Matt H
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Registered: 11th Sep 01
Location: South Yorkshire
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Lovely day in paradise today, so it would be rude not to have a tinker with the cars. There's jobs to be done & the wether is perfect for it
Selling the red Corsa so need to get it MOT'd, to do this the arteb headlights needed to come out. I don't need them anymore so ~
I can sell them  But then I dropped one & it smashed 
One of the artebs on the silver car sometimes gets condensation on it so I thought oh well I'll just swap it.....looks like I dropped the wrong one
Went to remove the clear plastic cover from my clocks....cracked it into bits. Wonderful
Tried to take old steering wheel off. Most people struggle with this as the bolts are a complete badger to get off....I couldn't even get the 2 screws off that hold the airbag in
Everytime I've picked up a screw today its fallen out of my hands. Every spanner I picked up has been the wrong size & I even got the keys wrong for the cars twice
Badgers.
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AdiSRI
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Registered: 1st May 02
Location: Berkshire
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You should of stayed in bed......
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Hoddo
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Registered: 7th Nov 06
Location: Wallisdown, Bournemouth
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lol, thats pretty unlucky :S think you need a timeout! lol 
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JayCarr
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Registered: 19th Dec 02
Location: Cambs Drives:M3 & X3
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i know the feeling
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Matt H
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Registered: 11th Sep 01
Location: South Yorkshire
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I was going to T-cut the car today as well but obviously I've now decided against it
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Matt H
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Oh & I found a bit of rust on the silver car  
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Hoddo
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Registered: 7th Nov 06
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quote:
Originally posted by Matt H
I was going to T-cut the car today as well but obviously I've now decided against it
what incase you dropped the cloth, + nice chunk of grit = SCRAAAAAAATCH! 
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JayCarr
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Registered: 19th Dec 02
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quote:
Originally posted by Matt H
Oh & I found a bit of rust on the silver car
where abouts?
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Rachel H
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Registered: 12th Nov 03
Location: Berks
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Thats how my day started yesterday Matt, knowing full well I had jobs to get finnished for todays feature I was rushing around and having 3 sets of car keys and having people ringing me, people not arriving to help me fit my headlining didn't help but eventually got it sorted.
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mwg
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Registered: 19th Feb 04
Location: South Lakes
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yes cars are cunts. mine went for its MOT today. failed. needs new steering rack. not cheap by the time labour is added on
and they cant do it till next wednesday so no car till then cos the bastards dont have any courtesy cars for me!
[Edited on 04-04-2007 by Matty G]
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Joe
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Registered: 20th Jun 04
Location: Hesketh Bank, Lancashire
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quote:
Originally posted by Matt H
Oh & I found a bit of rust on the silver car
Where abouts Matthew?
Got that exhaust on yet?
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Matt H
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Registered: 11th Sep 01
Location: South Yorkshire
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On the bonnet, near the corner. can only see it when the bonnets up
Also on the slam panel near the bit where the bonnet catch goes in
Yes the exhaust is on now Joe 
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Joe
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Registered: 20th Jun 04
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Pics please?
I've had the rust on the underside of the bonnet sorted once when it was painted, it'll only be surface rust.
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Matt H
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Registered: 11th Sep 01
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Its nothing, I only noticed it because I was giving everything a wipe over in the engine bay. Not really cleaned underthere since I got it
I'll take some pics in a bit
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mav
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Registered: 19th Jun 01
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All mine done today was drive perfect..........
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Ian
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Registered: 28th Aug 99
Location: Liverpool
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Both mine are broken.
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Matt H
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Registered: 11th Sep 01
Location: South Yorkshire
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Both cars?
Whats up with them?
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Ian
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Registered: 28th Aug 99
Location: Liverpool
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Corsa still doesn't lock or unlock remotely despite being delocked so you either need to enter via the boot or leave it unlocked. Make matters worse its deadlocked locked and when you pull the button up you only get the play in the mech and not actually unlock, which means when you climb out the boot having reached over to get in the door it will probably be locked again and you've got to reach back in.
Astra I trapped a cardboard box in the roof and it jammed, and not its just beeping at me and won't go down. I put it back manually as it was completely stuck in the middle of going down and according to the manual if you do that you need to take it in to the dealer to sort. This in spite of the mech being fine, there no longer being a jam present and all fuses being fine. Plug in to tech-2 for 2 minutes, 80 + vat please. Grrr.
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SAL
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Registered: 19th Dec 05
Location: Radlett, Hertfordshire
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try another day matt
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Matt H
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Registered: 11th Sep 01
Location: South Yorkshire
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Maybe today
Weather is lovely & I haven't shaved. Ideal settings to spend hours washing a car
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topshot_2k
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Registered: 1st Dec 03
Location: Northampton Drives: Pug GTi-6
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days like that i give up
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Matt H
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Registered: 11th Sep 01
Location: South Yorkshire
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Car is clean & my beard is longer
Wanted to clean, T-cut, polish & then wax but got as far as the polish & gave up
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