June 2007
i have a really mint mk2 Golf gti in red, but the only think that lets it down is the rear bumper is very faded. The black part has now turned grey, what do i do? is there any way to restore it, and how long will it last.
i don't really want to change the whole bumper as the colour coded red part is very mint, or does anyone know if the bumper is 2 piece
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Hi,
Have a 307 (standard) with 35k on the clock. Been advised by the dealer that the head gasket is leaking and also the gearbox, he has quoted over 1k to get fixed.
Oil doesn't seem to be falling out at a rapid rate, so have the normal questions; how urgent is it to get this stuff fixed? how much should I be looking to pay from and independent garage.
Cheers for any help
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hi mate the headgasket is alright until you end up with more smoke than usual and that the smoke would look black this is just the oil burning in the cylinder with the gearbox its toptally different if i was in your position i would get this done asap tell me how you you get on chat back
Do all tyre fitting bays use impact wrenches? Despite having rotated my wheels 3 times without any noticeable adverse effects, using a spider and a torque wrench to retighten, within 2 days and a rain shower of having new tyres fitted recently, most of the chrome wheel nuts were showing rust stains where the chrome has been hammered off.
This in addition to the nuts all being overtightened despite the ostentatious use of a torque wrench - none of the nuts moved as they had already been overtightened with the impact wrench - and the gratuitous addition of a few tool marks to the wheels.
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Just Tyres do not use Air Wrench at all, nor do they use ramps at my local centre. Its all done "by hand" and with jacks.
greetings all,
had a friend of mine pop into the workshop today to ask me for some advice. he said the front end of his type R was squelling under braking. straight away i noticed the discs were starting to score so as a looked through the wheel i noticed there was no material to be seen on the pads. i said i'd get a price on new discs and pads for him. now his R has had extensive mods professionally done to the suspension and engine so as a result he fitted some EBC REd pads fitted onto the standard discs. suffice to say that the discs have been hammered by the red pads. any way i came back with, what i thought were reasonable prices: pads £35, discs £85. all in , inc the dreaded, it came to £131. i got back to him and he asked if i could check the discs thinkness' and if they were warped. so the discs were ok, but they were down to 23.5mm. he phoned honda they said they allow wear down to 19mm. he says pink fluffy dice it i'll just do the pads. my point is if you are going to have a fast car why skrimp on the maintenence especially if you are trying to seel it. i once owned a mint '90 sapph cosworth that ran a measured 298 BHP @ the whhels. never did i skrimp. what's wrong with people?
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>I do the occasional car ECU repair
I heard of someone doing this sort of thing to washing machine circuit boards. His main problem was the components weren't marked (resistor values etc.). He had to have several cards of the same type and then swap components piecemeal (the black ones were burnt out).
So how do you identify ECU components, or do they use standard items?
hi all,
just trying to find out some info for a friend of mine. his missis bought him an aftermarket cd/radio, only thing is his steering wheel controls no longer work. is there any module boxes on the market that will enable him to use these controls? many thanks Read more
www.caraudiodirect.co.uk <--- Only link you will need :)
You need 2 parts to allow you/your mate to use the steering controls
1: Adapter
2: Interface
~£40
Why do cars swerve into the muck at the edge of the road when I pass on my motorcycle?
Is it that
a) They just woke up.
b) They think my bike is 12 feet wide.
c) They are trying to blind me with the dust cloud.
Happens a lot in Derbyshire.
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Do you mean Alastair Stewart ?
Not sure where to post so here is a new thread....A big thankyou to the DHL articulated lorry on the A40 Eastbound this afternoon.
Single carriageway from Gloucester end to Burford so HGV progressing at a steady 50mph, horrible road to overtake on easpecially with heavy oncoming traffic, over 20 cars following HGV in a line.
HGV pulls over and stops in a layby and lets all the cars past, then waits to check that there are no stragglers before pulling out to continue.
A very welcome change!
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Similar thanks to the bloke in the tractor on the A2070 between Ashford and Brenzett just earlier this afternon, who kept well to the left to allow everyone behind him to get past without having to cross the centre line.
His fellow agricultural worker who thinks it's funny to cause a huge tailback on the A23 between Pyecombe and Hickstead by regularly going up it at 20 mph at 8.15 in the morning should take heed. He's such a pest that even the guys in the artics cut him up!
I'm changing the HG on my 2litre Mondeo at the weekend. I was wondering if the is any merit in getting the head skimmed even if it shows no signs of warping. I bought the car with HG failure so not sure how hot it got. The car will start after a bit and drives ok. It has done 160,000 miles.
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Thanks for the advice! I will certainly get it checked before refitting as it looks like a long winded job to replace the HG and I certainly dont want to do it twice! I have a fairly local trusted motor engineer who I will present the head to upon removal. If it does need skimming will the valves need to be removed first? Might seem a silly question but I have never had a head skimmed before so dont know the process used.
Thanks
Stuart
Hi i have a Vauxhall Asta 1.4 LS 1996 model and it starts and runs perfectly for around 3-4 seconds then it just dies out.
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whereas emailing such info to someone who registered today would be fine ?
It would be a private exchange of information, whereas on a public forum it wouldn't be.
Hi all.
Heres the deal, been reading up on HJ, and i see i'm not the only person to have experience a conrod failure in what i thought were bullet proof Peugeot Diesel engines. Mines a 306 S reg, 86000 miles on the clock, a common era for this to happen, but low mileage. I've only had the car a year, it had 72000 on the clock when i bought it, and had allegedly been off the road for 8 months before hand. I immediately changed the cambelt, and oil, and have done a couple of oil changes in our 14000 miles together, most of them being motorway miles. Then one day in March, after a gentle poodle down the motorway, i pull away from the end of the slip rod, and pop, away she went. No knocking, or any sign at all of something being a miss. Pieces of engine casing from front and back, on the road along with 3 litres of oil!
So, i've got the engine out, and got the add-ons fitted to a replacement engine which was only scrapped because of a broken turbo. Swapped my turbo for that, gearbox, alternator etc, and i'm good to go. Then i read Honest john!!!
So my new engine wont work if i just plug it into my car? Dam. Of the 2 options, grind off immobiliser, or swap pumps, i'm opting for swap pumps. The Haynes "Book of lies" says this can be done without removing the cambelt, cool, but how do i lock the shaft of the pump once it is removed from the engine. I have no equipment for checking the timing if the shaft moves and the new engine needs fine tuning with the new pump.
Any suggestions. I am a fairly keen home mechanic (Hate paying rip off garage prices!), but am a little nervy of removing the pump and looseing the timing on the new engine.
Once this is done, the engine can go back in the car.
Any advice very muchly appreciated.
Cheers,
Marty.
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On later Peugeots the engine code is in the car's VIN number. ******DHY*** 123456
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main thing is not to get the heat gun too near or you can damage it
otherwise its the best thing since .........well sliced bread