My Designa Dubs experience

[Dizzie]

took me less than 5 mins with a can of GUNK and a pressure washer to degrease my engine and gearbox today and it looks loads better. if I could get in there with a small brush it would of been even cleaner!

[tinman]

its more like DD got upset and sent a message to a spinless admin.

or more likely, the admin was spineless to start with and did it off their own back. personally, i'd wait for the solictors cease and desist before yanking a site. however, even "their" solicitors would warn them that the dangers of suing someone could be counterproductive to your sales effort if it becomes known that you were selling a shoddy service.

if you let the dice roll, the outcome would be a sorted car and a removed posting.

[G6dub]

I have just sat and read all 6 pages of it on club gti, I added my part to it.

I am even more shocked it seems from reading just that one thread that there is about 10 of you not happened,  I thought maybe that it was a one off them having a  bad week or somthing but this goes to show that this is not the case and how poor there work is, I guess it is money.

Also club gti can't themselfs be blamed for the deleting it is one of the admin who is friends with DD he feels he can delete the posts he doesn't agree with! He shouldn't be taking it personaly in my view!

[Dizzie]

Cheers Claire. There's a dub place up to the road from me I might be taking it to for him to check it over. he's got a selection of a rallye, g60 and mk1 on carbs in his workshop so I think he knows his stuff. he had a quick look under my bonnet yesterday and spotted a couple of things that would of taken minutes to do better.

He said go away (in a nice way) and write a list of all the things I'd like him to do. Bascially just tidy it all up. There's part of the gearbox engine mount missing, although not essential. I'd really like to plumb in a Rallye intercooler and G60 rad to finish the conversion off really. Once the battery and washer bottle live in the boot it should look nice and tidy under there.

[G6dub]

sounds good, hope he is good and can sort some stuff out for you.

You know we were talking about intercoolers the one on the mk1 is the same length as a rallye one but it is a lot thicker.

Dizzie  I forget where abouts are you? cause DD are Basingstoke right? are you far from them?

[Dizzie]

I was with my parents in Shropshire when I was dealing with DD. 120 miles away.

I'm now in Cardiff. Still about 100 miles away, but all M4.

Aparently the rallye one will fit like factory in all mk2s. then a G60 rad will fit behind it like a peach. Samco hoses to tidy it all up.

[G6dub]

hmm don't talk about samco! been waiting for over a week for a price on making teh tooling and making me a water hose, when they do give me the price if I agree it will be another 4 weeks before they make it!

so a bit of a drive for you then

[Overseer]

one of the admin who is friends with DD he feels he can delete the posts he doesn't agree with! He shouldn't be taking it personaly in my view!

thats weak..  oh well.........

[Dizzie]

This will blow you're mind...

My boost gauge's illumination has been on the blink for about a month now. it's a 7 colour one that changes with the push of the button on the front. now and then it would switch from blue to nothing and be simpley set back to blue with the button, but after I installed the voltage gauge they would both be set to blue and then for no reason switch themselves to pink. I removed the voltage gauge and now the boost only lights up red. ok so time to investigate. I decided I'd wire the main power straight into the fuse box using the strip of power that runs down the side on the back. Apon removal I found this...



would anyone like to guess where this wire goes to and it's job? Well to save you pondering on that one here's the answer. it's the power wire for the ECU! The relay has been removed and the wire pushed in there and the relay replaced. Forgive me if I'm wrong, but doesn't that wire rate pretty high in the most important wires in the car?

What's more it isnt' even a new wire! It joins twice before reaching the ECU, each join wrapped in electrical tape! You've seen the mess Designa Dubs left my car on their first install. This is there on their 2nd attempt! You would of thought they would of made extra effort on this engine to nurse the damage from their first f**k up!

[topher]

What the....

Fscking cowboys. I don't understand how they can do some top notch conversions, with magazine features, then knob together something as piss-poor as that.