"Elder" wrote in message
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I reckon Rob fitted a chav air filter to a turbo car, didn't read the
instructions properly, put it too close to the MAF and ended up with a big
bill :-)

"rob" is a tiscali **** who decries that any part not personally blessed
by the living deity founder of the marque will instantly kill it dead.

And to him a factory fresh dealer serviced 1.3 KA is a far more
reliable, and more performance oriented car than a nice fresh
supercharged Zetec conversion built by a professional racing/tuning team
and warrented by the company. It can't be as good as the 1.3 because the
mechanically assisted corpse of henry blesses every washer and gasket at
the ford headquarters.


I'd take the standard car any day of the week. Its been tested beyond what
our imagination could conceive and been driven with those components for
hundreds of thousands of miles long before it was even put on the market. I
just want a reliable car that is equally comfortable on the motorway and
sitting in a traffic jam and the last thing I want is a booming exhaust pipe
or extra complications of go-faster add-on's. That's my opinion and nothing
wrong with all that turbo, party seven tin exhaust stuff if you are under
25. Just not my cuppa. Oh, and when people are looking at you roaring down
the road, its not because that admire your super car, its because they think
you are a ****. Excusable if under 25, but beyond that the eyes start to
roll and people start to mutter "grow up" under their breath.

Graham