Mr Sands

Gutted to hear your bad news Jake but I'm impressed with your turning adversity into triumph! God bless DG as ever... Must say that I feel your pain, since going in for the DGR+ cams turned out to be a bit more of a job when we found that my head gasket had let go. However, the engine now runs so beautifully (old school 12v though it is!) that it was bliss to get it back all tuned up and top end rebuilt. I'm sure that you'll notice an even better result going from a VR3 to a 24v beast! Looking forward to following with interest...

I stand to be corrected here but I believe that doing what she did counts as leaving the scene of an accident and she is obliged to report it to the Law as soon as is possible and certainly within 24 hours. The Law, in my understanding, makes no distinction of whether the accident happened on a public highway or a supermarket car park. Certainly that was the conclusion of the digging that I did when I once scuffed the bumper of someone at Tesco. It didn't leave any damage but I knew I'd brushed their bumper and so I left my details under their wiper. When I got home, I checked the net and the balance of stuff I could find suggested that the Police could still view it as an accident (according to the law) and that therefore I needed to go and report it to them at the Police Station, present my documents etc. This I duly did: it seemed a silly fuss for something so trivial but I knew I was covered and I wanted to do it by the book. I didn't hear from the other car's owner until three days later when I pulled into Tesco again and the car was there, with the lady owner in it. Turned out she works there and had meant to ring me back to say not to worry and that she couldn't see any damage. She did show me the MASSIVE bump in her bumper on the other side, from someone who did exactly as you've detailed: hit her (while in Tesco's car park) and drove off...

Received mine too today Jake, thanks very much pal. Top stuff! :salute:

It's an absolute stunner Jake, really looking forward to seeing it in the metal.

Gave her a weekend wash and wax in honour of her birthday, which is Wednesday. It will be 16 years since her first registration. :new-bday:

Pop me down for two will you please Jake. Cheers pal. Ed.

Black Corrado, unsure of type, pulling out of the Tallow Hill industrial estate and heading down into town, earlier this afternoon. Exchanged thumbs up.

The gf saw this out and about the other night. I didn't believe her to start with! :D

Thanks dr_mat, that's really helpful. I should have said that this is exclusive of any labour, merely the cost of the part only. I did think that £180 wasn't out of the question but just seemed to be on the high side, especially since a part of me presumed that Perodua (as a budget make) wouldn't be in a position to offer prices as high as VW. Guess one should never be surprised at parts prices, whoever the company is!

Cheers chap. What would I do without the forum for a bit of common sense? :notworthy: I did join the Perodua Myvi owners forum in search of help...it's all written by Malaysians in spam like English. I had a wonderfully entertaining half an hour there. I left more confused about the car mind. Oh, and well ahead of you on the somewhere new to take the car bit. From now on, it's always going to my friendly local village mechanic, a real diamond who did whatever I needed until DG opened up.

Good point! :D Based on what they've said so far, it's a sensor at the wheels but whether front or back, near or off side I don't know. Was just looking to see what people reckoned about an average top whack price for any of those (if such a thing exists)? I know it's all quite vague at the moment but bear in mind the vagueness I'm trying to interpret at the feckless dealership end of things. As yet I've never seen a mechanic out there, much less talked to one.

Evening all, Just thought I'd run this question past all the knowledgeable sorts on here, even if it is for the missus' cheap and cheerful Perodua Myvi (yes, I know). ABS light started coming on intermittently in all the snow. I said to her that it'd almost certainly be a sensor, quite possibly just gunked up and needing a clean etc. It went out to the "dealership" to get hooked up for diagnosis. I say dealership; I mean the tinpot garage that majors in minibus hire and just so happens to be the local agent for selling and servicing imported Malaysian wattle and daub mobiles. Still, you'd struggle to find any similarly spec'd brand new cars for anything like the price, so it's a case of beggars can't be choosers. Anyhow, the team there eventually scanned it and diagnosed an ABS sensor being knackered. Cue a wait for the part, a journey out there to drop the car off and a return the following day to find they'd done nothing to the car as they'd "ordered the wrong part". If a phrase about a drinking session in a brewery springs to mind, you're halfway to how inept these people are. However, you try finding Perodua parts elsewhere... Anyway, to cut a long story short, today we get home to an answer phone message letting us know that ordering the correct ABS sensor will now jack the price from a predicted £60 (a pretty fair ballpark figure to my mind) to £180 (seems rather steep). Thought I'd ask people their thoughts on this. I know the price of ABS sensors depends on manufacturers and can vary enormously but this still seemed on the high side to say the least. I wouldn't necessarily have queried this but this bunch of clowns have messed the gf around so much that I listened in via the speakerphone and don't want the gf to pay them a penny more until I've at least investigated possible prices. I got her to ask the front of house woman to call back tomorrow after getting the part no. from the mechanics, to see if I could source it more cheaply/see if the Daihatsu Sirion part is interchangeable (same car effectively). You'll see why I'm querying this one when I tell you that I had a hard time keeping silent on the speakerphone when the silly bint front of house was telling the gf "If it were me, I'd just leave it". When the gf, briefed by me about ABS issues told the woman that the light would be an MOT failure, the woman proceeded to tell Sally that this wouldn't in fact be the case, if the brakes worked fine. Not only that but their minibuses often have this problem but pass fine. Given that she was talking about "taking the bulb out" and she works for them, it gives you some idea of the organisation here. This is the place by the way that recently gave the gf's three year old Myvi its first M.O.T.! :pale: So over to anyone who might happen to have any kind of contact with a Perodua parts catalogue (talk about longshots!) or an opinion about the price this tinpot place is proposing for the sensor: par for the course or taking the mick? Thanks in advance of any sage counsel! Ed.

