LisaK

Looks like I'll be needing a 4-2-1 manifold then if it'll give me an extra 80lb/ft on top of the already extensive engine mod list :lol:

Mmmmm 300zx *drools*

Gotta love A&S Constabulary...!

NOB wasnt it? :lol:

Yes there was - she was standing behind the guest's chairs (during the celebrity laps, I think). She was yawning, looked REALLY bored and she had no forehead!

:lol: Whooops!

I'm in south Essex so dropping the car off to Colchester could prove a royal pain in the arse. I thought about the G-Werks option just yesterday as the charger needs a service/rebuild in 5k miles. I'll have to live with it playing up til August and take it down there. After my experiences with my local, normally spot-on garage I just dont trust my C with someone that has never worked on a G60 engine before. I know Darren had previously worked on the G when Stevemac owned her and Ive heard nothing but praise about their work so looks like G-werks it is! If anyone sees or hears a badly revving, bucking and kangarooing met. black G60 until then, don't forget to wave!

I'm a Customs officer but I don't normally work at a port.. I managed to find the connector for the idle position switches and plugged that back in so thank you :) Did that make a blind bit of difference to the ropey idle though? Did it f*ck!! :? poxy car. I also found the oil temp sender and it was burnt out, I guess when the head gasket finally gave up, so that got replaced and is now working fine :) The C went back to the garage and they set the timing... back to standard timing apparently and my engine is far from standard. It was on 16deg before but they changed the timing belt, etc. when they changed the head so they didn't know if they had moved it or what (!!!). I can't blame them too much though as I was unaware of the timing originally. It hasn't improved anything, hasn't made anything worse - the revs still rise up to between 1.5k and 2k when cold, it still stutters like mad at lowish revs (below 3k), still hesistates, the idle still hunts a bit and the engine just feels like it's being choked nearly all of the time. It's got the point where I'm having trouble getting the clutch bite because the damn idle is all over the place and I'm getting highly f**ked off having to drive the poxy thing just 40miles every day. Oh and you know what my mechanic said to me after I got the car back the last time? "I don't know much about these digifant engines" .... NO SH*T!!! Does anyone near me know anything about these engines because I'm not taking it back to my garage after the amount of time they had my car and I don't want to run the risk of taking it to somewhere I don't know and they end up f*cking it up more than it already is!

I bet the audience behind were a bit pissed off when those two stood right at the front!

Oh tits and arses, I flipping missed it!!! :( Anyone know when/where the repeat is on? Used to be Wednesdays I think?

190bhp I thought...

Way to burst my bubble dude! :sad: :lol: Oh, well, will have to find another yardstick car that I can be happy to equal :wink: BMW E36 325i... most who drive these are youngish lads who want to be gangsters, covered in jewellery with a 'hook wrist' on the steering wheel, etc, etc... They HATE it when they lose (especially to a girl, haha!)

Mine was on my old Golf at a car sales place in Crawley... 'did you want the service garage to bodge it for the MOT?' :lol:

They have barbed wire around the gate to their yard and the letterbox is on the gate. I don't fancy ripping myself another a-hole particularly! I phoned the garage this morning and told them I wasnt happy. I didn't want to leave it much longer as they could quite easily say the problems arose after X amount of miles. If I can find the idle sender thingy then Ill plug that back in myself, same with the oil temp sender. It's the ABS that needs to be looked at really as I can't fix that myself and also to tune everything up. And no, they don't know who I work for... not many people believe me when I tell them anyway :lol:

Strictly Dubs is recommended by a few people and only about 25miles from me but is in the middle of nowhere. I was tempted to take it there but seeing as the head had well and truly gone, I didn't think it'd be advisable to drive much more than a couple of miles (to the garage I normally go to). I was charged 13hrs labour and I can't see how they worked on it for 3 days either but I suppose they had to find an excuse to why they kept the car for 10days!!!

The Breville toastie machine at my house is about 30 years old and still works fine :D

I've always taken my cars there ever since I started driving .. so that's 6 years! I've already paid them for the original repairs as it was a fair amount of money. They said they'll put whatever they can right, I just hope they don't expect to be paid for it!

Ahhh excellent, so maybe it won't be the ISV itself then *crosses fingers* Any idea where the oil temp sender is if it's not the plug at the back?

Yum yum!!

