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@lynx
About the cars. The GTI was the first euro hot hatch and at the time it was like nothing that came before it. The 127sport/gt could be claimed to be the first but did not really move out of the home markets. The golf took a 1.1 plodder and turned it in to a quick injected Persoanlly I'd add the early XR2 (round light MK1 fiesta) as a ground breaker for ford.
Do you really want to continue being a child, move on. Let it go cos if you want me to bite back, which recent post like this mean that you want me to react. Feel free to continue.
Why would I have?
Ah there is a bandwaggon to jump and here you are.
A band waggon and a dead horse to pull it?
Any more?
The best thing I like about this not so friendly piss taking is how many of you chaps (as there are many other words that are better fitting) benefited from PM's from me about free tickets to thursday at the 2012 Goodwood Festival of Speed. How many even bothered with a thank you reply?There were even comments on this thread about going to the FOS on the Thursday. No one got PM's from me this year, even tho I got free tickets. But hey ho, that is how things go.
Even offering help to people, turning up with specialist tools for no fee, when their cars were broken and even offering advice of decent trustworthy people to use nearby to where they live doesn't seem to be enough. Even helping people in the past get car parts at trade prices doesn't seem to be acceptable.
Part of me things it could be some kind of jealousy, or maybe it so outside of your realm that someone can be so different. This afternoon I worked on a friend of a friends car with a suspected head gasket failure and engine management light illuminated with a code that linked to the failure of the stepper motor. The stepper motor is the bit that is sort of like a choke on a carb. Two differing specialist could repair it and this guy was at the end of his tether with expensive bills and the car not being able to pass an MOT due to the engine management light and the car was overheating. Four hours later, the car is perfect, no more faults and no longer overheating or any issues. Do you know what the great bit was? The car is fixed, I did it and the poor guy has a working car and no hassle. So feel free to take the piss, as what ever you type on this thread, there is a great difference between the pleb who pays the money to get the work done of their pride and joy and there is the person that happily (actually more often than not, grumpily) works on a vehicle know its done properly and has the wonderful inner peace that it is all mine and no one elses.
Yep I'm a little drunk, and a little happy. This weekend I many work on the paint work on one of my motorbikes, or spend the weekend changing the clutch on an Alfa or who knows. But one thing I do know, next time one of you come bleating on here about a broken car, I will not get involved or help. Happy in the knowledge that everyone I have offered to help /and have helped should look at themselves to see what kind of person they truly are and if your behaviour is acceptable to you then go forth and multiply with peace.