You have a wheel problem...

 

What is this "Spare time" you speak of?

lol most of them are pretty pants other than my bbs and alpina sets fancy a set of spiders now though :no:

 

its what you get when a job cancels right before your due so thought sod it ill make a tower and watch it fall on me

Good job on the body work, I may have to give this a go on my fabia, got a few scuffs and scratches here and there.

Looking epic dude

Good job on the body work, I may have to give this a go on my fabia, got a few scuffs and scratches here and there.

cheers man,couldn't get any worse so was worth a go :sun:

Looking epic dude

Like my new forum name he he

lol not really which one you missing? had half that were ever sold from what i understand

Loving the work done so far. Looking forward to see where you go with this

Loving the work done so far. Looking forward to see where you go with this

ah cheers pal,not really sure myself tbh thinking just looks mainly alloys maybe some coilovers now.

 

plans for the next month:

mufflerectomy with a vrs tip

polyed dogbone as the engine seems far to easy to rock  

source and fix the annoying front end knock,may be dogbone but thinking arb bushes as its under braking mainly.

cambelt

then enjoy more mpg :clap: :clap:

My vrs has a knock under braking. Cant seems to narrow it down. Nothing has excessive movement that i can see but without a ramp to get under the car its difficult

annoying right always been the arb in my past experience,plus it is on the last mot so another pointer. when i was doing the oil i cracked the plug off and i could rock the whole engine really easily with a 3/8 on the sump plug lol

my 1.8t wagon will be donating this to the tdi :clap: dunno if its any good but sounded good to me

got these to go on now,red dog bone and poly arms off my old vrs

 

just waiting on the poly arb bushes :clap: should sort that knock out nice

mapped it today :clap: used a blacksmoke map and its pretty good tbh. is alot more lively and pulls for longer so well worth it so far

 

got the coil light flashing now though brake lights work fine car idles starts and drives bang on so unsure at this stage,no codes on the crappy scanner either.

 

I had the coil light flashing too after i installed a remaped ECU (not from blacksmoke though). I scanned with VCDS and asked it to clear all fault codes have not had the problem since. Great job on the rust btw

Edited 14 July, 201411 yr by mraw3

ah ok cheers :clap: is weird as it has no symptoms,is running bang on! proper drive today goes well

 

cheers man :sun:

if the coil light is flashing that might mean your brake light switch needs replaceing

if the coil light is flashing that might mean your brake light switch needs replaceing

yeah i thought that but lights are working fine?

or glow plugs maybe?

or glow plugs maybe?

erm not really sure,its running spot on so would think not,thing flys now gotta be something silly maybe ill check the switch again

when my glow plug light came on the car still drove fine it just needed new ones and when the glow plug light was flashing just needed a new brake light switch

when my glow plug light came on the car still drove fine it just needed new ones and when the glow plug light was flashing just needed a new brake light switch

ok thanks for the info dude,light starts to flash once i start driving,behaves normal during the starting and idling stage

new record today!!! gained about 5-6mpg with the map. cruising for 30ish miles at 60mph saw 72mpg by the time i got through town and pulled over for a pic had gone abit but still happy days also the coil light went off after this pic and has stayed off since so more win

 

 

hopefully fitted the bushes in the next few days as the knock is getting silly loud

did the dogbone today,old one was shot. the bush was full of rips and cracks.

 

big big improvement no more knocks!! still got the others to do but needed octy ready as i killed the beemer