hey everyone, im new to this joint, hehe xxx

[Tahrey1043]

you might wanna get your clutch adjusted and your gearbox oil level checked spanna.......... mines a year older than yours but its still soft and smooth as a babys behind coated with johnson's when everything's going "right"
(and a total pig when it isnt!!)

the clutch control comes in time.. you just gotta concentrate on being smooth and gradual with it. when you get the touch, you can get moving from idle without touching the throttle. uphill. ((well it depends what hill - cant quite tackle my driveway as its too steep..)).... and a fairly new clutch will be a lot harder to deal with than an old one as they take a few hundred miles to properly bed in and stop being on/off switches!

what was that about getting gears other than 1st, groovy???? problems with it?

[DanW]

hey 4 pages late but hey. Still worth a welcome

and ya might as well come along to the billing aquadrome (more information in the meets section) at the end of this month. Should be a good laugh...



Dan

[GroovyCarrot]

what was that about getting gears other than 1st, groovy???? problems with it?

When I first got it, the clutch was badly adjusted and very very low and the gear oil needed changing, so the gearshift was really lumpy, especially when I was used to driving my dad's clio. Tis fine now though, I've adjusted a few things and I've got used to it, now I prefer it to the clio

One word of advice about the gearshift in old polos, never ever try to fight it. Don't get stressed with it, if it doesn't go in first time, just come back out and gently try to push it in, you'll find that the more gentle you are with it the more willing it'll be to shift. With a bit of practice you'll be able to get faster and more comfortable at changing, but just take your time while you're still unused to it

[DanW]

yeah when i first got my clutch it was really low down! No wonder the drive was a little jerky

[Aphex]

i know what you mean groovy, my old mk2 was a bit delicate toward the end, i ran an uprated clutch for her last few years and squeezed so much torque out it shocked me, esp for a 4 spd. Least it was a manual cable, the mk3 came with a self adjusting piece of tat

[spannaanna]

Heya guys,
I bin out in my car a couple of times now, I'm gettin a lot better with it now, more confidence.

I'm gettin the hang of the clutch now Tahrey, n I'm gettin the hang of the gears, not as smooth as a babys bottom yet, but spana's gettin it

Yeah i fancy goin to some meetings pretty soon, did u say the meeting was the 21, or 22of August? my driving test is the 25 so i want to get soooooooooo much practice in till then,
But after i passed i willl go to all of them if u lads keep me up to date with em all, I'll be more than happy to meetin u all cos u've all been so great with me!

Yeah we'll all go the pub n have fun n stuff, we'll have a blast

Groovy carrot, yeah my dad was shouting at me to not fight with the gears n I'm doin better with em now

take care lads xxx

[Tahrey1043]

yeah thats a good tip, took me a while to discover it for myself if it wont go, pull the stick back out of where you just tried it and have another go rather than forcing it....

dont have to do it all that slowly... if it's really having trouble (good e.g. - getting 1st when stopped at or approaching lights... bad e.g. - knackered clutch going from 2nd to 3rd ) it might feel like you're trying to "chisel" your way into that gear with many quick, repeated, relatively gentle jabs... but it'll work better than a single sledgehammer attempt.

(remember to keep the clutch down while doing it tho... unless it's totally stuck, then you might need to lift for a half sec in neutral just to spin the cogs out of a rare bad position....... EDIT - um, i mean the locking bits on the synchronisers of course )

the meet i think is on the 28th/29th? just before the bank holiday... think i might have to take me hols in the week before then, as there's that event, and work want me in for the bank hol

[spannaanna]

Hehehe yeah I've been told off for being too forceful with the gears

I'll be more gentle next time

If the meet up is the 28/29th then i can make it cos with any luck i wuda passed my test by then, so no prob me gettin there

xxx

[spannaanna]

Hmmmm i fink theres summat up wiv the thing wher it records the times when ppl last posted messages, u know when u look at ur posts and u see the username that last posted n when they posted the message?


Cos i just posted a message on here n it ses i posted it at 1:02 pm n it was at about 3:05 pm

So i dunno whats up with it guys, just sumthin i noticed

xxx

[Karl_CLCoupe]

Have you set the time to GMT + 1 hour?

[spannaanna]

Hehe cheers I bet i look well thick now lol

xxx

[Tahrey1043]

set the what to the how which now?

[GroovyCarrot]

I believe the meeting is actually 21st august, because I know I'm not going to be there because I'm at the beautiful days festival that weekend

[spannaanna]

I didn't hav my time thing on the right setting so asll my tiems that ppl posted thing were wrong

xxx

[spannaanna]

Ah I see, if its the 21st i cant make it cos my test is on the 25th n i wanna pass my test, get loads practice foir it n stuff b4 i go newhere in it

xxx