Sorry to raise another thread, this car is turning out to be a headache.
Autopool in Iver have quoted me £800 to replace to rear arm bushes, 2 front suspension bushes and 1 steering rack bush. Seems a bit rich to me, at approx £20 a bush, then £700 in labour and VAT.
So I might try kwikfit or the like in the hope their hourly rate is substantially less.
Pissed off with Autopool anyway, the car is gutless so I asked for oil service, fuel filter and find out why so gutless, also asked for glo plugs, which I don't think they did.
I had a look around the engine on the weekend and found the air intake pipe (near the battery) was not connected to the intake from the front bumper. Also the EGR was filthy still, so I cleaned it, and have also run a 10k boost through the turbo (still gutless and limping after MAF replacement too).
Now my VAG405 (2.8) won't connect either, I know the radio can cause problems, but I do have an original, though it is faulty, could that cause problems? So anyway, I can't connect to clear codes as I was still getting MAF errors after replacing it.
So I'm pretty stumped at the moment and reluctant to keep spending money, as I simply don't trust any garages now either.
Autopool in Iver have quoted me £800 to replace to rear arm bushes, 2 front suspension bushes and 1 steering rack bush. Seems a bit rich to me, at approx £20 a bush, then £700 in labour and VAT.
So I might try kwikfit or the like in the hope their hourly rate is substantially less.
Pissed off with Autopool anyway, the car is gutless so I asked for oil service, fuel filter and find out why so gutless, also asked for glo plugs, which I don't think they did.
I had a look around the engine on the weekend and found the air intake pipe (near the battery) was not connected to the intake from the front bumper. Also the EGR was filthy still, so I cleaned it, and have also run a 10k boost through the turbo (still gutless and limping after MAF replacement too).
Now my VAG405 (2.8) won't connect either, I know the radio can cause problems, but I do have an original, though it is faulty, could that cause problems? So anyway, I can't connect to clear codes as I was still getting MAF errors after replacing it.
So I'm pretty stumped at the moment and reluctant to keep spending money, as I simply don't trust any garages now either.