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Thats a shame Yandards, yeah I've got to wait until pay day buddy!! SOB Looks like ill try and catch up with Matt or Butterfly unless we can all get booked in on 19th? Is that august mate? Im worried about the bill for this trip! But cant resist the Stealth factor after all the glowing praise. And as Butterfly says, I drove my car round like a grinning idiot until i joined the forum, now i think everythings falling to peices!

Red valver in Salisbury thismorning, waves exchanged. Black G60 i think 2 mins later, got beep and wave! Made work more bearable for once! Walked in grinning

mmmm, im in sals and would have poped down to bournemout to keep you company bud but gosports a bit far, sorry dude. If you get really bored or totally stuck give me a bell on the mobi bud 07841347629

Storm, where are you in Dorset??

I've decided to take my car up to Stealth for a roller set-up and to cure my pinking, plus sort out my camber and generally give the car a good all check over. Its a long way for me, so i was just wondering if anyone else was considering or have a booking for their C and we could match days. Mainly so i'll have someone to talk to rather than walking round like a numpty all day on my own in the middle of nowhere!!!! arrrrhhhh and maybe pin me down when it goes on the rollers! They said they can pretty much do any day in August and so can I. I'll even buy you lunch if you'll be my friend for the day....... :lol: :lol:

Nice one Kev, well pleased your back and so is everyone else by the looks.. Has that charger arrived yet mate? Will you be fitting or is it going to stealth for the set-up? Pretty much waiting to here what you think of the oober horses!

Why dont we all post a friendly wave pick to Blown to cheer him up. Mate, if you can make it down to Ed38 in Sept with a sleeping bag i'll put you up in my 4 man and ill be taking plenty of beer (maybe not cider this time) and food so it would just cost you the trip. Everyone else is going and there all well friendly. The offers there bud..

Is it true 50mm is the smallest drop poss with these though??

Nice one reaper, cant beat first hand experience. My only worry is that 50mm is too much of a drop for my 8x17s though!? Car looks sweet btw

Lovely looking car mate, dont know if its the colour or the ride height or the wheels but it just looks so right, spot on. Much respect due for doing all that work yourself too, i'd have no chance. Bet it makes you apreciate the end product even more. Hope your going to E38, would be nice to see it in the flesh.

Good point mate, its easy to miss-read typed humour, you can't type tone. Be a shame to loose the humour though as I think 99% of people on here are fun and very helpful and the mix is what makes it. Guess its a case of common sense and reading what you've written to see if it could be missinterpretted. I need a spelling checker thats for sure!

Cheers mate, the more info i can get the better. Still learning and have no idea on susp. Other than the fact i fitted some boge comfort kit to my mk1 gti and all my teeth fell out! That was 6 yrs ago though and things have moved on it seems. Hadnt even heard of coilovers until i bought my c!

Sorry, I have read the FK AK post, and dont want to bore you all to death but I am unsure of the diff between the AK and Highsport kits other than the £70 price gap! ? Open to suggestions on other products as well. I want mine dropped by 35-40mm as im running 8x17s with 215/40/17s, kinda wish id put the 205s on now as I think i may have probs at the back and i did want some ride quality as well! I'm also doing the front wishbones, top mounts and rear bumpstops or so MR MOT MAN SAYS ! At least the drop will justify the bill, as mine looks totally g.. compared to everyone elses at Malvern! Any advice on set-ups appreciated, and i cant afford TA's/H&Rs Konigsports etc with all the other MOT stuff aswell unfortunately :( Lend me your wisdom guys...............

Mine does the same re applying the throttle after sustained overun, noticed it on the way to mulvern at the weekend. Also puffed once in traffic. Only other time is when its been driven at low revs for days then blatted it puffs once at 55k, and then doesnt do it again. I top it up half a litre every 1k driving fairly hard and less if wafted into work in traffic at low revs it uses none. Prob right to have it presure checked, but mine uses no water and is smooth so im going to ride it out for another yr or 2 and get it done with the chains that are on 122k now !!

I second all that. Kev has been very helpful to me. We all do a bit of digging and ribbing and everyone has different taste which is what makes the forum fun most of the time, but no need for anything serious or personal if thats whats happened. COME BACK KEV ! Everyone will loose out if he's gone....

Whats going on then guys, just noticed this. Is Kev alright ?? ?? What thread has upset everyone then ?

