16vKarlos
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Originally posted by Chris Corsa B
Looks like a good swop mate. Saw your Corsa driving past the esso near ravenside when I was filling up last week. Guessing it was your Mrs driving!
[Edited on 17-05-2009 by Chris Corsa B]
May have been me driving, I may have spotted you otherwise lol.
It was defo a woman driving, with another woman in the passanger seat, so yes it could have been you 
Im not in the Corsa atm anyway. Some woman drove into it last week. In a 08plate civic atm! Fucking slow curtsey car lol
Oh, Ok... that would have been the mrs' with her friend on friday evening, (my birthday) her mate baby-sat.
What a shitter. whats the courtesy car?
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Originally posted by 16vKarlos
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Originally posted by Chris Corsa B
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Originally posted by 16vKarlos
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Originally posted by Chris Corsa B
Looks like a good swop mate. Saw your Corsa driving past the esso near ravenside when I was filling up last week. Guessing it was your Mrs driving!
[Edited on 17-05-2009 by Chris Corsa B]
May have been me driving, I may have spotted you otherwise lol.
It was defo a woman driving, with another woman in the passanger seat, so yes it could have been you
Im not in the Corsa atm anyway. Some woman drove into it last week. In a 08plate civic atm! Fucking slow curtsey car lol
Oh, Ok... that would have been the mrs' with her friend on friday evening, (my birthday) her mate baby-sat.
What a shitter. whats the courtesy car?
Happy bday then mate!
Its a Honda Civic 1.4
It does have lots of toys but not as fun as my Corsa lol.
Insurance inspector came round Friday and he doesnt think it will be a write off. Should be geting my arches and GSi font bumper sprayed when it goes in for repair so it should all be ok 
[Edited on 17-05-2009 by Chris Corsa B]
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16vKarlos
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Just been down to HalFRAUDS + they gave me a MASSIVE SHOCK!
Not sure weather mine are 288mm or 282mm
Front Discs - 288mm £59.81 EACH
Front Discs - 282mm £74.83 EACH
Front Pads - ATE - £64.31 a set
Rear Discs - £48.69 EACH
Rear Pads - TRW - £35.36 A Set
I know this is probaly NORMAL to alot of people and its obviously NORMAL for this Motor.
But from a 1.4 Corsa Costing £35 A SET For Front Discs + £7.50 for Pads. I shit myself.
Karlos 
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Welcome to VAg ownership
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16vKarlos
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On Sunday I Had everything out of the boot so that i could clean it out + Wash the Boot Liner along with the Interior mats. Due to rain showers i had to put everything away except for the mats + liner, I left them out.
Once the rain stopped, I went back outside to give the Mats + Liner a good scrubbin'...No Dirty Minds, Just Dirty Mats.
The Boot liner Was dry this afternoon so I wacked that back in, but its still got an Oil stain on it.
After i had washed the spare + cleaned the wheel well. I replaced the Liner + My UN-BORN's Life Saving Bag.... THE LABOUR BAG!
oh, also put my overalls in there too.
I Then Finished washed most of the exterior but i really wanted to get the wheels off so that i could see what sort of condition they were in, so i made it a quick wash.
Nearside Wheels Off!
Very Dirty 
Gave them a Clean + Packed in for the night as i was hungry!
WELL SORT OF!
I fell up-on the settings menu while turning the Camera off... Couple of Arty Farty pictures
Top Pic I Like the most:
Negatives: Top one for me
To Do List:
Scrub Drivers Side Wheels
Clean Door Shuts
Wax Car
Polish Windows
+ all that is in first page haha
Karlos.
P.S. I called VW today + they said i dont have any Recalls outstanding!
NIGHT NIGHT
[Edited on 18-05-2009 by 16vKarlos]
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ramecroft1
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Looking good. Im also on ukpassats and have very similar plans with my Passat (new wheels, etc).
When i first bought mine the plenum drains were blocked too, all fixed now though! What wheels are you thinking of?
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fast-as-u-can
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Originally posted by john_c20xe
you dont want a recirc dv mate they are silent! theres no point
Would have to disagree they do make noise and if the car also has an induction kit as well they dump back into the induction and make a wicked noise!
Ask anyone who has listened to my Golf!
[Edited on 21-05-2009 by fast-as-u-can]
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john_c20xe
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yeh if the car has an induction kit, tried it on a 207 gti, run it up with out the air filter on sounds quite nice 
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16vKarlos
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ramecroft1 - not too sure on the wheels as of yet but i want the car VERY subtle only little exterior mods; wheels + badgeless grille + black rear badge. other than that not much lol.
fast-as-you-can -- I WANT TO HEAR YOU DUMP .....
