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Thanks, can you take some close up photos of the surface rust? I'll PM you an email address

the pump arrived during the week in good condition, i haven't fitted it yet but thanks for the prompt service!

Sorry mate i haven't had a chance to look, if i remember i can check tomorrow after i finish work

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/29o5-FORD-GALAXY-MK1-95-00-ELECTRIC-MIRRORS-CONTROL-SWITCH-PN-1H2959565/181153735075?_trksid=p2047675.m1850&_trkparms=aid%3D222002%26algo%3DSIC.FIT%26ao%3D1%26asc%3D11%26meid%3D71915776402228361%26pid%3D100011%26prg%3D1005%26rk%3D2%26rkt%3D5%26sd%3D270765178831%26 for the late wing mirror switch. They're the same part and often over look parts from the Galaxy/Sharan/Alhambra....

I've probably got one, if not I know i should have the larger 1.8 KR one, I'll check later when I finish work. Where are you based?

Yeah if you can it'll be a good help. £30 sounds good if its totally rust free

Hey mate, what kind of condition is it in? Could you send me a few photos? It'd definitely be helpful if you did bring it with you, how much are you looking for it?

As the title I'm looking for a late drivers wing in good condition - needs to have no rust. Ideally in sherry pearl however its going to be repainted so it doesn't matter so much on the colour, more the condition. Please let me know what you've got. J

Hey mate I've sent you a PM :)

Ok can you look at postage rates for me please? If they're reasonable I'll probably have it off you as mine needs refurbing.

Theres lots available. I've got a 2.0 16v up for around £1k in Milton Keynes... http://the-corrado.net/showthread.php?t=81749 http://s147.photobucket.com/user/eugopnosaj/slideshow/Valerie%20the%20Valver

Does the pump work all fine without any error codes as mine is playing up?

Ok guys as the title states I need a set of passenger bump strips as the garage doing my accident repair is unable to locate any. So I am doing all the donkey work and sourcing the parts otherwise they'll write the car off and give me a measily sum to cover the costs... The only other option is that I take the strips from my 16v and claim back the cost of them, how much does a set go for? Regards, Jason

I did and they didn't care. I wanted the upgrade and they wouldn't do it so I said I wanted a refund, the part to be sent back and that i'd be taking it higher. The part should have been sent back (highly unlikely) and with everything happening with my insurance claim I haven't had a chance to sit down and draft a letter.

Haha, I guess I meant OEM equivilent

Hi guys i really need your help and advice. As some of you know my car had been in an accident where the passengers door got damaged. Initially the engineer instructed by the solicitors dealing with my claim valued my car at £1800 and the cost of the repair at £1361.88, this included: New Parts N/S outer door handle, N/S/F door moulding, N/S quarter moulding, Door foil Sound pad Repair Parts N/S rear quarter panel Rear bumper Wax Final check and QC Paint New and repaired areas to match and blending as required At the bottom in the comments areas he's put 'Door to door skin not available, probable problem with mouldings as well confirmed with VW dealer bodyshop. Cost of repair based on second hand door'. Now due to the broken CV joint the car couldn't go to the repair garage until Tuesday (it was due to be collected Monday) and they phoned and spoke to me on Wednesday and asked about the use of a second hand door since new ones were unavailable, He also said that he needed to do a second valuation on the works required, I gave them permission to use a second hand door and he said that he'd get his parts guy looking for one. So today whilst at a meeting I get a voicemail from the solicitors saying that the garage wasn't going to repair my car and that I was just going to get a cash in lieu sum based on the cost of repair. I phoned them as I didn't quite understand and she said that it'd be the cost of repair less VAT which didn't make sense to me. I asked her why it didn't include VAT because when I went to get it repaired I'd have to pay VAT and that would come out of my pocket! She said that wouldn't be the case.... So I got a letter from my solicitors saying all they were going to offer me was £1134.90 which is the ex VAT sum on the report from the engineer instructed by the solicitors which has just made me so angry! I went to pick my car up from the garage and had a word with them and he said that 'strictly speaking they weren't allowed to tell me' but they valued the work needed at around £1800!! I'm just so angry I don't know what to do. I can't even get the car repaired for the measly sum they're offering as its less than the overall cost inc VAT. I don't understand. What should I do next, I'm so lost, this whole week has just been terrible :(

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Hey stonejag is the door still available? I did send you a pm but it was on my phone and I'm not sure if it sent... Basically the insurance estimator valued the car at 1800, and the repairs at 1400 and thankfully didn't write it off. He did stress though that it would be with a second hand door...which is understandable as they don't make new ones any more... Anyway, after the broken CV joint and a fiasco with gettinga courtesy car (thats another story) and getting the VR road worthy for the garage repair and a funeral the car finally went to the repair garage on Tuesday. I spoke to the engineer on Wednesday who said although the insurance company had given me a quote the garage would need to do another but that I needed to give them permission since it'd need to be a 2nd hand door. I gave them the all clear only to receive a voicemail today saying that the garage couldn't get a second hand door and that they weren't going to do the repairs but offer me a cash sum for the value of the repair. I'm not sure if this means its a write off because she said that since its drivable I needed to go and collect it from the garage and give the courtesy car back. Im now a bit confused as she said that they'd only gove me the cost ex vat...but surely I'd still have to pay vat out of my own pocket, she assured me I wouldn't lose out but thst doesn't make sense... So, now I need a door!

