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brilliant!!! best one from the weekend i have read yet PMSL

thats the point i was trying to raise :)

try the suppliers section for user ThursDave & drop him a line - he works in the parts dept of a VW branch & can get you the part numbers & prices etc ;)

i see & yes i understand the bushes can be a pain to get back in it was the brake compensator which played up on my VR, it pretty much refused to come out & had to be butchered i too have KWV1's on the VR & though they are simply sublime on smooth tarmac the state of our pothole covered, uneven, stone chip surfaced, good damn awful UK roads means they can be a bit jiggly for a daily as mine is i took the valver to work today, after it got a clean sheet at the MOT last week, & the soggy suspension on that is more comfortable but doesnt like being driven hard be interested to hear your thoughts on the poly's once fitted m8 :)

ahhh poop! glad you got there & back ok though m8 how comes the spend in holland? i thought vince had got it running nice or did you skip the head gasket for the moment? how was the trip other than the bad things? cant belive you got dinged in belgium, was it bad? was the time at MIVW worth it?

not to be annoying but are OEM bushes not better than poly's for rear beam due to the nature of the 'flex' the rear setup is designed to give?

5 year thread revival!!

winner - good luck fuzz hope you sort her

oh no is Verity OK?

hope you all have a great time - looking forward to the pics gutted me, the mrs & the muttley cant go

excellent thanks Tan that would be very much appreciated :)

good info thanks Jim & saves me fuel going to see them if i can afford it i would like to have it done by a place that guarantees their work. i spent 600 hard saved notes getting the bonnet & both sides done a few years ago but am now suffering due to their poor work. if i could i would get my friend who restores camper vans to do it as i know i could get the exact job i want & gain some experiencing helping along the way but it just isnt feasible

wow that paint looks awesome Tan would you mind sending me a PM with info about where done, what done & how much please (including window rubbers etc if possible)? i am due some money soon & am now hunting for a good paint shop for the VR. am hoping for full respray, glass out & maybe installation of a Kamei front/rear/side skirts wendy has very kindly sent me info about the place she used in Cov & i am waiting for more info from EJ about the place his dad works in oxford also, i have found a classic car restoration place literally 3 minutes form my house

personally, in my case & the gf's, lack of show attendance is normally down to money & time im not yet 2 years into buying a house & although i have done a big chunk of restoration on it there is still huge amounts to do. it is quite different running a 3 bed semi compared to a 1 bed apartment, which i had previously, & money is very tight each month as such if a show requires a reasonable distance in fuel, camping & supplies for the weekend then very often we just cant justify the expense i very often find that the shows i would like to make an effort & make funds available for are too far away but also i am a bit fickle in that i dont like to feel 'trapped for the day' - in that i mean where cars have to arrive by a certain time & then cant leave until a certain time. (i am currently going through being diagnosed with Asperger's & have always felt more comfortable when out if i know i can leave whenever i want) a good example being the NEC show Jim mentions as it is only 20 mins down the road from me but would require a fair bit of messing about to take 2 cars there, drop a rado off, go home, come back later & look around, possibly go home again & then bring another car back to pick up said rado. i did try to make arrangements for the one last year but then had to drop out as the valver was not back from the mechanics in time my other issue is that currently both rados are not in the kind of shape i would want to show them - mainly in terms of paint the VR, well, lets just say i despise poor work from bodyshops & have been burnt! the bonnet, which was taken back to metal, produced hundreds of micro blisters after a year or so & now it has many crack lines where the primer & paint has sunk into the groves made because they used pads which were too abrasive & left marks in the metal. 4 hours sanding with 800 grit or 1 hour with 180 grit, the customer wont notice for a year.....w4nkers!! the valver, with a good clean the interior it is very passable aside from a bit of door card tweaking but again the paint needs some serious TLC however, once the VR paint is done (hopefully end of this year or early next) & hopefully with the Kamei kit on it too i will be swapping the daily over to the valver & save the VR for fun & special ocassions like shows plus the gf & i are going to be trying to get out & about more at weekends to visit places etc as we have a springer spaniel puppy who we want to take to as many different kind of places as we can. the gf is a carer & we are hoping to train the pup up to be a therapy dog for old people so he needs to go anywhere & everywhere as for the forum / CCGB site thing - i am probably an offender as i have been a member on here for many a year but i dont even go to the CCGB site. not sure quite why when i think about it but then i dont go to the VR6OC either. maybe it is from viewing threads on some other forums & the feeling that often there are just idiots on there. whereas on here we do seem to have a very nice, helpful & generous bunch of good common minded people.

blimey that is some edit from the original ;) lol

yay!!! valver has passed its MOT & no advisories - get in!! all that work to get it back on the road last year is a result of a clean ticket this year new headlights, well the donor ones i got form a kind person on here, are all good. suspension worries not appeared & my dread of a new battery tray put off for a bit longer winner winner chicken dinner :)

i didnt mean so much it was the precise reboot of Elite more that from what i remember Elite was about travelling round in a huge universe collecting items & then using or trading them etc - they both sound like a similar concept

i read a partial 1st thoughts review someone did & they said the survival needs pf it could become very tiresome & annoying but also that it could improve as you upgrade in various elements

no but ive seen it in the papers it looks like a new reboot of the very old classic Elite game i have a few friends who are PS playsers but no comments from them yet

good find :)

no problem - good luck

looking at the ford invoice it shows 7364573 & was £32.50+vat sorry i should have been more clear - i understand you have the large plastic air intake section but need the hoses which connect the PCV to such VW only sold the PCV with all of the air intake section you already have (IE the large plastic section which goes to the MAF & the TB) ford sell just the PCV & likely sell the connecting hoses too either way IIRC VW price was about £90 & as such i am sure you can get the hoses & a couple of jubilee's, or ones that can be made to fit, for less than £60

hi m8 IIRC they are very expensive from VW, or were if they are now obselete, as they only sell the entire section including the attached air housing when i changed the PCV on my VR i got it from ford - as the v6 galaxy uses the very same part but ford sell it on its own let me check my build thread for a part number for you.....

nice - any pics? :)

i nearly brought a 928 bottom end a couple of years ago to do that very thing VAG but it would have been one heck of an expensive table lol