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Title: "That's a mk3 mate"
Post by: Waspy on 15 February 2015, 12:31: Sat in Kwik-Fit (I know I know, but they open on a Sunday) to have my alignment done. Lad comes in and double checks its a mk2. Then the manager pipes up telling me I'm wrong and that's its a mk3. I nearly hit him. Then proceeded to give him a history of the golf and the changes between each variant. :laugh: :grin:
Title: Re: "That's a mk3 mate"
Post by: hardmonkeys on 15 February 2015, 14:05: Pmsl...annoying aren't they
Title: Re: "That's a mk3 mate"
Post by: molegti on 17 February 2015, 12:29: Quote from: Waspy on 15 February 2015, 12:31
Sat in Kwik-Fit

Thats where you went wrong.
Title: Re: "That's a mk3 mate"
Post by: JC on 17 February 2015, 18:36: now to go somewhere and get your alignment done right .................................... :whistle:
Title: Re: "That's a mk3 mate"
Post by: Waspy on 17 February 2015, 19:27: Quote from: Chuff on 17 February 2015, 18:36
now to go somewhere and get your alignment done right .................................... :whistle:

Yep.

I was desperate as the alignment was WAY out and ruining my tyres. Foolishly thought how hard can it be, the machine does most of the work. It amazes me they are still in business.
Title: Re: "That's a mk3 mate"
Post by: Gti_Jamo on 19 February 2015, 10:34: If it was way out they would of adjusted it. It's only when it's narrowly out then they pretend. It's called a 'dingy tracking' when I worked there many years ago. Wire brush and copper grease and your good to go.
Title: Re: "That's a mk3 mate"
Post by: Organisys on 19 February 2015, 13:51: Kwick Fit

Bwwwaaahaaahahaaaahaaaa

They will fook your car up real good !

:angry:
Title: Re: "That's a mk3 mate"
Post by: Waspy on 19 February 2015, 18:24: It was out by a long way. They would have done well to fix it with a wire bush :grin:
Title: Re: "That's a mk3 mate"
Post by: oakgreen_91 on 21 February 2015, 17:29: Quote from: molegti on 17 February 2015, 12:29
Quote from: Waspy on 15 February 2015, 12:31
Sat in Kwik-Fit

Thats where you went wrong.
Nail on head
Title: Re: "That's a mk3 mate"
Post by: Foreveryoungaus16v on 21 February 2015, 18:19: Quote from: oakgreen_91 on 21 February 2015, 17:29
Quote from: molegti on 17 February 2015, 12:29
Quote from: Waspy on 15 February 2015, 12:31
Sat in Kwik-Fit

Thats where you went wrong.
Nail on head

Ahhhh hate that saying!!
Title: Re: "That's a mk3 mate"
Post by: jimjames on 25 February 2015, 13:09: Quote from: Gti_Jamo on 19 February 2015, 10:34
If it was way out they would of adjusted it. It's only when it's narrowly out then they pretend. It's called a 'dingy tracking' when I worked there many years ago. Wire brush and copper grease and your good to go.

Had my tracking done at a local place last week (independent not KF) and so many comments about it.

Tracking was 19 degrees out and unsurprisingly now drives like a dream!

http://vw-golf-mk2-gti.blogspot.co.uk/2015/02/vw-golf-steering-problems.html (http://vw-golf-mk2-gti.blogspot.co.uk/2015/02/vw-golf-steering-problems.html)
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