My 328ci E46

max wrote:

matty_mk1 wrote:

did you manage to get it tracked anywhere dude?

Not yet man. No where in Cambridge has the combination of a flat ramp and the lazers that attach to the hubs instead of the top of the tyre. I tried F1, Cambridge performance tyres, Regency Autos, Kwik-fit and International tyres and all of them said no.

But a guy from C' Performance told me that they can do it at their Bishop Stortford Branch so after giving them a call and chatting to a mechanic there I'm going to be heading down there on Saturday and see what they can do. Finger crossed ay.

I was told by someone that Magnum Tyres in Haddenham (near Ely) can do this.
It's called a "Hunter" machine. The alignment lasers bolt onto the hubs as opposed to hooking over the tyres.
If Magnum don't have the facility anymore, then try a few places around here and ask if they have a "Hunter" machine. Not a lot of places have them, but it's worth asking about rather than travelling loadsa miles for an alignment.

theres also the kits which fit to the wheel rim, so arch gap isnt an issue.

There's a place called 2 stroke Saab in bassingbourn who I usually use

Stampers wrote:

max wrote:

matty_mk1 wrote:

did you manage to get it tracked anywhere dude?

Not yet man. No where in Cambridge has the combination of a flat ramp and the lazers that attach to the hubs instead of the top of the tyre. I tried F1, Cambridge performance tyres, Regency Autos, Kwik-fit and International tyres and all of them said no.

But a guy from C' Performance told me that they can do it at their Bishop Stortford Branch so after giving them a call and chatting to a mechanic there I'm going to be heading down there on Saturday and see what they can do. Finger crossed ay.

I was told by someone that Magnum Tyres in Haddenham (near Ely) can do this.
It's called a "Hunter" machine. The alignment lasers bolt onto the hubs as opposed to hooking over the tyres.
If Magnum don't have the facility anymore, then try a few places around here and ask if they have a "Hunter" machine. Not a lot of places have them, but it's worth asking about rather than travelling loadsa miles for an alignment.

It's not a problem finding a garage with a Hunter system that's making the search hard it's that I need them to have a Hunter system in conjunction with a sunk ramp (MOT style) but it still needs to be a alignment ramp as they have extra stuff on them. As I said I'll give these guys in Bishops Stortford a go first.

f*****g Finally!

Got a mate to give me a lift down to Stortford yesterday afternoon to pick up my newly aligned car. I've got to say the people at Stortford Performance Tyres are top lads! They didn't complain once about my car being low, sorted out everything to a T, adjusted my rear camber to 2.5 degrees on my request and even stayed open 10 mins after normal closing time so I could collect my car. I really would recommend them to anyone

Now I've sorted the ride height, bushes and camber out the only thing left on my immediate to do list is replace my brakes as I may of warped them a little whilst having some fun with an RS2 Has anyone on here got any experience with EBC Red Stuff pads?

Redstuff pads are ceramic and freaking epic

whittle wrote:

Redstuff pads are ceramic and freaking epic

They're what I'm going for dude. In combination with the EBC Ulitimax disks. I think I'll do front and rears in separate month though as fronts alone come in at £270

Dad's got RedStuff pads all round on drilled and dimpled. Absolutely fantastic pads, and thats a c1600kg car...

I wouldn't bother with 'branded' discs

Get the cheapest dimpled/grooved ones etc and the best pads possible

whittle wrote:

I wouldn't bother with 'branded' discs

Get the cheapest dimpled/grooved ones etc and the best pads possible

Na dude disks are almost as important as pads. Besides brakes are the one thing I'm not going to skimp on

max wrote:

whittle wrote:

I wouldn't bother with 'branded' discs

Get the cheapest dimpled/grooved ones etc and the best pads possible

Na dude disks are almost as important as pads. Besides brakes are the one thing I'm not going to skimp on

Good lad

Will defo be hitting up stortford then for my allignment needs

you scene b*****d matty.

The postman dropped me off a cheeky package earlier

A14 tyres in Bury could also have sorted you out, they have a sunken ramp with alignment stuff that clamps to the rims so lows are no problem, they've done my last 3 cars and didn't even charge me for doing the Rado and Passat. Ollie's the man to see there for future reference

you could have got my brother to do the 'ghetto alignment', when nobody could do my mk2 my brother did it by eye did a pretty damn good job too!

This looked pretty cool yesterday, even if the wheels are too small

You should have seen his brakes pretty much on fire on the way home

matty_mk1 wrote:

This looked pretty cool yesterday, even if the wheels are too small

Ha, cheers dude. If I had a bit of money I'd be buying the 18's off Karl at the moment so I can get some proper tuck going but I think I'm going to have to wait a while until I have some spare cash

Lupton_20vt wrote:

You should have seen his brakes pretty much on fire on the way home

No word of a lie, at first I thought I'd blow a radiator pipe. Bloody slow drivers pulling out and making me brake heavily

max wrote:

No word of a lie, at first I thought I'd blow a radiator pipe. Bloody slow drivers pulling out and making me brake heavily

sure its not all the sitting up people's arses? because thats what bmw drivers do

billybug wrote:

max wrote:

No word of a lie, at first I thought I'd blow a radiator pipe. Bloody slow drivers pulling out and making me brake heavily

sure its not all the sitting up people's arses? because thats what bmw drivers do

billybug wrote:

max wrote:

No word of a lie, at first I thought I'd blow a radiator pipe. Bloody slow drivers pulling out and making me brake heavily

sure its not all the sitting up people's arses? because thats what bmw drivers do

Yes mate that's just what I was doing

Kit and I had a bit of sporadic fun on the motorway home (70mph of course!) when some biddy doing 50 decided to pull out and over take. Needless to say there was much braking and down shifting which my new brakes didn't seem to like all that much.

billybug wrote:

max wrote:

No word of a lie, at first I thought I'd blow a radiator pipe. Bloody slow drivers pulling out and making me brake heavily

sure its not all the sitting up people's arses? because thats what bmw drivers do

Yes mate that's just what I was doing

Kit and I had a bit of sporadic fun on the motorway home (70mph of course!) when some biddy doing 50 decided to pull out and over take. Needless to say there was much braking and down shifting which my new brakes didn't seem to like all that much.

Also much love for Dan for this shot

max wrote:

billybug wrote:

max wrote:

No word of a lie, at first I thought I'd blow a radiator pipe. Bloody slow drivers pulling out and making me brake heavily

sure its not all the sitting up people's arses? because thats what bmw drivers do

Yes mate that's just what I was doing

Kit and I had a bit of sporadic fun on the motorway home (70mph of course!) when some biddy doing 50 decided to pull out and over take. Needless to say there was much braking and down shifting which my new brakes didn't seem to like all that much.

I have a picture somewhere actually. With the white van man pointing at you. Judging you.

Lupton_20vt wrote:

With the white van man pointing at you. Judging you.

I didn't know diggins was there!