Post a picture of your vehicle here Part 5 (don't quote pictures, 24h ban!)

Tried some new wheels on the corolla... work equip 03's, think I'm gona have to get them! And a random pic of the GS all cleaned up.

Hello Puglet my old friend, you take all my patience once again!! Another account of how hard it is to keep an ageing French car on the go. Granted, the majority of issues that frustrate me wouldnt even register for the average driver, but thats the beauty of being a pedantic owner that theres always, and I mean always, something to do. This month alone started when the gearstick come loose mid drive. Granted, the target audience for this car originally wasnt expected to go fitting short shift kits and bang through the gears like Jean Ragnotti, so it was always going to happen. Two replaced grub-screws, a bitta drilling and hey ho, away we go. Happy again with not having a free moving gear stick, I deceided to go at the seat rails. Again, totally unnecessary. When I changed to the GTi seats, I bolted them in as was, but never liked the slider mechanism. Thankfully, the rails on the old seats were a direct fit. While I had the seats out, I deceided to replace the full set of carpet clips as some were missing and so the carpet was lifting in places. Grand job, sher I'll just swap them out......era I may aswell give the carpet a good clean.....sher might aswell do it out of the car...boom, why is the seat mount burst?? I'd always felt a bit of play in the seat, right from the day I bought it, but thought it was poor bolts. Thankfully, its a common prob for mounting points to burst, and at least with the strip I could get it sorted straight away. Few days of driving around in preety much a stockcar and we're back to a level of comfort. Gave the old girl a good clean for the local show, newly discovered Clay Mitt being the absolute bees-knees, and she's clocked 345 miles in the week since. Now, only to fix the loose speaker wire this week.....yet hahahaha

Agreed, awesome car and so cool that it is daily'd and covers big miles

YbFocus wrote: »

Agreed, awesome car and so cool that it is daily'd and covers big miles

What are you driving these days? Did your 520i die in the end or was it saveable?

Ded_Zebra wrote: »

What are you driving these days? Did your 520i die in the end or was it saveable?

Its not an economically viable fix at all but the car is in Autotranz in Dublin being rebuilt as we speak. Back Friday I'm told!

A small detour after work and recreating a scene from years ago

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Finally got NCT and insurance sorted on my 106 gti and took her for a well deserved spin today Still a lot of things to be done to it but such a fun little car. Must get a pic with CianDon sometime

Ciano35 wrote:

Finally got NCT and insurance sorted on my 106 gti and took her for a well deserved spin today Still a lot of things to be done to it but such a fun little car. Must get a pic with CianDon sometime

Whats the story with your focus?

Noccy_Mondy wrote: »

Whats the story with your focus?

I was driving it until last week, not really sure what to do with it, tax is out, nct out in September, has a radiator leak now and a few other small things, the plan was to sell it but I doubt it would sell the way it is so might fix it up when I have the money!

Very nice! Are they all DSG?