Karlos
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Gizzy
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friend of a friends passat just snapped cambelt got 18inch rs4 replica wheels if he decides to brake it you want first dibs??think its also got lowering springs 300mm i think
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Gizzy
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did you get u2u of prices sent you other day?
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fast-as-u-can
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Originally posted by 16vKarlos
ramecroft1 - not too sure on the wheels as of yet but i want the car VERY subtle only little exterior mods; wheels + badgeless grille + black rear badge. other than that not much lol.
fast-as-you-can -- I WANT TO HEAR YOU DUMP .....
Karlos
You cant be too far from me you have proberbly heard it before.....lol
will put a video of the noise on youtube soon 
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16vKarlos
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Gizzy - Yes matey, I've got the details dude. cheers. I shall let you know when funds arrive lol
fast-as-you-can -- U2U me when you have theis lol
Karlos
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Small Update.
Nothing Exciting.
I wanted to get rid of the Sap on the car so I turned to Refined RICH
Couple of days later I recieved a Little package from the Post Man
Inside I Found These.
Strangely He Also Got my order wrong as i recieved some crisps
Im off camping this coming weekend so i havn't been bothered to use the magic tools yet. once we are back I shall give it my first try.
Also found some wheels i like + nicked a photo from UKPassats
Opinions Please!
Karlos
P.S. USE RICH FROM REFINED DETAIL!! GREAT BLOKE...
Rich I'll Be Back Matey
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Also
That Gunk under the Header tank can always be the seal in the Oil/coolant housing were the filter goes on to...I got a new one for £20 from vw for my ibiza...
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16vKarlos
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Cheers Dan
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16vKarlos
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The Passat Passed it's MOT on the 13th of this month.
I must add, it only had ONLY 1 Advisory.
Never had that before.
Slight Leak in Downpipe/ Manifold i believe
I shall check.
Karlos
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16vKarlos
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HELLO EVERYBODY!!!!!!!
Blimey its been a long time since i updated this thread!!!
Apart from the normal Cleaning, Servcing and general Making me bankrupt not much has been happening really... Up until now!
Starting in order of what they happened!
I had a bet with a friend that I could bury my car in the snow over the winter, as i thought it was going to snow loads... Here’s the outcome
I then had new Brakes fitted. No pics of this but they are standard replacements
Then Recently I bought a Milltek Exhaust and had it booked into AmD for the 6th May, with the intension of sending the car in for the exhaust to be fitted along with a Recirc Valve, Piper Air Filter and Remap... BUT!!April the 1st came and all hell broke loose!!
We went out to the tip and then I had a job to do on the car.
I had to take the seats out, so that I could refit a spring that had mysteriously appeared from the driver’s side.
So I set about Getting it sorted.
Tools... NOVICE TOOLS
Disconnected the battery
Couple of bolts later...
Slid the seat off the rails.
Disconnected the Electrics
And out it came
Fitted them all back up after i had found my problem. JOB DONE!!!
NO... I started the car and immediately it started to 'hunt',
then it started to hunt then bog down and stall.
so i knew there was a problem, and after a shout on here you guys said it will most likely be a problem
with Air flow... I was not looking forward to the price from the stealers.
While i sourced a Trailer/Recovery vehicle, the car was sitting outside getting older...
so i opted to clean the arches up and make it nice and a bit shiny for when it went in for work,
well more so for us after we got the car back
So i jacked it up and sat it on stands
The Dirt!
Then Used a mixture of Daisy and Water on the main Plastics and also Bilberry Wheel Cleaner on the metal areas.
And Cleaned!!!
Put the cleaned wheels back on, and dropped it back to the floor.
Then, as i didn’t want to damage the car any more than it was, so I pushed it to a position where the recovery truck could drag it up.
Also i forgot about the Badgeless grill that I fitted in February
Then the important day came... DIAGNOSTICS!!
BYE CAR!!!
This brings us to the FINALE!!!
The faults that were found on Diagnostics were..
- BATTERY – Must have been an old fault as the battery is in great condition.
- AIR FLOW METER - £95 from the Stealers
- AIR BAG – Which i knew about already anyhow.
RESULT!!!
I had my Milltek Exhaust fitted which turned out to be a ball ache, as the bolts to the CAT Sheered off... The bolts were a state.
Anyhow... the main result is that we now have our car back and it is working like never before!!
It Pulls and pulls and pops occasionally and im just in my element... well sort of.. As I can’t drive it!!!
Enjoy!
[Edited on 21-04-2011 by 16vKarlos]
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