It was on my VR, the Valver is off the road trying to be sold. The nut wasn't done up with a torque wrench so I cannot verify how tight it was but my dad tighened it and like I said before he's owned and ran his own garage and built/rebuilt many cars and I trust his judgement. We've replaced CV joints before on other cars in the same manner, and this is thr first instance where it has failed like this. The splines were good, still nice and sharp and as mentioned above no damage was caused inside there. I can only attribute it to poor quality material and we could go on and on about other causes but this is the most obvious. Its also been mentioned that the Q drive parts, including the part I bought are of poor quality and had I known about this prior I wouldn't have bought it. Like I said, we replaced the N/S at a similar time with a joint from GSF, fitted it in the same manner and that hasn't failed.... I guess just let this be a lesson to us all, as well as myself. OEM are OEM for a reason...and the VR, with the power they do produce, deserve high quality parts...

@jim I've had problems before with ECP and reading your post makes everything clearer. I definitely won't be using them again and anything, even the pattern parts should still be fit for purpose... @supercharged. I could e wrong about the N/S being GKN I just remembered briefly seeing the box. I can't remember the new O/S one but its definitely the more expensive part with the 12 point nut with the built in washer.

The 6 pointed nut is utter crap, its not a nylock like the 12 pointed one, instead its 'crimped' at the end and just cuts the thread of the CV joint. The photo was taken with the end of the CV joint sat on the kitchen worktop, everything else was still attached to the car, the washer was there still in with the wheel. I can't say it was torqued up correctly as we didn't check it. The N/S CV joint I think is a GKN one. I went back to ECP and they weren't helpful, the manager didn't care that it broke and could have caused a serious accident, and wouldn't upgrade me to the better quality part. He said if I wanted it I'd have to pay for it. Bear in mind it was my grandad's funeral yesterday, I was not happy. He gave me three options, which he thought were really good options....a like for like replacement, for another pattern part, they'd return the part and service it, and if found to be faulty they'd give me the better quality part, during this time I'd be without the use of the car, or buy the better part at my expense...at which point I argued and he still refused, even to keep me and my family as customers. The additional cost was only £36... So, I told them I wanted a refund, that I was going to take the matter higher, that I wanted them to return and check the part and I wanted a full report, and that I'd never shop there again. Oh, also passing this information on to you lot, and my friends.... So I went back to GSF as i needed the part that morning to rebuild it so it could go to the garage for the door repair, I bought the OEM bearing and CV joint. It was the 12 pointed nut with build in washer, needless to say I will check once its back from the bodyshop that it is torqued up correctly.

The splines are in good condition, the shaft is a bit pitted but there was no mention of play at the mot. It seemed ok when we swapped the CV joints before but we didn't give it a proper inspection I must admit. What issues are you thinking about? I haven't heard of any relating to the splines? It'd be interesting to know what differences there are?

We didn't use an air gun to tighten it, I know what you mean though and my dad's been doing this for years and used to run a garage so I trust his judgement :) We replaced the passengers side at the same time although that one was from GSF and have had no problems with it so far

Q-Drive from ECP, I was doing around 60/65ish i think. Not sure how to tackle this when I go into the shop tomorrow. Obviously its pretty bad and could have been a lot worse and goes to show the quality of pattern parts. I'm not saying that all pattern parts are bad, it could have been a bad batch but even still, you'd never expect something such as a CV joint, which has so much stress, to fail, especially so soon after been fitted. Must have been less than 500miles....

Ok so yesterday me and the missus went to Cambridge, had a nice walk, went to a pub for lunch, did some punting, the usual. The drive there was fine no problems. On the way back was when the issue started....a couple of times we could hear some tyre squeal, this on a hot day is not unusual however I wasn't driving like a pleb and actually being a good driver. Anyway, nearly home (she lives in St. Albans) coming off the A1M at Hatfield, approx. 2 miles from her house we heard a clunk and a horrible squealing noise. I immediately pulled over as the steering wasn't right and it sounded like scraping metal so I thought a tyre might have developed a problem but after checking the wheels I couldn't see an immediate problem. So I pulled back onto the road and the problem became more obvious, the front O/S brake was binding, you could hear it more, as soon as I came off the power the car would slow down really quickly and more obviously you could smell it. I got back to her house and you could see the brake smoking and it was crazy hot. I turned the steering to check if anything had become lodged or anything else obvious but I couldn't see anything. Without tools I couldn't do anything so I had to call the break down and get the car recovered. My first thoughts were that since I have got an ABS problem it might have been something attributed to that, however that would cause the brakes to unlock, not lock. The recovery guy wanted to release the brake but I told him that might not solve the problem and would prefer it just to be recovered. We talked a bit on the way home and he thought it might have been a problem with the wheel bearing as he said it wasn't quite aligned when he tried to get it on the dolly. So we got back to my fathers house as today (monday) the body shop was supposed to be collecting the car to get my door replaced following the accident the other day at work but after finding what was really the problem its clear there was no way it could go to the bodyshop. I pulled the hub off of the Speedline and found this..... The CV joint has completely sheared after the spline!! You can see where the metal is of sub standard quality. This part was replaced about 3 weeks ago...for a pattern part from ECP... It has also caused the wheel bearing to completely shatter...