dukest

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With a few possible exceptions very few suppliers keep Weitec/KW stuff on the shelf and it all comes direct from Germany on a per order basis. This shouldn't be a big deal though as they offer 3 day delivery and if you wanted the softer springs then they'd need to come from the factory anyway. So, the short answer is yes to your delivery question, if you ordered on Monday I'd say you'd be fine for Thursday next week. I'm sure there are plenty of distributors based near you that you could pick up from. You can also speak to KW UK on the phone quite easily and they can give you a run down on what they can do.

believe me Paul that has crossed my mind in the past! next time i have something serious to get done I might well do!

I think that depends where you are though, I've had at least 3 places say £200/panel to me in and around london. I'm not saying thats not a rip off but just that it varies a lot!

i know where you're coming from, was a touch more surprised at the coded interior but at least you have to say that makes it very personalised now!

i might need a comparison ride out in it! :D

you should be offering your services then!

put it this way, when it was sold originally it went for a lot less than everyone expected. if you'd paid for all the work to be done plus the original car it would have been getting on for 100% more than what it went for. it changed hands a couple more times before Vick got hold of it but I dont know what the price was that time.

It occurred to me the other day that I've actually seen very very few new Sciroccos since the initial fuss around the launch. Not sure what the sales targets were but if the numbers are as low as the roads indicate then I guess they are going to hold their value well.

:salute: looks seriously good James!

you must be able to buy a half decent set of wheels that dont need repairing or painting for the cost of repairing and painting your own (min. £300 as per comments above..)?

depends what they are!

no, you have to have 288 calipers and carriers. the 312s have different carriers again but use the same caliper and pad as the 288 so same pad area etc, its just further away from the rotation point so better "leverage" as I mentioned earlier in the thread. consensus seems to be that theres not much to be gained going from 288 to 312 for that reason so either go straight to 312 or go 4 pot.

i'm impressed you can remember how it felt before! I'm sure i'd've forgotten by now.. excellent to see it getting about under its own er, steam though :)

no, i think we passed that point about 2 years ago and you wont see it again for a long long time..

fogs have gone up £30 this year then, on top of the £20 they went up the year before.. I bet you they wont stop making those at those prices.. :nono:

Bike Magazine have been running a campaign to get their readers to keep track of which roads are under thread of reductions from the national speed limit and then object to the reductions as and when they are proposed. Its not a straight forward thing that someone can do in 5 minutes though so i imagine its not being pursued to any great degree. It is a nightmare though, people are, as you say, massively lazy and just drive with the minimum of effort, including not changing gear if they can help it, hence driving at constant speed despite the limit. I agree that they wont introduce retesting despite how valuable it would be. So behaviour on the roads comes down to common sense, courtesy and a bit of thought, all of which is largely absent. For example, have you ever seen how close people drive to each other on European motorways in order to make progress? I dont see that they have massively larger accident rates, people just actually concentrate on what they're doing..

depends what you're wanting them for i guess Steve?

You could look through the members galleries?? Edit: beaten to the obvious..!

You've waited long enough! I think Dukest is the only person on here I've taken out in it thinking about it. and the beast will return i'm sure :wink:

contis will have stiffer sidewalls than rainsports so the rainsports may not perform quite as well - they're not a "performance" tyre to the same extent. so depends whats most important. you'll save at least £100 with the rainsports but do you want out and out performance as well as comfort?

Hope the new owner will be coming on here then?! Enjoy the new car!! :thumbleft:

no problem, i also agree with just going for some proper 4pots too btw :wink:

like you say, some of those prices dont include labour, but there's also some also overlap and therefore you dont need to count them twice. for example though, theres no point in buying new brakes (for 1500) when you can do a 2nd hand brembo set up for 800, but overall cost, incl fitting, brake lines, bearings, rears etc will end up being £2k yes paint is obviously down to how much it needs, bushes you seem to already have in your sig but replacing them all will cost more in parts and labour than 300. clutches dont cost 500 but fitted they do, but then if the engines being replaced thats covered already. if you're putting in a quaife and a new engine though you might as well get a gearbox rebuild as well, and that put those hundreds back. so in short, 10k will very likely get you what you want, but it will still be a car thats 10 years older than the r32 with other bits still wearing out or going rusty (switches, interior, subframes/beams etc.) but if you're not driving it millions of miles though then you dont need to do a full restore so its down to what you're happy with. personally would want something more than "just" a 24v if i was spending 5k though. are you just wanting to hand it over to someone and them do everything or could you take a bit more of a role in it?

no, the reason that people use them is that a larger disc puts the pad further away from the centre of rotation and means less work for it to do to generate the same stopping power. heat dissipation will be a small positive side effect. its going to be more useful for someone who's tried both to comment though, rather than all of us speculate on something we havent tried :salute: