The old girl has passed

With huge thanks to Ricky and David and all the mechanics at Independent VW Servicing www.independentvwservicing.co.uk

PeteMate (in the waitrose shirt!) and Ricky

Popped the new relay in and it has killed the ABS light, hooraa. Also fixed the fog light by cleaning up the contacts. Just needs a new set of wiper blades. That must be the easiest fix list I have every had to complete for an MOT fail!

Had a quick go at polishing the bonnet, think the body work should clean up quite nicely. Next weekend is the big prep weekend, lots of servicing, cleaning, wiring all the extars in and doing the theme......

Pete's vid following the Q

Lets face it he did well to keep up! This was coming back from the MOT station.

She has failed.......

IT'S FAILED, not supprisingly, but no where near as bad as expected. Here is the list.... Rear Fog light not working. Needs new windscreen wipers. ABS light is on. Can't believe that is all that is wrong with it. The garage are spending 1/2 an hour having a look at the ABS for us. Hopefully its just one of the wheel sensors.

Big big thanks to Independent VW Group specialists for carrying out the MOT for us for free. Thank you Ricky and David and the crew.

http://www.independentvwservicing.co.uk/

Scary Drive to the MOT station!

Well that was a scary drive!!!! From Verwood in Dorset to Chandlers Ford near Southampton, about 25 miles but I couldnt tell you for sure as the mileometer didnt work!! The rear suspension is making some crazy noises over cats eyes, but otherwise all seems pretty good for a car that hasnt really moved for 3 years. Waiting for the call now to see how badly it has failed!!

New rings of rubber and it start's, yeah baby!

Found a very nice man close to work that sold refurbished starter motors, £35 and a working starting motor was ours. Fitted tonight and started the beast for the first time in 2007, can't believe we picked it up back in Nov, where did that 8 months go!!! Video of the momentous occasion......




Also sorted out some rubber today, 2 tyres were rescued from what is left of Brookesy's Corrado and 2 new tyres, managed to get a bargain, £80 for two BF Goodrich and they swapped the tyres over on the other wheels for free.


195-50-15 instead of the original balloon 205-60-15's, mucho better!

It wont start!!

We havent tried to start the Quattro since unloading it from the trailer after picking it up. So a bit of investigation work was carried out by Brookesy tonight, the starter motor is fubared! So the search is on for a new one or someone to recondition the old one. It was a bitch to remove, but got there after much banging and bashing!

Also removed all the wheels to get some new tyres fitted as the old ones are either flat or lacking in tread.

Hopefully we can get the old girl started and off to an MOT some time next week.......I think we could have a fair old list of failures!!!

Its water proof at long last

Brookesy was up early saturday morning getting ready for AutoGlaze to come round and fit the new windsreen. They did us a great deal again, £126.90 for a new screen fitted, the same price as last year.

Before AutoGlaze arrived Brookesy had to remove all the old bonding gunk from the rear side window that we had salvaged from the parts car, and remove all the gunk from the window surround. Sorted just in time for his arrival.

Stripping the Parts Car

It's Wednesday evening, it's 5 weeks to the off, it's about time TeamRado got off its arse and did something!! It's time to do some serious stripping!!

We have salvaged the windows we needed, the bumpers, the headlamps, the carpets, the rear seat base and few other bits and bobs to make the Quattro fit and well.

Winkle gets his hands dirty!

Sonic did a great job stripping the interior.

Getting the rear side window out was a mare, nearly two hours and a few rollies!

Look at the speed of the hands!
Go winkle go!
Rip it up you bitches.
Who's that old gezzer in the A6 surrounded by 100 parts.
The scene of devastation
Mucho bits.
Conquered

Vid of the parts car moving with no rad or fan belt!