Matt L
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Registered: 17th Apr 06
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Mine is just a bag of w**k 
the past month or two it has cost me just under 1k and now i need to spend yet more on it what makes it worse is i hate the frigging thing but cant afford to change due to a) being massively underpaid in my job  (i laugh but im 60% under the area average) and b) i have had to raid my savings to pay for the recent repairs on the sodding car plus i bought a new camera (a week before i was told my car needed so much work on it).
Recent Bills
- Mot + Service
- A week later was the major bill for aload of suspension bits + vac pipe + other odds and sods (which never got picked up/mentioned on the mot
and the latest.....
- 2 new tyres fitted last night, which after driving today and noticing the steering wheel now wobbled turns out that one of the wheels that has had a new tyre fitted is majically buckled which they claims i never noticed it with the old tyre on because the old tyre was shaped into the buckle so it never showed up (how true that is i dont know)
so now i have to pay to get them refurbed/straightened up (again if thats possible i dont know)
all in all someone come and frigging steal it and burn it out for me (joke  )
so yeah im not happy atm [/paul j styled rant]
[Edited on 21-04-2010 by Matt L]
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Steve
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Registered: 30th Mar 02
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mine has cost me 1100 pounds last month, for new bushes
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AndyCorsaSport
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Registered: 12th Feb 06
Location: Horsforth, West Yorkshire
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Cars break, some things just cant be helped really.
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Eddx14xe
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Registered: 12th Jan 10
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I had a buckled wheel on my car when i first got it, the steering was really light, didnt feel like it was connected to the car at all, couldnt drive in a staright line and the steering wheels wobbled
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bieransri
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Registered: 13th Apr 06
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sounds to me like the tyres arent balanced right for the wheel wobble
[Edited on 21-04-2010 by bieransri]
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Joe
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I take it they balanced the wheels? If not I'd be making them check it again as his story doesn't sound convincing.
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Steve
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Registered: 30th Mar 02
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easiest way to check if its balanced is to drive slowly and see if the steering moves slightly roughly everytime the wheel goes round
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Matt L
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they were balanced/checked 3 times by 2 different garages and when i went back to the original place what ever machine it is they use the one the claim is buckled the machine had 20 onthe left screen and 110 on the right screen (not that i have a clue what that means but didnt look goot (once they took the weights off it but as it went round you could see it wasnt perfectly straight but i dont really know)
also  bieran havent seen you online for ages.
[Edited on 21-04-2010 by Matt L]
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Neo
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Registered: 20th Feb 07
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Fuck sake matt. Could you not just get rid and pick up a £200 shitter with Tax and MOT to save a bit of cash for a few months. You don't do many miles and if you could run it into the ground till august time you may have saved enough for something more like what you want ?
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Matt L
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quote:
Originally posted by Neo
Fuck sake matt. Could you not just get rid and pick up a £200 shitter with Tax and MOT to save a bit of cash for a few months. You don't do many miles and if you could run it into the ground till august time you may have saved enough for something more like what you want ?
you'll be suprised how many miles i do considering work is only 8mile round trip if that i have still manged to do nearly 12k since july last year.
Would love to buy something to run into the ground but this is silly cheap to run once its all working and not breaking on me.
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Neo
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Thats crap, well, hopefully after you have repaired it all you can run this for a year or so and save up for something new. Obviously hope it doesn't die in the meantime.
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Matt L
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and me *fingers cross* tbf i have put my old original wheels on so i can live with them on if needs be for a while and just leave the alloys.
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Neo
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Sounds like a plan Matt 
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fir3vip3r
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Location: Stevenage, Hertfordshire
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this the ibiza?
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deano87
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Registered: 21st Oct 06
Location: Bedfordshire Drives: Ford Fiesta
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Glad I didn't buy VAG. No problems reported with the Fiat. Yet.
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antnee
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Registered: 30th Dec 07
Location: Cov Drives: Clio 197
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What suspension problems and VAC pipe problems did you have?
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Kurt
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Registered: 23rd Oct 05
Location: Hi
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Sounds like you've had your pants yanked tbh
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Daveskater
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Registered: 29th Apr 08
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Go on Matt, you know you want to:
Numberwang!
Originally posted by AlunJ
I like you Dave, you are a man of men
Originally Whatapp'd by Neo
Dave's maybe capable of a drive-by cuddle
Look at my pictures
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Matt L
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quote:
Originally posted by antnee
What suspension problems and VAC pipe problems did you have?
Rear Shock was leaking, Front ARB cracked, pretty much all the bushes were perished/non excistant, new pads + discs, Split vac pipe came a healthy £800 odd as it was done at the stealers.
probably had a few other things too but cant remember lol.
Kurt, tbh there must have been something wrong as since i he put the spare on the problem was fixed and since putting all my old wheels back on its been fine so im assuming they were right.
dave couldnt go back to another corsa.
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antnee
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First I've heard of a boost pipe actually spiltting! Same with the ARB cracking!
Bushes are wank, did you get cupra ones? They are much better and about £7 or something
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Twitch
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Registered: 3rd Nov 09
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best mate just spent 7k on his lol dont feel so bad
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antnee
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quote:
Originally posted by Twitch
best mate just spent 7k on his lol dont feel so bad
7k on what?
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Twitch
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Registered: 3rd Nov 09
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basicly rebuilding a car lol astra MK3 2 liter turbo
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DAZ1985
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quote:
Originally posted by Twitch basicly rebuilding a car lol astra MK3 2 liter turbo
 yeah that really compares to wear and tear on a seat
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Twitch
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quote:
Originally posted by DAZ1985
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Originally posted by Twitch basicly rebuilding a car lol astra MK3 2 liter turbo
yeah that really compares to wear and tear on a seat
I just mean it could be worse and the engine blows up lol
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