Barry

Yes

The good resellers will have certificates on the wall from habtoor. If you can see certificates, you can probably trust them. For all the difference that's in it, it's just as well to go to habtoor and buy the parts direct. At least you know what you have. I've worked on one particular Pajero where I did a timing belt. All the parts came from a small shop in Mitsubishi boxes. The tensioner failed after a couple of thousand kms. Very lucky it didn't wreck the engine. Replaced with one from habtoor and it's been fine ever since doing desert work. Caveat emptor

I love burnouts. The smell of tyre smoke and a rich fuel mix is like petrolhead viagra.

You would think it's simple. My last job was foreman in a garage. I tried to train them in simple things like using a torque wrench to put on a head. Ok ok boss, then it was put on covered in shellac using an airgun. Putting in a diff was another ball game. No need to measure boss, it's in, all the bolts are tight. The wheels turn. It's ok. I didn't go to school to learn what I know. I taught myself everything. So there's no excuse for not knowing what you're doing. Anyone can learn it. You just have to put a bit of effort in. Most of these guys aren't prepared to put the effort in though. They think they know everything and this is the problem.

If there's a problem with the diff, it won't be possible to lock the back wheels. If the wheels spin with the diff locked but don't spin without, then you don't have LSD. Jack the back of the car up. Spin one wheel. If the other wheel spins the same direction then you have LSD. If it spins the opposite direction the you don't have LSD. LSD and lockable diffs are 2 completely different things.

TCS works on the same system system as ABS. It uses the same wheel speed sensors and cuts the power and transfers to another wheel when appropriate.

If you want to do proper burnouts, man up, buy a manual and consider fitting a linelock/brake bias valve. If you want to disable the TCS, try pulling the ABS fuse.

If it has LSD and only one wheel is spinning, then there is a problem with the differential. You may get away with adjusting it. You won't know until you open it and check. Maybe it was never adjusted to start with. Too many mechanics here just stick parts in and have no understanding of what they're doing. Ask them if the backlash and pinion height are correct and they'll ask what's backlash?

Sorry, I should have worded my statement better. I do not condone anyone driving on the road without a license or breaking any other laws. What I wanted to say is that it's better for people to learn off road first before they hit the traffic with minimal knowledge, potentially causing accidents. By off road, I mean on private land, unrestricted car park, flat desert tracks etc. Get caught driving without a license in U.K. you're liable for a similar ass kicking as you are here. I was lucky, I grew up on a farm and there was endless forest tracks and fields to drive around. Where im from, Northern Ireland, still technically part of the U.K., driving on the road is not so much of an issue. The rural areas are controlled by paramilitaries and the police are scared to come into the areas so it's pretty much anything goes as long as you don't annoy your neighbor.

@Ren13 have you seen the Subaru Sambar? It's a Japanese kei car. People buy them and kit them to look like mini vw buses.

@desertdude Not necessarily, you just need a driver to get there and back. Im all for people learning to drive before they get their license. I did it and I'm all the better for it. The whole education system of teaching people to drive on the road from scratch isn't good. Far better to learn off road than start mingling with traffic when you're still capable of mixing up the clutch, brake and accelerator pedals.

@umarcrespo333 the problem with buying a cheap one is that you don't need it until you have an accident. By that stage it is too late to find out that it's crap. @Gaurav search on pistonheads forum. There's always regular discussions on them. I don't take much notice but it's work having a read.

I love the modern retro style. This will be crazy expensive though and the vw fanbois will keep the second hand prices up.

Don't need a license for the desert, that's the beauty of it. Through one thing and another and me getting screwed so many times I still haven't managed to take my test but I still made it to the desert and loved every minute of it.

Can't recommend a specific brand but I can recommend buying 2. One for the front and one for the back. 90% of the accidents here seem to be rear end collisions. It's good to keep your ass covered, literally speaking.

The beach and the desert are 2 completely different animals. Beach sand is compacted and full of sea shells. It's nearly impossible to get stuck unless you're dicking around. The sand in the desert varies. It's always moving. You can hit a soft spot and get buried into the axles very easily. You won't face 30 meter dunes on the beach, you won't fall into bowls at the bottom of dunes etc. I just want you to know what you're getting into. Yes it's still sand, but it's very different sand.

If it's your first time, I'd recommend going on one of the Carnity desert drives. You'll be safe and if you get stuck, someone will be there to pull you out. Learn the basics before you go out alone.

Hi Byron. Welcome to Carnity!

I have some Xbox360 games for sale. 45dhs per item or will consider swap for any version of Guitar Hero with controllers Grand Theft Auto 5 Call of Duty Ghosts Call of Duty Black Ops Watch Dogs Call of Duty Modern Warfare 3 Forza Motorsport 4 Ghost Recon Advanced Warfighter If anyone wants to buy all games, I will throw in 5 days Xbox live membership free.

Eek I hate doing cooling system flushes. It's simple but time consuming and customers know it's simple so they expect it to be cheap and argue when it's not but what they don't realize is that it can take you a full day of messing about between doing other jobs, filling it, bleeding it, running it up to temperature, draining it, scalding your wrists in the process and doing it all over again 5-6 times.

I know a guy who was working on a building site in Ireland. Not the smartest guy. The dumper was low on diesel so the foreman told him to go and fill it. After 30 minutes, he still hadn't come back so the foreman went to look for him. As he went around the corner, he saw the dumper coming down the road with diesel splashing over the sides of the skip. He literally filled the dumper with diesel.

It's called plastidip

Where do you even start to clean that mess? I guess the only thing you can do is take the engine out, put it on a stand, strip it to the bare block and start with a gallon of paraffin. I'd imagine there will be clearance issues when you're putting it all back together though.

On the plus side, it will mute a rattly timing chain.

The story is that a guy was driving home late at night and it was extremely foggy. On a bad corner he saw the reflection of the eyes of a cat sitting on the wall and realized there was a corner and made it round the corner safely instead of plunging down a ravine. He then went home and invented what we know today as cats eyes. And that's how they got their name.