Banana Man

From Vag £197 for the driveshaft dr mat

offside front wheel bearing £16 or £8 if it's a rear outer cv boot £6 front engine mount £32 steering tracking £20 driveshaft under £100 ( cant remember the price off the top of me'ead) ignition switch £15 as henny said oil filter £10 oil £15 2 litres of dot 4 £6 total parts cost £220 and then £200 max for labour he should be saying that he is trying to keep it under £500 not £1000 most of that stuff is really easy to do the driveshaft would take an hour and while you were at it you would change the cv boot anyway! oil and filter change 20mins ignition switch 30mins front engine mount 10mins wheel bearing 1 hour at max if its a front 30 mins if it's a rear. I would think you could easily do all this in under 3 hours at the going rate of £35-£45 an hour. So your friendly mechanic is overcharging somewhat in my honest opinion!!

I use slick 50 power steering fluid all the time it has PTFE in it as well so seals any troublesome seals it's bloody good stuff I have been using it for the last 4 years and have never had a problem with it!!

It only slightly bent 2 of the exhaust valves on cylinder one and four so it sheared on the up stroke. have a look at the attatched pic you can hardly even see that they're bent got away quite lightly. I did have the broken bolt I was keeping it as a bit of history for the car :D but my sister thought it was rubbish and chucked it away! DOH

I was dreading the point where I had to get the sheared bolt out of the crank as it was flush with the end of the crankshaft. There was me armed with a drill and a set of reverse taps went in with the drill and as I started to drill i noticed that the bolt was turning freely so I just stuck the drill in reverse and the bolt came out without any effort :D Job done obviously it didn't have an awful lot of thread lock on it so dont know how difficult it would be to get out if it did. But if the bolt is intact it shouldn't be that hard to get out just stick it in gear like henny said and get someone to jam on the brakes, get a nice 1/2" bar on it and give it all you got as it is done up pretty damn tight!!

Dont you mean HIC ( Herts insurance company) if so they're number is 08451 290290 highly recomend them I ve been with em for 2 years now no problems and they've beaten any other quotes from other companies I ve tried. :D

Yep normal and bl**dy annoying!!! :D

The part number for the 12 point corrado stretch bolt is N 903-208-02

Count me in andy I'll have a set of te white by day black by night :D

Mine was original and hadn't been touched and mine wasn't ok!!!To be on the safe side change it whats £2 when it can cost you a new set of valves and pistons whic will cost in excess of £600????

yeah it's real but it ain't no rado it's a modified mk2 golf with rado front end isn't it seen one like it before in a mag!

Check inside the bottom of the door there are about 4 drainage holes if I remember correctly if they are blocked this is where your problem could be, what the condition of the door seal is that all in perfect condition??

Steve is that a picture of jasons banana with the intercooler fitted??

proper bodge job duck tape for me LOL :D Chris read the the link to ebay the bloke says it is LIKE a superchip Not actually a superchip and this confirms it when you read on a bit further just above where it says free shipping to the uk it says ' This mod is a very small resistor'!!! You dont get a chip for £2!!! Now whos the plonker :D

Ok I'll give ya a break then I wont use the nos the first time :D I really miss driving the C as well although it is nice to only have to put a tenner in petrol into the astra a week with the C coz I love driving it I was putting £30-40 in a week makes a hell of a difference running a cheap car can afford to treat the C to a few more treats along the way :D Got a money pot that I have been putting in spare cash to and have already got over £200 in it plus the £2k in the bank so I'm laughing at the moment the respray and the pistons are going to most of the cash in the bank though. I'm not in any real hurry I would like to be able to get on with a few more things though but I can occupy myself polishing, tidying and painting things while I'm waiting for the pistons :D I haven't decided yet weather the C is going to be returned to the duty of daily driver might have it just as the weekend car but that probably wont work as I will want to drive it all the time :D It's almost addictive :D

Have you started building up your engine yet henny have you got all the parts yet?? still fancy your chances down the strip now I have nos :D

Nice one steve good luck to ya and all that malarky!!

Hmmm Now whats missing from the 2 cars I cant quite put my finger on it :D

Snap :D :D :D

Yep seriously kev a very small resistor something like a 5ohm one sellotaped to a piece of paper with some half arsed instructions!! But what do you expect for a pound!!!!

I'll be taking a test drive in a noble M12 GTO in a couple of weeks I know the guy at our local dealership he said if I come down I can take one for a spin it might not be the most expensive on here but still a bloody quick supercar values at about £45k I think :D cant wait

Henny you can overcome anything with a big hammer, bar and of course the ever handy mole grips :D

Very nice looking motor mate looks like the wheels are ace 112's to me!!! :D

Are they dampner adjuastables as well as the ones I want need to be!! I'll have to email the bloke to see if he does the G60 ones as well and if he can ship to the UK as that is a pretty good price!!

I ve driven a toyota landcruiser amazon last christmas brand new with 26 miles on the clock £56k with all the gadgets nice car!!!! Dad works for toyota you see!!!