craigowl

For VR6 have ordered Jetex (silent version) from Tuning Werkes Croydon at £340 including VAT and delivery. Reuben the owner phoned me himself about my email. Seems like a real gentleman, so expecting everything to be OK. http://www.tuningwerkes.com/news.html Getting my local garage to fit it. http://www.golfgtiforum.co.uk/index.php?topic=116276.0 see bottom post. Found this just a minute ago. Remember and mention the Corrado forum and "a guy in Scotland" :lol:

Great! Those advisories about brake pipes and particularly discs were nearly always there until I had most of pipes renewed. My cynical view on the powers that be's "discs corroded" ? "Shock, horror - iron-based material is rusting when it goes outdoors and gets wet! - the apocalypse is nigh!" :lol: What a bunch of tedious bureaucrats.

Well, I got that quote from them by email this morning. They seem to have it on their website. Small family business with 3 people. Funnily they advertise all Jetex apart from one for VR6.

MSW in Scotland have quoted the following to me for VR6 Magnex - £384 Milltek - £390 Supersport - £416 Prices include VAT and delivery. Speedbox are claiming to sell the Jetex for about £340 including VAT and estimated delivery, but I know nothing of company.They are on edition 38 I think - what is that anyway? :confused4:

In my research on exhausts I think I read that Milltek were bust. Is that wrong as I have just read that Magnex have gone under. Aftermarket dealers are still advertising both makes with warranties as far as i can see. Anyone able to throw light on this, please?

They have a good price for jetex system for VR6, but might go to Venom if cant find anything about them.

My wife came into the room when this was on - but I do not think she heard this properly, thank god. :lol: :pale: Gee - I must have been lucky with my C! :scratch: Er...perhaps not -I will be getting bill for nearly £400 this week for brakes and I still have to replace exhaust by MOT time in May! :eek:

Good luck with the MOT! :bounce2:

Thanks, S'charged. Fully agree about the Goodridge steel hoses - got them several years ago! Our local garage has "VAG trained technicians" who came here when the VAG dealer in Grangemouth went over to Honda. Labour is a competitive £40 plus VAT/hour. http://www.hunterslinlithgow.co.uk/

Am looking for exhaust from cat. back to pass MOT in May. Original has lasted till now! The VAG exhaust is best for long life (ah! just brought a smile to dr_mat's fizzog :lol:), however, it costs nearly £700 from VAG and I do not need it to outlive me or the car! I will be eligible for state pension in a couple of months :eek: . From what I read here, I will probably go for Jetex, or similar, cat back.

Car will be 15 years old in June. Have had some trouble with brake binding and scorching hot discs. Also, blowing exhaust at joint. Rear discs, bearings and pads replaced by local garage last week. (£263, including VAT & labour) This week will have callipers replaced all round - they are originals! Bleed nipples all seized and lots of corrosion, so I have to go for it. Estimated cost to be £375. Dont tell me it is easy and I can do it myself ! :brickwall: - there comes a time when the prospect of crawling under a car and getting rust in your eyes, skinned knuckles, etc, becomes a no, no! :lol:

I did mine about 3 years ago. You can save a bit by getting the parts from Ford (cough cough) as they are used on the VR6 Galaxy, too. Watch the torque when tightening up!!!! It is low - something like 9lbs - so it is easy to crack the plastic.

Yes, there can be a problem. When I bought them for my VR6 several years ago, my local garage man told me they had the wrong fitting for my car's brakes. He was absolutely correct. Someone I spoke to at a supplier in England about it said "not another f*****g Corrado, is it?" :lol: Anyway, the right ones came and have been fine for years. IIRC not much help/advice came from makers/suppliers.

A garage once fitted new suspension (shocks, springs - supplied by me) to a Mk2 GTi I once had. Afterwards, the car felt firmer but was tramlining and wandering - as they can do on ice. I thought this was just an effect of having firmer suspension, but went back a few weeks later. We found one of the front tyres had almost no tread - surface newspaper smooth!! and the other had only half a tread. These tyres had been relatively new. The tracking was badly out. I do not think the dumb mechanic given the job of fitting the new shocks, etc had realigned the suspension judging by the sheepish attitude of his boss! After a proper (>£100) "computer" alignment elsewhere (at VAG), the car felt absolutely brilliant. Just a suggestion - good luck with investigation.

