I'm on AP's at the minute, I've long since given up on any hope of ride comfort in mine though so should be OK.
What have you done to your car today?
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I'm on AP's at the minute, I've long since given up on any hope of ride comfort in mine though so should be OK.
Soldato
I should be leaving the UK in January to start a new permanent job in Saudi so I won't be buying anything for a while but until Jan I'm borrowing my sisters 1L corsa to commute to my contract job.
SELLING THE BLUE TURD! I've never been so happy to see the back of a car 
Selling it to the sister in law as she's learning to drive. My missus is taking mine and I'll be on the hunt for a new one. I've only just had the turd mot'd and tax'd. I take it under the new rules, sister in law has to re-tax it and I claim for a refund?
Selling it to the sister in law as she's learning to drive. My missus is taking mine and I'll be on the hunt for a new one. I've only just had the turd mot'd and tax'd. I take it under the new rules, sister in law has to re-tax it and I claim for a refund?
Soldato
Dropped it off at the body shop to be repaired... probably 10 days of this Chrysler 200 rental.... it truly is the worst car I've ever had the displeasure of sitting in.
Man of Honour
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Have booked the SLK55 into infinity exhausts just outside bath on Saturday. Can't decide whether to get just the xpipe or that plus secondary cat delete - either way, have been given a great quote for both and can't wait!
Soldato
It wasn't just comfort that suffered, it was so harsh it would skip over little bumps, like the wheels were almost struggling to maintain contact with the road. Very confidence sapping, probably made the car slower to hustle along a bumpy road.
This was with H&R monotube coilovers and the Group N top mount reinforcement kit mind, probably higher spring rates than the APs which I read are pretty road friendly as coilovers go
Soldato
Not so much done today but over the past 10 weeks, finishing up last night.
A friend and I took an evening class on car bodywork repair, going from panel beating to painting. I don't have photos of the start or panel beating but have some of other bits.
Cut out a section for repair (new clean metal to patch):
Badly tacked in place (re did it the following week):
After straightening it out from any heat distortion, applied rather a large amount of filler:
Primer flatted down, patches are can primer over burnt through areas (if doing properly I'd have redone the primer from the gun, re-flatted etc.):
Top coat on:
Yesterday was the final evening, flatting and polishing:
Overall it was a pretty good course and certainly learnt some good stuff and for less than half the usual price (cost me £130) my friend and I found it good value for money....now I just need a large garage and a spray booth for my car, oh and heaps more tools.
A friend and I took an evening class on car bodywork repair, going from panel beating to painting. I don't have photos of the start or panel beating but have some of other bits.
Cut out a section for repair (new clean metal to patch):
Badly tacked in place (re did it the following week):
After straightening it out from any heat distortion, applied rather a large amount of filler:
Primer flatted down, patches are can primer over burnt through areas (if doing properly I'd have redone the primer from the gun, re-flatted etc.):
Top coat on:
Yesterday was the final evening, flatting and polishing:
Overall it was a pretty good course and certainly learnt some good stuff and for less than half the usual price (cost me £130) my friend and I found it good value for money....now I just need a large garage and a spray booth for my car, oh and heaps more tools.
Caporegime
The CC decided it wasn't happy on Sunday, lucky for me it broke down right at the bottom of my drive, so could have been worse!
Been taken away to the local VW specialist so he can tell me how far i need to open my wallet.....
Been taken away to the local VW specialist so he can tell me how far i need to open my wallet.....
Soldato
Drove it
Soldato
The CC decided it wasn't happy on Sunday, lucky for me it broke down right at the bottom of my drive, so could have been worse!
Been taken away to the local VW specialist so he can tell me how far i need to open my wallet.....
Oh dear - DSG problems?
Soldato
I didn't take photos of every single stage.
The (bad) tacking in the photo was just to show it in place(ish). When I redid it I cleaned the tacks off, clamped the repair section to the wing tacked it to hold and not need the clamps and then welded it up fully, bit by bit to avoid/minimise heat distortion. Once cooled I then ground down the welds and then knocked the panel back to shape again due to some small heat distortion areas, only once that was complete did I apply any filler.
As an example, here is my friend's one mostly welded up at the end of one of the evenings, he then finished welding the following week.
Caporegime
Fortunately not!
Car started then stalled, won't restart but does turn over, looking at problems the Golf R32 has, it could be the low pressure fuel pump, relay, a simple fuse issue, or worse it could be an immobiliser issue with the steering column, which is common on the B6 chassi, or so I've read.
Will see what the damage is tomorrow I think, need to buy a new diag lead for future use me thinks, my current one is too old to work.
Loving the car still, so hopefully it won't cost a bomb to sort and wreck my future enjoyment.
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Man of Honour
That's annoying - don't you know a "friendly" MOTer that will overlook emissions?
Soldato
Unfortunately not one that would pass it when it blows 6.5 CO with the limit being 3.5 CO (or thereabouts).
I've booked it in with a VAG specialist who deals with lots of classic VWs including mk2 golfs for tuning and an MOT so hopefully they can sort it and pass it, then I can tax it from 1st Dec. Should also mean I get better MPG and overall performance too if they can tune it properly as I've been getting mid 30s but should see mid 40s for my usage.
Man of Honour
Ah right, yes it is a bit out then! Thought it might have just been marginal... fortunately my MOTer is only interested if the car is fit for the road and less so about emissions.
Man of Honour
Insured it.
