access with no luck, so beginning to think it's not gonna work. Unless anyone has anymore ideas!!

Just got myself an HTC Hero, it's great. Only trouble is when I try pairing it to phone prep, it find the the phone but then says it's incompatible! Question is, are there any settings on the handset that will make it work, had read threads about other HTC handsets working. Many thanks.

Garage belongs to a friend, you can just see the tent on the right that houses his Honda S2000. In the 6 months he's owned it, it's just gone over 600 miles! Just criminal!:(. Bought brand new, he got a deal I wouldn't believe if I hadn't been there!!!!

Was a long time ago in the old car, but think it was the radio. My meter is quite old so i'm sure you'll be fine with yours. It's no drama if you have to do it from dash cluster.

Don't take it from the radio, you will need a can bus box for that. It's Pin 9 on the plug going into the back of the dash cluster (speedo/rev counter).

Yep, had pulley done to, that was the main cause of failure.

Had mine reconditioned on my old 1.9 tdi. £60 for full recon incl pulley.

All calibrated and working this morning. So if someone tells you that you need a can bus box, don't believe them. My meter is an old sheriff wayfarer, the speed signal was taken from pin 9 on the back of the dash cluster. There is no wire in the plug, but there is a pin on the dash. So you just put a new wire in the pin 9 location on the plug and this will give you your speed signal. Big thanks to car 67 on here!

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We're not sure yet, only a few people aloud to calibrate meters here and I can't get hold of them till monday. Meter is in and is definetly picking up a speed signal. if it's turned off, it will come on as soon as car moves. We will know for sure when it's calibrated. Doing a few random things like turning on over night when car is locked and showing tariff error message.

Can I make the columbus unit show all the tracks etc from the ipod using the jack socket in the arm rest? If so, what lead do I need?

If it woked, here is a little taster pick I took when we were fitting the mud flaps.