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Subject: Back after time away from GTi 6 ownership.

GTi-6_Tom

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Location: Southampton

Registered: 07 Sep 2012

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I was registered on here a few years back when I bought a blaze 6, being only 18 at the time insurance etc was too much and lost my job so downgraded.
Had a 106 quiksilver after that in which i put a cammed Citroen C2 VTS engine in and turned it into a fairly good little track ready car. Anyway saw a '6 on eBay, fell in love with it so bought it.
It had 75k miles on it at the time and only 1 previous owner as it was an ex-demo car so had been well cared for, no rust, bodywork in good nick etc so parted with £1600 and she was mine.
In October we had some bad floods and I totally forgot the poor positioning of the air filter, needless to say she sucked in a load of water and bent a con rod, head gasket also went so sourced a 2nd hand block and rebuilt it with all new genuine parts and now it's all good.
Thanks if you read this far, sorry for the life story lol

Tom.

Posted 13th Apr 2013 at 11:43

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daveyboy

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Location: Southampton

Registered: 01 Oct 2007

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Welcome back into the fold Tom Thumbs up

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Posted 13th Apr 2013 at 11:49

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AndyJ

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Location: Birmingham

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Morning, sir.

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Posted 13th Apr 2013 at 12:05

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stan_306gti6 Forum Admin

Location: Kent

Registered: 18 Jan 2004

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Welcome back mate. Thumbs up

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Posted 13th Apr 2013 at 12:05

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chris1987

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Location: st.austell

Registered: 04 Apr 2012

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Welcome back

Posted 13th Apr 2013 at 12:30

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gnrlee Forum Admin

Location: Leeds

Registered: 20 Aug 2005

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at least you didn't just break it like most do on here! Whistle

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Posted 13th Apr 2013 at 12:40

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thugpuggin

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Location: Bristol

Registered: 10 Apr 2004

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Pics?

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Posted 13th Apr 2013 at 12:45

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gnrlee Forum Admin

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thugpuggin wrote:

Pics?

Have you not already got those stashed away somewhere?
just ask his plate!

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Posted 13th Apr 2013 at 12:50

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thugpuggin

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Good point.

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Posted 13th Apr 2013 at 12:58

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steve h gti-6

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Location: Carterton

Registered: 04 Dec 2006

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Good to see you back also, your car had the same problem as mine then LOL ! flood - water - induction kit - suck - swallow - gargle = fcuked engine and time for rebuild Dohhhhhh !

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Posted 13th Apr 2013 at 13:13

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GTi-6_Tom

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Location: Southampton

Registered: 07 Sep 2012

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Yep very frustrating, it ran for a week with a bent and bowed con rod though ad as it was at such a bent angle it started chewing through the cylinder wall hah oh well you live and learn.
Im trying to get some pics of her up but im literaly about to go crazy with this computer it is running windows 95 i swear!!!
I tried on my iPad but filesize was to large, basically imagine a clean, standard black GTi-6.....thats what my car looks like.
Also I recently got the GoPro Hero 3 with the suction mounting Smile

need some sunny weather now to try it out, I was considering Pugfest this year, is it worth the trip from anyones past experience?

Posted 13th Apr 2013 at 13:43

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steve h gti-6

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I should count myself lucky as over 6 months is was still running after id gotten all the water out etc ! Pugfest is worth it believe me, ive been over 5 times and really enjoy the atmosphere plus the hill runs are fun and you end up buying more than the 1 or 2 you said you would

Give Photobucket a go and just copie across the EMI tag, job done

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Posted 13th Apr 2013 at 13:46

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jimmyrallye

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Location: portsmouth

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Welcome back did you have the mint china with black wheels ? Limited edition of some sort ?

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Posted 13th Apr 2013 at 17:06

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GTi-6_Tom

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Location: Southampton

Registered: 07 Sep 2012

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No only had a blaze previous to the black 6 I have now. Couldn't afford to keep the blaze so did a straight swap for a 106 Quiksilver, all good now though I'm back to 306 ownership Smile

Posted 13th Apr 2013 at 18:34

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pugheaven

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Location: Fareham

Registered: 17 Dec 2006

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You are thinking of Tom Harvey with the china

Posted 13th Apr 2013 at 18:41

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jimmyrallye

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Yeh thats the chap what ever happened to him ?? Sorry dude diffrent tom Wink

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Posted 13th Apr 2013 at 19:25

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arigti6

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Registered: 24 Jan 2010

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How do

Pics to whore over would be nice Yes

jimmyrallye wrote:

Yeh thats the chap what ever happened to him ?? Sorry dude diffrent tom Wink

He is active on the Facebook group Jamma setup. He was trying to sell his China but no he's keeping it as he kept getting stupid offers Roll eyes

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Posted 13th Apr 2013 at 20:45

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rich306

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Location: Portsmouth

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Welcome back, i'm commuting to work in southampton atm so if you see a Black Rallye with AFR as the last 3 on the reg then give us a beep! Smile

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You'll need to throw money at the car. Not on parts. Just stand near your car and throw loose change at it, I find this increases performance for a short period of time

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Posted 13th Apr 2013 at 21:20

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phil b

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rich306 wrote:

Welcome back, i'm commuting to work in southampton atm so if you see a Black Rallye with A red nose from an automotive cold then give us a beep! Smile

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Posted 14th Apr 2013 at 17:29

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