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Last online two months ago, which is very unlike her. 

Hence the question

The Insignificant engine is a pita as the filter is at the back right-hand corner of the engine and officially requires a special funnel to get the oil to drain cleanly when the filter is removed... It's almost a subframe out job*. Sucking the oil out doesn't correct the stupid design.

It's not quite that bad, but the filter cap is buried in the depths of Narnia.

It could be slightly bent or top mount failed.

Front struts on a Golf are hardly ground breaking either by design or fitting.

No different to the Omega or any other McPherson equipped car and it's only a pricey job because of all the parts that should be replaced in the process and the requirement to do both sides...

Samantha Davis - wife of Warwick. Only 53. 

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Changing the oil+filter is interesting,  if car isn't high enough you can't drop undertray flap down enough,  .....

you need a Pela oil-sucker-outerer 

 I'm of the old skool,, undo sump plug, and make a mess on the floor as the tray is positioned wrong,

If you were really old school, you'd park it over a drain in the street and let it run down there 

I'm considering it, given that the local tip let you dispose of about an egg cup full of oil each trip and I've got 2 20L containers of the stuff.

Karma catches up with this loathsome tw*t 
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-leeds-68836673

Had the alignment checked on the car today. Toe in out was spot on but rh front is spec but left front is 1 deg of negative camber. Local garage said need new shockers.

Went to vw dealer for something else and showed him the readings. He had his técnico have a look - took him over 30 minutes. His advice. Live with it or spend a large amount of money fixing it. He said he would send me a quote ( hasn’t arrived yet). Idly, I wonder if it is the complicated suspension worn out through age and all the damn potholes.

If it is just shock absorbers, how can that affect the camber?. The car doesn’t feel like a shocker is failed.

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Changing the oil+filter is interesting,  if car isn't high enough you can't drop undertray flap down enough,  .....

you need a Pela oil-sucker-outerer 

 I'm of the old skool,, undo sump plug, and make a mess on the floor as the tray is positioned wrong,

I've a Pela because one of my Smarts doesn't have a sump drain plug, but I do remember having a car where the under tray fouled the floor before it came off.

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Changing the oil+filter is interesting,  if car isn't high enough you can't drop undertray flap down enough,  .....

you need a Pela oil-sucker-outerer

My oil-sucker-outerer can't be pushed down far enough to suck the oil from my classic and highly desirable Vauxhall.

The tube is long enough but there is an obstruction of some kind.

Strange  So how does the dip stick reach the oil if there's an obstruction ?? 

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Changing the oil+filter is interesting,  if car isn't high enough you can't drop undertray flap down enough,  .....

you need a Pela oil-sucker-outerer 

 I'm of the old skool,, undo sump plug, and make a mess on the floor as the tray is positioned wrong,

If you were really old school, you'd park it over a drain in the street and let it run down there