Sonicriot13

Right, thought I would get some jobs done today. I am probably going to be laying the car up for the winter in the next couple of weeks but I thought I would get the dics, pads, and rear bearings done now. The reason being I don't know if I'll still be in the same job (in fact I plan not to be) when I wake the car up for the spring and thought I would do it now when I know I have access to a workshop, plenty of tools, and a very helpful and efficient mechanic. Anyway, here's some pics taken with my iPhone so forgive the quality!: Note: professionally applied car park markings. I need to get me one of these here liftamajigs! I wish I hadn't looked! :pale: Needless to say the braking efficiency of the vehicle is markedly improved and my journeys are no longer accompanied by the disconcerting grinding noise of knackered wheel bearings. How it got through its last MOT I don't know. Next on the agenda: Brake lines and associated fluid.

That is nice mate. I quite like the wheels actually. :D

Looks like it's working just fine to me! :lol: That is a lovely mk1 though. Any pics from the front?

That is awesome! :lol:

Dude, why such a long time? :(

Some excellent advice guys. Cheers for that! :D I keep it covered up when it's in the garage anyhow to keep the dust off it, otherwise with the dust levels in my garage I'd be cleaning it every five minutes. Also we sometimes get birds in the garage and the cover is littered with their attempts to ruin my nice clean paint work! :lol: As you can see from my sig it's more of a car port really. I love doing brakes and suspension because they are some of the very few jobs I've done on a car numerous times so I'm actually quite proficient at them now.

Well, me and one of the mechanics I work with are gonna do a load of work to her next weekend (rear bearings, discs and pads, brake fluid renewal and some other bits and pieces) but I'm thinking of laying the Rado up for the winter. Is it a good idea to do the work now or is it better to do it when I take it out of storage? Or does it not really make any difference? :shrug: Also I've never done this before so what sort of things do I need to consider?

That's because he drives like a girl. Thus adhering to rule number 69853, subsection 16523, clause 81.236a.

That's excellent news! :D Has Hamilton got a copy of the rule book? Sheesh, even I knew about that underpants thing.

God help you! :lol:

Oh yeah, give me a Rado over a mk3 golf any day. Obviousy.... :D

And to think, he'd just pulled away at a junction and did that. Imagine if he was doing any kind of speed. The force was still enough to push the car sideways up on to a grass verge and into a hedge. I've been looking out for him on my way to work recently (as you'd expect!) but I haven't seen him or the bus. My mate who is a lorry driver says a lot of these companies have a one strike and your out policy so he may have lost his job over it. I do feel bad for him if he has, we're all human and suffer from lapses in concentration. Just a shame his resulted in this. But then on the other hand he's lucky nobody was seriously hurt.

Good lad! :thumbleft: The 928 must be a blast. Sod the fuel consumption mate. You didn't buy it for its economy! And mk3 valvers are a lark. I rate them quite highly actually. I just love that ABF engine.

Ok, got a bit further into the thread now. That airbox! :lol: :lol: :lol: But I've reached a point now where it has stopped being funny and started being depressing.

So what you driving at the moment buddy? Still got the mk4?

I'm not entirely sure what I've just seen.... That is just f#@ked up!

Yeah, I'm just grateful it didn't hit the driver's door! :pale: It's still languishing at the body shop. Total estimate so far is £3500. Boy I am glad I wasn't in the Rado when this happened!

Thanks for resurrecting this thread. No really. I could quite happily have gone to my grave without seeing that Corrado. Now it will haunt me for the rest of my life. It was nice before the butcher got to it though. :D Even with headlamp washers. :wink:

For the benefit mostly of Deviant I got a picture of the damage.... You can just make out in the picture that after the accident I put the price board back in the window. :lol:

I'm quite often down that way as my girlfriend's brother lives in Eastbourne. He's into dubs as well and drives a silver clipper. I've seen some pretty awesome cars around Hastings but never a Rado thinking about it.

Very nice indeed. Looks in good nick. Had it long?

It wasn't me if that's any help? :D

I bet the battery in that goes longer between being recharged than the battery in my real Corrado.... :lol:

Check this out. Art inspired by the three generations of the Scirocco. There was a pull out poster advert thingy in the Times today. http://www.sciroccostudios.co.uk

If human CO2 emissions stopped dead tomorrow it would take over 100 years for there to be any noticable effect on the world's climate, and then it would be very small. How are green taxes and offsetting (which is the biggest joke in the world) and targets on car emiisions going to make any difference? The fact of the matter remains that the world's climate is constantly in a state of fluctuation. It is always either getting hotter or colder. If the scientists are saying that the world is warming up the natural processes that cause this must be the biggest contributing factor anyhow. If at this present time the world was naturally getting cooler without human emissions it would still be getting cooler with them, perhaps a teeny but slower. There is no way human CO2 emissions would reverse the natural process of the world's climate cooling down. So it's gonna happen regardless of what some tw@t politician thinks. In my more cynical moments I think it is just about raising revenue, which I suppose will come in handy when they nationalise our f*cked up banks because Mr Brown's bailout has failed (which it will).