Recent content by Mattblack2004

:sos:I've noticed a bit of oil coming from around the edge of the rocker head cover. Is there a gasket involved there and if so, how ahrd is it to sort it out?:uhm: I had a golf GTi mk 3 and they were relevatively easy to work on... am I looking at a whole different world here? or is it...

A big thanks guys for all your thoughts and opinions, Got the Cam belt done and Rad at same time, they also kindly looked at the suspension and applied a bit of lubrication and all noises gone. They couldn't see anything else so have knocked that job off the list. Just gonna follow...

Thanks to all for your opinions and advice! have got the car booked in for the Rad & cam belt...... am thinking might take a long weekend to do the clutch myself and see about sorting suspension as & when in couple of weeks. Thanks again all:salute:

Hi all, Am thinking about getting the following work done and am going to have to go to a garage as am working away from home 5 days a week and don't have the time to do any of it myself. (Currently get home friday and leave sunday afternoon) also so of it a bit daunting for me to do in...

cheers Markey, after typing all that out I started to find what I was looking for about 5 mins later, and then just figured that everyone would think I was a numpty :uhm:so decided to let it lie...rofl am reading through them as i type.:blink:

Hi All, I've tried searching to see if it's already been asked, but think I might not be looking for the right topic. Can you tell me is it fairly easy to do a simple upgrade on Set of discs ( possibly cross drilled?) for front brakes and also a set of braided brake hoses all round? and any...

got in car this morning drove about 20 yeards and the water level warning came on. went back and had to stick in 4 pints of water ( didn't have time to mix up with anti-freeze) I'm assuming that i have a bigger under lying problem if I'm losing water somewhere but can't see any water under...

Ok so I'm fairly certain I know the answer to this one, but thought I'd ask and make sure I ain't being stoopid! If I've got aircon will I have a cabin/pollen air filter? it's a 98 A4 - 1.8 NA. I don't think so ( and if I have I can't find the damn thing!) So if I have got one, where is...

:respekt: funny enough I decided to cut up an old credit card into little squares and duct taped them up and used that to pad the area between the clip that holds spring in place and the spring! works fine..was gonna do the spring stretching thing as my last resort. that way if I decided to...

Hi I'm fairly new here as well ( 1 week I think) and have already found some excellent advice. Plus the people round here are nice too:friends:

Just wanted to say that the advice on the heater blower thread was spot on. :salute: Spent 45 mins last night sorting out the blower on my new A4 ( picked it up Sunday). Have got an new one on order but am now thinking about just getting new contacts and replacing those in the existing unit...

well lets just say that M&S did a run on 5 pack pairs of y-fronts for those 6 weeks!!!!!:scared2:

have to admit then I don't know, It was the first (& only) car that I bought already modded. I know that it had lightweight reduced diam ali flywheel on main crank, plus Induction kit + stuff that I didn't know anything bout at the time ( guy told me it had upgraded S/charger and didn't know...

to be honest only had ir for bout 6 weeks, was running 240Bhp ( think that was standard for 2.8??) then got very sideways, followed by backwards, sidewards, rightways, sideways, backwards and sideways in the space of bout 3 seconds. decided it was far too powerful without making some major mods...

Hi All Having seen some of the responses that people have got for text speaking and dodgy spelling and grammar I've made sure I've got a Thesaurus and Dictionary to hand. :readit: Right ok the serious stuff, I'm In northamptonshire and after many years I have my first "Grown UP" car. An A4...