Glenn, i stopped getting reminders about the meets on my fone mate.
any chance of still sending texts please?
i split up with my 3yr partner few month before xmas thats why i never came but i defo want to show my face and eyeball the cars and have a crack on etc, also promote my business....... hand out fliers and offer help/advice etc and we are CHEAP!!!! Extra discounts for any club member that reccomends us on a web forum etc
Gis a bell and we can have a chat about advertising etc if you want, put a package together for me maby?
I was soooo excited when it fired up for the first time on tuesday but after numerous faults it developed within 30 miles i rememberd very quickly why i wanted rid of this particular cossie ASAP!(virtually ALL down to the last fuckin nimrod of an owner, yes you read PF forums and know who you are you tw*t)
before the motor sh1t itself last june it needed a massive cuddle and a general mechanical magic wand on the non-visual stuff.
Bodywork wise it was faultless, one off paint and hand crafted Rouse splitter and carbon goodies galore, more to come (IF it stays!)
1)front pads
2)side repeaters not working
3)sqeaking rear seats when nobody in the back
4)knock on O/S/F suspension
5)blowing exhaust
6)weird vibration through floor when ignition turned on
7)various strange boost settings
THINGS I DID TO FIX THESE AFORE MENTIONED FAULTS
1)Calipers absolutly shafted, no dust seals at all and only 1 piston on n/s was working ( 1x yellowstuff pads, 2x CRN disks, 1x big redd repair kits, 2x powdercoated calipers)
2)wiring to side repeaters cut off flush from harness! repaired and replaced.
3)what can i say........ no bolts at all keeping rear seats in place!
4)whoever fitted the strut brace used bolts so long that they pushed the strut top down so much that when the centre nut was tightened it only managed 1/3 of the threads used to fully tighten it down! (and the last owner clearly used a windy gon to tighten it up as the threads are propperly fucked only in that position!
5)i`ve never seen a genuine Garrett T4 with a T35 style .63 exhaust housing but this had one fitted......... with one nut/bolt in top left corner and the other 2 wernt even threaded or even pre drilled to accept a stud/bolt or even touched with any sort of hole at all!
oh and the centre box had been cut out and some fuckwit had tried to use flat plate very gashly rolled(hammered!!) arround the 2 ends of exhaust where the box was cut out and used to live, needless to say it was blowing its tits off and was sitting against the propshaft, im sure you dont need me to explain that this needed thrown away and a full fresh system fitted!
6)fuel pump cabletied to the boot floor.............. no explenation needed!
7)fuckwit last owner decided to wire amal valve in this way:
battery live to switch, switch to amal valve live, amal valve earth to screw keeping valve in place
i stopped making notes at this point LOL
LOL is a nearvous LOL, as i have discovered the wiring.......... huge amplifier power cable from battery through a fuse and into the rear boot area of the car......... not insulated and left lying open ended in the spare wheel well!
after taking the ECU out to swop from big power chip to standard one for running in, i found 2 eyelets next to the ECU mount bolts(2wd) they were both black wires so i thaught they needed earthed where ECU bolted on, obviously i checked them first and they turned out to be:
one radio earth
one linked live radio feed from ignition!
driven the car twice and already i just want to forget about the fact i have well over 12 grand in the car and just get rid of it ASAP, for that ammount of notes i should have got a nogaro blue RS4 sat in the back yard and not an old sierra that numerous fuckwits have nailed together and advertised that car hasnt changed spec since the last owner/builder.......
love the cossie to bits for the fact its a total one off but i hate it as mentioned before the last owner got it and propperly fucked it within 8 months of ownership, propper have-a-go hero max power style
cant beleive even now i looked the car over 100% and couldnt fina anything wrong with it in any way
maby just blame myself for buying a shitter?????!!!!!?!?!?!?!?!?!