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Old 21st December 2012, 02:00 PM
HPsauce HPsauce is offline
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Yes I had something like that on my old Rover 75 2.0 diesel estate (company car).
Sold it (when the lease car went back) to another R75 owner with a caravan - he was well pleased with it too!
It really was a simple plug-and-play job you could do in a few minutes.

Mine came from the now-defunct Van Aaken and I actually took the car there for them to fit and "tune" it. The increase in power and torque was staggering (nearly 50%) yet overall fuel consumption actually went down in day-to-day driving.

It was an automatic too and the whole setup matched very well. Many a time I'd be alongside a boy-racer in a BMW of some sort and just leave them for dust when the lights went green - it really pulled away smartly!
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2003 D2 FL S8. Irish Green Pearl/Beige. Solar sunroof, auto-dim mirrors, electric rear seat functions and extended leather. Ski hatch retrofit. Aftermarket reversing camera. DVB-T and XCarlink now removed as redundant.
2016 Volvo V40 T5 Cross Country (4WD) with ALL the toys including adaptive cruise etc. etc. Osmium Grey with Blonde/Charcoal leather interior. Polestar performance "optimisation". (Even rarer than a D2 S8!) Oh, and a brand new engine at just under 30,000 miles on the factory one!
Finally: gone, but not forgotten.....
1998 D2 PF S8. Agate Grey/Platinum. Every option (I think) except electric rear seats, Tiptronic steering wheel, ski hatch, towbar & dimming door mirrors.
e.g. Cruise control, NavPlus/TV, Bose, GSM, Xenons, Solar roof, Parking sensors, Alcantara/leather everywhere of course. (internal dimming mirror added later)
1998 (very early) Ford Focus 1.8 Zetec; ABS/TCS, Heated screen/mirrors, Aircon. Added Auto-dim mirror, Leather seats, Trip computer, Cruise control, OEM Ford SatNav with CD changer.
And before that a lot of Rover 800s, a few oddities, a lovely Triumph Dolomite 1850HL with Overdrive and way back in my schooldays an Austin Seven aka Mini 850!
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