Ben vs Mk3. Round 2.

[Wolfgang]

Was doing a late night pick up from the city the other night, a taxi full of girls was next to me at the lights, and they wound their windows down and said they liked my rimz. I was pretty stoked.

How many phone numbers did you get???

[dark]

hahaha not as many as if he was rolling in this is my point!!



P.s Can you tell I really really want an a4 wagon?

Oh and sorry for the thread highjack ben!

[Water Boy]

What are girls?

[Ben J]

Hahaha. Doesn't bother me the slightest how far off track this thread goes (: Carry on.

[VR28LT]

How many phone numbers did you get???

The game is to be sold,
Not to be told

[Ben J]

Anyway, a lot of dirty messy hours put into this thing this weekend in an attempt to fix everything on the road worthy list for its re inspection tomorrow. Things needing to be fixed included Wiper blades, alternator belt, 2 tyres, rear brakes; new shoes, drums need machining and noisy bearings, front brake hoses. Mechanic quoted $1000 to fix it all up. **** that.

New belts


Boxes from ECS always make me happy, especially when they come in 3 days from hitting the order button!


Sexy steel brake lines for all flexy hoses and new wheel bearing kits


Front brake hoses replaced


Old VR6 Calipers and Carriers chilling in the oven after a coat of a much more subtle satin black paint, instead of the ricey blue I had done them on the old car. Must be growing up or something.


Distributing valve from VR6 Disc brake set up put in to replace the one for drums. I'm doing this right.


Stub axles, hard brake lines and hand brake cables moved over from vr6 rear beam to CL one, would have been easier to have just swapped the whole rear beam over, but as the rear of the old car took a mighty hard hit I decided I wouldnt risk it. Plus aligning that **** on jack stands would have been a bitch. New wheel bearings and everything in and it all back togethor:


Half 4x100 half 5x100 confused grandma beast car with front skiddy wheels?


Shall see how it all goes tomorrow. I still have my doubts and arent getting the hopes up.

[ffoff]

hahah STOCKIES BRRRROOOOOO!!!

love what your doing mate. Good luck with the inspection.

[kideuro]

hey just a quick question, how hard is it to change from 4stud to 5stud?

[Ironman]

not hard you just buy a adapter... Plenty of different ones out there. try OEM / Performance Parts for Audi, BMW, Mercedes Benz, Mini, Porsche & Volkswagen - ECS Tuning

[Ben J]

Adapters are definitely easiest, but illegal and will make your wheel poke out further. If you have disc brakes already in the rear its as easy as swapping the 4x100 rotors to 5x100 rotors. If you have drums in the back like i did you have to swap a **** load of stuff. In the front you would either have to swap a lot of the stuff (like control arms, hubs, drive shafts, brakes, etc etc etc) or run some 4x100 and 5x100 hubs which you can pick up from fifteen52 I think, or even make yourself.

[vdubin]

Hope its good news Mate.

[Ben J]

Afraid not. Another knock back. Bunch of ****s. Is hard to keep motivated when it keeps failing regardless of my money and time spent. I'd spoken to the mechanic before I swapped the drums to discs to make sure it would be all ok, and they said yeah, today I get it inspected again and everything is fine, he pressure tested the brakes and no leaks or anything (which is good news as I wasnt completely sure) but now says I need a mod plate for them. I was 80% sure if you were just swapping to things from another golf of the same model and all it was fine, but they disagree. Much arguing occurred. I contacted the transport department and asked, and they said they should be okay. Called mechanic again, they still wont do it. **** em. Interesting how they treat me completely differently to how they treat the parents who work right next door and have been going to him for years. If I were older with a newer car it would have passed easy, I can guarantee it. Looks like its time to move onto mechanic number 3.

[Cookie28]

I hate mechanics, they can be complete ****s and I hope mechanic #3 works out better for you crappy luck

[vdubin]

man bad luck, what a wanker.
Just ask around work, see who they take there cars too maybe ?

Theres gota be some place thats not so anal.

[Ben J]

That all sounded a bit more harsh then I meant. Hes just doing his job and when 18 year old kids like my self turn up and talk like we know more about the thing then the trained mechanic who's probably been doing cars for longer then I've been alive it must be irritating. Not that that was my intention at all. What annoyed me was they said it would be ok, so I spent like 10 hours and a few hundred dollars doing the swap, only for him to say no.

I do work at mitsubishi and work with people from service all the time, so maybe I'll book it in there and theyll go a bit more easy or something. Not that I really know any of the mechanics