Fro
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Registered: 20th Jun 06
Location: Rainham, Essex Drives: A3 2.0TDi Sport
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Flywheel chatter (Mine has this intermittently)
PAS pump noises, they make noise but shouldnt be overly loud.
Steering column bearings.
Bushes.
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chrisd1983
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Registered: 15th Dec 06
Location: Chester & Weymouth
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Cheers mate, whats it like in comparision to your BM? As I find my 330 boring to drive!! Hence wanting a hatch again. From what I looked into its quite easy to get decent power out of these
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Fro
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Registered: 20th Jun 06
Location: Rainham, Essex Drives: A3 2.0TDi Sport
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Completely diff to my BM, with it being a convert (heavier than coupe) and an auto it wasnt a fun car to drive but was very good for cruising around with the roof down (what owning a vert is about imo)
Mini is a lot more agile and alot more fun to drive, and is alot better on juice.
They are quite easy to get power from,
reduced pulley (15/17%)
intercooler
colder plugs
new belt
Exhaust
(might need more, olly will know)
should see you in the 210-220's.
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mwg
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Registered: 19th Feb 04
Location: South Lakes
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How often and how big a job/expense is it to have the superchargers rebuilt?
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Fro
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Registered: 20th Jun 06
Location: Rainham, Essex Drives: A3 2.0TDi Sport
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Not sure and dont want to look  
edit: Had a quick look and looked after ones are supposedly well into triple figures.
Not sure on prices as most are coming up in yank money, saw a site that rebuilt it all for $895 or thereabouts.
[Edited on 11-07-2011 by Fro]
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Conway563
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Registered: 7th Jun 06
Location: Yate, Bristol
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The one I was driving a couple of months ago had over 110k on it and was still going fine on the original charger
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chrisd1983
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Registered: 15th Dec 06
Location: Chester & Weymouth
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Cheers for the info Fro...yea the bims of more a cruiser, just feels like its not quick!!
I'm very tempted by a Cooper S but I've just been offered a mk2 20vt!
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Ojc
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Registered: 14th Nov 00
Location: Reading: Drives : Clio 197
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Syperchargers are reliable will last as long as the engine tbh.
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jr
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Registered: 20th May 02
Location: Kent
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quote:
Originally posted by mwg
How often and how big a job/expense is it to have the superchargers rebuilt?
It's a eaton not some form of g lader time bomb 
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Ojc
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Registered: 14th Nov 00
Location: Reading: Drives : Clio 197
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Low compression seems to be an issue that Tom@1320 finds quite a lot but not sure if that's scaremongering or truth.
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