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I'm with Flux and have been for over ten years, they've been good to me. Admittedly they do try it on come renewal time (but so does every company) so ten minutes on the phone will usually knock £100 off the policy. They have always insured a heavily modified vehicle for about 10% cheaper than I can get insured as standard for on any comparison site, and somehow I've had "Driving Other Vehicles" cover on my limited mileage camper van policy for the last 3 years too which seems crackers to me but it's dead handy. I've also never once had to pay an admin fee to add modifications or change the vehicle mid-policy. Maybe I've just always struck lucky?
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Jun 13, 2015 22:09:55 GMT
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You've pretty much got it right - you can buy the plates to adapt them to fit coilovers. Inside the bag is mostly tube, don't worry about that if it fits over the strut.
Make sure you've plenty of room in the strut tower - I tried some Uvair Aerosport bags on my lupo and they bound solid all round - needed another inch of room or so.
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We have an ultrasonic cleaner at work, it's a £600+ industrial heated affair. We use it for cleaning all kinds of stuff, but it really doesn't perform miracles. It would do an alright job of cleaning carb bits, but I reckon more due to a 30 minute soak in 75c soapy water than what the ultrasonic stuff would do. It's alright but we mainly use it because we clean plastic stuff that can't take much heat. If I had a load of stuff that wouldn't warp in the heat (like carb bits) I'd be chucking everything in a pan of simmering water with some degreaser in it and it'll do almost as good of a job for nowt.
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Last Edit: Jun 9, 2015 22:03:37 GMT by cobblers
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May 27, 2015 19:14:26 GMT
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May 27, 2015 19:13:03 GMT
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It could be a "cloned" advert. A scammer copies an existing or few months old advert but reduces the price by 30-60% ish to get a lot of interest. When you get in touch they will say some claptrap about the vehicle being abroad but they can deliver it to you if you pay for it by eBay Escrow service.
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May 20, 2015 20:59:03 GMT
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Rust! Make sure reverse doesn't click loudly when you move (like a rollercoaster winding up the hill) Rust! Hidden under sill trims, around rear axle mounts. Rear calipers seized on/off. Glovebox probably won't work Electric windows probably won't work Engines are probably OK unless really leggy. If it feels flat and gutless check it revs over 5k - if not the dizzy timing is wrong and it's gone into limp mode , quite common after a cambelt swap.
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May 15, 2015 19:53:55 GMT
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Autoglym Vinyl and Rubber care is ideal. I've used it on plenty of rubber cab mats in vans etc.
Spray it on, leave it for a minute then wipe it back off with an old towel or something. It'll blacken the rubber without leaving them (too) slippery.
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May 11, 2015 16:49:22 GMT
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What charger was used? if it's an intelligent one then it may well have just clicked off or something.
If there was a genuine 4A/8A charge going into it for 8 hours to get it to where it is, then it's knackered.
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Certainly was mine! I can't believe it was 5 years ago.. ![](http://leglard.com/img/images/forum/IMG_0063.JPG) here's the build thread: retrorides.proboards.com/thread/80703/1993-carlos-fandango-106-paintedI swapped it for an MX5 with some guy off here. He sold the banded steels, put some council spec orange 17" wheels on it, painted half the engine bay with an aerosol without masking anything then it ended up scrapped not long after.
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Last Edit: May 9, 2015 22:13:56 GMT by cobblers
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Apr 20, 2015 20:40:19 GMT
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Put all the bolts back on finger tight then wind them out a turn so they are on, but loose.
Drive the car round slowly til it cracks off.
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Apr 18, 2015 21:27:59 GMT
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I bought these a while ago, there was four but one of them had the wheel bolt holes all chewed up. I took it to get repaired at a local place and forgot about it for years so I presume it's been weighed in. Here's the other three - they came off a mk3 golf so 4x100, I presume about 35 ish offset. Tyres all have some tread but I wouldn't use them personally cos they're old and sh ite. ![](http://i.imgur.com/uyBEljIh.jpg) ![](http://i.imgur.com/BvV26Ijh.jpg) ![](http://i.imgur.com/tm3dRACh.jpg) ![](http://i.imgur.com/Zy2TtKdh.jpg) They are all fairly scruffy but you could probably make something of them. They're at my mums house in Rotherham. I could probably get them up to Chesterfield if it helps, but I've no time or inclination to wrap them for a courier.
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Apr 14, 2015 17:51:44 GMT
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Your best bet is to put some coilovers on the front, then use some coilover adapter plates to mount the AeroSport bags over them (you can buy the plates pre-made if needs be). That way you can adjust the ride height so that you can get the correct spring rate at your desired "moving" height. The problem with air is that the lower you go, the lower the spring rate. Theres a chance that to get them firm enough to drive comfortably, you end up with one end way up in the air, or vice versa. Having one end easily adjustable will allow you to get it riding level when you have the pressures set right at least.
Make sure you have room in the strut towers for the Aerosport bags. I bought some to go on a lupo and there was no chance. Mk2 Cav front springs are a lot wider so I reckon you'd probably get away with it.
