hello from a newbie!

[grainqey]

Hello, just wanted to say hello to everybody on here, some of the forum users might recognise my username from maseraiforum

Thanks
Alex

 

[Andyk]

Welcome Alex...this is great forum hope you get loads out off it.

 

[Gullible]

From one Newbie to another welcome.
What do you have?

 

[Parisien]

Hi Alex....do enjoy, do join in and am sure you'll have a blast!!!


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[grainqey]

From one Newbie to another welcome.
What do you have?

thanks for the replies, i'v got a volvo s60 atm but im looking for a 4200 cambriocorsa from september so just doing my digging around

Thanks
Alex

 

[steve]

Welcome to the forum Alex
Cheers
steve

 

[grainqey]

thanks steve,
i see you are from sheffield? i work in sheffield

alex

 

[conaero]

Welcome Alex, great to have you onboard. Bare with us, its been a little quite on here this week, I think the sun has drawn everyone out of their pits.

 

[ENZ525]

Hello Alex, and welcome to the forum,
Regards,
Enzo.

 

[Torenno Performance]

Welcome Alex

 

[steve]

thanks steve,
i see you are from sheffield? i work in sheffield

alex

yes born and bread, Where abouts do you work Alex?

 

[grainqey]

I work on attercliffe and live in rotherham.Alex

 

[steve]

Small world, i am just behind don valley stadium

 

[grainqey]

certainly is! What mas do you have anyway? Coupe? Alex

 

[steve]

Green 3200GTA, it is at Millbrooke Cars at the moment having a couple of little things sorted out

 

[Parisien]

Green 3200GTA, it is at Millbrooke Cars at the moment having a couple of little things sorted out

Whats been done to it Steve...tell us some more about the car...?


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[steve]

had a replacement rev counter fitted a couple of weeks ago, to do it they had to remove the needle from the mph counter, somehow it went back on wrong and the upshot was the car was i indicating 15mph faster than it was going. funny thing was though it was my lad that noticed something was wrong

I remember a tread last year on MF about a 4200 doing 0-60 in about 3.8 seconds, no one believed it and got a bit heated from what i remember

 

[grainqey]

...thats a point while i remember to ask about it - sorry steve, whats the difference regarding clutch life on the manuals compared to the "autos" does the clutch last longer on the manual or auto?

thanks
Alex

 

[conaero]

The clutch life on the 42 manual must be better than the CC, the CC wears pretty bad, expect 12k miles and upwards for a CC clutch, the manual, if looked after, should do 3 times that.

There are people who get 30k miles from a CC clutch, but it is a rarity.

 

[grainqey]

thanks canaero,
i'v heard you can reset the clutch so it relearns how vigourously or smoothly it changes?

is there much difference between the 2002 and '03 CC gearchanges regarding smoothness or are they the same as wasnt it about '03 onwards the upgraded the software slightly?

thanks
alex