CurtisRider

Oh, I can see why you are stumped then! Might be worth trying a different driveshaft incase thats a bit bent?

Go on eurocarparts, enter your reg and note the part number down on the CAT pipe (DP). Then enter the reg of a cupra TDI you potentially may get and compare numbers, should give an indication if these pipes are universal between all the 1.9TDIs then

Keep looking, that's guaranteed to be an absolute slag to sort. It's likely be be rotting at all the seams and unless you are particularly after a weldathon project/you will be cutting lots of it out for some mental project then it'll just be grief. Might be worth buying (for scrap money) as a parts donor, although I very doubt much on there is going to be particularly worthwhile reusing unfortunately. Keep your eyes peeled for something a bit more solid, you won't regret it! I've learnt my lesson buying rusty cars/vans haha Dunc, have you just replaced the wheel bearing each time? Might be worth changing the hub too, it may be distorted and the bearing isn't sitting true? Do you run the same wheel on that corner? Have you checked to see if the wheel is all good?

Do you know its definitely blowing there? Have you checked to see if the gasket is still ok? Whats the rest of the exhaust system like? Can't help on fitment but you could build one for soooo much less than that! Just whip off your old one, reuse the plate (may need the size of the hole increasing depending on what size tubing you use), buy 2 prebent pieces of tubing, a flex pipe, some straight tube and find a mate to weld it together. There's very little point buying anything too special for a 90 unless you are wanting to do some serious work...

Well it's actually Wollaton, on the way to Glaisdale Parkway

Theres an RX7 just sitting around rotting in Nottingham (been there at least 2 years), it makes me sad everytime I see it as its so awesome looking even when covered in bird shit and tree sap

Ah cheers Tom! Can you PM me a price for 2 litres gotta do my side skirt, front bumper, rear lip and rear spoiler...eurgh!

Ah wicked! I didn't know your dad owned a paint shop? I am in Notts yeah

Yeah thats what I will be needing some single pack primer would be handy to, gotta be better than poundland aerosols...

279 Steel Grey metallic for a 2004 Saab 9-3 SS (they used the colour from 03 to 06 I think). I want single pack as it means I can do it with the equipment i have, but I know a few people who will spray it if I do need to go two pack but it just means more moolah

Ah cheers for that guys! That explains the micro bister I had at the top of my bumper where my bonnet covers it then (everywhere else was fine and I always dry the bumper out before spraying using a heatgun), I knew primers porous but had never thought about the effect it could have if a teeny bit of water was still absorbed. I usually use 320 and go to 600 with wet, never actually bothered trying dry... I need to spray my bumper soon anyway, I got Halfords to mix me some single pack paint and the colour is way off, my car looks retarded which is a shame as the actual spray job looks really good! Finding somewhere else that will actually mix me single pack in my colour has proved near enough impossible

I always wet flat my primer... surely dry flatting just clogs incredibly quickly?

It's worth noting this is a polo saloon, won't that carry some extra scene tax? Still not worth £600 though but more than a normal polo would be worth

Does anybody know much about electric water pumps? My friend has a canal boat and the 2 cylinder 20hp engine has limited parts availability, this includes the water pump which is proving hard to find. Is it a viable solution to fit an electric pump? It's got a pretty punchy alternator, and its a closed system not river cooled

The shape of an aftermarket HID bulb and the shape of a halogen projectors cutoff are different to a proper HID setup, and so aren't quite the same and can cause problems. With the same HID kit, my girlfriends MK4 R32 headlights glared loads compared to my 9-3s, both pairs of lights were intended for halogen bulbs so I guess it is just luck of the draw. My E36 seemed ok with HIDs although I didn't actually get much chance to use it after I fitted them

I took this thing into my local Halfords to get some opinions for a project (its a electronic gear system for single handed users and my tutors deemed Halfords as reputable) and got offered a job on the spot just from looking at it by the store manager... high standards? I would say not, look at it, its a f**king mess of wires and old bits of bike I had knocking about, not a beautifully set up bike! It did work awesomely though...

Good LED sidelights yes, but not main bulbs! I have had LED H3 fogs and they were as good as useless function wise, although they did look pretty cool... Once you get uber amounts of LEDS together in a small space, they will produce lots of heat that can't really escape that well causing them to fail

Those LED headlight bulbs you see on ebay are nowhere near good enough, and aren't heatsinked so probably wont last that long

HIDs in projectors=winner (I have headlight washers and auto levelling lights as standard with aftermarket HIDs) H4 HIDs are pants in reflector housings on the road, the light scatters everywhere and everything looks mong making it really uncomfortable after a short period of time. We have them in our tractors for field work which is fine as its nice and open, but on the road with trees and stuff it is just horrid, everyhting looks really wrong and its hard work for your eyes. If you are going to bother going the HID route then build in some projectors to your current lights or do as Robin says and check your wiring/fit decent H4s (which makes the most sense). Also if you do go HID buy 35W, not 55W. 55W is for arseholes.

Ah yeah, I pass them everytime I go back home! There are a few others in the city...but they looks pretty nasty

Anybody know a decent place in Nottingham for secondhand tyres? I can't afford new ones right now and need a stop gap seen a few places about, but I'm worried where they get them from and what kind of abuse they have had

I have the older cheapy wireless triggers, they have been great, even without mods. Range was very good as long as there were no obstacles (about 50m) as long as the batteries were fresh

Try parking on a hill, nose up should be harder to start than nose down if there is air getting into the system

Injector seal leak? That's what mine did when mine went

Cheers for the link Matthew. I tried it on both, iPad was only intermittent (but doesn't function for several minutes when the problem does arise) so I will see how that goes and the iPhone had to have the home button held down multiple times before it actually functioned...suggesting that the button is definitely buggered. Not sure if the iPhone 4 is worth repairing anyway, nobody seems to care about them now the 5 is out! It can go join my old iPhone 3g and my iMac in the cupboard once my contract finishes