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ATA comes with pride in your work, as you know you have to be at the required standard to attain the qualification to begin with. Im the current senior BMW ATA panel tech and I've now moved into the office as workshop controller/estimator but I will keep doing the recert every 3 years aswell as...
Well if you are locking up surely it's either crap tyres or your brake pads are too keen? With mine I have fitted all new lines from proline with bias valve, cup MC and I overhauled the servo. Front brake were refurbished by Biggredcalipers so they are mint and rears I just gave a good service...
Looking at your pictures it appears that way but have you looked topside of the gearbox to make sure it's not something leaking above and dropping off the box
We refer to those bonnet dent in the trade as "wanker dents" some body pushing down on the bonnet to shut it rather than dropping it from 15/20cm to self shut.
Your man @gally Is right your bumper and bonnet ideally want to be back to bare plastic and metal. Bonnet dents want ruffing out whilst...
Man that's sucks, it's going to be gearbox out more than likely, on the way home did it crunch into any gears 2nd n 3rd are the usual ones.
Maybe @NorthloopCup can shine some light on the extent of work required to change the seal?
Rule of thumb is you should change any nuts and bolt that you remove from suspension components. Make sure you torque your pinch bolts correctly aswell as they are only a small bolt and snap easily if over tightened
I cant see how such a small engine is going to lug the bulky clio around and still look entertaining, what's the torque figures on these new engines? They've basically gone backwards 15 years to the 182