Post a picture of your vehicle here Part 5 (don't quote pictures, 24h ban!)

vintagevrs

MEGA BRO WOLF 5000

That’s a stunner. I have to get front splitter for mine. Really makes it.

Asmooh

I am scrapping my Astra TwinTop but I got myself a Vectra.. nothing special about it will be more a "promotion" car for my remapping services when it's done





Replaced the wheels yesterday


Just some basic plans with it: VXR bumper, Irmschr rear diffuser, spoiler etc, lowering 35-40mm and all standard mods inc hybrid turbo for about 250hp :P

Bawnmore

Not nearly at the same level as other cars here, but picked this up over the weekend for hauling kids and dogs and very happy with it so far.

Midnight_EG

I'll get around to it someday

Skylinehead

Hnnnng.

colm_mcm

Asmooh wrote: »

I am scrapping my Astra TwinTop but I got myself a Vectra.. nothing special about it will be more a "promotion" car for my remapping services when it's done :P

Where did you learn about remapping

Four Phucs Ache

^^
Midnight EG

Have to say the the BMW sneaking into the pic looks fooking animal. Tasty motor.

tossy

I'm going to go out on a limb and say that's not a BMW but something old and Jap/ possibly ford.

Big Nasty

tossy wrote: »

I'm going to go out on a limb and say that's not a BMW but something old and Jap/ possibly ford.

Straight away I thought it was an E24. Dunno about the bumper on the deck though.

Leonard Hofstadter

That's an E30 bumper. The car is an E24, well I'm pretty sure it is anyway!

Interslice

Such boards responses to a pic of an r34 project

Midnight_EG

tossy wrote: »

I'm going to go out on a limb and say that's not a BMW but something old and Jap/ possibly ford.

It's a BMW :P

Leonard Hofstadter wrote: »

That's an E30 bumper. The car is an E24, well I'm pretty sure it is anyway!

The bumper is my old Skyline one, not an E30 one

Asmooh

colm_mcm wrote: »

Where did you learn about remapping

Well it's not that hard if you understand most things specially not if you have friends who are doing it for years and help you out with everything.

Big Nasty

Asmooh wrote: »

Well it's not that hard if you understand most things specially not if you have friends who are doing it for years and help you out with everything.

*especially

Asmooh

Big Nasty wrote: »

Asmooh wrote: »

Well it's not that hard if you understand most things specially not if you have friends who are doing it for years and help you out with everything.

*especially

Sorry didn’t pay enough attention to my spelling;)

James Bond Junior

Big Nasty wrote: »

*especially

I don't think English is his first language, go easy.

MetzgerMeister

James Bond Junior wrote: »

I don't think English is his first language, go easy.

He was only taking the piss :P

MEGA BRO WOLF 5000

I love more door r34s. Super super cool car.

Big Nasty

James Bond Junior wrote: »

I don't think English is his first language, go easy.

It's ok though, he 'understands most things'. :pac:

Quazzie

Big Nasty wrote: »

It's ok though, he 'understands most things'. :pac:

Must be hard for people who genuinely know what they are doing to make a living when you have such people who will offer to "do it for half the price" :rolleyes:

Tom Hardly

Big Nasty wrote: »

*especially

Big Nasty wrote: »

It's ok though, he 'understands most things'. :pac:

Quazzie wrote: »

Must be hard for people who genuinely know what they are doing to make a living when you have such people who will offer to "do it for half the price" :rolleyes:

Rather than correct his English in a patronising way dude, why not encourage him to go out and make a go of his own business? More than most do

Fair play for trying to make a go of your own business anyway, we are always learning.

Asmooh

About the part that I do not know what I'm doing is actually quite funny because the garages I went to that had "all the experience" are the ones that offer very bad customer service, don't know what they are doing and actually the company who remapped my car the first time ****ed it up.

When you get back to them about it they say "We never had this before" which is another word for "**** what did I do?"

They locked me out of my own ECU which was confirmed by me and another remapper. They said "no we never do that" because they simply do not know what they do.


Every person who came to me for remapping actually left as a happy customer and do you know why? Because I exactly know how it feels to be a customer who is getting screwed over.
So I will never do this with my customers.

And In my current work experience I did Customer Service, Coach, Management as well... most companies don't know how to be something I call "customer friendly"


I also work 40 hours a week as IT tech support (and I don't mean reading what's on your screen but actually Technical) and 3.5h (180mi) travel 5 days a week.

When I get home I do remapping as main business and computer fixing as side business.
I also do buy Vauxhall Cars and sell Vauxhall Parts to whoever needs them.

Then about the spelling mistake I made:

I do speak 3 other languages... while most people already have a hard time speaking their native language and only know slang.


Ontopic:

Some changes I made to my vec yesterday.

Quazzie

Tom Hardly wrote: »

Rather than correct his English in a patronising way dude, why not encourage him to go out and make a go of his own business? More than most do

Fair play for trying to make a go of your own business anyway, we are always learning.

I'm not correcting his English, I'm stating that I'd rather not hand my car over to someone who is "having a go" at mapping, like most are out there who claim to be experts. My point is that this makes it very hard for the people who actually do know what they're doing to make legitimate business from it, because it seems every second young lad with a laptop now is buying a cable and "mapping" your car with no clue what damage they could be causing.

Asmooh

Quazzie wrote: »

I'm not correcting his English, I'm stating that I'd rather not hand my car over to someone who is "having a go" at mapping, like most are out there who claim to be experts. My point is that this makes it very hard for the people who actually do know what they're doing to make legitimate business from it, because it seems every second young lad with a laptop now is buying a cable and "mapping" your car with no clue what damage they could be causing.

