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How long did you charge for? 11.6v is a "100% flat, but not dead" battery.

It's just another way of *relocating* the pollution, similar to electric cars and hybrids. As has already been stated above, it doesn't actually consume any less energy or consume any less fossil fuels. As for the comments about wet roads.. jeez dude.. ;) The amount of MASS of water coming out will be miniscule, and will generally be in vapour form. Lets look at a high polluting car, for an example. 300 gm/km of CO2. If you produce 300 gm/km of water that's one can of coke's worth every 0.7 miles. Hardly a biblical flood now..

I'd buy genuine VW bushes, given the choice, since the rear axle bush is integral to the way the rear axle passive steer works. The thing that usually gets knackered is the brake load compensator valve, cos it's usually rusted onto one side or the other and needs cutting off. You may not have a choice about replacing it ..

You clearly didn't get it done at a garage in the south of the UK. You are looking at 2-3 hours labour, so multiply by your local labour rates. (I really wish everyone would quote hours labour instead of cash values!) But first check to make sure it's not just rear wheel bearings are loose. They can be adjusted if they're not knackered, so that's nice and cheap.

The fan should come on before 100 degrees, but in hot weather it's normal to see 100 degrees if you're sitting in traffic a lot.

They're prone to running hot, but not overheating. Cars only overheat if there's something wrong ..

You SO missed that apex, dude.. LOL ;) Really, you've spent about £17k. The fuel and depreciation you'd have had to pay for any car in the same time .. Works out at about £760 per year on repairs the same again on modifications. I think anyone who owned a VR6 and only spent £760/yr on repairs would be pretty bloody happy with that!

1* Garage. £23000 + VAT ;) Ask Vince@Stealth how much he paid for his Garage!

Late VR6s do, yes ...

Yeah but if you buy one you will then have an engine crane kicking around that you have no use for! Chances are the rented one would be rather better made, too, cos you do get what you pay for.. :) That said, of course I can see the point of owning it. It's just a bit sad that "things" are so cheap nowadays that re-use is more expensive than buying new.

Castor is the hardest to adjust (and measure), and though they claim it's not adjustable, the way they measure it will show different values if you set different camber angles using the BJ and strut. Effectively you can move the hub in and out slightly, whilst keeping the camber EXACTLY THE SAME by moving the BJ and the strut the same amounts, but it will change the castor angle (as measure on these machines). But in practice, you should get the camber done first then do the toe.

And more to the point if you were not-at-fault you have an absolute right to make the insurer repair, not replace, your car. If you had caused the accident, you have less control over the process.

You don't coast on the flat, you have to consume fuel. You only 100% back off the throttle when you're going downhill. Anyway, this is just speculation unless you want to either check the state of the plugs or take the head off and have a look.

No. VR uses the same ABS pump as some mk3 Golf GTi or VR6 cars. The G60 one is totally different.

Exhaust blowing after the cat should be ok, but it won't help. Oil on plug 6 is classic VR bore wear scenario, unfortunately.

The reason he says that is that with dodgy valve seals there is a constant supply of oil seeping into the cylinder, but under wide throttle opening there's lots of flame and it all gets burned off. If you coast for a while you'll not burn it off and it'll build up in the cylinder .. until the next time you open the throttle, where a lot burns off at once, making it really obvious. If you had blue smoke constantly on overrun then we'd say your piston rings are knacked and it's sucking oil past them, but you say you don't, only when you get back on the throttle after coasting. Or something like that ...

25k miles on a set of T1-S is pretty amazing.. they're quite a soft tyre. They lasted me 8k miles ... you just don't drive right.. ;)

Bet you wish you'd left it alone now ....

Actually I think the last thing you can accuse the S5 of being is "understated". It's a car with engineered-in smug factor.

You preferred it when Corrados sold for the modern-day equivalent of £37,000? ;) No, I can completely see your point. It's going to be a pretty hard thing for the western world to deal with when we suddenly have to go back to making our own stuff. All the people with skills can't keep their jobs now, and the kids are only learning how to manage money, not actually to make anything. Wiring a plug is something you haven't had to do since 1990 even. By the time we have to bring manufacturing back into Europe it will be too late: no-one will know how to do this stuff any more.

Dunno mate, never done it. Suggest you check out the Haynes book for a Golf Mk3 GTi/VR6 ABS-equipped car, there will be nothing different about the Corrado VR6 ABS system.

It's a typical fat-ass modern European car. Whatever the driving dynamics, it looks like it wants to cut out the carbs for a while..

There's plenty of petrol cars with low pressure turbos too. Saab have been doing it for years, as have Renault, Volvo and plenty of others. Even VW were shipping 150bhp versions of the 1.8T for years and years. Not really a "performance" version when the bog standard N/A engine is 125 bhp. I really meant to say: the majority of cars being sold have turbos, whether they are petrol or diesel. I don't think that the general public are being persuaded to buy diesels just because of the turbo. It's true that diesels don't perform well without one, but the reason people are buying diesel is for the fuel economy. Most of the people buying don't even know what a turbo is, it's just an integral part of the engine, just like a g-charger or a 16v head is. Us lot of petrol heads are the minority in the car buying public (and we don't even BUY new cars, we all drive 10 year old VWs!), and as such we can have our own opinions about the pros and cons of diesels and it makes NO DIFFERENCE at all to what gets sold day after day to Joe Average. And thinking about this differently for a moment, isn't the 16v head or the G charger a method of masking poor engine performance in order to sell a car? Take away the G60 from a G60 and what've you got? A 100 bhp 1.8. Woo. Rice pudding in no danger there. Take away the extra 2 cylinders from a VR6 and what do you have? A ~1.9 petrol engine with maybe 120 bhp. Woo. Not. You only have to look at the sales figures for the 2.0 8v Corrado to see what I mean ..

Pretty sure you can find horror stories about any parts from any supplier if you ask enough people ...

VW bushes aren't too expensive, in fact most aftermarket kits are more (claiming enhanced performance allows all kinds of liberties to be taken). I still think it's most likely to be the BJs, not bushes, but get it checked out.