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General Car Chat / Re: Collected this today.
« on: 19 August 2011, 15:50:26 »
Have you sorted out what is wrong with it Rob?

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General Car Chat / Re: Collected this today.
« on: 18 August 2011, 22:21:21 »
That really is a nice looking car. It seems a shame to break it. :'( :'( :'(

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General Car Chat / Re: Part worn tyres !!!!!!
« on: 15 August 2011, 18:23:37 »
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The way i look at tyres is if your life is cheap by cheap tyres  :y

This. All day long.

With tyres, always buy the best that you can afford. If you can't afford tyres of an appropriate standard for your car, you can't afford the car. I cannot emphasise this enough, and I am deadly serious.

- I've seen the consequences of having the wrong tyres on a car. Be they dodgy part-worns, remoulds, mismatched tread patterns etc. etc. - they're called "ditchfinders" for a reason.

If the lives of yourself, your passengers and other road users are worthless, fit part-worns. Otherwise, choose carefully. Tyres are the most important suspension and drivetrain component of your car - it's no good having a 3.2-litre Omega on Wanling Crashmasters.


So, yet another who always fits new tyres when he buys a second hand car. ::) ::) ::)

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General Car Chat / Re: Part worn tyres !!!!!!
« on: 13 August 2011, 11:56:41 »
Interesting thread.  I bought a set of alloy wheels and tyres from an OOFer. The tyres had plenty of tread left, BUT were 'part-worn' Nexens. This was 18 months and 10,000 miles ago on the TD estate, which has done a lot of heavy lifting since. The rears are approaching the end, probably only a 1000 miles left in them, but I have had no problems with them at all. The history was unknown coming off a breaker, but I would happily buy such tyres (and wheels if necessary) again. :y

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General Car Chat / Re: Cars, Houses and SWMBO's
« on: 14 August 2011, 19:28:09 »
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...So I built this:

http://a5.sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-ash4/261978_10150308715091204_672941203_9294646_7362798_n.jpg

That is a nice looking garage, I helped my friend build a double garage last summer, it's not quite as nice as yours but we were limited by space. Also we've not gotten around to the finishing touches.

I still haven't quite finished mine either.. which is why the walls are still a nice shade of pink  ;D (very red plywood with slightly off white emulsion = pink walls, apparently!)

Need to float the floor level and lay some flooring down, put up some shelves and so on and install the sink & water heater.. then it'll be done :)

'course the backside fell out of the stock market so now it might be a while before I can afford to build the project I built the garage for!  ;D

I'm very envious of your pit. When mine was built with the house I requested a pit, but the builder 'forgot' to put it in, and I couldn't face digging it out myself. :'( :'( :'(

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General Car Chat / Re: Kia Sportage diesel
« on: 13 August 2011, 23:52:50 »
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If Kia can offer this.......Why not Ford?.. :-/ :-/

because they are c@@p!
also vauxhall now do a 7 year warranty but theres lots of clauses.[/quote]

Who? Kia or Ford?

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General Car Chat / Re: Kia Sportage diesel
« on: 13 August 2011, 23:52:03 »
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if shes buying new and is happy with the price then you cant go wrong,just make sure she has driven one before signing on the dotted line.also is the dealer local to her?

I'm sorry, I don't quite follow the logic here. Are you saying that anything new at the right price is good? Not necessarily in my experience. :-?

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General Car Chat / Re: Kia Sportage diesel
« on: 13 August 2011, 12:42:42 »
Thanks Tunnie, she is buying new, and Kia give a 7-year warranty!

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General Car Chat / Kia Sportage diesel
« on: 13 August 2011, 11:37:48 »
A very dear friend, who lives on her own in a remote Yorkshire village, has to replace her Passat which keeps letting her down. She is thinking of a Kia Sportage for the 4WD due access issues last winter. Does anyone know anthing about these, or had experience? Any info would bbe helpful. :y

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General Car Chat / Re: Oh look, just look.......is'nt she lovely?
« on: 13 August 2011, 16:51:55 »
The neat 30,000 mileage is a bit suspicious, but it it probably doesn't matter anyway, as if it is high mileage anything important will have been renewed already. :y

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General Car Chat / Re: Wishbones
« on: 13 August 2011, 10:05:02 »
So definitely not OE then?

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General Car Chat / Re: Wishbones
« on: 12 August 2011, 22:39:12 »
Thats more or less where I was with the Delphi's I've just removed. I replaced the front with polys about 6 months ago, but then the rear bushes went, so I've now fitted Lemforders. I'll refit the front polys if and when the front bushes go again. :y

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General Car Chat / Re: Wishbones
« on: 12 August 2011, 19:27:00 »
http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Omega-Both-Lower-Wishbone-Arms-x-2-LH-RH-All-Models-/270794348171?pt=UK_CarsParts_Vehicles_CarParts_SM&hash=item3f0c99d68b

However I note that all the ads say Manufacturer: Opel/Vauxhall, so it clearly does not mean OE unless it specifically says so.

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General Car Chat / Wishbones
« on: 11 August 2011, 18:18:48 »
There is an ad for wishbones on e-bay for £49 which claim to be new "Manufacturer Vauxhall/Opel" Sounds fishy to me at that price. :-X

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General Car Chat / Re: Delphi wishbones
« on: 03 August 2011, 22:07:56 »
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The Delphi ones I have seen had incredibly soft bushes. So soft it was possible to press I finger into the rubber itself. There was a spate of complaints and failures on here about a year or more ago and one member reported a recall from Delphi.

Leaver the wishbone out from the subframe. It should be very firm and with a torch there should bo ne cracks or splits visible in the narrow gap visible to the rubber itself. If it flaps about easily bin it. Rearward bush is purely a visual thing to see if it split away around the edges.

RTFQ Chris! 8-) 8-) 8-) ;D ;D ;D :y

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