The chap who did the recent report on my car has now done a short version:
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In celebration of the appallingly grey and wet British weather:
best i20N colour
If your red stripes were black even better
I think that’s perhaps a touch too conservative for me - but you never know
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I think you need more of that now
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Funnily enough it was only yesterday that I was looking at the Speed Engineering website 
- but I was more interested in their adjustable front splitter as the front end of the car does become a bit light at high speed.
The idea of a functional rear wing is an interesting one. On the one hand Speed Eng. seem to have produced a functioning blade but, on the other hand, they have placed it very close to the roof. Even if it does produce genuine downforce it’s questionable whether increasing rear downforce is a good idea on a front wheel drive car.
- but I was more interested in their adjustable front splitter as the front end of the car does become a bit light at high speed. The idea of a functional rear wing is an interesting one. On the one hand Speed Eng. seem to have produced a functioning blade but, on the other hand, they have placed it very close to the roof. Even if it does produce genuine downforce it’s questionable whether increasing rear downforce is a good idea on a front wheel drive car.
I’ve just done the latest infotainment update to my car and whilst I was waiting for it to download (25 minutes or so) I took pics of a couple of the more obscure mods I’ve made (both of these were done ages ago so aren’t recent). The first is a sticker that covers the airbag warning printed onto the passenger side sun visor. The second is the screw that holds the sun visor in place - as stock this is silver and now it is black so it matches the rest of the headliner and sun visor.
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There was a thread elsewhere on the forum asking about OBD2 locks. After doing a bit of reading it looks like an OBD lock might not be a bad idea. As a result I bought this one from AliExpress for £18.00 delivered.
The two red parts (anodised aluminium) are the actual lock and they screw together. The little silver cylinder with two small nibs is the lock key (stainless steel, as are the screws) and it also has a handle for the key and a small pill container to keep the key in (both are anodised aluminium). All very nicely made.
To fit it you simply fit the first part of the lock over the port and then slide over the outer cover and screw the two parts together. You can do the screws up nice and tight because they only connect to the lock and not to the port itself. A thief could rip the cover off but this would very likely also rip off the OBD socket. Also, it might be possible to undo the crews with a pair of fine nosed pliers but it would be fiddly and time consuming - also it rather assumes that a thief happens to have such pliers on him. When tightened up the screws are below the surface of the lock so it would be very tricky to do. Perhaps you could pull the whole thing off with some grips and some brute force - who knows. There are other designs available but they all work the same way and most others are larger.
But….. there is one potential issue that might put you off fitting such a lock and that is the way Hyundai has made the OBD2/fuse board cover. They have made it in such a way that the moulded recess for the finger hole - the bit that you pull on to remove the cover - sits very close to the OBD port and this port lock will stop the cover from closing completely. You can still mostly close it and it won’t fall off - but it won’t snap in completely flush! Unless you do some modifying….
Here you can see where the edge of the lock is making contact and I’ve already done some sanding to try to solve the problem. However, in the end I resorted to doing some careful cutting:
The two red parts (anodised aluminium) are the actual lock and they screw together. The little silver cylinder with two small nibs is the lock key (stainless steel, as are the screws) and it also has a handle for the key and a small pill container to keep the key in (both are anodised aluminium). All very nicely made.
To fit it you simply fit the first part of the lock over the port and then slide over the outer cover and screw the two parts together. You can do the screws up nice and tight because they only connect to the lock and not to the port itself. A thief could rip the cover off but this would very likely also rip off the OBD socket. Also, it might be possible to undo the crews with a pair of fine nosed pliers but it would be fiddly and time consuming - also it rather assumes that a thief happens to have such pliers on him. When tightened up the screws are below the surface of the lock so it would be very tricky to do. Perhaps you could pull the whole thing off with some grips and some brute force - who knows. There are other designs available but they all work the same way and most others are larger.
But….. there is one potential issue that might put you off fitting such a lock and that is the way Hyundai has made the OBD2/fuse board cover. They have made it in such a way that the moulded recess for the finger hole - the bit that you pull on to remove the cover - sits very close to the OBD port and this port lock will stop the cover from closing completely. You can still mostly close it and it won’t fall off - but it won’t snap in completely flush! Unless you do some modifying….
Here you can see where the edge of the lock is making contact and I’ve already done some sanding to try to solve the problem. However, in the end I resorted to doing some careful cutting:
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I do like the red colour of that part. It matches the colour of my car. 
My car is always garaged. If I ever leave it parked in the street, I generally use the Disklock.
I hate having to use it and I have learned that it is better to put something over the steering wheel to protect it. I have a microfibre towel that does the job nicely.
I know that the Fiesta ST has a lot of thefts through using the OBD port.
Is it a known problem with our car? I have always thought that our car is unlikely to get stolen because it is rather rare and not on most people’s radar.