As for controlling them, I'd personally stay away from running 2 switch systems as you can end up with body roll (when you turn the air pumps out of one side into another) but a lot of people seem to get away with it.
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Last Edit: Apr 14, 2015 17:55:56 GMT by cobblers
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Apr 12, 2015 20:42:24 GMT
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It's a bloody nice car man, but there's better places to try and flog it.
If I tried to sell a puppy on autotrader and the advert was deleted, I wouldn't be all that confused as to why.
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Apr 12, 2015 18:46:45 GMT
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I would imagine it's something to do with the first line of the for sale section rules "First of all, IF YOUR CAR IS NEWER THAN 2000 PLEASE DON'T POST IT."
There's better places to sell a modern beemer. No point wasting your time putting the ad on Retro Rides where it would bump something more relevant off the bottom of the page.
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Mar 26, 2015 18:51:30 GMT
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Some of the golf/Ibiza ones won't fit on the lupo gearbox IIRC, the starter can be on either side.
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Mar 25, 2015 21:37:03 GMT
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If you are running any aftermarket ECU you should be able code in some "Security through obscurity" and have the thing disable fuel/spark or otherwise stop the thing running if some obscure, spare input isn't pulled high/low. It'd be impossible to bypass it like a normal immobiliser, unless you know exactly how it is set up.
How elaborate it is depends on the particular ECU, but with a something fairly configurable you could set it up to only enable the spark output until you flicked the left indicator while you had your foot on the brake, before cranking or some other bizarre regime.
Many have a "map switch" input, so you could set that up to switch to a map which retards the ignition by 90degrees up until 1500RPM which would stop the thing starting, and probably make the thing backfire and wake you up.
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Last Edit: Mar 25, 2015 21:43:50 GMT by cobblers
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The windows winding down thing is kind of a VW feature - if you put the key in and hold it to "unlock" for a few seconds, the windows wind down. The alarm is spliced into the same wire for your central locking, and is probably set to give a slightly too long pulse on unlock so occasionally it trips with "wind the windows down" thing.
Anyway, what year is the golf? If it's 1993 or newer, there's every chance it has a factory fitted immobiliser anyway, so there's absolutely no point in leaving the one in the alarm fitted.
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Last Edit: Mar 15, 2015 9:00:21 GMT by cobblers
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Mar 14, 2015 22:36:27 GMT
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RAC did the same to me with my Lupo years back. Left me stranded in the central reservation of a busy dual carriageway unless I paid £150 for a "specialist tow" because the car was lowered. Threatened to report me to the police if I didn't pay, and then I would have to pay the polices towing charge (which in hindsight was probably cheaper) I had removed the front bumper in the 2 hours waiting for them to come, so it would go on any truck. They wouldn't listen to reason and I was stuck really so paid the £150 to get dragged 40 feet onto a side road.
The AA seem somewhat better, obviously it depends on the patrolman you get. That said they rang me every day for a fortnight trying to get me to add my partner as second member, and I told them that if they ring one more time I'm going to cancel my membership, which seems to have worked.
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Mar 14, 2015 11:37:19 GMT
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The fuel is probably dead, like you say. I've had cars refuse to start or run on fuel under a year old, so I'd definitely start with that. Exactly the same symptoms as you. Fresh fuel and they ran fine.
I'm not sure what exactly has changed, but 10 year old fuel will run a car (if a bit poorly), then somewhere along the line something happened and now after a year it's lost all its usefulness and just wets the plugs without doing any exploding.
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Mar 11, 2015 20:26:55 GMT
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The rears are easy, just cut the spring mounting nipples off, make some bag mount plates and bolt a bag in place. The dampers can stay as they are.
There isn't enough room up front, nor enough travel in the suspension without cutting out half of the seat base to allow the wishbone to move up another few inches for it to look anywhere near properly low. The largest bag you can fit is too small of a diameter to give a firm enough spring rate at a reasonable ride height, so on the move it'll have to be pumped up quite high.
On top of all that, you need to relocate the dampers somehow as now your air bag is in the way (The Aero sport "hollow" bags won't work in this application because the spring platforms don't stay parallel or even in the same plane over the suspension travel).
You'll need a very small damper with a very high damping rate to make it drive right, so you'll need to get something custom made.
A friend and I fitted bags to his van, it took some serious surgery up front. We're talking roughly a weeks work to get bags to fit without rubbing (much!) and gain an extra 3" of suspension travel. After all that, If truth be told, it doesn't look that low, because the tyres hit the front wheel arch tubs so you only tuck an inch or so at most, coincidentally this is the height at which the steering arms foul the chassis rails. There's no way round this without cutting the flipping doors up, raising the seats and either relocating the steering rack or cutting more lumps out of the chassis.
All in all, T25s are not built to go low without completely re-engineering the whole front end!
Even with importing stuff himself and using £8 chinese ebay valves, free pipe and fittings he got from work etc etc, I don't think he had change from £1300.
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Last Edit: Mar 11, 2015 20:29:50 GMT by cobblers
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