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Your dealer is an idiot. You take your car to a professional for a professional diagnosis not a stab in the dark at your expense. Any clown can stick their finger in the air and say" starter motor". On top of that they can remove it and get it tested for little cost. Hell any decent mechanic can...

Clearly the shift knob assemble wasn't installed correctly at the factory on the assembly line. Good to know but, big deal an assembly issue. It happens. If only all assembly line issues were this easy to fix. Phil

The reason threads usually go off track( and I take some responsibility for this one, sorry) is because it's run out of any actual detailed information and is stuck. Like a slipping clutch I guess. All revs and no progress so it's ends up parked on the side of the road and the participants start...

Left collar bone, left little finger, and 2 vertebra. Phillip Island is fast and unforgiving. Greg Hansford a well known Aussie motorcycle racer from the late 70's and 80's that finished 2nd and 3rd in the 250 and 350 World Championships in the early 80's plus many other national titles went on...

You have the modern riding style, lower body position forward over the tank. My is old school from someone that grew up on dirt bikes. Plus I'm old as well. Compare. Me sitting more upright with the shoulder leading ready to catch it if it tries to high side me. The GSXR and the 1000ss don't...

Modern cars don't need them. The windshields all filter between 94 and 99% of UV so the dash vinyl doesn't suffer in hot sunny conditions. Phil

Yes, Phillip Island. Lucky Heights turn 9. On the Ducati this time. Phil

Absolutely. In the case of the Chevrolet Gen111/T56 gearbox combo it was the gearbox that suffered but it could easily have been the clutch instead. The Focus RS Mk111's can suffer from LSPI failures as did WRX Subaru's because owners used to regularly go WOT or close to it at lowish RPM in...

What you don't understand is that it's not necessarily about outright abuse. There are people out there that don't even know when a clutch is slipping. The Focus RS forum has seen at least a dozen of them over the last 6 years. "Sometimes when the engine hits boost it revs up but the car doesn't...

Not to add to the hysteria I see inevitably coming but if you wonder about why some mechanical issues don't surface before production the answer is often pretty simple. The people that develop the cars and drive them till they break are professional drivers and they drive them hard to not only...

So much misinformation. The rev matching function is going to have zero to do with clutch failure, it's simply a throttle blipper that can calculate and apply exactly what revs you need to achieve for the particular gear you're going to select. It has no control over the clutch itself. As for...

Maybe you need FENG like my Focus RS has. Phil

I'm easy on clutches but I know people that can kill them in no time flat just through poor driving habits. There's a reason it's difficult to get warranty on a clutch unless it's something that the owner cant control like a leaking slave or master cylinder. The amount of times I've seen muppets...

This is an amusing thread for me. I mean who the hell drives around in a modern car with the window down? The only time the window comes down in my car is to hit the button for a carpark ticket. The things could literally not work and I wouldn't know about it for months. Then again I can see...

I'm not a fan of the rear spoiler at all but it would look far more professionally installed with the mounts attached with Button Head cap screws instead of the standard head type. Preferable in Titanium. Phil

Congrats on the new toy. How did the dealer mount the front number plate? Any images? When mine arrives I'm going to get them to only mount the rear plate. Don't like the thought of then drilling the front bumper Phil

No selection for Audi, any Audi. Here 90% of Audi drivers are arrogant arseholes on the road. Don't know why but almost every time you see someone acting like the roads are their private space and carve you up or cut you off it's an Audi driver. Phil

How are you driving the car? Carefully and short shifting it? Gearboxes need to spin for the syncros to work efficiently. If your short shifting it at low rpm and road speed try a 2nd to 3rd shift at around 5000rpm and see if it's better. I don't mean you need to do a shift like your going for...

Try this. Instead of disengaging the clutch and shifting straight into reverse try select another high gear like 4th then go from there into reverse and see if it selects reverse easier. Is the reverse selection harder when the gearbox is cold? Phil

Oil change intervals a largely determined by what conditions the car is driven in. Short trips where the oil temp stays low or a lot of commuting then more regularly than a car thats driven mainly on freeways for longer durations. Then there's track and "sports driving" which is more often as...