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Which garage was this? Sounds like I have used them!

Was that recently?

Perhaps you have a lot of wear on components which is causing the movement. On a previous car of mine my steering was straight. Had the tracking done for piece of mind and after that it drove like a pissed crab. Took it back to the place and they said it was spot on alignment wise, and later...

For reference, here is mine when I initially wound the coilover very low to see how low it made it to work up from... A shade more than -50mm.

The rear is probably about 45mm yeah. The front... I would hazard a guess they can lower at least 100mm. Way more than 50mm thats for sure.

Saw quite a few 1*2's yesterday around 5.30pm ish. 3 year roadworks FTL :dapprove:

The dogbone mount underneath in good condition? The engine mount at the top can give a lot of movement. I packed mine out with shims and it stopped most movement. Those sorts of problems usually cause a knock rather than a grating sound though.

I had my alignment done a couple of weeks ago on my Cup, but I wouldn't recommend the place that did it. Kings, ah, have had some funny experiences there. I use Weston's Renault now, who aren't a great deal better. I presume you are aware of why the Cup's usually fail the rear brake test?

If the dealership you are looking at on that alignmycar site is Vincents Toyota, I think its gone under. What stealer did the wheels, Kings?

Yeah can use a maximum of 3 using the tool. But for Length of value it has to be in the 'formula' box as if I put say between 1 and 10, it would only work if those numbers where entered. As its character length of say 1 character of more, it needs a formula

I have a cell that I need to change colour when a certain amount of characters are entered. Basically its so when a certain amount of staff initials are entered, it can change colour red,amber,green when there are enough staff to operate. 2 or 3 staff, red 4 or 5 staff, amber 6 and...

If you like it, chuck it on. It's a sticker and easily removed if you decide it looks crap.

I have to keep telling the wife to keep her hands off as she keeps trying to lift the handle the second I press the remote. As above, is about a second or so delay.

Excellent. Cheers!

I bought a bottle of touch up paint that I had mixed a few weeks ago. I was intending on touching in a couple of nicks on the edge of the door but haven't got round to it yet. How long is it supposed to last? The bottle has its lid on obv, but wondered whether it starts to go thick and horrible...

^ A GTi6 may be buit better than a 172, but not better than a 172 cup. All IMO.

You need to prove he did it at that time, and not you when you drove home, or back to complain. Take the £10, don't go there again.

Depends on the height of the Ktec's I had mine silly low and it was alot stiffer than it is now raised up 10mm. And today a few months on its stiffer than 172 cup standard setup, but not a great deal.

The 306 is more likely to kill a pedestrian than a 1*2.

All arguments aside, the GTi6 is better than the 1*2

^ you have movement there from the suspension if the jack fails

Yeah Dave I was on that forum. Dangti6 was my username.

Yeah, you will see what looks like box section running the length of the car

I usually just up on the rails, and put an axel stand under the subframe if I am doing work to the suspension etc.

You will see the chassis rail about 6 inches or so back underneath. Put a bit of wood on your jack if you are using a trolley jack with the metal cup bit and jack it on that.

Nice barges. I was offered one a while back but ideally wanted a post facelift 530 Sport. One day. Wheels are cool.

Maybe it was an airplane?

If they were using cheap crappy bearings I could understand it. Maybe they are using Motrio ones? I would have thought these would still be good quality though.

Can someone who has cable tied it for the MOT, show a picture of which way they tied it for future reference? My rears have the same stopping power as Tiger Woods' sexual temptation, so would like to see if this makes much difference or if I have issues eleswhere.