Toohottotrot

Check my ad in classifieds, there is a pic there. Can email you more if you wish. £45 :)

I have one for sale in green....no rust Not too far from you either.

Not sure on the paint code but it's green, some knowledgeable person on here may be able to tell us? This wing seems to be the early style and I'm pretty sure yours will be the later style Mj

This one is for the VR6. Like I said they are still avaliable from VW for £1001.00. I paid £350 for this one as I was going to do a complete "as new"rebuild. You are probably better off with one of the £50 ones. This one is really for anyone doing a "concours" rebuild. Someone is interested for his G*@f GTI but has to get the cash together, if I don't sell one day it will be very valuable! lol Mj

Hi Nick, the rear beam is the same one for the VR6 and four cyl versions, it also fits the Golf. I know there can be argument on this subject but the VW part numbers are all the same. £100 would be a little too cheap as second hand ones go for this price. (someone could fit this one and then sell their old one as is, or powdercoat the old one and sell on?) Thanks anyway

I'm clearing out my collection of parts as I'm moving house again soon. Brand new VAG rear beam/subframe. Last time I looked VW price was £1000! For sale at £350 Pair of front wings mk2 so wider. No rot and nothing more than a small ammount of surface rust. £45 each but would like to sell as a pair. UPDATE ON THE WINGS......It would seem that one wing is early the other a late one. (Nearside being late model) Will confirm this shortly. Nearside wing provisionally sold. The offside wing is an early one and is still for sale. Boot lid in black, again no rot just a little surface rust. (Includes glass) £35[ATTACH=CONFIG]69495[/ATTACH][ATTACH=CONFIG]69496[/ATTACH][ATTACH=CONFIG]69497[/ATTACH] Send me your email address if you want to see more pics of the items. Thanks, MJ The parts are located in Worcestershire 20 minutes from the Droitwich exit of the M5

The guy last week with the jet engines on his back was a real nutter and yes this sort of thing is good to watch on Top Gear, it's just the toe curlingly bad contrived sh*t that needs getting rid of. Anyone remember when "new Top Gear" started and Jason Dawe was one of the presenters? He did his usual stuff on second hand cars, only kept him one season though...Face didn't fit, I suppose? Hamsters "persona" on the show is an act too, they have him all cuddly and pocket size with big eyes like the cat in Shrek, so the ladies like him. In reality he's well into his sports bikes with his mates. Another good car show was "Pulling Power" that used to be on Central TV in the 90s.

Totally agree Jim, most people don't realise Clarkson is acting a part......the grumpy, politicaly incorrect one! But the show needs to get back to being more about cars.

Welcome to the "abnormal"? forum! ;)

I have a brand new VR6 rear beam for sale, 15 min from Droitwich on the M5

Having lived and owned a car in America I can safely say insurance there is worse than the UK. We flew from Sydney and landed in LA, went to the Chrysler dealer and bought a car, I was using my cousins address in Philadelphia as a mailing address. Went to the nearest insurance broker to insure and was told I couldn't as I was in California with no local address! After a lot of messing around we managed to insure via an online site, they are not big on this in the states. We congratulated ourselves on the price being around the same as we would pay in the UK, then we realised that it was for only six months!

They are green, not sure which one.

A chimney a metre off the top of your head? lol

The gas fire is probably vented into a precast block flue in the wall, these can only be used for gas. It will vent on the roof through a tubular flue pipe or a ridge vent. You could have a wood burner if that is an outside wall as the "twin wall" flue would need to go outside and up but this is expensive stuff. Not really practical through the bedroom above! I think a flat screen is fine as a focal point, although I'm told looks a little batchelor pad! Get a more contemporary gas fire! Also out of interest you can get gas fires that are flueless, they have a catalyitic converter in and so can be fitted almost anywhere you can get a gas pipe to.

No worries, lucky you had the ones you forgot about :)

£90 for the pair :) ---------- Post added at 10:11 AM ---------- Previous post was at 10:08 AM ---------- Your car doesn't need them! :) I was only going to change them on yours if I could get good ones in aqua blue to save having them painted. I bought these from a member on here as future spares.

Check this thread http://the-corrado.net/showthread.php?60833-Key-fob-not-working-after-taking-battery-off&p=772267#post772267

Builders are people too! ;) Trouble is with all the health and safety crap you are supposed to scafold and stuff, it all costs money. I know lots of builders might risk a ladder as I probably would, but if it goes wrong and you fall or do damage you are in the SH 1T. When I was about 15 I went with my dad to remove a tall chimney stack on a 3 storey victorian house, the stack was one of the tall slim kind just above gutter hight. "One of us has to go up there and start taking the bricks off", my dad said looking at me! I went up the ladder, got on the roof and leaned a ladder from the roof slope on to the stack. I climbed the ladder and as I reached the top the stack leaned out over the edge around 2 feet! S*it my self wasn't in it!!!!!

Amen to that! Sometimes it's the only way!

No worries Wendy :) The building regs change all the time and can be different from one area to another, If building control were happy at the time then all's good. Sounds like you may have mortar cracks but it's no big deal, walls don't fall down easy even when cracked. The time to worry is when the crack is stepped, one side further into the room than the other. Paper is ok to burn if screwed up into a ball or twisted, it's when it floats up the chimney that it can cause a fire. Mj :) Oh and Machine Mart are good for stoves too, especially when vat free.

I have a pair of late wings, no rust at all.

No wood does burn hotter, a good idea is to use a little coke to stoke the fire and to keep it in all day. Sounds like the draw on your chimney is more than adequate and that is why its burning so hot. Best to keep the fire a little smaller, just to be safe. We had one wood fire so hot I put a glass beer bottle on and it melted!

Yep it looks very nice and lots of cash has been spent, it's just the auction that looks dodgy! If it sold in December, why not say it came back for sale because.......?

Absoloutly no need to follow building regulations, unless you want to sell your house! Then if it gets spotted by a canny surveyor you get it sorted or lose a sale. Bricks in a storage heater getting hot is fine.....no cement holdig em together, hot in building fabric, ok to a point. Too hot and due to thermal differential movement between brick and mortar....it parts company! I have also witnessed massive brick work cracks due to heat. Hey, but what do I know? It's only my job. Oh and chimney fires are up a third in the last few years, due to stoves and not sweeping regular, would the insurance pay out if your house burnt down and it was found the stove was not installed properly? We all know how they behave! Not trying to put anyone off logburner/ multifuel stoves, far from it. They give out lots of heat. If your chimney is swept once a year you should be fine. A chimney liner is not expensive and is a good thing on old chimneys, you don't want to kill the people in the upstairs bedroom due to a leaking chimney! Hot brickwork is fine, its part of the way they heat the house, as with open fires. The bricks of the house store heat, just like a storage heater. The problem arises with too much heat, wood burns with a much higher temperature than say coal. So just a little common sense, don't stoke it up too much, and beware of paper and card blowing up the chimney.

Yep he seemed to sell it in December, so why did the person who supposedly purchased bid on it again now? And the "newbies" bidding it up then retracting later. Blind Freddy can see what's happening! Lol I would be very surprised if the owner wasn't on here? I find with an auction the market will tell you the value of a car. If you want a price then advertise at that figure, and wait for the right buyer.