Cleaned up at round about

[GTI_Adidas]

P platers need to be more responsible, and be taken off the road for least 4 months if caught breaking the road rules to teach them a lesson

[poyta]

P platers need to be more responsible, and be taken off the road for least 4 months if caught breaking the road rules to teach them a lesson

Most of the P platers I know or knew that broke the law ended up with a slap on the wrist. The law seems to be more lenient with them whereas the full time drivers are treated more harsh because they "should know better". The amount of friends I had as a teen who lost their license for speeding or some reckless behaviour only to get it back in court "becuase they needed a car to make KFC deliveries" was astounding!!! A few of them are either dead today or ended up killing someone else on the road as a result of their continuing dangerous driving. Makes me wonder if would have been different if they were treated harsher by the law in the past. It takes a big impact in life for someone to dramatically make a change and a 4 month suspension or a pissy fine isn't it.

[Frankenstrat]

Good post, Poyta.

[robbie]

is your car back from the repairers ian hope all goes well

[ian]

is your car back from the repairers ian hope all goes well

Hope to get it back by Wednesday, all the panel work has been done and painted just a wheel alignment and polish,
The repair is now about $9,000 and counting ,will let you know when ive picked it up ,
Ive had a Toyota Yaris as a loan car and ill be glad to give it back ,If you thought the boot in a golf was small the Yaris is about half the size .

[robbie]

make sure you post up pics of the quality repair

[ian]

Well i got the car back and what a disappointment it was, Firstly the LED lights i had installed and wired to the ignition were now wired to the parkers as a so called Auto electrician couldn't work out how to rewire them,So now i have 2 error lights on my instrument panel one is the Engine sign and the other one is the glow plug sign , one light had to be installed into the new fog light grill as it was broken it stuck out a good15 mil further than the other one and the wires were embedded into the Stickaflex they used instead of coming out the back they were wrapped around the light, also no bonnet protector installed' said he would order one for tomorrow.

But thats no all folks, So i drive home park in the garage and suddenly a loud noise coming from under the bonnet, turn off the engine and look to see if there is any thing , turn engine back on and it sounds like a jumbo jet in my garage shine the torch behind the radiator and see the secondary fan cutting into the Air intake , so i turned off the engine and pull apart the air intake , guess what the radiator is not attached to the support and is rocking around up against the fan ,i can move it about 50 mil its just sitting there , also the windscreen bottle is loose no attachment also the rubber is missing from the drivers guard to stop the bonnet from moving.

So Ive just spend 90 minutes removing the LED lights and repositioning them and tomorrow ill go to the Auto electrician i know and get the rewired and take the bill to the repairers,

[robbie]

any pics of the car now

[ian]

Igot up this morning and decided to check the fuses , found the Glow plug fuse gone and replaced it and one code disappeared from the cluster,i then found the LED's worked off the ignition wire?[ How does a Auto electrician find a dead wire and not check the fuses but instead rewire the LED's to the parkers.
So i tied the radiator back away from the air intake and went to the panel shop, showed him the air box flexible section cut through and the radiator flopping around.
They had to pull off the front bumper to access the radiator support apparently it wasn't clipped in correctly and when the car was started there was no more codes on the cluster,so there must be a sensor on the radiator.
He ordered a air box section and the guard block and will call me when there in,

Other than those few dramas I'm happy with the workman ship the paint work is very good and gaps are uniform,
And as i have the car booked in on the 30 th for a new Mechtronic i didn't want any hassle with unwanted codes on the dash.

[Treza360]

Three different auto electricians and the dealer couldn't work out that the work done by that same dealer had caused a current leak in my Mum's car's electrical system that drained the battery if not driven for over 24 hours.
Good help is hard to find.
Cheers,
Trent