Welcome the Red Knight

[tom_nieto]

Ah sorry, I misread!

 

[FZP]

On Sunday, it was a journey across the Pennines to visit the wife's family. The weather was appalling, but Red Knight made it a breeze. Although I took offence to the speed camera man parked on the side of the M62 conducting revenue raising. He got me in that same spot during Covid. ***** w***stain ****hole of a human. Thankfully I wasn't being naughty.
The drive home was a good opportunity to evaluate the LED headlight upgrade over a long drive. Anyone that has projector halogen headlights should be upgrading their lights. No question. Throws a nice beam of light out, and due to the cut off in the headlights themselves, you won't be dazzling oncoming cars.
In the early stages of planning a nip over to the continent in Jan it will be a cracker of a journey in this car, no question.

 

[roddy]

I can’t wait for you to drive a car with Matrix Lights

 

[FZP]

Mega technology. Did they ever release matrix in the 981

 

[jonttt]

They will just confuse him ….black magic

 

[isysman]

Mega technology. Did they ever release matrix in the 981

I don’t believe you can get those on the 718 so you’ve got no chance.

You may be interested to know you can fit a 718 PCM in your car that will give you CarPlay. You just need an adapter cab,e and it’s plug and play.

 

[isysman]

Mega technology. Did they ever release matrix in the 981

I don’t believe you can get those on the 718 so you’ve got no chance.

You may be interested to know you can fit a 718 PCM in your car that will give you CarPlay. You just need an adapter cab,e and it’s plug and play.

 

[Zingari]

You may be interested to know you can fit a 718 PCM in your car that will give you CarPlay. You just need an adapter cab,e and it’s plug and play.

Not advisable. When Frank messes with electrics the lights in my bathroom flicker

Better to get the CarPlay/AA kit and drop it into the PCM3.1 - it'll be a lot cheaper. I thought the PCM units need to be coded to the car?

 

[FZP]

I've got a handle on aircooled electrics now. I'm from the generation where block connections were in play.

 

[FZP]

An unexpected issue arose this morning. A dreaded flat. I thought the car was a bit sluggish yesterday, on a local errand. Nipped to the local petrol station as I suspected a slow leak. Brought it back home to see if I could source a tyre via Costco or Kwikfit today. No luck. Leadtime was 3 days+.
Zingari kindly pointed out a place not far away that did part worn. A call confirmed they had a rear set of Goodyear F1 tyres with 6mm for £85 each, no repairs. I'd normally not head down the part worn route, but being a Sunday and Mrs P needing the car for work on Monday, I took the plunge.
I went outside to remove the wheels to take them down, and found that the tyre was holding air, so took the gamble tp drive it down. It was a 20 min drive. Thankfully no air escaped on my journey. They sorted me out in 30 mins and now have a set of matched Goodyear F1 tyres. The Pirellis that came showed I could do with an alignment. Nothing of concern, but could be better. The cause of the flat was a screw dead centre. The tyres needed replacing anyway, so it wasn't a pain like it is when they're new and you cope a nail.
So back on the road, crisis averted.

 

[Zingari]

You know it makes sense

I found that place when I was trying to get runflats (an oxymoron in itself) for my Mini and wasn't paying the ridiculous new price for what you get. I'm sure you could run flat on them but what they don't tell you is the side wall is only reinforced when you get a puncture and as it deflates the sidewall 'locks together'. On UK pot holed roads a decent hole would put a bulge in the sidewall and a runflat is no good with a hole in the side Plus the ride is atrocious on them.

I switched all four for 'normal' tyres after 3 sidewall bulge incidents. I've not had a sidewall failure since.

 

[Harryblue]

In my experience there is a huge difference between a G car that is well set up and one that isn’t, so it’s a chunk of cash but a set of high quality shocks and a geo might transform your car. If you think it feels good now then you could be pleasantly surprised when it’s even better.

 

[FZP]

I had my first 911 set up by Centre Gravity and it was sublime.

 

[Mac68]

I had my first 911 set up by Centre Gravity and it was sublime.

I've been with both 997s and the difference it made was huge.