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You're doing some decent times there, plenty have tried the Gti's at Harewood and most have struggled with it being 1600cc car in the 2000cc class.
What's the spec on the Sandy Brown engine ?
Here's the bleed port on the thermostat housing,
When you have the new pipes on, remove the 10mm bolt fill with coolant and then start and run it until coolant flows out, bolt back in and test drive up to temp and re check level.
Contact Turners directly and report to them that one of their vehicles has reversed into you with video footage, They'll probably want to deal with it without going through insurance.
Unfortunately I would say the Tester is correct on this one,
You could appeal the result but that could go two ways,
- The Dvsa examiner is fairly chilled and says because the tester can't prove that PAS was or was not optional, you get a pass with advisory notice
or
- The Dvsa examiner is...
Picking on small things is a great way to build rapport with the public I've found,
and then wonder why no f%cker wants to "help them with their inquiries"
200 hp is fairly easy from the F4R, north of that it gets expensive quickly,
if you want nearer 250 hp N/A then go down the K20 swap route and save yourself some money.
The problem with FFX was they were selling tools at cost and running the business on the quarterly rebates they would get from manufacturers for ordering say £2m of goods in that quarter, the s**t hit the fan when some of the rebates weren't paid on time and they were getting chased from other...
They're not that costly to maintain as long as you can do it yourself, they're just awkward as f**k to work on so the big service bills are mostly labour,
the engines rarely give much problems and the gearbox is just a 6HP from BMW etc of that era, rear diff's s**t themselves occasionally buts...
The brake system is a diagonal split so you can have more effort on one side to the other through the rear compensator if it's faulty, I would also look at bad corner weights if the car is on coilovers and hasn't been corner weighted and has considerably less load on the corner with the...
The Headlight level sensor ball joints can cause random squeaks when they start to seize,
iirc the Passat CC has one on all 4 suspension arms, just spray some wd40 in the joint and see if it stops.