New(ish) Car....
New(ish) Car....
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darthPaddington

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116 posts

256 months

Tuesday 17th May 2005
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Hi folks,

Just a word of thanks for all the help you've unknowingly given me recently.

I bought a Chim just over a week ago and havn't looked back.

(I did HAVE to buy one after talking a friend into it last year)

Cheers

Peter

Nuggs

4,640 posts

263 months

Tuesday 17th May 2005
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Great work

The car looks amazing; I love that 'Cadbury'-stylee colour

>> Edited by Nuggs on Tuesday 17th May 12:50

razorman

440 posts

259 months

Tuesday 17th May 2005
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Welcome....That's some colour......need sunglasses just to look at it.

darthPaddington

Original Poster:

116 posts

256 months

Tuesday 17th May 2005
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Cheers I'm very happy with it

Some more pics if you're interested



jimothy

5,151 posts

266 months

Tuesday 17th May 2005
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darthPaddington said:



Wow, wish mine had the uphill mod...

Nice colour though!

jimothy

5,151 posts

266 months

Tuesday 17th May 2005
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Oh, and here's the Chim forums in a nutshell

Button by the left knee
Check the 100amp fusible link
Buy a bible
They all do that, sir.
Green ones are faster
Get a sports exhaust

Nuggs

4,640 posts

263 months

Tuesday 17th May 2005
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jimothy said:

Wow, wish mine had the uphill mod...


It must be the only Chim with a fully-functioning handbrake (and a blatant disregard for gravity)!

darthPaddington

Original Poster:

116 posts

256 months

Tuesday 17th May 2005
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jimothy said:
Button by the left knee

Ok I know what it does but I havn't a clue as to why...

jimothy said:
Check the 100amp fusible link
Buy a bible

The first means almost nothing to me and the second faile d when I tried to get one from the tvr cc

jimothy said:
They all do that, sir.

I've been resisting really hard to ask about the little things like the

jimothy said:
Green ones are faster

Ha Ha some, I believe, do not agree. Though personally I doubt I'll ever push the car to it's limits. it was difficult enough getting liz to agree to the car - track days would be a lot more effort.

trevorw

2,875 posts

311 months

Tuesday 17th May 2005
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Thats a beauty!

chimburt

751 posts

288 months

Wednesday 18th May 2005
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just popping out for the day? trackdays are VERY hard to resist, for good reason. give it a year until you can get trackday cover thrown in with your insurance, then you're on. one way to learn how your car behaves very quickly. you'll learn more in a morning than in 10k miles on the road.

nice looking car, but shame about that ugly fecker behind the wheel
welcome to the madhouse

steve1c

341 posts

261 months

Wednesday 18th May 2005
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Yeah nice car and sunglasses, but you seem to have something stuck on your chin

edward1

839 posts

295 months

Wednesday 18th May 2005
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Great colour, saw one a similar age with that colour combination at RT in Sheffield last saturday. Good choice.

rooster

2,241 posts

266 months

Wednesday 18th May 2005
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jimothy said:
Oh, and here's the Chim forums in a nutshell

Button by the left knee
Check the 100amp fusible link
Buy a bible
They all do that, sir.
Green ones are faster
Get a sports exhaust



Jimothy, you are failing him here, You forgot to mention cleaning the stepper motor!!!!

2 Smokin Barrels

32,007 posts

264 months

Wednesday 18th May 2005
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5..4..3..2..1....








jimothy

5,151 posts

266 months

Wednesday 18th May 2005
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rooster said:

jimothy said:
Oh, and here's the Chim forums in a nutshell

Button by the left knee
Check the 100amp fusible link
Buy a bible
They all do that, sir.
Green ones are faster
Get a sports exhaust




Jimothy, you are failing him here, You forgot to mention cleaning the stepper motor!!!!


D'oh! I knew I'd forgoten something!
Least you agree that green ones are faster

parrot of doom

23,075 posts

263 months

Wednesday 18th May 2005
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100A fuse is the fuse between the battery and the alternator AFAIK. Mine doesn't have one. Its found underneath the car in a little plastic box, and without it your car won't work.

Oh, and blue ones are faster.

Lovely car though, I find myself hungry for chocolate just looking at it!

darthPaddington

Original Poster:

116 posts

256 months

Thursday 19th May 2005
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edward1 said:
Great colour, saw one a similar age with that colour combination at RT in Sheffield last saturday. Good choice.


You know I'm not completly sure that choice comes into it after driving a TVR.

How could you want to drive anything else afterwards.

jimothy

5,151 posts

266 months

Thursday 19th May 2005
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darthPaddington said:

edward1 said:
Great colour, saw one a similar age with that colour combination at RT in Sheffield last saturday. Good choice.



You know I'm not completly sure that choice comes into it after driving a TVR.

How could you want to drive anything else afterwards.


Very easy. I want a new car thats not a Chim. Its called a Tuscan and its made by those nice people in Blackpool...

I bet your cars good for pulling ladies, turn up in it dressed completely in black and drop off a box of milk tray!

petros

2,441 posts

258 months

Thursday 19th May 2005
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Wow, what tyres are you using to get THAT sort of grip?

darthPaddington

Original Poster:

116 posts

256 months

Thursday 19th May 2005
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petros said:
Wow, what tyres are you using to get THAT sort of grip?


Part of me was tempted to turn the picture round so peoples comments made no sense...