My head gasket decided to fail a couple of weeks ago chucking oil in my water and making pistons 1 and 2 look a tad steamed. I took it to my garage (that I normally use and are normally OK) on Sunday 1st June and they said they'd have a look at it Monday or Tuesday definitely and they'd give me a call. I waited til Friday and still no call so I called them and asked what was going on. They told me the head had definitely gone and they had ordered the parts to replace it and I would have my car back at some point during the next week. I ended up getting my car the next Friday so they had the car 10 days in total and apparently only worked on it for 3 of those days which to me takes the piss - it's not like I have another car to use!! They fixed the head, cleaned out all the coolant hoses as best they could, cleaned up the rocker cover, etc, for me as well (saves me doing it, ha!) and I got the car back with a fluctuating/hunting idle and major hesitancy and kangarooing! Even when the head was on it's way out, the idle would NEVER hunt and the engine would never feel like it's being choked. I drove the car home with it like this and gave the ISV a bit of a clean out which didn't make a difference. I got back in my car at night and noticed the ABS light is staying constantly on (I'd only had an MOT a week before it went in to the garage so it wouldn't have passed if the ABS fault light was on) so that's another problem that has suddenly arisen. My oil temperature is non-existant so it seems they have failed to plug the sensor for that back in and no.1 HT lead wasn't on the plug properly! Also (which wound me up the most but is the smallest thing), they asked me to keep an eye on the water as there may still be a bit of oil in the system and to try and get it out when I can - they did the poxy tank cap on so flipping tight that I busted the sodding cap handle trying to prise it off with an adjustable spanner!!!! I'm not a feeble female but there really is NO need to do it up that tight!!! :bad-words: My car never had any of the above faults before they had the car for two weeks and took the engine apart. I've had a bit of advice from friends and family and they all agree with me that I shouldn't have to pay for the above repairs because of that fact. If they find that the ISV is busted, should I have to pay for a new one? I don't think I should as I didn't have any of the usual ISV symptoms before they had the car. I'd only driven about 150miles as they told me to "see how it goes", i.e the hunting idle, but they were unaware of the other problems so I called them today. I've now got to take ANOTHER day off work on Friday so they can attempt to sort out my car!! Oh and this plug behind the block... what's it for as I remember something being plugged in there before but can't for the life of me find the female connector for it! Not the oil temp sensor is it?

I was stuck at some traffic lights and I glanced at a bloke by a bus stop walking forward a few feet and then turning back, mustve done it about 3 times. I looked properly over at him and I realised he was doing it to have a good look at the C! I smiled, put down the window a bit and he shouted over the exhaust note "Nice motor!! Sounds like it needs a service though.." I shouted back "Thanks and no it doesn't - it had one last week and it's running a kent cam.." the lights turn green and *Bwwwwwaaaaaarrr* off I go and see him in the rear-view mirror nodding his head and grinning :)

I wouldnt say undertaking is wrong if it's done safely. I quite happily admit that I undertake cars that are going slower than I want to go; I normally sit a safe distance behind, wait about 10seconds (bearing in mind you should be looking in your rearview mirror often anyway so in a perfect driving world I should be noticed). If they don't budge their arse to the other lane/lanes I'll flash my lights a couple of times, and again if they still dont move after another few seconds. If they stay put after all of that I'll undertake if its safe to do so. [rant]And just because 70mph is the limit doesnt mean you have to sit in the outside lane to do it if the other lanes are clear and then force me do 70mph because 'its the law' and because 'speeding kills'. If I get caught speeding then that's my fault, it's not for you, the everyday driver, to Police my (safe for the conditions) maximum speed on the motorway for me!!! [/rant]

I've used the search for "clutch and pedal and floor" and can't seem to find exactly the same symptoms as what my G seems to be having. The clutch is staying on the floor in first and second gears if it's held down for more than a couple of seconds but otherwise (changing in to first and second quickly instead of sitting on the pedal) will work as normal and is working perfectly fine when changing to third, fourth and fifth. It's going in to be looked at on Thursday (as anything more mechanical than changing split pipes, spark plugs and leads I'm completely useless at :( ) and i'd like an idea from you knowledgeable bunch about what might be the cause before I take it in. All sensible suggestions are appreciated :D

I bought a genuine VW one as I'd heard bad things about the GSF ones. Time to get the G remapped soon and hopefully it'll be running sweet-as again :)

Car is fixed now, thanks for all your advice :) All I'm going to say is that the little f**ker of a blue temp sensor has a lot to answer for :bad-words: