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  1. ah man, I'll see if I can find something sweet to send on from my box of stuff to send by way of an apology. That's annoying, I bet it got lost at the shop I took it to, they're notorious for doing that, not my usual parcel drop off spot, but the usual wasn't open when I was free.
  2. Has that Just turned up?, it was sent weeks ago!! Gutted about the glass, I thought I'd protected it fairly well, sorry about that mate.
  3. The road risk part of my policy has gone up loads. Bad times really.
  4. Tell tell sights of shagged calipers on that, but they're a good looking car and have aged really well. I really enjoyed my time with an ST170
  5. yeah the later engines are chain only, earlier are belt and chain, mines belt and chain (between cams) being an early car with higher compression.
  6. I'd check what the tax is on that before you commit to anything, but yeah no MOT always sets alarm bells off for me, just put it through one for gods sake.
  7. Well the bushes are out.. I've also been attacking the subframe with flap discs, wire brushes and chemical rust stripping.
  8. That's how today is going... I'm going to attack things a bit more tomorrow but right now removing the bushes is proving tricky so..
  9. Makes me quite sad but I think we're the last generation that will enjoy cars the way we can now. As such I don't think it's a good pension scheme..you're better off buying vintage watches or just chucking the money you'd throw into a car and storing and maintaining it into a pension pot.. sorry
  10. I think if you buy the wrong Mk5 golf you're going to hate yourself. Remember they do rot, the engines need looking after right, they're not really a fan of irregular servicing and you need to do a bit more than just oil and filters when you're running one too, they coke up the heads and valves with cheap fuel, etc etc. Mine came with three folders full of recipient for most of the expensive bits, lots of oil changes with the right filters and expensive oil, clutch, flywheel, suspension stuff etc and it was still in need of a bit of work. It's a lot of fun though
  11. I'm in my early 40s now but I've had my time under cars bodging them together in all weathers on a Sunday as I needed it to get to work on Monday. I'm now in a really fortunate position in that my job lets me rent a fucking great barn and buy tools for the place so I don't need to do that anymore, it's not my "job" working on cars, (I'm in Cyber Security for a living) but it does keep its own arse clean in terms of doing the odd paid job for other people so I don't have to spend my wages on it every month and live off beans and instant noodles. I plan on keeping the car it's as easy to take it apart and get it all sorted in one to as it is to do it peace meal, especially with the scissors lift to help.
  12. I'm sure the Michelin PS4s, the PU bused wishbones and proper alignment help with mine but yea, traction is absolutely fine. When it's wet I will light the fronts up a bit off the odd roundabout and when pushing on, especially on the broken roads of the UK but mines only got a baby k03s turbo and stage 1 tune so it's not really enough to warrant the added weight, complexity etc of a haldex setup. The real revelation on this compared to golfs I've had before is the multi link rear suspension I'm sorting now though, it's nicked from a ford focus MK1 and as such it's much better for being complaint and keeping the back end in check until you provoke it round with a dab of brakes and then it's very controllable. I tend to drive on the road with the traction control on, which also stops be ending up on my roof upside in a hedge and it keeps the front tyres from igniting every time I stab the pedal in the wet, but even if I do turn it off it's still not an uncontrollable smoking mess of understeer in the same way my mates Astra VXR is.
  13. Really poor progress today. Sarah made some blackberry vodka, it's very sweet and goes down very well, unfortunately it also means that I'm hanging, but stuff needs to be done. As such this: Is now reduced to this. One absolutely stuck bolt means a banana arm at top is still stuck there ,that needs cutting, which is a bit too antisocial for a Sunday afternoon when my workshop backs onto the landlords house and he keeps a gun. But these bits are off. So I can at least remove some bushes and clean up some things tomorrow evening.
  14. Since starter motor gate this has been absolutely fine but the MOT is looming at the end of the month and last year it had advisories on the rear bushes and subframe corrosion as well as a minor oil leak and a loud exhaust. The exhaust is a sports cat and big downpipe, 3" into a reducer and then a stock resonator and silencer.. as you can imagine it's lovely until it gets to the cobbled together shit at the end of the car, so I've taken that off to try and make it a bit better than a series of claps, exhaust paste and bodge repairs as it is now. I've been giving it death and it doesn't feel baggy at the back end, but it also doesn't feel incredible either and usually these are are really good. Since doing the brake upgrade to Porsche calipers I've been meaning to get the rear suspension sorted as when you stab the pedal hard it will lighten the back and you can invoke oversteer if you're being a bit of an idiot. Given I am an idiot, this happens a fair bit so.. While I had that lot off, I decided to prod at the underside, it's for a fair bit of surface scabbing, the rubberised underseal has trapped water, so that's all going to get dug out, along with the seam sealant and I'll get some raptor on the underside. It's remarkably solid given how this era golf tends to go. Subframe is scabby as hell, it's easier to sort it, refresh all the bushes and bolts and repaint it off the car so. I guess tomorrow I'll strip the subframe in readiness for cleaning. I've got a set of PU bushes coming for it, so I'll press out the old stuff as I remove it and I'll see if any of the bolts come out, if they don't then I'll cut the fuckers off and buy new ones. I could buy a bolt and bushed arm kit for the 11billionty bushes and bolts I need for £200 but when the arms are actually serviceable and because I hate waste (and will end up doing it again next year because modern rubber parts are absolutely horse shit) I'm going to spend more money than I need to and fit something with more than 18 months of life.
  15. Bacon roll was £2.50 and the brew was free of charge.
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