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Oooh Quilt, definitely, and nice lighting, so it looks cosy on a rainy night in !!

Funny no-one has mentioned carb icing yet ? The big air inlet pipes to the air filter get fed by warm air when the weather is cold, via a heat exchanger on the r/h exhaust pipe. If the thermo switch ( mechanical I believe ? ) is stuck or the pipes have come off ( mine did ) then you can end up with ...

Re cold feet we have a fleecy blanket under our duvet which I fold the bottom quarter under and put feet in there. Mrs Mash Just an aside, in the past (even in our tent !) and to be used in our van, we have an inverter with a lesuire battery to power an electric blanket :) :) They don'y use much ju...

Camper bed - head front or feet front ! ( in the bed that is ) Silly question really but what are the pro's and con's !! We havn't used ours for camping yet ( only had "Colin" for 2 weeks ) I do have a good reason for asking tho, as it influences positioning of interior light switches, etc...

Inverters are no good for boiling kettles, or any other applience that uses alot of power. A kettle is at least 2000 Watt, this means it uses about 8 Amps from the 240 Volt mains. ( 2000 divided by 240 = 8.333 ) Now if you try to get this much power from 12 Volts you are going to use well over the c...

Off topic :roll: Hey Kev, I borrowed you Giraffe ani giff to put in occasional emails etc, (hope ya don't mind ?) It stretches out quite well, very good that :D The young girl in our front office nearly wet herself laughing cause she kept looking back at me about 4 times before she actually saw the ...

Aye, I got a Jetex system for my GTX Scirocco that sounded far too resonant and loud for the first month or 2.

Then it calmed down.

Then it broke.

Jetex service stinks

Back to a standard system on that car now

Only had mine for 2 weeks, but so far it looks like about 22-24 mpg. Don't know how much the tank holds at this time so can't do the "how far on a tank" bit :roll: I an getting LPG gas convertion in a fortnight :) which will make my fuel costs less than the car I usually drive to work in :)

Mostly good news then Steve.

I was a bit concerned after some twit in the pub was winding me up last night, saying they were going to stick a huge tax on it !!

Well although I am a fairly competent amateur mechanic I am new to these flat fours. From what I gather, the balance pipe joins the 2 flanges (having 2 exhaust down-pipes each) that would normally go on the front of the silencer. A more normal “inline"| silencer is then used. This set-up appare...

A guy in my local was spouting about it going up due to the budget.

I can't find any reference to this, was he just talking bull ?

Hey Carl, you still monitoring us ?

Did you get it sorted, what was it in the end ?

My newly aquired DG powered camper has started to randomly doing the same

Not had time to look properly yet, just gathering info till the weekend.

Back in the Scirocco for now.

It's not that I have anything against a flat four "boxer" sound, I think it is just the silencer system that I don't like the sound of ! So, Steve from Gasure tells me a manifold balance pipe and a "bug-pack" silencer makes a much nicer sound and works better too... Will be looki...

Can't answer the first one other than they all seem to sound like that, i've got a stainless backbox from 'Bluebird customs' which sounds quite nice (not quiet though if that's what your looking for) but i think they're only for early w/c motors. Thats the kind of thing I was thinking of :) Though ...

skell wrote:Q1) 'cos they're blowing and dropping a cylinder....