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doin ok on the insurance front! brentacre have done a great job and quoted me and my GF £629.95. just under £100 cheaper than my renewal. although im not sure who the underwriters are. thought i would give greenlight a try but had to quote through the internet, which i did yesterday. got a reply this morning, £427.75 tpft or £467.75 fully comp, both prices through liverpool victoira so a fairly big company, all mods declared, 90 european cover and even track cover as long as agreed before the event.. but thats just with myself and not the GF. if i put her on there it goes up to £727.75. she has her own insurance which covers he to drive any car as long as its insured. i would like her to be a named driver on mine but for the sake of £200 and she's still insured to drive it anyway under her's think i'll just do it under my name only.

sorry adam but have no idea as to there size, your on about the width between the wheel and hub? i could try measure at some point.

doh, thats me not reading it right. i know what you mean but i recken it should fit in the well. there seems to be a bit of space around the current space saver.

yeah its lower than your nans t#ts! dont think the arches are rolled never really looked at it that hard. the backs have a slight strech but the fronts not really. and now the 215's on the front dont have any stretch at all the tyres are on a par with the alloy.

surley a 16" space saver from a 944, same as the D90's, would fit in the wheel arch, front or rear. the rears are 8 inch wide and the space saver i guess would be at least half the size of that?

i have D90's on mine 7's up front and 8'son the rear. tyres are 205 40 16's on the fronts (but 215 at the mo due to a puncture!) and 215 40 16's on the rears

sorry guy i never got round to checkin mine. its out but its at a different place of work and have had a lot on recently. it needs to go in soon though, this second gear is startin to pizz me off! let us know how you get on chap! Si.

judith i thought you were meant to an expert in field of corrados?

as your pulling the lever get some one else to jiggle the bonnet that should do it!

only had the wheel brace and that aint gonna get the adapeters off! camskill havent got any toyo px4's 205 40 16's in stock till november! but managed to get a pair of michelin 215 40 16's from work. part worn but plenty of tread £20! used one of those electric pumps that plug into the cig lighter. pumped it up and it managed to get me to work. big nail in the tyre and the side wall was knackered cause i ran it flat. :( also managed to source a porsche (inflated style) space saver £45 delivered. are those tyre filler type stuff not a nightmare to get off once used??

set off home after work tonight and thought the steering was a bit off. didnt think to much to it until i hit some cats eyes on the motorway and it didnt sound right. i pulled off on the next junction, its not that far. popped my head out of the window. tyre's flat, balls! but its only flat at the bottom so could be worse! :lol: i knew there was a petrol station round the corner so carried on to there. used the tyre compressor forgot to look at the pressure when i started to pump be when i did look it was 10 psi so it would of been less than that. pumped it up to 36 psi. waited a short while checked it, 35 psi. its leaking! right then i'll put the spare on. i know its there because ive checked it before. suddenly realised its 4 stud and i have D90's with adapters on! f##kin c##k suckin w##ker etc then followed! pumped the tyre up some more and set off home. got home no probs and still had good pressure in the tyre. now need a 5 stud porsche space saver. found some breakers localish that have some 944's in so will get on the blower tomoz and try and source one. prob need to get a new trye too cause the side walls prob gonna be fooked! but there 40's so not a right lot of side wall to start with. tyre, flat, rant, done!

got a quote from HIC today and they matched brentacre on price but are offering a bit better on the extras such as europrean cover, audio cover etc.... so might brentacre another ring see if they can do a bit better. tryed to ring greenlight but as its a new quote you HAVE to do it through the website? :scratch: speaking to my brother today who has an impreza and he is saying people on the LADS forum are havin the same problem. but he was telling me about my stepdad and that when he was living in germany they had a car but he also bought a motorbike. when he rang his insurance they said no worries we can put it on the same polciy as your car. he said ok no worries, how much. they said oh no extra, you cant drive both at the same time now can you!

one of those to me looks very much like a 50 pence piece. correct me if im wrong but arent they made by the royal mint and not an orignal VW part? :lol: cheers again for setting this up alex. let me know when you got the numbers and want the moneys. Si.

3 grand sounds a bit steep! i dont think its just rados inusreance in gerenal. just paid £768 for my girlfirends 4dr 1.6 8v mk4 golf. she's 29, home owner and a mum. i always thought things like that made your insurance cheaper as it apprantley makes you more senseable but apprantly not. got free breakdown cover though so thats a plus!

yeah i know it was meant to be just the tyre!

i got some toyo PX4's from there a few months back. cheapest place i could find and they came 2 days later. thought that was preety good. didnt think much to the packing though! :lol:

yeah i think its just to the engine, if you change the engine itself then i think that will be a whole different thing. especially if you have not changed the log book and they do a search and it comes up as a different engine/size. but like you say if your parkin it on the "street" then they wont insure you.

i will get in touch greenlight and try get a quote from them and see how the underwriters are. not tryed HIC yet but again its prob worth a go, you never know! brentacre quoted me £650 with a 210bhp limit which i didnt think was to bad as i park it on the street. so what happened with your insurance? were you covered till the end of your policy?

got my renewal through! seems to be about the same price as last year. rang a fee different places. Brentacre who have beaten my renewal by £76. A-plan who couldnt beat brentacre and chris knott who couldnt insure my car cause i park on a street. any one suggest anywhere else to try? Si.

phoned up you guys the other day for a quote but half way through got told you couldnt insure me because my car is parked on the street. apprantly you can only insure modifeid cars if they are parked on a driveway. :scratch: oh well!

i really really want the new shape mustang i think they look the nuts. when i went to america a couple of years back i had one for two weeks and drove it everywhere! it was just the base model V6, think it was a 4-litre, but was fully loaded with all the mod cons you could need! then your lookin at the higer spec supercharged V8 models. when they get a bit cheaper im "allowed" to get one. the year after that i had a charger. it was nice but not as good as the stang. one thing for sure it was a fookin massive whale of a car. again it was a V6 but not sure on size. my mum went to the states the other xmas and managed to smash all the side of her charger in a car park. she had the option of hitting someone in a car and going through the hole rigma role of insure or getting sued by some american. so she went for the wall. the covertte is super nice lookin also and i saw a new shape challenger on the M6 the other week and it looked like a right beast!

yeah i got mine (G60) from ebay through amber performance just over £30 cheaper than samco's price on the website catologue came fairly quick to!

that 16v has long gone. got some bits left need to update that list of parts. you get them brakes and rad all sorted? you'll have to let me know the difference in performance when you get her back rob.

what a tool! you wanna see my nextdoor neighbour, she couldnt park if her life depended on it! really grates me!

i thought you were talkin about me and you at first! yeeaa boooy!! lookin good though! smaller splitter in order though? we will get the back sorted soon Safe!