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Re: Changing Xenon Bulbs
« Reply #30 on: 14 September 2010, 19:22:10 »
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What do you mean "the hids are not to be messed with"?

What they mean is, don't stick your hand in there with them turned on..

Normal headlights are 12V, ~55W (5A) - that'll hurt, probably won't kill you..

HID lamps (gas discharge lamps) are anywhere from 90V to 450V depending on whether the lamp is hot or cold - with one type of lamp requiring in the tens of thousands of volts to fire.

Obviously the current is much, much lower (all this still has to come from your cars 12V system) - but it will hurt like a sonofab***h, and since it'll pass more easily through skin etc due to the voltage, is arguably more likely to do serious damage (like.. death)


Then again, it's a bit like grabbing hold of the open end of an HT lead, and who hasn't done that at least once?

Just me?

Oh.
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« Reply #31 on: 14 September 2010, 19:29:02 »
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Just me? ....

It's been a while but ...... yes! I've done it. You try to be careful & not get bitten, but - you do!  :-?  ;D  ;D  ;D  ;D
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« Reply #32 on: 15 September 2010, 10:53:05 »
Ahhhh I see!

I had the pleasure of getting shocked and knocked half way across the room when I was younger, so yeah, I'll be carefull with the bulbs. Cheers Aaron!  :y
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« Reply #33 on: 15 September 2010, 11:04:09 »
My favourite was always the ground straps on the back of old CRT tubes back when I was repairing those.. by gods that hurt.

Anyway, you're welcome ;)
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« Reply #34 on: 15 September 2010, 11:11:40 »
Lol I haven't experienced that one but I feel I wouldn't want to.  ;D

Can I ask, what sort of mileage is on your TD?
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« Reply #35 on: 15 September 2010, 11:23:10 »
You're right, you don't want to.. I think that was the second time I swore in front of a customer (the first time was when I grabbed hold of a live mains cable  ;D )

Anyhoo - you can.. Just rolling up on 95k at the moment (and due a service) :)
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« Reply #36 on: 15 September 2010, 11:48:41 »
95k is good for the year! Mine has about 137ish now. I serviced mine about a month ago, felt a bit better for it.
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« Reply #37 on: 15 September 2010, 12:01:22 »
I think, despite the mileage, mine had a hard life of towing .. based on the Caravan Club sticker it had when I got it and the dual-plug towbar ;) so it's pretty tired and gets dire fuel economy (showing 26mpg on the display right now) - the bodywork has definitely seen better days, too, with dents here and there..

Which I'm sure is part of the reason I'm toying with getting a later model 3.2 ;) I like things to look nice (which is ironic I suppose when my 'pride and joy' car now also has lots of dents, thanks to other people driving into me when I've been parked up!).. Anyway, I'm rambling :)
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« Reply #38 on: 15 September 2010, 12:08:11 »
Jeeez oh! 26mpg is brutal for a TD.. mine is doing about 42-47 but I hover about in the low revs. It would be fair to call me a granny driver lol.  ::)

I think even a FL 3.2 would do better than 26mpg. Well it all depends on your driving style I suppose. You can pick up a 3.2 or even a 3.0 for buttons these days now though.
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« Reply #39 on: 15 September 2010, 13:16:01 »
Believe me, that's with me driving like I'm Driving Miss Daisy, too! Around town, admittedly, but it still barely makes it into the 30's on a motorway run.. So yeah, with the price of diesel these days it makes it pretty expensive to run.

Heck, I get ~30mpg out of the MR2 (and that's got an aftermarket turbo, engine management etc etc) - granted it does weigh half what the Omega weighs :)
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« Reply #40 on: 15 September 2010, 13:26:17 »
Yeah around town is where they suffer. I think mine gets about 30ish round about town. On a motorway run yours should be way higher than that.. it musta been a big caravan they had lol.
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« Reply #41 on: 15 September 2010, 13:27:40 »
I meant to say, do you have any pics of your MR2 on here? I'd love to see some. I used to have a total fetish for them when I was a bit younger but I couldn't afford the insurance quotes. :(
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« Reply #42 on: 15 September 2010, 13:45:35 »
Oddly enough I don't have many pics of it - I stopped taking them when it started collecting dents thanks to other people's parking antics (the last was right outside my old flat the night before I signed the deeds on the house where the car would have been safe!) - it wasn't so bad when it was just one dent, then someone hit the front wing.. then the back bumper and took out the rear light in the process  >:(

This should work, though :)



It's very standard from the outside, all the work went on under the skin - stainless tubular manifold, T517 turbo, air/water chargecooler, 525cc injectors, PowerFC engine management, Tein suspension with the electronic damping controller, tubular chassis bracing everywhere underneath.. etc :)

And as a bonus, here's a mate of mine standing by the car looking .. well I'm not sure what he was trying to look like:
http://sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/photos-ak-sf2p/v231/29/12/672941203/n672941203_834187_8273.jpg

 ;D
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« Reply #43 on: 15 September 2010, 13:53:30 »
I just assumed it was the older model turbo  :o I didn't realise these models were turbo'd. It must go like a bleepin bat! I had a shot of my pals, think it was a 1.8, it wasn't very exciting on the straight but round the industrial estate it was quality! The alloys and colour of your car are both really nice.  :y

Do you know what sort of power she's putting out?  :P
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« Reply #44 on: 15 September 2010, 14:10:18 »
Isn't that a Toyota MR-S?
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