what did you do to your 944 today
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simkin911
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Not today but Friday.... received material to help facilitate a small repair to the leather bolster on the titanium turbo and some of the last burgundy vinyl held by Southbound to redo all the bolsters on the project turbo from burgundy sports pinstripe to vinyl bolsters. This should see them last for another 20 years!
Neil Haughey
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Checked pad wear on the back (5mm material left), checked tyre tread all round (3mm left side, 4mm right side), topped up engine oil (1/2 pint), checked coolant and brake fluid, checked body shell underneath and anything else under the car for scrathces, dings etc anything amiss. Checked tyre pressures (23psi cold left side, 24psi cold right side), might pump em up a touch. Just normal boring track car checks ahead of the next outing.
Trevor68
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Spent Sunday lying upside down with my head in the footwell, feet around the headrest to try and cure the clutch pedal box moving whenever depressed. After much contortion, checking forum posts, dropping of washers and nuts behind the carpet amid much cursing, I got it sorted. Whilst under there I spotted the accelerator was not clipped on one side. A plastic grommet was missing but this was found under the carpet when searching for the pedal box washers and a clip from my RC model box was modified to keep it place. This morning, I'm quite sore from the experience but I do have a clutch that only moves as it's supposed to and an accelerator that works smoothly from beginning to end instead of the 'all or nothing' set-up of previous. Downside is it now idles at about 200rpm because the accelerator cable is slackened. To be sorted once these gales have blown over.
Fat Albert
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With My Wife having to take my Son up to A&E on Friday night with a football injury and my daughter doing her prep, I was at a loose end so decided to polish the porker for only the second time this summer Part-done, you can see how bad it was (for those who didn't see it at Rutland in January!)
And Finished in time to take my Daughter to her first Hockey Trials in her new school
Joss Walker
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Hurray - kind of! got my car back tonight after its 6 month sentence at SAR/Countryside Classics in Kimpton. I was having its sills replaced and a re-spray. It has returned with panels mis-aligned, the car not running, the interior filthy and doors stripped with the worst orange peel re-spray I may have ever seen. Weeks of work ahead of me (can this fundamental an error in paint ever be rectified? I doubt it) and the best weather for Cabriolet driving long gone! When I started this little mis-adventure I was expected to end up with one of the best condition 944 Cabs on the road, considering it cost almost as much as buying the car in the first place I didn't think it was an outrageous expectation! well you live and learn I guess! Wish me luck, you might actually see the car in a few months and I will definitely be asking for advice on removing the bumper, wings and doors!
Frenchy
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Yip, Get on the phone and tell them to get it sorted, or as i would do, ask for your money back and get it done by someone who will do a good job, failing that take them to small claims court, beleive me it works, i took Audi UK there, they stumped up before we got there. Do not accept a bad job especially after 6 months..................Taking the P methinks.
Joss Walker
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Yes I did, in fact an embarrassing amount of money, and you are quite right with your question. However I couldn't get him to work on the car even when there was still about 25% of the total bill to be paid so I seemed to have no leverage to get him to finish the work let alone improve on the awful standard that the car is currently in. I would never have seen myself in this position, but he stopped taking my calls 4 months ago (saying he could only get texts as his phone was broken) then he stopped replying to these and also ignored my letters. At the beginning of August I took legal advice and wrote with the appropriate phrases but all the while offering my preferred solution was still to pay in full for a good job. This was to no avail so I finally decided to cut my losses and get my car back. The legal route was open to me but that doesn't really achieve much satisfaction, as today when I spoke to the police they weren't interested as the car is not on the public highway so they said I needed to get a court order and bailiffs to get it back! I'll chat to my solicitor tomorrow to see if I have any recourse to reclaim monies to have it rectified but at the moment I am just despondent about the whole thing, including the car unfortunately. When I eventually get it going I'm sure that feeling will pass but it's been so long since being behind the wheel of a 944 I've forgotten how good it is.
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Joss Walker
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Their landline has been disconnected and during our argument today he actually said 'sue me if you want, there's nothing you could take!' We shall see.....
david924s
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After two weeks of occasional scraping and grinding from the rear especially when reversing I finally removed the rear NS caliper and disc to find what I expected, a retaining spring off the front shoe loose in the drum. Not having a new replacment I managed to bend the old one (which it turns out is not that old anyway) back into shape and refit into the shoe. Then a small battle to get the spacer washers in place for the caliper refit and all sorted, 2 hours of time including adjusting the handbrake on the OS as well so well chuffed. Three days on and alls well so far just need to get some new springs now for the next time.
Joss Walker
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Thanks for this link, it looks really useful and after the further discoveries I made today (boot carpet ripped, £300 speakers trashed/missing, door bins lost) I am definitely looking into the small claims court.
Frenchy
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Joss, Do it, we have a local "Cowboy" classic specialist, i would not let my daughters push bike near them, the previous owner of my car used them for a few jobs which i have now sorted, they were not cheap and even charged him for fuel when running the car or moving it about...............complete jokers, the owner of the business was bulleted fromhis last job for financial irregularities. See him at local car shows displays and he won't look my way as he knows i have him sussed !!
bumperblue
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Had the air con gas changed to the new type and given a thorough once over and had the condenser/dryer changed. Very cold in there now, 6.2degrees!!! Should deal with the dreaded condensation much better on those wet mornings. Ian
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