I am a tit!

[jammac]

can you ask him to come and do my heater matrix? ill supply the tea and plasters

[Horney]

Whereabouts are you fella as I have done one of these and it's a pain .

Nick

[monkeyalan]

All done thanks to Veedub16vGti, the man is a true gent and helped out with a new shaft with good boots and the right tools for swapping them over. I owe him big time!

Nick

there's only one "right tool" in this story.

sorry , couldn't resist 

[Horney]

All done thanks to Veedub16vGti, the man is a true gent and helped out with a new shaft with good boots and the right tools for swapping them over. I owe him big time!

Nick

there's only one "right tool" in this story.

sorry , couldn't resist 

It's a fair cop fella!

Nick

[tobz.]

Whereabouts are you fella as I have done one of these and it's a pain .

Nick

I reckon we need to start organising some techie weekends like they have on club80-90.
See I did a heater matrix and didn't think it was too bad but I wouldn't want to attempt a cv boot or cambelt which other people say are a piece of p!ss.
If you had enough of us in one place at one time I reckon between us we could fix everybodys problems (car related at least).
All we need is somebody with enough room to accomodate a load of broken cars and we each bring our own tools.

[VeeDubGTI16v]

havent a clue about heater matrix's youre safer doing it yourself

[Horney]

My problem was that the old heater box and all the flaps had become brittle and as I removed it it fell to pieces. VW wanted a million pounds for a new one so I had to get one from the scrappers. Now you what a pain it is to get that lot out, I had to do it twice!

Putting it all back together wasn't too bad but you need to be a bit double jointed and have a flexible back to get right down in the footwells for some bits.

Nick

[monkeyalan]

the front seats are so easy to take out when you need the space I've even started taking them out to hoover my car.

[Conker]

...I reckon we need to start organising some techie weekends like they have on club80-90.

Cool idea! 

A mate of mine is in a retro Porsche club and they organised a group day with a specialist Porsche mechanic to show them a few tricks of the trade. I think they looked at engine tuning and how to repair valves and stuff. I would certainly pay good money to do something similar with a decent GTI mechanic.

[nealey]

Its good to have a few friends that are all into cars then you can help each other out when the time comes, it works even better if your all into dubs!