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Today two very nice rear brake drums arrived in the post from Crewe Audi.....
 

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Will do Steve....I was just wondering what else to seal them with. I was told stove enamel paint would do the trick but i do have some heat resistant light grey paint. ?
 
Favourite 'Tip' story.
A guy took an old fridge to the tip in his van. There were several cars in the queue and one of the operators was walking down the line, giving instructions on where specific items should be dumped when it came to their turn.
When he got to van man, he said - bad news, sorry to say there is a special procedure for disposing of fridges and freezers.
He gave him a card and said phone this number, they will sort you out .
Stuck in the queue and unable to turn the van round, to kill time he called the number................. and immediately heard the phone ringing in the operators cabin.
The rest of the story is unprintable

Cheers Spike
 
Dave, a thread I follow on detailing world a chap uses Rustoleum BBQ/stove paint to great effect.
With the use of wheelie bins and paint cans, to get underneath the rims, I have just used a full spray can of matt silver rustoleum.....that should keep the rust at bay for a while.
 

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Today I finally got round to replacing the rubber mounts on the rear springs. The bottom ones had completely disintegrated. Must be lugging bits of A2 all over the country that did it ?
I also replaced the rear shoes, drums and springs whilst the car was airborne.

Did you go for the complicated route of using spring compressor or did you just drop the axle off the shocks and get a fat assistant to stand on the alloy wheel while airbourne, being my preferred method ?
 
On Sunday I had a 300 mile round trip to Sunderland to collect a gearbox
I was not driving for economy at all as I was running late 80mph on motorway then 60 plus on single carriage way and 70 plus on dual carriage ways
I beet the satnav arrival time by 14 mins which gives a flavour for how I was driving on clear roads in great conditions
I filled up when I got back had did the journey on just under £25 of shell std diesel that works out at 70mpg
One in the car going up and one plus a 45 kg gearbox coming back?
I concur with Ross for an 18 year old car it’s quite remarkable
We had a run to York st Friday and Saturday in wiffies DS3 1.2 turbo petrol and only got 50 mpg all be it three in the car
 
On Sunday I had a 300 mile round trip to Sunderland to collect a gearbox
I was not driving for economy at all as I was running late 80mph on motorway then 60 plus on single carriage way and 70 plus on dual carriage ways
I beet the satnav arrival time by 14 mins which gives a flavour for how I was driving on clear roads in great conditions
I filled up when I got back had did the journey on just under £25 of shell std diesel that works out at 70mpg
One in the car going up and one plus a 45 kg gearbox coming back?
I concur with Ross for an 18 year old car it’s quite remarkable
We had a run to York st Friday and Saturday in wiffies DS3 1.2 turbo petrol and only got 50 mpg all be it three in the car
I could have collected gearbox for you Paul, to late now but Amazing mpg for speed.
 
On Sunday I had a 300 mile round trip to Sunderland to collect a gearbox
I was not driving for economy at all as I was running late 80mph on motorway then 60 plus on single carriage way and 70 plus on dual carriage ways
I beet the satnav arrival time by 14 mins which gives a flavour for how I was driving on clear roads in great conditions
I filled up when I got back had did the journey on just under £25 of shell std diesel that works out at 70mpg
One in the car going up and one plus a 45 kg gearbox coming back?
I concur with Ross for an 18 year old car it’s quite remarkable
We had a run to York st Friday and Saturday in wiffies DS3 1.2 turbo petrol and only got 50 mpg all be it three in the car

Was that mpg achieved with your 'hollowed out' EGR?
 
I could have collected gearbox for you Paul, to late now but Amazing mpg for speed.
yes I was chuffed when I filled up
Thanks for the offer of gearbox collection, but I would still have needed to collect it from you, unless you where coming down country :)

cheers,
 
In the case of bhc and atl egr valves this looks good in principle for sure.

Given it already works on pd130 then I'm guessing it's clear it will have benefits on the later 1.4 tdis.

I'm guessing also that remap files may need modified to remove any egr bypass (more of a generic question rather than specifically targeted at any one remap offering)
Likely not, but I better not describe why ;)
 
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