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    Welcome To Southwest Autosport!

     

    Need something to do in August?.. Like your cars...? Well Join the South West Autosport team for an excellent day out at the South West's newest car event, with attractions for the entire family!!

    We are a brand new automotive show that will be hitting the South West on the 12th August 2012 at the Newton Abbot Race Ground.

    We felt that the South West needed an automotive show and we hope we can count on your support to make this show a success. We are currently working very hard putting together the show, booking entertainment, traders and getting car clubs booked up. Keep checking the website and Facebook page over the next few weeks as we wil be announcing who else will be there!

    On the day there will be a lot to see and do including the world famous James Dylan’s Stunt World, Boxabeat UK, a large selection of club stands, traders & car dealerships. We have competitions for Best Car Club stand & Best Show & Shine, with great prizes for both.

    We want this show to be a show for the whole family and for there to be something for everyone. We are sure it will be a great day out.

    Spread the word and we look forward to seeing you there!

     

     

    Anyone thinking of going, please RSVP to the event in the calendar so I can gauge interest and try and sort out a meet before, during or after... or something.

     

    Click here - http://www.alfadriver.com/forum/index.php/calendar/event/4-southwest-autosport/ for the calendar event.

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    Welcome to the events section! :yay:

     

    Each area of the uk now has its own subforum for events to be posted in, and the national one for larger events that may attract people from all over.

     

    Each area will have/has one or more area reps who will be arranging meets and suggesting places to go. They will be happy to answer any questions you have or ideas for local meets too.

     

    I'd like to welcome (finally) our current band of Area Reps to the team :thumbs:

     

    So, Sphinx, LJ_GTA, MrsAlfa, Tess, HarryP156 and Tony156... welcome to the team :yay:

     

    They have quite a bit of the country covered, but as you can see we need more reps!!!

     

    The areas that need them most are;

     

    East Anglia

     

    Yorkshire & Humber

     

    North West

     

    North East

     

    Scotland

     

    But the Southwest isnt covered very well further down south and all areas could benefit from another person to get involved, or two.

     

    Anyone interested please send me a pm asap :thumbs:

     

    Erm, think thats about it... Enjoy, and get your names on the list!

     

    And don't forget to keep an eye on the forum calendar for any upcoming events in your area!

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    My brakes squeal and its doing my nut in. :(

     

    It's not that they're worn, the pads on both sides have a good 8mm left on them. So its not clips or anything like that. The discs are good too.

     

    Its also too high pitched to be worn pads/clips. Its not the squeak if metal on metal. Its a much higher pitched thin squeal... A bit like tinnitus...

     

    It happens when light-medium braking (not under heavy braking but that might be cos its drowned out by the clunks and bangs of fucked bushes/balljoints) but also when the wheels are at a slight angle. Sometimes it carries on once they're straight but goes with a quick flick of the wheel.

     

    They've been soaked in brake cleaner which fixed it for about half an hour.

     

    The people I rent it from have shown they're about as interested in this as they are the broken air-con (which hasn't worked since I got it and means I have the windows open most of the time, so can't escape the brake noise) and there's a 7 day delay with the touran's respray. So if I can do a quick fix on this I will, it really is driving me a bit mental, like fingernails on a blackboard. :| another week of it and I may go postal...

     

    Is it just a bit of grit (or badger) trapped between the pad and disc?

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    Ps; to fix a sticky caliper:

     

    Remove wheel.

     

    Hit caliper with a big hammer.

     

    Lots.

     

    If that doesn't work, soak it in brake cleaner and repeat.

     

    If it still doesn't work, buy a caliper refurb kit off ebay, take it apart (they're very simple), replace all the rubbers and clean up any rust on the piston, then reassemble.

     

    The most complicated bit is getting them to work again. That means bleeding, which is easy... If you know how. If you don't know how, get someone who does to do it, they're important! :|

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    Hello :)

     

    Smaky will no doubt be along soon (and probably tell you to ignore everything I'm about to say) and yes unfortunately we have to use a post limit before pms can be sent to avoid bloody spammers. :grr:

     

    But it is only a few posts so as LJ says an intro thread, some pics of your car in the gallery, or a couple of random posts in the chit chat forum should help you along. Don't worry about the content of them too much, our residents mostly post a load of old bollocks so anything (within the rules) will do.

    :facepalm::LOL:

     

    On topic, are you sure its brake fluid? Did the brakes fail after your emergency stop? It takes a hell of an effort to burst/detach a brake hose. If it was a burst brake line your foot brakes would be non-existant as soon as it happened I think.

     

    What colour is the puddle? I'd hazard a guess its PAS fluid myself, power steering pipes are much more prone to failure than brake lines. PAS fluid is a reddy/brown colour if you dont know that already. (most leaked engine fluids look the same when they're soaking into your driveway... Try putting down a few sheets of newspaper under the engine bay for a few hours. It will show the colour much better and also point out where-ish the leak is coming from). Sorry if all this seems a bit patronising, I have no idea what your knowledge of mechanics is so I'm going with the basics. :)

     

    All that aside, welcome to AD :thumbs:

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    Ok so a club stand is a bit ambitious maybe.

     

    But a wee get together seems plausible... I could arrange an empty house for 5+ ish people to crash in for the weekend (depending on how close you want to get... There's 4 actual beds, but with sofas, floor space and airbeds included there's room for a fair few more)....

     

    Could be a giggle?

     

    Alternatively, there's plenty of campsites in the vicinity we could invade...

     

     

    Dman, what type/size of stand would you be after?

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    That's a much better idea. :LOL:

     

    Something cheap and shit to abuse is a lot more fun than a car you care about. Unless you go all out and build a race car with cages and the like out of the gta. But that's not cheap.

     

    The shitbox was a 300 quid bag of shite, it was epic fun :hubba: I wouldn't dream of doing what I did in/to that car in anything decent.

     

    Get an old 156 v6, strip the shit out of it then abuse it til it dies. :thumbs:

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    When I first stripped the shitbox I kept all the mod cons (carpet, stereo, electric windows, sunroof, headliner etc) and still lost 150kg. It made a big difference to handling and acceleration.

     

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    Then I got serious about it and took an angle grinder to it. Door skins, electrics, sunroof, spare wheel well, sound deadening, lightweight drivers seat... And only took it down another 100kg ish.

     

    Sadly it never got used again in anger so I didn't get to enjoy that extra weight loss properly. :(

     

    One thing I will say is if you want it to be a daily driver, don't strip it, you will regret it.

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