As usual, top marks to you for not only discovering and fitting these things but also documenting and photographing it so perfectly and in a way which even I can understand
I do worry that one day you will have done everything possible with your car.
What will you do then?
You will have to find yourself a new hobby.
My car is always garaged. If I ever leave it parked in the street, I generally use the Disklock.
I hate having to use it and I have learned that it is better to put something over the steering wheel to protect it. I have a microfibre towel that does the job nicely.
I know that the Fiesta ST has a lot of thefts through using the OBD port.
Is it a known problem with our car? I have always thought that our car is unlikely to get stolen because it is rather rare and not on most people’s radar.
As usual, top marks to you for not only discovering and fitting these things but also documenting and photographing it so perfectly and in a way which even I can understand
I do worry that one day you will have done everything possible with your car.
What will you do then?
You will have to find yourself a new hobby.
Thanks mate - 
- I’ve got a bunch of hobbies though (watches, hi-fi, art and graphic design).
No kind of theft is a known issue with our cars but, as you say, that's primarily because there are so few of them. From what I’ve read, any car with keyless start is prone to OBD attack but who knows the reality! I don’t have a garage but my car lives on the drive blocked by another car.
You can only see this mod if you really stick your head under the dash (you can’t even see it sat in the drivers seat) so it won’t put any thief off until they’ve already broken in
- so it’s not a deterrent. I wouldn’t have bothered with this except it was only £18.00.
The problem I have with disc locks is I just can’t be bothered with all the hassle.
- I’ve got a bunch of hobbies though (watches, hi-fi, art and graphic design).No kind of theft is a known issue with our cars but, as you say, that's primarily because there are so few of them. From what I’ve read, any car with keyless start is prone to OBD attack but who knows the reality! I don’t have a garage but my car lives on the drive blocked by another car.
You can only see this mod if you really stick your head under the dash (you can’t even see it sat in the drivers seat) so it won’t put any thief off until they’ve already broken in
- so it’s not a deterrent. I wouldn’t have bothered with this except it was only £18.00.The problem I have with disc locks is I just can’t be bothered with all the hassle.
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No, you can’t. You would have to cut out half the panel to be able to do that - perhaps more as the angle of the OBD port is very shallow - pretty much parallel to the cover. If you have one of those OBD readers that is just a small dongle you could cut the hatch cover similarly to mine (probably a bit more) and just leave it connected.
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.No way 
Surely there is nothing left to be done to your car
I can’t wait to see what you are doing next.
I am fascinated by your journey because I am the total opposite of you.
I am very happy to leave my car totally standard, except for changing the tyres for something better of course.
Surely there is nothing left to be done to your car
I can’t wait to see what you are doing next.
I am fascinated by your journey because I am the total opposite of you.
I am very happy to leave my car totally standard, except for changing the tyres for something better of course.
I'm also amazed at what YNWaN has done to his car. I'm like you OldGit, apart from putting PS5s on, all I've done is fitted ShortieZ mud flaps!!No way
Surely there is nothing left to be done to your car
I can’t wait to see what you are doing next.
I am fascinated by your journey because I am the total opposite of you.
I am very happy to leave my car totally standard, except for changing the tyres for something better of course.
. I'm an OldGit too!That’s brilliant
There is a lot to be said for the older gentleman that still very much enjoys driving a little hot hatch with bone jarring suspension
It is all I have ever known. I have never had a sensible comfortable car.
Changing the subject, you can obviously guess where my forum name and TerryTaff’s have come from but I am intrigued by the very mysterious sounding YNWaN
Are you willing to give us any clues as to what this name means?
There is a lot to be said for the older gentleman that still very much enjoys driving a little hot hatch with bone jarring suspension
It is all I have ever known. I have never had a sensible comfortable car.
Changing the subject, you can obviously guess where my forum name and TerryTaff’s have come from but I am intrigued by the very mysterious sounding YNWaN
Are you willing to give us any clues as to what this name means?
My user name is very obtuse because it comes from my years contributing to audio/hi-fi forums and is from there. To explain, it’s kind of a pun and plays on a famous run of advertisements (from the 80’s) by a high-end British hi-fi manufacturer called Naim Audio. The idea is that the tag line from the Naim advert is combined with the idea that you have to have a forum tag - a name/Naim (the company Naim got its name when it was trying to think of one). Strictly speaking, according to the advert, my user name should be YaNWaN but I misremembered it as ‘You're nobody without a name‘ so it became YNWaN. I bet you regret asking now .
I have since thought of changing it to Mark, which is my actual name.
.I have since thought of changing it to Mark, which is my actual name
.Haha it is great to know the story behind the name.
I was coming up with all sorts of ideas, all of which had the N at the end being the N for the car. Anyway, nice to know your real name Mark, my name is Darren.
I was coming up with all sorts of ideas, all of which had the N at the end being the N for the car. Anyway, nice to know your real name Mark, my name is Darren.