"My point is that this makes it very hard for the people who actually do know what they're doing to make legitimate business from it"

That "legitimate" company actually made my car worse and destroyed two clutches. I couldn't even use more than 60% of my throttle because of slipping clutch.

My own map on another car with the same engine, same mods etc has no issue whatsoever with the same amount of power.

The difference is that we actually follow the original curve while the "so called expert" did not.. and when I told them what the problem was I got back "We never had this before" and "not my problem"

So much for these "people who actually do know what they're doing to make legitimate business from it".


p.s. This "so called expert" didn't made his own map; someone else made this for him and clearly "they" didn't do a good job.
Compare to people I work with that do make their own maps all day long and dyno etc.

Big Nasty

Your FB Page is very professional looking

Quazzie

Asmooh wrote: »

"My point is that this makes it very hard for the people who actually do know what they're doing to make legitimate business from it"

That "legitimate" company actually made my car worse and destroyed two clutches. I couldn't even use more than 60% of my throttle because of slipping clutch.

My own map on another car with the same engine, same mods etc has no issue whatsoever with the same amount of power.

The difference is that we actually follow the original curve while the "so called expert" did not.. and when I told them what the problem was I got back "We never had this before" and "not my problem"

So much for these "people who actually do know what they're doing to make legitimate business from it".


p.s. This "so called expert" didn't made his own map; someone else made this for him and clearly "they" didn't do a good job.
Compare to people I work with that do make their own maps all day long and dyno etc.

A map without a dyno is worthless in my opinion. So I think we're kind of agreeing.

Toyotafanboi

Any pictures of cars?

Foxhole Norman

For the page that's in it.





She's looking a slight bit worse for wear now after I had a little incident with a pillar but nothing I won't sort

Top Dog

Passed you yesterday FN - my God thats one angry sounding car! (in a good way!)

Edit - no, actually. It was Sunday afternoon. I was heading in the Commons direction while you were coming towards Blackpool SC. Had window open thanks to the sun, so as you passed I got treated to the exhaust note

Asmooh

Well I figured that my car is actually a bit low




Might go adjustable coilovers instead.

yllw.ldbttr

My new (to me) 4 series Gran Coupe.


Went from an E46 coupe to an E60 (kids), to an F10, and now that I don't need buggies or big car seats (other than boosters) in the back anymore I went back to this.

everlast75

Beautiful car and colour. Good luck with her - very jealous!

Big Nasty

Very nice dude. What engine?

yllw.ldbttr

Big Nasty wrote: »

Very nice dude. What engine?

Nothing too fancy on the engine, 2.0L 190 bhp.

JoeA3

yllw.ldbttr wrote: »

My new (to me) 4 series Gran Coupe.


Went from an E46 coupe to an E60 (kids), to an F10, and now that I don't need buggies or big car seats (other than boosters) in the back anymore I went back to this.

Very nice. I have one myself since early this year. I think you might find it even better than the F10 practicality wise, as the boot is huge and the rear hatch makes it much more useable than the saloon F10 imo. The cabin is a bit snug though, especially in the back with the sloping roof.

You should swap the grills to gloss black, a cheap mod that makes a big difference to the look.

yllw.ldbttr

JoeA3 wrote: »

Very nice. I have one myself since early this year. I think you might find it even better than the F10 practicality wise, as the boot is huge and the rear hatch makes it much more useable than the saloon F10 imo. The cabin is a bit snug though, especially in the back with the sloping roof.

You should swap the grills to gloss black, a cheap mod that makes a big difference to the look.

Thanks, feels much nicer to drive than the 5, but agreed, a bit more snug up front and in the rear seats even more so.
That doesn't bother me as I'm in it on my own 5 days a week.


Will look into the grills mod, nice one.

MEGA BRO WOLF 5000

Dat blue colour...

Four Phucs Ache

Sweet sweet car....enjoy !!!!

Foxhole Norman

Top Dog wrote: »

Passed you yesterday FN - my God thats one angry sounding car! (in a good way!)

Edit - no, actually. It was Sunday afternoon. I was heading in the Commons direction while you were coming towards Blackpool SC. Had window open thanks to the sun, so as you passed I got treated to the exhaust note

Cheers man :cool: I'd say it was Saturday afternoon was it? I left work early last week around half 2, don't think I was around that area Sunday :pac:

Top Dog

Foxhole Norman wrote: »

Cheers man :cool: I'd say it was Saturday afternoon was it? I left work early last week around half 2, don't think I was around that area Sunday :pac:

Fairly sure it was Sunday as I was in on overtime staring out at the sun until I got to escape at 3pm

Plus I was in Carlow all day Saturday so couldn't have passed you in Cork

Foxhole Norman

Top Dog wrote: »

Fairly sure it was Sunday as I was in on overtime staring out at the sun until I got to escape at 3pm

Plus I was in Carlow all day Saturday so couldn't have passed you in Cork

I don't know so, I was in Portlaoise all day Sunday and then Mahon afterwards :pac:

Avatar MIA

Foxhole Norman wrote: »

I don't know so, I was in Portlaoise all day Sunday and then Mahon afterwards :pac:

Sounds like someone is cheating on somebody! :pac:

Big Nasty

Mine the day I picked it up. 530d Sport Touring.

vintagevrs

Lovely colour

Wailin

Is that carbon black or Mediterranean blue?

beertons

Edit that quick^

Wailin

Thanks

Big Nasty

Wailin wrote: »

Is that carbon black or Mediterranean blue?

Imperial Blue - I had to look it up!

Wailin

Lovely colour and not too common either.