[VOTE]: Do you undertake work on your car yourself or do you

[Anonymous]

Do you take your car to a garage or do any work yourself? Any hints/tips or horror stories?

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[Anonymous]

yes mate i do it myself!
cheers for asking me old matey

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[Anonymous]

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[Anonymous]

yes me 3


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[Anonymous]

erm no that corsa van and escort hurt!

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[Anonymous]

here's a hot tip.

Make sure you've got a mate who's owned loads of vauxhalls and has all the tools you could possibly need :)

Engine Rebuild Labour Cost:
1 Super Size Meal from Maccy's

I do mess around with little bits myslef but owt major i leave to my mate or pro's.

B-) "Don't send me back to the dark place" B-)

[Anonymous]

i break something then fix it and as i fix one problem another crops up(i break something else)
Its great fun :D hmmm well not really

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[Anonymous]

i hate garages that rip you off. good thing bout novas is that thery are very practical and straight forward to fix. i try fixing my girlfriends golf i end up kicking the crap out of it.
Only time i ever use a garage is for MOT's.

True, True...

[Anonymous]

do it all myself including respray with a bit of help from my friends when extra muscle is needed

i must get an engine lift

[Anonymous]

you've gotta do it all urself.
nothin like gettin ur mates round with a big bar and a few chains to lift the engine out of the car.
anyway half the time who knows what the garage actually did?

[Anonymous]

Work? wats that then? :-/ :-/

[Anonymous]

lol @13SRBOY I always do this,so far I think the only things I aint tackled myself on the car is engine transplant(but couldnt afford insurance,however a 1.3 injoon might be on the cards...) and welding,simply because I aint brave enough to cut a chunk off the car and try to put a better bit back. My mate Morris is training at Lincoln F**d and is apparently almost a full fledged mechanic,so why dont he do the bearings,brakes,etc himself?-the only daring thing he did was fitted a vinyl graphic...

[Anonymous]

I get other who know what there doing to do major stuff. But i like trying to do little things. Such as i'm very impressed at my new digi dash being red and still working. :)
Mingle

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[Anonymous]

I've done everything my self....lowering, engine swap, sunroof (that was fun!), zorst, welding on new rear arch panel, electrics (windows, LCD, Horns, extra lights stereo etc), brakes, body kit, paint, carb re-con..etc etc.
Only thing I've not done my self was Crypton tune, and carb set-up..oh, and MOT obviously.
It's fun, and you feel so much better when you look at your car and drive it, knowing that you've done it all yourself :)

www.novabug.co.uk

[Anonymous]

Funny how garages always find probs that cost a bomb to fix 1/2 way through doing a simply job!

Hello, is my car ready.
No sorry, we came acros a few problems, we have welded that little patch under ur drivers seat, but we found a pakkie in ur exhaust, do u want us to remove him? As u'v had the welding done here we can do it for ?200 if u pay cash!

Fckin robbing bastards.

So it is only welding i get done at garages now, and i make sure they take a good look b4 they start. Ill be gettin a nice welder from work soon, so b doin that myself aswell!

[Anonymous]

always do me own work, just been quoted ?400-?500 to have a head gasket done on me GSi so Im going to do that next weekend. Had a garage clean me fuel injectors once sposed to be a ?60 job ,They charged me ?140 for some stuff that didnt need doing and balls'ed up me alarm

[Anonymous]

I do most of the work myself, but me best mate ownes a garage where I spend most of my spare time modifing cars, much to my missus annoyance.

stereo is my name 155db is my game

[Anonymous]

Well, i did everything on my old nova, ever managed to roll it! Just got my new nova on tuesday and i put in the lowering kit myself yesterday. And i'm well proud :) ;P

[Anonymous]

do it yourself!! if you cant do it yourself get a mate to do it, if not dont pay for garages to do it they rip you off big style,especially bodywork stuff.

[Anonymous]

oh course bruv course exept biggies like engine replacment and shit like that anythin else im ur man ive even bought the vauxhall overalls....sad really

p.s any one need a tail gate flush?

i luv u all.....in a heterosexual way ...of course:)
novas 4 eva!

[Anonymous]

Sorry to pu ta pisser on things but....

having the mechanical aptitude of a slug, i unfortuantely, leave most of the stiff to a mechanic. The guy i use is an ex vauxhall head mechanic who used to do a lot with Nova Sports :)

He knows his stuff and doesnt rip you off neither! anyone who wants his number in teh northwest gimme a shout in the chat room and i will sort u out!

Phil