Don't use it! :D My C is hardly ever out when lights are needed. As I have said before, you should feel how hot the switch gets (mine is newish) when you have it in position 2 (dipped headlights). What a piece of numpty engineering.

I'm not gonna forget about you, emu! :salute:

Glad you are OK, M man! Sad about your car, but the cliche is true, you can always get another of 'em - there are millions out there. Your hand has been forced by fate and you should try and look upon this as a lucky escape to your person and an opportunity to search the market for something interesting again. Never too old to learn - I am 64 but would not have guessed that an electrical short, or similar, in the C could have escalated so quickly such that you had to evacuate the C and then have to watch it burn. All that wiring insulation gives off deadly cyanide fumes when it burns - s0d that - best to get your ass out of there just as you did! I have always carried a cheapo extinguisher in the door shelf, but I had in mind perhaps a fuel fire starting. My son's VR6 was kept in by the garage once, as the fuel pipes were in such a bad state of deterioration (about 5 years ago this) they could not risk letting him drive away in it without working on them first. Seems we need to think of the wiring behind the dash as a more serious threat than we may have.

I saw a pale green :pukeright: Scirocco yesterday. At first I thought it was a new Peugeot. Not a look I have taken to yet. I loved glancing at the newly washed C yesterday. It is so dark a green it is almost black. A bit miffed the other day when an elderly lady asked if I was the owner of the black Vauxhall next to her car! :eek:

It's simple. The councils have a "duty of care" to us. They would face legal action if they blatantly neglected this duty. Your employers also have a duty of care to you - you should expect your work's car park to be in a safe condition. If you injure yourself on ice, say, in their car park, you can take them to court and have a good chance of winning compensation for your injury if they have not had a reasonable gritting/snow clearing system in place. Happens hundreds of times all over the UK in a typical winter.

Friday afternoon, dark green G reg (I think) in front of us in Linlithgow High Street. I flashed :camp: and we waved at each other. Not seen that one before.

Gave it first longish run for months. To Stirling and back - about 40 miles. Trickle charger means 8-year old Quantum battery started her first time. Brake pads seemed glued to discs! Had to rock backwards and forwards to free them. New fuel pump fitted after nightmare breakdown in middle of High Street a few months ago must be OK, but work has left stink of petrol from somewhere. No leaks to ground, though. Great to have proper music system again - Toyota Yaris unit is useless for me, what, with my CDs and a hundred compilations on cassettes to play! Cassettes? Google it! We went to Dobbies garden centre - well! what do you expect of our generation? - have to keep the myth alive. They have a huge aquarists section anyway! Those marines are awesome - nothing like that when I started keeping fish. Strong coffee there, makes me feel really twitchy then four hours later a bit woozy!

Different enough to be interesting, but really, i want to forget about my bad dental experience of last week. Today is 50th anniversary of the day Elvis Presley landed on British soil for the one and only time (at USAAF base at Prestwick, near Ayr.) They are holding a really cheesy, kitch function with Elvis imitator to celebrate. Long live Rock 'n' Roll. :nuts:

Mine has been lost in the post! First time ever - ebay seller 100% record - he has refunded to paypal. Have to try again. Original tango by veteran Argentinians of the genre and the late Astor Piazolla who blended jazz and tango (and got death threats for doing so) are worth investigating. Very sensual, sexy and passionate music and the relatively young Gotan Project have cultivated it for the 21st century..

Fine groove 8)

Capri started to be tempting latterly, but they were Ford and rotted, so never went for one. "The car you always promised yourself" An interesting British phenomenon, you cannot deny. Here are couple of items I posted last time it cropped up for discussion. I still have Motor Road test annual of 1971, too, in bits now. :(