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tigcraft

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  1. Just to hijack this thread..😜….. Totally agree @mk2 about bargains. Bought a pair of front std discs for £12 new delivered then saw same seller selling the next pair for £10 so those had to be bought too! Anything that I think is consumable and very cheap I try and buy these inc headlights!!
  2. I’ve just fitted a lupo wheel to my arosa and that was quite straight forward. There was a slight difference in airbag plugs but the column splines were correct
  3. I’ve fitted two over the years, both for a hefty box trailer and I also used to carry a ‘V’ shape push bike rack that opened out. All variants worked well
  4. Blimey MK2, I like you knowledge database. You’d be a good one to share conversations in a pub one day. Thanks for that
  5. Is there a benefit not having the cat or is there no difference at all?
  6. Mines on its last legs and I need a new one but don’t seem to see any full front to back systems to buy on eBay. I’d really like stainless but haven’t come across any at all. Anyone got a used stainless system to sell? Not sure if I’ve the time to make a stainless as so busy making things for other people.
  7. I agree as above!!
  8. 109 caused a load of **** on mine till I bought a new one. Less than £10!! It broke down regularly and I was **** scared to us it on motorway. It always worked when cooled down. It’s under the steering column. If it’s too hot to keep your hand on it then it’s ready for a new one.
  9. M6x20mm flanged Allen bolt?
  10. @mk2thought your were taking the piss but I’ve just googled it and I’m amazed!!
  11. I’m no wiser with those pics.
  12. So if the chain start hitting the sump then there’s got to be evidence of swarf in the oil? Although I probably wished I’d done mine now since I had it in bits arse end last year but after deep cleaning the internals I didn’t come across anything abnormal.
  13. Mine needs doing as much as I’ve done the front subframe already. I’ve noisy rear suspension but I suspect it’s the main bush to the body oscillating but the MOT place never bloody fails it even though I told them to fail it on everything that might be at the slightest worn. @mk2 pickling is the last acid bath before the galv. They usually drill 5mm holes in opposite ends of any cavity. @BioTriffid Unfortunately your axle will need far more prepping if you want it even to last a full year. A better way if using just mechanical sanding is a 4 1/2’ twist knot wire wheel and keep turning the wheel over to keep its bite. They are mentally dangerous and have an aggressive bite that’ll put you in hospital if your focus drops. Also use a quality flap disc and a 13x 457 belt sander for the nooks n crannies as well as a tungsten die grinder. All that is a lot of work but will do it 70% of a good sand blast job.
  14. Very old thread I know but a refresher is good. Today I managed to catch up on some jobs that were long overdue. One was a job I hated and that was to remove my Arosa steering wheel and airbag and what a turd of a job that was. Two bolts siezed inside the airbag so I had to destroy the wheel by cutting the side out to get to the 24mm nut It was a good job I was replacing the thing with a Lupo wheel!! Even that wasn’t so easy as the airbag winding coil was still problematic! Anyway whilst it was in bits I managed to change the wiper stalk that was problematic for a long time.
  15. His feedback is atrocious and he comes over as a chancer
  16. Ah right………………………
  17. Any one done this modification/swap? I’ve a knackered stalk that switch has warn out and I’ve also a spare but for what it’s worth I’d prefer an intermittent switch as it’s one of my ‘that’s too basic’ for my use gripes. Any idea what donor vehicle uses an appropriate switch that can be swapped ?
  18. Well it makes me feel smug that as well as cheap tax an all the rest my Arosa still makes one of the best ‘Snow Tools’ I can find and it left an anormous smile on my face passing a few 4x4s clean boys pussyfooting around. SWB, Diesel, fwd and on skinny steel pizza cutting rims with winter tyres, this morning I took a shovel to dig uneducated others out! Yeah I know I’m brash sounding! 🤩
  19. For a quick fix that lasts far longer than youd think is use an off cut of thick plastic sheeting from coal bags or damp proof membranes and just wrap it round the ball once and pop it back in. Also good for tailgate gas struts. It makes everything firm by taking out the slack.
  20. Surplus to requirements a brand new still in wrapper center section exhaust for 1ltr petrol. Bought in error. £15 any questions text/call 07967750568 Collection from Huddersfield area
  21. Nice gesture although I’m at the wrong end of the country
  22. I had a mess around when I replaced my wishbones with lesser quality ones. First off the new items came with ball joints that wouldn’t tighten correctly as the bolts were soft metal. So I replaced those but the wheels didn’t sit right in the arches. Then I got a grinding noise on hard braking on the NS. Found that the drive shaft was touching the subframe on very heavy braking that was down to the wishbones being shorter by 8mm. Swapped them for the correct ones and fitted both ball joints the other way round. Magic
  23. I agree as above, as a 2000 build year it’ll have sky high road tax too which defeats.
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