I love this bearing talk and it seems it may be a weak point, my oddball mind would be tempted to try two readily available 6205 bearings and making a 7 mm spacer.

Savvy uses the same part number as the FLX.
I fitted a cheap set meant for a Daewoo Kalos to mine and still love them, plenty of bite for my gentle style.
I did post a pic here a while back.

Those who know me already know I love to fiddle with meaningless things.
Anyway here's a fail that may spur someone to succeed. I'm a fan of LED lamps but doing the indicators is a real challenge, these are bright enough but the yellow colour is too pale, an orange/deep amber would have given me a smile.


The LED is on the left of photo or right of car. Because the front oddly run negative to the end terminal I stripped a bau15s fitting from a way too dim LED and soldered up two nice tellow T10 panels to it, sadly the colour is just too close to white but the brightness is fine even if it's slightly less than the incandescent, actually probably a better light as it lacks the hard dazzle of the incandescent.

Now I search for a deeper colour LED, sadly at my age I lack the eyesight and coordination to bother creating from scratch. The rear is at least wired so a store bought lamp will work but bear in mind it faces directly rearward so a different lamp would be better.

This post has been edited by wankel: Jan 28 2015, 02:38 PM

Gentle enough but words are cheap and meaningless. I suppose I was trying to say if you drive along and require an emergency stop then the pads I used are brilliant, and probably every other dirt cheap set are just as good, now if you decide you want to race around Bathurst (which has the 12 hour race coming the following weekend complete hopefully with a Lotus competing) or Sepang then fade may very well render the cheap pads a fail, however the racing pads you'd love to have on the track can be a real b**** on the road. Lesson is don't put your trust in paying more for better, even for some pads they'll wear the hell out of the disc rotor, so I put my faith in bargain basement jobs as they give me a feeling they'll be gentle on the rotors.
I'm not in the least interested in pad life, with my driving even cardboard pads would last a while.

That is stuffed, I can only think the pad surface is only half width.

The blue ones here are what I put in, the part number is on them but good luck sourcing these over there, pretty blue though so that's good enough reason to use them regardless of any real figures.

Absolutely it will, all the wear will be on half the surface creating a step on the rotor. Really the sooner you check into this and find the problem, which will likely mean a pad change, the better.

Righto, when we get some daylight tomorrow. Mine is what they call the GLX so it has leather seats, actually quite luxurious and I never feel that I'm driving the cheapest new car available at the time.

As requested here are some piccies.

The drivers view, I use two GPSes on my tours, one map based and the other a common old street one to tell me where to go. The yellow piping is my addition, in keeping with her name Daisy.


The CVT was a major factor in purchase, I see them being very common in the near future partially due to all other transmissions trying to emulate them.

Rear seats, something I have no real use for.



Wifies seat.


Cluttered but I like toys.


Instruments, in 4.5 months that's all the driving I've done, wife has been crook since shortly after purchase, back related pain.

My secret twin brother, we were in the same year at high school (sort of, his final year was 1974 and mine would have been if I hadn't left beforehand) and have the same blood type, A+.

A 175-60R15 should be fairly suitable, it'll raise the gearing slightly but within legal limits, and hopefully will aid comfort and economy.
Edit: oops you may have trouble with the load rating at that size, it has to be 82 minimum.


This post has been edited by wankel: Jan 29 2015, 08:30 PM

It means you'll be using slightly fewer revs on the road, maybe only 100 less RPM at 100 km/h but since you're not after performance that should aid comfort and economy.
If you go to a number 14 rim then I'd be inclined to opt for a 175/65R14 tyre, they also have the bonus of being cheap and readily available.

My stock alloy rims are 5.5jj but I'll have to check the offset, my thinking is 40-42 would be about right.

Oil pressure switches have a history of becoming faulty, I even managed to buy a new one a few years ago that was a dud, but often a sign of drama is them leaking oil, that at least is easy to check for.

In the land of USA where almost everything is measured differently to the rest of the world, fuel is of course rated differently, they use a MON (Motor Octane Rating) which means a smaller number than the RON rating we're used to.
91 RON is the standard fuel available in Australia, which means anything Euro and Proton desire a more premium brew, 95 and 98 RON are commonly available but cost a painful amount extra, myself being cheap use an ethanol blend that adds a few RON points and is even priced less than the standard 91 it's mixed with but should result in poorer economy due to ethanol containing less energy.

That E85 is a different brew again, it's not commonly available, I've yet to see it at a filling station, and it's not suitable for many cars either.
The stuff I use has only 10% ethanol added, and as I've said should result in poorer economy but the jury may be out on that as it real life it ain't necessarily so.
Some chemical voodoo magic could occur due to the oxygen content in ethanol and lambda sensors.

Nice foot, even has hair, something mine has lacked for years.
Nice topic and just the sort I like, folk here would know I'm a fan of budget pads, really unless you're a teenager (or one at heart) or really push things like setting a new record going down the hill from Genting then premium pads can be more a millstone than a boon. I abhor the idea of machining rotors so the less harsh the pad the better in my view.
Myself I'm easier on brakes than my Dad and he had 340,000 km on the pads (and rear shoes) of his trayback when he sold it a while back, but that can be a testament to how many of our roads are long, straight and flat.