Ive got an idea!

[fozziie]

it is a nice car, interior is clean enough to eat your dinner straight from it! I'm going to try and sell it, and if i havent sold it by the time the MOT expires, then I'll have to store it off the road for a few months while I raise the cash to get the work done

Gutted because the engine and gearbox are both lovely, its hell-as nippy!

[Len]

£300 for the sills?? 

Look for somewhere way cheaper mate!

[fozziie]

£300 and thats just labour...not including the materials. 

[Len]

Way, way, way OTT!

New sills cost £48 quid, labour should be no more than £150

[fozziie]

iv just remembered my cousin does a bit of welding, so im gonna go and see him later and see how much he'll do it for. the rest of the stuff that needs doing im not bothered about, i can do that myself...well, except the wheel bearing, the garage will have to do that (£80  )

[Jack3559]

Re: Wheel bearing...

Take off the hub and go to the garage with a new bearing (£20) and ask someone to press out the old bearing and press in a new one.

Tell him you don't want a receipt and it'll be a tenner.

[fozziie]

one of my mates said that you could change a front bearing using the old bearing and a hammer...that true?

[Wayne]

one of my mates said that you could change a front bearing using the old bearing and a hammer...that true?

Not really, you need a press.

[fozziie]

cool. looks like my cars in for another period off the road then back to the vauxhall corsuuurgghhh 

[Dan_GTi8v]

I did mine without a press, but was a bit lucky as I had a socket that was exactly the right fit so I carefully smashed it with a hammer Though wayne is right you should really use a press to avoid possibly damaging it.

sayign that though for £80 you could have quite a few goes