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Yeah - worth expanding that my suspension work was top mounts, ball joints, wishbone bushes, axle bushes, ARB drop-links, springs and shocks. I also have a receipt for every single penny spent on parts in a big folder at home, but the thought of actually adding up all those numbers scares me far too much. Just doing a quick tot-up while writing that last post was bad enough - let alone including all the odds and sods I've forgotten about :lol:

I seem to do either short trips to the shops or 2hrish motorway journies and my average mpg over the last few months has been 28mpg. You can work out how much that's gonna cost you by knowing how much petrol is and how many miles. Since I bought my C at 125k miles - I've done 15k miles in 2yrs and replaced pretty much every part of the suspension and brakes (not done the hard lines yet, but it's probably gonna need doing soon) (brakes and suspension probably cost £1500 inc labour, but I have put TT brakes on and Koni/H&R suspension) and the exhaust was already done (£350ish). I've done oil and filter changes every 6 months myself/with other people's help - it can easily be done on a driveway and doesn't take long. Between oil changes, I've used 1-2 litres of oil, but I've not been doing mega mileage. The chains have already been done on mine, as has the clutch (£700ish job), so shouldn't need expenditure there any time soon. I've had quite a few electrical issues, but that's mostly been down to various chimps splicing crap around at many stages during the poor car's previous lives. The other potentially fairly expensive part is the coolant system - I've replaced the radiator (£150 for the part!), the water pump (£40ish), Aux water pump (£100 ish) and before I bought it, most of the water pipework had been replaced too (potentially £150ish for a whole set of pipes). The belt pulley tensioner bearing can also die too and if you're buying a whole new tensioner from VAG then that's a £70ish part too. So essentially - it all boils down to how much has already been done on the car. As a general rule of thumb - if the part involves rubber and/or plastic and some kind of load/heat cycling then it's gonna need replacing at some point...

It's not a standard speed that any copper's gonna know though, so not like the old 911 spoilers that everyone knew came up at 80 :lol:

Hah! That'll be quite a score if you it all comes through! :lol:

Nope

If you've got fully-comp insurance, you can usually get chips repaired for free...

Looks alright, about as much class and style as the original Cossies tho :lol: Strange how they didn't include any pics of the stripped out interior tho...

So you have a VSR? :lol:

They're just stuck on, so come off with a heat gun/hair drier. The sticky stuff on them isn't re-usable, but you can just use trim tape instead. Alternatively, you can still get the "Corrado" ones new from VAG (535 853 813 A 01C sill panel scuff plate with 2 39.74 inscription satin black) But they are £20+VAT each :?

Are we not missing the point here (apart from the penii racing each other on a public road). He's driving just another one of the billions of Jap wagons and you're driving a widely popular, rare classic of which there are only a few thousand left in existance. And it's not slow either. How many times does he have strangers stop him in public and say "ah yeah, nice car - I'd always wanted one of them"? :lol:

Fuse 16 I believe, but it's written on the back of the fusebox cover anyway...

Yeah, gotta love the Vanquish with a go-faster stripe :pukeright: Especially as when you click the 'highperformance' button it just shows the engine with 2 nasty bits of orange cabon fibre stuck to it and no description. Wow, don't go over the top on the engine mods, lads :roll:

Spooky - mine's started doing exactly the same thing in the last week. It's munched through 2 fuses already, so might be stripping the damned spoiler mech at the weekend...

Yeah, doesn't sound like the chains, but god knows what it actually is. Will have to wait for someone that knows what they're talking about to come along :)

Well er there is/was gonna be but I got so snowed under with work around the end of last year/beginning of this that I didn't get a chance to get the calendar made. I do have a few other ideas which may or may not come to fruition tho. Don't want to say anything yet in case people get excited and it all goes the way of the calendar :(

Very nice pics! Can't go wrong with a bit of Nice Gay :)

Very nice pics! Can't go wrong with a bit of Nice Gay :)

If only it was £59,800 cheaper and I'd have bought it! :lol:

Actually, I remember my mum's Golf that used to do that too... well, only the once really :lol:

Not sure about which one is better to keep, but if you're got a standard shelf with holes in, then stiffening it up will give you more bass. Otherwise you lose definition and importantly - low-end grunt in moving the shelf up and down rather than the air.

err how ?? :lol: It's white and fluffy? :lol:

Ditto :(

This? :lol:

*cough* yeah, that's what I said. I'm dicklesic with numbers.

I think if I had a minty Storm, then I probably would pay for the VW stamp - especially if it already had a FVWSH. Mine didn't when I got it and it's clearly been abused in a previous life, so I don't see the point. I've got all the receipts for the insane amount I've spent on it and if I do ever sell it, there's hardly going to be any of the original parts left on the shell anyway... :lol: