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Steve
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23rd Nov 07 at 17:37   View Garage View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote
i kid you not, i also know people who have done it that way
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Sounds easy enough! Better than paying a garage £100+
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23rd Nov 07 at 17:43   View Garage View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote
A friend of mine paid £110 to have 4 springs done Daft.

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cunningham
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should be braw and easy newish car so no seized on bolts etc
Ste L
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i recon it's going to rain really heavy when your half way through, so you have to stop in the middle of doing them....
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doing in a workshop bud
Ste L
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ok - the roof start's leaking really badly
Dean_W
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Originally posted by Robin
correct, you won't have a hope in hell of undoing it any other way.


Only thing I find with the allen key is the allen key rounding the thingy off. I'd take them to a garage and ask them to wizzy gun it.
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shouldnt do with the correct sized allen key bit on a breaker bar
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DIY
Steve
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the rears, just two bolts behind the trim in the boot and drop the rear shock down?

[Edited on 23-11-2007 by Steve]
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stsve are you sure you dont need a special tool to undo the fronts ?, you do on a lupo/mk4 golf
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if we do we'l probably have it, but no from what i can see in the pic? top mount looks straight forward doesnt it to you?
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well whatever went wrong did, the rears were a piece of piss, did them in about an hour.

then the problems started on the front, the main thing thats taken us ages is removing the bolts in the top of the strut, two came out ok the third was a cunt.

Basically there is a threaded hole on the strut plate, but the threaded hole sheared and was just spinning with the bolt, tried all sorts, ended up drilling it out, which was also taking ages due to it being forged bolts.

Got that out in the end, then managed to crease my wing slightly from the inside out in two places trying to manouvre the strut out.

Had to leave it tomorrow, we will need to weld a nut on the back of the strut plate to restore it to having 3 bolts in it.

Then gonna have to try and tap the creases out with body work hammers, otherwise might need to get the dent bloke to do it

shit
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Leave that bit out of the how to guide if I were you!

Good luck tomorrow, pics asap!
deano87
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ooops.
Lee Wilson
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Fuck
Simon L
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I knew it wouldnt stay standard.
Marc
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Pics? Vids of it travelling downhill?
Matt H
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Rev range question/video?
MikeE
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bloody hell hop you get it sorted, simple jobs are never simple

[Edited on 25-11-2007 by MikeE]
Carl
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quote:
Originally posted by Bram
Leave that bit out of the how to guide if I were you!





Car's, in theory they are simple, in practice, never.
Colin
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quote:
Originally posted by Steve
well whatever went wrong did, the rears were a piece of piss, did them in about an hour.

then the problems started on the front, the main thing thats taken us ages is removing the bolts in the top of the strut, two came out ok the third was a cunt.

Basically there is a threaded hole on the strut plate, but the threaded hole sheared and was just spinning with the bolt, tried all sorts, ended up drilling it out, which was also taking ages due to it being forged bolts.

Got that out in the end, then managed to crease my wing slightly from the inside out in two places trying to manouvre the strut out.

Had to leave it tomorrow, we will need to weld a nut on the back of the strut plate to restore it to having 3 bolts in it.

Then gonna have to try and tap the creases out with body work hammers, otherwise might need to get the dent bloke to do it

shit


I had to drill the strut top mount nut off my mk4 the other week aswell it was an absolute pig I understand your frustration!
Colin
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quote:
Originally posted by jr
stsve are you sure you dont need a special tool to undo the fronts ?, you do on a lupo/mk4 golf


I never used any special tools just lots of foul language & a big hammer
Marc
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Big hammer

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