£500 Nurburgring Challenge

suj

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Good work Dave, have a good time, go see our mate Jörg in Comfy Corner in Adenau, say Suraj sent you, will tell him to save a table for you and the lads if you need, drop me a FB message.

Have a good one, can't wait to read the antics :D
 

Dave_R

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Sep 20, 2004
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Well we made it! After my belt problem first thing (500 miles ago) it all went smoothly!
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Our view of the track from our room!
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So we had some food and went for a lap, James managed a full lap but me.... Well I wasn't so luckly! The golf was going well, until my belt snapped! No power steering, battery light and and water temps started to raise! Managed to get the car off at Metzgesfeld.

On opening the bonnet I found I had no belts
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Collected all the bits
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Thankfully I didn't leak any fluid onto the track... I was checking every second. Walking into Adenau and found a Motor Factors, they have ordered me the belts I need and should be in tomorrow at 11 :)

Found that the bolt on the tensioner is missing!!?? So the tensioner is moving out causing the belt to come off! Found a hard wear store to so will be taking the tensioner down tomorrow to see if we can get a bolt to fit! Bit p*ssed off with myself for being in that saturation but the car didn't miss a beat for 500 miles.
 
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t0m

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Great idea this, hats off to you :)

Hope you get the Golf all sorted for another crack at it ;)

Good work.
 

Dave_R

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Good work Dave, have a good time, go see our mate Jörg in Comfy Corner in Adenau, say Suraj sent you, will tell him to save a table for you and the lads if you need, drop me a FB message.

Have a good one, can't wait to read the antics :D

Let you know tomorrow morning, food good there??


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suj

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You lucky man lol, I miss it, we always go to that cafe by Breidscheid.

Hope you are having fun :)
 

rs-tuner

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can i be the first to say that this is a bad idea the ring is allready a dangerous place without people in £500 sheds dropping fluids all over the track.
 

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Agree

FWIW, if you 'think' you might be losing fluid, you STOP. You don't drive along looking out for it.
 

Dave_R

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Agree

FWIW, if you 'think' you might be losing fluid, you STOP. You don't drive along looking out for it.

I was fully aware what was going on as temps raised... They were at 100 degrees when I got to a exit slip road, if it had gone all the way up then I would have stopped in case it all pressurised!

To be honest the both of us said over a pint that we wouldn't do it again, it's been a right laugh but you can enjoy the track for what it's worth!


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Dave_R

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Mission to fix the Golf... Factors had three different aux belts but said we could have them all.... Left the biggest one there since I don't have air con, came back on fitting we needed the biggest belt lol. Trip back to the factors and sorted! Better service than I Have back home!

New Belts
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Golf up in the air
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New belts in place and fitted a bolt to the tension arm
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And then went for a good drive about and all seems perfect
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Brummy

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can i be the first to say that this is a bad idea the ring is allready a dangerous place without people in £500 sheds dropping fluids all over the track.

Agree

FWIW, if you 'think' you might be losing fluid, you STOP. You don't drive along looking out for it.

Im pretty sure that Dave would know this already.

And as for £500 sheds.... meh.. i took my Mk2 Ibiza over there a few years back amd that cost me less than 200 quid! :ban:
 

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Dave.... enjoy the experience bloke.. i did. loved my trip over and will deffo do it again at some point , be it in my 'sub 200quid' car or whatever ;)
 
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Enjoy it buddy. Hats off to you for getting out there and experiencing it all. It's what life is all about hey! Cool view from your Hotel Room. I'm sure it'd give a nice alarm clock sound track...

Safe travels :)
 

Dave_R

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Thanks guys!!

Funny enough there was a race lotus 23b and that leaked all over the track and closed the track for the rest of the evening


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Dave_R

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Well we went for a good drive and gave it a test few the lanes & it was perfect! Temps stayed steady so I had to take the plung and do a lap!! Checked everything over for the 10th and did a lap!!

And the Golf did well, handled pretty well since its got cheap eBay collies! No one ask for a time because I'm not interested in that!

Here's a few pics from the day
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When the ring closed so we had to get on the track but first some car park messing about
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Trying to get up the banking
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For the record I did but didn't take a bit!

Then we had to go on the track
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And a well earned drink
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The next challenge is trying to get back home!


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