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I never knew the ZX had rear wheel steering.

 

Neither did I. Is that only at low speeds for parking? How does it work? I don't ever recall seeing one parked up with the rear wheels all skewiff.

 

I also got the Honda one wrong as I thought the Ballade was only the counterpart of the Rover 200. I did think the Accord was too big but maybe thought they fudged about with the design like with the next gen one. I dont recall seeing a Honda Ballade. Probably thought they were all Acclaims.......

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I never noticed it on mine tbh, although it was more chuckable at high speeds.

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If it's like the setup on the Alfa 166 it's passive as in it does a bit of toe in toe out rather than their being any mechanical linkage to the front wheels.

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Think the ZX has passive rear wheel steering - something to do with compliance of the bushings forcing the rear wheels to follow the fronts under hard cornering forces.

 

Not the same as the active RWS the Japanese went mad for in the late 80s - you could buy Galants, Preludes and 626s so equipped.

 

Has this died out completely or is there a car on the UK market today available with this feature?

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Driving to work this morning there was some stupid shite in a 3-series coupe driving right up everyones arse till they got out of his way then booting it onwards to the next unfortunate. Eventually he came up behind one of those little Nissan Pixo cars which just happened to be passing a lorry. The guy in a pixo didn’t appreciate being tailgated so slowed down to the same speed as the lorry, causing the BMW guy to go apoplectic, waving all over the road, flashing his lights and whatnot. After a few minutes the Pixo speeded up and let our man past which he did, of course by now he was blue in the face with anger and made a couple of police camera action-style attempts to make the pixo guy stop so he could no doubt give him a shoeing or whatever. Anyway they didn’t work, so at the next exit the BMW feller gestured to him to come off the dual carrieageway, and he pulled over on the slip road and started getting out of the car ready to dish out some justice no doubt. Of course, the Pixo feller just sailed past at 70+, flicking him the V’s while he’s hopping up and down waving his arms about on the side of the slip road like a twat.

 

With any luck this guy will have a heart attack and die fairly soon, self-induced from all the stress he’s clearly giving himself every time he gets behind the wheel.

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Think the ZX has passive rear wheel steering - something to do with compliance of the bushings forcing the rear wheels to follow the fronts under hard cornering forces.

 

Not the same as the active RWS the Japanese went mad for in the late 80s - you could buy Galants, Preludes and 626s so equipped.

 

Has this died out completely or is there a car on the UK market today available with this feature?

 

Yup. That's it. Doubt you'd ever see any movement, but it is apparently there. Perhaps Cavette could try some suicidal cornering techniques in his new motor to see if it works.

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It seizes up and doesn't work after about 2 months if the Alfa was anything to go by.

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HAHAHAHA!!!

 

 

Is it just me, or did anyone else secretly hope he'd get his napper lopped off by the windmill sails when he came out of the door?

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Members of the public in Nigeria steal approximately 100,000 barrels of fuel A DAY. That's enough to fill a Heep Grand Cherokee 130,000 times. If you fill up twice a week, that much fuel would last you 1700 years.

Not that funny I suppose, but big numbers and brass-neckiness make me grin.

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Also to be fair to them they had some SRSLY big company/ies just railroading all before them, include their villages/towns.

 

ZX cornering? It's on 175/70/14s at the moment and feels like it's on stilts compared to my other motors. If I feel brave I'll whang the 185/65s on and give it a try.

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Had no Internet for two weeks now, (thanks Sky!). Waiting for a new router after spending hours on the phone to Sky customer services* who told me that I actually did have Internet access. Err. No. The router is borked. Send me a new one please. These people really don't like replacing faulty equipment!

Grin is, just found out how to tether my mobile phone to the ipad! Slow as feck, but at least I can get on here again until the replacement router arrives!

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Gave the van a few mile run round the estate earlier in prep for saturday mornings MOT. I'd forgotten how nippy it was, I was lighting the back wheels up all over the place (mostly by accident). Sitting over the front wheels is going to take some getting used to again though.

 

It seemed to go, stop and steer without issue, but by 'eck it's loud without any interior in - I really need to get the air filter sorted because it sounds like a bloody lambo when you put your foot down!

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It's the Classic Car Wotsit at the NEC this weekend, which means as I've bombed down the M42 to Solihull and then back the scenic route, there's been a cornucopia of high quality tat, shite, and classics. A poo-brown sovereign on a beavertail. A trio of Allegros being followed by a Rover 800 coop. A zakspeed Capri and a leas bewinged Ghia pulled over on the M42. A convoy of Zz-top style hot rods. A Montego. A dodge charger.

 

Looks like it's going to be a cracking show, sadly I'm working in Heathrow :-(

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Okay, so last week I made a joke about what to do with V5s for non existent cars...
 

Put them in a glass fronted box with "break glass in case of scrappage scheme return" written on it.


Well I'd bought a clock from the pound shop for its mechanism and that left me with a glass fronted case... and I also had a 1960s cine film title making set, so...
 

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The tragic thing is that I'm so self obsessed that when I'm not posting on the internet I'm making real world physical recreations of posts I've made on the internet. Which I then post on the internet. 

 

A new low for humanity. 

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yeah... but it's actually rather brilliant that you've done it.

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Did anyone see the episode where Windy Miller got hammered on cider?  Straight up, and not a piss take!  

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Spotted this on eBay. Love this tax disc holder on this historic class Minor. 

 

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Did anyone see the episode where Windy Miller got hammered on cider? Straight up, and not a piss take!

 

Wasn't this an unaired episode that the makers of Camberwick Green made for a laugh. I seem to remember Windy Miller causing all sorts of carnage. I saw it many years ago.

 

Edit* It might have been Trumpton actually.

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The Apple iPhone recall thread. I know they have their fans.

Also, the NEC Classic. Furthermore, it meant I was able to drive this around North 2:

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It's one of Lord Sterling's [many] Rover 800s. A KV6, it still had the mid nineties Longbridge smell I remember inhaling at a young age.

 

Also, the mirror and sensor on my D60 really need a clean

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That's a very cool shot and definitely one for the 2014 calendar!  I'm curious, obviously a long exposure was involved but I'm assuming that's not all, how did you do this?  

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