Insanity-74

Is that the bolt on the top of the shock? It sometimes help to slacken this bolt off first before you remove the sock it from the car (if access allows)

Yea..sorry I cant help weekends really...so busy at the moment, but I'm free every/any Friday afternoon from 2pm if thats any better?

If you can get to Harrogate on the afternoon of the 27th I could help out. I'll be messing with my own car anyway so one more wont make much difference.

Depends on your yearly mileage / daily commute distance if you use it as your only car. If you buy one with the super strut already done then you dont need to worry about it for a good while yet. Turbos are OK, dont go very often but getting your own reconditioned will set you back a few hundred quid, Rear diffs only tend to go when you start drag racing or launching the car alot, gearbox..... if it needs replacing then you can pick up a good second hand one for about £300. But non of the above mentioned is any worse than any other car...in fact my Skoda Fabia Diesel has cost me more to replace parts than the Faff, the turbo went and it cost me nearly £1000 to get replaced....I can only imagine the turbo I could have purchased for the Faff for that amount. Buy a good one and dont start tinkering and they arnt too bad, its when you start moding when things get expensive. Buy a cheap knackered one then chances are you'll be spending ££££ to put it right. Mine cost me £80 to fill it up the other day so fuel is the biggest expense by far, the average GT4 (ST205) will do from 240 - 320 miles to a tank full, some get more, some less so you should be able to calculate your fuel costs. Insurance like every car depends on your age, location and no claims. personally I dont think its too bad but then again it only costs my £450 a year so cant complain too much.

Anyone near Ambleside...is there snow in the Lakes??? Supposed to be going there today.

Dont know how far from you he is but go and see Martin Kingston http://www.celica-cl...and-tuning-ltd/ Cant recommend him enough, a GT4 specialist but knows his cars inside out and backwards, a rare genuine bloke in the garage world, and one of the few I would trust with my car without question. YVS is also good and the other garage that gets my GT4 on occasion.

Depending on what its stuck to boiling water can work..superglue only sticks to a few plastics. dosnt cope with non porous stuff very well as long as you didnt try to wipe it off before it had dried you stand a chance.

Usually windscreen cover does not effect your no claims protected or not.

I wouldnt touch that car with a barge pole, the interior is wrong, yet the brakes are GT4 and you can see the top of the charge cooler radiator behind the front grill (visit the web site of the car sales place) My bet is that is had a crash, been broken into and trashed or an interior fire maybe??? All conjecture of course, but something sets alarm bells ringing so best left alone.

I'm not sure of the legalities of it? I'm sure you'd soon get sick of the mega loud horn for simple tasks like waking somebody up at lights.....oh hang on...maybe you wouldnt :lol: I dont know if you can get trainhorn.org to post to the UK, I did E-mail them a few years ago asking if they shipped to the UK, the completely ignored me so I gave up trying.

Just get some of these

http://www.trainhorn.org/

That has to be a photoshop, each headlight is a different length, the passenger side headlight is almost the length of the bonnet, the drivers side one stops about half way. Bloomin ugly though if its real or not.

There isnt that much extra to go wrong, rear diffs etc hardly ever go wrong unless you launch it from every set of lights, buy a well maintained car and dont worry about it...230,00 miles on mine and the running gear, engine are still as they came from the factory,

I agree that a gt4 is a bit heavy on fuel, but its no more expensive to maintain than any other car, used my GT4 as a daily driver for 6 years and it never let me down once. the Skoda diesel I run now has cost me more to repair and keep on the road in the past year than my GT4 ever did. All I can say is that the way things are going, petrol prices ever on the up, buy a GT4 whilst you can because it wont be long before they are priced off the road.

I always use the handbrake, unless the brakes are very hot, in which case just leave it in gear. If you put the handbrake on too tight with the brakes hot it can be very difficult to disengage the handbrake one the discs have cooled again.

My old Corolla was driven by Carlos Sainz

If money is really tight buy a Pug 306 diesel sport. Very cheap to buy, old group 5 insurance and surprisingly quick.

Yes. theres a little spring ring around the end of the shaft inside the box, so a quick tug and it will come free. (Almost that entire sentence sounds just wrong)

Ask around your local area...I wanted some alloy welding done once....most welders wanted £50 an inch or there abouts...went and found a guy who worked at an industrial welders welding oil rig parts but was a car nut......did all the welding for £5 and a few cans of Stella.

You do have to address the extra cooling required to run 4 stickers but once thats sorted then its OK........You have to feel for the postman though.....if he has to deliver more than one set of membership packs at the same time the multiple sticker power added to the humble red post office van could be fatal.

I'll put mine on the back of the car then

5BHP is that all.....I was told it would be at least 10BHP..... a crappy V-TEC sticker adds 20BHP and they are bollocks. Looks like I'll have to go with the bigger turbo option after all.