Im back on the road!!!

wooooo!

now taking bets as to how long for! lol

thats good to hear. youve had enough bad luck so maybe your in for a run of good luck?

Know how ya feel m8, its 1 thing after another with my cabby

not quite into a run of good luck yet...

gotta get my alignment done again as the garage that did my mot and bearings has done a really sh1te job, its visibly way out, shakes at 70, and the steering wheel isnt straight.

have a funny feeling as ive had to do a load of miles over the weekend they just gonna say ive hit a kerb or somethin.

so ill probs have to take what they charged as an idiot tax and get it done elsewhere.

when i used to get my tracking done at a garage they told me as soon as i drive off the fourcourt it no longer is there respnsibility i.e if it moves out of line you have the priviledge of paying for it again

yup.
i dont believe they even did the alignment after doing the bearings. seems like they just guessed it.
wont be going there again!
will pay a bit more and go to the garage in warboys where i know they do a spot on job!

Im getting the alignment checked on my Mk2 Golf at the weekend. Fancy naming and shaming the garage so that I dont end up at the same place?!

i went to olympic tyres in soham to get my allignment done, bloke in there dave is spot on done an awesome job and,its only £20 for two wheel allignment!
might be abit out of the way for you tho!

its serviceman in huntingdon i wouldnt recomend.
nice guys, and not bad money wise, but i dont think much of thier work.

Saw you coming down 20p road towards cottenham this morning. What exhaust are you running it sounds pretty loud!!

Tom wrote:

Saw you coming down 20p road towards cottenham this morning. What exhaust are you running it sounds pretty loud!!

im running a standard exhaust...

just from the middle box the pipe bends left and sticks straight out the side lol

gonna decat it, possibly this weekend, mite be a bit too loud then...

bob_drinks_beer wrote:

its serviceman in huntingdon i wouldnt recomend.
nice guys, and not bad money wise, but i dont think much of thier work.

Serviceman are managed by a monkey! A mate of mine used to be their top mechanic and now he has left they have gone right downhill!

i was running 3mm toe out, and 1.5 degrees negative camber on the drivers side, and 0.5 degrees positive on the passenger side!!!

now spot on

need to get my wheels balanced as ive still got a bit of a wobble.

also have a knocking sound from my drivers side front when pulling a way. only one knock just as the car starts moving... anyone got any ideas?

maybe a wishbone bush

MarkGTX wrote:

maybe a wishbone bush

thats the sort of sound but they look fine and they're not that old. plus they're poly bushes...

any chance it could be the engine mount clunking?

Yeah could possibly be engine or gearbox mount

more feckin money either way!

if it does turn out to be a wishbone bush or somethin like im gonna be well pissed off cos it'll mean havin the thing realigned for the 4th time in a month! which at £50 a pop is beyond a joke...

think i mite give up on modding and get myself a nice sensible focus...

£50 for allignment, thats abit of a rip off tbh. i paid 28quid for have mine done and i was abit pissed off bout paying that much

Where have you two had alignment done?

I paid £100 for mine!

Q86ARR wrote:

Where have you two had alignment done?

I paid £100 for mine!

Bloody hell m8 thats jus comical.

had mine done at sts in wisbech and im sure there are cheaper places to go than them.

bob_drinks_beer wrote:

if it does turn out to be a wishbone bush or somethin like im gonna be well pissed off cos it'll mean havin the thing realigned for the 4th time in a month! which at £50 a pop is beyond a joke...

think i mite give up on modding and get myself a nice sensible focus...

Why is it gunna need realigning, just refit the parts in the same positions you take them off.

Simple