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NOOOO - don't accept that!! Mine was agreed at £5k and cost £2.6k to repair - you need to push for them to repair and not Cat it. It's a strange offer as as long as you have a quote to repair that is less than £4k then they should repair it, that's the whole point of an agreed value. The engineer actually valued mine at £2.9k (without looking at the car) so said it would have been repaired regardless of the agreed value anyway.

Hi - just go to your local VW dealer or TPS - they are about £50 and come with fixings.

http://www.halfords.com/webapp/wcs/stor ... yId_165727 If anyone needs a new jack then this is the one to get, starts at the same height as the normal halfords one but goes much higher and faster too, especially when unloaded. Well worth the extra £10 over the standard one and is far better than the £100 Machine Mart alloy POS I bought a couple of years ago!

Check tracking first....

I'd swap the engines back over and see if the fault disapears :)

Tilt and slide?

You need Lupo stub axles to do that conversion plus a load of other parts including bearings that are £55 each...

I have some Elring ones if needed - £5

They can wear but I thought that was always due to bearing failure / cheapo bearings and also you'd see some sort of wear marks etc... Are you taking the play out before you fit Dave - ie hand tight then do up with a 1/4 turn on a ratchet then back off and re-tighten by hand? - I do mine this way and seem to get it perfect every time now with no adjustment needed

It's G60 specific so there is only one...

Nope, £220 + vat from VW and available next day though (5 in the country when I bought mine a month ago)

Fuse 16 or 21 dude...

Yeah, very cheap and also that Nugget G60 was a bit of a bargain at £12k for a 4 year old car on very low miles! I'd certainly pay that now if I could find a car in that actual condition!

Oh Dark Burgundy Pearl - thought you had the wrong forum for a minute! :) Mine is 'red' according to the MOT

Yeah Bosch bulbs, wiper blades, batteries, plugs etc are peanuts and way cheaper than GSF etc - All tools, boxes and some chemicals should be discounted too, I use mine all the time. I use TPS for oil though and always stick to genuine filters - All Synta is currently (till end of play today) on 20% off so 4x5 Ltr Silver (10w-40) is £29.44+vat

Welcome to the forum, the digital display shows the oil temp, the gauge is water... I'd top the coolant up first but the sender for this is the black one on the front of the cylinder head and the blue one is also water temp but for the ECU. I would replace both of these as a matter of course but you can test the needle gauge works by bridging the black plug and also compare both senders with a multi-meter reading resistance across the pins - the black one will probably be open circuit.

Thanks for the update - did you get you're money back or just murder his entire family including any pets? It's a shame when it comes to this to get things moving... hopefully you have more luck in the future!

I think it's still useful now, obviously won't be forever but we still need change for parking and for dartford etc... I used to use the MK2 ones all the time, the Corrado not so much as I don't tend to use car parks if I can help it. Best conversion I'd seem is an iPod dock - perfect fit in that space! viewtopic.php?f=6&t=67261

Yep = perfectly normal

It shouldn't do - if you're used to Mk2's then it should feel very much the same only better in every area, more predictable, more chuckable, more aerodynamic at higher speeds... Once you've got 4 decent tyres, look at rear axel bushes and dampers.

Yeah sounds similar to issues when using an aftermarket regulator which is 14V rather than 14.4 - you have to blip the throttle after startup to get the light to go out... Maybe worth trying a different pack but at that mileage I'd try and find a genuine replacement alt - maybe look on eBay?

Thought I'd stick a post up about the above as I'm currently borrowing it from Yan and couldn't find anything on here already. He used it on my car the other week while I was doing other stuff but I had chance to use it myself today - superb bit of kit! It basically works like an Easi-bleed but hold more fluid so you don't need to keep messing around topping up and is very well built with proper connectors etc, it also runs off the battery using it's own built in compressor rather than a spare tyre like the Gunsons kit. Very impressive and also made in Scotland http://www.liquid-levers.com/cbb.htm http://www.liquid-levers.com/pdf/cbb.pdf

Not amazingly cheap as they used to be £49 then £59 but now the rrp is £79! - maybe cheaper with the trade card too as most stuff is... http://www.halfords.com/webapp/wcs/stor ... yId_165572 http://www.halfords.com/webapp/wcs/stor ... yId_165572 Together these are roughly equivalent to the 150PCE set they do without the spanners - fit perfectly in Machine Mart HD Pro boxes too which is what I have.

Yep, you need both plus the splash shields - won't affect ABS as master cylinders are the same size because the piston size of the calliper is the same - 54mm

Yeah common relays so will probably have them on the shelf...