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Jim, agreed, but i've kept everything as factually clear and backed up with pics, peoples opinions are exactly that, and i was very concious of this when posting the thread (initially looking for assistance in removing the brearing remains). But i feel my good nature was been pissed on here and i dont like being treated like a cnut and i certianly feel they have tried their luck once to many! After some thinking this morninng i'm going to contact the RAC for an independant check that'll stand up legally and will be linked to the incident when they recovered me and i shall speak to trading standards, at the end of the day if i had to pay someone to do it i certainly dont want to give them any more money! and i have given them every chance to resolve the issue calmly and ammicably (sp)

well boys and girls i have been doing some thinking, there has been a very good point raised time and time again, this is very difficult to prove blame apart the chemical test available. Citizrns advice gave me some very good pointers and i have been advised by a friend who is the manager of a local garage to involve trading standards, but... To be quite honest it is now 4 weeks until edition and i want the car on the road, in that time i have a weeks holiday and a weekend away at a festival so time to sort the car'll be tight as it is! I am very tired of the hassle involved in this now and proceeding with a legal claim will probably drag on for quite some time. I want to drive my bloody car and for the sake of a few hundred quid i can then hopefully get it back and running again. I dont want to put a 2nd hand stub on there as i want to do the job once and be confident its running straight and true for many miles to come. So i'm gonna contact them tomorrow and sort this out. Thank you for everyone for their help but i have got the stage now i just want to get the vehicle running again as i havent been able to drive it for 6 weeks now and the longer it sits on the driveway doing nothing the more and more i feel as if i want to sell up and move to something more modern and i really dont want that! So i think this'll be the best bet I can only hope this goes out as a warning to all those who have thought of using the TT shop as this really is an insight into the level of customer service provided by the owner, and through discussing this with local dubbers i'm not the first person to have had this type of service and worse.

TT Shop, i'm seeking legal advice today, a friend of mine runs the local formula 1 in bedford (should have gone to him! :( ) and he's looked as a fully qualified mechanic and has advised its best to go straight to trading standards as that is his worst fear as a garage manager, if trading standards apear with evidence (which i have! lol) he says they're fooked, and if i can get trading standards on their ass that'll strengthen my case for claiming damages!... i've had enough of being nice to them, they have been given the chance to put it right and despite proffesional opinion stating operwise and what i feel is blatent photopraphic evidence they have made a simple mistake in fitting they continue to treat me poorly. Anyways i'm off the citizens advice...

Your right Jon. It is ridiculous now, as far as i have gathered as i am not a chassis expert but i work in automotive engineering there are 2 likely causes of failure, a non greased bearing or the bearing was done up to tight... this is getting silly now The mechanic came out on friday and spent a good amount of time looking at the stub axle and damaged remains and they are still blaming the parts!... if there parts are/were at fault fair enough but there is no evidence of grease on the bearing surfaces as far as i can see of within the outer cap of the rc where you'd expect to see this. As the chap who worked on my can said he has seen grease run out of a bearing and cetrifugual force would meant the grease congeled again within the cap, which it has not done! I am going to have one last attempt at a sensible resolution of this now and pop down to the garage with the parts in the boot and ask them their opinion on site, if not its off to citizens advice or someone similar to seek legal advice. The additional £180 quoted above is without the labout cost, £65 and without a new toyo proxes tire which is £70ish , so they expect me to be another £300ish out of pocket.... :cuckoo:

Now this sounds like they are still blaming the parts!... i'm about ready to give up and pay to sort it out but i dont think i should! what the hell can i do now, i mentiooned in one of my previous emails to them that they could fail as a result of overtightening but there is no way of proving this??? i'm sick of this now! :(

i want a that bumper... just to write... 94 VR6 - Mods, Mods, Mods etc....Combat death bodykit Awesome!!

wow! love them in lairy colours :luvlove: I could have sworn you were the same height as me when i saw you at edition 38 last year... same as junkie said... how do you fit?... i couldnt fit in a series one elise when i tried last year... do the series 2's have more room?

i think they have corrado confused with prelude! the rear beam (in full view missing all rear wheels and brakes on my drive atm is solid and the hubs bolt to that, the stubs bolt to the hubs and golf mk2 or 3 styleee taper bearing press into the discs before being fitted... another bobbins reference on the corrado i think... I did hear on a post on this forum in the past few weeks tha tthe Corrado sold in todays money for £37k! bloody hell! maybe thats why it didnt sell!

