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Had my cambelt and waterpump changed yesterday iv done 57000miles and its a 2003 Cupra, when I walked in to collect it they produced the water pump with a chip on the impellor blade and when I went to move it the blade fell off :-o If yours is due to be changed or your in any doubt wether to do...

Hi y'all the wife and I bought a 2001 18t cupra today and we love it. Problems started when we got near home and found the idling was getting lumpy and the car was on the verge of cutting out, so frustrating. We have 12 months warranty on it so no problems but what could be the cause of...

Got a new cambelt kit fitted in Dec 08, even though my LCR had only done 36k (5 years old). 9 months on and the tensioner failed!!! Lucky for me I heard something was up and investigated before it fecked the engine. :blink: Lesson learnt = Hear a noise, check it out!!! ;) New genuine...

So with 1.5 hours to go until the climax of the F1 2008 season gets underway, we Brits find ourselves back in the hot seat waiting to see if Hamilton can make it round 70 odd laps and bring home the Formula 1 championship to old Blighty in what has been a year which has been as much a political...

Testing if i can edit the title of a post within x mins of posting . (as i think that works - but not sure) and cannot find a "test" forum to try it in .. cheers - sorry mods :) Should update now ..? and again

right, this will make you cringe! i went round my mates on tuesday night, all as normal parked outside his house as per usual, went in and played some ps2, and all the usual boy stuff, anyway, it was getting late so i decided to go, opened the front door and my car was gone!! i said to my mate...

Each of them lost one of their 9 lives today! I took mum's MK4 Cupra to the local automatic car wash as it got covered in bird crap earlier. The wash started as normal, it covered the car in soap and then just stopped. I got out and asked one of the staff for some help. He told me to drive...

Yes I am a lucky recipient of the New Leon FR TDI 16v in emocion red and the beautiful thing about it was that I received it on the 12/07/06 and the car wasn't booked for relase until the 17th........It pays to have contacts in high places........meaning I was most possibly the first in the UK...