Valerian

Forgot i posted so long ago....will get round to popping in one of these days Dan

Wow....it's Dan the nuts and bolts man.....saw this sitting in your driveway last week. Are you making it your mission to own just about every model of Dub?

I went to this, but wasn't impressed with being stuck in the traffic jam. Took 2 hours to drive 3 miles once i hit Newquay.

Your Welcome.....Let me know how you get on.

Difficult to know without actually looking at the car myself of course. Have known these kind of faults to occur with a faulty ignition switch in the past.

I would carefully examine the wires behind the steering shroud if i were you. That puff of smoke could have been a wire shorting against the steering column. Really needs investigating before you end up having a fire in the car.

Sounds to me as if your stereo is wired in to the wrong curcuit behind the dash. It should be wired to :- blue/white = Speed sensor feed (if needed) brown/red = Ignition live (this wire can be traced back to the ignition switch) black = +12v to aerial amplifier (switched feed from head unit) grey/blue = illumination feed (to turn on head unit illumination when the lights are switched on) red/white = permanent live brown = earth If it is wired up correctly the you could have a faulty ignition switch.

They were around the £100 mark from the stealers when i checked 6 months ago.

You are indeed correct. I replaced my heater matrix just over a week ago and also came across that spare plug. I knew it wasn't used because i carefully labelled everything else. If i'de spotted this thread sooner you would have known sooner.

My opinion is to fix it, but before you do, get someone who knows about cars to check all the faults the garage has listed just to make sure they weren't trying to screw you over. Apart from the brake pipe(s), which costs next to nothing if you do it yourself, all the other parts can be sourced secondhand for i reckon around £100 or less. To me the car looks (from the photos)to be too good to break.

Doesn't seem to be a common problem. Have you checked to make sure that the electrical connector on the back of the speedo is plugged in all the way and correctly?

Try doing a compression test on each cylinder. Do you have any steam (white smoke) coming from the exhaust at all? VR6 engines are renowned for blowing head gaskets so be prepared to bite the financial bullet.

Pull it away from the car a section at a time. There are square tabs moulded into the spoiler that enable the whole thing to clip into place.

It clips into the body...so just give it a tug and it should come out eventually.

Just make sure she didn't take the picture so she could stick pins in it :lol: