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Re: My ED30 has eaten a pair of 452s in 6months!
« Reply #30 on: February 21, 2011, 08:54:08 pm »
Self reassurance is a wonderful thing  :happy2: :driver:


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Re: My ED30 has eaten a pair of 452s in 6months!
« Reply #31 on: February 21, 2011, 08:58:27 pm »
Tell me about it... what do you recommend?  :grin:


Loose pants  :grin:

I got the 43K Longlife with plugs and DSG service on mine done for £392 couple of weeks back, cambelt should come in around £299 on the fixed price scheme and an extra £80 for the waterpump, ouch!


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Re: My ED30 has eaten a pair of 452s in 6months!
« Reply #32 on: February 21, 2011, 09:03:59 pm »
Im going to the VW garage tomorrow (in doncaster) so ill get a quote then. They are usually a fair bit cheaper than most garages.

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Re: My ED30 has eaten a pair of 452s in 6months!
« Reply #33 on: February 21, 2011, 09:17:00 pm »
Bargain hard!  :wink:


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Re: My ED30 has eaten a pair of 452s in 6months!
« Reply #34 on: February 21, 2011, 09:17:39 pm »
Im going to the VW garage tomorrow (in doncaster) so ill get a quote then. They are usually a fair bit cheaper than most garages.

Good luck mate. They literally have NO idea what they're doing  :happy2:

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Re: My ED30 has eaten a pair of 452s in 6months!
« Reply #35 on: February 21, 2011, 09:21:03 pm »
Really? I've always had good experience there (we have had cars from/serviced there since 1994)

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Re: My ED30 has eaten a pair of 452s in 6months!
« Reply #36 on: February 21, 2011, 09:28:43 pm »
I refuse to go there now. Just drive to Sheffield branch who are 100x better  :drinking:

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Re: My ED30 has eaten a pair of 452s in 6months!
« Reply #37 on: February 21, 2011, 09:30:25 pm »
I refuse to go there now. Just drive to Sheffield branch who are 100x better  :drinking:

Interesting... ill get a quote from both, and one from the VW in bushey down near london just for comedy value!

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Re: My ED30 has eaten a pair of 452s in 6months!
« Reply #38 on: February 21, 2011, 09:35:31 pm »

Interesting... ill get a quote from both, and one from the VW in bushey down near london just for comedy value!

Darn sarf quote should be amusing!  :grin:



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Re: My ED30 has eaten a pair of 452s in 6months!
« Reply #39 on: February 21, 2011, 10:19:12 pm »
Good to see you're driving properly Rich  :smiley:  :evilgrin:

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Re: My ED30 has eaten a pair of 452s in 6months!
« Reply #40 on: February 21, 2011, 10:22:46 pm »
I like your choice of word order there pete :) expensive driving is fun driving  :signLOL:


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