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I've been with Brentacre for 20+ years, 3 years ago I had a non fault claim, I had legal cover and the solicitors dealt with the whole claim on behalf of the insurance co (I had to inform them myself, they were happy to hand over to the solicitors). Everything was straight forward, minor damage but as the car was low value I had the option to write it off and buy back for 10% of the pay out. £1700, or £1530 and keep the car (I sold the wheels alone for £200) and I only paid £1900 6 years previously for the car. I never go with the cheapest quote, one day you may need to claim, only then do you find out how good your insurance is.

The rubber mounts inside the swirl pot that fix the petrol pump to the pot were dissolved when bought my car 11 years ago.

Compression test, leak down even better

http://wiki.ross-tech.com/wiki/index.php/00561 checking for vac / pcv air leaks would be the cheapest first option?

2 fingers with or without the weight of the driver?

I’ll say smaller tyre?

It’s not too late, you could always upload a few of your own? I mean all of you

If you remove the carpet you can shake talcum powder around floor, bulkhead and sills, this will show where the rivers of water run into the car (which can be some distance for the accumulated puddle).

The wiring to the stereo will be ready to go, swap red and yellow wires, red goes to yellow and yellow goes to red. both are live wires so you can’t do any harm, one is live from the ignition switch which draws a fair amount of current in use, the other is permanent live for station memory and draws a tiny current with the keys out and car locked

I used to go to Furbers salvage dealer near Whitchurch, he’d go all sorts stashed away. Car transplants near to me has a huge amount of classics he loans to tv production companies, money makes money

Think it was Uro (no E)

https://find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk/company/03618273

I wracking my brains now Autovolks Solihull , next door to vw maindealers Volksbits also around there might take a while lol

History GSF Car Parts really began back in the 1970s. Today’s business brought together in April 2000 by the German & Swedish Management Team stems from a number of long standing car parts specialists such as Vee Wee, Autocavan, Andyspares, and URO Automotive. Since the formation of GSF Car Parts in 2000, the company has developed a parts and distribution portfolio to create the UK’s largest independent parts supplier. Today, GSF Car Parts employs over 1000 people covering all of the UK as well as Ireland. We operate over 70 stores and over 400 GSF delivery vans. Key Developments 1977 - Stan West, founder and owner of GSF Car Parts started business in one half of a tumbledown shed in a corner of a Battersea salvage yard. He called his business VeeWee. 1981 - Wholesale suppliers Kontinental Auto Werke (KAW) buys VeeWee and Stan joins the Management team. 1987 - German and Swedish is established by Stan and his business partner, Maurice Forde. 2000 - The company acquires Andyspares, adding French car parts to the range and is renamed German Swedish and French. 2000 - GSF also acquires Autocavan and URO automotive. 2003 - Hans Motors joins GSF Car Parts and sells all makes parts to other factors. 2005 - GSF adds an all makes range of parts to its specialist inventory and becomes GSF Car Parts. 2006 - TDCS is bought by GSF Car Parts enabling industry-leading diagnostic equipment sales. 2009 - GSF Car Parts complete several branch refurbishments and upgrade the whole company's stock criteria. 2010 - GSF Car Parts sign up with several leading garage equipment providers and offer a market leading garage equipment solution to support the existing diagnostics business. 2010 - GSF Banbury, Leeds East (Regional Distribution Centre), Worcester, Letchworth and Kettering are opened. 2011 - GSF Bristol (Regional Distribution Centre), Middlesbrough, Gloucester, Bedford and Rochdale are opened. 2012 - GSF Barnstaple, Finchley, Oxford, Shrewsbury, Milton Keynes, Torquay and Basingstoke, Harlow and Taunton are opened. 2013 - GSF Sittingbourne and GSF Tottenham are opened. 2015 - GSF Car Parts is acquired by the Parts Alliance Group, the UK & Ireland’s largest alliance of automotive parts distributors. 2017 - The Parts Alliance Group which includes GSF Car Parts is purchased by Uni-Select Inc. a North American Automotive aftermarket distributor. 2018 - New GSF branches opened including Woodford, Colchester and Andover.

I meant performance wise finished (no performance cams etc)

Thank you.

If the engine is "finished" it would be good to take it to an expert to make sure its all working in harmony, it could have a bad MAF / Lambdas or cam timing out etc You'll then know its as good as can be going forward.

Not mapped yet for the schrick?

They can crack, but should have an easier time with a new clutch assembly. im not a fan of changing “this / that / the other whilst there” as repro parts are often inferior to the original.

As clutches age the pressure plates make them heavier and heavier, if you're replacing the clutch with standard issue and there's no cracks in the original fork mine would be re used. Better a used Germanically engineered unit than a new Chineesium sourced item?

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Ditto.

So did I, mine was late obd2, incomparable with a Corrado in every way. schrick is small volume 2.8 below 4K switching to large volume 2.9 above 4K - best of both worlds. Someone who just wants low revving drivability could just fit a 2.8 manifold with a map and save grand over a schrick

If you’re not going to Rev it above 4 k you could have saved a grand and fitted a 2.8 mani for similar effect.