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you think?! :shrug:

Correct. Also, those offsets from that website are rubbish. Et43 is the correct offset for 6.5in wheels on the VR (it's what speedlines are). That changes to Et38 for 7in wheels (ie. the mk3 anni Rx2). I'm not sure the Rx was standard on any 5x100 VW but they were available direct from BBS in 16x7 and above if that's what you're after - a few forum members have 16/17s. However the 16in rx2s are obviously easier to get hold of having been on the golfs.

advanced search for heater matrix (by topic not post) - _Kris_ (i think) did a very good write up on it. allow yourself at least a day if you havent done it before though..

it depends on the situation really, people say put the best tyres on the rear because understeer from lack of front grip is more predictable than oversteer from a lack of rear grip. ie. going round a bend, running wide is more controllable than the back of the car coming round on you. however, other people would say that they'd rather have the grip at the front so that the car grips and goes where they want when they want it to, and are happy to let their driving skill sort out any rear-end liveliness. as usual, it comes down to accomodating the lowest common denominator (ie. the least capable drivers) rather than encouraging people to develop skills for all different road conditions who could then get the best out of the equipment that they are using. (all that said, the rainsports are probably a bit more squidgy than the toyos so the benefits of their tread pattern may be balanced by a slightly less precise turn-in over the toyos and so it really comes down to whether you think you're going to be doing lots of wet driving or not.)

£2,200 for a 77k mile VR with respray, leather, H&R coilovers, aircon, samcos etc etc? sounds like a flippin bargain to me! dont think its a big deal that you didnt see yourself in a red one, if there's not much choice then one is better than none? smoothing not ideal but then US spec is smoother anyway and you wont see it from the inside :) doooo it, do it, do it.. :D

the only person that can make something open source is the person that owns it in the first place so its not a question of "anyone" making it open source, its only one person, the person it belongs to. Well Mike you have voiced my concerns but this is a manual which is now out of production and no longer produced....? really? surely you cant think that something stops being someones property just because they choose not to make it any more? you must have heard of people buying the rights to things to reproduce them? i'm not making a point as a mod, but just cant see that you'd thought the point through very well really?

Surely you got the serious answer you need from Kip in post 2 and after that it's just open season on your lady-bothering efforts? :)

I'd have a vauxhall if it was a V8 :) , but then if we're talking about V8s for 30k then that's a whole other imported-muscle-car-from-America kettle of fish :D

although, the converse of that situation is that apparently VW are just about to overtake Ford as the No.1 manufacturer in the UK, and the reason given..?? Lower prices! Seems like a lower-at-the-bottom but still high-at-the-top strategy is paying off for them?

afaik there is only one type so you should be ok. also moved this to suppliers ;)

thats one shiny car.. the owner must have put plenty of wrist action into polishing that!

I think one week per year is the basic entitlement and then they could pay her notice but it sounds like they still have time to tell her before they would need to do that. Your friend who got 3 months pay would either have been at his job for 12 years or had a generous redundancy payment. If the place is closing down though then they won't have any money to be generous I guess..

Welcome to the forum. Your post is pretty hard to follow to be honest though. Try again with some punctuation and people might be able to work out which different questions you're asking.

Do you mean recommendations for bodyshops? Near Middlesborough? There are lots of places recommended in other threads like this already if you search for them. Moving this to suppliers anyway though.

Almost too cheap to be honest. I'd want to be sure you were happy about the oil leak as I would say the car should be going for at least twice that. Sounds almost to good to be true.. Also, you're looking at a VR as a run about? That's great if you are but it's not exactly a cheap one even if you do get a good price!

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how many cars have you got Danny?!

previous offer still there if you dont find anything Andy.

pretty cool side-by-side GT5 and real life footage from the nurburgring [youtube:3uf5nafm]-Mi_xKz3WLw&feature=player_embedded[/youtube:3uf5nafm]

could just be that they're sticking a bit and/or maybe binding for a bit before you've used them a few times each morning. also if its been very wet you could have surface rust forming quickly on the disc overnight thats just being rubbed off first thing.

ok, well that statement is all relative.. :) i cant pretend to have a detailed understanding of suspension set up so I can only really frame the experience I've had so far based on how its felt and what knowledge i do have. happy to hold my hand up and say that the interaction of roll centre and CoG is a beyond my current appreciation! all i would say is mine is higher than most on the 35mm h&r springs and is certainly not ideal on track (although short of 3 way suspension i dont think i'd change the set up for the road).

mine's about 35mm drop i think Mic. I have a set of brand new PI springs which i think would be harder but not quite as low as yours if you wanted to experiment? that said when Fla had some on his with TT comps he was having rubbing issues as well hence my vote for at least a bit of arch attention still.

Where as I feel it's too low :D Visually it looks fantastic but if it were my car I would be hoiking it up an inch :D You could always just try some stiffer springs Mic, but it depends what kind of cornering speeds you want to achieve! Yes, it does all hang on whether it needs to stay a road car too! I appreciate that in terms of suspension geometry too low isnt great, but at the same time didnt you guys investigate upside-down droplinks or something to cope with that? I guess there must be a compromise between geometry performance and lowering the centre of gravity in these non-professional situations? On what wheel/tyre size? On 15s that should give you a nice balance but on 17s, I agree, the shallower tyre profile + a stiffer bar can exacerbate understeer. One solution is to obviously refit the stock front bar, which on a road car feels perfect to me. Understeer practically non-existent. It cocks a rear leg easier, but it feels soooooo much better. On the track you might want that flatness back given the cornering speeds you guys hit......tis a tricky one. Ideally you want an adjustable front bar :D havent taken it on track on the 15s since 2009 Kev so yes, this past year that experience was all on 17s. given that Mic is sticking with those then maybe staying stock at the front is best. Did you end up finding an uprated front since having gone back onto your Speedies?

The problem is no one knows who's paying for what at the moment. I don't want any companies chasing me for hire charges at the end of it so i'm not even going down the hire car route in this case. But surely one ins co is paying anyway? If it's the other owners then who cares, if it's yours and you're losing your no claims anyway then you might as well get some decent benefit from that? In neither case would you actually be paying yourself if you're fully comp would you?

I think your ride height is just fine tbh Mic, no need to go lower unless you're really going all out to track it and nothing else. I would 100% get the arches done and stick on an arb or two, just the benefit of being on 17s and holding it flatter will be a revelation i think. Whether you go front and rear or just rear arb is up to you really. I've found mine still more understeery than is ideal with front and rear eibach but at the same time it's not that hard to bring the end round either. I blame both of them on height-induced bodyroll to be honest which you should suffer less from, but, depending how you like it, fitting both may be best to start with to see how it feels.