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SORTED! So it's not the tyres...

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Old 12-29-2008, 09:41 AM
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That front lip is matt......its annoying me
Old 12-29-2008, 09:54 AM
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Bet it drives like a new car now, not enough camber for me, but that's all down to driving style.

Are they the factory Honda settings he's done for you ?
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I will be making a trip to WIM for a checkup in the next few weeks.

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Obviously your tyre place set the front toes to be more or less parallel, not caring that they were pointing to the right and that they messed up the other settings doing it.

I bet you're pleased it's sorted. There's still a lot of people that think geo is either snake oil, or just for people that want to find the last 1/10 of a second round a track.
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nice ! glad it got all sorted!
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Big improvement, no wonder your car was undriveable.

Well done Tony.
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You said it was high on one side. What was the reason then?
So the cowboys in the tyre shop managed to badly screw the camber up then as predicted.
Shocking.
I hope you went back and tore a strip off them, you could have been in a ditch.

Also the 'float' at 120mph IS to do with the stock dampers - lack of rebound damping.
If you change to adjustable suspension its really obvious how poor oem is at speed.

I do like the screen display, much clearer than Beissbarth for example, and that's not bad.
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Nice one

BTW, I was on the same estate as you all day yesterday (unit 3), having loads of things fitted to my car.

I will going there today as well.

I'm having Traction Control, 02 hood, stereo, antenna, 04 lights, and a few other goodies fitted.

Come & say hello, if you're nearby.

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Originally Posted by BSM139' date='Dec 30 2008, 09:44 AM
I'm having Traction Control, 02 hood, stereo, antenna, 04 lights, and a few other goodies fitted.
Did you win the lottery at the weekend?

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s2000malta - what do you mean its matt? Its the same colour as the rest of the car!!

LTB - yeah, its infinitely better now! Tony's system has all stock manufacurer settings loaded on to it, and if they're not on there or have been updated they can be downloaded on line too. If you want to alter the settings you can do, but I was happy to put it back to stock for now and use that as a base - if I find I need to adjust in the future I can do!

eSeM - I would recommend it, let us know when you go down and I'll try to pop along and say hi!

Dembo - yes, Central Tyre royally screwed it up! Basically they just slung the equipment on the rear wheels and measured the front - what they should have done was zero the front, then swap it over and zero the rears and then swap it back to adjust the fronts again. Instead, all they did was screw it up - I'll be going back down there today to get a refund for the


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