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Offline JC

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Re: Lardy Vauxhall Soot Chucker.
« Reply #210 on: 16 April 2012, 19:05 »
erm, its bad steve, but it aint THAT bad  :kiss:

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Re: Lardy Vauxhall Soot Chucker.
« Reply #211 on: 16 April 2012, 19:08 »
bugger :sad: have you had a quote from your work?
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Re: Lardy Vauxhall Soot Chucker.
« Reply #212 on: 16 April 2012, 19:17 »
had the quote from the day after it had the dmf done  :lipsrsealed:

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Re: Lardy Vauxhall Soot Chucker.
« Reply #213 on: 16 April 2012, 19:19 »
Is it not something you can do yourself? You're pretty handy with a spanner and hammer  :wink:
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But for the purest engine experience, displacement has no replacement. All other methods are simply attempts to artificially recreate the benefits of displacement.

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Re: Lardy Vauxhall Soot Chucker.
« Reply #214 on: 16 April 2012, 19:22 »
its gotta last til June, so i got everything crossed  :lipsrsealed:

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Re: Lardy Vauxhall Soot Chucker.
« Reply #215 on: 16 April 2012, 19:35 »
Is it definately the turbo and not one of the v belt rollers? I know someone who changed the turbo on their vectra for what turned out to be a £30 roller! Worth a look!

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Re: Lardy Vauxhall Soot Chucker.
« Reply #216 on: 16 April 2012, 19:37 »
Oh this is deffo the turbo,  6 vauxhall fitters have all driven / repaired / mot'd / replaced bits on it.   :wink:

Its the turbo  :evil:

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Re: Lardy Vauxhall Soot Chucker.
« Reply #217 on: 16 April 2012, 19:41 »
Hopefully it lasts longer than then, eh? Fingers crossed!
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Re: Lardy Vauxhall Soot Chucker.
« Reply #218 on: 19 April 2012, 19:35 »
gave it a day off   :grin: , lickle day out for the golf  :cool:

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Re: Lardy Vauxhall Soot Chucker.
« Reply #219 on: 19 April 2012, 22:56 »
Turbos eh? :rolleyes:
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