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whats the worst thing that has ever happened to you? relating your VL and how much did it cost you? mine would have to be the water pump i can't remeber how much it costed me
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lol, why whats so bad about yours?
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lol RWC had to pay $85 1st check then spent just over $1000 then i had to so another inspection and pay another $85 but i got the 1st 85 back
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Nigga please...Smash a piston, blow a head gasket, kill a trans then come see me...pfft water pump...lol.
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Originally Posted by Wyndup
Nigga please...Smash a piston, blow a head gasket, kill a trans then come see me...pfft water pump...lol.
lol, agreed
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Originally Posted by ATMO_BT1
buying it lol
agreed ^^^^^^^^^^^^
seals gone on turbo. got the turbo rebuilt, a couple of months later crank end bearing gone did a engine rebuilt and auto to manual convesion,
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screwd radiator 400 screwed wireing 900
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another one for buying it. i think VLs in general are just problems....
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08-10-06, 21:40 GMT+10#10 hahaha, gone threw 3 autos and set of input shafts, and flywheel.
screwed a turbo, bought t04z and everything to match so cost heaps.
and now its got glazed bores so its gettin full rebuild..
gone from 180rwkw car to high 300rwkw
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08-10-06, 22:53 GMT+10#11 How'd you glaze the bores mate?
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08-10-06, 23:36 GMT+10#12 blown diff, blown gearbox, blown turbo
hopefully my engine doesnt go pop
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08-10-06, 23:40 GMT+10#13 lsd diff, gearbox 2x, alternator
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08-10-06, 23:41 GMT+10#14 Diff, Trans.
And the feeling that I need to buy a new turbo, ecu etc haha
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09-10-06, 00:08 GMT+10#15 ummm i jumped my old vl about 2 feet in the air and twisted all the underbody at the front so the car dosent drive straight and snaped a few head bolts and put a huge dint in one of the cam lobes with a screw left in their i couldent see
huge flat spots in the rims got bord so i kicked in the doors umm few other things
did all that to this car
http://www.members.optushome.com.au/...ix/WALKYs2.jpg (http://www.members.optushome.com.au/nastradamas01/vlpix/WALKYs2.jpg)
as for my VLT only things i done is
Blown trans
blown LSD
stuffed alternater
stuffed 2 Cas
snaped the welds on exhaust
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09-10-06, 00:46 GMT+10#16 clutch fan, brake light, bootlock lots of time and money fixing them things :P rofl
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09-10-06, 00:54 GMT+10#17 Quote:
Originally Posted by vlcalais3
whats the worst thing that has ever happened to you? relating your VL and how much did it cost you? mine would have to be the water pump i can't remeber how much it costed me
i fould a spark plug back in 89 fixed that and been sweet ever since!,
farken water pump how long you owned it a week!!
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09-10-06, 08:32 GMT+10#18 my old vl 1 motor, 4 manual boxes, 1 auto box, 2 diffs, 3 tailshafts, i used to drive it hard lol
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09-10-06, 12:47 GMT+10#19 but really, 2 clutches, 1 gearbox, 1 rb30et, turbo actuator, 3 afm's, leaking injectors, but none of them compare to the time i blew the welds on my intake (to much NOS).. that was crazy, lucky i didnt have a passanger at the time
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09-10-06, 13:13 GMT+10#20 a vl is a never ending money pit!!!
blown t3,
blown motor,
killed one auto,
did a water pump one day before the calais turbo cruise and many more things i can't think of right now.
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