mk4 look more modern, but the pressing in the wing is a different size, if you look at the difference between a early model mk3 gti/vr and a late model they move from square mk2/corrado type to similar to mk4 shape. As vornwend mentioned, you can get the same style as the mk4 in the mk2 shape, loads of aftermarket places stock them or theres ebay!unless you were to cut the recess out of a mk4 wing and blend it into you corrado one i cant think of any other way to make it fit! sorry if that doesnt really help!

o and love the seats, at the moment i think theres only you an i with the border seats in a C over here, i've got the sp1's though... awsome seat and soooo light!

good work there buddy! alot of work going in to it, should be a cool looking and solid beastie when your done with it! :D

I've been told its all about the noise from the v8 vantage volante with the top down at full chat, puts the v12 to shame... now its my mission to get a ride in one of them!

Had to share this you guys... what a car! one of the engineers at work took us out for a drive in one and gave it a squeeze!... The engine note is unreal! And the interior... Carbon fibre, alcantara and leather with brushed aluminium everywhere inside... and an increadible stereo, never been a car so good, went round some bends and i didnt think we'd get round but it just gripped and gripped and gripped, o and then when a car did pull out on us the mahoooosive ceramic brakes made me eat the dashboard, impresive in such a big car!... how i need to start selling organs to own one!

yep the new corsa vxr's a bit of an animal, 200bhp turbo and looks as max power special as any production car i've ever seen! they are the same style as the rs4's, they'd look very special in your 3.2 monster! 8)

loving the close up of the fence! :lol:

breara... bravo... not a good combo!

i was eating my lunch when i read that!! not a nice image! :pukeright:

i bet vw are sh1ttting themselves now you've found that dude, they put the exhaust on the wrong side of the car and didnt make it big enough, o well at least it's nearly there!

this seems like a great idea, you wont be tempted to modify it or make it look pretty so it wont cost you any more money once you have it except keeping it running 8) if your anythign like me, if i buy anything vw then it needs the right set of wheels and stance immediately (as funds allow! lol) and this and ed38 are bad forums as they offer lots of shiney things at good prices! :lol:

seen a mk2 done in german army mat green, looked hard as nails!... alot of people seem to do the matt black/grey/yellow and i've seen a green and a blue... jump out of the box man... matt harlequin it! cool as hell, £5 a panel in paint and you will be the only corrado i've ever seen harlequined! 8)

josh you have the most economical vr ever!! lol, i've never sween figures that high, does your average mfa readign match with the real figure worked out from a bit of maths when you fill up? o and completely off topic but are you going to the midland pub/hotel in hemel tonight for papa steve's 40th do? hopefully i'll see you theree :wave:

yeah i thought it better and calmer to write it down rather than phone... i tend to get angry (or fighty as jon will quote me on!! lol) got a technical author at work to proof read and correct my grammer so it reads right, fingers crossed for the response now! :shrug: O Graham i hope you dont mind that i quoted you, and that i also removed the slang/swear words as i wanted the letter to read as calmly as possible... i have wanted to write lots of swearwords in the letter but it would probably just get thrown in the bin! TBH i have no idea the make of the bearings but the kit is made by eurospec and looks top quality, as kev has said, 1k so far and no issues!

thanks for the responses guys, i agree completely there is no evidence it has ever been greased, and kev your right i am possibly being to nice in all this but i thought i'd try the polite way first and if they dont respond favourably to the email i have just responded to them with i shall seek legal advice and look to see if i can publicise their name!

thanks man, am i right in saying your a mechinic for a living? just trying to get a number of proffesional opinions to go back to them with! The garage have responded to a very detailed email documenting the problem with pcis at every stage (literally if somethign was reoved it was photograpghed to show condition!) with We

And I'm sure in the fullness of time they will! It's a real shame as they'd done loads of good work for Andy until this. From what Andy and I have discussed and from the photos I've seen (and I guess you have too Kev) they didn't grease the bearing, hence it's untimely demise. :censored: But they don't want to admit it, even though this coming out publically will hurt their busines. Andy I'd probably go along with a different stub axle if the Race is being that much of an ar$e to remove the only other way would be a grinder and then you'd have to be VERY careful! Jon me + grinder does not equal careful results normally O i still havent heard back from the unamed garage.... if not by the start of next week i shall be seekign advice! o and kev they will be named in time