Aim of the day: to fit coilovers to M@turner's car
Mat arrived at my house at 9am this morning (after getting lost and I had to go and find him) and the days work began, the wheels came off and the front struts came off very easy. It was all going too good.
Problem number 1: VW seem to use really weird sizes, and being an industry bod only equipped myself with tools that i use regularly e.g. 17mm, 19mm, 20mm, 22mm, 24mm etc. What I don't have is a 21mm deep offset spanner and a 7mm Allen key. So it was to be our first trip that day to halfords, which is about, 10min drive away.
So we finally get the tools required after trying several shops and end up calling in a favour (had to use imperial equivalent)
After removing the top mounts (had to re-use because the VW parts man had supplied the wrong bits) we realised that there was a bit of confusion with the springs and there covers (there where 3 different types) buy this point I had decided that I was having a really bad day, with the confusion the wrong springs where on and the wrong caps where put on three times! (My head really wasn't doing well) but finally the fronts where on.
(2:30 to 3pm)Lets get going on the backs.
After playing around with one of the shocks things where not going to get better parts where missing (mainly nuts - and avo don't seem to like using standard sizes - bugger
)(4pm)
We now go out on the hunt for parts, we tried everywhere! (All shut) I even tried halfords for bolts! Rutted round a mates workshop but no luck. (7pm)
Standard shocks go on the back, and I sent mat on his way home! Job to be completed on the campsite, Friday before inters. Joy! (8pm) 11 hours later
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