Important, please check out this thread in the 2.4 and 2.8 section

[Medieval Dave]

Please can everyone make the effort to read this thread and help out if they can. Sounds like someone is getting proper stiffed by a bunch of cowboys and really needs a hand.

http://www.hiluxsurf.co.uk/forums/sh...ad.php?t=23340

If people dont mind please can you keep bumping this if it looks like dropping off the bottom of the page, I think it's important we all see the item

Many thanks

[That Ruddy Squirrel]

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[Woodzie]

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[Doc Martin]

Bump
Some leagal stuff added that may help.

[TonyN]

Yeah, that outragous, they called me and asked for a quote to help fight it.

[Apache]

Cheeky barstewards! As has been said over and over again, legal action is the way to go, with a good sprinkling of local publicity.

I haven't ever had a head done (fingers tightly crossed) but I did once pop a conrod through the block on my Mk1 MR2 on the M62. The garage I used recovered the car, removed the old engine, stripped any useful bits for me, replaced the clutch and fitted a 26,000 mile jap replacement engine for the grand sum of £1400 inclusive of everything, even the motorway recovery!

Big shout to Bridge Garage in Rainhill.

(Shame the car dissolved eventually )

[Apache]

Wots the nastiest damage you ever did to a car? That's a subject that will surely keep the thread alive!

I'll start with the aformentioned totalling of a 1600cc twin cam Mk1 MR2 engine. Oil, water, smoke, steam, you name it - down the M62 at ... ahem... slightly above the speed limit in the 'fast lane'. Oops!

My other was rolling a Celica GT4 near Richards Castle near the Welsh borders. Simply got it wrong in the wet and ended up going backwards into an earth bank and flipping the car onto its roof. Written off. Good car but no real sensation communication with the road, hence difficult to get any feel. The MR2 was MUCH better in that respect. No power steering, no ABS. Perfect weight distribution and balance. God, I'd love another one!

[da SLUG man]

i've never had a hairdressers car, but i did hit a railway bridge with a digger the other week!.... maybe i got a hairdressers brain instead!

[Woodzie]

Had a dodge water bowser go hydrolic on me when the head gasket went ...with a perkins t6354 engine all the pushrods were half there normal length and a sod to get out .
As for the best knock it was at Alfold in surrey, in a datsun cherry ,i lost it on a corner and hit three other cars...OUCH (it was wet)

[Apache]

Hairdressers... nnnnnGGGG!!! Grrr.... but....!!!!

Mine in it's ultimate form wouldn't have found favour with the bouffant bunch.

I'd stripped out all of the carpeting, soundproofing, a lot of the dash, door trim, centre console, spare wheel, tools, and both spoilers in a bid to reduce weight. I'd fitted adjustable, lowered suspension and sparco alloys, fitted an ugly cone filter and big free flow exhaust (boy was it loud!). When I took it to a mate to look at having a cage welded in and a panel welded in where the sunroof was (as I was thinking of doing some tarmac rallies for fun), thats when we found the rust problem. Not a lot of floor to weld to! Shame.

[Woodzie]

Ok a lowered hairdressers car

[da SLUG man]

my mates bought his mrs an MX5... only 2 seats and i can't fit in the boot!!... i had to PAY for a taxi the other week!!

what's wrong with a nice hot hatch / volvo estate for pub runs??

[Apache]

An MX5 is *not* in the same league as the Mk1!

a) The engine is in the wrong place
b) It doesn't have a roof

If you've never tried a Mk1, I implore you to try one before there's none left. It's the purest handling car I've ever driven, and the list includes a 328GTB (weekend hire), a non-turbo 911 and a 968 (thanks to a wealthy air con company owning friend) , a Ur Quattro (dads)... mmmm, various Scoobies etc. The MR2 was the best handling car of the lot!

When I had that, a friend had the Mk2 import turbo which had about 160bhp more than mine. He'd leave me on the straights, but when the roads got twisty, he'd start to drop behind.

You can probably tell I miss it. I'm sure I could only replace it with either :-

A Delta Integrale, a good Mk1 Escort with forest kit, a Ur Quattro (my dads is long since gone) or an RS200... wibble.

[TonyN]

....a good Mk1 Escort with forest kit.....

Bitchin'

[da SLUG man]

i raced/chased a Eunos roadster (is that an MX5?... it was red!)... he left me round the housing estate, but i soon caught up when he couldn't take the railway crossing at 60mph!

he pooped it!... w@nka!