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A ball joint splitter is to split the ball joint from the hub, so yes you'll definitely be requiring one to change a trackrod whether it comes with it or not

Surely the cage isn't in very good shape after that...

It's always been free to send payments, it's the person receiving the money who gets charged. Unless you send it as a gift.

I went through my bank, £7.50 a month which includes my overdraft (that I was paying £2/month for anyway). This covers absolutely everything, including any other gadgets I have so laptop, iPod, cameras etc Can even have it stolen from my car (as long as it was in glovebox or boot) and they'll cover that so I don't have to go through car insurance

Saw you (or your car at least) on the handling course, looked well

Psycho, and I'm a bar supervisor anyway, they pay me 12p more than minimum wage

It has, but at least you're happy with it!

I think he'd been on the Charlie Sheen.

69.9p when I started 38mpg isn't great out of a 1.9 Golf, but when the fuel is costing me 82p/litre and I filter as much as I can from work too, it works out mighty cheap! I'm confident a Merc/something with a turbo of similar vintage would return better MPG than that... And leave you £2000 change to spend on drugs and hookers... Or a fun car aswell as I will of course be spending a small fortune on super unleaded for the quattro when it's on the road

Hardly, and it doesn't really matter when fuel costs <£1/litre

90s Mercedes fits all the criteria!

Get something crap, and old, and German, and diesel, run it on cooking oil, never worry about fuel bills again, and spend your £2000 change on drugs and hookers

Now I know I'm one to talk since I rile people up doing very similar things on other forums (though a lot of people agree with me) but have you ever wondered if it's you rather than the rest of the world that's in the wrong? The biggest post in the world stage of your timeline is usually a case of baffling people with bullshit rather than blinding them with science, you tend to win arguments because people just can't be arsed humouring you

Lets have a quick count - looks like you've got about 16 complete sets of springs there, good work!

Have you ever seen a jet car go up a drag strip?

Well shit, kinda trumps my twin engined car doesn't it!

It does smell like a chip shop, it's foul, I genuinely prefer the smell of diesel. I just prefer the price of oil

Oh go on then - the current daily Paid £280 for the car and £90 for some coilovers, the wheels I've had for some time, and I run it on used veg oil from work and the 15l drums of veg oil you can get at Asda for £1.09/litre Does the job

Summer is all about road trips, cider, beer festivals, holidays, car shows and getting a better job than the current shit hole I'm in!

They'll only pay any loss of earnings, you can't turn up as a dole dosser and claim the maximum (around £70) a day! If you run your own business however, and by pure chance hadn't yet completed a tax return to prove income, you can be losing as much money as you like! They will pay for your travel regardless, and food as said, and if you don't spend your food budget you get the money instead. After 2 weeks I came out with near enough £800, and apart from the days and days of waiting around to see if you'll be picked I really enjoyed it! So much so, I elected myself as foreman for the second case we did They gave me the choice to opt out of doing it altogether (long, boring story) but my mum talked me into doing it in the end because she enjoyed it quite a lot too, glad she did!

As above, all my Facebook pics are special, much more fun that way I am a beauty.

I was going to ask the same, but I thought it may have been covered and I'm too lazy to check.

Bit rapey wasn't it?

Most of the suggestions in this thread are just stupid - small hatchbacks are the kinds of things all youngsters buy, get caught speeding in, crash and ruin and as such the insurance is always daft. What you want is something your average 17 year old won't have, big old 80's estate (Volvo, Audi, Mazda that kind of thing) or something similar. In order of insurance cost high>low between me and my mates at 17 1.3 MK2 Golf 1.0 Metro 1.8 MK5 Escort diesel 2.0 Mercedes 190 1.8 Mazda 323 estate. And none of those exceeded £2k to buy and insure

That was a link from citizens advice having spoken to them in length about the matter on the phone. Trading standards and the "nobhead act 1979" (I forget the proper name of it, obviously) support it too! Unless the trader can prove the fault was present, and they informed you as such at the time of purchase, they have a legal obligation for the first 6 months to sort anything that goes wrong*! *within reason, punctures and the like don't qualify. Not that it's at all relevant to the thread