That'll teach me. I ALMOST prefaced what I said with "I've heard that...", since I'd wondered if it was an urban myth. However, since I'd heard it on here somewhere, I assumed it to be true... I'll get me coat!

VW's customers at the time complained of scraping the sump etc when exiting multi-storey car parks and so forth, so VW raised it.

If in the end you don't need to use the spare ones to go to people who don't get theirs, I'd happily take one off your hands. Somehow missed this thread until now! :D

Sarcasm? :scratch: Not sure why, if it is. Ok, 15 years old is the youngest of them and is hardly the era of white wall bicycle tyres and manual starter handles but it is old enough to be sure that certain parts will have failed by now through wear and tear; some might have gone without notice but will then cause it to fail its M.O.T. Given that M.O.T.s are required from the time a car is more than three years old onwards, due to the likelihood by then of some aspects of the car having gone south, I don't think it was exactly asinine to be pleased that a car that is five times older than that should fly through an M.O.T. without anything at all needing looking at. However, if it was really sarcasm revolving around how old fifteen really is, thanks very much: it'll keep me on my toes for my next Year 10 lesson! :D

Currently said bonnet is at DG Autotech, as a sort of kinky museum piece!

Yeah, I must say that I've always found both my VRs to be pretty bullet proof. That's if you take out the small matter of the bottom end blowing in the last one...hey, everyone's allowed an off day! However, even with the last VR and this VR last year (its first M.O.T. with me), there's always been something small ie a brake pipe with the beginnings of corrosion etc. This time though, nothing! Happy days...

Nah Jake, the dogging dents have gone! She's looking a lot smarter these days, what with undented, fresher looking panels on and having had a good mop. You'll have to see at a meet soon... :shades: I'm not sure where the M.O.T. law stands on suspicious looking sex-swapping type damage... B.T.W., for anyone thinking I'm some sort of random perv., all this is from before I owned the VR, honest!

The VR went in for MOT today. Now, granted, she's regularly fettled at DG but even so, on a 15 year old car, I was fairly certain some footling detail would be awry that would necessitate fixing and a retest. My 15 year old sports coupe flew through without even an advisory. Never having owned a car that was less than ten years old or that had fewer than 50,000 on the clock when purchased, this is new territory for me. :D So to all of you struggling with reliability, niggling problems etc (and believe me, I've BEEN there!), accept this offer of hope for us all... Once again, a ringing endorsement for preventative maintenance and yet another reason to thank the Almighty for DG Autotech. Thanks to them, my 'rado's in great shape! (Am aware I have tempted providence hugely...gulp). Ed.

And right back at you Andy (CazzaVR), have indeed received the scuff plate, excellently packaged and swiftly delivered. Proper business done by an enthusiast. :notworthy:

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Only this morning I was reading this thread and thinking that it'd been a while since my last chuftie but then, like buses, two turn up today. First was a chap crossing the road in town with his missus and the pram. I was first in the queue at the lights and he was casting quite envious looks at the badge, the grille and the motor generally. Secondly, got back into the 'rado at Tesco as a middle aged chap and his wife were about to put their shopping into their Toyata IQ (I know). He did follow this inauspicious beginning by saying "Oh, that's one of those old Sciroccos!". Sigh. However, I pointed out that VW moved from Scirocco to Corrado and now back again and he redeemed himself by finishing with "Lovely car that". 15 years old and still turning heads. I love my Dub. :luvlove:

1. Probably says a lot about my level of operation but it's got to be Wullie's Ant Massacre thread. 2. Pass. Only do local meets. 3. Too many absolutely brilliant Corrados to mention. OSV's for the ultimate OEM+ thing I think. Always had a very soft spot for vornwend's Storm; exactly how a Classic Green should look. 4. DG, DG, DG.

I found one in my car...along with a bill. :D Dave and Graham know just how to smooth it all over...