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Keep it as a daily AND drop it on nice wheels. It's the way forward I tells ya!
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(23-06-2012, 05:27 PM)cwspellowe Wrote: Keep it as a daily AND drop it on nice wheels. It's the way forward I tells ya!
would be a bonus if it was white but I feel diablo should be interesting. Definitely be interesting to see what the diablo and ford graphite grey combo will look like on this. I want to respray the dash, front badge, debadge, tint rears and everything but really should fix the clutch and get it working before spending any money on it!
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It wouldn't be a bonus it'd be f*cking annoying, loads of people are doing the white estate thing these days!
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if you want to go back to standard dials i will happily take those lockwoods off you
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(23-06-2012, 05:40 PM)declantg Wrote: if you want to go back to standard dials i will happily take those lockwoods off you
how about nooooo. I think the seller has the originals so ill give him a text and probably pick them up some time
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mmmm, not bad mate not bad. nice little find.
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Would you like to swap boot lids if you sell your 1.8 cash your way aswell of course
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swap the decent stuff of the 1.8 to the hdi. sell 1.8 then get remap and a fmic
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(23-06-2012, 07:36 PM)karl1989 Wrote: swap the decent stuff of the 1.8 to the hdi. sell 1.8 then get remap and a fmic
theres not much decent stuff on the 1.8 that can come off really... the doors on the estate are better, The interior is better in the 1.8 and obviously ive got my custom coloured interior bits and sun visors. Apart from that its just the brakes and cyclones.
(23-06-2012, 06:22 PM)puglove Wrote: Would you like to swap boot lids if you sell your 1.8 cash your way aswell of course
if it happens im sure ill put up some kind of for sale thread for bits
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(23-06-2012, 05:32 PM)SRowell Wrote: would be a bonus if it was white...
Come on Rowell, enough's enough, that sort of talk just isn't cool.
Sorry, couldn't resist. Looks like a perfect project fella, good luck with it.
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(24-06-2012, 10:22 AM)Poodle Wrote: (23-06-2012, 05:32 PM)SRowell Wrote: would be a bonus if it was white...
Come on Rowell, enough's enough, that sort of talk just isn't cool.
Sorry, couldn't resist. Looks like a perfect project fella, good luck with it.
hahaha cant beleive i missed this one, repped!
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Fix it and sell to Carlos for his 2dr estate project
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Nice,, bin the 1.8 and get her mapped!
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Gonna copy my car with this one too ...
I jest, looks like a good base to me!
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Should be a good project
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spent 2 and half hours cleaning it inside and out. Still not clean as there are water marks all over it and still dirt mark marks but its a good start. It was covered in like some black marks/dots but they came off quite easily with a good scrubbing. Think it must be due to it being stood around trees for 2 months.
Vacuumed the boot and loved the amount of space that there was including the side compartments for the jack and everything and ive heard that the left hand side compartment is for a first aid kit? Noticed when I cleaned the wheels that they had the plastic covers on the nuts and that a few were missing... and that it had locking wheel nuts and i had no key so I was a bit worried about that until i found a few more covers and the locking tool in the bottom of the jack compartment.
Used leather cleaner on all the seats and they are literally mint all round apart from the drivers seat which has a slight rip. Its pretty obvious that its been used as a one person daily commute in the past and more recently with a family. A few sweet wrappers here and there but nothing the vacuum didnt sort!
Once it was vaguely clean I had a look under the bonnet and took the air box off. Obvious someone had had a look at the problem before as the airbox wasnt bolted in but I have a vague hunch about what the problem may be...
The clutch pedal is currently sitting in the down position but has about an inch more to go down where it feels the same as normal. I can then pull the pedal up with my hand but as soon as its pressed it goes straight to the floor again.
I looked at the arm position when it was pressed down... and then once i had pulled it up and the arm was always at 3 o'clock...
pedal down
pedal up
so im thinking it might be something to do with the auto rachet/adjustment mechanism? ie its not shortening the cable enough? Tried to move the arm manually and could move it back to about 4 o'clock but that was as far as it would go.
Generally I am really impressed with it! The spec is really impressive and it has covers for the top mounts and then little plastic ends to cover up the bolt strut end. Its got the engine cover and all the original twist things for it. The walnut dash isnt exactly to my liking but I guess if you were 50+ youd appreciate it.
I also found a CD in the back of the drivers seat which has an awesome selection of tunes on it so im quite happy to know that the previous owner had a similar taste in music!
Thoughts? Mainly on the problem. I dont care what 4way thinks about my music taste!
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another estate - like it
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never saw the should i buy it thread, but for what i see and read, she looks a good one! id be tempted to keep that and sell the 1.8. ( sell it to toms306)
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(26-06-2012, 09:13 PM)procta Wrote: never saw the should i buy it thread, but for what i see and read, she looks a good one! id be tempted to keep that and sell the 1.8. ( sell it to toms306)
ive tried to sell it to Toms306 but he doesnt like cars... Dec.. but he doesnt want it... and James (fishsuffolk) but he wants a clio
If its sunny tomorrow ill be doing the speedboat and if its raining Ill be doing the car!
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better still sell the estate to tom, he should be ok with a HDi but then again. i think hes fine with the little 106 derv.
whats next on the list then for it?
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From everyone i spoke to at pugfest their reaction has been that the problem is most likely to be that the autoadjuster has failed and that a new cable should fix the problem! Sounds promising! Toms306 now has a key so he can work on it whenever he feels like it. Hopefully we will get cracking this wednesday!
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which is also whats been said loads in other threads too...
just fix the damn thing already!
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Sooooo, theres been some progress on this this afternoon.........not that Sam knows that yet lol.
Anyway, I picked up a new cable from Pug this morning so thought I'd take a look at the car this afternoon....that obviously ended up with trying to fix it lol.
Anywho.....
Old cable wasn't too dificult to remove, lots of tugging and grunting and it came out fine..................................but I got stuck trying to put the new one in. I tied some twine to pull it through but I just can't seem to get the white clip to line up with the hole on my own. I can barely even feel it tbh, the HDi is much more difficult to work on than the golf, glad I didn't buy one haha. Can't even see why pug didn't just make an extra bend in the AC pipes so thered be a nice gap to get the cable in and out, but anyway, thats where I've left it for today as I should be meeting Sam tomoro....so hopefully we can get it back between us!
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awesome! An update on my project thread that i didnt make! haha Cheers tom. Give me a message on facebook tomorrow when youre about to leave and ill meet you there!
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(This post was last modified: 05-07-2012, 12:21 PM by Toms306.)
Surpised Sam didn't update this...........
Anyway, eventually we got the new cable in and...............................................................................
The clutch itself is knackered.
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