My '97 Golf GTi 16v

[Kai Robinson]

Oil pressure gauge checked out fine and the system has since been filled up, but still, being used to 7M engines chewing through bearings upon insufficient volume....maybe i'm just paranoid about it

[[XC] Lead Head]

Oil pressure gauge checked out fine and the system has since been filled up, but still, being used to 7M engines chewing through bearings upon insufficient volume....maybe i'm just paranoid about it

Which gauge?

[Kai Robinson]

Oil pressure warning lamp, rather - gah, it was 5am you cant blame me for a typo

[[XC] Lead Head]

Get a mechanical gauge on there, it will tell the real story

[Kai Robinson]

It's in the UK for a few weeks, i'll do it when it gets back here....hopefully by then i'll have my tool chest back!

[Overvolt_25]

First time down this far on the Xtreme page

Your making me feel left out gonna have to post my 2dr 83TD rabbit and soon to be built 84 Rabbit 4dr with a 1.7L TD VDUB!!

[Kai Robinson]

Got backed into today by a drunk tractor driver, he let his foot off the brakes and rolled back faster than i could reverse

[elite.ire]

omg !, man that sucks !!!, i hope the insurace is going to cover you :/, is it just the hood he got ?, or is there other damage i cant see from the picture ?

[Kai Robinson]

Insurance? Hah, i'm not claiming on my insurance for that. And of course tractors out here are uninsured. The guy was more concerned about the graze his tractor recieved....and then drove off.

Yeah, just the bonnet, although the clips for the front grille are snapped.

[Jamesrt2004]

that sucks!!! that golf is actually mint!

[perry_78]

dude how can he *not* pay you? he caused damage to your property, if he doesn't compensate you, you can press criminal charges. Bonets don't come cheap unless you get them from a scrap yard

I'm quite petty, so if all came to nothing i'd probably just bash his bonet in a bit

[Kai Robinson]

He can't pay me because he drove off and refused to give his details, normally i'd have taken the registration....but its a tractor - and therefore didn't have one.

I got a new bonnet for €45 with the hinges, going to fit it tomorrow. Only issue then, is getting it resprayed...

[elite.ire]

thats a stinger man :@, but given its a tractor he must live locally, fix the car, then charge him , and make sure and charge him the price it would cost for genuine vw parts

[Jamesrt2004]

thats a stinger man :@, but given its a tractor he must live locally, fix the car, then charge him , and make sure and charge him the price it would cost for genuine vw parts

genuine ones that you got shiped over from the germany factory tooo


as you know it's a special model etc... jsut take the piss basically to give him his comupence

[Shaz]

The Golf's all share the same body parts bar a couple of special editions (mk2 rallye for example) so he can have a bonnet from any Mk3. As Kai said, the only issue is a respray. The alternative is REALLY good panel beating. Personally, you should of at least shot him in the leg.

[[XC]thewildblue]

Why didnt you follow him, its not like he can outrun you unless he goes into a field. From what I remember most tractors have registration plates to allow them to drive on the public roads, its just usually not that obvious. Personally I would have gone ape sh1t if this had happened to my car, even if it was a banger... ;-)

[Kai Robinson]

No registration plates here, and to be honest, i wasn't going to follow a drunken farmer with an attitude problem who's driving a vehicle 10x the weight of mine that could crush me even more. Had i taken my Beretta with me, obviously things might have been different. And don't start with that 'banger' crap in my thread.

[[XC]thewildblue]

Well it should have plates if your in the UK. So he was drunk as well, I would have deffo followed and also called the police on my mobile, as its hit and run, failing to give details, an unregistered vehicle and drink driving...Im sure if you had followed him and made that clear you would have a new all paid for bonnet for your bang....err I mean golf.

[elite.ire]

he was in a tractor with no reg plates drunk, he proberly wasnt far from where he lived :/, shouldnt be all that hard to find him....

[Shaz]

Well it should have plates if your in the UK. So he was drunk as well, I would have deffo followed and also called the police on my mobile, as its hit and run, failing to give details, an unregistered vehicle and drink driving...Im sure if you had followed him and made that clear you would have a new all paid for bonnet for your bang....err I mean golf.

He's in the middle of Brittany in France. They don't have to have number plates.

Find him and shoot him in the leg Kai.

[Kai Robinson]

Hehe - well, the new bonnet is fitted, and aligns perfectly, but the catch is 100% fecked, its been shunted a clear inch over, and its nigh on impossible to bend back. So, time for a new one.

Then its just replacing the windscreen washers, the underbonnet sound deadening and a respray which should set me back about £200. For a decent body shop, of course.

[Kai Robinson]

New Catch Ordered, Pickup is on Tuesday....surprisingly cheap, too - €23.85 for one. They're €10 for a used one at a scrapyard...

[aspire.comptech]

It's times like these I'm really tempted to get a carry permit and a nice little pistol.

Course around here, Bay Area in California, we don't really run into drunk tractor drivers...

[WrigleyVillain]

Course around here, Bay Area in California, we don't really run into drunk tractor drivers...

I had about a hundred different comments run through my drunken head as I looked through this here thread...but after the last post all I got left is LOL!

Damn I knew things were bad in the UK but who knew a drunken tractor driver would pwn your new baby? I'm (almost) speechless.

[Kai Robinson]

I'm not in the UK....