swiftkid

haha, thats even more of a laugh! i got a refusal for both brake lines front to back a cv boot and a fuel filter, a mate of mine worked at the garage (right car) so asked how much they would charge for doing the work knowing my mate would do a good job and because i really couldn't be bothered driving my car home sorting it out then having to take more time off work to take it back. They were going to charge near £300 i think plus parts, they had something like 6 hours to do the brake lines!!!

sorry to hear about the ecu but glad to hear your car is progressing!!!

are they bog rolls along the bottom of the front bumper...

I think there isn't really a moral to your story tyler, the guy has obviously looked after his car and rightly so is confident. People like that are annoying but theres no point ripping someone off for such stupid reasons. I hate MOT testers and have a very legit reason, i had 3 MOT tests, each one with different failures on and more importantly with things that i knew were there the first time round but didn't realise it was a failure. I was perfectly calm with the guy and said i am more than happy to go and fix the things that need doing but i think your a cockeral for not spotting it the first time and then charging me because you are crap at your job (obviously in a more pleasant way). he then tried to argue his way out by saying that when i changed my wheel bearing i must have bent the tie rod (which was a failure) to which i replied that i knew it was bent because when i got my tracking done i was told this and got it tracked up anyway so it drove alright. I also had a tie rod at home to change but that wasn't the point.

your missing the point though, not everybody is a calibra engine swapping corsa owning boyracer. My mate put a vr6 engine in his mk2, that included a full rewire of the car and he upgraded alot of parts in the process. Why should he have to pay an engineer to check all his work that will probably charge the world for looking at it and nodding which will take less than 10 seconds. whats an MOT for exactly? and why does it matter what condition the engine is in? I had a 1.8 16v engine sat in my garage for ages which i recently sold on, the engine was totally legit, it came out of my old car. will my name and a squiggle on a sticky note count as a receipt?

The bentley manual only covers G60 & VR6 not my KR are the VR's and G60's different?! if so add them both together and divide by 2. honestly a good tighten, maybe a little jump on the wheel spanner should do. As long as they arn't finger tight!!!

http://wiki.the-corrado.net/torque_sett ... sizes.html

yet again the government is trying to ban DIY which causes people to have to fork out on things they can do, and in some cases better, themselves. Personally anything mechanical that needs doing i would much prefer myself to do it, i wouldn't let a mechanic come within 50 miles of my car, no offence to anyone who is one but i think every mechanic i have come across couldn't care less about their job, its all about money and not about service or pride of work. I can forsee alot more of these sentences "1.8t registered as a 1l" etc. Although i can see the insurance companies getting in on this and not insuring anyone without certificates. People wonder why the recession was so bad, its things like this! things that are making people have to spend the money when they don't need to.

thats awful! i really feel for you. one thing i would check is underneath the door handle itself, i had my old car broken into and couldnt find out how they had done it until i was washing my car a while later and found a huge hole underneath the handle where they had stuck a screwdriver in.

good point, i had the very same choice... had a vr6 in bits and the choice of buying another vr6 engine. in the end i rebuilt the vr6, cost me alot of money but did it myself so saved ALOT on labour but runs like an absolute dream now *touch wood* and i know its been done right with no shortcuts. BUT you could look carefully and find a well looked after g60 engine with full documentation and get it checked over before you stick it in. rebuilding an engine is very time consuming and labour intensive so it will cost alot. But end of the day its upto you.

Just an idea for you, you could just look for somebody selling a g60 engine? bet you could pick one up and get it put in for alot cheaper than a rebuild.

should strap to the chassis just behind the battery and then continues onto the battery.

me too, been saying i will go there since i got my driving license. will there be a corrado trip at all next year?

pardon my ignorance but what are 'running lights'?

probably but you would need to be quite talented to do it, it sits nice a flush when its in right

the engine was pre cat as well :wink:

it really is a joke, i hate MOT testers round where i am. Pretty much everyone i know has had trouble with testers, one of my mates put a 1.8 16v engine into his old cabby (pre cat) and spent an hour arguing with the tester he didn't need one because his car is pre-cat. I spent an hour arguing with a tester that my tie rod was bent before my first test, yet it was a failure on my second test (which subsiquently cost me another full MOT test). oh and for anyone that lives round hull/beverley NEVER EVER use MILL LANE AUTO, i will name and shame because they were utter cockerals about everything. Strangely enough though, another mate of mine has just took his car for test with the loudest exhaust around and got a pass with bent sills (ultra low mk3) as well.

thats why i love my old suzuki swift, its has hot and cold (blue and red) and then no readings in the middle so you can't tell how hot it is, it just sits in the middle... which is good :D . All i know is i've only ever been worried once in all 5 years i've owned it and thats when the radiator popped and temp went into red alert :lol:

http://www.pistonheads.com/sales/1243468.htm looks familiar to me...

when i got a quote i thought it wasn't too bad, £700 fully comp i think from adrian flux. hope you get it sorted soon though!

:lol: apparently its got a vr6 bonner... cannot stand it though, saw it a while back and thought why the hell would you buy skinny wheels and then put a huge stretch on them!!! looks awful.

and lister storm and mclaren f1

car looks nice but it does look like someone has cut its ears off...

i would say yes to goodridge hoses but the pads may be different, as with the mk4 front brakes they use a bigger surface area of the disc so the pads may be different to corrado's on the rear

ahh sorry my mistake, i was under teh assumption mk4 golfs all had the 280s, that must only be the 4mo's and possibly the r32's then