The Focusaurus :) ... May Contains traces of Ford!

[DaiRees]

Just found out my car dosent have ABS Hell yeah!

Just make sure that doesn't turn into fella....

Damn I'm sounding more like my grandfather every day..

[Bailes1992]

Just found out my car dosent have ABS Hell yeah!

Just make sure that doesn't turn into fella....

Damn I'm sounding more like my grandfather every day..

Never had it on my 406... I much prefer driving without it in all fairness!

[FarmerPug]

say that after you had it first, one thing i dislike about it is the kickback that odd feeling when the brakes are pressed hard it pushes back up at you. And in this ice its not great either.

[DiscoPol]

I have disconnected my ABS over winter as 2.5 tonne on ice and pulsating brakes is not a good combo, its not necessary when off road either so my disco is sans ABS and i much prefer it that way, but if i had a normal car i dont think i could live without it, literally maybe sometimes

i think its a cracking invention for vehicles that dont stray from the black stuff, it can be a pain in ice and snow as can be traction control,

my BMW 740 had all the gadgets and in the snow sometimes you couldnt move as every time the rear wheels slipped it would kill the power to that wheel so if both spun up you were going nowhere even with the gentlest of applications of throttle, i had the gearbox ECU chipped so that i could bypass the DSC(traction control bit ) and keep the DSC(stability control bit) switched on rather than use the on/off button BMW give you which is all on or all off
it worked a treat and as an added bonus allowed awesome launch control if you felt like embarrassing anything else on the road, focus ST and RS drivers were a favourite prey

[FarmerPug]

In die hard 3 how did the man disconnect the ABS so quickly, imagine the same scene only in a 406, it would say BRAKE FAULT and the whole car would come to a hault

[Bailes1992]

say that after you had it first, one thing i dislike about it is the kickback that odd feeling when the brakes are pressed hard it pushes back up at you. And in this ice its not great either.

Drive the ovlov with it... Not a fan! And if you hit the brakes too hard the hazard lights come on

[FarmerPug]

Hazzard lights yip, took me a while to figure out that it was intentionally put in my car

[Bailes1992]

Collection so far
I need to sand down the inside of the sub enclosure as the sub dosen't quite fit?
Got an iPod dock comming which confuses the radio into thinking the iPod is a CD changer, each playlist is a CD
Just goto wait for my Mum to get a new car so I can get the bloody radio back out the 406
Shes getting a Fiat 500

Also today ordered drop links, trac rods and wishbones.

[FarmerPug]

Shes getting a Fiat 500

Yipee Fiat thumbs up i like fiat.
make sure its not a diesel one because thats just unnatural to have a diesel powered small fiat.
What sort are you getting (please be a 500 abarth ss)

also to the second row on your shelf, your reading good stuff; clarkson

[Bailes1992]

Shes getting a Fiat 500

Yipee Fiat thumbs up i like fiat.
make sure its not a diesel one because thats just unnatural to have a diesel powered small fiat.
What sort are you getting (please be a 500 abarth ss)

also to the second row on your shelf, your reading good stuff; clarkson

My Mum would love an abarth but if she had an abarth my Dad would steal it and she would be left with the T5

[steve_earwig]

I know which I'd feel safer in...

[FarmerPug]

How about a panda 100hp a sort of compromise between the power of an abarth but still quicker than a slower car.

[Bailes1992]

Anyway I was getting fed up with having no CD player and really wanting my radio from the Pug... so I went to spares world and picked up a Sony stereo ont he cheap. It was an Ex Display refurbished model.
I brought it home and set about changing the radio over...



Love finding build dates


Put the blank in...


And put the new radio in which tunes straight to BBC Somerset?


Tha plan is to put this radio in the Peugeot and get my good sony radio back.

I then tested the sub box out for size...


I wanted to mount the amp straight on the back of the box but I had an issue...

If I mounted it straight on these it would short them out ??

So found some spacers


I put routed the cable nicley and put a hook on the box to hold it to the box...


Mounted the amp...



Fitted the sub...


And tried it out for size again


Chuffed to bits with it

Then brought it into the warm

[FarmerPug]

Thats a nice sublifier there, are you going to respray that scored but of the dash?

[Bailes1992]

Thats a nice sublifier there, are you going to respray that scored but of the dash?

Will be getting a single din dash with a bit of luck so I don't need the spacer