electricracer

if you still have the bonnet and its not too bad (repairable) im interested sent you message with my email

i would put money on the fact that not one of the current mechanics working at the main dealer have ever worked on an A2,(and definitely not a 3L !!) main dealers have a large turn over of staff and as a result all the staff trained on the older stuff will have left and gone somewhere else in the trade, usually the good independant garages, personally i wouldnt send an older car (4 years +) into a main dealers you will pay over the odds and possibly have someone working on your car who has never worked on one before. its your choice but as they didnt fit the parts properly that should ring alarm bells.

welcome, if you want your radio to actually work the only stubby aerial to go for is the polo one, all the other ones are a bit rubbish. i work over on the buisness park so give me a shout if you need any advice

Google is your friend http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y135/jabbasport/Lupo-ARB.jpg

if you have the cambelt done they should only charge for parts for the fan belt as you have to take it off anyway to do cambelt, about £10-£15, £300 for a cambelt is steep but you need to know exactly what your paying for ,if its a vw specialist then they should do the water pump and tensioners as well as the cambelt, these do need doing as they can only be done with a cambelt change. if the garage is just doing belt nothing else your being ripped off.

always check the oil when the car is cold and on a flat surface, normally the amount from the min to the max is 1 litre

love your car mines black too but nowhere as clean as yours quick question do you still have the old fogs? need a pass side one for mine (big hole)

i assume your not going to use them on the road? they get scratched quite easily. had plastic windows in my mk1 golf track day car ,made them myself cost more than that for just sheets so seem good price

all depends on garage some can be funny, (but shouldn't turn business away) exhaust blowing is a fail

looked a bit dirty but tidy, stood out from the crowd, but not quite as much as the lotus carlton that passed me just before the lupo

Just done mine and it cost about 25 quid, go on ebay and buy a second hand flip key, either 2 or 3 button , it has been said that the three button can be activated for the boot on the gti udsing vagcom. I paid less than a tenner for a mint three button one, use the key programming method and it should then work the central locking, go back on ebay and find the guy that cuts new flip key blanks , cost about 15 quid, then carefully take key apart fit new blade, then very carefully strip your old key and remove the transponder chip, looks like a grain of rice, and fit in new flip key. Car will now unlock and run with new key

as silver said if you buy new mounts you wont need spring compressors, you only need them for stripping the front struts to reuse the top mounts, and its cheaper to buy 2 top mounts than to buy a set of compressors. and you can assemble the coilovers without them

as long as you have two wing mirrors you can block the whole window out and it will still pass, after all thats all a van is,

how about one from a 2001 lupo gti, that will fit

if you have a misfire it will fail on emissions its chucking unburnt fuel through usual checks leads, injectors etc you need to sort or it will kill your cat

if the seats have airbags there will be a label on the side of the seat saying "airbag" , it could possibly be seat belt tensioners, are there any yellow plugs under the seat? (airbag ones are yellow) im pretty sure that it has to be vagcom or one of the various diagnostic systems snap on, bosch etc a generic OBD reader wont do it it will only read engine fault codes

you can also enable selective unlock and the auto lock with vagcom but it does depend which ccm you have

if it wasnt an alternator issue it probably is now, NEVER disconnect battery while engine is running. chances are you have now fried the alternator. if car still runs, with battery connected, youre very lucky, there is a chance the voltage spikes (up to 40v) that the battery smoothes out can blow every electrical item on your car

how about these? http://forums.clublupo.co.uk/index.php?/classifieds/item/3326-rare-vw-wheels-brand-new-set-of-5/

nice car rear ARB is a must makes it a different car

got to remove the coloumn in mine as its knocking, anybody know what the thread size of the sheer bolts are? just want to put normal bolts back in cheers

ok filled my tdi begining of week and been hypermiling best i can, done 250 miles so far and have over half a tank still left, i have cruise so really easy to keep below 2000rpm and cruise at 56mph, did this once before (before cruise fitted) and averaged 86mpg from full tank, but youre right its soooooo tempting to boot it. girlfriends new company car is bmw 116ed thats amazing did 50 mile trip recently of mixed driving and managed 93mpg! ,acording to computer, its fitted with low resistance tyes, start/stop, eco button which alters things like aircon to take less power and be more economical and because of low emmisions its free tax worst car was a subaru impreza ra which me and a friend took to a drift day only used 1st and 2nd gear all day and managed to use a full tank of fuel in less than 70 miles!

low oil pressure is either pump (worn or more likely blocked pick up) or the bearings are shot, if it is low and not making a knocking noise yet it soon will be if you dont sort it

i agree with silver (on price not the pain bit!) 6k is probably one of the most expensive around and it should be perfect for that price, very limited market for a 6k lupo and personally he should have bitten your hand off, he may have to wait a long time for another buyer to come along.

my car seems to have developed a clunk coming from the bottom of the coloumn, at the bottom of the coloumn is a spring just before the uj, and the shaft here seems to be moving around a few mm and clunking, if i push down on wheel it stops for a bit then starts again. anybody know if theres a bearing that can be replaced or is it new coloumn time,