Will this be finished for E38 mate you reckon? Would love to see it, along with everyone else im sure!

ahh, that killed that thread then. I was joking by the way !

Kev, im sorry to say it did actually yes. And I know 2 other people who have had them go, to be honest 80k is a miracle! On the plus side i beleive the new non DM flywheel will fit any age of 18t and is more like £300, much to the old mans disgust! My garage have done 4 now, but only ever on the petrol turbos, not the deisals JIM! I just cant beleive the guy could look him in the eye and say he had never seen him. He had been in the f...ing house drinking my parents f.....ing tea!! That makes it "PERSONAL" in my book, and the guy even grinned and dad when he said it! Whats with plastic dump valves too? I have to say though, going by our co car guys the new Mercs are no better anymore. Nothing like as well made as an old 300TE or something. The way of the world me thinks.

VAG NIGHTMARE...............As promised............and this is factual ! Dad bought a 300mile T plate 1.8t G4 Gti demo for over £20k (before price drops) Exhibit A After 2 yrs and 17k car starts making a grumbling noise, sounds like the clutch thrust release bearing going. Drop it into VAG, no problem sir, there’s nothing wrong with it. Dad explains its worst when cold, so they send the chief engineer out to the house early doors to have a listen. Dad gives him a cup of tea, have a chin wag. Diagnoses, not the trb but either the main bearing in the gearbox or the dual mass flywheel is breaking up!! Try to live with it for now and we will see if there’s a recall, but don’t worry its logged so if it gets bad we will replace it. 21k and coming up to warranty end, noise getting really bad, dad pops down to dealer and speaks to the same guy. Don’t worry sir, warranty irrelevant, its logged as an ongoing fault so no charge when it goes, still waiting for a recall. 3yrs 2 weeks 21.5k, BANG, its dead. Phones up, nothing on the computer. Dad pops down and speaks to the guy who he’s been chatting too. “sorry sir, never seen you before in my life, and there’s nothing logged, that will be £2000 please”. CAN YOU BELIEVE THAT!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Phoned vag uk, who explained it’s a wear and tear item and not a design fault and that 20,000 miles was a reasonable mileage for a £800 DM flywheel. After months of wrangling with VAG he got no where and had a local specialist do it for £1200. (part I’ve heard has now been re-designed) funny that. Exhibit B Cars in VAG for service (just to keep up hist!). Phone goes, you need rear disc, fine just do it. Dad gets it back and wants to swap the wheels round next day, can’t undo the bolts. Takes it down and they say, wow you’ve done them way to tight will have to drill them. Explained they did them up the day before, apologies all round and drilled them, and ordered new locking bolts. Gets car back a week later with new lockers. Goes to swap again, gets backs off but key doesn’t fit the fronts. Where’s the key for the old ones, oops we binned it and left the old lockers on the front. Oh and obviously the rear BBS’s were nicely scratched. Exhibit C To date: its on its 3 rd set of front elec windows which VAG charged him £200 a time for as they were adamant the plastic clips only came as part of the whole mechanism. And it had cracked 3 PLASTIC dump valves!! Was nice to see the old man fitting a bailey dump valve to solve the problem though!! In summary, my dad is an avid VW nut who drives his car with true mechanical sympathy. He’s a dream customer wondering in every 3-4yrs and paying 20K+ cash for a new car. He loves the sound of the new 200bhp GTI but will be buying a Lexus IS200 now instead. He will never ever touch another VW again. A false economy for short sited main dealers saving a few pennies, especially when I would think he’s probably told more than 100 people about this by now! And I think he should have written to one of the mags too, or watchdog.

Caramac kit kat mate, they are the way forward. I'm sure Mat is very attractive, but its you I really like Kev.

Blimmey just seen how big my thread got, wow! It was only a laugh, we all love corrados. And if nothing went wrong there would be no fun would there. I will post a mk4 dealer story that will make your hair stand on end in a bit, from my dads 1.8t T plate. Its horrific ! Hi maxis and montegos were 10 times more reliable. And the dealer dealings have been pure scandal!

thanks guys, food for thought and i've just ordered my cable. Every time i ask why Dr_Mat is'nt a mod nobody replies, i presume there is some mysterious reason then!?? Do i need to shut up now then!?

Sounds like my version alright !

presume its over compensating after it goes lean then!? if not im confused!